Hugh David
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Begins with the forced marriage of Lady Glencora to Plantagenet Palliser. The British House of Commons serves as the backdrop as we watch the coming and goings and loves and tragedies of the powerful and not so powerful. This includes the lives of the friends and children of the Palliser's.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Clouds of Witness - Death hits close to home when Lord Peter's future brother-in-law is murdered. Complicating matters is the man who stands accused: Gerald Wimsey, Lord Peter's brother. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club - When a member of the prominent Bellona Club dies on the same day as his sister, Lord Peter must determine who will inherit a sizeable fortune.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
1973, 2002.
Language
English
Description
The mystery begins in the lounge of the Bellona Club where the elderly members all slumber like corpses in their chairs. On Armistice Day 1922, one of them really is a corpse. Question is, did the General or his sister, the Wealthy Lady Dorland, die first. Wimsey uncovers love, greed, anguish, betrayal and finally, the bitter truth.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
The fiance of Lord Peter Wimsey's sister is murdered during a family retreat. His brother Gerald Wimsey, the Duke of Denver, is charged with the crime. Lord Wimsey joins the investigation, uncovering a mysterious letter from Egypt, a grieving fiancee with suitcase in hand, and a bullet destined for one very special Wimsey.
Publisher
BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Limited
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Set in the early 1840s, this is the original BBC miniseries of Elizabeth Gaskell's classic tale of a fictional Victorian country village in which the genteel ladies of Cranford struggle to face an uncertain future with dignity and 19th Century decorum.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Most of the BBC's original master recordings for 'Fury of the Deep' were lost after the program's original transmission. However, audio-only recordings survived and have been used here to create a brand new full animated reconstruction of the lost classic. The TARDIS brings the Doctor, Victoria and Jamie to the coast of Kent where the ESGO complex is drawing up natural gas under the North Sea via a huge network of pipes linked to their off-shore...
11) Jude the obscure
Publisher
KOCH Vision
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Jude Fawley is a poor stone carver who is tricked into a loveless marriage and ultimately forced to give up his dreams of a university education. After his wife deserts him, he begins a scandalous relationship with his cousin Sue Bridehead.
13) The age of Bede
Series
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
"Bede: life of Cuthber ; Eddius Stephanus: life of Wilfrid ; Bede: lives of the Abboys of Wearmouth and Jarrow ; the anonymous history of Abbot Ceolfrith with the Voyage of St. Brendan." Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]). and index. Presents an English translation of several works by medieval scripture scholar Bede, including "Life of Cuthbert, " "Lives of the Abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow, " and others. Adult Follett Library Resources....
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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" Good Friday on the Rez introduces readers to places and people that author, writer, and entrepreneur David Bunnell encounters during his one day, 280-mile road trip from his boyhood Nebraska hometown to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to visit his longtime friend, Vernell White Thunder, a full-blooded Oglala Lakota, descendant of a long line of prominent chiefs and medicine men. This captivating narrative is part memoir and part history. Bunnell...
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A compulsively readable journey into the area of movie-making where all writers, directors and stars fear to tread: Development Hell, the place where scripts are written, actors hired and sets designed... but the movies rarely actually get made!
Whatever happened to Darren Aronofsky's Batman movie starring Clint Eastwood? Why were there so many scripts written over the years for Steven Spielberg and George Lucas's fourth Indiana
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
What are stars made of? How hot is the Sun? Which planet's moons look like potatoes? Learn the answers to these questions and more in this fascinating question-and-answer book all about space. Information is presented in bite-sized nuggets, making it ideal for dipping in and out.
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A widower not wanting to face her first Christmas alone responds to an ad for 'social introductions.' He meets a woman who is happy to celebrate the holidays with him provided that he not ask about her personal life that could change both of their lives.