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Manderley forever : a biography of Daphne du Maurier / by Rosnay, Tatiana de,1961-author.; Taylor, Sam,1970-translator.; Translation of:Rosnay, Tatiana de,1961-Manderley for ever.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."As a thirteen-year-old de Rosnay read and reread Rebecca, becoming a lifelong devotee of Du Maurier's fiction. Now de Rosnay pays homage to the writer who influenced her so deeply, following Du Maurier from a shy seven-year-old, a rebellious sixteen-year-old, a twenty-something newlywed, and finally a cantankerous old woman."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Du Maurier, Daphne, 1907-1989.; Novelists, English;
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Great big beautiful life [text (large print)] / by Henry, Emily,author.;
"Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve in this dazzling and sweeping new novel from Emily Henry. Alice Scott is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big writing break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud. And they're both on balmy Little Crescent Island for the same reason: To write the biography of a woman no one has seen in years-or at least to meet with the octogenarian who claims to be the Margaret Ives. Tragic heiress, former tabloid princess, and daughter of one of the most storied (and scandalous) families of the 20th Century. When Margaret invites them both for a one-month trial period, after which she'll choose the person who'll tell her story, there are three things keeping Alice's head in the game. One: Alice genuinely likes people, which means people usually like Alice-and she has a whole month to win the legendary woman over. Two: She's ready for this job and the chance to impress her perennially unimpressed family with a Serious Publication. Three: Hayden Anderson, who should have no reason to be concerned about losing this book, is glowering at her in a shaken-to-the core way that suggests he sees her as competition. But the problem is, Margaret is only giving each of them pieces of her story. Pieces they can't swap to put together because of an ironclad NDA and an inconvenient yearning pulsing between them every time they're in the same room. And it's becoming abundantly clear that their story-just like the tale Margaret's spinning-could be a mystery, tragedy, or love ballad ... depending on who's telling it"--
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Large print books.; Novels.; Authors; Heiresses; Islands; Man-woman relationships; Recluses; Women authors;
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Daughters / by Capes, Kirsty,author.; container of (work):Capes, Kirsty.Girls.;
"A hilarious, moving story of two sisters who embark on a road trip to protect the legacy of their brilliant, deeply troubled artist mother, grappling with the many scars of the past that have kept them apart When Mattie and Nora's mother, the brilliant, troubled, and world-renowned British painter Ingrid Olssen, was on her deathbed, there was one promise she asked her daughters to make: Burn it all. Throw it all away. She didn't want any of her art sold, didn't want it celebrated. Two years later, Mattie hasn't done anything except for lock the pieces in a storage unit. She's barely seen Nora since Nora skipped their mother's funeral. Besides, she has her hands full raising the bold, creative teenage daughter she had when she was only a teenager herself. It was giving birth to Beanie that let her escape her mother's house-that and the support of Beanie's father, Gus. But when Nora, an artist herself, falls deep into a mental health crisis of her own, she comes to live with Mattie and Beanie. And when their aunt Karo sets up the very last thing their mother ever would have wanted-an enormous retrospective of her work-the two of them somehow find themselves on the road trip of their lives: up the West Coast of the United States, with Beanie and their mother's ashes in tow. Perfect for fans of Daisy Jones and the Six, and told partly in the form of the interviews that comprise Ingrid's biography, Daughters is tender, comic story of unpicking the scars of the past, and a must-read"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Artists; Family secrets; Mothers and daughters; Mothers; Sisters;
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Marple. [videorecording (DVD)] / by Christie, Agatha,1890-1976.Pocket full of ryeVideorecording.; Elyot, Kevin.; McKenzie, Julia.; Palmer, Charles.; Agatha Christie Ltd.; Granada Media (Firm); WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.);
Director, Charles Palmer; screenwriter Kevin Elyot.Julia McKenzie.When Rex Fortescue dies while sitting at his desk in the City, it's determined that he was in fact poisoned. Miss Marple takes a particular interest in the case when her former maid Gladys, now working in the Fortescue household, is also murdered.PG.DVD ; Dolby digital stereo ; widescreen presentation.
Subjects: Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976.; Criminal investigation; Detective and mystery television programs.; Marple, Jane (Fictitious character); Murder; Women detectives;
© c2009., Acorn Media,
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Searching beyond the stars : seven women in science take on space's biggest questions / by Mortillaro, Nicole,1972-; Key, Amanda.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Are we alone in the cosmos? Could we one day live on a different planet? How is life formed? What other secrets does the universe hold? An in-depth look at the lives and accomplishments of seven extraordinary women in the world of astronomy and space study. With a focus on feminist and stem-related content, this non-fiction book is written by a Senior Science Reporter for CBC."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Women astronomers; Women in astronomy; Space sciences;
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Poirot. [videorecording (DVD)] / by Agutter, Jenny.; Andrew, Guy.; Baladi, Patrick.; Birthistle, Eva.; Christie, Agatha,1890-1976.Taken at the flood.Videorecording.; Hopkins, Trevor.; Suchet, David.; Wilson, A. J.(Andy J.); A & E Home Video (Firm); Arts and Entertainment Network.; New Video Group.;
David Suchet, Jenny Agutter, Patrick Baladi, Eva Birthistle.PG.DVD ; full screen presentation.
Subjects: Detective and mystery television programs.; Poirot, Hercule (Fictitious character); Private investigators;
© c2005., A & E Home Video : Distributed by New Video Group,
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Ballykissangel. [videorecording] / by Cranitch, Lorcan,1959-; Doyle, Tony,1942-2000.; Hanly, Peter.; Kellegher, Tina.; Toibin, Niall,1929-; BBC Northern Ireland.; Ballykea (Firm); World Productions (Firm : London, England);
All bar one -- He healeth the sick -- Bread and water -- Par for the course -- The odd couple -- Turf -- It's a family affair -- Rock bottom -- As stars look down -- Births, deaths, and marriages -- It's a man's life -- The final frontier.Tony Doyle, Tina Kellegher, Niall Toibin, Peter Hanly, Lorcan Cranitch.The small mountain town gets a new priest, Father Aidan O'Connell.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; full screen presentation.
Subjects: Ballykissangel (Ireland : Imaginary Place); Catholic Church; Priests; Television programs; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
© c2010., BBC Video ; Distributed by Warner Home Video,
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The Romanov empress : a novel of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna / by Gortner, C. W.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."For readers of Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir comes a dramatic novel of the beloved Empress Maria, the Danish girl who became the mother of the last Russian tsar. Even from behind the throne, a woman can rule. Narrated by the mother of Russia's last tsar, this vivid, historically authentic novel brings to life the courageous story of Maria Feodorovna, one of Imperial Russia's most compelling women, who witnessed the splendor and tragic downfall of the Romanovs as she fought to save her dynasty in its final years. Barely nineteen, Minnie knows that her station in life as a Danish princess is to leave her family and enter into a royal marriage--as her older sister Alix has done, moving to England to wed Queen Victoria's eldest son. The winds of fortune bring Minnie to Russia, where she marries the Romanov heir, Alexander, and once he ascends the throne, becomes empress. When resistance to his reign strikes at the heart of her family and the tsar sets out to crush all who oppose him, Minnie--now called Maria--must tread a perilous path of compromise in a country she has come to love. Her husband's death leaves their son Nicholas as the inexperienced ruler of a deeply divided and crumbling empire. Determined to guide him to reforms that will bring Russia into the modern age, Maria faces implacable opposition from Nicholas's strong-willed wife, Alexandra, whose fervor has led her into a disturbing relationship with a mystic named Rasputin. As the unstoppable wave of revolution rises anew to engulf Russia, Maria will face her most dangerous challenge and her greatest heartache. From the opulent palaces of St. Petersburg and the intrigue-laced salons of the aristocracy to the World War I battlefields and the bloodied countryside occupied by the Bolsheviks, C. W. Gortner sweeps us into the anarchic fall of an empire and the complex, bold heart of the woman who tried to save it"--
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Marīi͡a︡ Ḟeodorovna, Empress, consort of Alexander III, Emperor of Russia, 1847-1928; Romanov, House of; Empresses;
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In the country of others / by Slimani, Leïla,1981-author.; Taylor, Sam,1970-translator.; translation of:Slimani, Leïla,1981-Pays des autres.English.;
"In her first new novel since The Perfect Nanny launched her onto the world stage and won her acclaim for her "devastatingly perceptive character studies" (The New York Times Book Review), Leila Slimani draws on her own family's inspiring story for the first volume in a planned trilogy about race, resilience, and women's empowerment. Mathilde, a spirited young Frenchwoman, falls in love with Amine, a handsome Moroccan soldier in the French army during World War II. After the war, the couple settles in Morocco. While Amine tries to cultivate his family farm's rocky terrain, Mathilde feels her vitality sapped by the isolation, the harsh climate, the lack of money, and the mistrust she inspires as a foreigner. Left increasingly alone to raise her two children in a world whose rules she does not understand, and with her daughter taunted at school by rich French girls for her secondhand clothes and unruly hair, Mathilde goes from being reduced to a farmer's wife to defying the country's chauvinism and repressive social codes by offering medical services to the rural population. As tensions mount between the Moroccans and the French colonists, Amine finds himself caught in the crossfire: in solidarity with his Moroccan workers yet also a landowner, despised by the French yet married to a Frenchwoman, and proud of his wife's resolve but ashamed by her refusal to be subjugated. All of them live in the country of others--especially the women, forced to live in the land of men--and with this novel, Leila Slimani issues the first salvo in their emancipation"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Slimani, Leïla, 1981-; Women immigrants;
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Complete unknown [videorecording] / by Bates, Kathy,1948-actor.; Glover, Danny,actor.; Marston, Joshua,screenwriter,film director.; Shannon, Michael,1974-actor.; Sheppard, Julian,screenwriter.; Weisz, Rachel,1971-actor.; Amazon Studios,presenter.; D Films,publisher.; Great Point Media,production company.; Parts and Labor (Firm),production company.;
Director of photography, Christos Voudouris ; editor, Malcolm Jamieson ; music, Danny Bensi, Saunder Jurriaans.Rachel Weisz, Michael Shannon, Danny Glover, Kathy Bates.Complete unknown is Marston's first English language film and centers on Tom and a mysterious woman named Alice. When Tom and his wife host a dinner party to celebrate his birthday, one of their guests brings a date named Alice. Tom is convinced he knows her even though she's going by a different name with a different biography, and she's not acknowledging she knows him.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Thrillers (Motion pictures); Feature films.; Entertaining; Married people; False personation;
For private home use only.
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