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Author
Series
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
80 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A social history of Victorian England, focusing on life in the upper echelons of society during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901)"--Provided by publisher.
582) A fatal first night
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"New York City, Fall 1899. Ahead-of-her-time coloratura mezzo Ella Shane has always known opening night to be a mess of missed cues and jittery nerves, especially when unveiling a new opera. Her production of The Princes in the Tower, based on the mysterious disappearance of Edward IV's two sons during the Wars of the Roses in England, concludes its first performance to thunderous applause. It's not until players take their bows that the worst kind...
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Original UK edition.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 8.75 hours) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
1922. Six months after Matthew's tragic death, his loss is still felt throughout Downton Abbey. Mary struggles to face a new future with her fatherless child, and is encouraged by the family to pick up the pieces. Accepting a new role on the estate, the now-eligible Mary also finds herself the reluctant object of attention from a number of eager suitors. With the twenties in full swing and the tides of change sweeping through Downton, Rose's continued...
584) The husband campaign
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The moment John, Lord Hascot, encounters a young woman sheltering in his abandoned stable, his future is sealed. To prevent scandal--and protect Lady Amelia Jacoby from her parents' ire--he must propose. John's ability to trust vanished when his former love married his twin brother. Yet he offers Amelia everything she could want--except affection. Amelia sees John's true nature shine through when he cares for his horses. But the brooding aristocrat...
585) I'll get by
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
234 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Meggie Elliot, an intelligent young woman who dreams of going to university and becoming a lawyer, joins the WRNS during World War II and falls for a charming aristocrat named Nick Cowan, but Nick may not be what he seems.
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lady Celia Sharpe hopes that if she can garner offers of marriage from several eligible gentlemen and show her grandmother she is capable of gaining a husband, she can convince Gran to rescind the marriage ultimatum for her. And if that plan doesn't work, at least she'll have a husband lined up. But Bow Street Runner Jackson Pinter seems determined to ruin her plans by disapproving of every suitor she asks him to investigate. It's only when she and...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Original U.K. edition.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 540 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Season two returns as the Great War rages across Europe, and not even the serene Yorkshire countryside is free from its effects. The men and women of Downton are doing their part both on the front lines and the home front, but the intensity of war only serves to inflame the more familiar passions of love, loss, blackmail, and betrayal.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Original UK edition.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (525 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As Season Five begins in 1924, the radio is the latest miracle, a new Labour government heralds changes through the land, and Downton's traditional ways are besieged on all fronts. Robert, Mary, and Branson must navigate these shifting sands together to ensure the future of the estate for generations to come. As Branson finds himself playing a more crucial role at Downton than ever before, he can't help but question his place in the world. Mary is...
Author
Series
Publisher
[Savdek Management Proprietary Limited]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Lord Godfrey Cavanaugh has no thoughts of marrying as he drives into North Yorkshire on a plum commission for the National Gallery to authenticate a Renaissance painting the gallery wishes to purchase. Then a snow storm sweeps in, and Godfrey barely manages to haul himself, his groom, and his horses to their destination. Elinor Hinckley, eldest daughter of Hinckley Hall, stalwart defender of the family, right arm to her invalid father, and established...
Author
Series
Wantons of Waverton volume 1
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Widowed Lady Sylvia Elton is out to save young ladies from the terrible fate of love and marriage. Her former husband has retained his reputation as an honorable and loving man in death, but Sylvia has privately mourned his lies and infidelity. Joined by two equally scorned and cast-off friends, Sylvia establishes the Mismatch Society. With each new liberated member, the scandalous circle wreaks havoc on the romantic prospects of London's frustrated...
Author
Series
Casebook of Barnaby Adair volume 3
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Miraculously spared from death, Malcolm Sinclair erases the notorious man he once was. Reinventing himself as Thomas Glendower, he strives to make amends for his past, yet he never imagines penance might come via a secretive lady he discovers living in his secluded manor. Rose has a plausible explanation for why she and her children are residing in Thomas's house, but she quickly realizes he's too intelligent to fool. Revealing the truth is impossibly...
594) Courtship & curses
Author
Series
Leland sisters volume 3
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1815, Lady Sophie Rosier's first London season is marred not only by her physical and emotional scars, but also by magical attacks on her father and other members of the British War Cabinet, and while Sophie's magical powers are unreliable, she and her new best friend Parthenope decide to investigate--despite the distraction of Parthenope's handsome cousin.
Author
Series
Clandestine affairs volume 3
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
The new footman doesn't seem to know his place... London's most renowned mapmaker is a woman...but nobody knows it. If anyone discovers that Rose Fleming is the power and talent behind the family business, the scandal could ruin them. Rose's secret is tested by the arrival of a handsome new footman who shows far too much interest in his new mistress. Rose battles an intense attraction to the enigmatic servant, but maintaining a proper distance isn't...
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Resentful young Parisian chambermaid Celestine finds herself exiled to a position in the provinces where she must humbly submit to the iron rules and pettiness of her high-handed bourgeois mistress while rebuffing the groping advances of Monsieur and contending with her fascination with the brooding gardener, Joseph.
598) Lampedusa
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Set in a sun-drenched Sicily, among the decadent Italian aristocracy of the late 1950s, Steven Price's Lampedusa explores the final years of Giuseppe Tomasi, the last prince of Lampedusa, as he struggles to complete his only novel, The Leopard. In 1955, Tomasi was diagnosed with advanced emphysema; shortly after, he began work on a novel that would fail to be published before his death four years later. When The Leopard at last appeared, it won...
Series
Criterion collection volume 445
Language
Français
Formats
Description
The most cherished work from French master Max Ophuls; this is a profoundly emotional, cinematographically adventurous tale of deceptive opulence and tragic romance. When an aristocratic woman known only as Madame de sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband in order to pay a debt, she sets off a chain reaction of financial and carnal consequences that can end only in despair.
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