Richard E. Grant
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Do not try to make George's marvelous medicine yourselves at home. It could be dangerous. George is alone in the house with Grandma. The most horrid, grizzly old grunion of a grandma ever. She needs something stronger than her usual medicine to cure her chronic grouchiness. A special grandma medicine, a remedy for everything. And George knows just what to put into it. Grandma's in for the surprise of her life - and so is George, when he sees the...
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher, the first and only female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. One of the 20th century's most famous and influential women, Thatcher came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male-dominated world.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In this romantic, evocative and extremely practical book Isabel Bannerman immerses the reader in the luscious smells of the secnted garden through a warmly written account of a year's gardening, combining poetic description and personal memories with an encyclopaedic reference work of the best aromatice plants to grow throughout the seasons.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Growing up in an orphanage in the British countryside, Earwig has no idea that her mother had magical powers. Her life changes dramatically when a strange couple takes her in, and she is forced to live with a selfish witch. As the headstrong young girl sets out to uncover the secrets of her new guardians, she discovers a world of spells and potions, and a mysterious song that may be the key to finding the family she has always wanted
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
[English/French/Spanish version].
Language
English
Description
Lee Israel who made her living in the '70s and '80s profiling the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Estee Lauder and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen. When Lee is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception, abetted by her loyal friend Jack. An adaptation of the memoir, the true story of best-selling celebrity biographer (and friend to cats).
7) Their finest
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In 1940 set in London, the story is an ode to how women played a major role in boosting national morale during the Blitz of London in the second world war.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
Victor has messed up his vows during a wedding rehearsal, and is traveling through the woods, reciting his vows. He stops to rest in the woods, and while practicing. He finally gets them right and ceremoniously puts the wedding ring on a finger-shaped stick in the ground and says his wedding vows. The stick turns out to be a rotted finger belonging to a murdered girl who has returned as a zombie and insists that she is now Victor's lawfully wedded...
11) Penelope
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Penelope Wilhern is born to wealthy socialites. She is afflicted by the Wilhern spell that can only be broken when she finds love. Hidden away in her family's estate, the lonely girl meets a string of suitors in her parent's futile attempt to break the curse. Each eligible bachelor is enamored with Penelope and her sizable dowry, but only until her curse is revealed. Lemon, a mischievous and eager tabloid reporter, wants a photograph of the mysterious...
12) L.A. story
Language
English
Description
A wacky television weatherman thinks his life is perfect except for an erratic relationship with a style-conscious girlfriend. Then, one bright and smoggy L.A. day, an electronic freeway sign changes his life, when its advice leads him into a frivolous romance with a young and beautiful blond and, ultimately, to true love with the woman of his dreams.
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
"France, 1792. It is the height of the French Revolution. The country is gripped by revolutionary fever and the evil Head of Secret Police, Chauvelin, keeps the guillotines busy executing innocent peasants, aristocrats and priests. Only the mysterious stranger known as the Scarlet Pimpernel constantly foils Chauvelin's plans with his heroic missions to save innocent lives" -- Box.
15) Gosford Park
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
Collector's edition ; widescreen ver.
Language
English
Description
Drama set at the country estate of Sir William McCordle in 1932, showing the lives of upstairs guests and downstairs servants at a hunting party weekend when one of the group is murdered.
Language
English
Description
Jonathan Harker is a young lawyer who is assigned to a gloomy village just outside of Transylvania. He is forced to stay at the castle of the undead vampire Dracula and imprisoned by his minons. Dracula travels to London after being inspired by a photograph of Harker's betrothed, Mina Murray. Once Dracula lands in England, his reign of seduction and terror begins. He drains the life from Mina's closest friend, Lucy Westenra. Lucy's friends, including...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Season Five begins in 1924, the radio is the latest miracle, a new Labor government heralds changes through the land, and Downton's traditional ways are besieged on all fronts. Robert, Mary, and Branson must navigate these shifting sands together to ensure the future of the estate for generations to come. As Branson finds himself playing a more crucial role at Downton than ever before, he can't help but question his place in the world. Mary is...
19) Monsieur N
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Français
Description
After his defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled to the South Atlantic island of St. Helena, where he died a few years later. Or did he?