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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Lexile measure
AD 510L
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
In this British variant of a traditional tale, a great smelly, slobbery, small-tooth dog rescues a rich man from bandits and demands that the man bring his beautiful daughter to live in his castle.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
489 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After studying art under Miss Drake, a renowned painter, Phoebe Radcliff is certain she can finally move beyond the childish mistake that's kept her away from home. She is thrilled when Miss Drake employs her to complete a complicated ballroom renovation, believing it will lead to a new, happier future. Everything changes, however, the moment Miss Drake is murdered. With her last breath she imparts the location of a clue to Phoebe. Can the biggest...
1944) Funny woman
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (280 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's the height of the swinging 60s and Barbara Parker has just been crowned Miss Blackpool but there's got to be more to life than being a beauty queen in a seaside town, right? She wants to be someone. The bright lights of London are calling, and our determined hero sets off to find out who that someone is. The London she encounters is not as quite as swinging as the one she'd read about and seen on TV. However, after a series of setbacks, Barbara...
Publisher
[Midwest Tape]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (562 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. ; in 1 multi-disc DVD case
Language
English
Description
A collection of DVDs featuring five royal-themed films into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night.
The King's speech: This is the story of King George VI of Britian, his impromptu ascension to the throne, and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch become worthy of it.
Victoria & Abdul: Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
Mary Queen of Scots: Queen of France at sixteen,...
1948) Torolv the fatherless
Author
Pub. Date
1959
Physical Desc
190 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
1949) La caída de los gigantes
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Random House, Inc
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Primera edición Vintage Español.
Physical Desc
1016 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"Tras el éxito de Los pilares de la Tierra y Un mundo sin fin, Ken Follett presenta esta gran novela épica que narra la historia de cinco familias durante los años turbulentos de la Primera Guerra Mundial, la Revolución Rusa y la lucha de hombres y mujeres por sus derechos." -- Page [4] cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First HarperLuxe edition.
Physical Desc
459 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
With her brother Thomas injured on the battlefront in the Colonies, orphaned Cecilia Harcourt has two unbearable choices: move in with a maiden aunt or marry a scheming cousin. Instead, she chooses option three and travels across the Atlantic, determined to nurse her brother back to health. But after a week of searching, she finds not her brother but his best friend, the handsome officer Edward Rokesby. He's unconscious and in desperate need of her...
1952) The special relationship
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A powerful new look at the human side of iconic world leaders. In 1993, Tony Blair was a rising young star in British politics. Three years later he ran for Prime Minister, and began a 'special relationship' with U.S. President Bill Clinton that endured through triumph, conflict, and personal scandal. The behind-the-scenes story of two world leaders who forged a loyal, if tempestuous, friendship out of the crucible of political necessity:
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
UK edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (325 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The future's looking bright for the eccentric Durrells; catch up with their lives on the beautiful island of Corfu in the fourth and final season. Most of the family struggles with individual business ventures from running a guest house, attempting to get published, starting a beauty salon, and opening a zoo.
Author
Series
Countess of Harleigh mystery volume 4
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
391 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"For Frances Wynn, widow to the late Earl of Harleigh, life has a cosmopolitan flavor of late. No sooner has she sent her mother and daughter off on a shopping trip to Paris than she and her fianč, George Hazelton, are socializing with visiting members of the Russian royal family. Yet amid this whirlwind, scandal also comes calling when Inspector Delaney turns up outside Frances's house with a young French woman with a shocking claim: she is Mrs....
Author
Series
Century volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (30 hr., 38 min.) : digital ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man's world in the Welsh mining pits. Gus Dewar finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House. Brothers Grigori and Lev Peshkov embark on radically different paths when their plan to immigrate to America falls afoul. Billy's sister Ethel, a housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts, takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy...
1956) Jack and the beanstalk
Author
Pub. Date
1993
Physical Desc
36 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Jack helps his starving widowed mother by selling a cow for beans which he plants. A tall beanstalk reaches to a palace in the clouds. There he kills the Giant and claims a palace that is rightfully his and his mother's.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (6 hours, 19 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The concluding cycle of The Hollow Crown, subtitled The Wars of the Roses. Henry VI, Parts I and II and Richard III tell the story of an exceptionally turbulent period in British history. These exhilarating and emotionally charged films feature some of Shakespeare's most eloquent and powerful language.
1959) King Henry V
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1967
Physical Desc
xlii, 173 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English