Anne-Marie Duff
Author
Series
Salisbury Poisonings volume 3
Language
English
Description
Cleaning efforts are working and life normalizes, until a mistake risks the city all over again.
Author
Series
Salisbury Poisonings volume 2
Language
English
Description
The city falls further into lockdown as public panic increases and decontamination efforts expand.
4) Othello
Author
Language
English
Description
This edition of Othello has a new, illustrated introduction by leading American scholar Ayanna Thompson, which addresses such key issues as race, religion and gender, as well as looking at ways in which the play has been adapted in more recent times. Othello is one of Shakespeare's great tragedies-written in the same five-year period as Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth. The new introduction attends to the play's different meanings throughout history,...
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In honor of his newly created religion, Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy renounces his title, property, and family in favor of poverty and celibacy. For the Countess Sofya, his wife of nearly fifty years, this is the last straw! After she discovers his plans to leave the rights to his iconic novels to the Russian people rather than his own family, she decides to use every trick of seduction in her considerable arsenal, to fight for what she believes is...
6) Nowhere boy
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Set in Liverpool in 1955, the adolescent years of John Lennon are chronicled. Raised by his Aunt Mimi, his world is turned inside-out when his free spirited mother re-enters his life, opening up old wounds that release pain, anger, frustration, and his artistry.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In England in 1962, a young couple (Saoirse Ronan and Billy Howle) find their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**. *"There's splendid acting across the board and assured direction by Cooke, a stage veteran making his feature debut..." - Peter Howell, **Toronto Star***
8) Suffragette
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by true events, a moving drama exploring the passion and heartbreak of the women who risked everything in their fight for equality in early 20th century Britain. The story centers on Maud, a working wife and mother whose life is forever changed when she is secretly recruited to join the U.K.'s growing suffragette movement. Galvanized by the outlaw fugitive Emmeline Pankhurst, Maud becomes an activist for the cause alongside women from all...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
One morning, a busy London market is decimated by an explosion. In the manhunt that follows, only one member of the suspected terrorist cell survives: Farroukh Erdogan, who is arrested and jailed. Martin and Claudia are lawyers and ex-lovers who find themselves bound together again and put at risk after they join the defense team for an international terrorist's trial.
10) Amongst women
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1950s rural Ireland, this is the searingly truthful story of embittered ex-IRA soldier Michael Moran, a brutal, domineering patriarch. Widowed and desperate to keep his family together, he succeeds only in driving his children from him.
11) Aristocrats
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Paints an intimate portrait of the 18th-century upper-class life in England and Ireland through the eyes of four beautiful high-born sisters. Well-educated, strong-minded, and distinctly individual, they take charge of their own lives, tempting scandal with their unconventional ideas about love, marriage, education, and fidelity.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Based on the events of the poisoning of a Russian double-agent and his daughter in 2018 in the city of Salisbury, England, tells the story of the local community and its leaders as they work to decontaminate the city amidst uncertainty and growing public panic.
14) Suffragette
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inspired by true events, a moving drama exploring the passion and heartbreak of the women who risked everything in their fight for equality in early 20th century Britain. The story centers on Maud, a working wife and mother whose life is forever changed when she is secretly recruited to join the U.K.'s growing suffragette movement. Galvanized by the outlaw fugitive Emmeline Pankhurst, Maud becomes an activist for the cause alongside women from all...
16) On Chesil Beach
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
Based on Ian McEwan's novel. In 1962 England, a young couple find their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.
"It's a lyrical and rapturous film - a repressed passion play, funny, delicate and heartbreaking."--Variety.
"Holds the viewer in its genteel grip from start to almost finish."--Hollywood Reporter.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of the first book in the Molly Moon series by Georgia Byng, the film tells the story of a young orphan who struggles through life alongside her friends (and enemies). Her life dramatically changes when one day she discovers an intriguing book in the local library. The book, Hypnotism An Ancient Art Explained, written by a mysterious master hypnotist - Dr Logan, starts her on an unstoppable journey of discovery and adventure.
18) Closed circuit
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
One morning, a busy London market is decimated by an explosion. In the manhunt that follows, only one member of the suspected terrorist cell survives: Farroukh Erdogan, who is arrested and jailed. Martin and Claudia are lawyers and ex-lovers who find themselves bound together again and put at risk after they join the defense team for an international terrorist's trial.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Meet the Gallaghers. Mom went AWOL years ago. Dad stayed home with the six children only to hit the bottle, and sometimes the kids. The real head of the family is big sister Fiona, who looks after Carl, Debbie and baby Liam. She is occasionally helped, more often hindered, by streetwise "Lip" and the actively gay, but very private, Ian.
20) Closed circuit
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
[Blu-ray + DVD combo pack].
Language
English
Description
"A high-profile terrorism case unexpectedly brings two exceptional lawyers ... with a romantic past together on the defense team. They soon realize they've stepped into a dangerous web of cover-ups and lies, and their knowledge of the government's top-secret classified evidence has put their reputations and lives at stake"--Container.
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