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1) Dodsworth
Author
Description
A middle-aged American retires and he and his wife go to Europe where they find a new set of values and relationships
3) Excalibur
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (140 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The classic saga of King Arthur and those around him in the Court-- the knights, his Queen, and the wizard Merlin. Focuses on the rise of Christian civilization out of the Dark Ages.
Author
Series
Earth's children volume 1
Formats
Description
An injured and orphaned infant carries within her the seed and hope of mankind in this epic of survival and destiny set at the dawn of prehistory
Author
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xvii, 309 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 21 cm
Description
We consider the Middle Ages barbaric, yet the period furnished some of our most enduring icons, including King Arthur's Round Table, knights in shining armor, and the idealized noblewoman. In this vivid history of the time, the medieval world comes to life in all its rich daily experience. Find out what people's beds were like, how often they washed, what they wore, what they cooked, how they worked, how they entertained themselves, how they wed,...
Author
Publisher
Dorothy, a Publishing Project
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
193 p. ; 18 cm.
Description
"Nell Zink's debut novel follows a downwardly mobile secretary from Philadelphia who marries an ambitious soon-to-be-expat pharmaceutical researcher in hopes that she will never work again. They end up in Germany, where it turns out that her new husband is tougher, sneakier, more sincere, more contradictory, and smarter than she is; she'd naturally thought it was impossible. Life becomes complicated with affairs, birding, and eco-terrorism. Bad things...
Author
Series
Northland trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
[2012], c2011
Physical Desc
454 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Description
The prosperous people of Northland, a linear city hundreds of miles long created by the building of a Wall to hold back both the North Sea and the empires of the Bronze Age, contend with a threat from the East when decades of drought bring instability to the Eastern civilizations.
Author
Series
Montague siblings volume 3
Description
Desperate to escape his father's high expectations and his own grief in the aftermath of his mother's passing, sole heir Adrian Montague embarks on a search for his disowned siblings after discovering that he is not an only child.
Author
Series
Eldest curses volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
350 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
High Warlock Magnus Bane learns that a demon-worshipping cult, the Crimson Hand, is wreaking havoc across Europe, threatening more than just his romantic getaway with new boyfriend, Alec Lightwood.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xxxi, 351 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm
Description
Sixteenth-century Europe saw an explosion of female rule. From Isabella of Castile and her granddaughter Mary Tudor, to Catherine de Medici, Anne Boleyn, and Elizabeth Tudor, women wielded enormous power over their territories for more than a hundred years. In the sixteenth century, as in our own, the phenomenon of the powerful woman offered challenges and opportunities. Opportunities, as when in 1529 Margaret of Austria and Louise of Savoy negotiated...
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
xvii, 206 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Explores the history of socialist feminism by examining the careers of five prominent socialist women active in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, revealing lives filled with inner conflicts, contradictions, and sometimes outrageous privilege as theymoved forward with their own political projects through perseverance and dedication to their cause.
Author
Series
Montague siblings volume 2
Formats
Description
Hoping to travel to Germany to ask for help enrolling in medical school, Felicity has no money for the trip until a mysterious woman offers to travel with her and pay her way, which ends up entangling Felicity in a perilous quest across Europe.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015
Description
A powerful story of love, war, and remembrance, based on the World War I memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman's point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, a film about young love, the futility of war, and how to make sense of the darkest times.
"This is Vikander's film and she is very good here."--Toronto Star
"Tough-minded and sometimes...
19) Film socialisme
Publisher
distributed by Kino Lorber, Inc
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jean-Luc Godard presents a magisterial essay on the decline of European civilization. As a garish cruise ship travels the Mediterranean, Godard embarks on a filmic essay on the state of contemporary Europe, international politics, and Western history. In the tradition of his acclaimed political and essayistic films, Godard explores a wide range of contemporary cultural, political and historical themes with his distinctive and innovative cinematic...
20) The rising
Author
Series
Department 19 volume 2
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
576 p. ; 22 m.
Description
When his own mother is turned into a vampire, Jamie, a new recruit to a classified government agency of vampire hunters, swears vengeance against her captors and prepares for a confrontation with Dracula himself.
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