Summary: "Francesca is a young pediatrician, traumatized by the loss of a child through crib death. When the family moves to a new home in the country, supposedly to help her recover from the experience, she begins seeing completely inexplicable things. The house in which they now live seems to hide terrible secrets. Both the cellar and the attic are locked and barred to the family--and it is from both...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Phase 4 Films 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HAUSummary: "In Jane Austen's gentle parody of gothic fiction, romance novel addict Catherine Morland is invited to a medieval country house that appeals to her most lurid fantasies. She forms a close friendship with the younger son on the estate, Henry Tilney, but their budding romance is mysteriously cut short"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2008
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV NORCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NOR NOT RATEDRiley, Lucinda.
Summary: "From #1 internationally bestselling author Lucinda Riley, an epic story of family secrets, love, and betrayal set in Imperial India, a magnificent English country house in the 1920s, and that same house today"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Paperback 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RILShoemaker, Sarah
Summary: "<Strong>"Reader, she married me."</strong> For one hundred seventy years, Edward Fairfax Rochester has stood as one of literature's most romantic, most complex, and most mysterious heroes. Sometimes haughty, sometimes tender-professing his love for Jane Eyre in one breath and denying it in the next-Mr. Rochester has for generations mesmerized, beguiled, and, yes, baffled fans of Charlotte...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2017
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHOSummary: Set in 1913, a group of aristocratic men and women gather for a shooting party at an estate in the English countryside. They go through the elaborate rituals of an Edwardian country house party. Times are changing, though, and their values are about to change.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHOGrainger, Jean
Summary: Robinswood, Co Waterford, 1939. The once grand house is home to two very different families.Despite delusions of grandeur, Lord and Lady Kenefick and their adult children, live a life of decayed opulence as the money needed to keep such a large house and grounds ever dwindles. Meanwhile, the Murphy family, Dermot, Isabella and their three almost grown up girls, live and work on the estate and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction GraingerSummary: Fanny Price goes to live with prosperous relatives at Mansfield Park and must navigate a labyrinth of intrigues and affairs among the occupants of the house.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MANFinch, Charles (Charles B.)
Summary: A death in the family brings gentleman sleuth Charles Lenox back to the country house where he grew up - just in time to confront an odd, unsettling crime in a nearby village.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FINLeggett, Kim
Summary: Come along on the hunt to coveted country sources and the best secret antiquing spots, and learn how to create country farmhouse style in your city dwelling. Author Kim Leggett is the creator of City Farmhouse, an interior design business, pop-up antiquing fairs, and vintage store. She is also a legendary “picker” and favorite designer to celebrity clients (and country-style mavens) including...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 670 LEGCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 670 LEGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 670 LEGRiley, Lucinda.
Summary: "For fans of The House at Riverton and Rebecca--a debut spanning from the 1930s to the present day, from a magnificent estate in war-torn England to Thailand, this sweeping novel tells the tale of a concert pianist, Julia, and the prominent Crawford family whose shocking secrets are revealed, leading to devastating consequences for generations to come. As a child Julia Forrester spent many...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RILDu Maurier, Daphne
Summary: A young bride is brought by her new husband to his manor house in England. There she finds that the memory of her husband's first wife haunts her, and she tries to discover the secret of that mysterious woman's death
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday & Company 1938
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DU MMorton, Kate
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MORWillett, Marcia.
Summary: When Maudie Todhunter, the elderly owner of a charming farmhouse in Cornwall, decides to sell the family homestead, a family drama unfolds, with old secrets bubbling to the surface.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILDenbury, Jo.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ryland Peters & Small 2002
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 728.7 DENBeauman, Sally.
Summary: "Before the summer is over, a catastrophic event changes the life of three young sisters in 1967 England"--Provided by the publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BEAGleeson, Janet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GLEGrange, Amanda.
Summary: In this charming and thoughtful retelling of Mansfield Park, Amanda Grange brings one of Jane Austen's most remarkable novels to life once again ... At ten years of age, Fanny Price came to live with Edmund Bertram and his family at Mansfield Park. Far from the brat Edmund expected, Fanny became his closest confidante and dearest friend. But when the fashionable Crawford siblings - Henry and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRAMcMahon, Katharine.
Summary: The daughter of an eccentric chemist, young Emilie Selden is a scientist in an eighteenth-century world that dismisses female accomplishment, until an encounter with the temptations of the outside world lures her away from her home and her work.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMSears, Mary Seehafer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hearst Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 728.37 SEAMorton, Kate
Summary: A tiny girl is abandoned on a ship headed for Australia in 1913. She arrives completely alone with nothing but a small suitcase containing a few clothes and a single book -- a beautiful volume of fairy tales. She is taken in by the dockmaster and his wife and raised as their own. On her twenty-first birthday, they tell her the truth, and with her sense of self shattered and very little to go...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction MorCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: P MORSummary: Secrets of the Manor House looks beyond the fiction to the truth of how life was in these ancient British houses, and how mounting financial, political and social pressures were about to bring momentous changes to both the wealthy and their servants.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2012