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Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
207, 6 pages : portrait ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"On December 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright flew the world's first airplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, establishing the Wright Brothers as world-renowned pioneers of flight. Known to far fewer people was their whip-smart and well-educated sister Katharine, a suffragette and early feminist. After Wilbur passed away, Katharine lived with and took care of her increasingly reclusive brother Orville, who often turned to his more confident and...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xix, 457 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An icon of American artistic invention, the Chelsea Hotel has been, since its founding by a French socialist utopian in 1884, a cultural dynamo lodged in the very heart of uber-capitalist New York City. Sherill Tippins, author of the acclaimed February House, delivers a lively, masterly history of the Chelsea and of the successive generations of artists who have cohabited and created there, among them John Sloan, Edgar Lee Masters, Isabella Stewart...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 436 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A narrative account of the author's bohemian aristocrat grandparents' unconventional relationship with her grandfather's gay lover examines the period taboos, family secrets and cultural dynamics that shaped their shared lives, "--Novelist
Author
Series
Lady Hardcastle mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Lady Emily Hardcastle is an eccentric widow with a secret past. Florence Armstrong, her maid and confidante, is an expert in martial arts. The year is 1908 and they've just moved from London to the country, hoping for a quiet life. But it is not long before Lady Hardcastle is forced out of her self-imposed retirement. There's a dead body in the woods, and the police are on the wrong scent. Lady Hardcastle makes some enquiries of her own, and it seems...
267) Clubbing
Author
Publisher
Minx
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
151 pages, 22 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
After she's caught using a fake I.D. at a West End nightclub, Charlotte "Lottie" Brook, best known for her mile-high platforms and passion for classic literature, is condemned to a summer at her grandparents' stuffy country club, where she narrowly escapes romance and solves a murder mystery on the 19th hole.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This guide for the curious and the intrepid takes readers on a tour of eighteen of the world's most captivating architectural mysteries. Delve into both the secretive places themselves and the eccentric and obsessive minds that created them. Visit a chamber of skulls high in the Swiss Alps, a Japanese temple full of traps, a Parisian apartment locked and untouched since World War II, a Prohibition-era speakeasy in Washington, DC, and a spooky "initiation"...
269) The other Paris
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
306 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A vivid investigation into the seamy underside of nineteenth and twentieth century Paris"--
"A trip through Paris as it will never be again--dark and dank and poor and slapdash and truly bohemian Paris, the City of Light. The city of the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre, of soft cheese and fresh baguettes. Or so tourist brochures would have you believe. In The Other Paris, Luc Sante reveals the city's hidden past, its seamy underside--one populated by...
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
26 DVDs (approximately 84.25 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When New York doctor Joel Fleischman takes on a residency in Anchorage, he's sure that he's in for a cushy, comfortable gig. But upon his arrival in Alaska, Joel finds that he's a fish out of water when he's instead assigned to a tiny village where the eccentric townspeople first befuddle, then eventually charm him.
271) Doc Martin: Series 9
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (384 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
All is not well for brilliant but boorish Dr. Martin Ellingham as the hit British dramedy returns. To Martin's utter disgust, his medical practice remains under official scrutiny because of his pre-existing blood phobia, and he is forced to attend refresher courses starting with phlebotomy. His wife, Louisa, and aunt Ruth urge him to take this risk to his career seriously, but events conspire against him.
272) Doc Martin: Series 8
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 413 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After all their ups and downs as a couple, Dr. Martin Ellingham and his wife, Louisa, are finally living together with their son, James Henry, but their problems are far from over. As some relationships bloom and other falter, can Martin cope with all the changes--or will he risk the fragile accord he's forged with his family?
273) Housekeeping
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Aunt Sylvie, an eccentric free spirit, returns to her hometown, a small mountain community in the Pacific Northwest, to care for her two orphaned nieces.
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 452 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This final series sees the Doc making efforts to overcome his phobia and beginning to question whether he made the right decision about resigning. He and Louisa have also welcomed a baby daughter, Mary Elizabeth, a sister to four-year-old James Henry; includes the feature-length finale special.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Three-disc edition.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (546 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dick Loudon and his wife, Joanna, run a small country inn in Vermont where they're surrounded by an eclectic group of friends and neighbors who have more than a few screws loose.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Second disc set.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 336 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Disc 1: If you could only cook: A down-on-her-luck cook charms a millionaire into playing along as her husband so they can get work. Too many husbands: A girl finds herself legally wed to two men.
Disc 2: My sister Eileen: A sister, who has a pretty, younger sister, brings a host of eccentrics through their Greenwich Village apartment. She wouldn't say yes: A button-down psychiatrist battles her patient's impulses while suppressing her own.
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
124 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
There are those who thought Phebe Wise was a witch. More thought that the cranky old lady was "tetched," meaning crazy. And she was crazy--like a fox. An eccentric who outwitted violent robbers, a mad stalker and a society that expected her to marry and raise children, Phebe alternated between dressing up in men's clothes and strutting to town in an antique ball gown, the trail dragging behind her in the dirt. If anyone had the gall to stare, she'd...
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
464 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"With its long-awaited second volume, Linda Medley's witty and sublimely drawn fantasy eases into a relaxed comedy of manners as Lady Jain settles into her new life in Castle Waiting. Unexpected visitors result in the discovery and exploration of a secret passageway, not to mention an epic bowling tournament. A quest for ladies' underpants, the identity of her baby son Pindar's father, the education of Simon, Rackham and Chess arguing about the "manly...
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