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Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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Anne-Marie Duff stars as the shrewd and captivating queen who defended her throne amidst an atmosphere of plotting and intrigue, torture and murder, The Virgin Queen is a riveting drama that explores the fascinating 44-year-reign of Elizabeth I--Container.
The story of Elizabeth I beginning with her imprisonment in the Tower of London, a dramatic retelling that highlights the plots, intrigue, and deception surrounding and involving the life and reign...
2) Diva
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"New York Times bestselling author Daisy Goodwin returns with a story of the scandalous love affair between the most celebrated opera singer of all time and one of the richest men in the world. In the glittering and ruthlessly competitive world of opera, Maria Callas was known simply as la divina: the divine one. With her glorious voice, instinctive flair for the dramatic and striking beauty, she was the toast of the grandest opera houses in the...
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"Florence, the 1550s. Lucrezia, third daughter of the grand duke, is comfortable with her obscure place in the palazzo: free to wonder at its treasures, observe its clandestine workings, and devote herself to her own artistic pursuits. But when her older sister dies on the eve of her wedding to the ruler of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, Lucrezia is thrust unwittingly into the limelight: the duke is quick to request her hand in marriage, and her father...
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English
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"The remarkable, little-known story of Belle da Costa Greene, J. P. Morgan's personal librarian-who became one of the most powerful women in New York despite the dangerous secret she kept in order to make her dreams come true, from New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict and acclaimed author Victoria Christopher Murray. In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. Pierpont Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books,...
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English
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Once again, the author takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, she has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure. The narrator of the story is Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans. Restless...
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Publisher description: I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright. Four years earlier, in 1903, Mamah and her husband, Edwin, had commissioned the renowned architect to design a new home for them. During the construction of the house, a powerful attraction...
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English
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"Lady Evelyn Herbert was the daughter of the Earl of Carnarvon, brought up in stunning Highclere Castle. Popular and pretty, she seemed destined for a prestigious marriage, but she had other ideas. Instead, she left behind the world of society balls and chaperones to travel to the Egyptian desert, where she hoped to become a lady archaeologist, working alongside her father and Howard Carter in the hunt for an undisturbed tomb. In November 1922, their...
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"A novel of Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas's great romance from the New York Times bestselling author of My Name Is Mary Sutter. The young Mary Cassatt never thought moving to Paris after the Civil War to be an artist was going to be easy, but when, after a decade of work, her submission to the Paris Salon is rejected, Mary's fierce determination wavers. Her father is begging her to return to Philadelphia to find a husband before it is too late, her...
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Penguin Books
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IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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From the mid-1650s through the 1660s, Henry Morgan, a pirate and outlaw of legendary viciousness, ruled the Spanish Main. He ravaged the coasts of Cuba and America, striking terror wherever he went. Morgan was obsessive. He had two driving ambitions: to possess the beautiful woman called La Santa Roja and to conquer Panama, the “cup of gold.” Cup of Gold is a lush, lyrical swashbuckling pirate fantasy, and sure to add new dimensions to readers’...
12) The other queen
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Series
Tudor novels (Philippa Gregory) volume 6
Language
English
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Following the lines of The Other Boleyn Girl, Gregory presents the experiences of Mary Queen of Scots during her long imprisonment in England from a new perspective that reveals as much about the England of Elizabeth as the tragic life of her half sister.
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Amistad 35, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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In 1919, Mohammed el Adl, the young Egyptian lover of British author E. M. Forster, spent six months in a jail cell. A century later, Kip Starling has locked himself in his Brooklyn basement study with a pistol and twenty-one gallons of Poland Spring to write Mohammed’s story. Kip has only three weeks until his publisher’s deadline to immerse himself in the mind of Mohammed who, like Kip, is Black, queer, an Other. The similarities don't end there....
14) Bad reputation
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Profiles the life and career of rock musician Joan Jett.
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
Français
Description
Provides a reflection on art, life, and the movies through a rich cinematic self portrait that touches on everything from the feminist movement and the Black Panthers to the films of Agnes Varda's husband, Jacques Demy, and the birth of the French New Wave.
16) Love, Gilda
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Explores the life and career of American comedian and actress Gilda Radner.
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Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
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Martin Sproale is a mild-mannered assistant postmaster who lives with his mother, and has only one unconventional hobby: he is obsessed with the life of Ernest Hemingway. When a slick upstart is appointed postmaster over his head, steals his girlfriend, and fires the elderly postal employees, Martin decides to stand up for himself the way Hemingway would, and plots his revenge.
Martin Sproale, a mild-mannered postmaster obsessed with Ernest Hemingway,...
19) Tolkien
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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The early life of orphaned author and professor J.R.R. Tolkien as he finds companionship, love and artistic inspiration among a group of fellow outcasts at his school.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"As daughters of the impoverished King of Montenegro, Militza and Stana must fulfill their duty to their father and leave their beloved home for St. Petersburg to be married into senior positions in the Romanov court. For their new alliances to the Russian nobility will help secure the future of the sisters native country. Immediately, Militza and Stana feel like outcasts as the aristocracy shuns them for their provincial ways and for dabbling in...
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