Maggie Smith
3) Good bones
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Poems written out of the experience of motherhood, inspired by the poet watching her own children trying to read the world like a book they've just opened, knowing nothing of the characters or plot.--
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Formats
Description
In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of her marriage and her renewed commitment to herself in lyrical vignettes that shine, hard and clear as jewels. The book begins with one woman’s personal, particular heartbreak, but its circles widen into a reckoning with contemporary womanhood, traditional gender roles, and the power dynamics that persist even in many progressive homes. With the spirit...
Pub. Date
2015
Description
As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals - Sonny pursues his expansionist dream of opening a second hotel.
"It's the kind of movie that provides a perfect answer for when your mother or grandmother calls you up and asks, 'What should I go see with the girls after our weekly canasta game?"--Entertainment Weekly
"...a joy to watch..."--Toronto Star
"...a rare, optimistic...
Series
Harry Potter volume Year 4
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Harry Potter is mysteriously selected to compete in the prestigious Triwizard Tournament. Meanwhile, supporters of the evil Lord Voldemort send out a shockwave of fear when their Dark Mark scorches the sky, signaling Voldemort's return to power.
Series
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Description
Season two returns as the Great War rages across Europe, and not even the serene Yorkshire countryside is free from its effects. The men and women of Downton are doing their part both on the front lines and the home front, but the intensity of war only serves to inflame the more familiar passions of love, loss, blackmail, and betrayal.
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Formats
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.
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
Based in part on his autobiography, director Franco Zeffirelli's Tea with Mussolini is a story about a group of British and American travelers on an indefinite visit to Italy in 1935. Luca is a boy living in Florence whose family situation is precarious at best; his mother has run off and his father has little time for him. Fortunately, he's a welcome guest with Mary, a English woman visiting Italy to soak up European culture. Mary and her friends...
Pub. Date
1986 (U.S. release)
Description
Based on the novel by E.M. Forster.
Set in the early 1900's. "Tells the story of the coming of age of Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham-Carter). Longing to burst free from the repression of British upper class manners and mores, she must wrestle with her inner romantic longings to choose between the passionate George (Julian Sands) and the priggish but socially suitable Cecil (Daniel Day-Lewis)"--Container.
20) Our library
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Formats
Description
A raccoon and his friends go to great lengths to make sure they will always have a library from which to borrow books.
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