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- The Marriage Bureau : true stories of 1940s London match-makers / by Halson, Penrose.; Halson, Penrose.Marriages are made in Bond Street.;
Recounts the story of Heather Jenner, Mary Oliver and the clients of their marriage bureau which they opened in 1940s London in order to help people find their love match.LSC- Subjects: Jenner, Heather.; Oliver, Mary (Matchmaker); Marriage Bureau; Dating services; Marriage;
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- A distant shore : a novel / by Kingsbury, Karen,author.;
""Inspirational fiction superstar" (Publishers Weekly) and #1 New York Times bestselling author of life-changing fiction returns with this high-stakes love story of danger, passion, and faith. She was a child caught in a riptide in the Caribbean Sea. He was a teenager from the East Coast on vacation with his family. He dove in to save her, and that single terrifying moment changed both their lives forever. Ten years later Jack Ryder is a daring secret agent with the FBI and Eliza Lawrence still lives on that pristine island. She's an untainted princess in a kingdom of darkness and evil, on the brink of a forced marriage with a dangerous neighboring drug lord, a marriage arranged by her father. This time when Jack and Eliza meet, there's a connection neither of them can explain. Both their lives are on the line, and once again, the stakes are deadly high. Can they join forces in a complicated and dangerous mission, pretending to have a breathtaking love ... without really falling? Sometimes miracles happen not once, but twice ... along a distant shore"--- Subjects: Religious fiction.; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; Drug traffic; Human trafficking; Forced marriage;
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- The lady from Burma / by Montclair, Allison,author.;
"Murder once again stalks the proprietors of The Right Sort Marriage Bureau in the surprisingly dangerous landscape of post-World War II London."--- Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Dating services; Murder; Suspects (Criminal investigation); Women-owned business enterprises;
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- The right sort of man / by Montclair, Allison,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."In a London slowly recovering from World War II, two very different women join forces to launch a business venture in the heart of Mayfair--The Right Sort Marriage Bureau. Miss Iris Sparks, quick-witted and impulsive, and Mrs. Gwendolyn Bainbridge, practical and widowed with a young son, are determined to achieve some independence and do some good in a rapidly changing world. But the promising start to their marriage bureau is threatened when their newest client, Tillie La Salle, is found murdered and the man arrested for the crime is the prospective husband they matched her with. While the police are convinced they have their man, Miss Sparks and Mrs. Bainbridge are not. To clear his name--and to rescue their fledging operation's reputation--Sparks and Bainbridge decide to investigate on their own, using the skills and contacts they've each acquired through life and their individual adventures during the recent war."--- Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Businesswomen; Dating services; Marriage; Murder;
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- The unkept woman / by Montclair, Allison,author.;
"Allison Montclair returns with The Unkept Woman, the fourth Sparks & Bainbridge mystery: London, 1946, Miss Iris Sparks - currently co-proprietor of the Right Sort Marriage Bureau - has to deal with aspects of her past exploits during the recent war that have come back around to haunt her. The Right Sort Marriage Bureau was founded in 1946 by two disparate individuals - Mrs. Gwendolyn Bainbridge (whose husband was killed in the recent World War) and Miss Iris Sparks who worked as an intelligence agent during the recent conflict, though this is not discussed. While the agency flourishes in the post-war climate, both founders have to deal with some of the fallout that conflict created in their personal lives. Miss Sparks finds herself followed, then approached, by a young woman who has a very personal connection to a former paramour of Sparks. But something is amiss and it seems that Iris's past may well cause something far more deadly than mere disruption in her personal life. Meanwhile, Gwendolyn is struggling to regain full legal control of her life, her finances, and her son - a legal path strewn with traps and pitfalls. Together these indomitable two are determined and capable and not just of making the perfect marriage match"--- Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Dating services; Murder; Women-owned business enterprises;
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- Murder at the White Palace / by Montclair, Allison,author.;
"In post-WWII London, the matchmakers of The Right Sort Marriage Bureau are involved in yet another murder. In the immediate post-war days of London, two unlikely partners have undertaken an even more unlikely, if necessary, business venture -- The Right Sort Marriage Bureau. The two partners are Miss Iris Sparks, a woman with a dangerous -- and never discussed -- past in British intelligence and Mrs. Gwendolyn Bainbridge, a genteel war widow with a young son entangled in a complicated aristocratic family. Looking to throw a New Year's Eve soiree for their clients, Sparks and Bainbridge scout an empty building -- only to find a body contained in the walls. What they initially assume is a victim of the recent Blitz is uncovered instead to be a murder victim -- stabbed several times. To make matters worse, the owner of the building is Sparks' beau, Archie Spelling, who has ties to a variety of enterprises on the right and wrong sides of the law, and the main investigator for the police is her ex-fiancée. Gwen, too, is dealing with her own complicated love life, as she tentatively steps back into the dating pool for the first time since her husband's death. Murder is not something they want to add to their plates, but the murderer may be closer to home than is comfortable, and they must do all they can to protect their clients, their business and themselves"--- Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Dating services; Murder; Women-owned business enterprises;
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- Le week-end [videorecording] / by Alexander, Olly,1990-; Broadbent, Jim.; Davis, Judith.; Duncan, Lindsay.; Goldblum, Jeff,1952-; Kureishi, Hanif.; Loader, Kevin.; Michell, Roger,1956-; British Film Institute.; Curzon Film World.; FilmFour (Firm); Free Range Films (Firm); Le Bureau (Firm); TVA Films (Firm);
Editor, Kristina Hetherinton ; production designer, Emmanuelle Duplay ; director of photography, Nathalie Durand.Jim Broadbent, Lindsay Duncan, Jeff Goldblum, Olly Alexander, Judith Davis.Long-married British couple Nick and Meg are revisiting Paris for the first time since their honeymoon in an attempt to rekindle their relationship. Diffident, wistful Nick and demanding, take-charge Meg careen from harmony to disharmony as they take stock of half a lifetime of deep tenderness, and even deeper regret. An invitation from Nick's old friend Morgan, an amusingly eccentric American academic, soon leads them to a hopeful vision of what their marriage might still become.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, widescreen (2.35) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo.- Subjects: Comedy films.; Feature films.; Married people; Romantic comedy films.; Vacations; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
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- In pursuit of disobedient women : a memoir of love, rebellion, and family, far away / by Searcey, Dionne,author.;
"In 2015, Dionne Searcey was covering the economy for The New York Times, living in Brooklyn with her husband and three young children. Saddled with the demands of a dual-career household and motherhood in an urban setting, her life was in a rut. She decided to pursue a job as the paper's West Africa bureau chief, landing with her family in Dakar, Senegal, where she found their lives turned upside down. They struggled to figure out how they fit into this new region, and their new family dynamic where she became the main breadwinner flying off to work as her husband stayed behind to manage the home front. In Pursuit of Disobedient Women follows Searcey's sometimes harrowing, sometimes rollicking experiences as she works to get Americans to pay attention to the region during the rise of Trump. She is gone from her family for sometimes weeks at a time, often risking her safety while covering stories like Boko Haram-conscripted teen girl suicide bombers or young women in small villages shaking up social norms by getting out of bad marriages. Ultimately, Searcey returns home to reconcile with skinned knees and school plays that happen without her and a begrudging husband thrown into the role of primary parent. Life, for Searcey, as with most of us, is a balancing act. She weaves a tapestry of women living at the crossroads of old-fashioned patriarchy and an increasingly globalized and connected world. The result is a deeply personal and highly compelling look into a modern-day marriage and a world most of us have barely considered"--- Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Searcey, Dionne.; New York times.; Journalists; Work and family; Reporters and reporting; Reporters and reporting; Women;
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- Gray day : my undercover mission to expose America's first cyber spy / by O'Neill, Eric,author.;
"A cybersecurity expert and former FBI "ghost" tells the thrilling story of how he helped take down notorious FBI mole Robert Hanssen, the first Russian cyber spy. Eric O'Neill was only twenty-six when he was tapped for the case of a lifetime: a one-on-one undercover investigation of the FBI's top target, a man suspected of spying for the Russians for nearly two decades, giving up nuclear secrets, compromising intelligence, and betraying US assets. With zero training in face-to-face investigation, Eric found himself in a windowless, high-security office in the newly formed Information Assurance Section, tasked officially with helping the FBI secure its outdated computer system against hackers and spies--and unofficially with collecting evidence against his new boss, Robert Hanssen, an exacting and rage-prone veteran agent with a disturbing fondness for handguns. In the months that follow, Eric's self-esteem and young marriage unravel under the pressure of life in Room 9930, and he questions the very purpose of his mission. But as Hanssen outmaneuvers an intelligence community struggling to keep up with the new reality of cybersecurity, he also teaches Eric the game of spycraft. Eric will just have to learn to outplay his teacher if he wants to win. A tension-packed stew of power, paranoia, and psychological manipulation, Gray Day is also a cautionary tale of how the United States allowed Russia to become dominant in cyberespionage--and how we might begin to catch up"--- Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Hanssen, Robert.; O'Neill, Eric.; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation.; Cyber intelligence (Computer security); Spies; Spies; Intelligence service;
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- The Americans. [videorecording] / by Rhys, Matthew,1974-actor.; Russell, Keri,1976-actor.; Taylor, Holly,1997-actor.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.,publisher.;
Keri Russell, Holly Taylor, Matthew Rhys.It is 1987, and an imminent Gorbachev-Reagan nuclear arms summit promises to ease world tensions. But life for the Jennings family is more precarious than ever: Elizabeth's relentless dedication as a KGB agent has dealt a potentially lethal blow to her marriage to Philip, who has left espionage behind. As Philip's friendship with FBI agent Stan Beeman grows, the danger of exposure of the family 'business,' which now includes Paige, reaches crisis level.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.- Subjects: Fiction television programs.; Television programs.; Spy television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; Cold War; Espionage; Espionage, Soviet; Intelligence service; Spies; Subversive activities;
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