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2020., Adult, Signal Call No: Bio M155a Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small cottage with her three children and her husband, who worked as a machinist nearby. Ursula Burton was friendly but reserved, and spoke English with a slight foreign accent. By all accounts, she seemed to be living a simple, unassuming life. Her neighbors in the village knew little about her. They didnât know that she was a high-ranking Soviet intelligence officer. They didnât know that her husband was also a spy, or that she was running powerful agents across Europe. Behind the facade of her picturesque life, Burton was a dedicated Communist, a Soviet colonel, and a veteran agent, gathering the scientific secrets that would enable the Soviet Union to build the bomb. This true-life spy story is a masterpiece about the woman code-named âSonya.â Over the course of her career, she was hunted by the Chinese, the Japanese, the Nazis, MI5, MI6, and the FBIâand she evaded them all. Her story reflects the great ideological clash of the twentieth centuryâbetween Communism, Fascism, and Western democracyâand casts new light on the spy battles and shifting allegiances of our own times.
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2001., Farrar, Straus, and Giroux Call No: Bio B6595c Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2017., Adult, Hamish Hamilton Call No: SC Fic Smi Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Seasonal quartet Volume: 1Summary Note: "The first of four novels in a shape-shifting series, wide-ranging in timescale and light-footed through histories. Fusing Keatsian mists and mellow fruitfulness with the vitality, the immediacy and the colour-hit of Pop Art--via a bit of very contemporary skulduggery and skull-diggery--Autumn is a witty excavation of the present by the past. The novel is a stripped-branches take on popular culture, and a meditation, in a world growing ever more bordered and exclusive, on what richness and worth are, what harvest means. Autumn is part of the quartet Seasonal: four stand-alone novels, separate yet interconnected and cyclical (as the seasons are), exploring what time is, how we experience it, and the recurring markers in the shapes our lives take and in our ways with narrative."--From publisher.
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2022., St. Martin's Press Call No: Fic Jen Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Natalie Jenner, the internationally bestselling author of The Jane Austen Society, returns with a compelling and heartwarming story of post-war London, a century-old bookstore, and three women determined to find their way in a fast-changing world in Bloomsbury Girls. Bloomsbury Books is an old-fashioned new and rare book store that has persisted and resisted change for a hundred years, run by men and guided by the general manager's unbreakable fifty-one rules. But in 1950, the world is changing, especially the world of books and publishing, and at Bloomsbury Books, the girls in the shop have plans: Vivien Lowry: Single since her aristocratic fiance was killed in action during World War II, the brilliant and stylish Vivien has a long list of grievances--most of them well justified and the biggest of which is Alec McDonough, the Head of Fiction. Grace Perkins: Married with two sons, she's been working to support the family following her husband's breakdown in the aftermath of the war. Torn between duty to her family and dreams of her own. Evie Stone: In the first class of female students from Cambridge permitted to earn a degree, Evie was denied an academic position in favor of her less accomplished male rival. Now she's working at Bloomsbury Books while she plans to remake her own future. As they interact with various literary figures of the time--Daphne Du Maurier, Ellen Doubleday, Sonia Blair (widow of George Orwell), Samuel Beckett, Peggy Guggenheim, and others--these three women with their complex web of relationships, goals and dreams are all working to plot out a future that is richer and more rewarding than anything society will allow
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2010., Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: 821.914 S977b Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In early June 1943, James Eric Swift, a pilot with the 83rd Squadron of the Royal Air Force, boarded his Lancaster bomber for a night raid on Mnster and disappeared. Widespread aerial bombardment was to the Second World War what the trenches were to the First: a shocking and new form of warfare, wretched and unexpected, and carried out at a terrible scale of loss. Just as the trenches produced the most remarkable poetry of the First World War, so too did the bombing campaigns foster a haunting set of poems during the Second. In researching the life of his grandfather, Daniel Swift became engrossed with the connections between air war and poetry. Ostensibly a narrative of the authors search for his lost grandfather through military and civilian archives and in interviews conducted in the Netherlands, Germany, and England, Bomber County is also an examination of the relationship between the bombing campaigns of World War II and poetry, an investigation into the experience of bombing and being bombed, and a powerful reckoning with the morals and literature of a vanished moment"--From publisher description.
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2014., General, Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Call 3 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Call the midwife Volume: 3
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-- Downton Abbey.2012., St. Martin's Press Call No: 791.4572 F322c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The Chronicles of Downton Abbey, carefully pieced together at the heart and hearth of the ancestral home of the Crawleys, takes readers deeper into the story of every important member of the Downton estate. This lavish, entirely new book focuses on each character individually, examining their motivations, their actions, and the inspirations behind them.
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c2007., Yale University Press Call No: 320.54 C563m Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch Click here to view More...
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1967., Longmans Call No: 942.08 M4915c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: History of England (Longman)
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By Morgan, Peter, 1963- Foy, Claire, 1984- Smith, Matt, 1982- Hamilton, Victoria, 1971- Kirby, Vanessa Lithgow, John, 1945- Rowe, Nicholas, 1966- Torrens, Pip, 1960- Atkins, Eileen, 1934- Northam, Jeremy, 1961- Jennings, Alex Williams, Lia Miles, Ben Wise, Greg, 1966- Harris, Jared, 1961- Dillane, Stephen, 1956- Left Bank Pictures Sony Pictures Television Netflix[2017]., Adult, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Crown 1 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: The crown Volume: 1Summary Note: The British Empire is in decline, the political world is in disarray, and a young woman takes the throne... a new era is dawning. Queen Elizabeth II is a 25-year-old newlywed faced with the daunting prospect of leading the world's most famous monarchy while forging a relationship with legendary Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.
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2020., 547, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Call No: DVD FIc Crown 3 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: The crown ; 3Summary Note: The Crown traces the life of Queen Elizabeth II from her wedding in 1947 through to the early part of the twenty-first century. Season Three covers the time period between 1964 and 1977 and introduces an outstanding new ensemble cast led by Olivia Coleman and Tobias Menzies. Beginning with Harold Wilson's election as the Queen's first Labour prime minister and ending with the Silver Jubilee or Elizabeth II, it follows pivotal moments such as the death and state funeral of Winston Churchill, the Aberfan disaster, the Apollo 11 moon landing and the Investiture of Prince Charles as the Prince of Wales.
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c2010., Adult, Soho Constable Call No: MYS Fic Pea Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Set in 1913, Pearce's seventh mystery to feature Scotland Yard's Sandor Seymour opens with an intriguing puzzle. Seymour, a troubleshooter routinely dispatched across Europe to handle sensitive inquiries, looks into three suspicious deaths on the island of Malta--two British sailors and a German balloonist have expired after being admitted in good health to a British naval hospital. The aviator, Kiesewetter, entered the hospital for observation after his hot-air balloon landed unexpectedly. Witness reports that an unknown person was seen bending over the supine body of one of the sailors shortly before the sailor's demise add to concerns that a murderer might have been at work. Unengaging scenes between Seymour and his love interest as well as a denouement that doesn't fulfill the promise of the premise will disappoint fans.
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By Brown, Tinac2007., Doubleday Call No: Bio D538br Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Ten years after her death, Princess Diana remains a mystery. Was she "the people's princess," who electrified the world with her beauty and humanitarian missions? Or was she a manipulative, media-savvy neurotic who nearly brought down the monarchy? Journalist Tina Brown knew Diana personally and has far-reaching insight into the royals and the Queen herself. In this book, you will meet a formidable female cast and understand as never before the society that shaped them: Diana's sexually charged mother, her scheming grandmother, the stepmother she hated but finally came to terms with, and bad-girl Fergie, her sister-in-law, who concealed wounds of her own. Most formidable of them all was her mother-in-law, the Queen, whose admiration Diana sought till the day she died. Add Camilla Parker-Bowles, the ultimate "other woman" into this combustible mix, and it's no wonder that Diana broke out of her royal cage into celebrity culture, where she found her own power and used it to devastating effect"--Publisher's blurb.
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By Jenoff, Pam2020., Park Row Books Call No: Fic Jen Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Kommandant's girl Volume: 2.Summary Note: 1945. Surviving the brutality of a Nazi prison camp, Marta Nederman is lucky to have escaped with her life. She meets Paul, an American soldier who gives her hope of a happier future. But their plans to meet in London are dashed when Paul's plane crashes. Devastated and pregnant, Marta marries Simon, a caring British diplomat, and glimpses the joy that home and family can bring. Her happiness is threatened when she learns of a Communist spy in British intelligence-- and the one person who can expose the traitor is connected to her past.-- adapted from jacket.