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"India, 1922: Perveen Mistry is the only female lawyer in Bombay, a city where child mortality is high, birth control is unavailable and very few women have ever seen a doctor. Perveen is attending a lavish fundraiser for a new women's hospital specializing in maternal health issues when she witnesses an accident. The grandson of an influential Gujarati businessman catches fire-but a servant, his young ayah, Sunanda, rushes to save him, selflessly...
Author
Series
A Teddy Creque mystery volume 4
Language
English
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Constable Teddy Creque is instructed to be the security detail at a royal reception on the island of Tortola. When a shot is fired in the garden, he can't find the royals and fears the worst. But they're not the only ones missing - where is his DC? Plunged into his most high-profile case yet, Teddy knows he has to solve it fast or heads will roll.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
393 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"At the turn of the twentieth century, Pirbhai, a teenage boy looking for work, is taken from his village in India to labor on the East African Railway for the British. One day Pirbhai commits an act to ensure his survival that will haunt him forever and reverberate across his family's future for years to come. Pirbhai's children are born and raised under the jacaranda trees and searing sun of Kampala during the waning days of British colonial rule....
Publisher
Syndicado
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Award-winning war photographer Rita Leistner goes back to her roots. Between the ages of 20 and 30, photographer Rita Leistner spent her springs an summers planting spruce, fir and pine in the Canadian hinterlands. It is brutally demanding, lonely, calorie-depleting work that attracts a special breed of people, many of whom come back year after year for more of the same. In Forest for the trees, Leistner, who also spent decades working as a photographer...
Publisher
Buffalo 8
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (53 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"THE LAST STAND for Trees is about saving the world's last remaining ancient forests. Using the flash-point of British Columbia's "Battle for the Trees" at FAIRY CREEK- the documentary examines the importance of keeping intact forest ecosystems: here in North America, in the Amazon, and around the world. Experts like Wade Davis and Leila Salazar-Lopez speak about the impact trees/plants have on our atmosphere, including Carbon sequestration and providing...
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English
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The mayor's brother is missing. A transit cop lies beaten and blinded. A new series of graffiti tags are appearing, linked to an underground group calling themselves the Death of Kings. Class warfare has broken out on the streets of Vancouver, and PI Dave Wakeland finds himself on the front lines--but unsure which side he's on.
Publisher
Fabulous Films, Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 7 hr., 32 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Follows the highs and lows of Kurupt FM, one of West London's most talked about pirate radio stations (within a 0.2 mile radius of the transmitter). Led by self-proclaimed garage 'legend' MC Grindah, and his second-in-command DJ Beats, this hapless crew of social dropouts share the secrets behind running an illegal business and demonstrate that chasing your dreams is actually a full-time job"--Container.
Author
Series
Girl's guide (Laura Taylor Namey) volume 2
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Winchester, England, has always been home for Flora, but when her mother dies after a long illness, Flora feels untethered. Her family expects her to apply to university and take a larger role in their tea-shop business, but Flora isn't so sure. More than ever, she's the chaotic "hurricane" in her household, and she doesn't always know how to manage her stormy emotions. So she decides to escape to Miami without telling anyone--especially her longtime...
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Cyrus Barker, along with his former assistant and now partner Thomas Llewelyn, is the premier enquiry agent in all of 19th century London, and beyond. They've thwarted the designs of villains and crooks off all sorts, helped Scotland Yard crack their most challenging cases, and worked for the Her Majesty's Government at the very highest levels. But nothing has been quite as challenging and dangerous as the latest case that comes to find them. In...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The year is 1921. Lesley Hamlyn and her husband, Robert, a lawyer and war veteran, are living at Cassowary House on the Straits Settlement of Penang. When "Willie" Somerset Maugham, a famed writer and old friend of Robert's, arrives for an extended visit with his secretary Gerald, the pair threatens a rift that could alter more lives than one. Maugham, one of the great novelists of his day, is beleaguered: Having long hidden his homosexuality, his...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (50 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A world scoop about the deception which fooled Hitler about the Normandy landings of 1944. In a tale of double agents and decoys, the investigation reveals, for the first time, the identity of the most secret of them all: George VI, as well as how the royal family managed to lose one of Britain's greatest secrets.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 256 pages, 8 pages unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the spirit of Ben Macintyre's greatest spy nonfiction, the truly unbelievable and untold story of Frederick Rutland--a debonair British WWI hero, flying ace, fixture of Los Angeles society, and friend of Golden Age Hollywood stars-who flipped to become a spy for Japan in the lead-up to the attack on Pearl Harbor"--
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Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"At age nineteen, young Eton graduate Eric Blair set sail for India, dreading the assignment ahead. Along with several other young conscripts, he would be trained for three years as a servant of the British Empire, overseeing the local policemen in Burma. Navigating the social, racial, and class politics of his fellow British at the same time as he learned the local languages and struggled to control his men would prove difficult enough. But doing...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
xix, 437 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The night of May 16th, 1943. Nineteen specially adapted Lancaster bombers take off from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, each with a huge 9,000lb cylindrical bomb strapped underneath them. Their mission: to destroy three dams deep within the German heartland, which provide the lifeblood to the industries supplying the Third Reich's war machine. From the outset, it was an almost impossible task, a suicide mission: to fly low and at night in formation...
16) Kennedy 35
Author
Series
Box 88 volume 3
Language
English
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Description
Veteran agent Lachlan Kite--"a spy for the 21st century" (Daily Mail)--reckons with the fallout from a mission in Senegal carried out early in his career. 1995: In the wake of the Rwandan genocide, 24-year-old spy Lachlan Kite and his girlfriend, Martha Raine, are sent to Senegal on the trail of a hunted war criminal. The mission threatens to spiral out of control, forcing Kite to make choices which will have devastating consequences not only for...
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
x, 572 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A history of the British thinkers who developed the Enlightenment-era ideas and ideals that drove the American Revolution"--
"The most famous phrase in American history once looked quite different. "The preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness" was how Thomas Jefferson put it in the first draft of the Declaration, before the first ampersand was scratched out, along with "the preservation of." In a statement as pithy--and contested--as...
18) Desertion
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Hardcover edition with new afterword.
Physical Desc
332 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A masterwork by the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, in which the consequences of an illicit love affair reverberate from the heyday of the British empire to the aftermath of African independence"--
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