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Series
Dangerous damsels volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Known as Agent A, Alice is the top operative within the Agency of Undercover Note Takers, a secret government intelligence group that is fortunately better at espionage than at naming itself. From managing deceptive witches to bored aristocratic ladies, nothing is beyond Alice's capabilities. She has a steely composure and a plan always up her sleeve (alongside a dagger and an embroidered handkerchief). So when rumors of an assassination plot begin...
2) Glorious 39
Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (133 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In this tense WWII-era thriller, Anne, a young woman from a political family, stumbles upon sinister evidence relating to a secret Nazi conspiracy plot and ends up caught in a deadly web of lies and betrayal.
Author
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
254 pages
Description
Eça de Queiros's superlative novel The Illustrious House of Ramires (originally published in 1900) is presented here in a sparkling new translation by Margaret Jull Costa. The favorite novel of many Eça de Queiros aficionados, this late masterpiece, wickedly funny and yet profoundly tender, centers on Gonçalo Ramires, heir to a family so aristocratic that it predates even the kings of Portugal. Gonçalo--charming but disastrously effete, idealistic...
4) Gosford Park
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (138 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As a hunting party gathers at a country estate, no one is aware that before the weekend is over, someone will be murdered - twice! The police are baffled but the all-seeing, all-hearing servants know that almost everyone had a motive.
5) Only beloved
Author
Series
Survivors' Club septet volume 7
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"For the first time since the death of his wife, the Duke of Stanbrook is considering remarrying and finally embracing happiness for himself. With that thought comes the treasured image of a woman he met briefly a year ago and never saw again. Dora Debbins relinquished all hope to marry when a family scandal left her in charge of her younger sister. Earning a modest living as a music teacher, she's left with only an unfulfilled dream. Then, one afternoon,...
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Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xiii, 286 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Something sinister is afoot at Totleigh Hall, the showcase of the sleepy English village of Nether Monkslip. Lord and Lady Baaden-Boomethistle have been in residence for some weeks now, and the villagers are hoping for a return to the days when the lord of the manor sprinkled benefits across the village like fairy dust. But a sudden grisly death intervenes, and Max Tudor's talent for sorting through clues is once again called into play.
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First published in 1929, Faulkner created his "heart's darling," the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers--the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin and the monstrous Jason. The novel reveals the story of the disintegration of the Compson family, doomed inhabitants of Faulkner's mythical Yoknapatawpha County, through the interior monologues of the brothers. Includes the...
Author
Publisher
Joy Revolution
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Lady Ela Dalvi knows the exact moment her life was forever changed--when her best friend, Poppy, betrayed her without qualm over a boy, the son of a duke. She was sent away in disgrace, her reputation ruined. Nearly three years later, eighteen-year-old Ela is consumed with bitterness and a desire for...revenge. Her enemy is quickly joining the cr�eme de la cr�eme of high society while she withers away in the English countryside. With an audacious...
9) L'innocente
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In late-nineteenth century Italy, a wealthy, married aristocrat leads a double life with his possessive mistress.
10) The princess spy
Author
Series
Hagenheim volume 5
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Margaretha hopes her newest suitor, Lord Claybrook, will be her one true love, but when an injured man is brought to Hagenheim Castle claiming to be an English lord who was attacked by Claybrook, Margaretha is drawn into a plot, not knowing who is tellingthe truth.
11) The arrangement
Author
Series
Survivors' Club septet volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
541 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
"Desperate to escape his mother's matchmaking, Vincent Hunt, Viscount Darleigh, flees to a remote country village. But even there, another marital trap is sprung. So when Miss Sophia Fry's intervention on his behalf finds her unceremoniously booted from her guardian's home, Vincent is compelled to act. He may have been blinded in battle, but he can see a solution to both their problems: marriage. At first, quiet, unassuming Sophia rejects Vincent's...
12) Only a kiss
Author
Series
Survivors' Club septet volume 6
Publisher
Thorndike Press Large Print
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
529 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
Arriving at Hardford Hall for an impulsive visit, Percival Hayes, Earl of Hardford, finds Lady Barclay, who secluded herself after her husband's death, awakens a passion he never thought possible.
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Appears on list
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"On the eve of her marriage to George Hazelton, Frances has a great deal more on her mind than flowers and seating arrangements. The Connors and the Bainbridges, two families of American robber barons, have taken up residence in London, and their bitter rivalry is spilling over into the highest social circles. At the request of her brother, Alonzo, who is quite taken with Miss Madeline Connor, Frances has invited the Connor family to her wedding....
14) Silent melody
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
607 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
"Brimming with passion and rich in historical detail, Silent Melody is an epic love story like no other. It is the extraordinary tale of a privileged young Lady who has everything -- except her hearing. With the help of a dark and reckless Lord, she fulfills her lifelong dream of learning to dance -- and learning to love"--Amazon.com.
15) Only a promise
Author
Series
Survivors' Club septet volume 5
Pub. Date
2015
Description
Ralph Stockwood prides himself on being a leader, but when he convinced his friends to fight in the Napoleonic Wars, he never envisioned being the sole survivor. Racked with guilt over their deaths, Ralph must move on...and find a wife so as to secure an heir to his family's title and fortune. Since her Seasons in London ended in disaster, Chloe Muirhead is resigned to spinsterhood. Driven by the need to escape her family, she takes refuge at the...
Author
Series
Would-be wallflowers volume 2
Description
Giles Renwick, Earl of Lilford, has never made a fool of himself over a woman, until he meets Lady Yasmin Regnier. Yasmin is ineligible for his attentions in every way: not as a wife, certainly not as a mistress (she is a lady!), nor even as a friend, since they vehemently dislike each other. Her gowns are too low, and her skirts are dampened to cling to admittedly lovely thighs. She loves to gossip and giggle. She isn't dignified, or polite, or even...
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Angélique Latham has grown up at magnificent Belgrave Castle under the loving tutelage of her father, the Duke of Westerfield, after the death of her aristocratic French mother. But when he dies, her half-brothers brutally turn her out, denying her very existence. Angélique has a keen mind, remarkable beauty, and an envelope of money her father pressed upon her. To survive, she will need all her resources--and one bold stroke of fortune. Unable...
18) Australia
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Formats
Description
In northern Australia at the beginning of World War II, an English aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier....
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 510 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Creator Julian Fellowes brings the top PBS drama of all time to its climactic sixth and final chapter. The fates of the Crawley family, and the servants who work for them, are discovered as they face new challenges and begin forging different paths in a rapidly changing world.
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