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Beresford, Tommy (Fictitious character) Drama Beresford, Tuppence (Fictitious character) Drama Criminal investigation Criminal investigation Drama England Drama Espionage Drama Married people Drama Married people England Drama Midwives England London Drama Private investigators England DramaSummary: Jessica Raine stars as Annie Quaintain, a widowed mother of two who is forced to start a new life in the remote town of Jericho in rugged 1870s Yorkshire. To make ends meet, she takes in lodgers who work on the local railroad. When handsome worker Johnny Jackson shows up at her door, he brings with him a load of trouble that could threaten Annie's new life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV JERSummary: War and romance collide in the sweltering heat and political unrest of 1960's Aden--a port city in today's Yemen--where the British Royal Military Police battle local militia in an intense struggle to control the strategically important port. The officers know only too well that a lapse in luck or judgment risks death. But do they know what their wives are risking at the local country club,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LASSummary: A charmingly offbeat gay romantic comedy about a mess-of-a-filmmaker juggling the anxieties and excitement of his upcoming film premiere with the fear and awkwardness of a burgeoning romance. Written and directed by British comedian Simon Amstell who peppers this charming, laugh-out-loud funny tale with hilariously deadpan one-liners and a scene-stealing cast of supporting characters.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BENSummary: Season Two continues to follow Jenny and the other midwives as they deal with all the problems the neighborhood of Poplar has to throw at them. A fascinating portrayal of birth, life, death and a community on the brink of huge social change, Call the Midwife offers a gripping insight into a way of life that is so drastically different from how we live now.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Worldwide 2013
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CALCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Ca 2Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Call 2013Summary: Isolated from the outside world, fifteen-year-old Lara lives in seclusion on a vast country estate with her father and strict governess Miss Fontaine. Late one evening, a mysterious carriage crash brings a young girl into their home to recuperate. Lara immediately becomes enchanted by this strange visitor who arouses her curiosity and awakens her burgeoning desires.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY CARSummary: A moving, intimate, funny, and true-to-life look at the colorful stories of midwifery and families in East London in the '50s. Based on the bestselling memoirs of the late Jennifer Worth. When Jenny Lee first arrives in Poplar, she knows nothing about hardship, poverty, and life itself. But Jenny is brought up to speed fast once she joins a team of midwives who provide care to the poorest women.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2012
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CALCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CAL RATED NRCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD Movie Call 2012Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Ca 1Summary: An ordinary married couple gets caught up in international intrigue and discovers that they have a knack for crime solving in this charming detective series.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AgCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV AGASummary: When Julien and his wife move to Amsterdam to help look after their grandchild, the Chief of Police, who happens to be Julien's old girlfriend, seeks out his help in finding a young sex worker who has gone missing. As Baptise rapidly becomes embroiled in a case that peels back layers and layers of atrocity in the sex trade and drugs, nothing is as it first seems. For Julien Baptiste the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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3 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BAPSummary: With Nonnatus House scheduled for demolition, Jenny, Chummy, and Sister Julienne search for a new location nearby, while Jenny₂s relationship with Alec continues to blossom. But an outbreak of polio affects the nurses and nuns more than they could have imagined.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014