Helen Mirren
Author
Publisher
Frederick Warne & Co
Pub. Date
2016.
Lexile measure
AD 770L
Language
English
Description
When Miss Kitty sneaks out to go hunting in her beautiful boots she gets herself into all sorts of scrapes, but on this particular night she meets the foxiest hunter of them all?Mr. Tod! This utterly entertaining tale is filled with mistaken identities, devious villains, and even an appearance from Peter Rabbit.
Series
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison is back, and is assigned the murder of a young black woman. Among her many problems are the pressure for a quick resolution to avoid charges of racism, the political disapproval of her colleagues and the reappearance of a former lover.
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Oscar winner Helen Mirren is Detective Jane Tennison, in a series that won more than 20 major international awards and raised the bar for police dramas. Tenacious, driven, and deeply flawed, Tennison rises through the ranks of Britain₂s Metropolitan Police, solving horrific crimes while battling office sexism and her own demons. Set includes all seven series of the Emmy-winning crime drama seen on PBS.
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixty years after she fled Vienna during World War II, an elderly Jewish woman, Maria Altmann, starts her journey to retrieve family possessions seized by the Nazis, among them Klimt's famous painting Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. Together with her inexperienced but plucky young lawyer Randy Schoenberg, she embarks upon a major battle which takes them all the way to the heart of the Austrian establishment and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"In the final series, Detective Superintendent Tennison is pushing 60 and facing the death of her father. Alcohol, loneliness, and the job have taken their toll, but she is determined to end her exemplary career by solving one more case."--Cover.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"In Series 6, Tennison is being pressured to retire by her male colleagues. Instead, she takes on a high-profile case: the torture and murder of a young Bosnian refugee. When her prime suspect turns out to be a 'minor' war criminal, Tennison meets resistance from her superiors, struggles with ambitious underlings, and uncovers buried secrets. Her career now at risk, she realizes she has little else left in her life and everything to fight for."--Container....
12) No such thing
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A tabloid journalist travels to Iceland to seek out a legendary monster, who is said to have killed her fiance.
13) Greenfingers
Publisher
Columbia TriStar
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
When British convict Colin is placed in an experimental program to finish his prison sentence, all his wants is peace. But after his wise elderly roommate introduces him to gardening, Colin uncovers a surprising talent and passion for plants.
14) The pledge
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A veteran police detective, on the day of his retirement, handles the case of a seven-year-old girl who has been brutally murdered. When a mentally retarded man confesses to the murder and then kills himself, the detectives consider the case closed, but was he actually the murderer? Before long evidence is uncovered that suggests the the girl was just one in a series of brutal killings involving young girls and a mysterious man.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things interlock and how even loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty.
18) The clearing
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Wayne and Eileen have raised two children and struggled to build a successful business from the ground up. When Wayne is kidnapped by ordinary guy, Arnold Mack, and held for ransom in a remote forest, the couple's world is turned upside down. Eileen finds her home full of FBI agents and their life under scrutiny. While Wayne is engaged in the negotiation of his lifetime, Eileen works frantically with the FBI to secure his release. The terrifying ordeal...
19) Painted lady
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Maggie Sheridan is a semi-retired, former '60s rock singer. She seems resigned to a life lived on a crumbling country estate, ruminating about her past. Everything changes when a botched robbery leaves her friend Sir Charles Stafford dead and one of his prized pantings missing. Determined to retrieve the masterpiece and find the killer, Maggie plunges into the dark underworld of the art trade. Posing as a wealthy Polish countess, she sets off on a...
20) Anna
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins.