Summary: A contemporary take on the classic Arthur Conan Doyle stories, Sherlock is a thrilling, funny, fast-paced adventure series set in present-day London. The iconic details from Conan Doyle's original books remain: they live at the same address, have the same names, and, somewhere out there, Moriarty is waiting for them. And so across three thrilling, scary, action-packed, and highly modern...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

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Summary: The early life of Queen Victoria, from her ascension to the throne at the tender age of 18 to her courtship and marriage to Prince Albert.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2018

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Summary: Set 5: With the end of World War II slowly but inevitably approaching, Foyle and his fellow citizens learn the price of victory and face a peace that will transform their lives in unexpected ways.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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Summary: An unearthly child: Teachers Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright are in for the adventure of a lifetime when they follow student Susan Foreman home to an odd police box in a junkyard and meet the Doctor, a strange old man who claims to be Susan's grandfather, who takes them on a short excursion back to 200,000 B.C. ; The Daleks: When the TARDIS lands on the seemingly dead planet Skaro, the Doctor...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2012

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Waterson, Norma.

Contents: Rambleaway; Valentine waltz (4:35) -- Claudy banks (6:45) -- Rackabello (3:48) -- Lowlands of Holland (4:44) -- Grand march in the Battle of Prague (5:26) -- Meeting is a pleasure (3:53) -- Hares in the old plantation (4:03) -- Flash company (3:05) -- Maid lamenting (5:10) -- American stranger (3:18) -- French stroller (2:21) -- Polly's love (4:40) -- Stars in my crown (2:59).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Topic Records 1997

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Summary: The Hollow crown: "New adaptations of Shakespeare's tetralogy of history plays comprising the 'Henriad' for the BBC's 2012 Cultural Olympiad: King Richard II; King Henry IV, Part 1; King Henry IV, Part 2; King Henry V. The plays chronicle a continuous period in British history from the end of the 14th century to the aftermath of the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. Together, the plays comprise a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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Summary: From the makers of Father Brown and Shakespeare and Hathaway, Private Investigators comes a light-hearted murder mystery series. It's the 1960s and police forensics are rudimentary. Luckily the residents of Great Slaughter, nestled deep in the British countryside, have a secret weapon. Sister Boniface. This nun might be predisposed to forgive but she's also one hell of an amateur detective. If...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Summary: A humble draper's clerk, Polly is profoundly affected by a variety of personal relationships, most notably with colorful Uncle Jim and his nagging wife Miriam. Ultimately, he finds happiness in an even humbler pursuit than the drapery business.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: VCI Entertainment 2011

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Summary: In 1837, a diminutive, neglected teenager is crowned Queen Victoria, navigates the scandal, corruption, and political intrigues of the Court, and soon rises to become the most powerful woman in the world.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Larson, Erik

Summary: "The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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Larson, Erik

Summary: On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold the country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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Larson, Erik

Summary: On May 1, 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were anxious. Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone, and for months, its U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania was one of the era's great...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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Summary: 17th century Britain was a hotbed of revolution, treachery and court intrigue. Oliver Cromwell, the fiery ambitious commoner took on the monarchy and changed the course of Western civilization. He and King Charles I fought for absolute rule.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003

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Summary: A moving and inspiring factual drama about the pioneering work on radar by a little know team of scientists in the run up to the Second World War. On 26 February 1935, Robert Watson-Watt demonstrated for the first time that aircraft could be detected by bouncing radio waves off them. By the time the war began in 1939, radar stations were dotted along the British coast, tracking aircraft at...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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Miles, Lawrence.

Summary: Written by Lawrence Miles ("Faction Paradox") and long-time sci-fi commentator Tat Wood, "About Time" focuses on the continuity of "Doctor Who" (its characters, alien races and the like), but also examines the show as a work of social commentary. In particular, Miles and Wood dissect the politics and social issues that shaped the show during its unprecedented 26-year run (from 1963 to 1989),...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mad Norwegian Press 2004

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Miles, Lawrence.

Summary: Written by Lawrence Miles ("Faction Paradox") and long-time sci-fi commentator Tat Wood, "About Time" focuses on the continuity of "Doctor Who" (its characters, alien races and the like), but also examines the show as a work of social commentary. In particular, Miles and Wood dissect the politics and social issues that shaped the show during its unprecedented 26-year run (from 1963 to 1989),...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mad Norwegian Press 2004

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Hoshino, Katsura

Summary: "D.Gray-man is the story of Allen Walker, who roams a fictional 19th century Earth in search of Innocence, a mysterious substance used to fight demons called akuma. Allen questions whether he is willing fight the Clan of Noah, followers of the Millennium Earl. After all, he signed up to kill akuma, not humans! With his left eye injured, he can no longer tell akuma from humans, making him a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2013

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 DGR

Summerley, Victoria

Summary: The Secret Gardeners reveals the private gardening passions of 25 notable creatives: individuals who are not known for their gardens show how they put their stamp on the landscape. The celebrated cast is drawn from the worlds of art, philanthropy, music, theatre and science, and the book offers an exclusive insight into the secluded sanctuaries where their dreams and memories are shaped.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Lincoln, an imprint of the Quarto Group 2017

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Hoshino, Katsura

Summary: "D.Gray-man is the story of Allen Walker, who roams a fictional 19th century Earth in search of Innocence, a mysterious substance used to fight demons called akuma. Allen has had his heart pierced and his Innocence pulverized by an assassin from the Clan of Noah. Allen is taken to the Asian branch of the Black Order to heal. He is keen to rejoin the battle, but he will not be able to fight...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media, LLC 2014

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Summary: Lucy Worsley re-stages the wedding of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, including the most important elements of the ceremony and the celebrations, scouring archival materials and Queen Victoria's diaries for the details. Lucy also tells the story of Victoria and Albert's courtship and engagement as she reveals how this one extraordinary event helped to invent modern marriage.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2019

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Summary: Having survived the bombing of the Thames Barrier, Adam and Ros recover to find London facing an even greater threat. While attempting to thwart an attack that could jeopardize a historic peace accord, the team unwittingly unleashes a deadly virus.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2009

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Summary: The TARDIS brings the Doctor and his friends Ben and Polly to the South Pole in 1986. Their arrival coincides with the appearance of Earth's forgotten twin planet Mondas and visitors from that world-- emotionless beings called Cybermen. It's up to the Doctor and his friends to stop these creatures before they convert Earth's population into similar cyber creations-- but the encounter will have...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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Summary: Taking a test flight in the TARDIS, the Doctor and Jo make an inelegant landing on the planet Peladon. When they are mistaken for representatives from Earth, the Doctor soon finds himself chairing the committee of alien delegates assessing Peladon's petition to join the Galactic Federation. When one of the King's advisors is killed, the High Priest fears the ancient Curse of Aggedor is at work,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Worldwide Ltd. 2010

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