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A historical and romantic adventure woven around the story of Florence Nightingale.Gervase Howard is in her mid-teens when her working-class mother dies and she must go to live with relatives in service to a wealthy, noble family, outside of London. While learning various jobs, she is drawn to the eldest son, Davis. Her fascination with him grows deeper, but more hopeless, since the two are separated not just by class, but also by Davis's love for...
Author
Publisher
Mills & Boon
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
283 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Transformed by his tantalising touch ... A single look from Salvatore Di Luca. That was all it took for virgin Lina's life to change - forever. For one night she escaped from her ordinary suffocating life ... and found freedom in the Sicilian's arms!It defies every rule Salvatore has set himself, but he just can't resist enchanting Lina. Still, he refuses to let her into his fiercely guarded world. Until he finds their impulsive encounter has cost...
Author
Publisher
Mills & Boon
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
284 pages (large print) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
From different worlds......to the perfect family? Entrusted to take his late colleague's young son to his grandmother, Manhattan financier Matt McLellan hires down-on-her-luck skipper Meg O'Hara to take them across Australia's Bass Strait. He might be a billionaire, but on board Meg's boat she's the boss! The flame-haired beauty gets under the committed bachelor's skin, and by the time they reach their destination Matt's wondering if he's finally...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"Polly, Annie, Elisabeth, Catherine, and Mary Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from some of London's wealthiest and poorest neighborhoods, from the factory towns of middle England, and from Wales and Sweden. They wrote ballads, ran coffeehouses, lived on country estates; they breathed ink dust from printing presses and escaped human traffickers. What they had in common was the year of their murders: 1888. The person...
9) Kitty Foyle
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 108 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Kitty, a working-class girl, endures the rejection of Philadelphia society, makes her own way as a single woman, and ultimately chooses between an unmarried arrangement with Main Line scion Wynnewood Strafford VI or marriage to a struggling physician.
11) Incendiary
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Language
English
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When a massive suicide bomb explodes at a London soccer match a woman loses both her four-year-old son and her husband. But the bombing is only the beginning. In a voice alive with grief, compassion, and startling humor, Incendiary is a stunning debut of one ordinary life blown apart by terror.
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12) Three lives
Author
Language
English
Description
Throughout Three Lives, in which "The Good Anna" appears, Gertrude Stein explores the heterosexual and lesbian relationships of three common women, Anna, Melanctha, and Lena. In her attempts to capture the thoughts and consciousness of these women, Stein uses a number of stylistic innovations that contributed significantly to the development of modernism, influencing such writers as Ernest Hemingway. In "The Good Anna," for example, Stein employs...
13) Easy living
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English
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"Mary Smith is a poor working girl who literally has a fortune dropped in her lap when a wealthy financier tosses a sable coat out a window and it lands on her. Everyone automatically assumes she's his mistress, and soon her fairytale-like rags-to-riches lifestyle threatens a very real romance with an inept waiter"--Container.
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Paris, 1960. Jean-Louis lives a bourgeois existence with his neurotic socialite wife Suzanne while their children are away at boarding school. The couple's world is turned upside down when they hire Maria, a Spanish maid who introduces Jean-Louis to an alternative reality a few stories up on the sixth floor. Befriending a group of sassy Spanish maids, the women teach him there's more to life than stocks and bonds, and their influence on the house...
15) Lilies
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
3 DVD (approximately 8 hours) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Iris, May, and Ruby are sisters living in Liverpool after WWI. Dutiful, devout Iris runs the household efficiently in place of their deceased mother. Wayward, dreamy May works as a maid but longs to act. And feisty, ambitious Ruby sells corsets to keep the family afloat. With their overbearing father and war-tormented brother, they struggle through poverty, passions, and profound disappointments.
Series
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (285 min.) : sound, black and white/tinted ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (15 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 18 cm).
Language
English
Description
An action-packed adventure serial in three feature-length episodes, produced in Russia with the goal of rivaling, and possibly even surpassing, the most entertaining American movies of the 1920s. Instead of the avant-garde works of Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov, Russian audiences were enchanted by fast-moving American films starring serial queens like Pearl White, swashbuckling heroes like Douglas Fairbanks, and comedians from the Keystone Cops...
Publisher
Wellspring
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Widescreen anamorphic (16x9) edición.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
An absurd black comedy that centers on Gloria, a very resourceful working class housewife and cleaning woman, who is hooked on amphetamines and must contend with her crazy family.
20) Possessed
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (76 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ambitious factory worker dreams of satin gowns and diamond earrings. In an effort to realize her dreams she moves to New York and pursues a relationship with an influential lawyer.
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