Rory Kinnear
1) Sweet sorrow
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"From the best-selling author of One Day comes a bittersweet and brilliantly funny coming-of-age tale about the heart-stopping thrill of first love-and how just one summer can forever change a life"--
On the verge of marriage and a fresh start, Charlie Lewis can't stop thinking about the past, and the events of one particular summer. At sixteen he was failing his classes, and looking after his depressed father. If he thought about the future at all,...
2) Richard II
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2013.
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1 videodisc (148 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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King Richard , a vain, self-indulgent man who rules with little regard for his people's welfare, is called upon to settle a dispute between his cousin Henry Bolingbroke and Thomas Mowbray. In an act that will spell doom for his reign, he banished both men, and sets into motion a chain of events that will change British history forever.
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[2020]
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2 videodiscs (229 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Charts Catherine the Great's tumultuous reign as the cunning and ambitious empress fights off threats to her crown, wages war with the Ottoman Empire and expands Russia's borders as far as the Black Sea and Crimea.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A “suspenseful, dazzlingly clever and gravely profound” (The Washington Post) novel that brilliantly recasts Shakespeare and lends new weight to the age-old question of Hamlet's hesitation, from the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement.
Trudy has been unfaithful to her husband, John. What’s more, she has kicked him out of their marital home, a valuable old...
Trudy has been unfaithful to her husband, John. What’s more, she has kicked him out of their marital home, a valuable old...
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Daniel Hawthorne novels volume 3
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"When Ex-Detective Inspector Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick, author Anthony Horowitz, are invited to an exclusive literary festival on Alderney, an idyllic island off the south coast of England, they don't expect to find themselves in the middle of murder investigation--or to be trapped with a cold-blooded killer in a remote place with a murky, haunted past. Arriving on Alderney, Hawthorne and Horowitz soon meet the festival's other guests--an...
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Daniel Hawthorne novels volume 2
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"You shouldn't be here. It's too late . . . " These, heard over the phone, were the last recorded words of successful celebrity-divorce lawyer Richard Pryce, found bludgeoned to death in his bachelor pad with a bottle of wine - a 1982 Château Lafite worth £2,000, to be precise. Odd, considering he didn't drink. Why this bottle? And why those words? And why was a three-digit number painted on the wall by the killer? And, most importantly, which of...
7) Yesterday
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How do you solve a murder when you can only remember yesterday?
Imagine a world in which classes are divided not by wealth or religion but by how much each group can remember. Monos, the majority, have only one day's worth of memory; elite Duos have two. In this stratified society, where Monos are excluded from holding high office and demanding jobs, Claire and Mark are a rare mixed marriage. Clare is a conscientious Mono housewife, Mark a novelist-turned-politician...
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Daniel Hawthorne novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
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SHE PLANNED HER OWN FUNERAL. BUT DID SHE ARRANGE HER OWN MURDER?
New York Times bestselling author of Magpie Murders and Moriarty, Anthony Horowitz has yet again brilliantly reinvented the classic crime novel, this time writing a fictional version of himself as the Watson to a modern-day Holmes.
One bright spring morning in London, Diana Cowper - the wealthy mother of a famous actor - enters a funeral parlor. She is there to plan her own service....
9) Ridley Road
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[2022]
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2 videodiscs (220 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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It tells the story of Vivien Epstein, a young Jewish woman who after falling in love with a member of the '62 Group', rejects her comfortable middle-class life in Manchester and joins the fight against fascism in London. Inspired by true events, it follows Vivien as she goes undercover into the NSM, a neo-Nazi movement that is becoming increasingly prominent in London.
10) No time to die
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[2021]
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2 videodiscs (163 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Bond has left active service and is enjoying a tranquil life in Jamaica. His peace is short-lived when his old friend Felix Leiter from the CIA turns up asking for help. The mission to rescue a kidnapped scientist turns out to be far more treacherous than expected, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.
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In New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz's ingenious fourth literary whodunit following The Word is Murder, The Sentence is Death, and A Line to Kill, Horowitz becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation—and only one man can prove his innocence: his newly estranged partner in solving crime, Detective Hawthorne.
“I'm sorry but the answer's no.” Reluctant author, Anthony Horowitz, has had enough. He tells ex-detective Daniel...
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Traveling behind the Iron Curtain, James Bond must convince the Russians, including a beautiful Soviet psychiatric analyst, that he is a double agent to infiltrate a group planning a major act of terrorism, which, if successful, will destabilize relations between the East and West.
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Count Arthur Strong volume 1
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Arthur is enlisted to rid a haunted house of its demonic occupants.
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Count Arthur Strong volume 2
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Some of John The Watch's old criminal associates take an interest in Bulent's cafe.
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Count Arthur Strong volume 6
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Arthur makes some unlikely new friends while in search of biscuits, and sees his life and luck change overnight.
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Count Arthur Strong volume 4
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What begins as "an old man version of a sleepover" turns into something slightly more sinister. Can Michael escape in time?
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Count Arthur Strong volume 7
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A knock on the head results in Arthur joining the police force as a high-ranking detective. It's up to Michael and the gang from the cafe to bring him back to reality.
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Count Arthur Strong volume 3
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A birthday treat for Michael turns into a terrifying battle for survival.
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Count Arthur Strong volume 5
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Arthur attempts to build bridges with a surprising figure from his past.
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Southcliffe volume 3
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The families of the dead are each immersed in their own struggle to comprehend what has happened with feelings of guilt, madness and grief prevalent among them.