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(0)Peter Nichols
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
“Irresistibly sunny… Set in the brightly lit Mediterranean amid old olive trees and sexual intrigue, music and wine and beautiful women... Propulsive.” –The New York Times Book Review
“The perfect book for pretending it's already beach season.” –O, The Oprah Magazine
A romantic page-turner propelled by the sixty-year secret that has shaped two families, four lovers,...
“The perfect book for pretending it's already beach season.” –O, The Oprah Magazine
A romantic page-turner propelled by the sixty-year secret that has shaped two families, four lovers,...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In scenic Granite Harbor, life has continued on―quiet and serene―for decades. That is until a local teenager is found brutally murdered in the Settlement, the town’s historic archaeological site. Alex Brangwen, adjusting to life as a single father with a failed career as a novelist, is the town’s sole detective. This is his first murder case and, as both a parent and detective, Alex knows the people of Granite Harbor are looking to him to...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
xiv, 296 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the 1968 Golden Globe race to sail around the world alone and without stopping, looking at the challenges faced by the nine men who set out in their small, ill-equipped boats, and discussing their fates as all but one failed to cross the finish line.
4) The best DVDs you've never seen, just missed or almost forgotten: a guide for the curious film lover
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
xi, 487 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The films, organized alphabetically and described in approximately one page each, range from Joseph H. Lewis's 1949 Gun Crazy, which Pauline Kael called "a tawdry version of the Bonnie and Clyde story," to Ridley Scott's 1977 The Duellists, adapted from a Joseph Conrad story, to Laurent Cantet's 2001 Time Out, which chronicles workers' woes at the management level. Most (though not all) of the films listed were produced within the past 30 years, and...
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Greek community in Oxford closes ranks when a Greek restaurant chef is found dead and a baby goes missing. Morse feels more at home with Oxford's other Greek connection - the classical scholars - and surprisingly discovers there could be a link between the two worlds.