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Summary: "In the early twentieth century, Mecklenburgh Square, a hidden architectural gem in the heart of London, was a radical address. On the outskirts of Bloomsbury known for the eponymous group who "lived in squares, painted in circles, and loved in triangles," the square was home to students, struggling artists, and revolutionaries. In the pivotal era between the two world wars, the lives of five...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tim Duggan Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WADMilne, Sarah
Summary: "Many of the greatest names in literature have visited or made their home in the colorful and diverse metropolis of London. From Charles Dickens to George Orwell, Virginia Woolf to Bernadine Evaristo, London's writers have bought the city to life through some of the best known and loved stories and characters in fiction.This book takes you on an area-by-area journey through London to discover...
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Publisher / Publication Date: White Owl 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 820.9 QUIHines, Stephen W.
Summary: Biography of children's author Laura Ingalls Wilder, with articles, interviews and recollections of friends and neighbors, focusing on her later life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: T. Nelson Publishers 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.52 HINShapiro, James S.
Summary: An intimate history of Shakespeare, following him through a single year--1599--that changed not only his fortunes but the course of literature. How was Shakespeare transformed from being a talented poet and playwright to become one of the greatest writers who ever lived? In this one exhilarating year we follow what he reads and writes, what he sees, and whom he works with as he invests in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM SHAWilson, Jean Moorcraft.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1988
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Hamilton 1993
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Summary: June 1797 to September 1798 is the most famous year in English poetry. Out of it came Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and “Kubla Khan,” as well as his unmatched hymns to friendship and fatherhood, and William Wordsworth’s revolutionary songs in Lyrical Ballads along with “Tintern Abbey,” Wordsworth's paean to the unity of soul and cosmos, love and understanding. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821 NICDenyer, Susan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harry Abrams 2000
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Summary: "A unique and fascinating look at Victorian society through the remarkable lives of an enlightened and philanthropic aristocratic couple, the Marquess and Marchioness of Aberdeen, who exhausted their vast fortune buying homes around the globe where they entertained the rich and famous while also campaigning for the poor and disadvantaged. As the Marquess and Marchioness of Aberdeen, John and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.1081 WELNicholl, Charles.
Summary: "In 1612, Shakespeare gave evidence in a court case at Westminster - and it is the only occasion on which his actual spoken, words, were recorded. The case seems routine - a dispute over an unpaid marriage dowry - but it opens an unexpected window into the dramatist's famously obscure life story. Some eight years earlier, we learn, Shakespeare was lodging in the house of a French immigrant...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.33 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM NICWright, Richard
Summary: The author grew up in the woods of Mississippi amid poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those around him; at six he was a "drunkard", hanging about in taverns. Surly, brutal, cold, suspicious, and self-pitying, he was surrounded on one side by whites who were either indifferent to him, pitying, or cruel, and on the other side by blacks who resented anyone trying to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial Modern Classics 2020
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Summary: "HGTV meets Downton Abbey! A ready-for-TV story-with charm and humor in abundance-about a Los Angeles producer who moves to England to save his ancestral castle from ruin"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DEPREE, HOPWOOD DEPNichols, Beverley
Summary: In this, the second volume of the Merry Hall trilogy, Nichols is less concerned with his garden and more with his house, but the story does include the memorable characters Our Rose, the ditzy floral designer, and the cantankerous gardener Oldfield.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 824.912 NICNichols, Beverley
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.0942 NICNichols, Beverley
Summary: Sunlight on the Lawn brings to a close Beverley Nichols's delightful Merry Hall trilogy describing the renovation of his run-down Georgian mansion and its garden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 824.912 NICFoster, David R.
Summary: In 1977 David Foster took to the woods of New England to build a cabin with his own hands. Along with a few tools he brought a copy of the journals of Henry David Thoreau. Foster was struck by how different the forested landscape around him was from the one Thoreau described more than a century earlier. The sights and sounds that Thoreau experienced on his daily walks through 19th-century...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.3 FOSAltick, Richard Daniel
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1969
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.2 ALTDaiches, David
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paddington Press : distributed by Grosset & Dunlap 1979
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 820.9941 DAIFlanders, Judith.
Summary: "Expert Victorian-era historian Judith Flanders explores the world portrayed so vividly in Dicken's novels, bringing life on the streets of London to vivid, fascinating life. The nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented transformation, and nowhere was this more apparent than London. In only a few decades, the capitol grew from a Regency town to the biggest city the world had ever seen,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942 FLABowles, E. A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.9 BOWWheeler, Sara
Summary: A witty and insightful tour of contemporary Russia, using its Golden Age writers, from Pushkin to Tolstoy, as guides: part history, part sociopolitical commentary, Mud and Stars reveals the heart of a country that never fails to surprise us.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2010