Granada International.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Soon after England declared war on Germany in 1939, Lancashire housewife Nella Last began writing a diary as part of a public project. She was 49 and fearful that she wouldn't be able to cope with her son's enlistment and life alone with her domineering husband. Recounts her experience of wartime privations, but also her dawning sense of independence. Amid the hardships of food rations and air raids, Nella's volunteer work for the war effort fills...
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Each author gives the mystery genre his or her own twist, with results from humorous to the macabre. In This Lightning Always Strikes Twice, you will visit with a teacher tutoring a young woman who gets caught up in the machinations of her dysfunctional family; in the Thirteenth Day of Christmas, a couple is attempting to enjoy their Christmas holiday, but keep getting interrupted by the escalating intrusions and threats of their son, a recovering...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Though he waited nearly 60 years to become king, and reigned for only nine, Edward VII changed the British monarchy forever. Derided by his mother, Queen Victoria, as frivolous and untrustworthy, Edward was in fact a skillful, determined diplomat who longed to be useful to his country. This miniseries dramatizes his life from frustrated prince and inveterate philanderer to loving father and respected statesman.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Though he waited nearly 60 years to become king, and reigned for only nine, Edward VII changed the British monarchy forever. Derided by his mother, Queen Victoria, as frivolous and untrustworthy, Edward was in fact a skillful, determined diplomat who longed to be useful to his country. This miniseries dramatizes his life from frustrated prince and inveterate philanderer to loving father and respected statesman.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Though he waited nearly 60 years to become king, and reigned for only nine, Edward VII changed the British monarchy forever. Derided by his mother, Queen Victoria, as frivolous and untrustworthy, Edward was in fact a skillful, determined diplomat who longed to be useful to his country. This miniseries dramatizes his life from frustrated prince and inveterate philanderer to loving father and respected statesman.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Though he waited nearly 60 years to become king, and reigned for only nine, Edward VII changed the British monarchy forever. Derided by his mother, Queen Victoria, as frivolous and untrustworthy, Edward was in fact a skillful, determined diplomat who longed to be useful to his country. This miniseries dramatizes his life from frustrated prince and inveterate philanderer to loving father and respected statesman.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Underdog detective 'Dangerous' Davies toils at a small London police station, where his slicker colleagues taunt him and his boss calls him the last detective he would put on a big case. That makes it all the sweeter when he cracks the big ones anyway.
16) Will Shakespeare
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Begins with Shakespeare's youthful obscurity in Avon. As he struggles to survive as a playwright, he faces multiple hardships, but defeats all obstacles to achieve unprecedented success in London.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2005, 2003
Language
English
Description
Rosemary Boxer and Laura Thyme, two middle-aged women, make a fresh start by opening a gardening business. Mysteries grow around these two gardening sleuths as they dig up trouble on the job and use investigative skills to get to the bottom of things.
Publisher
Hart Sharp
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A darkly funny, quirky, and poignant story of a man with obsessive-compulsive disorder and Tourette syndrome negotiating his way through divorce, his friend's matchmaking efforts, and a woman who introduces him to therapy, filth, and unconditional love.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
The newest additions to the sisterhood of British sleuths are attractive, sharp, and extremely entertaining. Meticulous and stubborn Detective Inspector Kate "Ash" Ashurst teams up with street-smart Detective Sergeant Emma "Scribbs" Scribbins as bickering detectives in an upscale suburb.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Stunning locations at home and abroad provide the backdrop for this hit British mystery series. From their former careers as a university plant biologist and a police officer, Rosemary Boxer and Laura Thyme bring unique investigative talents to their horticultural and human mysteries. Their unobtrusive presence in the garden gives them unique access to secrets other detectives might miss--and that murderers would rather not reveal.