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1) Plague land
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In this chilling historical mystery, young girls go missing from a medieval English village and Lord Oswald de Lacy must find the killer before tragedy strikes again.
Oswald de Lacy was never meant to be the Lord of Somerhill Manor. Despatched to a monastery at the age of seven, sent back at seventeen when his father and two older brothers are killed by the Plague, Oswald has no experience of running an estate. He finds the years of pestilence and...
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Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 23 cm
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Having decided she will never marry, Kate Worthington plans to escape her meddlesome family by travelling to India. Her mother agrees on the condition that she gets--and rejects--three marriage proposals. To fulfill her end of the bargain Kate travels to the manor of Blackmoore in northern England, where her plans go awry.
6) The nest
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Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2021]
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An American entrepreneur and his family see their lives take a sudden twist when they move into an English country manor.
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2007
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xii, 322 p. : map ; 22 cm.
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When a baby arrives on her doorstep during Sawrey's annual summer fete, Beatrix Potter sets out to discover the truth about the abandoned baby, following her only clue, a scarab ring, to Hawthorn House, a legendary manor reputed to be haunted.
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Honeychurch Hall novels volume 2
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"Deadly Desires at Honeychurch Hall is the second charming and witty whodunit in Hannah Dennison's amazing cozy series. Set at an English manor house, fans of British mysteries and Downton Abbey are sure to enjoy this contemporary take on murder at the manor house. When the body of a transport minister is discovered in the grounds on Honeychurch Hall, suspicion about his unusual demise naturally falls on the folks in the village. After all, who could...
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To the manor born volume disc 1
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Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[c2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 210 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Newly widowed Audrey is forced to auction Grantleigh when she finds out that her husband was bankrupt. She is mortified when the buyer is "a Czech grocer" intent on running his Empire from the Manor.
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Honeychurch Hall novels volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
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291 pages ; 22 cm
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"Former TV celebrity host Kat Stanford is just days away from starting her dream antique business with her newly widowed mother Iris when she gets a huge shock. Iris has recklessly purchased a dilapidated carriage house, on an isolated country estate, Honeychurch Hall, several hundred miles from London. When Kat arrives at the house, she discovers that Iris has yet another surprise in store. Iris has been writing in secret for years and reluctantly...
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
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296 p. ; 22 cm.
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"Young Daphne du Maurier must defend of a friend who has been accused of murder in this next installment in the beguiling mystery series that readers of Rebecca will love. It's the summer of 1927, and young Daphne du Maurier has traveled to Thornleigh Manor to attend the wedding of her good friend, Ellen, who is set to marry her beau, Teddy. Having met in the midst of the chaos and calamity of wartime, the lovers were brutally separated years before...
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
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397 pages : illustration ; 25 cm.
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"When a close relative falls ill, Hannah Larson and her young son, Nicky, join him for the summer at Ashton Hall, a historic manor house outside Cambridge, England. A frustrated academic whose ambitions have been subsumed by the challenges of raising her beloved child, Hannah longs to escape her life in New York City, where her marriage has been upended by a recently discovered and devastating betrayal. Soon after their arrival, ever-curious Nicky...
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
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viii, 305 pages ; 22 cm.
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"When the only copy of Ravished, Iris Stanford's new manuscript, never arrives at her London publisher's office, her daughter Kat investigates the tiny local village post office, where it appears the package never left the building. Iris is on tenterhooks--not only is her novel gone with the wind, but she's deathly afraid that Muriel Jarvis, the postmistress and notorious busybody, will expose her secret identity as the bestselling romance writer...
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To the manor born volume disc 2
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Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
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1 videodisc (ca. 180 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Hilarity abounds as Richard imposes new efficiency standards upon farm management and stirs Audrey's protest with his modernizing methods.
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To the manor born volume disc 3
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Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2008
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1 videodisc (ca. 210 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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In this final season the flirtatious rivalry abounds between our revered aristocrats but as fate takes an unexpected twist will this mismatched couple end their rivalry and give us the ending we all wish for?
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Duomo Ediciones
Pub. Date
2022.
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346 pages : plans, genealogical table ; 22 cm
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"Doce dias. Doce pistas. Que empiece el juego. Desde que su madre murio, hace 21 anos, Lily Armitage no habia regresado a la mansion familiar, hasta que recibe una invitacion de su tia para volver a participar en la tradicion de su familia: el juego de Navidad. Cual es el reto? Descifrar doce pistas y encontrar doce llaves junto a sus primos y parientes. Este ano el premio es mucho mas tentador, ya que consiste en la escritura de la casa. Son doce...
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Charlie Peace mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
241 pages ; 23 cm.
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"Robert Barnard, the internationally acclaimed Diamond Dagger-winning crime writer, dissects family bonds at their best and worst in this stunning novel of suspense. What an honor-- to become trustee of an English stately home museum. Yorkshire Detective Inspector Charlie Peace's wife, Felicity, is initially thrilled when she's asked to join the board that oversees Walbrook Manor, an eighteenth-century mansion that's now part of a charitable trust....
18) Silent night
Pub. Date
[2022]
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"Nell and Simon have invited their closest friends to join their family for Christmas dinner at their idyllic home in the English countryside. As the group comes together, it feels like old times ? but behind all of the laughter and merriment, something is not quite right. The world outside is facing impending doom, and no amount of gifts, games or Prosecco can make mankind's imminent destruction go away. Surviving the holidays just got a lot more...
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To the manor born volume disc 5
Publisher
Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (ca. 650 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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As beneficiary of Grantleigh Manor, the snobbish Lady fforbes-Hamilton becomes a happy widower upon the death of her husband. But in the face of her late husband's creditors, bank, and the government, she can no longer afford to maintain the family's hold on the estate. Reluctantly, she sees it auctioned to Richard De Vere (formerly Bedrich Polouvicka), a millionaire bachelor of Czechoslovakian extraction who runs a multinational grocery business....
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All seven episodes from the first series of the Edwardian costume drama following the lives and loves of those above and below stairs in a stately home prior to the outbreak of WWI. The Grantham family, long time custodians of Downton Abbey, face a crisis when the heir to the estate dies on the 'Titanic'. With his three daughters unable to inherit by law, Robert Crawley (Hugh Bonneville), the current Earl of Grantham, must try and marry his eldest...
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