Elba, Idris

Summary: While in Istanbul, a lonely middle-aged scholar encounters a djinn who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2022

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Summary: Roland is an academic researcher who discovers some important letters written by a famous Victorian poet, Randolph Henry Ash. Ash was presumed to have been totally devoted to his wife, but Roland finds letters written to another unnamed woman, and soon determines that the intended recipient was another, less well-known poet, Christabel LaMotte. Roland contacts Maud, an expert on LaMotte's life...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2003

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Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan)

Summary: Three stories, each around a particular Matisse painting. In Medusa's Ankles, a hairdresser informs a customer he is considering leaving his wife because she has allowed her ankles to get fat. The novel describes the reaction of the customer, herself conscious of her waning looks.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1995

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Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan)

Summary: When Olive Wellwood's oldest son discovers a runaway named Philip sketching in the basement of the new Victoria and Albert Museum--a talented working-class boy who could be a character out of one of Olive's magical tales--she takes him into the storybook world of her family and friends--a world that conceals more treachery and darkness than Philip has ever imagined and that will soon be...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009

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Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan)

Summary: When author Olive Wellwood's oldest son discovers a runaway named Philip sketching in the basement of the new Victoria and Albert Museum she takes him into the storybook world of her family and friends. There he finds more treachery and darkness than Philip has ever imagined. But their personal struggles, their hidden desires, will soon be eclipsed by far greater forces, as the tides turn...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2009

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BYA

Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan)

Summary: Three members of an English family in the 1950s try to find their proper places in a complex universe of life.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Collier Books 1991

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Summary: Barely surviving an expedition to the Amazon, working class biologist William Adamson returns home, where he is forced to accept the charity of an affluent, upper-class family. Falling deeply in love with his benefactor's captivating daughter, he sees his fondest wish come true when she agrees to become his wife. Unwittingly attracting the affections of a bright household servant, William tries...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ANG

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1998

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OXF