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PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Maud is convinced something horrible happened to her best friend, Elizabeth, but in her search discovers it may be entwined with another disappearance from her childhood. The answers seem within her grasp, but the onset of dementia keeps pulling them through her fingers.
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English
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When her best friend Elizabeth goes missing, Maud (Glenda Jackson) is convinced something terrible has happened. But her search to find Elizabeth unearths an altogether darker unsolved mystery: her sister's disappearance, long buried in the recesses of her memory. Can Maud discover the fate of both missing women before her dementia erases the clues? Based on the novel by Emma Healey.
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English
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"FOR DOCK LOVERS AND DAYDREAMERS"A tender, funny, heartbreaking new summer novel set in Muskoka, Canada's Hamptons-for lovers of Elin Hilderbrand, Carly Fortune and Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeny.One wealthy family. One beautiful cottage. Many summers of secrets. More than a decade after tragedy strikes, Colin Montgomery returns to Wynward Cottage to spend one last summer with the marvelous Miss Elizabeth. As a child, he was saved by the Wynward family. Ultimately...
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Language
English
Description
In a battle of wills between Lady Catherine and Mrs. Bennet, only one will come out alive…
When a devastating secret is revealed, Elizabeth Bennet's future happiness is pitted against the loyalty of the man she loves.
Fitzwilliam Darcy is more determined than ever to win Elizabeth's love-no matter what obstacles their families place between them.
But then a killer strikes a fatal blow in the middle of a military parade.
With a murderer on the loose...
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Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
HOW DO YOU SOLVE A MYSTERY WHEN YOU CAN'T REMEMBER THE CLUES?
In this darkly riveting debut novel—a sophisticated psychological mystery that is also an heartbreakingly honest meditation on memory, identity, and aging—an elderly woman descending into dementia embarks on a desperate quest to find the best friend she believes has disappeared, and her search for the truth will go back decades and have shattering consequences.
Maud,
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English
Description
Knowing the future is never easy-especially when you realize you've ruined everything.Elizabeth has been dreaming of the same man for years, but she has never seen his face. When she finally realizes who he is, she has to face the possibility that her happily ever after will never come to fruition.Can things progress as they should after going so spectacularly awry? Or does Elizabeth need to accept that the future will never be what she had hoped...
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Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The true story of the eighteenth-century English maidservant at the center of a fascinating criminal mystery. On New Year's Day, 1753, Elizabeth Canning disappeared. An eighteen-year-old girl, she was unremarkable in every respect, from her appearance to her disposition, but she was about to become the most famous person in London. When she reappeared one month later, starving and ill, she claimed she had been abducted and held captive by a woman...
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English
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The true story of the eighteenth-century English maidservant at the center of a fascinating criminal mystery. On New Year's Day, 1753, Elizabeth Canning disappeared. An eighteen-year-old girl, she was unremarkable in every respect, from her appearance to her disposition, but she was about to become the most famous person in London. When she reappeared one month later, starving and ill, she claimed she had been abducted and held captive by a woman...
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English
Description
As the Civil War ground on, an underground Unionist movement flourished in the heart of the Confederacy, led by an unlikely leader. Elizabeth Van Lew, a wealthy and well-connected member of Richmond's elite, risked everything to help save the Union, skillfully directing this clandestine group and becoming General Ulysses S. Grant's spy in Richmond. Surrounded by a cadre of "slaves" secretly freed and working with her at the risk of their lives, and...
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Language
English
Description
What would Little Women be without the charms of the March family's cozy New England home? Or Wuthering Heights without the ghost-infested Wuthering Heights? Getting lost in the setting of a good book can be half the pleasure of reading, and Decorating a Room of One's Own brings literary backdrops to the foreground in this wryly-affectionate satire of interior design reporting. English professor and humorist Susan Harlan spoofs decorating culture...
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English
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A fascinating dual biography of the women who founded today's beauty industry
They were both born in the nineteenth century in humble circumstances–Helena Rubinstein in an orthodox Jewish household in Kraków, Poland, Elizabeth Arden on a farm outside Toronto. But by the 1930s, they were bitter rivals in New York, the rulers of dueling international beauty empires that would forever change the way women thought about cosmetics, salons, and wrinkles....
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Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Miss Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, or the “Black Swan,” to adopt her musical agnomen, was born at Natchez, Mississippi. She was born in bondage. Her father was a full African; white and Indian blood flowed in her mother’s veins.
When but one year old her mistress, Mrs. Elizabeth Greenfield, removed to Philadelphia, and joined the Society of Friends, manumitting the few slaves whom she had not previously accompanied and comfortably settled in...
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Publisher
Abrams / Vearsa Limited
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
What would Little Women be without the charms of the March family's cozy New England home? Or Wuthering Heights without the ghost-infested Wuthering Heights? Getting lost in the setting of a good book can be half the pleasure of reading, and Decorating a Room of One's Own brings literary backdrops to the foreground in this wryly affectionate satire of interior design reporting. English professor and humorist Susan Harlan spoofs decorating culture...
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English
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The Elizabeth Cadell Collection is a captivating anthology that brings together ten of Elizabeth Cadell's most beloved novels, showcasing her signature blend of wit, warmth, and keen insight into human nature. Known for her charming, character-driven stories, Cadell's works explore themes of love, personal transformation, and the complexities of relationships, often set against richly detailed backdrops that enhance the depth of her storytelling.
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