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(0)Claire Skinner
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Series
Language
English
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"A funny, touching, unforgettable story of an invisible everywoman pushed to the brink--who finally pushes back. Grace Adams gave birth, blinked, and now suddenly she is forty-five, perimenopausal and stalled--the unhappiest age you can be, according to the Guardian. And today she's really losing it. Stuck in traffic, she finally has had enough. To the astonishment of everyone, Grace gets out of her car and simply walks away. Grace sets off across...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The English village mystery gets a contemporary spin in this hit British television series that has earned a worldwide following. Bucolic settings harbor macabre crimes and eccentric characters that are no match for DCI John Barnaby; his assistant, DS Jamie Winter; and new pathologist, Dr. Fleur Perkins.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Trinity College has always been known as a playground for the rich and powerful since it first opened its doors about 900 years ago. Now the college is about to welcome more 'regular' students. One of them is Charlotte Arc, whose father had worked as a professor at the university and is found dead just before the new term is about to get underway. Charlotte decides to enroll at the university so she can discover the truth about her father's death....
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
[Criterion collection].
Language
English
Description
An amusing portrait of a working-class family in a suburb just north of London, an irrepressible mum and dad and their night-and-day twins, a bookish good girl and a sneering lay about. A vivid, lived-in story of ordinary existence, in which even modest dreams (such as the father's desire to open a food truck) carry enormous weight. Perched on the line between humor and melancholy.
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Three episodes from the television series about D.C.I. Ross Tanner who is desperate to conceal the fact that he's losing his vision. In "Hide and Seek", Tanner is working on the two-year-old murder of a famous violinist in which the only one who may know who killed her is the victim's nine-year-old son. In "Parasomnia", Tanner is investigating a murder in which the murderer claims to have been sleepwalking. In Kingdom of the blind, Tanner is caught...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve when she falls in love with the charming but unsuitable John Willoughby, ignoring her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behavior leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Elinor, sensitive to social convention, struggles to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Will the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness...
10) Eroica
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Period-drama depiction of the private, first performance of Beethoven's "Eroica" symphony at the Lobkowitz Palace in 1805, the momentous musical event that prompted composer Joseph Haydn to remark "Everything is different from today."
11) Life is sweet
Series
Criterion collection volume 659
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Director approved Blu-ray special edition.
Language
English
Description
An amusing portrait of a working-class family in a suburb just north of London, an irrepressible mum and dad and their night-and-day twins, a bookish good girl and a sneering lay about. A vivid, lived-in story of ordinary existence, in which even modest dreams (such as the father's desire to open a food truck) carry enormous weight. Perched on the line between humor and melancholy.
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