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Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"It will take the Ninth Street Knitters all the sleuthing skills they have to untangle the threads of a dyed-in-the-wool killer. For once things seem to be running smoothly for knitting enthusiast Lia Geiger. Her daughter is living on her own and happy with her new job on the alpaca farm. Plus, Lia and her Ninth Street Knitters have been knitting for the Civil War reenactment being held on the grounds next to the Crandalsburg Craft Fair. It’s all...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003, c2000
Language
English
Description
One modern family takes on the challenge of domestic life on Britain's home front in 1940s house, a re-creation of a World War II household. This time-travel experiment covers the period from the outbreak of war in 1939 to Victory Day in 1945, compressing the events of six wartime years into two months. Though the military threat is metaphorical, the privations are real and the pressures create tensions nonexistent in modern society.
Author
Series
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Stranded in England without money or a ticket home, Mercy Starling takes a job working for a medieval reenactment company. After all, who wouldn't want to pretend to live in the past, wield swords and long bows, and dress up in armor? And the best part of her summer job is Bestwood Hall...or rather, its intriguing new owner. The painfully shy Alden Ainslie is overwhelmed by the medieval reenactors who invade the Tudor house he's renovating, but he's...
Author
Series
Mystery with recipes volume 10
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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Description
When a re-enactor's musket blows up in his face, killing him, Bernie and Libby need to get to the bottom of his murder.
11) Siege
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When Jason agrees to go camping with his cousin Sean, he doesn't picture two weeks at a War of 1812 reenactment camp. But that's where he ends up. The historically accurate camp bans all trappings of modern life, like cell phones and electricity. Jason is not impressed, but they do get to fire muskets, and he secretly likes that, despite the general dorkiness of the camp. And then there's the cute girl who works in the mess tent. And the sneaking...
13) The noble art
Series
Midsomer murders volume set twenty
Publisher
distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2012], c2010
Language
English
Description
Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby and Detective Sergeant Ben Jones investigate a murder during the reenactment of a championship Victorian prizefight.
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Language
English
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"Does George Washington still matter? The bestselling author argues for his unique contribution to the forging of America by retracing his journey as a new President through the former colonies, now an unsure nation. A new first-person voice for Philbrick, weaving history and personal reflection into one narrative. When George Washington became president in 1798, the United States of America was still a loose and quarrelsome confederation and a tentative...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Sweeney's chance encounter with a young boy sparks her interest in the boy's Revolutionary War-era ancestor, a stonecutter and gravestone maker. Coincidentally, Sweeney and the boy also stumble on the body of a murdered man in Revolutionary War clothing near the site of a recent historical reenactment. And, to make things more interesting, it turns out the dead man was writing a book on the boy's stonecutter ancestor. Sweeney and homicide detective...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
''When a quaint Pennsylvania town hosts a Civil War reenactment, only the blood will be real.... How does a once-hip New Yorker get used to living in a quaint Pennsylvania town famous for its gooey, oversized sticky buns? For Tori Miracle, it means kissing her diet good-bye, always showing up in the wrong clothes, and struggling with a love life. And now that she's filling in for the editor of the Lickin Creek Chronicle and has the town newspaper...
Author
Publisher
Graphia/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
While touring with group of Confederate Civil War re-enactors for a summer internship, Libby and Dev attempt to design and sell Southern Confederate costumes for a ball, investigate haunted battle grounds, and seek handsome Southern soldier boys.
Series
Midsomer murders volume Set 12
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Every year, the Skimmington Fayre, a medieval ritual, rekindles an age-old battle of the sexes in Broughton. But this year, the men decide to reclaim their dignity and the bodies really start to accumulate.
19) Dunkirk
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Explores the audacious bid to rescue over 400,000 troops from the British Expeditionary Force besieged on the beaches at Dunkirk, which ranks as one of the greatest maritime evacuations in history. Combines contemporary footage and reenactments to tell the story in 3 episodes.
20) The duel
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
On the morning of July 11, 1804, Alexander Hamilton was fatally wounded in a duel by Aaron Burr in the culminating act of a political war that had lasted for more than a decade. The rivals' final encounter in Weehauken ruined Burr's career and changed the fate of a nation. Includes dramatic re-enactments.
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