Joanna Lumley
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Description
"The remarkable next novel from Matt Haig, the author of #1 New York Times bestseller The Midnight Library, with more than nine million copies sold worldwide "What looks like magic is simply a part of life we don't understand yet..." When retired math teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan....
Publication Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During her duties as a lady's companion, Emily meets her employer's nephew, Lord James Walderhurst. Accepting his marriage proposal, Emily finds solace in the company of Walderhurst's nephew and his glamorous wife, after Lord James leaves to rejoin his regiment. Emily, alone with the Osborns, increasingly comes under their control. She begins to fear for her life.
Publication Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 376 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
These four lavish productions are all-new adaptations of Christie classics and feature Geraldine McEwan starring in: The Murder at the Vicarage, The Body in the Library, A Murder is Announced, and 4:50 From Paddington.
Publication Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It follows a brilliant young fund manager named Millie, who quits her job and ends things with her long-term boyfriend to fulfill her dream of becoming an opera singer in the Scottish Highlands. She begins intense vocal training lessons with a renowned but fearsome singing teacher and former opera diva Meghan Geoffrey-Bishop. It is there she meets Max, another of Meghan's students who is also training for the upcoming "Singer of Renown" contest. The...
Publication Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (72 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Whispers, an innocent baby elephant who's just learning to walk on his own four feet, finds himself separated from his mother Gentle Heart. In his desperate search to find her, he meets the cynical loner Groove, an outcast from her own herd who never wanted to be a mother. Together, this unlikely pair braves danger after danger on their journey to find water and Whispers' mother.
Publication Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 180 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Sal's husband dies suddenly of a heart attack, Sal and her best friend, Tip try to find some fun among the knitting and cake-baking of The Ladies' Guild in the small West Country town of Clatterford St. Mary. The Guild members are certainly an eccentric bunch: leader Eileen, who takes her position--and chains--very seriously; cheese-mad Rose (or Margaret, depending on whether she's taken her medication); Delilah Stagg of the loose false teeth...
Publication Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On the eve of retirement, a judgmental middle-class snob discovers her husband has been having an affair with her best friend and is forced into exile with her bohemian sister who lives on an impoverished inner-city council estate.
Publication Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 179 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sex. Money. Power. Drugs. Brace yourself for an outrageous true story from legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese. Jordan Belfort, a young stockbroker, is hungry for fame and glory in New York City, where corruption is king and more is never enough.
11) Coming home
Publication Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 202 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
England between the wars is the starting place for this epic tale of love, friendship and the discovery of womanhood. Judith Dunbar is left behind at boarding school by her parents and sister, who are posted overseas in the days leading up to World War II. She comes of age in a time of turbulence and danger, but finds comfort in the wealthy Carey-Lewis family, whose estate on the Cornish coast, Nancherrow, becomes her surrogate home.
12) Ella enchanted
Publication Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ella lives in a fanciful and magical world where all children are given a "gift" from their fairy Godmother at birth. Ella's gift - and curse - was that of obedience. As a result, Ella cannot refuse any command, and as a result she is often taken advantage of. In a bid to regain control of her life, Ella goes on a quest to free herself from this mysterious "gift". Ella must outwit a kingdom filled with ogres, giants, wicked stepsisters, talking books...
14) The Snow Queen
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Joanna Lumley reads "The Snow Queen". One day, a diabolical troll builds a mirror that shows everything that is beautiful as ugly and all that is good as evil. Delighted, the trolls decided to carry this mirror to heaven and mock the angels, but on their way the mirror breaks and shatters into hundreds of pieces that spread across the world. Some bigger pieces are turned into windows and others are made into spectacles, but some of tiniest bits get...
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Saffy has been away in Iraq as an aid worker and Eddy has had no-one to curb her extravagance. Her clients have also deserted her in droves. But she continues to take little interest in her remaining client - Emma Bunton. When Saffy finally arrives home she has some shocking news in store for Eddy.
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Series
Absolutely Fabulous volume 2
Description
Saffy receives a visit from her sadistic midwife and is subjected to a demonstration of the most painful aspects of childbirth. Eddy meets with her book club and is distressed to find that Elizabeth Hurley has pulled out. Only Patsy, Plum and Mariella Frostrup turn up to discuss the merits of OK! magazine.
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When Eddy and Patsy decide to have a night out, Saffy looks forward to the chance of a quiet night in with her boyfriend. But when Gran absent-mindedly locks them all in the sitting room, Eddy attempts to have a serious chat about the facts of life - with the aid of Cosmo magazine's sex quiz.
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Patsy shacks up with Edina after Saffy leaves for university, but the pair find it hard to survive alone. Everything gets significantly worse for Eddy when Lulu decides to join a more efficient American PR company, and when Patsy also gets some bad news they are faced with a major crossroads in their lives.





