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- Most ardently : a Pride & Prejudice remix / by Novoa, Gabe Cole,author.; based on (work):Austen, Jane,1775-1817.Pride and prejudice.;
"It was a special thing, to have one's reflection in harmony with who they were. London, 1813. Oliver Bennet feels trapped. Not just by the endless corsets, petticoats, and ribbons he's forced to wear on a daily basis, but also by society's expectations. The world--and the vast majority of his family and friends--think Oliver is a girl named Elizabeth. He is therefore expected to mingle at balls wearing pretty dresses, entertain suitors, and ultimately become someone's wife. But Oliver can't bear the thought of such a fate. He finds solace in the few times he can sneak out of his family's home and explore the city rightfully dressed as a young gentleman. It is during one such excursion that Oliver becomes acquanited with Darcy, a sulky young man who was rude to "Elizabeth" at a recent social function. But in the comfort of being out of the public eye, Oliver comes to find that Darcy is actually a sweet, intelligent boy with a warm heart. As Oliver is able to spend more time as his true self, he dares begin to hope that his dream of love and life as a man could be possible. But suitors are growing bolder--and even threatening--and his mother is increasingly desperate to see him settled into an engagement. Oliver will have to choose: settle for safety, security, and a life of pretending to be someone he's not, or risk it all for a slim chance at freedom, love, and a life that can be truly, honestly his own"--013+.Grades 10-12.- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Young adult fiction.; Queer fiction.; Transgender fiction.; Novels.; Families; Interpersonal relations; Secrecy; Transgender people; Family life; Families; Interpersonal relations; Secrets; Transgender people;
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- Being a beast : adventures across the species divide / by Foster, Charles,1962-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Becoming a beast -- Earth 1 : badger -- Water : otter -- Fire : fox -- Earth 2 : red deer -- Air : swift.To test the limits of our ability to inhabit lives that are not our own, Charles Foster set out to know the ultimate other: the nonhumans. To do that, he chose five animals and lived alongside them, sleeping as they slept, eating what they ate, learning to sense the landscape through the senses they used. In this lyrical, intimate, and completely radical look at the lives of animals, Charles Foster mingles neuroscience and psychology, nature writing and memoir, and ultimately presents an inquiry into the human experience in our world, carried out by exploring the full range of the life around us.LSC- Subjects: Foster, Charles, 1962-; Animal behavior.; Animals; Animals; Animals; Human-animal relationships.; Nature writers;
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- Diana : case solved : the definitive account that proves what really happened / by Howard, Dylan,author.; McLaren, Colin,author.;
Diana: Case Solved has uncovered in unprecedented detail just how much of a threat Diana became to the establishment. In these pages you will learn of the covert diaries and recordings she made, logging the Windsors most intimate secrets and hidden scandals as a desperate kind of insurance policy. You will learn how the royals were not the only powerful enemies she made, as her ground-breaking campaigns against AIDS and landmines drew admiration from the public, but also enmity from powerful establishment figures including international arms dealers, the British and American governments, and the MI6 and the CIA.- Subjects: True crime stories.; Diana, Princess of Wales, 1961-1997; Conspiracies; Murder; Princesses;
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- A passion for pleasure / by Rowan, Nina.;
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- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Love stories.; First loves; Pianists; Historical romance.;
- © c2013., Forever,
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- Traitor king : the scandalous exile of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor / by Lownie, Andrew,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."11 December 1936. The King of England, Edward VIII, has given up his crown, foregoing his duty for the love of Wallis Simpson, an American divorcaee. Their courtship has been dogged by controversy and scandal, but with Edward's abdication, they can livehappily ever after. But do they? Beginning this astonishing dual biography at the moment that most biographers turn away, bestselling historian Andrew Lownie reveals the dramatic lives of the Windsors post-abdication. This is a story of a royal shut out by his family and forced into exile; of the Nazi attempts to recruit the duke to their cause; and of why the duke, as Governor of the Bahamas, tried to shut down the investigation into the murder of a close friend. It is a story of a couple obsessed with their status, financially exploiting their position, all the while manipulating the media to portray themselves as victims"--- Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Windsor, Edward, Duke of, 1894-1972.; Windsor, Wallis Warfield, Duchess of, 1896-1986.; Marriages of royalty and nobility; World War, 1939-1945.;
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- The great fire [videorecording] / by Buchan, Andrew,1979-actor.; Cronk, Gina,film producer.; Huston, Jack,1982-actor.; Jones, Jon,film director.; Leslie, Rose,1987-actor.; Mays, Daniel,actor.; PBS Distribution (Firm),publisher.;
Andrew Buchan, Jack Huston, Rose Leslie, Daniel Mays, Charles Dance.The Great Fire of London raged for four days in 1666, making over 70,000 of the city's 80,000 inhabitants homeless. From King Charles II and Samuel Pepys to Thomas Farriner, The King's Baker in whose premises the fire began, witness the chaos of a city imploding, and the fear and rumors of treachery that took hold. This drama recreates the chaos of a city imploding, and the fear and rumors of treachery that took hold.PG.DVD, widescreen (16x9) presentation; Stereo; Region 1.- Subjects: Great Fire, London, England, 1666; Historical television programs.; Television mini-series.;
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- Searching for Franklin : new answers to the great Arctic mystery / by McGoogan, Ken,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Arctic historian Ken McGoogan approaches the legacy of nineteenth-century explorer Sir John Franklin from a contemporary perspective and offers a surprising new explanation of an enduring Northern mystery. Two of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin's expeditions were monumental failures--the last one leading to more than a hundred deaths, including his own. Yet many still see the Royal Navy man as a heroic figure who sacrificed himself to discovering the Northwest Passage. This book, McGoogan's sixth about Arctic exploration, challenges that vision. It rejects old orthodoxies, incorporates the latest discoveries, and interweaves two main narratives. The first treats the Royal Navy's Arctic Overland Expedition of 1819, a harbinger-misadventure during which Franklin rejected the advice of Dene and Metis leaders and lost eleven of his twenty-one men to exhaustion, starvation, and murder. The second discovers a startling new answer to that greatest of Arctic mysteries: what was the root cause of the catastrophe that engulfed Franklin's last expedition? The well-preserved wrecks of Erebus and Terror--located in 2014 and 2016--promise to yield more clues about what cost the lives of the expedition members, some of whom were reduced to cannibalism. Contemporary researchers, rejecting theories of lead poisoning and botulism, continue to seek conclusive evidence both underwater and on land. Drawing on his own research and Inuit oral accounts, McGoogan teases out many intriguing aspects of Franklin's expeditions, including the explorer's lethal hubris in ignoring the expert advice of the Dene leader Akaitcho. Franklin disappeared into the Arctic in 1845, yet people remain fascinated with his final doomed voyage: what happened? McGoogan will captivate readers with his first-hand account of traveling to relevant locations, visiting the graves of dead sailors, and experiencing the Arctic--one of the most dramatic and challenging landscapes on the planet."-- Provided by publisher.- Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Franklin, John, 1786-1847.; Great Britain. Royal Navy.; John Franklin Arctic Expedition (1845-1851); Explorers;
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- Liberation / by Kealey, Imogen,author.;
Hero. Soldier. Spy. Leader. Her name is Nancy Wake. To the Allies, she was a fearless freedom fighter, a special operations legend, a woman ahead of her time. To the Gestapo, she was a ghost, a shadow, the most wanted person in the world. But at first, Nancy Wake was just another young woman living in Marseilles and recently engaged to a man she loved. Then France fell to the Nazi blitzkrieg. With her appetite for danger, Nancy quickly finds herself drawn into the underground Resistance standing up to Nazi rule. Gaining notoriety as the White Mouse, with a 5-million-franc bounty hanging over her head, Wake rises to the top of the Nazi's Most Wanted list -- only to find her husband arrested for treasonous activity under suspicion of being the White Mouse himself. Narrowly escaping to Britain, Wake joins the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and parachutes into the Auvergne, where she must fight for the respect of some of the toughest Resistance fighters in France. As she and her maquisards battle the Nazis, their every engagement brings the end of the war closer -- but also places her husband in deeper peril. A riveting, richly imagined historical thriller, Liberation brings to life one of World War II's most fascinating unsung heroines in all her fierce power and complexity. This is the story of one of the war's most decorated women, told like never before.- Subjects: War fiction.; Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Wake, Nancy, 1912-2011; Great Britain. Special Operations Executive; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; Women spies;
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- The other side of Mrs. Wood : a novel / by Barker, Lucy,author.;
At the height of Victorian London's obsession with Spiritualism, the city's premier medium, Mrs. Violet Woods, while a newspaperman works to expose false mediums across London, takes in a girl with an uncanny talent for the craft to spice up her brand, which could lead to her downfall.- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Journalists; Spiritualism; Women mediums;
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- Land Girls [videorecording] / by Bottomley, Christine.; Gemmell, Becci.; Hughes, Steve.; Moore, Roland.; Parker, Nathaniel,1962-; Strallen, Summer.; Ward, Sophie.; Woodcock, Jo.; BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Ltd.; British Broadcasting Corporation.;
Childhood's end -- Secrets -- Codes of honour -- Trekkers -- Destinies.Music by Debbie Wiseman.Sophie Ward, Summer Strallen, Nathaniel Parker, Christine Bottomley, Jo Woodcock, Becci Gemmell, Susan Cookson.Set in England during the Second World War, a five-part drama that captures the sacrifices and experiences of four young women in the Women's Land Army. With the nation's men at war, three beautiful young English volunteers arrive at a farm to help the cause under the Land Girls program. Yet even the peaceful English countryside cannot escape the flames of the war and soon it touches them all in a way that will alter their lives forever.PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital.- Subjects: Great Britain. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food; Women's Land Army (Great Britain); Female friendship; Television programs.; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
- © c2010., BFS Entertainment & Multimedia,
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