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- Ancestry : a novel / by Mawer, Simon,author.;
The past is another country and we are all its exiles. Banished forever, we look back in fascination and wonder at this mysterious land. Who were the people who populated it? Almost two hundred years ago, Abraham, an illiterate urchin, scavenges on a Suffolk beach and dreams of running away to sea. Naomi, a seventeen-year-old seamstress, sits primly in a second class carriage on the train from Sussex to London and imagines a new life in the big city. George, a private soldier of the 50th Regiment of Foot, marries his Irish bride, Annie, in the cathedral in Manchester and together they face married life under arms. Now these people exist only in the bare bones of registers and census lists but they were once real enough. They lived, loved, felt joy and fear, and ultimately died. But who were they? And what indissoluble thread binds them together? Simon Mawer's compelling and original novel puts flesh on our ancestors' bones to bring them to life and give them voice. He has created stories that are gripping and heart-breaking, from the squalor and vitality of Dickensian London to the excitement of seafaring in the last days of sail and the horror of the trenches of the Crimea. There is birth and death; there is love, both open and legal but also hidden and illicit. Yet the thread that connects these disparate figures is something that they cannot have known, the unbreakable bond of family.- Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Mawer, Simon; Census; Families; Genealogy;
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- Curfew / by Cowie, Jayne,author.;
"Think The Handmaid's Tale but with the women in charge, set in a world where all men are electronically tagged and placed under strict curfew, and the murder investigation threatening to undo it all. Imagine a near-future Britain in which women dominate workplaces, public spaces, and government. Where the gender pay gap no longer exists and motherhood opens doors instead of closing them. Where women are no longer afraid to walk home alone, to cross a dark parking lot, or to catch the last train. Where all men are electronically tagged and not allowed out after 7 p.m. But the curfew hasn't made life easy for everyone. Sarah is a single mother who happily rebuilt her life after her husband, Greg, was sent to prison for breaking curfew. Now he's about to be released, and Sarah isn't expecting a happy reunion, given that she's the reason he was sent there. Her teenage daughter, Cass, hates living in a world that restricts boys like her best friend, Billy. Billy would never hurt anyone, and she's determined to prove it. Somehow. Helen is a teacher at the local school. Secretly desperate for a baby, she's applied for a cohab certificate with her boyfriend, Tom, and is terrified that they won't get it. The last thing she wants is to have a baby on her own. These women don't know it yet, but one of them is about to be violently murdered. Evidence will suggest that she died late at night and that she knew her attacker. It couldn't have been a man because a Curfew tag is a solid alibi. Isn't it?"--- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Curfews; Man-woman relationships; Murder; Women;
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- The fallen kings / by Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia.;
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- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Morland family (Fictitious characters); World War, 1914-1918;
- © 2009., Sphere,
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- Fall of giants / by Follett, Ken,author.;
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- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Epic fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Coal mines and mining;
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- Bomber boys [videorecording] / by Lilley, Harvey.; McGregor, Colin.; McGregor, Ewan,1971-; BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Ltd.; British Broadcasting Corporation.; Lion Television Ltd.;
Composer, Ty Unwin.Presented by Ewan and Colin McGregor.Actor Ewan McGregor and his brother Colin McGregor, a former RAF pilot, follow up their Battle of Britain program with a film exploring the RAF's Bomber Command in a rarely told story of World War II.E.DVD; NTSC, region 1; Dolby digital; widescreen presentation.- Subjects: Great Britain. Royal Air Force; Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Bomber Command; Bombers; Documentary television programs.; Historical television programs.; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
- © c2012., Distributed by BFS Entertainment & Multimedia,
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- Banksy : the man behind the wall / by Ellsworth-Jones, Will.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.While hiding from the limelight, Banksy has made himself into one of the world's best-known living artists. His pieces have fetched millions of dollars at prestigious auction houses. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his film Exit Through the Gift Shop. Once viewed as vandalism, his work is now venerated; fans have gone so far as to dismantle the walls that he has painted on for collection and sale ... In the first ever full-scale investigation of the artist, reporter Will Ellsworth-Jones pieces together the story of Banksy, building up a picture of the man and the world in which he operates. He talks to his friends and enemies, those who knew him in his early, unnoticed days, and those who have watched him try to come to terms with his newfound fame and success. And he explores the contradictions of a champion of renegade art going to greater and greater lengths to control his image and his work.- Subjects: Banksy.; Artists; Graffiti artists; Graffiti.; Street art.;
- © c2013., St Martin's Press,
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- Yes Ma'am : Upstairs Downstairs in the British Royal Family. by Quinn, Tom.;
Library Bound Incorporated- Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Royalty; HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General;
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- Gentleman Jack. [videorecording] / by Cavaliero, Rosie,actor.; Jones, Suranne,1978-actor.; Rundle, Sophie,actor.; Wainwright, Sally,1964-screenwriter,television director.; Whelan, Gemma,actor.; HBO Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.; Warner Home Video (Firm),distributor.;
Suranne Jones, Sophie Rundle, Rosie Cavaliero, Gemma Whelan, Gemma Jones, Timothy West.In 1832, after adventuring on the continent and seeing the woman she loved betrothed to a man, Anne Lister (Suranne Jones) returned to Halifax and the declining ancestral home of Shibden Hall. She'd turn her considerable energies and wiles into restoring and rebuilding the family's financial assets--as well as a romantic pursuit of heiress neighbor Ann Walker (Sophie Rundle).14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, 2.0.- Subjects: Fiction television programs.; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Lister, Anne, 1791-1840; Shibden Hall (Halifax, England); Industrial revolution; Female friendship; Lesbians;
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- 400 trees and shrubs for small spaces / by Miller, Diana,1940-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Names of woody plants -- Selecting woody plants for the garden -- Looking after woody plants -- A to Z of trees and shrubs.- Subjects: Shrubs; Small gardens.; Trees; Woody plants; Woody plants;
- © c2008., Timber Press,
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- Into the lion's mouth : the true story of Dusko Popov : World War II spy, patriot, and the real-life inspiration for James Bond / by Loftis, Larry,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.- Subjects: Biographies.; Popov, Dusko.; Espionage; Espionage; Spies; Spies; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
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