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421) The pursuit of love
Publisher
Theodora Films Limited & Moonage Pictures Limited
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"1920s, Oxfordshire. On the brink of adulthood, Linda Radlett (Lily James) and her beloved cousin Fanny Logan (Emily Beecham) are stuck in the countryside, impatiently waiting for life to begin so they can escape the confines of Alconleigh. Linda, who has lived her life under the terrifying regime of Uncle Matthew (Dominic West), dreams of excitement and adventure. But Fanny, abandoned by her mother The Bolter (Emily Mortimer) and raised by her Aunt...
Author
Series
All the Duke's sins volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
When a wounded soldier and self-proclaimed "beast" finds unlikely friendship with a headstrong and unconventional beauty, they quickly find themselves weaving a tale as old as time... Despite a hero's return to England from the Napoleonic Wars, Wesley Audley isolates from the ton. Deep wounds from the horrors of combat--and the despair of a broken heart--left him scarred. As he struggles to cope and resume his place in Polite Society, Wesley is quick...
423) Barry Lyndon
Series
Criterion collection volume 897
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (185 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (40 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
"Stanley Kubrick bent the conventions of the historical drama to his own will in this dazzling version of a pitiless aristocracy, adapted from a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. In picaresque detail, Barry Lyndon chronicles the adventures of an incorrigible trickster (Ryan O'Neal) whose opportunism takes him from an Irish farm to the battlefields of the Seven Years' War and the parlors of high society. For the most sumptuously crafted film of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
600 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Aurelia Farnham believes she is happy living in London's stylish Cavendish Square. But with her friends Livia and Cornelia both married now, Aurelia is the only one still husbandless, and sometimes she longs for more. Then Colonel Sir Greville Falconer storms into her life, delivering a letter from her late husband, a war hero, which reveals he was a spy -- the colonel's spy. Now Greville needs Aurelia to continue the patriotic mission and partner...
Author
Series
Huxtable quintet volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
533 p. (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Balogh introduces an extraordinary family-- the fiery, sensual Huxtables. Vanessa is a young widow who has her own reason for pursuing the most eligible bachelor in London. One that has nothing to do with love. Or does it?
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 518 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Rooms, the extraordinary true story of the downfall of one of England's wealthiest families. Fans of Downton Abbey now have a go-to resource for fascinating, real-life stories of the spectacular lives led by England's aristocrats. With the novelistic flair and knack for historical detail Catherine Bailey displayed in her New York Times bestseller The Secret Rooms, Black Diamonds provides a...
429) Abdication: a novel
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
344 p. ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In a tale set against a backdrop of pre-World War II turbulence in England and Edward VIII's scandalous affair, a fatherless chauffeur shares an undeclared love with a complex Oxford undergraduate, a housekeeper hides her Nazi sympathies and a woman struggles with escalating tensions in her friendship with Wallace Simpson
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xiii, 462 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, genealogical table ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Finally revealing the family's indefatigable women among its legendary military figures, The Howe Dynasty recasts the British side of the American Revolution. In December 1774, Benjamin Franklin met Caroline Howe, the sister of British Admiral Richard and General William Howe, in a London drawing room for "half a dozen Games of Chess." As Julie Flavell reveals, the games concealed a matter of the utmost diplomatic urgency, a last-ditch attempt to...
431) Blandings: Series 1
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (182 min.) : sound, col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
P.G. Wodehouse's beloved Blandings Castle stories follow the foibles of an eccentric aristocrat, his peculiar family, and the ramshackle ancestral home they share. In this witty British series, Timothy Spall and Jennifer Saunders sparkle as Wodehouse's madcap protagonists.
432) Captain from Castile
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (141 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 4 lobby cards in an envelope.
Language
English
Description
Forced to flee his home during the Spanish Inquisition, nobleman Pedro De Vargas escapes with a beautiful peasant girl and joins Cortez on his dangerous expedition to conquer Mexico.
433) The American
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 90 minutes) : sound, colored ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in the 19th-century, Christopher Newman amasses a fortune in California then travels to Europe to find a wife. His overtures to a young French woman, a member of an aristocratic family, meet with condescension in this classic collision between European and American culture.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
308 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In February 1782, England opened its newspapers to read the details of Sir Richard and Lady Worsleys' scandalous sexual arrangements, voyeuristic tendencies, and bed-hopping antics. This lively true history presents a rarely seen picture of aristocratic life in the Georgian era
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[200-?]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (405 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
A painstakingly detailed adaptation of the Tolstoy novel which follows the interconnected lives of a group of Russian aristocrats from 1805 to 1812, including Napoleon's invasion of Russia.
Publisher
Hallmark Channel, Cineverse
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 504 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Royal Corgi: Prince Edmond hopes to win his mother's love back with the gift of an adorable but unruly corgi. He hires American dog trainer Cecily to make the corgi presentable for the annual Christmas ball.
Fabled Holiday: Talia and her childhood best friend Anderson unexpectedly reunite in a familiar looking town full of Christmas spirit that restores its visitors during their times of deep turmoil.
Royal Nanny: MI5 agent Claire goes undercover...
437) The countess
Author
Series
Scandalous ladies of London volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
8 audio discs (9 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lady Gertrude knows she must play the society game to ensure her daughter marries well. And an affair with her daughter's suitor would mean unsurvivable scandal. But he wants more than one night; he wants forever.
438) War and peace
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (208 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Adaptation of Tolstoy's great novel about three families struggling during Russia's Napoleonic Wars.
Author
Series
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
414 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Jessica Fletcher and her friend Scotland Yard detective inspector George Sutherland are invited to attend a New Year's Eve Ball at Castorbrook Castle, thanks to her British publisher. Shortly after arriving in the idyllic English countryside, Jessica discovers the body of a lady's maid in the garden. While their host, Lord Norrance, his snobbish third wife, other members of the household, and party guests squabble over the tragic death in tight-lipped,...
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