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Cranford [videorecording] : return to Cranford / by Birtwistle, Sue,creator.; Conklin, Susie,creator.; Thomas, Heidi,1962-screenwriter.; Curtis, Simon,1960-director.; Dench, Judi,1934-; Atkins, Eileen,1934-; Glenister, Philip.; Gambon, Michael.; Annis, Francesca,1945-; Staunton, Imelda,1953-; McKenzie, Julia.; Wise, Greg,1966-; Manville, Lesley.; Jennings, Alex.; Davis, Carl,1936-; Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn,1810-1865.Cranford.; Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn,1810-1865.Mr. Harrison's confessions.; Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn,1810-1865.My Lady Ludlow.; WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.); Chestermead Ltd.; British Broadcasting Corporation.; BBC Video (Firm); BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc.; Warner Home Video (Firm);
DVD9, region 1; 16x9 enhanced; Dolby Digital stereo; NTSC.Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins, Philip Glenister, Michael Gambon, Francesca Annis, Imelda Staunton, Julia McKenzie, Greg Wise, Lesley Manville, Alex Jennings, Dean Lennox Kelly.Music, Carl David.Miss Matty's house is full of life and bustle. Her dream of having a child in the house has been realized in the birth of Tilly, daughter of her maid Martha and carpenter Jem. Elsewhere, the shadow of the railway still looms, but the line has been halted five miles outside Cranford, a disaster as far as Captain Brown is concerned. Meanwhile, as Mr. Buxton returns to town with his son, William, and his niece, Erminia, Miss Matty becomes concerned about another young person, Peggy Bell, who lives in an isolated cottage with her mother and domineering brother. She decides to intervene and engineers an invitation that will bring the four young people together. But when tragedy strikes, she fears she has opened a Pandora's box from which Cranford will never recover.Part one : August 1844 -- Part two : October 1844.
Subjects: Television mini-series.; Market towns; Single women; Older women; Gossip; Sisters; Social norms;
© c2010., BBC Video ; Distributed by BBC Worldwide Americas ; Distributed by Warner Home Video,
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Cranford : the original BBC miniseries : Elizabeth Gaskell's classic tale of a Victorian country village / by David, Hugh,television director.; McRae, John,1953-television producer.; Voysey, Michael,screenwriter.; Withers, Margery,1905-1999,actor.; Coombs, Pat,1926-2002,actor.; Culver, Roland,1900-1984,actor.; Penfold, Ann,actor.; Television adaptation of (work):Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn,1810-1865.Cranford.; British Broadcasting Corporation,production company,broadcaster.; BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Ltd.,film distributor.;
DVD; NTSC, region 1; Dolby Digital.Gabrielle Hamilton, Margery Withers, Pat Coombs, Helen Christie, Fabia Drake, Roland Culver, Ann Penfold.Set in the early 1840s, this is the original BBC miniseries of Elizabeth Gaskell's classic tale of a fictional Victorian country village in which the genteel ladies of Cranford struggle to face an uncertain future with dignity and 19th Century decorum.MPAA Rating: Not rated.
Subjects: Television melodramas.; Fiction television programs.; Television mini-series.; Television adaptations.; Market towns; Single women; Older women; Gossip; Social norms;
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Lark Rise to Candleford. [videorecording] / by Marmion, Grainne.; Palmer, Charles.; Greening, John.; Jobst, Marc.; Gallagher, Bill.; Hallinan, Olivia,1985-; French, Dawn.; Sawalha, Julia,1968-; Smith, Liz,1921-; Coyle, Brendan.; Blakley, Claudie,1974-; Heap, Mark,1957-; Miles, Ben.; Grant, Olivia,1983-; Bassett, Linda.; Johnson, Karl,1948-; Thompson, Flora.Lark Rise to Candleford.; British Broadcasting Corporation.Television Service.; 2 Entertain (Firm); BBC Video (Firm); Warner Home Video (Firm);
DVD, NTSC, region 1; Dolby Digital stereo.Olivia Hallinan, Dawn French, Julia Sawalha, Liz Smith, Brendan Coyle, Claudie Blakley, Mark Heap, Ben Miles, Olivia Grant, Linda Bassett, Karl Johnson.Follows the relationship of two contrasting communities: Lark Rise, a small hamlet gently holding onto the past, and Candleford, a neighboring market town bustling into the future. When young Laura Timmins leaves Lark Rise for a job at the Candleford post office, she discovers an eye-opening, exciting new world. In the face of scandals and feuds, she must leave her childhood behind.Disc 1. Episodes 1-3 -- disc 2. Episodes 4-6 -- disc 3. Episodes 7-8 -- disc 4. Episodes 9-10 ; Extra.Costume designer, Pheobe de Gayle ; Composer, Julian Nott ; Hair/makeup designer, Pamela Haddock ; Director of Photography, Balazs Bolygo.
Subjects: Feature films.; Television programs.; Television series.; Fiction television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Young women; Apprenticeship programs; Post office buildings;
© c2009., BBC Video ; Warner Home Video [distributor],
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The rise of Rome : the making of the world's greatest empire / by Everitt, Anthony.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.I. Legend : a new Troy ; Kings and tyrants ; Expulsion ; So what really happened? -- II. Story : The land and its people ; Free at last ; General strike ; The fall of Rome ; Under the yoke -- III. History : The adventurer ; All at sea ; "Hannibal at the gates!" ; The bird without a tail ; Change and decay ; The gorgeous East ; Blood brothers ; Triumph and disaster ; Afterword -- Timeline.Rome's decline and fall have long fascinated historians, but the story of how the empire was won is every bit as compelling. Emerging as a market town from a cluster of hill villages in the eighth and seventh centuries B.C.E., Rome grew to become the ancient world's preeminent power. Historian Anthony Everitt fashions the story of Rome's rise to glory into an erudite page-turner filled with lessons for our time. He paints indelible portraits of the great Romans--and non-Romans--who left their mark on the Roman world. He chronicles the clash between patricians and plebeians that defined the politics of the Republic. He shows how Rome's shrewd strategy of offering citizenship to her defeated subjects was instrumental in expanding the reach of her burgeoning empire. And he outlines the corrosion of constitutional norms that accompanied Rome's imperial expansion, as old habits of political compromise gave way, leading to violence and civil war. In the end, unimaginable wealth and power corrupted the traditional virtues of the Republic, and Rome was left triumphant everywhere except within its own borders.--From publisher description.
© 2013., Random House Trade Paperbacks,
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Last stop on Market Street / by De la Peña, Matt.; Robinson, Christian,illustrator.; Thomann, Ryan,book designer.; G.P. Putnam's Sons,publisher.; Phoenix Color Corp.,printer.;
A young boy rides the bus across town with his grandmother and learns to appreciate the beauty in everyday things.Accelerated ReaderNewbery Medal, 2016Caldecott Honor, 2016Coretta Scott King Honor, Illustrator, 2016NCTE Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction for Children Recommended Book, 2016Accelerated Reader/Renaissance LearningReading Counts
Subjects: Picture books for children.; Basic reader.; Picture books for children.; Dust jackets (Binding); Children; Materialism; Gratitude; Buses; Grandmothers; Street life; African Americans; Buses; Grandmothers; City and town life; African Americans;
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Everyday klansfolk : white protestant life and the KKK in 1920s Michigan / by Fox, Craig.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Marketing, membership, and merchandise: the Klan brand comes to town -- The Knights in image and idea: popular Klannish fantasy, self-portrayal, and political demonology -- An everyman's Klan: behind the masks in Newaygo County -- The invisible empire and small-town sociability: Klan recruitment channels in Newaygo County -- Community, church, and Klan: the civic lives of ordinary Klansfolk and the social functions of KKK pageantry.
Subjects: Ku Klux Klan (1915- ); Middle class; Protestants; Social conflict;
© c2011., Michigan State University Press,
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Lydia Pinkham : [electronic resource] : The face that launched a thousand ads. by Danna, Sammy R.;
Lydia Pinkham was one of the 19th century's most remarkable businesswomen, her influence spreading beyond the late 1800s and her native New England. A champion of equal rights for women and blacks at a time when such causes lacked widespread support, Pinkham was ahead of her time on other issues. Chief among them was the well-being of women struggling with serious health issues related to their menstrual cycles and other so-called "women weaknesses." But as the teetotaling Pinkham and her namesake company soared to entrepreneurial heights by selling her patient relief in the guise of an alcohol-laced potion known as the Vegetable Compound, generations that followed have been left to wonder: Was she worthy of her female customers' trust or just an opportunist? In Lydia Pinkham: The Face That Launched a Thousand Ads, historian Sammy R. Danna offers the latest book-length biography that explores all sides of the Lydia Pinkham phenomena. Danna illustrates how remarkable an American historical figure she was, who with associates masterfully used and reinvented the marketing tools of her day, while battling the misogyny of the medical establishment. But Danna also asks whether she was just a grandmotherly version of the pitchmen who roamed from town to town with their snake oil elixirs. Students and scholars in the fields of women's studies, American culture, and the histories of medicine, advertising, and business will see Lydia Pinkham in a new light.Electronic reproduction.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Pinkham, Lydia Estes, 1819-1883.; Women in medicine ; Patent medicines ; Advertising; Nonfiction.; Biography & Autobiography.; Business.; History.;
© 2015.,
On-line resources: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=2308894 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;
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Camino Island : a novel / by Grisham, John.; LaVoy, January,narrator.; Books on Tape, Inc.; Penguin Random House.;
Read by January LaVoy.A gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a secure vault deep below Princeton University's Firestone Library. Their loot is priceless, but Princeton has insured it for twenty-five million dollars. Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. He makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare books. Very few people know that he occasionally dabbles in the black market of stolen books and manuscripts.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Audiobooks.; Princeton University. Library; Thieves; Rare books; Black market; Bookstores;
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Doctor Sleep : a novel / by King, Stephen,1947-;
The now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) must save a very special twelve-year-old girl from a tribe of murderous paranormals. On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless; mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and spunky twelve-year-old Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the "steam" that children with the "shining" produce when they are slowly tortured to death. Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father's legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him, and a job at a nursing home where his remnant "shining" power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes "Doctor Sleep." Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites Dan's own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra's soul and survival.
Subjects: Suspense fiction.; Paranormal fiction.; Psychic ability; Good and evil;
© 2013., Scribner,
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Camino Island / by Grisham, John.;
Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. He makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare books. Very few people know that he occasionally dabbles in the black market of stolen books and manuscripts. Mercer Mann is a young novelist with a severe case of writer's block who has recently been laid off from her teaching position. She is approached by an elegant, mysterious woman working for an even more mysterious company. A generous offer of money convinces Mercer to go undercover and infiltrate Bruce Cable's circle of literary friends, ideally getting close enough to him to learn his secrets. But eventually Mercer learns far too much.--Adapted from book jacket.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Book thefts; Bookstores; Antiquarian booksellers; Undercover operations;
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