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69661) Copper: Season two
Publisher
BBC Worldwide Ltd
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
Loyalties will be bought and sold as Detective Kevin Corcoran struggles to tame a lawless New York City.
69662) Un marido inventado
Author
Publisher
Titania
Pub. Date
2021]
Language
Español
Description
"Mientras dormías... Con su hermano Thomas herido en el frente de batalla y habiendo perdido a sus padres, Cecilia Harcourt tiene dos opciones no demasiado halagüeñas: mudarse junto a una tía soltera o casarse con un primo de mente retorcida. En lugar de eso, elige la tercera opción, y cruza el Atlántico dispuesta a cuidar de su hermano hasta su recuperación. Pero, tras una semana de búsqueda, no encuentra a Thomas, sino a su mejor amigo,...
69663) Richard the Lionheart
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The aging King Henry II has chosen his son Richard to lead England in the coming war against France. To test Richard's loyalty, honor and skill, Henry sends him to a hellish prison in which the captives must fight a never-ending stream of enemies in order to survive. As Richard overcomes each new challenger, his strength, ingenuity and character are proven, and the legend of Richard the Lionheart is born.
69665) An American duchess
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In Kent, England, the arrival of Beranger Northcott, Duke of Brightshire, causes a stir. Because with the duke comes his new American bride, who isn't quite what anyone expects. By accepting the hand of her beloved, Emma Brinkman went from hardworking Colorado rancher to duchess. Now she's expected to comport herself as nobility. Overnight. For Emma-stifled, homesick, and unable to shake the feeling she's being watched-the metamorphosis is a challenge....
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Looking forward to a quiet life and a full stomach, mail-order bride Rebecca Rice is pleased to marry her shopkeeper intended, Mr. Fordham, until the justice of the peace calls him Thaddeus, not Theodore--proceeded by the title Deputy. When the newlyweds realize they've married the wrong partners with similar names, an annulment seems in order--and fast, since Rebecca's true intended is impatient to claim her as his own, not to mention Rebecca would...
69667) The sister's search
Author
Series
Homeward Trails ; 3
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A young woman searches for her missing brother and finds much more awaits her - if she can escape war-torn Texas. Molly Weaver and her widowed mother embark on an arduous journey at the end of the Civil War. They hope to join Molly's brother Andrew on his ranch in Texas. When they arrive, Andrew is missing and squatters threaten the ranch. Can they trust Joe, the stranger who claims to be Andrew's friend? Joe's offer to help may be a godsend - or...
69668) La habitación
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
"Told across eight different stories taking place in one 100-year-old room, the film explores the secret lives of its inhabitants, from the beginning of the twentieth century to the dawn of the new millennium. This intricately-woven film gives a compelling and profound portrait of modern Mexico from eight of the country's new breed of cinematic storytellers." --
Author
Series
Publisher
Waterfall Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In England's Regency era, manners and elegance reign in public life--but behind closed doors treason and deception thrive. Nicholas Langdon is no stranger to reserved civility or bloody barbarity. After suffering a battlefield injury, the wealthy, well-connected British officer returns home to heal--and to fulfill a dying soldier's last wish by delivering his coded diary. At the home of the Wilherns, one of England's most powerful families, Langdon...
Author
Series
Darcy cousins ; 2
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"When Anne de Bourgh discovers a family secret in an old letter, she is given two choices: Burn the letter and forget about it or leave Rosings and face disinheritance. How can a sickly lady past the bloom of youth, with no prospects and few friends, hope to stand on her own two feet? How can she learn more about her family's past without causing a scandal which would forever cast a shadow over the de Bourghs. Luc Mauvier has led a life of freedom...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When the young Englishman Baron Jerome Manchester Paget arrives in 1878 Fort Griffin with a satchel full of money to start a buffalo ranch and find a bride, a horde of colorful swindlers from throughout Texas arrive to help him. With a passel of oddball characters and more twists and turns than a stagecoach trail, "The Fleecing of Fort Griffin" pits the baron against crooked gamblers, a one-eyed gunfighter, a savvy marshal, conniving females and...
69672) Y al polvo regresaremos
Author
Publisher
Lumen/Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Teresa, la abuela, creció aislada en un orfanato en medio de la Sierra Gorda queretana, y desde pequeña ha visto con vergüenza su facilidad para servir como médium a las almas en pena. A través de ellas recibe la ubicación de un tesoro escondido y una popularidad que atrae a los políticos del momento para que les hable de su suerte. De sus hijos, uno se ordena como sacerdote, mientras otro se une a su primo para armar la Revolución y terminar...
69673) Milton in America
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
An alternate history novel in which the 17th Century English writer, John Milton, emigrates to America to escape the wrath of the royalists for his Puritan views. He is elected leader of a Puritan colony in New England and leads it in a war against a Catholic colony. A tale of religious intolerance.
69674) Maggie's war
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Winnipeg, 1942. War widow Maggie Marshall finds it hard to grieve for her abusive husband. But when Charlotte, the unwed pregnant teen in her care runs away, Maggie's childhood friend Reverend Reuben Fennel is happy join Maggie in her pursuit to Fort William to find Charlotte though it may cost him his job and his reputation"--
69675) 300: Rise of an empire
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Greek general Themistokles attempts to unite all of Greece by leading the charge that will change the course of the war. He's pitted against the massive invading Persian forces led by mortal turned god Xerxes, and Artemesia, vengeful commander of the Persian navy.
69676) And then comes marriage
Author
Publisher
St Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"After years of being a quiet, dutiful wife, the recently widowed Mrs. Miranda Talbot is finally free to do as she pleases. As an attractive woman of independent means, Miranda is suddenly turning heads all around town. When she meets the dashing Mr. Castor Worthington, she is swept away by his passion. Is he too good to be true? Little does Miranda know that there is more to Castor than meets the eye. In fact, he's a twin. Castor's brother, also...
69677) The floating book
Author
Publisher
Regan Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
In 1468, the von Speyer brothers journey across the Alps to Venice, where they introduce Guttenberg's movable type. With competition on his heels, Wendelin von Speyer accepts his wife's advice and tempts the fates by publishing the first printed edition of Catullus's erotic verse, a move that will enrage the church, scandalize the city, and change lives forever.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Sarafina (1992): "South African teenagers fight against apartheid in the Soweto Uprising." --
The Journey of August King (1995): "The Journey of August King is a multi-dimensional drama about a North Carolina farmer in April 1815. August King, a widower, is on his way home as he does every year after selling his produce and purchasing the stock and goods he will need for the coming year. On his journey, he comes upon a run-away slave, a 17 year old...
69679) The sacred land
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Sailing to Phoenicia, where they hope to make profitable trades and see the exotic lands, Menedemos and Sostratos hire a group of Aphrodite sailors as bodyguards and find their quest complicated by Sostratos's new brother-in-law, who has recommended an unwise investment.
69680) The last of the plainsmen
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The Last of the Plainsmen: Zane Grey, chronicler of the greatest adventures of the West, and Buffalo Jones, last of the plainsmen, that tough breed who followed their dreams west, into the empty spaces of the untamed heart of the country. The land draws these men. The unsettled West is fast-disappearing, along with the wild creatures who call it home. This historical novel chronicles the last mission of the last of the plainsmen, the adventure that...
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