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Author
Series
Ashmore Castle volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
viii, 504 pages ; 23 cm
Description
1901. When The Earl of Stainton dies in a tragic hunting accident, Giles, the eldest son of the noble Tallant family must step forward to replace him as the head of the family. But Giles has avoided the Castle and his stifling relatives for years, deciding instead to forge his own path away from the spotlight. Now, he must put aside his ambitions and honour his duty to the family. With their world upended, the Tallants and their servants struggle...
303) The longest week
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Affluent and aimless, Conrad Valmont lives a life of leisure in his parent's prestigious Manhattan Hotel. In the span of one week, he finds himself evicted, disinherited, and in love.
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two English sisters at the turn of the century are in love with the same man for seven years. His inability to choose between them (compounded by his overpossessive mother), and the girls' own powerful passions-- both expressed and repressed-- create a painful, emotionally charged triangle.
305) No bears
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (4 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Description
One of the world's great cinema artists, Jafar Panahi has been carefully crafting self-reflexive works about artistic, personal, and political freedom for the past three decades, despite being banned from filmmaking by the Iranian government since 2010. In No Bears completed shortly before his imprisonment in 2022, Panahi plays a fictionalized version of himself, a dissident filmmaker who relocates to a rural border town to direct a film remotely...
306) Sweet home Alabama
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Melanie is a successful New York fashion designer who is dating a wealthy socialite. One day he pops the big question and asks Melanie to marry him. Despite her polished uptown image, Melanie grew up poor in the deep South, and as a teenager she married her high school sweetheart. Now Melanie returns to her hometown to tell her parents the news and convince Jake to grant her a divorce. However, the more time she spends with her old flame, the more...
307) Crown of midnight
Author
Series
Throne of glass novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
420 pages : map ; 25 cm
Description
From the throne of glass rules a king with a fist of iron and a soul as black as pitch. Assassin Celaena Sardothien won a brutal contest to become his Champion. Yet Celaena is far from loyal to the crown. She hides her secret vigilantly; she knows that the man she serves is bent on evil. Keeping up the deadly charade becomes increasingly difficult when Celaena realizes she is not the only one seeking justice. As she tries to untangle the mysteries...
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Talented art student Angelique is madly in love with Loic, a married cardiologist whose wife is expecting their first child. Things take a dangerous turn as Angelique grows less discrete in her affections and her attempts to separate the couple fail.
309) Synonyms
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A ferociously funny movie about the existential angst of an expat. Yoav, a disaffected young Israeli, flees Tel Aviv for Paris to start a new life. Desperate to erase his origins, Yoav sees France as his only hope for salvation. He vows not to utter a single word of Hebrew, his French dictionary becoming his constant companion. He is swiftly befriended by a strange young French couple who enmesh him in a very Parisian love triangle. Based on writer-director...
310) Brief encounter
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After a chance meeting on a train station, a married doctor and a suburban housewife enter into a muted but passionate, and ultimately doomed, love affair.
312) Casanova
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Casanova has to begin searching for a wife. He is a womanizer with many conquests and If he cannot show he is living a more respectable life, the Church will throw him out of Venice. He is quickly engaged to Victoria, a woman with a pure reputation. As soon as that is arranged, he meets Francesca, a feminist who hates all he stands for. He pretends to be someone else to get into her good graces, and soon finds out she is engaged to Papprizzio, a man...
314) China seas
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Rugged Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only risky cargo he carries. Both his fiery mistress and his refined fiancée are aboard.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
453 pages (large print): illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Description
"The coming of Spring usually means renewal, but for Linnea Rutledge, Spring 2020 threatens stagnation. Linnea faces another layoff, this time from the aquarium she adores. For her - and her family - finances, emotions, and health teeter at the brink. To complicate matters, her new love interest, Gordon, struggles to return to the Isle of Palms from England. Meanwhile, her old flame, John, turns up from California and is quarantining next door. She...
316) The coroner
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Summoned from her promising surgical career to step in for her ailing father's medical examiner post, Emily Hartfod discovers home is the where the bodies are"--Dust jacket.
317) The killers
Series
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (102 min., 94 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 brochures.
Description
Melodramatic thrillers based on the Hemingway story about two hit men and their target, who accepts his fate as though he were already dead.
318) The duchess
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chronicles the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. She was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life. She was a vibrant beauty and celebrity of her time. Georgiana is trapped in an unhappy marital triangle with her husband and his live-in mistress. She falls passionately in love with Earl Grey, an ambitious young politician, and the affair causes a bitter conflict with her husband and threatens to erupt...
319) The edge of love
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When legendary poet Dylan Thomas reconnects with Vera, his teenage sweetheart, a romantic rival begins between her and his wife Caitlin. As the woman begin to bond an unusual trio is formed. The threesome live in bliss until Vera's husband, a handsome soldier, returns from fighting in the war and jealousy erupts, threatening the trio's fragile happiness.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 25 cm
Description
The year is 1921. Lesley Hamlyn and her husband, Robert, a lawyer and war veteran, are living at Cassowary House on the Straits Settlement of Penang. When "Willie" Somerset Maugham, a famed writer and old friend of Robert's, arrives for an extended visit with his secretary Gerald, the pair threatens a rift that could alter more lives than one. Maugham, one of the great novelists of his day, is beleaguered: Having long hidden his homosexuality, his...
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