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Death in St. Petersburg : a Lady Emily mystery / by Alexander, Tasha,1969-author.;
Includes bibliographical references.After the final curtain of Swan Lake, an animated crowd exits the Mariinsky theatre brimming with excitement from the night's performance. But outside the scene is somber. A ballerina's body lies face down in the snow, blood splattered like rose petals over the costume of the Swan Queen. The crowd is silenced by a single cry -- "Nemetseva is dead!" Amongst the theatergoers is Lady Emily, accompanying her dashing husband Colin in Russia on assignment from the Crown. But it soon becomes clear that Colin isn't the only one with work to do. When the dead ballerina's aristocratic lover comes begging for justice, Emily must apply her own set of skills to discover the rising star's murderer. Her investigation takes her on a dance across the stage of Tsarist Russia, from the opulence of the Winter Palace, to the modest flats of ex-ballerinas and the locked attics of political radicals. A mysterious dancer in white follows closely behind, making waves through St. Petersburg with her surprise performances and trail of red scarves. Is it the sweet Katenka, Nemetseva's childhood friend and favorite rival? The ghost of the murdered étoile herself? Or, something even more sinister?
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Women detectives; Aristocracy (Social class); Murder;
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Death in St. Petersburg [sound recording] : a Lady Emily mystery / by Alexander, Tasha,1969-author.; Amato, Bianca,narrator.; Macmillan Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Bianca Amato.After the final curtain of Swan Lake, an animated crowd exits the Mariinsky theatre brimming with excitement from the night's performance. But outside the scene is somber. A ballerina's body lies face down in the snow, blood splattered like rose petals over the costume of the Swan Queen. The crowd is silenced by a single cry -- "Nemetseva is dead!" Amongst the theatergoers is Lady Emily, accompanying her dashing husband Colin in Russia on assignment from the Crown. But it soon becomes clear that Colin isn't the only one with work to do. When the dead ballerina's aristocratic lover comes begging for justice, Emily must apply her own set of skills to discover the rising star's murderer. Her investigation takes her on a dance across the stage of Tsarist Russia, from the opulence of the Winter Palace, to the modest flats of ex-ballerinas and the locked attics of political radicals. A mysterious dancer in white follows closely behind, making waves through St. Petersburg with her surprise performances and trail of red scarves. Is it the sweet Katenka, Nemetseva's childhood friend and favorite rival? The ghost of the murdered étoile herself? Or, something even more sinister?
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Audiobooks.; Historical fiction.; Women detectives; Aristocracy (Social class); Murder;
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The proposal : a novel / by Balogh, Mary.;
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Love stories.; Regency fiction.; Courtship; Social classes; Widowers; Widows;
© c2012., Delacorte Press,
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Gilded mountain : a novel / by Manning, Kate,author.;
In a voice spiked with sly humor, Sylvie Pelletier recounts leaving her family's snowbound mountain cabin to work in a manor house for the Padgetts, owners of the marble-mining company that employs her father and dominates the town. Sharp-eyed Sylvie is awed by the luxury around her; fascinated by her employer, the charming “Countess” Inge, and confused by the erratic affections of Jasper, the bookish heir to the family fortune. Her fairy-tale ideas of romance take a dark turn when she realizes the Padgetts' lofty philosophical talk is at odds with the unfair labor practices that have enriched them. Their servants, the Gradys, formerly enslaved people, have long known this to be true and are making plans to form a utopian community on the Colorado prairie. Outside the manor walls, the town of Moonstone is roiling with discontent. A handsome union organizer, along with labor leader Mary Harris “Mother” Jones, is stirring up the quarry workers. The editor of the local newspaper--a bold woman who takes Sylvie on as an apprentice--is publishing unflattering accounts of the Padgett Company. Sylvie navigates vastly different worlds and struggles to find her way amid conflicting loyalties. When the harsh winter brings tragedy, Sylvie must choose between silence and revenge. Drawn from true stories of Colorado history, Gilded Mountain is a tale of a bygone American West seized by robber barons and settled by immigrants, and is a story infused with longing--for self-expression and equality, freedom and adventure.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Household employees; Social classes; Social justice;
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A gentleman's game / by Romain, Theresa.;
Talented but troubled, the Chandler family seems cursed by bad luck-and so Nathaniel Chandler has learned to trade on his charm. He can broker a deal with anyone from a turf-mad English noble to an Irish horse breeder. But Nathaniel's skills are tested when his stable of trained Thoroughbreds become suspiciously ill just before the Epsom Derby, and he begins to suspect his father's new secretary is not as innocent as she seems.LSC
Subjects: Love stories.; Historical fiction.; Man-woman relationships; Horse breeders; Aristocracy (Social class);
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Snowpiercer. [videorecording] / by Basso, Annalise,1998-actor.; Connelly, Jennifer,actor.; Diggs, Daveed,actor.; Sumner, Mickey,1984-actor.; television adaptation of (work):Lob, Jacques,1932-1990.Transperceneige.English.; television adaptation of (work):Rochette,1956-Transperceneige.English.; Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Jennifer Connelly, Daveed Diggs, Mickey Sumner, Annalise Basso, Sean Bean, Miranda Edwards, Karin Konoval, Mike O'malley, Aaron Glenane, Sheila Vand, Lena Hall, Iddo Goldberg, Alison Wright.As Season One ended, so did the revolution, with Layton emerging as Snowpiercer's leader and another threat to the survivors fast approaching in the form of a rival train. In Season Two, Mr. Wilford arrives, bringing a secret from Melanie's past. A new power struggle emerges, causing a dangerous rift as people are divided between their loyalties to Layton and to Mr. Wilford, who has a new train, new technology and a game plan that keeps everyone guessing. While Layton battles Wilford for the soul of Snowpiercer, Melanie leads the charge over a shocking new discovery that could change the fate of humanity.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Apocalyptic television programs.; Dystopian television programs.; Science fiction television programs.; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Climatic changes; Railroad trains; Social classes; Survival;
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Red side story / by Fforde, Jasper,author.;
"Civilization has been rebuilt after an unspoken "Something that Happened" five hundred years ago. Society is now color vision-segregated, professions, marriages, and leisure activities all dictated by an individual's visual ability, and everything run by the shadowy National Color in far-off Emerald City. Out on the fringes of Red Sector West, twenty-year-old Eddie Russett is being bullied into an arranged marriage with the powerful DeMauve family, purples who hope to redden up their progeny's color-viewing potential with Eddie's gene stock. Their obnoxious daughter Violet is confident the marriage won't hamper her style for too long because Eddie is about to go on trial for a murder he didn't commit, and he's pretty sure to be sent on a one-way trip to the Green Room for execution by soporific color exposure. Meanwhile, Eddie is engaged in an illegal relationship with his co-defendant, a Green, the charismatic, unpredictable, and occasionally deadly Jane Grey. Time is running out for Eddie and Jane to figure out how to save themselves. Negotiating the narrow boundaries of the Rules within their society, they search for a loophole-some truth of their world that has been hidden from its hyper-policed citizens. As they unpeel the lies that cloak their existence they come to the worrying conclusion that they may not be alone: That there might be a Somewhere Else beyond the sea, and more, Someone Else living there-and observing them all, purposefully unseen"--
Subjects: Dystopian fiction.; Novels.; Color blindness; Colors; Man-woman relationships; Social classes; Social structure;
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The mistress of nothing / by Pullinger, Kate.;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Aristocracy (Social class); Tuberculosis; Women domestics;
© 2009., McArthur,
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Let the dead bury the dead : a novel / by Epstein, Allison,author.;
"An urgent, immersive alternate history set in an imperial Russia on the brink of disaster, following a surprising cast of characters seeking a better future as Saint Petersburg struggles in the wake of Napoleon's failed invasion"--
Subjects: Alternative histories (Fiction); Historical fiction.; Novels.; Social classes;
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Stolen path [videorecording] / by Smitlener, Goldie,screenwriter.; Banovich, John,film director.; Smitlener, Daniela,actor.; Brkopac, Jacob,actor.; Duncan, Robert L.,actor.; Walden, Dave,actor.; Ter-Hurst, Mark,actor.; motion picture adaptation of (work):Matko, Janko,1898-Moć zemlje.; Crystal Video (Firm),presenter,publisher.;
Editor, Scott Taylor ; music, Scott Hetoreyn.Daniela Smitlener, Jacob Brkopac, Robert L. Duncan, Dave Walden, Mark Ter-Hurst, Delia Tatiana, Brady Roberts, Amber Haring, Laura Seabrook.Set amidst the idyllic landscape of the Croatian countryside in the early twentieth century, this story follows Victoria as she matures from a spoiled, privileged young girl to a woman who follows her heart.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Matko, Janko, 1898-; Aristocracy (Social class); Peasants; Social classes; Young women;
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