Summary: The young Jane Austen wishes to be a writer. Her mother thinks otherwise. Although she is offered many marriage proposals she accepts none until the mischevious Thomas Lefroy shows up and turns her world around. At first she finds him ignorant and self centered but as she gets to know him, they start to flirt and eventually fall in love. Thomas' relatives disagree with the match and threaten to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2008

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Sánchez Vegara, Ma Isabel (María Isabel)

Summary: In the Little People, Big Dreams series, discover the lives of outstanding people from designers and artists to scientists. All of them went on to achieve incredible things, yet all of them began life as a little child with a dream. The book follows Agatha Christie, who taught herself to read at the age of five, on her journey to becoming the most famous crime writer of all time. This inspiring...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Lincoln Children's Books 2017

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Fawkes, Glynnis

Summary: "A graphic novel biography of Charlotte Brontë, following her and her siblings from childhood to the publication of Jane Eyre"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Disney - Hyperion 2019

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Kelley, True.

Summary: Roald Dahl is one of the most famous children's book authors ever. Now in this Who Was-- ? biography, children will learn of his real-life adventures. A flying ace for the British Air Force, he was married to an Academy Award-winning actress. He also wrote books and screenplays for adults. Entertaining and readable, this biography has 80 black-and-white illustrations.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2012

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Worsley, Lucy

Summary: "Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was "just" an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn't? Her life is fascinating for its mysteries and its passions and, as Lucy Worsley says, "She was thrillingly, scintillatingly modern." She went surfing in Hawaii, she loved fast cars, and she was intrigued by the new science of psychology, which helped her through devastating...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2022

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Gristwood, Sarah

Summary: "Interest in Beatrix Potter and her characters is undimmed, with the second Peter Rabbit film being released in summer 2021 and an exhibition at the V&A from February 2022, 'Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature'. Few people realise how extraordinary Beatrix Potter's own story is. She was a woman of contradictions. A sheltered Victorian daughter who grew into an astute modern businesswoman. A...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Trust Books 2021

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Thompson, Laura

Summary: Nancy Mitford was, in the words of her sister Lady Diana Mosley, “very complex.” Her highly autobiographical early work, the biographies and novels of her more mature French period, her journalism, and the vast body of letters to her family, to friends such as Evelyn Waugh, and to the great love of her life, Gaston Palewski, all tell an intriguing story. Drawing from these, as well as...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2020

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Sisman, Adam

Summary: Secrecy came naturally to John le Carre, and there were some secrets that he fought fiercely to keep. Adam Sisman's definitive biography, published in 2015, provided a revealing portrait of this fascinating man; yet some aspects of his subject remained hidden. Nowhere was this more so than in his private life. Apparently content in his marriage, the novelist conducted a string of love affairs...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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Thompson, Laura

Summary: "It has been one hundred years since Agatha Christie wrote her first novel and created the formidable Hercule Poirot. A brilliant and award winning biographer, Laura Thompson now turns her sharp eye to Agatha Christie. Arguably the greatest crime writer in the world, Christie's books still sell over four million copies each year--more than thirty years after her death--and it shows no signs of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2018

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Thompson, Laura

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Publisher / Publication Date: Review 2004

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Pliscou, Lisa

Summary: Colorful illustrations introduce the life and achievements of the nineteenth century novelist, revealing how her refusal to settle for the status quo led her to create some of the world's most beloved works.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company 2018

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Fabiny, Sarah

Summary: "Step into the world of Georgian England and learn more about the genteel life of this beloved author. Although Jane Austen's works were first published anonymously and brought her little personal recognition, today they are rarely out of print and have inspired movies, television shows and mini-series, literary anthologies, and many other adaptations all around the world. Her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2017

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Summary: Shares the stories behind the creations of many of the mystery genre's most popular characters, revealing the inspirations for such examples as Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch and Alexander McCall Smith's Precious Ramotswe.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2009

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Harman, Claire.

Summary: "A groundbreaking biography that places an obsessive, unrequited love at the heart of the writer's life story, transforming her from the tragic figure we have previously known into a smoldering Jane Eyre. Famed for her beloved novels, Charlotte Brontë has been known as well for her insular, tragic family life. The genius of this biography is that it delves behind this image to reveal a life in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016

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Tomalin, Claire.

Summary: When Charles Dickens died in 1870, The Times of London successfully campaigned for his burial in Westminster Abbey, the final resting place of England's kings and heroes. Thousands flocked to mourn the best recognized and loved man of nineteenth-century England. His books had made them laugh, shown them the squalor and greed of English life, and also the power of personal virtue and the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2011

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Zackheim, Victoria

Summary: "In Private Investigations, twenty fan-favorite mystery writers share their first-person stories of grappling with mysteries they've personally encountered, at home and in the world. Caroline Leavitt regales us with a medical mystery, a time when she losther voice and doctors couldn't find a cure; Martin Limon travels back to his military stint in Korea to grapple with the chaos of war; Anne...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2020

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Zinovieff, Sofka.

Summary: "A narrative account of the author's bohemian aristocrat grandparents' unconventional relationship with her grandfather's gay lover examines the period taboos, family secrets and cultural dynamics that shaped their shared lives,"--Novelist

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2015

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Sturrock, Donald.

Summary: This authorized biography, written by a BBC producer and director who knew Dahl and worked with the cooperation of the author's adult children and both wives--one of whom was film star Patricia Neal--covers the man and his reputation.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010

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Godden, Rumer

Summary: A story of Rumer Godden's life after her return from Indai to England with her daughters in 1945, the period from war's end to the present.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1989

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Runcie, James

Summary: In this startling and intimate memoir of life before death and love after grief, the internationally best-selling author tells the story of his wife's battle with Lou Gehrig's disease and her death, while celebrating her life, in all its color, humor, and brightness.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2023

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Lewis, Cecil

Contents: Craining -- The Somme -- Testing -- Aerial fighting -- Home defence -- Overseas again -- Civil flying -- The voyage east -- Teaching the Chinese to fly.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014

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Sherry, Norman.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lester & Orpen Dennys Pub. 1989

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Sherry, Norman.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2004

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