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Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 56 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Carved from a hundred million pounds of stone, soaring effortlessly atop a spiderweb of masonry, Gothic cathedrals are marvels of human achievement and artistry. But how did medieval builders reach such spectacular heights? Consuming the labor of entire towns, sometimes taking a hundred years to build, these architectural marvels were crafted from just hand tools and stone. Many now teeter on the brink of catastrophic collapse.
Author
Series
Sigma Force novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
When several people are burned to death during the theft of a religious artifact, Gray Pierce, a new member of the U.S. SIGMA force, pursues a clandestine fraternity of alchemists who would use the artifact to establish a new world order.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Absorbing . . . impossible to resist.” —The Washington Post
As Europe erupts, can one young spy protect his queen? #1 New York Times bestselling author Ken Follett takes us deep into the treacherous world of powerful monarchs, intrigue, murder, and treason with his magnificent new epic, A Column of Fire. A thrilling read that makes the perfect...
“Absorbing . . . impossible to resist.” —The Washington Post
As Europe erupts, can one young spy protect his queen? #1 New York Times bestselling author Ken Follett takes us deep into the treacherous world of powerful monarchs, intrigue, murder, and treason with his magnificent new epic, A Column of Fire. A thrilling read that makes the perfect...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fianc�e, Violet Speedwell has become a 'surplus woman,' one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother. After countless meals of boiled eggs and dry toast, she saves enough to move out of her mother's place and into the town of Winchester, home...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (428 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in England as it emerges from the Dark Ages, an idealistic mason makes it his life's work to build a cathedral in Kingsbridge, but political turmoil and intrigue threaten to destroy his plans.
Author
Series
Pillars of the Earth volume 3
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
916 pages : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1558, the ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral look down on a city torn apart by religious conflict. As power in England shifts precariously between Catholics and Protestants, royalty and commoners clash, testing friendship, loyalty, and love. Ned Willard wants nothing more than to marry Margery Fitzgerald. But when the lovers find themselves on opposing sides of the religious conflict dividing the country, Ned goes to work for Princess Elizabeth....
Author
Series
Pillars of the Earth volume 1
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2007, 2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 65
Physical Desc
973 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A story of passion and idealism, which describes a group of men and women in the Middle Ages whose destinies are fatefully linked with the building of a cathedral. In a country torn by civil war, two generations struggle to rise above their primitive circumstances and create something beautiful.
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