Frank Carlson Library

Working at a tiny village school in rural Yorkshire has its own unique set of challenges - but when Lydia Knight and Jake Immingham are tasked with getting the children to put on a Christmas play for the local elderly people's home, they know they're in for a tricky term! From choreographing sugar plum dance routines to dealing with reindeer costume malfunctions, Lydia realises that, even as a teacher, she isn't past being taught a couple of things...

When the English town of York hosts a Jane Austen Society conference, bookseller Erin Coleridge is glad to get out of Kirkbymoorside for a while. When a featured speaker dies from an apparent heart attack, Erin is suspicious. As both Detective Inspector Peter Hemming and schoolteacher Jonathan Alder make gestures of romantic interest, Erin joins forces with Kirdbymoorside's cat lady, Farnsworth, to ferret out the guilty party. -- adapted from jacket....

When DI Vera Stanhope finds the body of a woman in the sauna room of her local gym, she wonders briefly if, for once in her life, she's uncovered a simple death from natural causes. But a closer inspection reveals ligature marks around the victim's throat - death is never that simple...Doing what she does best, Vera pulls her team together and sets them interviewing staff and those connected to the victim, while she and colleague, Sergeant Joe Ashworth,...

Best friends Mary Lennox, Sara Crewe, and Cedric Erroll flee their repressive boarding school, intending to start over in the theaters of Paris, but they instead find themselves at Cedric's estate in Yorkshire, where a hidden garden helps them realize their destiny.

Presents an abridged version of the story of ten-year-old Mary who, after the death of her parents, comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors where she discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.