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Queens of London : a novel / by Webb, Heather,1976 December 30-author.;

"1925. London. When Alice Diamond, AKA "Diamond Annie," is elected the Queen of the Forty Elephants, she's determined to take the all-girl gang to new heights. She's ambitious, tough as nails, and a brilliant mastermind, with a plan to create a dynasty the likes of which no one has ever seen. Alice demands absolute loyalty from her "family"--it's how she's always kept the cops in line. Too bad she's now the target for one of Britain's first female policewomen. Officer Lilian Wyles isn't merely one of the first female detectives at Scotland Yard, she's one of the best detectives on the force. Even so, she'll have to win a big score to prove herself, to break free from the "women's work" she's been assigned. When she hears about the large-scale heist in the works to fund Alice's new dynasty, she realizes she has the chance she's been looking for-and the added bonus of putting Diamond Annie out of business permanently."--

Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Female gangs; Nineteen twenties; Policewomen;

Katheryn Howard, the scandalous queen : a novel / by Weir, Alison,1951-author.;

"Bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir tells the tragic story of Henry VIII's fifth wife, a nineteen-year-old beauty with a hidden past, in this fifth novel in the sweeping Six Tudor Queens series. In the spring of 1540, Henry VIII, desperate to be rid of his queen, Anna of Kleve, first sets eyes on the enchanting Katheryn Howard. Although the king is now an ailing forty-nine-year-old measuring fifty-four inches around his waist, his amorous gaze lights upon the pretty teenager. Seated near him intentionally by her ambitious Catholic family, Katheryn readily succumbs to the courtship. Henry is besotted with his bride. He tells the world she is a rose without a thorn, and extols her beauty and her virtue. Katherine delights in the pleasures of being queen and the power she has to do good to others. She comes to love the ailing, obese king and tolerate his nightly attentions. If she can bear him a son, her triumph will be complete. But Katheryn has a past of which Henry knows nothing, and which comes back increasingly to haunt her--even as she courts danger yet again"--

Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Catherine Howard, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, -1542; Queens;

Queen of diamonds : a novel / by Marsh, Beezy,author.;

"London, 1922. Orphan girl Alice dreams of more than toiling long hours in Pink's jam factory. Inspired by stories about the legendary Queen of Thieves, Mary Carr, who terrorized the streets of Victorian London, Alice decides to set up her own gang: The Forty Thieves. She has an accomplice too: sly seamstress Kate Felix from Whitechapel persuades Alice they'd make the perfect team. Before long, the pair are making headlines in the glitzy world of 1920s Soho, known for their daring heists and for the row of heavy diamond rings that Alice uses like brass knuckles in her frequent brawls. What Alice soon discovers is that a life of crime makes her powerful enemies, including some who are closer to home than they'd like. Alice must sacrifice more than she ever imagined--but the toughest and most beautiful diamonds are formed under pressure. From squalid slums and the grim confines of Holloway Prison to the glittering nightclubs of London in the roaring twenties, Queen of Diamonds is a fast-paced, gritty story of love, loss and loyalty to the gang"--

Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Female offenders; Gangs; Nineteen twenties; Orphans; Survival; Women;

An unfinished love story : a personal history of the 1960s / by Goodwin, Doris Kearns,author.;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-449) and index."Dick and Doris Goodwin were married for forty-two years and married to American history even longer. In his twenties, Dick was one of the brilliant young men of John F. Kennedy's New Frontier. In his thirties he both named and helped design Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and was a speechwriter and close advisor to Robert Kennedy. Doris Kearns was a twenty-four-year-old graduate student when selected as a White House Fellow. She worked directly for Lyndon Johnson and later assisted on his memoir ... The Goodwins' last great adventure involved finally opening the more than three hundred boxes of letters, diaries, documents, and memorabilia that Dick had saved for more than fifty years. They soon realized they had before them an unparalleled personal time capsule of the 1960s, illuminating public and private moments of a decade when individuals were powered by the conviction they could make a difference; a time, like today, marked by struggles for racial and economic justice, a time when lines were drawn and loyalties tested"--

Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Goodwin, Doris Kearns.; Goodwin, Richard N.; Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973.; Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963.; Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968.; Nineteen sixties.; Speechwriters;

The celestial wife : a novel / by Howard, Leslie,1953-author.;

Includes bibliographical references."Keep sweet no matter what, for this is the way to be lifted up Keep sweet with every breath, for it is a matter of life or death 1964. Fifteen-year-old Daisy Shoemaker dreams of life beyond her small, isolated fundamentalist Mormon community of Redemption on the Canada--US border--despite Bishop Thorsen's warning that the outside world is full of sin. According to the Principle, the only way to enter the celestial kingdom is through plural marriage. While the boys are taught to work in the lucrative sawmill that supports their enclave, Daisy and her best friend, Brighten, are instructed to keep sweet and wait for Placement--the day the bishop will choose a husband for them. But Daisy wants to be more than a sister-wife and a mother. So when she is placed with a man forty years her senior, she makes the daring decision to flee Redemption. Years later, Daisy has a job and a group of trustworthy friends. Emboldened by the ideas of the feminist and counterculture movements, she is freer than she has ever been ... until Brighten reaches out with a cry for help and Daisy's past comes hurtling back. But to save the women she left behind, Daisy must risk her newfound independence and return to Redemption, where hellfire surely awaits. For readers of Emma Cline's The Girls and Ami McKay's The Virgin Cure comes an arresting coming-of-age novel about a fearless young girl's fight for freedom at a time of great historic change."--

Subjects: Historical fiction.; Bildungsromans.; Novels.; Communal living; Latter Day Saints; Nineteen sixties; Self-actualization (Psychology) in women; Teenage girls;

Barefoot Gen. by Masaki, Mori,film director.; Miyazaki, Issei,actor.; Kôda, Masaki,actor.; Nakano, Seiko,actor.; Inoue, Takao,actor.; Shimamura, Yoshie,actor.; Cineverse (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;

Issei Miyazaki, Masaki Kôda, Seiko Nakano, Takao Inoue, Yoshie ShimamuraOriginally produced by Cineverse in 1983.Six-year-old boy Gen Nakaoka lives happily with his family in Hiroshima, but after the summer of 1945, everything is about to change.Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; War films.; Historical films.; Motion pictures--Japan.; World War, 1939-1945.; War.; Atomic bomb.; Nineteen forties.; Motion pictures--Asia.; Animated films--Japan.;

Barefoot Gen 2. by Hirata, Toshio,film director.; Miyazaki, Issei,actor.; Nakamura, Kei,actor.; Kôda, Masaki,actor.; Yamamoto, Masato,actor.; Aoyama, Takami,actor.; Cineverse (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;

Issei Miyazaki, Kei Nakamura, Masaki Kôda, Masato Yamamoto, Takami AoyamaOriginally produced by Cineverse in 1986.Three years have passed since the bombing of Hiroshima and Gen is now a fourth-grader scrounging to keep himself and his remaining family fed.Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; War films.; Historical films.; Motion pictures--Japan.; World War, 1939-1945.; War.; Atomic bomb.; Nineteen forties.; Motion pictures--Asia.; Animated films--Japan.;

De Gaulle, l'éclat et le secret. by Velle, François,film director.; Roussillon, Baptiste,actor.; Craig, Christopher,actor.; Dollé, Constance,actor.; Tribes, Jean-Louis,actor.; Labarthe, Samuel,actor.; Jobert, Stéphane,actor.; Beta Film (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;

Baptiste Roussillon, Christopher Craig, Constance Dollé, Jean-Louis Tribes, Samuel Labarthe, Stéphane JobertOriginally produced by Beta Film in 2020.In 1940, French General Charles de Gaulle refuses to surrender to Nazi forces. Driven by love for his family and country, he allies with Churchill, laying the groundwork for Free France. This story reveals not just the wartime leader and national hero, but the private man behind the myth—his courage, his convictions, and the personal sacrifices that shaped modern France.Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures.; Television series.; Motion pictures--France.; Biographical films.; Historical films.; Political films.; World War, 1939-1945.; War.; Nineteen forties.; Motion pictures--Europe.;

Quisling: The Final Days. by Poppe, Erik,film director.; Danielsen Lie, Anders,actor.; Eide, Anderz,actor.; Hakalahti, Arthur,actor.; B. Eidsvold, Gard,actor.; Carlehed, Lisa,actor.; Loven Kongsli, Lisa,actor.; Samuel Goldwyn Films (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;

Anders Danielsen Lie, Anderz Eide, Arthur Hakalahti, Gard B. Eidsvold, Lisa Carlehed, Lisa Loven KongsliOriginally produced by Samuel Goldwyn Films in 2025.A priest seeks a measure of contrition from one of the Second World War's most infamous traitors in this bold and bracing historical drama.Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; War films.; Biographical films.; Historical films.; World War, 1939-1945.; Prisons.; War.; Politicians.; Nineteen forties.; National socialism.; Motion pictures--Europe.;

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