Catalog Search Results
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Algernon is a gentlemen from a wealthy family. Algernon's close friend Jack, has a ward, Cecily. Both Algernon and Jack have created alter egos to make life more interesting. Algernon arrives for a weekend visit in the country posing as Earnest. Having heard of Earnest's misadventures, Cicely has developed an infatuation with the rogue, and Algernon's impersonation of him works famously on Cicely. Meanwhile, Algernon's cousin, Gwendolyn, arrives for...
2) A good woman
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Newlywed Meg Windermere enjoys the season in Italy until notorious seductress, Mrs. Erlynne descends - and sets her sights on Mr. Windermere! The gossips eat it up, but Meg is determined to serve a steamy dish of revenge.
4) Gosford Park
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
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.
5) Royal flush
Author
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Penniless heiress and thirty-fourth in line for the throne Lady Georgiana is sent to Castle Rannoch, where she is asked to help Scotland Yard protect the Prince of Wales from a hunting companion who may be looking to shoot more than quail.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
American heiress Cora Cash travels to Europe in the late nineteenth century to find a titled husband and succeeds when she falls in love with and marries Ivo, the Duke of Wareham, but while her money guaranteed her the best the world had to offer in the United States, Cora finds herself struggling to understand British society and customs, and unsure whether her husband really loves her or married her just for her fabulous wealth.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Language
English
Description
Olivier, the priggish son of French aristocrats, embarks on a tour of America in the early nineteenth century, accompanied by Parrot, a survivor of Australia's penal system who has been hired as both servant and secret spy by Olivier's mother, and while the two men, at polar ends of society, start out hating each other, they eventually become fast friends.
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Valentina Ivanova, part of St. Petersburg's elite aristocracy, creates a scandal when she falls in love with a Danish engineer; but her rushed, arranged engagement to a Russian count and the opulence of Tsarist rule coming to a brutal end threatens to change Valentina's and her family's lives forever.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
They meet in a ferocious snowstorm. She is a young teacher with a secret past. He is the cool, black-caped stranger who unexpectedly comes to her rescue. Between these two unlikely strangers, desire is instantaneous...and utterly impossible to resist. Stranded together in a rustic country inn, Lucius Marshall, who is the Viscount Sinclair, and Frances Allard share a night of glorious, unforgettable passion. But Frances knows her place, and it is far...
11) Naughty in Nice
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Lady Georgiana Rannoch, thirty-fourth in line to the throne, is sent to the French Rivera by Her Majesty the Queen on a special assignment to recover a priceless, stolen snuffbox from Sir Toby Groper, but her trip is complicated by an invitation from Coco Chanel to be her model and the threat of a killer on the loose.
13) Australia
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
In northern Australia at the beginning of World War II, an English aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier....
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
American Rafe Bowman travels to London at Christmastime to meet Lady Natalie Blandford, the young woman his father has chosen to be his bride, and even though Rafe knows his future stake in his wealthy father's company depends on his marrying Natalie, he cannot seem to get her cousin and companion, Hannah, out of his mind.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
After her mother died, vivacious Katey Tyler fled her dull Connecticut town, hoping to meet her relatives in England and find adventure and romance on a grand tour of Europe. She had no idea that her life-changing travels would have both in spades, as well as danger and intrigue, when she catches the eye of ship owner Boyd Anderson and inadvertently stumbles upon a high-stakes kidnapping. When Sir Anthony Malory's young daughter is abducted from London's...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Drawn by a mysterious countess into the Berlin household of an aristocratic couple, Beatrice, a young Irish Protestant lace maker, is introduced to the highly rarified world of affluence and art collecting on the eve of World War II.
20) War and peace
Author
Language
English
Description
"The Modern Library of the world's best books." An epic novel featuring the Russian role in the Napoleonic wars and providing a complex panorama of the life of the time.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request