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1161) The sound of the hours
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
450 pages : maps ; 23 cm
Description
"Trapped in Tuscany as war rages along the Gothic Line, Vittoria Guidi doesn't understand where her allegiances should lie. With her Scots-Italian father or Fascist mother? With Mussolini, or her King? With the life she wants, or is told to live? As Germans occupy the mountains surrounding Barga and American Buffalo soldiers draw near, loyalties are tested and families torn apart. Frank Chapel, a young, black soldier fighting for a country that refuses...
Author
Series
Bruno Courreges mysteries volume 10
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
317 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Description
"Bruno, the beloved chief of police of the idyllic French town of St. Denis in the Dordogne, is back! This time a mysterious death brings ancient secrets to light, and it's up to our hero--and favorite gourmand--to connect the tangled threads of past and present When a woman's body is found at the foot of a cliff near St. Denis, Bruno suspects a connection to the great ruined Château de Commarque, a long-ago Knights Templar stronghold that stands...
1163) The railway children
Author
Pub. Date
p2005
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (7 hr.) : digital ; 9 x 6 cm.
Description
When their father is sent away to prison, three London children move to the country where they keep busy preventing accidents on the nearby railway, making many new friends, and generally learning a good deal about themselves.
1164) My autumn book
Author
Series
Seasons (Wong Herbert Yee) volume 4
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 16 x 21 cm
Description
A young girl rushes outside when the air is crisp and the sky turns gray to observe all of the changes that Autumn brings.
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A student of Isaac Newton, John Selden believes he can turn his daughter into a brilliant natural philosopher and alchemist. Secluded in their ancient house, with only two servants for company, he fills Emilie with knowledge and records her progress obsessively. In the spring of 1725, their work is interrupted by the arrival of two strangers: one a researcher, the other a dazzling young merchant. During the course of a sultry August, while her father...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of Prince William and Kate Middleton, from the moment they met at the University of St. Andrews to the intense media attention surrounding their storybook romance. They've charmed the world with their romantic love affair, engagement, and eagerly awaited royal wedding. How did Kate Middleton, an ordinary British girl, come to be Prince William's intended? Over an 8-year courtship, her warmth, humor, and grace under pressure convinced him...
1168) Uncomfortably happily
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
572 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
"Inspired by Yeon-sik Hong's attempt to move to the country with his partner, Uncomfortably Happily is the story of a young couple finding their way. Burdened by unmet comics deadlines and high rent, our narrator and his wife know they must make a change. Convinced the absence of traffic noise will ease his writer's block, our pair welcomes the idea of building a life from scratch. Deciding on a home atop an uninhabited mountain, they excitedly embrace...
1169) Rabbit moon
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Description
In rhyming text, Rabbit comes out to play with his friends in the moonlight.
1171) Downton Abbey: season 6
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 9 hours) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The year is 1925. Momentous changes threaten the great house, its owners, and its servants, while past scandals continue to loom. Return to the sumptuous setting of Downton Abbey for the sixth and final season to discover what will finally become of the Crawley family, and the servants who work for them, as they face new challenges and begin forging different paths in a rapidly changing world. Secrets and rifts threaten the unity of the family, while...
1172) The Dickens boy
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"Edward Dickens, the tenth child of England's most famous author Charles Dickens, has consistently let down his parents. Unable to apply himself at school and adrift in life, the teenaged boy is sent to Australia in the hopes that he can make something of himself--or at least fail out of the public eye. He soon finds himself in the remote Outback, surrounded by Aboriginals, colonials, ex-convicts, ex-soldiers, and very few women. Even on the other...
1173) Downton Abbey: season 3
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (525 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The War is over and a long-awaited engagement is on, but all is not tranquil at Downton Abbey as wrenching social changes, romantic intrigues, and personal crises grip the majestic English country estate for a third thrilling season. In the wake of World War I, Robert, Earl of Grantham, sticks to his duty to maintain Downton more firmly than ever.
1174) Picnic at Hanging Rock
Series
Criterion collection volume 29
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On Valentine's Day, 1900, a group of Australian schoolgirls set out for a picnic at Hanging Rock. Four of them disappear.
Author
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Physical Desc
128 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Description
This beautifully illustrated book takes readers on a guided tour of a single day in an upper-crust English home of the Edwardian era. Starting with the servants hard at work while the family is still abed, and culminating in a lavish dinner party, Upstairs & Downstairs lifts the curtain on this fascinating period, as well as its historical bookends, the Victorian and post-World War I eras. Includes accounts from actual masters and servants, along...
1176) Folk Songs Of The Hills
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Description
Rolling Stone (12/26/96, p.189) - "...Merle Travis had just the right voice for old-timey storytelling in song. His bemused chuckle and warm tone enliven the tall tales and homespun sagas on FOLK SONGS OF THE HILLS..." This German import contains not only Folk Songs of the Hills and Back Home (but not the previously unreleased "This World Is Not My Home"), but also an entire additional Merle Travis album, the 1963 Songs of the Coal Mines, which deals...
1177) Who I was with her
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"When Corrine Parker's girlfriend dies in a car accident Corrine struggles to come to terms with her grief and whether she is ready to come out as bisexual"--
Corinne Parker is a runner. She runs on her high school's cross-country team. She runs from her alcoholic mother and her clueless father. And she runs from the truth that she's bisexual. Then Maggie Bailey dies. Maggie, the captain of the rival high school's cross-country team and Corinne's...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
230 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm
Description
Matthew y Marilla Cuthbert, dos hermanos de mediana edad, deciden adoptar a un niño huérfano para que les ayude en la granja, pero una confusión hace que llegue Ana. Con su cabello rojo fuego y una imaginación imparable, llega a Tejas Verdes y revoluciona deliciosamente todo Avonlea.
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make...
1179) Downton Abbey
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 121 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The beloved characters of Downton Abbey take to the big screen, and it turns out that they've got a major event to prepare for. After all, it's not every day that royalty makes an appearance. Of course, it's not long before tensions are running high. The property isn't even close to ready when it becomes clear that Carson the butler will need to come out of retirement to help run this sinking ship before it's too late.
1180) Wolf Hollow: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"Twelve-year-old Annabelle must learn to stand up for what's right in the face of a manipulative and violent new bully who targets people Annabelle cares about, including a homeless World War I veteran"--
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