Fiona Shaw
1) Outwalkers
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In a frighteningly real near future England, Jacob escapes from the Academy orphanage to reenter a world that is grimly recognizable. The Coalition can track anyone, anywhere, from a chip implanted at birth. Now Jacob must fulfill his promise to his parents, find his dog, Jet, and navigate his way out of England. Their only hope is a band of children who have found a way to survive off the grid: The Outwalkers. Their rules are strict, but necessary...
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 77 min., 57 sec.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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Portraits are one of the great subjects of British art, and from school photos to passports portraits are also central to all our lives. In two films for five, Fiona Shaw goes on a journey to explore pictures of people in history and today, starting with her own startling portrait at the National Portrait Gallery. She meets artists including the controversial painter Stuart Pearson Wright, Victoria Russell, who painted Fiona in 2002, and caricaturist...
3) Mrs. Wilson
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It's 1963, and Alison Wilson returns home to find husband Alexander dead. Soon afterwards, a woman arrives at the door, claiming to be Alec's 'real wife.' Alison embarks on a mission of discovery to try and find out who her husband really was; but from their wartime romance to a mysterious period in India -- it soon becomes clear that Alec died holding his secrets close to his chest.
Pub. Date
2020
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2 videodiscs (360 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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The story of two women with brutal pasts addicted to each other but now trying desperately to live their lives without their drug of choice. For Villanelle, the assassin without a job, Eve is dead. For Eve, the ex-MI6 operative hiding in plain sight, Villanelle will never find her. All seems fine until a shocking and personal death sets them on a collision course yet again. The journey back to each other will cost both of them friends, family, and...
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Season two begins 30 seconds after the final episode of the first season, Eve is reeling, and Villanelle has disappeared. Eve has no idea if the woman she stabbed is alive or dead, and now both of them are in deep trouble. Eve has to find Villanelle before someone else does, but unfortunately, she's not the only person looking for her.
7) Kindred
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (101 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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A psychological thriller rippling with suspense, KINDRED follows vulnerable mother-to-be Charlotte (played by Tamara Lawrance) as she is taken in by her recently deceased boyfriend's mother (Fiona Shaw) and her stepson (Jack Lowden), who seem increasingly obsessed with her every move. Plagued by mysterious hallucinations, Charlotte's suspicions grow about Margaret and Thomas' intentions for her unborn child.
8) Richard II
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (128 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Deborah Warner’s staging of RICHARD II with Fiona Shaw as the king stirred up a significant critical controversy when it was presented in 1995 at the National Theatre, and then later in Salzburg and Paris. Among those who recognised its originality and strengths was the critic Paul Taylor who praised the ‘gripping, lucidly felt production’ and Fiona Shaw’s ‘dazzlingly disconcerting… deliberately uncomfortable, compelling performance.’...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (480 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Julien Baptiste delves into Budapest's corrupt underworld to find a British ambassador's family who go missing on a skiing holiday in the Hungarian mountains. Ambassador Emma Chambers is thrust into the crosshairs of Baptiste's most complex case yet, as the detective navigates an untrustworthy Hungarian police force and international media interest as he hunts for her husband and two sons.
10) Ammonite
Pub. Date
[2021]
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1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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In the 1840s, acclaimed self-taught palaeontologist Mary Anning works alone on the wild English coastline. She hunts for common fossils to sell to rich tourists to support herself. When one such tourist arrives in Lyme, he entrusts Mary with the care of his young wife Charlotte, who is recuperating from a personal tragedy. Despite their differences, it is the beginning of a passionate and all-consuming love affair that will defy all social bounds...
11) My left foot
Pub. Date
[2005]
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1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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The story of Christy Brown. Born with cerebral palsy, Brown learned to paint and write with his only controllable limb, his left foot.
12) Colette/h
Pub. Date
[2018]
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1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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After marrying 'Willy,' a successful Parisian writer, Colette is transplanted to the intellectual and artistic splendor of Paris. Willy convinces Colette to ghostwrite a semi-autobiographical novel about a witty and brazen country girl named Claudine, sparking a bestseller and a cultural sensation, inspiring additional Claudine novels. Colette's fight over creative ownership and gender roles drives her to overcome societal constraints, revolutionizing...
Pub. Date
[2018]
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2 videodiscs (338 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Eve is a bored, whip-smart, pay-grade MI5 security officer whose deskbound job doesn't fulfill her fantasies of being a spy. Villanelle is a mercurial, talented killer who clings to the luxuries her violent job affords her. Follow these two women, equally obsessed with each other, as they go head to head in an epic game of cat and mouse.
14) The Black Dahlia
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in 1940s Los Angeles. Two police officers, Bucky Bleichert and his partner, Lee Blanchard, investigate the death of Elizabeth Short - also known as The Black Dahlia, a young woman who is found brutally murdered. With a corpse so mutilated, the photos are kept from the public. Bucky soon realizes that his girlfriend had ties to the deceased, and soon after that, he begins uncovering corruption and conspiracy within the police departmen. The case...
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Thursday Murder Club novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2023.
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"Shocking news reaches them--an old friend has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing. The gang's search leads them into the antiques business, where the tricks of the trade are as old as the objects themselves. As they encounter drug dealers, art forgers, and online fraudsters--as well as heartache close to home--Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron, and Ibrahim have no idea whom to trust. With the body count rising, the clock ticking...
Series
Harry Potter volume 2
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (161 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Cars fly, trees fight back and a mysterious elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of the second year of his amazing journey into the world of wizardry. This year at Hogwarts, spiders talk, letters scold and Harry's own unsettling ability to speak to snakes turns his friends against him. From dueling clubs to rogue Bludgers, it's a year of adventure and danger when bloody writing on a wall announces: The Chamber of Secrets has been opened. To...
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Thursday Murder Club novels volume 3
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"It is an ordinary Thursday, and things should finally be returning to normal. Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club are concerned. A decade-old cold case--their favorite kind--leads them to a local news legend and a murder with no body and no answers.The n a new foe pays Elizabeth a visit. Her mission? Kill or be killed. Suddenly the cold case has become red hot. While Elizabeth wrestles with her conscience (and a gun),...
Series
Harry Potter volume 1
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (152 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Harry Potter, an orphaned child that has spent the first ten years of his life living under the stairs of his aunt and uncle's house, is invited to join the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He learns his destiny lies in the realm of magic and fantasy.
Series
Harry Potter volume 3
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (142 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Year three at Hogwarts means new fun and challenges as Harry learns the delicate art of approaching a Hippogriff, transforming shape-shifting Boggarts into hilarity and even turning back time. But the term also brings danger: soul-sucking Dementors hover over the school, an ally of the accursed He-Who-Cannot-Be-Named lurks within the castle walls, and fearsome wizard Sirius Black escapes Azkaban.
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Pub. Date
2014.
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"From one of contemporary literature's bestselling, critically acclaimed and beloved authors, a magnificent new novel set in Ireland, about a fiercely compelling young widow and mother of four, navigating grief and fear, struggling for hope. Set in Wexford, Ireland, Colm Toibin's superb seventh novel introduces the formidable, memorable and deeply moving Nora Webster. Widowed at forty, with four children and not enough money, Nora has lost the love...