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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was "just" an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn't? She was born in 1890 into a world that had its own rules about what women could and couldn't do. Lucy Worsley's biography is not just of a massively, internationally successful writer. It's also the story of a person who, despite the obstacles of class and gender, became an astonishingly successful working woman. With access to...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Charlie is a crime writer, part-time thief-- and an amateur magician. He breaks into a conjurer's hotel room and makes a safe full of casino chips vanish into think air. When the victim disappears, Charlie is suspected of being his accomplice at cheating the roulette tables.
7) Mrs. Wilson
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Alison is on the tail of the elusive 'Dorothy,' finding photographs of her from Alec's time in India. After speaking to Alec's handler and hearing that their 'relationship' was likely a cover story, Alison traces Dorothy to Yorkshire and insists on the truth. Back in the 1940s, Alison struggles with the aftermath of Alec's decisions, forced to raise her young family in poverty in wartime London.
8) Jane Austen
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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New in the Little People, Big Dreams series, discover the remarkable life of Jane Austen, the British novelist, in this true story of her life. Little Jane grew up in a big family that loved learning and she often read from her father's library. In her teenage years she began to write in bound notebooks and craft her own novels. As an adult, Jane secretly created stories that shone a light on the British upper classes and provided a witty social commentary...
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Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Step into the world of Georgian England and learn more about the genteel life of this beloved author. Although Jane Austen's works were first published anonymously and brought her little personal recognition, today they are rarely out of print and have inspired movies, television shows and mini-series, literary anthologies, and many other adaptations all around the world. Her writing--principally her five novels--is a critique of the British landed...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War to a career as a writer that took him from war-torn Cambodia to Beirut on the cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion to Russia before and after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, John Le Carré has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his highly anticipated memoir, Le Carré is as funny as he is incisive, reading into the events he witnesses the same moral ambiguity with...
Pub. Date
[2010?]
Language
English
Description
Jane Austen is the author of such classics as Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. Step back in time and enter the elegant period of history known as the Regency and find the 'Lady' who breathed life into such sparkling characters as Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy, who have in turn gone on to inspire more recent romantic novelists to follow.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The beloved and bestselling author takes an intimate look back at a life of reading and writing. "The memory that we live with is the moth-eaten version of our own past that each of us carries around, depends on. It is our ID; this is how we know who we are and where we have been." Memory and history have been Penelope Lively's terrain in fiction over a career that has spanned five decades. But she has only rarely given readers a glimpse into her...
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Dickens remains a firm favorite, with renowned novels such as Oliver Twist, Great expectations, David Copperfield, and more. Major film and TV adaptations of his work have brought many new fans. The life of Charles Dickens is as fascinating, and often shocking, as any of his novels. From generating social reform to transforming Christmas into the festival we know today, his influence was widespread and is still felt today.
Pub. Date
[2010?]
Language
English
Description
Most will associate scandal and controversy with D.H. Lawrence, the author of Lady Chatterley's lover, but there is, in fact, a great deal more to this astute, fascinating and sensitive writer than ever appears upon first inspection. This incredible story of a Nottinghamshire miner's son, who broke free from the working class shackles of his birth, and climbed the social ladder to fame and literary success, is told in this revealing program.
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[2012]
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English
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Roald Dahl is one of the most famous children's book authors ever. Now in this Who Was-- ? biography, children will learn of his real-life adventures. A flying ace for the British Air Force, he was married to an Academy Award-winning actress. He also wrote books and screenplays for adults. Entertaining and readable, this biography has 80 black-and-white illustrations.
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