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2010., Adult, Spectra Ballantine Books Call No: Fic Wil Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When a time-travel lab suddenly cancels assignments for no apparent reason and switches around everyone's schedules, time-traveling historians Michael, Merope, and Polly find themselves in World War II, facing air raids, blackouts, unexploded bombs, dive-bombing Stukas, rationing, shrapnel, V-1s, and two of the most incorrigible children in all of history--to say nothing of a growing feeling that not only their assignments but the war and history itself are spiraling out of control.
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2008., BBC Audiobooks America Call No: CD 821.1 C496c Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Lively, literate and often bawdy, Chaucer draws a picture of medieval English society, from the high class, the knight, to the lower orders, the plowman.
![The Canterbury Tales [CD]](/Library/images/~imageCT72478.JPG "The Canterbury Tales [CD]")
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2014, 1889., General, Starling and Black Publications Call No: LP Fic Twa Edition: Large print ed. (softcover) Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Perennial favorites collection.Summary Note: Hank Morgan, a Hartford, Connecticut factory worker, after a blow to the head, finds himself transported to sixth-century England, where his knowledge of the scientific advances of the 19th century convince Arthur and his knights that he has magical powers. His attempts to introduce advanced technology lead to disaster.
![A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court [LP]](/Library/images/~imageCT81097.JPG "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court [LP]")
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2016., Poisoned Pen Press Call No: MYS Fic Bur Edition: First edition, First US Trade paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: British Library crime classics.Summary Note: "On a dark November evening, Sir Wilfred Saxonby is travelling alone in the 5 o'clock train from Cannon Street, in a locked compartment. The train slows and stops inside a tunnel; and by the time it emerges again minutes later, Sir Wilfred has been shot dead, his heart pierced by a single bullet. Suicide seems to be the answer, even though no reason can be found. Inspector Arnold of Scotland Yard thinks again when he learns that a mysterious red light in the tunnel caused the train to slow down. Finding himself stumped by the puzzle, Arnold consults his friend Desmond Merrion, a wealthy amateur expert in criminology. To Merrion it seems that the dead man fell victim to a complex conspiracy, but the investigators are puzzled about the conspirators' motives, as well as their identities. Can there be a connection with Sir Wilfred's seemingly untroubled family life, his highly successful business, or his high-handed and unforgiving personality? And what is the significance of the wallet found on the corpse, and the bank notes that it contained?"--
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2018., W. W. Norton & Company Call No: SC 941.37 R776d Edition: First American edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Best-selling author Graham Robb finds that the 2,000-year-old map of Ptolemy unlocks a central mystery of British history. Two years ago, Graham Robb moved to a place of legend called the Debatable Land, an independent territory that once served as a buffer between Scotland and England. The oldest detectable territorial division in Great Britain, the Debatable Land was once the bloodiest region in the country. After most of its population was slaughtered or deported, it became the last part of Great Britain to be conquered by England and Scotland. Today, it has vanished from the map and its boundaries are matters of myth and generational memories. Under the spell of a powerful curiosity, Robb began a journey--on foot, by bicycle, and into the past. After correcting the grid of Ptolemy's map, Robb located lost towns and roads and discovered the true history of this maligned patch of land. These personal and scholarly adventures reveal an epic tale of Roman, medieval, and present-day Britain"--
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2017., Adult, Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates book Call No: Fic Str Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Empire games Volume: [1]Summary Note: "The year is 2020. It's seventeen years since the Revolution overthrew the last king of the New British Empire, and the newly reconstituted North American Commonwealth is developing rapidly, on course to defeat the French and bring democracy to a troubled world. But Miriam Burgeson, commissioner in charge of the shadowy Ministry of Intertemporal Research and Intelligence--the paratime espionage agency tasked with catalyzing the Commonwealth's great leap forward--has a problem. For years, she's warned everyone: 'The Americans are coming.' Now their drones arrive in the middle of a succession crisis--the leader of the American Commonwealth is dying and the vultures are circling. In another timeline, the U.S. has recruited Rita, Miriam's estranged daughter, to spy across timelines and bring down any remaining world-walkers who might threaten national security. But her handlers are keeping information from her. Two nuclear superpowers are set on a collision course. Two increasingly desperate paratime espionage agencies are fumbling around in the dark, trying to find a solution to the first contact problem that doesn't result in a nuclear holocaust. And two women--a mother and her long-lost, adopted daughter--are about to find themselves on opposite sides of the confrontation."--From publisher.
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1989., Weidenfeld & Nicolson Call No: 914.2 J27e Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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1985, 1881., Thames and Hudson Call No: 942.37 E96e Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Exploring Britain 100 years ago
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2020., Adult, HarperCollins Publishers Call No: MYS Fic Han Edition: First U.S. edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: New Hercule Poirot Volume: 4Summary Note: Hercule Poirot is traveling by luxury passenger coach from London to the exclusive Kingfisher Hill estate. Richard Devonport has summoned the renowned detective to prove that his fiancée, Helen, is innocent of the murder of his brother, Frank. Poirot will have only days to investigate before Helen is hanged, but there is one strange condition attached: he must conceal his true reason for being there from the rest of the Devonport family. The coach is forced to stop when a distressed woman demands to get off, insisting that if she stays in her seat, she will be murdered. Although the rest of the journey passes without anyone being harmed, Poirot's curiosity is aroused, and his fears are later confirmed when a body is discovered with a macabre note attached... Could this new murder and the peculiar incident on the coach be clues to solving the mystery of who killed Frank Devonport? And if Helen is innocent, can Poirot find the true culprit in time to save her from the gallows?
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1994., H.N. Abrams Call No: 942.1 R964l Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: John Russell's memoir of London goes back to before the great fire of 1666, when the modern city was formed. It looks inside St. Paul's Cathedral, under Wren's great dome, and into Westminster Abbey, where the author spent many midnight hours on fire-fighting duty during World War II and came to know the monuments lining the walls as well as he knew the furniture in his own living room. It offers a privileged peek inside Buckingham Palace as well as a leisurely stroll through John Nash's Regent's Park. It lives through great days in the House of Commons, eavesdrops at Lady Holland's soirees, and applauds a new Pinter play. Selected by the author, a gallery of the city's finest recorders illustrates the text, from Canaletto and Zoffany to Rowlandson and Hogarth. Here are Gainsborough and Reynolds, Turner and Monet, Walter Sickert and Lucian Freud, John Thomson and Bill Brandt. Nearly two hundred paintings, drawings, watercolors, architectural renderings, photographs, cartoons, and more serve as visual foils to Mr. Russell's verbal recollections.
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-- London, the biography.2000., Adult, Chatto & Windus Call No: 942.1 A182l Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
