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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Nearly two centuries after her death, Jane Austen remains the most beloved of novelists in the English language, incomparable in the wit, warmth and insight with which she chronicles the wayward hearts of her unforgettable characters. Her work also offers a vivid depiction of rural life in late Georgian and Regency England, its country balls and ivy-covered vicarages, its social hierarchies and its anxieties about property and income. Yet the milieu...
22) My lord winter
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Lady Jane Brooke, left by her parents to molder in a North Country mansion, sets out for London in an ancient carriage. When it collapses, she and her lady-companion continue the journey by mail coach. Lost in a fog, they and the other passengers take refuge at the home of Lord Wintringham, where they are anything but welcome. The starchy lord takes Jane for a governess. When they meet again in London, Jane continues the masquerade and gradually finds...
23) Oliver!
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A young orphan, Oliver is left to fend for himself until he is befriended by a band of young thieves who quickly train him in their craft. But Oliver is not content to be a thief for he knows that life holds great joys and true happiness cannot be stolen, but must be earned.
Author
Series
Mr. Darcy and Miss Tilney mystery volume 1
Language
English
Description
"After many years of happy marriage, Emma Knightley and her husband are throwing a house party, bringing together distant relatives and new acquaintances-not all of whom are well known to the Knightleys but are certainly beloved by every Jane Austen fan: Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam Darcy, Marianne and Colonel Brandon, Anne and Captain Wentworth, and Fanny and Edmund Bertram. Very much not invited is Mr. Wickham, whose latest financial scheme has netted...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Charlotte Pitt's mother, Caroline, has traveled with husband Joshua Fielding and his theatrical troupe to Whitby, the Yorkshire fishing village where Dracula first touched English soil in the sensational novel. Joshua has arranged to produce a stage adaptation of the book, but the project is a disaster. Then a black-cloaked stranger emerges from a snowstorm who turns out to be a theatrical genius. But at the same time, a brooding evil makes itself...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. But that told only half the story. This story reveals the encounter's harrowing aftermath, as the ship's surviving crew is pushed to their limits and forced to do the unthinkable to stay alive.
Author
Lexile measure
1120L
Language
English
Description
"An intimate account of the service staff of the White House, from the Kennedys to the Obamas"--
America's First Families are unknowable in many ways. No one has insight into their true character like the people who serve their meals and make their beds every day. The Residence reveals daily life in the White House as it is really lived through the voices of the maids, butlers, cooks, florists, doormen, engineers, and others who tend to the needs...
30) The duchess
Author
Language
English
Description
Angélique Latham has grown up at magnificent Belgrave Castle under the loving tutelage of her father, the Duke of Westerfield, after the death of her aristocratic French mother. At eighteen she is her father's closest, most trusted child, schooled in managing their grand estate. But when he dies, her half-brothers brutally turn her out, denying her very existence. Angélique has a keen mind, remarkable beauty, and an envelope of money her father...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Americans love to love Paris. We buy books about how the French parent, why French women don't get fat, and how to be Parisian wherever you are. While our work hours increase every year, we think longingly of the six weeks of vacation the French enjoy, imagining them at the seaside in stripes with plates of fruits de mer. John von Sothen fell in love with Paris through the stories his mother told of her year spent there as a student. After falling...
35) Scarface
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of organized crime's control of the city of Chicago during prohibition and the ruthless drive of Tony Carmonte (Muni) to become the city's top gangster.
36) The Pallisers
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Follows three generations of an aristocratic and politically powerful English family and their circle of family and friends.
37) Evelyn
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
In 1953, Desmond Doyle takes on the Irish family law system and the Catholic Church in a bid to be reunited with his children. Despite a strong work ethic, Desmond has a hard time holding on to steady work. Desmond's wife walks out on the relationship and his sporadic employment eventually attracts the attention of the law. A court order sends his two sons and young daughter to separate Catholic orphanages until Desmond can prove he's capable of properly...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"It was called "The Titanic of the South." The luxury steamship sank in 1838 with Savannah's elite on board; through time, their fates were forgotten--until the wreck was found, and now their story is finally being told. When Savannah history professor Everly Winthrop is asked to guest-curate a new museum collection focusing on artifacts recovered from the steamship Pulaski, she's shocked. The ship sank after a boiler explosion in 1838, and the wreckage...
40) Diner
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Set in 1959, a band of long-time buddies since high school gather at a local diner to share their escapades and make sense of their lives. As one by one they drift off to join the mainstream of life they still cling to their shared boyhood dreams.
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