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Stephen Hawking / by Sánchez Vegara, Ma Isabel(María Isabel); Hunt, Matt,1988-;
Includes bibliographical references."When Stephen Hawking was a little boy, he used to stare up at the stars and wonder about the universe. Although he was never top of the class, his curiosity took him to the best universities in England: Oxford and Cambridge. It also led him to make one of the biggest scientific discoveries of the 20th century: Hawking radiation. This moving book features stylish and quirky illustrations and extra facts at the back, including a biographical timeline with historical photos and a detailed profile of the brilliant physicist's life"--Amazon.com.LSC
Subjects: Hawking, Stephen, 1942-2018; Physicists; Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; People with disabilities;
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Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go. by Longinotto, Kim,film director.; Royal Anthropological Institute (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by Royal Anthropological Institute in 2007.Mulberry Bush School is an Oxford education facility for emotionally disturbed children, who have been excluded from mainstream schools. Longinotto captures the inner life of Mulberry Bush, focusing especially on the stories of three boys, Michael, Ben and Alex, all struggling at different stages of development, but all of them linked by the experience, of having to endure great sadness. Avoiding sensationalism, the violence a boy is capable of is never construed as his true nature, but as something to be overcome – with the help of their extremely patient tutors.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Health.; Education.; Mental health.; Documentary films.; Children.; England.; Mental illness.;
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The owl was a baker's daughter : the continuing adventures of Judith Shakespeare / by Tiffany, Grace,1958-author.;
"At the ripe age of sixty-one, Judith Shakespeare, twin of the doomed Hamnet, finds herself fleeing provincial Stratford on horseback to avoid a witchcraft charge. Her traveling companions are a zealous Puritan woman and her mischievous young niece, both displaced by the civil war between the Royalists and Roundheads. Judith also leaves behind her marriage, which has foundered since the wrenching loss of two adult sons to the plague. Her travels take her to London, where she reunites with an old love from her acting days, and to the battlefield outside Oxford, where she serves as a surgeon for Cromwell's forces."--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Biographical fiction.; Novels.; Shakespeare, Judith, 1585-1662; Grief; Older women; Voyages and travels;
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In Flanders fields and other poems.
In Flanders fields, by J. McCrae.--The soldier, by R. Brooke.--Death and the flowers, by E. Philpotts.--Sedan, by H. Belloc.--The spires of Oxford, by W. M. Letts.--For Thee they died, by J. Drinkwater.--The anxious dead, by J. McCrae.--Reported missing, by A. G. Keown.--Home at last, by G. K. Chesterton.--Not with vain tears, by R. Brooke.--The clerk, by B. H. M. Hetherington.--Volunteer, by H. Asquith.--Soldier, soldier, by A. Blundell.--Gallipoli.--The day.--The broken soldier, by Katharine Tynan.--Christ in Flanders, by L.W.--Red poppies in the corn, by W. Campbell Galbraith.--A cross in Flanders, by G. Rostrevor Hamilton.--There is a field in Flanders.--The wife of Flanders, by G. K. Chesterton.--A grave in Flanders, by Lord Crewe.--A carol from Flanders, by Frederick Niven.
Subjects: War poetry.; English poetry.; World War, 1914-1918;
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Beethoven : a life in nine pieces / by Tunbridge, Laura,1974-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Ludwig van Beethoven: to some, simply the greatest ever composer of Western classical music. Yet his life remains shrouded in myths, and the image persists of him as an eccentric genius shaking his fist at heaven. Beethoven by Oxford professor Laura Tunbridge cuts through the noise in a refreshing way. Each chapter focuses on a period of his life, a piece of music and a revealing theme, from family to friends, from heroism to liberty. It's a winning combination of rich biographical detail, insight into the music and surprising new angles, all of which can transform how you listen to his works. We discover, for example, Beethoven's oddly modern talent for self-promotion, how he was influenced by factors from European wars to instrument building, and how he was heard by contemporaries"--Amazon.ca.
Subjects: Biographies.; Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827.; Composers;
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This bird has flown : a novel / by Hoffs, Susanna,author.;
"Jane Start is thirty-three, broke, and recently single. Ten years prior, she had a hit song--written by world-famous superstar Jonesy--but Jane hasn't had a breakout since. Now she's living out of four garbage bags at her parents' house, reduced to performing to Karaoke tracks in Las Vegas. But when her longtime manager Pippa sends Jane to London to regroup, she's seated next to an intriguing stranger on the flight--the other Tom Hardy, an elegantly handsome Oxford professor of literature. Jane is instantly smitten by Tom, and soon, truly inspired. But it's not Jane's past alone that haunts her second chance at stardom, and at love. Is Tom all that he seems? And can Jane emerge from the shadow of Jonesy's earlier hit, and into the light of her own?"--
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Novels.; College teachers; Man-woman relationships; Singers; Women singers;
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Dreaming spies : a novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes / by King, Laurie R.;
"It is a normal afternoon in Sussex when Russell and Holmes return home to find a peculiar addition to their garden: a beautiful stone that once occupied the Imperial gardens in Kyoto. The stone immediately recalls the spring of 1924, when, on their way back from India (The Game), Russell and Holmes agreed to perform a small but exceedingly dangerous job for the emperor of Japan. At the time, Russell encountered a young Japanese woman on board their ship who tutored the two foreigners about her country and guided them into a secret meeting with the Prince Regent himself. Now, when Russell heads for Oxford to resume her long-delayed studies, she comes face-to-face with that very same young Japanese woman--and quickly realizes Miss Sato Haruki is not all that she seems."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.; Historical fiction.; Mystery fiction.; Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character); Russell, Mary (Fictitious character);
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The boy in the field : a novel / by Livesey, Margot,author.;
"One September afternoon in 1999, teenagers Matthew, Zoe, and Duncan Lang are walking home from school when they discover a boy lying in a field, bloody and unconscious. Thanks to their intervention, the boy's life is saved. In the aftermath, all three siblings are irrevocably changed. Matthew, the oldest, becomes obsessed with tracking down the assailant, secretly searching the local town with the victim's brother. Zoe wanders the streets of Oxford, looking at men, and one of them, a visiting American graduate student, returns her gaze. Duncan, the youngest, who has seldom thought about being adopted, suddenly decides he wants to find his birth mother. Overshadowing all three is the awareness that something is amiss in their parents' marriage. Over the course of the autumn, as each of the siblings confronts the complications and contradictions of their approaching adulthood, they find themselves at once drawn together and driven apart"--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Domestic fiction.; Brothers and sisters; Families; Life change events; Teenagers;
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Munich / by Harris, Robert,1957-author.;
"Set over four days against the backdrop of the Munich Conference of September 1938, Munich follows the fortunes of two men who were friends at Oxford together in the 1920s. Guy Legat is a rising star of the British diplomatic service, serving in 10 Downing Street as a private secretary to the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain. Guy is 34 years old, and married to the beautiful and brittle Kay. Rikard von Holz is on the staff of the German Foreign Office--and secretly a member of the anti-Hitler resistance. They have not been in contact for more than a decade. But when Guy flies with Chamberlain from London to Munich, and Rikard travels on Hitler's train overnight from Berlin, their paths are set on a collision course--with dramatic results. Munich is a spy thriller about treason and conscience, loyalty and betrayal, filled with real-life characters--Hitler, Chamberlain, Mussolini, Daladier--and actual events."--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Spy fiction.; Historical fiction.;
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Tin man / by Winman, Sarah,1964-author.;
"From internationally bestselling author Sarah Winman comes an unforgettable and heartbreaking novel celebrating love in all its forms and the little moments that make up the life of an autoworker in a small working-class town. This is almost a love story. But it's not as simple as that. Ellis and Michael are twelve when they first become friends, and for a long time it is just the two of them, cycling the streets of Oxford, teaching themselves how to swim, discovering poetry, and dodging the fists of overbearing fathers. And then one day this closest of friendships grows into something more. But then we fast-forward a decade or so, to find that Ellis is married to Annie, and Michael is nowhere in sight. Which leads to the question, what happened in the years between? With beautiful prose and characters that are so real they jump off the page, Tin Man is a love letter to human kindness and friendship, and to loss and living"--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Friendship; Painting; Raffles;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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