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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;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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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;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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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;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A rogue's company / by Montclair, Allison,author.;
"Business becomes personal for the Right Sort Marriage Bureau when a new client, a brutal murder, two kidnappings, and the recently returned from Africa Lord Bainbridge threatens everything that one of the principals holds dear ..."--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Businesswomen; Dating services; Murder; Kidnapping;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Murder at the White Palace. by Montclair, Allison.;
PREVIOUS BOOK IN SERIES: THE LADY FROM BURMA, ISBN 9781250854193. In book six of the 'Sparks & Bainbridge' mystery series set in post-WWII London, the matchmakers of The Right Sort Marriage Bureau are involved in yet another murder, and the murderer may be closer to home than is comfortable. Iris Sparks and Gwendolyn Bainbridge will have to do all they can to protect their clients, their business, and themselves.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths;
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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;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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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;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A royal affair / by Montclair, Allison,author.;
"More goes wrong than could be imagined when Iris Sparks and Gwendolyn Bainbridge of The Right Sort Marriage Bureau are unexpectedly engaged to dig into the past of a suitor of a royal princess in Allison Montclair's delightful second novel, A Royal Affair. In London 1946, The Right Sort Marriage Bureau is just beginning to take off and the proprietors, Miss Iris Sparks and Mrs. Gwendolyn Bainbridge, are in need of a bigger office and a secretary to handle the growing demand. Unfortunately, they don't yet have the necessary means. So when a woman arrives-a cousin of Gwen's-with an interesting and quite remunerative proposition, they two of them are all ears. The cousin, one Lady Matheson, works for the Queen in "some capacity" and is in need of some discreet investigation. It seems that the Princess Elizabeth has developed feelings for a dashing Greek prince and a blackmail note has arrived, alluding to some potentially damaging information about said prince. Wanting to keep this out of the palace gossip circles, but also needing to find out what skeletons might lurk in the prince's closet, the palace has quietly turned to Gwen and Iris. Without causing a stir, the two of them must now find out what secrets lurk in the prince's past, before his engagement to the future Queen of England is announced. And there's more at stake than the future of the Empire -there is their potential new office that lies in the balance"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926-; Extortion;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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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.;
© c2014., Distributed by TVA Films,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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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;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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