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6821) Wild child
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Poppy is an LA teen diva who does what she wants, whenever she wants. But after an over-the-top prank pushes her father one step too far, she finds herself shipped off to the one place where everything will change: a British boarding school. Finding herself in a foreign world of early curfews, stern matrons, and mandatory lacrosse, Poppy realizes that she has finally met her match: a school of British girls who won't tolerate her...
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2009], c2009
Language
English
Description
Henry, now forty-five, marries Jane Seymour. Jane helps to reconcile Mary with her father, but only after Mary signs a paper admitting that she is illegitimate. Jane gives birth to a son, but dies shortly thereafter. Devastated by Jane's death, Henry locks himself away, drawing fantasy palaces, with caustic court jester Will Sommers as his sole companion, and much more.
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
After failing to have his marriage to Katherine annulled, Henry appoints himself the head of the Church of England. Anne Boleyn insists that Henry remove the Queen from the picture. A royal visit to France finally prompts Anne to consummate her relationship with Henry. After failed attempts to have his marriage annulled, Henry's patience finally wears out and he marries Anne in secret. The king and new queen are disappointed that their first child...
6825) The poisoned house
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
As the widowed master of an elegant house in Victorian-era London slips slowly into madness and his tyrannical housekeeper takes on more power, a ghostly presence distracts a teenaged maidservant with clues to a deadly secret.
6826) Persuasion: & Lady Susan
Author
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Twenty-seven-year-old Anne Elliot is Austen's most adult heroine. Eight years before the story proper begins, she is happily betrothed to a navel officer, Frederick Wentworth, but she precipitously breaks off the engagement when persuaded by her friend Lady Russell that such a match is "unworthy." The breakup produces in Anne a deep and long-lasting regret. When later Wentworth returns from sea a rich and successful captain, he finds Anne's family...
6827) J. K. Rowling
Author
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Provides information about the childhood, education, and career of children's book author J.K. Rowling, creator of the Harry Potter character.
Author
Series
Coldest city volume 1
Publisher
Oni Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
As communism collapses and the Berlin Wall crumbles, an undercover M16 spy is killed while carrying priceless information--a list containing the name of every spy in Berlin. But no list is found on his body.
6830) Belle
Author
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Dido Elizabeth Belle, the illegitimate daughter of a British Navy captain and an African slave under the care of her aristocratic great-uncle Lord Mansfield, successfully navigates prejudicial eighteenth-century English society and plays a part in the downfall of British slave trade.
6832) The gods in winter
Author
Publisher
Front Street
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
When the Bramble family moves to a new home on the grounds of an estate in Derbyshire, England, they hire a woman for home help and become convinced that she is from a different time and place.
6838) The Christmas Eve ghost
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1930s Liverpool, England, Bronwen and Dylan live with their widowed mother, who works long hours doing other people's washing, and even though she sometimes must leave the children alone in the house, she cautions them not to speak to the O'Rileys next door, who go to a different church.
Author
Series
Dales Detective volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Samson O'Brien has been dismissed from the police force--quite unfairly, according to him. Now back in his home town of Bruncliffe in the Yorkshire Dales, Samson sets up the Dales Detective Agency while he fights to clear his name. However, the people of Bruncliffe aren't entirely welcoming to a man they see as trouble. Delilah Metcalfe, meanwhile, is struggling to keep her business, the Dales Dating Agency, afloat. When Samson gets his first case,...
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