Douglas Hodge
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Adventure Books for Kids
Children's and Middle Grade Novels in Spanish and English/Novelas juveniles en español e inglés
Fantasy Books for Kids
Fun Family Read-Alouds for Preschool and Older
Children's and Middle Grade Novels in Spanish and English/Novelas juveniles en español e inglés
Fantasy Books for Kids
Fun Family Read-Alouds for Preschool and Older
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Each of five children lucky enough to discover an entry ticket into Mr. Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory takes advantage of the situation in his own way.
3) Tulip fever
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An artist falls for a young married woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait during the Tulip mania of seventeenth century Amsterdam.
5) Middlemarch
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Based on George Elliot's novel, Middlemarch is set in early nineteenth century England and charts the impact of the Industrial Revolution on the town as it divides its population into two opposing factions: the conservatives and the liberals.
6) Diana
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A look into the private realm of one the world's most iconic and inescapably public women in the last two years of her meteoric life, and explores the Princess of Wales' final rite of passage: a secret love affair with Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan.
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The Final Season revolves around more court machinations, complicated relationships, and coup attempts. Catherine is still in charge, meeting with peasants and nobles to get input on her quest to modernize Russia. She's working on bonding with Peter and their young son Paul. Meanwhile, the sidelined Peter tries his hand at "First Husband" duties like hunting and inventing new cuisines but soon finds himself bored with his lack of power.
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Douglas Dodge modulates his voice beautifully to capture the slightly varied emotions of many poems. This well-edited recording contains Keats's most famous works: 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci,' 'The Eve of St. Agnes,' 'Ode to a Nightingale,' 'On a Grecian Urn,' along with many lesser-known short poems such as 'To Mrs. Reynolds' Cat' that exhibit the poet's more fanciful side. Library Journal
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Dazed, bloodied and speechless with trauma, Sarah Carter emerges alone from the Appalachian cave system where the events of the first film took place. Local sheriff Redmond Vaines forces her back underground to help the rescue team which is desperately searching for her five missing girlfriends. Only Sarah knows the terror which lurks in the shadows of the caves. They are about to encounter a new tribe of crawlers, inbred, deformed and even more viciously...
10) Wanderland
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To escape his isolated life in New York City, Alex impulsively accepts an email invitation to house-sit a picturesque “Enchanted Cottage" on Long Island in the off-season. Left with a broken USB cord and no cellphone coverage, he ventures out to find a working charger, only to end up hopelessly lost on a surreal all-night odyssey of misadventures. Forced to finally connect face to face with the eccentric characters he encounters, Alex discovers...
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Dramatisations and readings of selected works by DH Lawrence – plus a radio play by Dan Allum and two bonus documentaries exploring Lawrence's life and writings
Crowned 'the greatest imaginative novelist of our generation' by EM Forster, DH Lawrence has an undisputed place in England's canon of great authors. In this wide-ranging collection, dramatisations and readings of some of his major works are brought together, exploring themes