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Publisher
PBS Distribution
Edition
Original UK edition.
Language
English
Description
Set in an Edwardian country house in 1912, Downton Abbey portrays the lives of the Crawley family and the servants who work for them. In the drawing rooms, library, and beautiful bedrooms, with their tall windows looking across the park, lives the family, but below stairs are other residents, the servants, as fiercely possessive of their ranks as anyone above.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Edition
Large print
Language
English
Description
If you've enjoyed bestselling author Marlena de Blasi's A Thousand Days in Venice and A Thousand Days in Tuscany, this story about a sojourn to Sicily will be a welcome read. In That Summer in Sicily, de Blasi focuses on another woman's story--Tosca, the daughter of a poor horse trader, who as a child in the 1930s was traded (for a horse!) to a prince. Set against the backdrop of a castle in the mountains, Tosca's eventual love affair with the prince...
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