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1861) A girl called Rose
Author
Publisher
Enterprise Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
412 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The close, loving family life Rose has known is shattered when the country goes to war. Rose resolves to do her bit so, aged sixteen, she leaves home to train as a nurse in London. There she finds freedom, excitement and a different way of life. A brief encounter with a soldier opens her eyes to romance, but is he the man she thinks he is? Can first love survive long separation or will Rose discover that her heart belongs to another? When the war...
1862) Listen to danger
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Large print ed., unabridged.
Physical Desc
297 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
8 books (325, 11 pages ; 20 cm), in a cloth bag ; 38 x 46 cm
Language
English
Description
Tom Hazard has just move back to London to settle down and become a history teacher. But while he may look like an ordinary forty-one-year-old, owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. Unfortunately for Tom, the Albatross Society, the secretive group that protects people like him, has one rule: Never fall in love.
1866) A girl called Hope
Author
Publisher
Enterprise Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
437 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In Victorian London's East End, life for Hope Daniels in the public house run by her parents is not as it seems. Pa drinks and gambles, brother John longs for a place of his own, sister Violet dreams of a life on stage and little Alfie is being bullied at school. Silas Quirk, the charismatic owner of a local gentlemen's club and disreputable gambling den her father frequents, has his own plans for Hope. When disaster strikes, the family loses everything...
1867) A girl called Violet
Author
Publisher
Enterprise Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
386 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Violet Daniels isn't perfect. She's made a lot of mistakes in her life, but the deep love she has for her five-year-old twins is beyond dispute. When their feckless and often violent father turns up out of the blue, demanding to see them, she's terrified he might try to snatch them from her. She flees with them to a place of safety where she meets the handsome and charming Gabriel Stone. He shows her a better way of life, but is he everything he...
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
2-disc collector's ed. ; widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Reinventing himself as Sweeney Todd, a man unjustly sent to prison returns to exact revenge on those who ruined his life, especially the evil Judge Turpin who sent the man to prison. Not only does he seek revenge for the cruel punishment he suffered in prison, but also for what happened to his wife and daughter. When he returns to his home town, he reopens his barber shop, where Mr. Todd becomes the Demon of Fleet Street. Mrs. Lovett is Sweeney's...
1869) Honeymoon hotel
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
641 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Bonneville Hotel is the best-kept secret in London: its elegant rooms and discreet wood-paneled cocktail lounge were the home-away-from-home for royalty and movie stars alike during the golden age of glamour. Recent years haven't been kind, but thanks to events manager Rosie, it's reclaiming some of its old cachet as a wish list wedding venue. While Rosie's weddings are the ultimate in romance, Rosie herself isn't. Her focus is fixed firmly on...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 book club bag ; in bookbag
Language
English
Description
"Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to find the letter she's been waiting for her entire life. She rips it open with one driving thought: I am finally going to know who I am. She soon learns not only the identity of her birth parents, but also that she is the sole inheritor of their abandoned mansion on the banks of the Thames in London's fashionable Chelsea neighborhood, worth millions. Everything in Libby's...
Author
Publisher
Kennebec Large Print, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Large print edition ; Unabridged.
Physical Desc
491 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
London, 1925. Glamorous medium Gloria Sutter made her fortune helping the bereaved contact loved ones killed during the Great War. Now she's been murdered at one of her own seances, after leaving a final message requesting the help of her former friend and sole rival, Ellie Winter. Ellie can't refuse the final request of the only other true psychic she has known. With the help of James Hawley, a handsome war veteran who has dedicated himself to debunking...
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen ver. ; Full moon ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's a rainy night on the Welsh moors. Two American students on a walking tour of Europe trudge on to the next town, when suddenly the air is pierced by an unearthly howl ... Three weeks later, one is dead and the other is in the hospital.
1873) Pygmalion
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
189 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Professor Henry Higgins thinks he can turn Eliza Doolittle, a poor flower seller, into a duchess by teaching her how to speak and look a certain way.
1874) Oliver Twist
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
184 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Oliver Twist is an orphan who runs away to London to escape a harsh life in a workhouse. That life is full of danger, but Oliver ultimately finds safety with a loving family.
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (approximately 646 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
David Tennant steps into the role of the Doctor, now in his tenth incarnation. The second series is full of more thrills, more laughs, more heartbreak and some terrifying new aliens and old acquaintances.
1876) 6 days
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Unfolding over six terrifying days, this tells all sides of the incredible true story of six heavily armed gunmen who invaded the Iranian Embassy in London, taking 26 people hostage. Negotiators, police, politicians, and the highest level military officials wrestle over the correct response, all observed by some of the world's first live television news coverage.
1877) Strike
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (449 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Cormoran Strike is a war veteran turned private detective operating out of a tiny office in London's Denmark Street. Though he's wounded both physically and psychologically, Strike's unique insight and his background as an SIB Investigator prove crucial in solving complex cases that elude the police.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Season three of this dark, gritty crime drama follows two concurrent mysteries: one the case of a man suffering from psychosis, desperate to find answers about a girl he saw strangled years ago. The other, the case of a government minister blackmailed by the same man's brother. However, the mystery of how these two cases connect is not the only source of driving tension. Fans of the series want to know if Cormoran and his assistant Robin end up together,...
1879) Mary Poppins
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
45th anniversary ed. ; Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (139 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After a banker's children lose their nanny due to her frustration with them, a change in the wind blows in a magical nanny who matches the children's qualifications, but not those of their very proper father. As Mary Poppins helps the children magically explore the world around them, their father grows increasingly disapproving of her methods, and he must eventually deal with his own distance from his children.
1880) Where's the Queen?
Author
Publisher
Nosy Crow, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 19 x 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"Five beautifully illustrated spreads set in England include a police officer, a bus driver, a British soldier, and the Queen herself all hiding behind bright felt flaps. With a mirror on the final page, this is the perfect book to share with very little ones" --