Andrew Scott
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
243 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A practical guide to how we can positively adapt to a changing world, from the internationally bestselling authors of The 100-Year Life 'The London Business School professors Andrew J. Scott and Lynda Gratton have been predicting how society must adapt for years. Now they have a post-pandemic road map for us all' Sunday Times Smart new technologies. Longer, healthier lives. Human progress has risen to great heights, but at the same time it has prompted...
Author
Language
English
Description
Seven superb short stories from the bestselling author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG!
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar is a Netflix Original film!
Meet the boy who can talk to animals and the man who can see with his eyes closed. And find out about the treasure buried deep underground. A clever mix of fact and fiction, this collection also includes how master storyteller...
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar is a Netflix Original film!
Meet the boy who can talk to animals and the man who can see with his eyes closed. And find out about the treasure buried deep underground. A clever mix of fact and fiction, this collection also includes how master storyteller...
3) Denial
Pub. Date
2016, ℗2017.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Deborah Lipstadt speaks out against Holocaust denier David Irving over his falsification of history, she discovers that the stakes are higher than ever in the battle for historical truth. Now faced with a libel lawsuit in British court, Lipstadt and her attorney have the heavy burden of proving that the Holocaust actually happened, in a riveting legal fight with stunning consequences.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
[English/Spanish/French version].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told from Igor's perspective, we see the troubled young assistant's dark origins, his redemptive friendship with the young medical student Viktor Von Frankenstein, and become eyewitnesses to the emergence of how Frankenstein became the man, and the legend, we know today.
7) Locke
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 84 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A feat of bold, dynamic storytelling from Oscar-nominated writer-director Steven Knight. A successful businessman receives a series of phone calls which sets into motion a chain of events that unravels his perfect life, all of which takes the course of one absolutely riveting and intense car ride.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 294 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes the true story of a Nazi party member and serial killer who attacked women riding on trains at night in World War II-era Berlin.
For all appearances, Paul Ogorzow was a model German, but he also had a secret need to harass and frighten women. When, due to Allied bombing raids, a total blackout was instituted throughout Berlin, including on the commuter trains, he began attacking women riders. He began raping and murdering them, casually...
10) Spectre
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (148 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A cryptic message from Bond's past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE.
11) 1917
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield and Blake are given a seemingly impossible mission. In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers, Blake's own brother among them.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xviii, 351 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Does the thought of working for 60 or 70 years fill you with dread? Or can you see the potential for a more stimulating future as a result of having so much extra time? Many of us have been raised on the traditional notion of a three-stage approach to our working lives: education, followed by work and then retirement. But this well-established pathway is already beginning to collapse - life expectancy is rising, final-salary pensions are vanishing,...
16) A dark place
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a local young boy is found dead in the woods near a sleepy backwoods town, a sanitation truck driver, Donald, plays detective, embarking on a dangerous and obsessive investigation to find the killer.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set against the backdrop of a beautiful London garden, the story is a contemporary fairy tale. Facing eviction in a month if she can't resurrect the dying garden in her backyard, reclusive librarian Bella Brown meets her grumpy next-door neighbor, who happens to be a talented horticulturalist. As the two form an unlikely friendship, Bella begins to wonder if she can revive both the garden, and her dreams of becoming a children's book author.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
On February 15, 2003, a group of thieves broke into an allegedly airtight vault in the international diamond capital of Antwerp, Belgium and made off with over $108 million dollars worth of diamonds and other valuables. They did so without tripping an alarm or injuring a single guard in the process. Although the crime was perfect, the getaway was not. The police zeroed in on a band of professional thieves fronted by Leonardo Notarbartolo, a dapper...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Four children (the Swallows) on holiday in the Lake District sail on their own to an island and start a war with rival children (the Amazons). In the meantime, a mysterious man on a houseboat accuses them of a crime they did not commit.
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
In this BBC full-cast production of Romeo And Juliet, the two star-crossed lovers fight for each other until their dying breath. Can their two feuding families reconcile?
With the intimacy of radio, the full beauty and meaning of some of the most lyrical lines ever written can be truly heard: tenderness and passion, betrayal and bigotry are brilliantly evoked as the tale comes to its tragic conclusion.
Douglas Henshall stars