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Great expectations [videorecording] / by Phelps, Sarah.; Kirk, Brian,1968-; Winstone, Ray,1957-; Anderson, Gillian,1968-; Suchet, David.; Dickens, Charles,1812-1870.Great expectations.; PBS Distribution (Firm);
DVD, widescreen presentation; stereo.David Suchet, Gillian Anderson, Ray Winstone.Rating: Not rated.Nothing is quite as it seems in this lush retelling of Dickens' classic coming-of-age story with colorful characters: conspirators, rogues, rakes, and wretches.Screenplay by Sarah Phelps.
Subjects: Television movies.; Coming-of-age films.; Made-for-TV movies.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Fiction television programs.; Orphans; Poor children; Ex-convicts; Benefactors; Young men; Revenge;
© c2012., PBS Distribution,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Great expectations / by Dickens, Charles,1812-1870.;
Includes bibliographical reference (p. xxii-xxiii)."Great Expectations" is at once a superbly constructed novel of spellbinding mastery and a profound examination of moral values. Here, some of Dickens's most memorable characters come to play their part in a story whose title itself reflects the deep irony that shaped Dickens's searching reappraisal of the Victorian middle class.
Subjects: Man-woman relationships; Ex-convicts; Benefactors; Young men; Revenge; Orphans; Coming of age;
© c1992., Knopf : Distributed by Random House,
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Great expectations : the graphic novel / by Sanders, Joe Sutliff.; Green, Jen.; Stokes, John.; Bryant, Clive.; Dickens, Charles,1812-1870.;
Presents an adaptation of Dickens' tale of an orphan growing up in Victorian England.
Subjects: Orphans; Poor children; Ex-convicts; Benefactors; Young men; Revenge; Graphic novels.;
© c2009., Classical Comics,
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A little princess : the story of Sara Crewe / by Burnett, Frances Hodgson,1849-1924.;
Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, is left in poverty when her father dies but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor.
Subjects: Large type books.; Boarding schools; Schools; Orphans; Large type books.;
© [2003], Thorndike Press,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Call the midwife. by Thomas, Heidi,1962-creator,screenwriter.; Agutter, Jenny,actor.; Ferris, Pam,actor.; Bassett, Linda,actor.; Main, Laura,1981-actor.; George, Helen,1984-actor.; Parisi, Cliff,1960-actor.; Fennell, Emerald,1985-actor.; Hart, Miranda,1972-actor.; Redgrave, Vanessa,1937-narrator.; Neal Street Productions,production company.; British Broadcasting Corporation,production company.; Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.),production company.;
DVD, NTSC, region 1, 16:9 anamorphic; Dolby digital 2.0.DVD; NTSC, region 1, anamorphic (16:9) format, Dolby digital 2.0.Jenny Agutter, Pam Ferris, Linda Bassett, Helen George, Laura Main, Cliff Parisi, Emerald Fennell, Kate Lamb, Miranda Hart; narrator, Vanessa Redgrave.Now nearing the 1960s, the community enters a new time of social change, while stories of birth, life and death continue to touch your heart. Will live-wire Nurse Trixie marry her young curate? What new project calls for a heart as big as Chummy's? How will Sister Evangelina react to two new nurses? And why does Sister Julienne appear so unsettled by a mystery benefactor?
Subjects: Fiction television programs.; Medical television programs.; Television series.; Television programs; Television programs; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Midwives; Midwifery; Pregnant women;
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Clouds in my coffee : [electronic resource] : Country Club murders series, book 3. by Mulhern, Julie.; Beaulieu, Callie.;
Narrator: Callie Beaulieu.When Ellison Russell is nearly killed at a benefactors' party, she brushes the incident aside as an unhappy accident. But when her house is fire-bombed, she's shot at, and the person sitting next to her at a gala is poisoned, she must face facts. Someone wants her dead. But why? And can Ellison find the killer before he strikes again? Add in an estranged sister, a visiting aunt with a shocking secret, and a handsome detective staying in her guesthouse, and Ellison might need more than cream in her coffee.Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 228021 KB).
Subjects: Electronic books.; Fiction.; Historical Fiction.; Mystery.;
© 2016., Tantor Audio,
On-line resources: http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=3005691 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;
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Ten Hills Farm : the forgotten history of slavery in the North / by Manegold, C. S.(Catherine S.),1955-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-304) and index.The Puritan. The land -- Ten Hills Farm -- Possession -- The immigrant. The king's forester -- Favors to the few -- Happy instruments to enlarge our dominions -- Slavers of the North -- Come up in the night with them -- You may own negroes and negresses -- The master. Antigua -- Crime, punishment, and compensation -- Homecoming -- The benefactor -- Luxury on the grandest scale -- The petitioner. We shall not be slaves -- Within the bowels of a free country -- Death is not the worst of evils -- Reparations -- The legacy. City upon a hill -- Afterword: Letter from Antigua, Easter Monday, 2008."Ten Hills Farm tells the powerful saga of five generations of slave owners in colonial New England. Settled in 1630 by John Winthrop, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Ten Hills Farm, a six-hundred-acre estate just north of Boston, passed from the Winthrops to the Ushers, to the Royalls--all prominent dynasties tied to the Native American and Atlantic slave trades. In this mesmerizing narrative, C. S. Manegold exposes how the fortunes of these families--and the fate of Ten Hills Farm--were bound to America's most tragic and tainted legacy. Manegold follows the compelling tale from the early seventeenth to the early twenty-first century, from New England, through the South, to the sprawling slave plantations of the Caribbean. John Winthrop, famous for envisioning his 'city on the hill' and lauded as a paragon of justice, owned slaves on that ground and passed the first law in North America condoning slavery. Each successive owner of Ten Hills Farm--from John Usher, who was born into money, to Isaac Royall, who began as a humble carpenter's son and made his fortune in Antigua--would depend upon slavery's profits until the 1780s, when Massachusetts abolished the practice. In time, the land became a city, its questionable past discreetly buried, until now. Challenging received ideas about America and the Atlantic world, Ten Hills Farm digs deep to bring the story of slavery in the North full circle--from concealment to recovery." -- from publisher's website.
Subjects: Slavery; Slave trade; Slaves;
© c2010., Princeton University Press,
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Grown woman talk : your guide to getting and staying healthy / by Malone, Sharon,1959-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A practical guide to aging and health for women who have felt ignored or marginalized by the medical profession, from a leading Ob/Gyn and expert on menopausal and post-reproductive health. The medical system today is increasingly complicated and impersonal, and unfortunately, it is not going to be less so in the future. The rules of engagement have changed in medicine, but no one has bothered to inform patients. Much is written about Black women and women of color, be it our increased cancer risk, our alarming obesity statistics, or our disproportionate risk of cardiovascular diseases, but very little is written for us, and a diagnosis from Dr. Internet doesn't cut it. Talk about being sick? Dr. Sharon Malone is sick of that. Grown Woman Talk is for all women who have often not been seen or heard. For more than three decades as a practicing Ob/Gyn in the nation's capital and now as chief medical officer of Alloy Women's Health, Dr. Malone has served women across the city all the way to the upper echelons of power. In this book, she gives us the nudge we all need to become effective and efficient advocates in getting the care we deserve. Part medical memoir of the Malone family experience tracing from the Jim Crow South to the highest corridors of power in Washington, part relatable clinical scenarios of women from all walks of life and experiences, and part practical medical and logistical advice, this book is a reliable and easy-to-understand resource. In addition to information on ailments like fibroids, cancer, heart disease, and perimenopause, it also helps us navigate the medical establishment of today with advice on how to choose a doctor, why our family's health history matters, and how to decide among treatments. Combining emerging practices with the latest research the book addresses many women's greatest gap, the one between what they believe and what is actually true. With a combination of medical expertise, up-to-date science, and lived experience, Grown Woman Talk addresses the most common conditions women over forty deal with. And it helps women, especially Black women, identify the power they have and how to use it to chart a path to improve their health outcomes and thrive"--
Subjects: African American women; African American women; African American women; Women; Women's health services; Women; Women; Women's health services.; African Americans.; Women's Health; Women's Health Services; Black or African American;
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A conspiracy in Belgravia / [electronic resource] : by Thomas, Sherry.; Reading, Kate.;
Narrator: Kate Reading.Being shunned by Society gives Charlotte Holmes the time and freedom to put her extraordinary powers of deduction to good use. As "Sherlock Holmes, consulting detective," aided by the capable Mrs. Watson, she's had great success helping with all manner of inquiries, but she's not prepared for the new client who arrives at her Upper Baker Street office. Lady Ingram, wife of Charlotte's dear friend and benefactor, wants Sherlock Holmes to find her first love, who failed to show up at their annual rendezvous. Matters of loyalty and discretion aside, the case becomes even more personal for Charlotte as the missing man is none other than Myron Finch, her illegitimate half brother. In the meanwhile, Charlotte wrestles with a surprising proposal of marriage, a mysterious stranger woos her sister Livia, and an unidentified body surfaces where least expected. Charlotte's investigative prowess is challenged as never before: Can she find her brother in time -- or will he, too, end up as a nameless corpse somewhere in the belly of London?Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 294625 KB).
Subjects: Mystery fiction; Historical fiction; Electronic books.; Women private investigators; Fiction.; Historical Fiction.; Mystery.;
© 2017., Blackstone Publishing,
On-line resources: http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=3281082 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive;
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Clouds in my coffee : [electronic resource] : Country Club murders series, book 3. by Mulhern, Julie.;
When Ellison Russell is nearly killed at a benefactors’ party, she brushes the incident aside as an unhappy accident. But when her house is fire-bombed, she’s shot at, and the person sitting next to her at a gala is poisoned, she must face facts. Someone wants her dead. But why? And can Ellison find the killer before he strikes again? Add in an estranged sister, a visiting aunt with a shocking secret, and a handsome detective staying in her guesthouse, and Ellison might need more than cream in her coffee.Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 255 KB) or Kobo app or compatible Kobo device (file size: N/A KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB).
Subjects: Electronic books.; Fiction.; Humor (Fiction).; Mystery.;
© 2016., Henery Press,
On-line resources: http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=3249158 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;
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