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The magnolia palace : a novel / by Davis, Fiona,1966-author.;
Includes bibliographical references."A tantalizing novel about the secrets, betrayal, and murder within one of New York City's most impressive Gilded Age mansions. Eight months since losing her mother in the Spanish flu outbreak of 1919, twenty-one-year-old Lillian Carter's life has completely fallen apart. For the past six years, under the moniker Angelica, Lillian was one of the most sought-after artists' models in New York City, with statues based on her figure gracing landmarks from the Plaza Hotel to the Brooklyn Bridge. But with her mother gone, a grieving Lillian is rudderless and desperate--the work has dried up and a looming scandal has left her entirely without a safe haven. So when she stumbles upon an employment opportunity at the Frick mansion--a building that, ironically, bears her own visage--Lillian jumps at the chance. But the longer she works as a private secretary to the imperious and demanding Helen Frick, the daughter and heiress of industrialist and art patron Henry Clay Frick, the more deeply her life gets intertwined with that of the family--pulling her into a tangled web of romantic trysts, stolen jewels, and family drama that runs so deep, the stakes just may be life or death. Nearly fifty years later, mod English model Veronica Weber has her own chance to make her career--and with it, earn the money she needs to support her family back home--within the walls of the former Frick residence, now converted into one of New York City's most impressive museums. But when she--along with a charming intern/budding art curator named Joshua--is dismissed from the Vogue shoot taking place at the Frick Collection, she chances upon a series of hidden messages in the museum: messages that will lead her and Joshua on a hunt that could not only solve Veronica's financial woes, but could finally reveal the truth behind a decades-old murder in the infamous Frick family"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Art museums; Artists' models; Betrayal; Family secrets; Heiresses; Mansions; Models (Persons); Murder; Scandals;
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Belgravia [sound recording] / by Fellowes, Julian,author.; Stevenson, Juliet,narrator.; Hachette Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Juliet Stevenson.On the eve of the Battle of Waterloo, two families meet at the Duchess of Richmond's ball. From this moment on, their stories will be linked by a secret.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Historical fiction.; Audiobooks.; Family secrets; Upper class;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Belgravia / by Fellowes, Julian,author.; Fellowes, Julian.Julian Fellowes's Belgravia.;
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Family secrets; Upper class;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The Jamie Drake equation / by Edge, Christopher.;
Jamie has a close encounter with an alien who tells him his father, an astronaut on a mission at the International Space Station, is in trouble and needs Jamie's help.LSC
Subjects: Science fiction.; Fathers and sons; Astronauts; Interplanetary voyages; Extraterrestrial beings; Life on other planets; Mathematics; Families;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The truth according to us [sound recording] / by Barrows, Annie,author.; Lee, Ann Marie,narrator.; Sands, Tara,narrator.; Whelan, Julia,1984-narrator.;
Read by Ann Marie Lee, Tara Sands and Julia Whelan, with a supporting cast."Miss Layla Beck, the daughter of a powerful Senator from Delaware refuses to marry the gentleman her father has chosen for her and is forced to get a job working for the FWP to write the first official account of Maecdonian History. Her notions of real life--the social whirl of Newport and New York--are totally upended and she despairs in rooming with the overly eccentric Romeyn family in such a small backwater town. The Romeyn family is a fixture in the town, their identity tied to its knotty history. Layla enters their lives and lights a match to the family veneer and a truth comes to light that will change each of their lives forever in deeply personal and powerful ways. As Layla embarks on this grand adventure to establish historical moments in print, her first friend, the town librarian Ms. Betts wisely cautions: "There is a problem with history. All of us see a story according to our own lights. None of us is capable of objectivity." Set against the backdrop of the Great Depression and told through the incredible voices of three narrators you quickly come to love--Layla Beck, Jottie Romeyn, and her niece, twelve year old Willa--this is an intimate family novel of love and family, of history and truth, and of struggle and hope, filled with the kind of characters once you discover, you'll never forget"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Audiobooks.; Depressions; Family secrets; Historians;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Outrageous [videorecording] / by Agnew, Joss,television director.; Carter, Bessie,actor.; Chancellor, Anna,actor.; Heydon, Ellie,television director.; Purefoy, James,1964-actor.; Vanderham, Joanna,actor.; Williams, Sarah(Sarah B.),screenwriter.; BBC Studios,publisher.; Firebird Pictures (Firm),production company.;
James Purefoy, Anna Chancellor, Bessie Carter, Joanna Vanderham, Shannon Watson, Zoe Brough, Orla Hill, Isobel Jesper Jones.Public scandal. Political extremism. Personal heartache. Based on the true story of the Mitford sisters who played by their own rules with sometimes devastating consequences. Set against the gathering storm clouds of the 1930s, Outrageous is inspired by the lives of the aristocratic Mitford sisters six headstrong women who frequently made headlines around the world. Yet their lives would ultimately take very different paths from Nancy, who became a celebrated author and journalist, to Jessica, who rejected her inherited privilege and dedicated her life to revolutionary causes. A family saga like no other, this is the Mitfords as they really were: unapologetic, outrageous and utterly human.PG.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH)DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Fiction television programs.; Television programs.; Television mini-series.; Biographical television programs.; Historical television programs.; Mitford family; Man-woman relationships; Families; Aristocracy (Social class); Nineteen thirties; Sisters; Rich people;
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Outsiders. [videorecording] / by Alexy, Gillian,actor.; Anderson, Joe,1982-actor.; Gallner, Kyle,actor.; Hurst, Jackson,1979-actor.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Joe Anderson, Ryan Hurst, Kyle Gallner, Gillian Alexy, Ed Heavey.A struggle for power and control set in the mysterious hills of modern-day Appalachia centers on the Farrells family, who behave as though they are above the law and are prepared to use any means necessary to protect their off-the-grid way of life in rural Kentucky.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD; widescreen (1.78:1) presentation; 5.1 Dolby Digital (English); Region 1.
Subjects: Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Clans; Families;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Still life / by Winman, Sarah,1964-author.;
1944, in the ruined wine cellar of a Tuscan villa, as bombs fall around them, two strangers meet and share an extraordinary evening. Ulysses Temper is a young British soldier, Evelyn Skinner is a sexagenarian art historian and possible spy. She has come to Italy to salvage paintings from the wreckage and relive memories of the time she encountered EM Forster and had her heart stolen by an Italian maid in a particular Florentine room with a view. Evelyn's talk of truth and beauty plants a seed in Ulysses' mind that will shape the trajectory of his life -and of those who love him - for the next four decades.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Art historians; Families; Fate and fatalism; Life change events; Reminiscing; Soldiers; Strangers; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Ripeness : a novel / by Moss, Sarah,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Edith, just out of school, has been sent from her quiet English life to rural Italy. It is the 1960s, and her mother has issued strict instructions: tend to her sister, ballet dancer Lydia, in the final weeks of her scandalous pregnancy; help at the birth; make a phone call that will summon the nuns who will spirit the child away to a new home. Decades later, happily divorced, recently moved, and full of new energy, Edith has made a life of contentment and comfort in Ireland. Then her best friend Maebh receives a shocking phone call from an American man. He claims to be a brother she never knew existed: a child her mother gave up and never spoke of again. As Edith helps her friend reckon with this new idea of family and how it might change her life, her thoughts turn back to Lydia and her own fractured history. What did they give up when they sent him away? What kind of life has he been given? And how did it change their own lives? In Ripeness, Sarah Moss has again tapped into the questions that haunt us individually and as communities. Ripeness is an extraordinary novel about familial love and the bonds we forge across time, migration and new beginnings, and what it is to have somewhere to belong"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Belonging (Social psychology); English; English; Families; Interpersonal relations; Life change events; Sisters;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Succession. [videorecording] / by Abbass, Hiam,actor.; Braun, Nicholas,actor.; Cox, Brian,1946-actor.; Culkin, Kieran,actor.; Mylod, Mark,television director.; Strong, Jeremy,1978-actor.; Yan, Cathy,television director.; Warner Bros. Entertainment,distributor.;
Nicholas Braun, Brian Cox, Kieran Culkin, Dagmara Dominczyk, Peter Friedman.Ambushed by his rebellious son Kendall at the end of Season two, Logan Roy begins Season 3 in a perilous position, scrambling to secure familial, political, and financial alliances. Tensions rise as a bitter corporate battle threatens to turn into a family civil war.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Fiction television programs.; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Chief executive officers; Dysfunctional families; Executive succession; Executives; Fathers and sons; Mass media;
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Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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