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The lotus shoes / by Yang, Jane,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Footbinding; Social classes; Women;
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A wicked way to win and earl / by Bradley, Anna(Novelist);
LSC
Subjects: Love stories.; Regency fiction.; Aristocracy (Social class);
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Worthy Brown's daughter / by Margolin, Phillip,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.In nineteenth-century Oregon, lawyer Matthew Penny agrees to help newly freed slave Worthy Brown free his teenage daughter, but when Worthy is arrested for murder, the new turn in events raises the stakes significantly.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Legal stories.; Suspense fiction.; Mystery fiction.; Freedmen; Lawyers; Trials (Murder);
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Impressionism in Canada : a journey of rediscovery / by Prakash, A. K.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.A history of impressionist painting in Canada, including its origins in France and the lives and works of fourteen significant Canadian artists.LSC
Subjects: Impressionism (Art); Impressionist artists; Painting, Canadian; Painting, Canadian;
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Emma [videorecording] / by motion picture adaptation of (work):Austen, Jane,1775-1817.Emma.; Flynn, Johnny,actor.; Goth, Mia,1993-actor.; Hart, Miranda,1972-actor.; Nighy, Bill,1949-actor.; O'Connor, Josh,actor.; Reynolds, Tanya,actor.; Taylor-Joy, Anya,1996-actor.; Whelan, Gemma,1981-actor.; Wilde, Autumn de,film director.; Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.;
Anya Taylor-Joy, Josh O'Connor, Tanya Reynolds, Gemma Whelan, Bill Nighy, Mia Goth, Johnny Flynn, Miranda Hart.Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse is a restless queen bee without rivals in her sleepy little town, In this glittering satire of social class and the pain of growing up, Emma must adventure through misguided matches and romantic missteps to find the love that has been there all along.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, 2.0 DVS.
Subjects: Comedy films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Woodhouse, Emma (Fictitious character); Man-woman relationships; Social classes;
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Erebus : the story of a ship / by Palin, Michael,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Intrepid voyager, writer and comedian Michael Palin follows the trail of two expeditions made by the Royal Navy's HMS Erebus to opposite ends of the globe, reliving the voyages and investigating the ship itself, lost on the final Franklin expedition and discovered with the help of Inuit knowledge in 2014. The story of a ship begins after the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo, when Great Britain had more bomb ships than it had enemies. The solid, reinforced hulls of HMS Erebus, and another bomb ship, HMS Terror, made them suitable for discovering what lay at the coldest ends of the earth. In 1839, Erebus was chosen as the flagship of an expedition to penetrate south to explore Antarctica. Under the leadership of the charismatic James Clark Ross, she and HMS Terror sailed further south than anyone had been before. But Antarctica never captured the national imagination; what the British navy needed now was confirmation of its superiority by making the discovery, once and for all, of a route through the North-West Passage. Chosen to lead the mission was Sir John Franklin, at 59 someone many considered too old for such a hazardous journey. Nevertheless, he and his men confidently sailed away down the Thames in April 1845. Provisioned for three winters in the Arctic, Erebus and Terror and the 129 men of the Franklin expedition were seen heading west by two whalers in late July. No one ever saw them again. Over the years there were many attempts to discover what might have happened--and eventually the first bodies were discovered in shallow graves, confirming that it had been the dreadful fate of the explorers to die of hunger and scurvy as they abandoned the ships in the ice. For generations, the mystery of what had happened to the ships endured. Then, on September 9th, 2014, came the almost unbelievable news: HMS Erebus had been discovered thirty feet below the Arctic waters, by a Parks Canada exploration ship. Palin looks at the Erebus story through the different motives of the two expeditions, one scientific and successful, the other nationalistic and disastrous. He examines the past by means of the extensive historical record and travels in the present day to those places where there is still an echo of Erebus herself, from the dockyard where she was built, to Tasmania where the Antarctic voyage began and the Falkland Islands, then on to the Canadian Arctic, to get a sense of what the conditions must have been like for the starving, stumbling sailors as they abandoned their ships to the ice. And of course the story has a future. It lies ten metres down in the waters of Nunavut's Queen Maud Gulf, where many secrets wait to be revealed."--
Subjects: Erebus (Ship); Scientific expeditions;
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The man who invented Christmas [videorecording] / by Coyne, Susan,screenwriter.; Fichman, Niv,film producer.; Jean, Vadim,1963-film producer.; Nalluri, Bharat,film director.; Plummer, Christopher,actor.; Pryce, Jonathan,actor.; Stevens, Dan,1982-actor.; Elevation Pictures,film distributor.;
Music by Mychael Danna ; editors, Stephen O'Connell, Jamie Pearson; cinematography by Ben Smithard.Dan Stevens, Christopher Plummer, Jonathan Pryce.In 1843, the celebrated British novelist, Charles Dickens, is at a low point in his career with three flops behind him and his family expenses piling up at home. Determined to recover, Dickens decides to write a Christmas story and self-publish it in less than two months. As Dickens labors writing on such short notice, his estranged father and mother come to bunk with him. Still haunted by painful memories of his father ruining his childhood by his financial irresponsibly, Dickens develops a writer's block which seems to have no solution. As such, Dickens must face his personal demons epitomized through his characters, especially in his imagined conversations with Ebenezer Scrooge. Now with a looming deadline, Dickens struggles for inspiration against his frustrations and his characters' opinions in a literary challenge creating a classic tale that would define the essential soul of modern Christmas.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG; for thematic elements and some mild language.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Biographical films.; Christmas films.; Comedy films.; Feature films.; Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870; Christmas;
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From the river to the sea : the untold story of the railroad war that made the West / by Sedgwick, John,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.'From the River to the Sea' is a sweeping and lively history of one of the most dramatic stories never told - of the greatest railroad war of all time, fought by the daring leaders of the Santa Fe and the Rio Grande to seize, control, and create the American West.
Subjects: Big business; Capitalists and financiers; Industrialists; Railroads;
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The viscount who loved me / by Quinn, Julia,1970-;
"1814 promises to be another eventful season, but not, This Author believes, for Anthony Bridgerton, London's most elusive bachelor, who has shown no indication that he plans to marry. And, in all truth, why should he? When it comes to playing the consummate rake, nobody does it better" -- Lady Whistledown's Society Papers, April 1814. But this time the gossip columnists have it wrong. Anthony Bridgerton hasn't just decided to marry he's also chosen a wife! The only obstacle is his intended's older sister, Kate Sheffield -- the most meddlesome woman ever to grace a London ballroom. The spirited schemer is driving Anthony mad with her determination to stop the betrothal, but when he closes his eyes at night, Kate's the woman haunting his increasingly erotic dreams. Contrary to popular belief, Kate is quite sure that reformed rakes do not make the best husbands - and Anthony Bridgerton is the most wicked rogue of them all. Kate is determined to protect her sister - but she fears her own heart is vulnerable. And when Anthony's lips touch hers, she's suddenly afraid she might not be able to resist the reprehensible rake herself.
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Historical fiction.; England; Man-woman relationships;
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The confessions of Frannie Langton : a novel / by Collins, Sara,author.;
All of London is abuzz with the scandalous case of Frannie Langton, accused of the brutal double murder of her employers, renowned scientist George Benham and his eccentric French wife, Marguerite. Crowds pack the courtroom, eagerly following every twist, while the newspapers print lurid theories about the killings and the mysterious woman being held in the Old Bailey. The testimonies against Frannie are damning. She is a seductress, a witch, a master manipulator, a whore. But Frannie claims she cannot recall what happened that fateful evening, even if remembering could save her life. She doesn't know how she came to be covered in the victims' blood. But she does have a tale to tell: a story of her childhood on a Jamaican plantation, her apprenticeship under a debauched scientist who stretched all bounds of ethics, and the events that brought her into the Benhams' London home--and into a passionate and forbidden relationship. Though her testimony may seal her conviction, the truth will unmask the perpetrators of crimes far beyond murder and indict the whole of English society itself.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Trials (Murder); Women slaves;
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