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781) The first Churchills
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Based on Sir Winston Churchill's biography of his ancestors, the first Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, this classic BBC miniseries is a tender love story played out amid the intrigues of the 17th-century English court. At a time when most marriages were made for money and position, Sarah Jennings and John Churchill married for love. This drama follows them from their budding romance in the bawdy court of King Charles II through five decades and five...
783) River with no bridge
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In 1882 Boston, eighteen-year-old Nora Flanagan works as a maid and dreams of achieving the respectability and security denied her as a tinker's daughter in Ireland. Then she meets Tade Larkin, who tells of better things in the Montana Territory where he works as a miner. Nora makes the journey across the country to marry Tade. But life is harsh in the West, and Nora faces challenges she never imagined. Through it all she is sustained by the affection...
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
℗2002-℗2004
Language
English
Description
Light in shadow: Interior designer Zoe Luce specializes in working with recently divorced clients. Suspecting that one of them harbors a dark secret, she enlists P.I. Ethan Truax to uncover the truth. Truth or dare: Newlyweds Zoe Luce and Ethan Truax both have secrets it would be better not to share, but it isn't clear that their new relationship can bear the burden. Falling awake: After being fired from the Belvedere Center for Sleep Research, dream...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In the last months of the Sri Lankan Civil War, Dinesh's world has contracted to an evacuee camp, where he measures his days by shells that fall like clockwork. Alienated from language, home, and family, he is brought back to life by an unexpected proposal from an old man in the camp that Dinesh marry his daughter"--
787) Lake City: a novel
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In the wake of the 9/11 tragedy and at the peak of Seattle's tech-boom gentrification, a wave that never quite made it to his neighborhood, Lane Bueche schemes how to win back his wife, and her trust fund. He hatches a plan, but soon he must choose between wanting to do the right thing--if he could only figure out what that is--and reclaiming his old life of privilege.
Author
Publisher
Scribe Publications
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Conrad and Joanne met in their final year of university and have been virtually inseparable since then. For a while, it felt like they had all the time in the world. Yet now, when they are finally ready to have kids, they find that getting pregnant isn't always so easy. Ahead of them lies a difficult, expensive, and emotional journey into the world of assisted fertility, where each 'successful' implantation is followed by a two-week wait to see if...
791) Losing ground
Series
Publisher
Milestone Film & Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Losing Ground: Tells the story of a marriage of two remarkable people, both at a crossroads in their lives. Sara Rogers, a black professor of philosophy, is embarking on an intellectual quest to understand "ecstasy" just as her painter husband Victor sets off on a more earthly exploration of joy. Celebrating a recent museum sale, Victor decides to rent a country house where he can return to more realism after years working as an abstract expressionist....
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
Blue steel: It's up to John Carruthers to save the little town of Yucca City from the evil extremes of the 'Polka Dot Bandit," and win the heart of the beautiful Betty Mason.
Santa Fe Trail: Jeb Stuart, the famed Southern calvaryman arrives at West Point, where he befriends George Armstrong Custer. Both compete for the attention of "Kit Carson" Halliday. As a punishment for fighting with fellow classmates, both men are sent to an outpost in Kansas...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Putting her complete trust in her husband as he builds a financial empire, Phoebe is shattered when she discovers that her husband's successes are tied to an elaborate Ponzi scheme, a situation that forces her to make a terrible choice.
Phoebe recognizes fire in Jake Pierce's belly from the moment they meet as teenagers. As he creates a financial dynasty, she trusts him without hesitation-- unaware his hunger for success hides a dark talent for deception....
794) Romeo & Juliet
Publisher
Paramount Pictures Corporation
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Description
Teenagers fall in love, but are opposed by their families
795) Ruins
Author
Publisher
SelfMadeHero
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Samantha and George are a couple heading towards a sabbatical year in the quaint Mexican town of Oaxaca. For Samantha, it is the opportunity to revisit her past. For George, it is an unsettling step into the unknown. For both of them, it will be a collision course with political and personal events that will alter their paths and the town of Oaxaca forever. In tandem, the remarkable and arduous journey that a monarch butterfly endures on its annual...
797) Tyler Perry presents
Publisher
[Midwest Tape]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A collection of DVDs all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night. Titles include: For colored girls ; A Madea family funeral ; Acrimony ; I can do bad all by myself ; Madea goes to jail ; Diary of a mad black woman.
For colored girls (2010): A vibrant world where friends and strangers dream, fear, cry, love, and laugh out loud in an attempt to find their true selves. Adapted from Ntozake Shange's acclaimed choreopoem, this gripping...
798) Ruined
Author
Publisher
First Second, an imprint of Roaring Books Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
For fans of Bridgerton comes a Regency-era romance graphic novel about the unexpected passion that blooms from a marriage of convenience. The whole town is whispering about how Catherine Benson lost her virtue, though they can never agree on the details. Was it in the public garden? Or a moving carriage? Only a truly desperate man would want her now -- and that's exactly what Andrew Davener is. His family's estate is in disrepair, but Catherine's...
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