Catalog Search Results
Publisher
[Hoffman Media]
Pub. Date
[2022].
Language
English
Description
Step into a cottage-style wonderland with this keepsake collection of homes bedecked in holiday decor to celebrate the most magical season of the year. In charming cottages and farmhouse-style gatherings, gifts are tied with colorful ribbons, trees are all aglow, and welcoming wreaths greet one and all. We share special inspirations and decorating styles that complement tables laden with holiday finery or simple garden touches. Thoughtfully compiled,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Present day: Emma Lovett, who has dedicated her career to breathing new life into long-neglected gardens, has just been given the opportunity of a lifetime: to restore the gardens of the famed Highbury House estate, designed in 1907 by her hero Venetia Smith. But as Emma dives deeper into the gardens' past, she begins to uncover secrets that have long lain hidden. 1907: A talented artist with a growing reputation for her ambitious work, Venetia Smith...
Author
Series
The star and the shamrock volume 4
Publisher
[Jean Grainger]
Pub. Date
[2020].
Language
English
Description
"Ballycreggan, Northern Ireland, 1955. Erich Bannon is happy in the small Irish village he has thought of as home since he arrived as a terrified, traumatised seven year old, one of the last Jewish children to escape Berlin in 1939. Now at twenty-three, it feels like all of his friends are drawn to The Promised Land, and he can understand why, but Israel is not for him. One by one, they leave, and Erich is bereft. He wonders if he should just go too,...
26) Mansfield Park
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Fanny is an impoverished young woman, snubbed by society, who earns the respect and love of her cousin in this BBC mini-series adaptation of the Jane Austen classic set in 19th century England.
28) A Roman villa
Author
Series
Publisher
Peter Bedrick Books
Pub. Date
1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and text describe life in the villa of a wealthy family situated in the countryside outside Rome during the first century A.D.
30) Northanger Abbey
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
"In Jane Austen's gentle parody of gothic fiction, romance novel addict Catherine Morland is invited to a medieval country house that appeals to her most lurid fantasies. She forms a close friendship with the younger son on the estate, Henry Tilney, but their budding romance is mysteriously cut short"--Container.
Author
Series
Hope Springs volume Book 7
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
She's waiting for her someday. He thinks his has already come and gone. After spending the past five years caring for her ill grandfather, Grace Calvano is eager to honor his memory by turning his stately old house in Hope Springs into a bed-and-breakfast. All she has to do is fend off her mama, who keeps pressuring her to come home to Tennessee, marry the new youth pastor, and start raising a passel of children. Sure, Grace wants to settle down...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Since the moment we first entered Downton Abbey in 1912, [many viewers] have been swept away by Julian Fellowes's evocative world of romance, intrigue, drama, and tradition. Now, in 1925, as Downton Abbey prepares to close its doors for the final time, Jessica Fellowes leads us through the house and estate, reliving the iconic moments of the ... aristocratic Crawley family and their servants as they navigate the emerging modern age"--Dust jacket...
35) Rebecca
Series
Criterion collection volume 135
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A young woman believes she has found her heart's desire when she marries the dashing aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter. Upon moving to Manderley, her groom's baroque ancestral mansion, she soon learns that his deceased wife, Rebecca, haunts not only the home but the temperamental, brooding Maxim as well.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A beautiful adaptation of the classic novel. Renowned graphic novel artist, Edith, has created an enchanting version of the classic Tom's Midnight Garden. This is a new and special way to read and share one of the best-loved and most enduring children's stories of all time. A story with a special place in the hearts of grandparents, parents, and children everywhere, this wonderful graphic novel adaptation is faithful, accessible, and stunningly illustrated....
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Describes the history, social life and architecture of the two Virginia country homes that became America's first castles. Also provides insight into the life and times of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson as they built their homes and influenced the nation.
38) Facing the light
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
An extended family gathers to celebrate the seventy-fifth birthday of its formidable matriarch, Leonora. She is the daughter of the famous Edwardian painter Ethan Walsh. At the party will be her daughters and their extended families. One outsider joins the group: Sean Everard, a television director who's making a documentary about the life and work of Ethan Walsh. All families have their dark side and Leonora's is no exception. By the time the party...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request