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DVD TV CROWN SEASON 1 pt.3,4 of 4
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Central - Adult DVD 1 available
DVD TV CROWN SEASON 1 pt.3,4 of 4
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DVD TV CROWN SEASON 1 pt.3,4 of 4
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DVD TV CROWN SEASON 1 pt.1,2 of 4
Central - Adult DVD 1 available
DVD TV CROWN SEASON 1 pt.3,4 of 4
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The British Empire is in decline, the political world is in disarray, and a young woman takes the throne ... a new era is dawning. Queen Elizabeth II is a 25-year-old newlywed faced with the daunting prospect of leading the world's most famous monarchy while forging a relationship with legendary Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.
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941.085 LACEY v.1
Central - Adult Nonfiction 2 available
941.085 LACEY v.2
Cherrydale - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
941.085 LACEY v.1
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First American edition.
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Aurora Hills - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
941.085 LACEY v.1
Central - Adult Nonfiction 2 available
941.085 LACEY v.2
Cherrydale - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
941.085 LACEY v.1
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Elizabeth Mountbatten never expected her father to die so suddenly, so young, leaving her with a throne to fill and a global institution to govern. Crowned at twenty-five, she was already a wife and mother as she began her journey towards becoming a queen. As Britain lifted itself out of the shadow of war, the new monarch faced her own challenges. Her mother doubted her marriage; her uncle-in-exile derided her abilities; her husband resented the sacrifice...
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Central - Adult Biography 1 available
B ELIZABE II
Westover - Adult Biography 1 available
B ELIZABE II
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First edition.
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Central - Adult Biography 1 available
B ELIZABE II
Westover - Adult Biography 1 available
B ELIZABE II
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Large print edition.
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"They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when, in a quixotic twist of fate, their uncle Edward Vlll decided to abdicate the throne, the dynamic between Elizabeth and Margaret was dramatically altered. Forever more Margaret would have to curtsey to the sister she called 'Lillibet.' And bow to her wishes. Elizabeth would always look upon her younger sister's antics with a kind of stoical amusement, but Margaret's struggle to find...
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Central - Adult Biography 2 available
B ELIZABE II QUEEN GREAT BRITAIN
Westover - Adult Biography 1 available
B ELIZABE II QUEEN GREAT BRITAIN
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First edition.
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Central - Adult Biography 2 available
B ELIZABE II QUEEN GREAT BRITAIN
Westover - Adult Biography 1 available
B ELIZABE II QUEEN GREAT BRITAIN
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Cherrydale - Adult Audiobooks 1 available
CD B ELIZABE II
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Cherrydale - Adult Audiobooks 1 available
CD B ELIZABE II
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Aurora Hills - Adult Large Type 1 available
LT B ELIZABE II
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Large print edition.
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LT B ELIZABE II
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Drawing on numerous interviews and never-before-revealed documents, acclaimed biographer Sally Bedell Smith pulls back the curtain to show in intimate detail the public and private lives of Queen Elizabeth II, who has led her country and Commonwealth through the wars and upheavals of the last sixty years with unparalleled composure, intelligence, and grace.
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F ROBSO
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction 1 available
F ROBSO
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F ROBSO
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First edition.
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Central - Adult Fiction 3 available
F ROBSO
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F ROBSO
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F ROBSO
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London, 1947: Besieged by the harshest winter in living memory, burdened by onerous shortages and rationing, the people of postwar Britain are enduring lives of quiet desperation despite their nation's recent victory. Among them are Ann Hughes and Miriam Dassin, embroiderers at the famed Mayfair fashion house of Norman Hartnell. Together they forge an unlikely friendship, but their nascent hopes for a brighter future are tested when they are chosen...
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Cherrydale - Adult Biography 1 available
B ELIZABE II QUEEN GREAT BRITAIN
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First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
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Cherrydale - Adult Biography 1 available
B ELIZABE II QUEEN GREAT BRITAIN
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A timely and revelatory new biography of Queen Elizabeth and her family, this work explores how the Windsors have evolved and thrived as the modern world has changed around them. Clive Irving's stunning new narrative biography The Last Queen probes the question of the British monarchy's longevity. In 2021, the Queen Elizabeth II finally appears to be at ease in the modern world, helped by the new generation of Windsors. But through Irving's unique...
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F KUHN
Shirlington - Adult Fiction 1 available
F KUHN
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Central - Adult Fiction 2 available
F KUHN
Shirlington - Adult Fiction 1 available
F KUHN
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Central - Adult Audiobooks 1 available
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After decades of service and years of watching her family's troubles splashed across the tabloids, Britain's Queen is beginning to feel her age. An unexpected opportunity offers her relief: an impromptu visit to a place that holds happy memories-- the former royal yacht, Britannia, now moored near Edinburgh. When her royal attendants discovers she is missing, they set out to find her and bring her back before her absence becomes a national scandal....
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Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
746.92 HUGHE
Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
746.92 HUGHE
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First American edition.
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Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
746.92 HUGHE
Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
746.92 HUGHE
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This riotously colorful book takes a photographic journey through Queen Elizabeth II's ten decades of color-blocked style. The photographs, which span the colors of the rainbow and a century of style, are gloriously accessorized with captions and commentary by journalist and broadcaster Sali Hughes, who gives fascinating context to each photo. Readers will learn how the Queen has used color and fashion in strategic and discreetly political ways, such...
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Queen Elizabeth II has deployed fashion as a means to communicate and signal her position to the crowds who gather to see her in public and the millions who watch her television broadcasts. The Queen's evolving attitude to dress reflects a visual landscape that began as genteel reportage in mostly black and white and has over the years evolved into today's technicolor 24/7 news cycle, flashed around the globe in seconds and driven by social media....
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Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
941.085 MURPH
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Since she succeeded to the throne in 1952, Queen Elizabeth II has become respected, celebrated, and beloved around the world. This stunning collection of powerful images illustrates her storied reign in all its glory. More than 300 extraordinary photographs, along with insightful commentary by the royal journalist Victoria Murphy, showcase the significant, historic, and intimate moments throughout the Queen's life, first as a young princess and then...
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Glencarlyn - Adult New Nonfiction 1 available
941.085 STROB
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"There seems an unquenchable fascination with the British royal family on both sides of the Atlantic, borne out by the popularity of The Crown on Netflix, the spotlight on the Sussexes and Cambridges, and the media attention on the death of Prince Philip. These detailed interviews and insightful accounts range from the very early years of her reign to Prince Phillip's death in 2021. Covering the shocking death of her father and the adjustment required...
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B ELIZABE II QUEEN GREAT BRITAIN
Central - Adult New Biography 1 available
B ELIZABE II QUEEN GREAT BRITAIN
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First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
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Aurora Hills - Adult New Biography 1 available
B ELIZABE II QUEEN GREAT BRITAIN
Central - Adult New Biography 1 available
B ELIZABE II QUEEN GREAT BRITAIN
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Large print edition.
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"A definitive portrait of Queen Elizabeth II on the seventieth anniversary of her reign by a renowned royal biographer. Shy but with a steely self-confidence; inscrutable despite ten decades in the public eye; unflappable; devout; indulgent; outwardly reserved, inwardly passionate; unsentimental; inquisitive; young at heart. All of these describe Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II, who has reigned through more seismic social change than any monarch...
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Royal outsiders volume 1
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F HOLDE
Shirlington - Adult Fiction 1 available
F HOLDE
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First edition.
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Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction 1 available
F HOLDE
Shirlington - Adult Fiction 1 available
F HOLDE
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Large print edition.
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Columbia Pike - Adult Large Type 1 available
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"Sunday Times bestselling author Wendy Holden brings to life the unknown childhood years of one of the world's most iconic figures, Queen Elizabeth II, and reveals the little-known governess who made Britain's queen into the monarch we know today. In 1933, twenty-two-year-old Marion Crawford accepts the role of a lifetime, tutoring their Royal Highnesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose. Her one stipulation to their parents the Duke and Duchess of York...
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941.085 EDWAR
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In Royal Sisters, Anne Edwards, author of the best-selling Vivien Leigh: A Biography and Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor, has written the first dual biography of Elizabeth, the princess who was to become Queen, and her younger sister, Margaret, who was to be her subject. From birth to maturity, they were the stuff of which dreams are made. "I'm three and you're four," the future Queen, then a child, imperiously informed her sister....
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F BENNE
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F BENNE
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F BENNE
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First Picador edition.
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Central - Adult Fiction 1 available
F BENNE
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction 1 available
F BENNE
Westover - Adult Fiction 1 available
F BENNE
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LT F BENNE
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"When her corgis stray into a mobile library parked near Buckingham Palace, the Queen feels duty-bound to borrow a book. Discovering the joy of reading widely ... and intelligently, she finds that her view of the world changes dramatically. Abetted in her newfound obsession by Norman, a young man from the royal kitchens, the Queen comes to question the prescribed order of the world and loses patience with the routines of her role as monarch. Her new...
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Glencarlyn - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
941.085 FITZA
Westover - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
941.085 FITZA
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First Atria Books hardcover edition.
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Glencarlyn - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
941.085 FITZA
Westover - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
941.085 FITZA
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"The never-before-published diaries of Alathea Fitzalan Howard-who spent her teenaged years living out World War II in Windsor Great Park with her close friends Princess Margaret and Princess Elizabeth, the future queen of the United Kingdom-provide an extraordinary and intimate look at the British Royal Family. Like so many others in Great Britain, young Alathea Fitzalan Howard's life was turned upside down by the start of the Second World War. Sent...
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Aurora Hills - Adult Detective 1 available
D BENNE
Central - Adult Detective 1 available
D BENNE
Central - Recently Returned 1 available
D BENNE
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Aurora Hills - Adult Detective 1 available
D BENNE
Central - Adult Detective 1 available
D BENNE
Central - Recently Returned 1 available
D BENNE
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"The first book in a highly original and clever new crime series featuring Queen Elizabeth II as an amateur detective who solves crimes in secret and behind the scenes, in between her royal duties"--
Spring, 2016. Queen Elizabeth is at Windsor Castle in advance of her 90th birthday celebrations. When a guest is found dead in one of the Castle bedrooms, the scene suggests the young Russian pianist strangled himself, but a badly tied knot leads MI5...