Polly Walker
Author
Language
English
Description
A beautiful young Irish governess, Mary, leaves home and travels to Spain to work in the residence of a wealthy family strained by conflicting political allegiances. Swept away by her new surroundings while being threatened by the turmoil of the times, Mary eventually finds a different kind of danger: the inescapable attraction she shares with the fiery, handsome and married son of her employer.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Much has changed since Selfridges first opened its doors. Five years later, Europe is on the brink of war and London is enjoying one last defiant period of decadence. Mr. Selfridge now has his sights set on joining the establishment and rebuilding his family life. Tensions are also running high on the shop floor as Agnes is back from Paris, chic and successful. Not everyone is thrilled by her newfound confidence and by the reappearance of her old...
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Four hundred years after the founding of the Republic, Rome is the wealthiest city in the world, a cosmopolitan metropolis of one million people, epicenter of a sprawling empire. The Republic was founded on principles of shared power and fierce personal competition, never allowing one man to seize absolute control. But now, those foundations are crumbling, eaten away by corruption and excess. After eight years of war, soldiers Lucius Vorenus and Titus...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
London, the 1920s. Lottie and Rose are two married women who share the misery of empty marriages and decide to rent an Italian castle for the spring to get away. In order to save money, they advertise for two other women to join them. Mrs. Fisher is an elderly widow is struggling with a lonely and regimented existence. She jumps at the chance to join the vacation. Lady Caroline Dester is a gorgeous flapper who has been grabbed one too many times and...
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The Battlestar Galactica phenomenon continues with this undeniably compelling look at where the real conflict between humans and the Cylons began, in a vibrant world remarkably like our own: Caprica. Fifty-eight years before Battlestar takes off, two powerful families, the Graystones and the Adamas, find their destinies irrevocably intertwined after a devastating explosion.
Pub. Date
�2010
Language
English
Description
Fifty-eight years before the events of Battlestar Galactica, mankind is wrestling with the question of what makes one human, and sealing its own fate of certain destruction. Alliances are made, secrets are revealed, and lives are forever changed while the conflict between man and machine takes shape. As the season races towards its stunning conclusion, the seeds are sown for the inevitable, brutal clash between the newly born Cylon race and its human...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In the year 44 B.C., Julius Caesar has been assassinated and civil war threatens to destroy the Republic. In the void left by Caesar's demise, egos clash and numerous players jockey for position. The brutally ambitious Mark Antony attempts to solidify his power, aligning himself with Atia, but coming to blows with her cunning son Octavian, who has been anointed in Caesar's will as his only son and heir. The conspirator Brutus ponders how to curry...
Author
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English
Description
As the sole survivor of a shipwreck, Robinson Crusoe is forced to build a solitary life on a remote island. When he eventually discovers that a local tribe uses his island for sacrificial rituals, he risks his life to save a doomed tribesman from certain death. In a thrilling adaptation of the timeless novel by Daniel Defoe, the two men forge a friendship to survive against impossible odds!
10) Patriot Games
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Series
Language
English
Description
Jack Ryan is caught in the middle of a terrorist attack. Ryan helps to thwart Holmes' assailants and becomes a local hero. But Ryan's act marks him as a target. Now he must return to action to save his family.