Emilia Fox
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Wednesday books edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 390 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of 17-year-old Cassandra and her family, who live in not-so-genteel poverty in a ramshackle old English castle. Over six turbulent months, she fills three diaries with sharply funny yet poignant entries and manages to find herself hopelessly in love. By the time she pens her final entry, she has "captured the castle" and the heart of the reader.
Author
Series
Clifton Chronicles volume 3
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jeffrey Archer's mesmerizing saga of the Clifton and Barrington families continues...
1945, London. The vote in the House of Lords as to who should inherit the Barrington family fortune has ended in a tie. The Lord Chancellor's deciding vote will cast a long shadow on the lives of Harry Clifton and Giles Barrington. Harry returns to America to promote his latest novel, while his beloved Emma goes in search of the little girl who was found abandoned...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Only days before Britain declares war on Germany, Harry Clifton, hoping to escape the consequences of long-buried family secrets, and forced to accept that his desire to marry Emma Barrington will never be fulfilled, has joined the Merchant Navy. But his ship is sunk in the Atlantic by a German U-boat, drowning almost the entire crew. An American cruise liner, the SS Kansas Star, rescues a handful of sailors, among them Harry and the third officer,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"In this irresistible and thrilling debut novel, a former antique hunter investigates a suspicious death at an isolated English manor, embroiling her back in the dangerous world of tracking stolen artifacts. What antique would you kill for? Freya Lockwood is shocked when she learns that Arthur Crockleford, antiques dealer and her estranged mentor, has died under mysterious circumstances. She has spent the last twenty years avoiding her quaint English...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dodd, Mead
Pub. Date
1951
Physical Desc
218 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Flighty but good-hearted Victoria Jones craves love, intrigue, and adventure. She strikes gold in Edward, a handsome and mysterious traveler whom she's vowed to follow to the ends of the earth. Yet no whirlwind affair can prepare Victoria for what unfolds once she lands in Baghdad. Baghdad is the chosen location for a secret superpower summit. Unfortunately the word is out, and an underground organization in the Middle East is planning to sabotage...
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Unabridged
Physical Desc
8 audio discs (10 hr.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
"A psychological thriller that spins one woman's seemingly good fortune, and another woman's mysterious fate, through a kaleidoscope of duplicity, death, and deception"--
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
"London, 1905: Virginia and Vanessa Stephens and their brothers Thoby and Adrian moved to unfashionable, bohemian Bloomsbury. All in their twenties, orphaned and unmarried, they began holding Thursday night gatherings in their unchaperoned, unconventional drawing room. Most of the young guests in that room would become famous, breaking the old rules and blazing their own new paths. It is from Vanessa's point of view at the center of this eccentric,...
8) King Lear
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Shakespeare's tragedy of a royal father and his daughters is presented scene by scene in comic book format. As flies are to wanton boys, so are we to th' gods: they kill us for their sports, howls King Lear. In artist Ian Pollock's surreal interpretation of Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the abstract wail of "the unaccomodated man" is dramatized in subtle shadings of the old king's anguish. Every line of dialogue is preserved, and every scene is illustrated...
9) The pianist
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (150 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the memoirs of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew, who was a brilliant pianist. He watched as his family was shipped off to Nazi labor camps. He managed to escape and lived for years in the ruins of Warsaw, hiding from the Nazis.
10) Keeping mum
Publisher
Thinkfilm, Llc
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 104 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4in.
Language
English
Description
An absent-minded vicar of a rural parish is so distracted by the pressures of his job that he fails to notice his wife's dalliance with her brash golf instructor, his daughter's parade of new boyfriends, and his young son's regular trouncing by the school's bullies. Enter their new housekeeper, Grace, the answer to the family's prayers. Grace is a sweet old lady with her own distinctive definition of cleaning house, with an unusual way of solving...
11) Falcon
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (179 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Falcn̤ is a detective whose home and work life is compromised of secrets from his past.