Susan Jameson
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English
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"To Jackson Brodie, former police inspector turned private investigator, the world consists of one accounting sheet - Lost on the left, Found on the right - and the two never seem to balance. Surrounded by death, intrigue and misfortune, his own life haunted by a family tragedy, Jackson attempts to unravel three disparate case histories."
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English
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In her profoundly moving, uniquely comic debut, Kate Atkinson introduces readers to the mind and world of Ruby Lennox, born above a pet shop in York at the halfway point of the twentieth century, and determined to understand both the family that precedes her and the life that awaits her. Taking her own conception as her starting point, the irrepressible Ruby narrates a story of four generations of women, from her great-grandmother's affair with a...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
David Powlett-Jones, a young Welshman, returns from the trenches of World War I disillusioned and suffering from shellshock. Accepted as a teacher at an elite boys boarding school, David fears he won't last. Luckily, the faith of the headmaster who hired him proves well-founded. Over the course of his 20-year rise through the ranks of the school, he finds and loses love with several women.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The smile that wins: Private detective Mulliner looks like an underdog when he takes on the aristocracy. Trouble with Tudsleigh: One look at April and Freddie falls hard. Tangles hearts: Bessemer and Muldoon inadvertently exchange fiancées. The luck of the Stiffhams: Penniless Stiffham seeks his fortune in America. The editor regrets: Reveling in his fame, Bingo Little is the toast of his club. Big business: Mulliner loses a fortune and a girl while...
Publisher
BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Limited
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Ex sergeant Jack Ford returns home to Gallowshields on Tyneside after the end of World War I. It is a time of economic depression and Jack finds his home town gripped by decline and unemployment. Jack soon falls in with the Seaton family and is determined to make his mark on the world.
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Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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From her rise to the throne in 1952 to dealing with prime ministers, ex-daughters-in-law, and even Camilla, view the life of Elizabeth, Queen of England. Episodes include Sisters; Us and Them; The Rivals; The Enemy Within; and How Do You Solve a Problem Like Camilla? Contains actual footage and interviews.
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English
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From the bestselling author of The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette comes a dramatic novel and powerful love story about the last Russian imperial family. It is 1989 and Daria Gradov is an elderly grandmother living in the rural West. What neighbors and even her children don't know, however, is that she is not who she claims to be--the widow of a Russian immigrant of modest means. In actuality she began her life as the Grand Duchess Tatiana, known...
11) Dial-a-ghost
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Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A family of nice ghosts protects a British orphan from the diabolical plans of his evil guardians.