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Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
With the demise of Moriarty, Sherlock finds himself locked in another mind battle with the powerful Charles Augustus Magnussen, who is holding the secrets of the world at his fingertips. Once again, the game is on for Sherlock and John in The Empty Hearse; The Sign of Three; and finally, His Last Vow. This is the BBC Sherlock series.
"***1/2. Highly recommended."--Video Librarian
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Daniel Purcell, a man from Patty's past, storms back into her life, catapulting Patty into a new legal challenge. At the same time, Ellen is on a mission to take down Patty by acting as an informant for the FBI. Contains thirteen episodes, such as: Burn It, Shred It, I Don't Care; They Had to Tweeze That Out of My Kidney; New York Sucks; Look What He Dug Up This Time, deleted scenes, commentaries, and more.
"This is the best drama series on television."--Hollywood...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Completely restored and remastered in stunning high definition, see Agatha Christie's Miss Marple as never before! Joan Hickson, the actress Agatha Christie herself wanted for the role, stars as the shrewd sleuth in four thrilling whodunits: The Murder at the Vicarage, The Moving Finger, The Body in the Library, and A Murder is Announced. Watch as Miss Marple puts her perceptive powers to good use and gets to the bottom of even the most complex crimes...
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Detective Andy Dalziel is an idiosyncratic copper with a penetrating wit and questionable personal habits. Inspector Peter Pascoe is his cultured sidekick, a thoughtful 'New Man' with a degree in Social Sciences, a caring attitude and a sharp brain. When they threw together these contrasting characters, few thought their talents would gel and that, sharing a commitment to justice, they would forge an impressive crime-solving partnership, and a tentative...
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Follow the lives, loves, highs, and lows of members of the Women's Land Army working at the Hoxley Estate during World War II. As men fought on the battlefields, women from all walks of life worked the farms that fed the nation, doing their part to keep the home front running.
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Set in 1920s Toronto, the series follows the city's only female private detectives as they take on cases the police don't want to touch. In a time of change and hopefulness, their gender is their biggest advantage as they defy expectations and rebel against convention. The private detectives take on cases that explore every cross-section of Toronto, from gospel church choirs, bathing beauties, and the early cinema scene to the homes and private parties...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
In 2012, Louisiana State Police Detectives Rust Cohle and Martin Hart are brought in to revisit a homicide case they worked in 1995. As the inquiry unfolds in present day through separate interrogations, the two former detectives narrate the story of their investigation, reopening unhealed wounds, and drawing into question their supposed solving of a bizarre ritualistic murder in 1995.
"The performances by Harrelson and McConaughey are two of the...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A pair of Soviet spies pose as an American married couple so they can spy on the U.S. government.
"...a suspenseful kick."--TV Guide
"...The Americans has an absorbing personal story to tell..."--Time
"It's a fresh, compelling story..."--Chicago-Sun Times
"An absorbing spy thriller..."--Entertainment Weekly
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
It's 1953 and Sidney Chambers is vicar of Grantchester, a village just outside Cambridge, England. Sidney's is a quiet life. He tends to his flock, keeps up with his jazz collection, and does his best to contain his passion for beautiful heiress Amanda Kendall. But when one of his parishioners dies in suspicious circumstances, Sidney quickly finds that people confide things in a parish priest that they would never tell police.
"...a solid, pleasant,...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Based on the bestselling Inspector Banks novels by Peter Robinson, DCI Banks follows the tenacious Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks and his headstrong partner Annie Cabbott as they attempt to solve three gruesome crimes. Fire engulfs two canal boats in a deliberate act of arson over a million-dollar painting; a woman is found dead on the moors with her throat slashed in a case eerily close to the murder of a young girl in the center of town.
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
One of the greatest TV dramas of all time continues with 13 gripping fourth season episodes of the critically acclaimed series. Small-town life in Dillon has changed irrevocably with the dramatic split of the school district. Coach Taylor finds himself fighting for the respect of the East Dillon Lions, while his wife Tami faces her own battles as Principal of the Dillon High Panthers. Across town, it's a season for change as graduating students face...
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
When it comes to snobbery, Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced 'bouquet') is in a class of her own. Desperate to impress the neighbors and elbow her way into the local aristocracy, every moment of Hyacinth's day is spent going to manic lengths in her quest for perfection.
75) Affinity (DVD)
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Set in and around the women's prison at Millbank in Victorian London, Margaret Prior has decided to pursue some 'good work' with the lady criminals of one of London's most notorious jails.
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Charming con man Neal Caffrey escapes from a maximum security prison, only to be recaptured by his nemesis, FBI Agent Peter Burke. With few options, Caffrey agrees to help the bureau bring down other elusive criminals in exchange for his eventual freedom. But before long, Caffrey finds himself playing a game of cat and mouse with those who want him back in prison or dead.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Season six introduces several jarring storylines. As 'Billith' comes to terms with his newfound powers after emerging from a pool of blood at the end of season five, Louisiana governor Truman Burrell declares open season on vampires, replete with novel anti-vamp weapons and high-tech internment camp. Sookie and Jason steel themselves for an encounter with the killer of their parents; the mysterious and ancient Warlow.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Brooklynite Piper Chapman, whose wild past comes back to haunt her and results in her arrest and detention in a federal penitentiary. To pay her debt to society, Piper trades her comfortable New York life for an orange prison jumpsuit and finds unexpected conflict and camaraderie amidst an eccentric group of inmates.
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Bright and sharp law school graduate Ellen Parsons becomes the protegee of the successful and hard-hitting high stakes litigator Patty Hewes. But nothing is what it seems.
"...an enjoyably complex thriller."--USA Today
"Close's performance illuminates..."--Los Angeles Times
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Agatha Christie's beloved Belgian detective returns in these four feature-length mysteries from the hit series. Set amid the un paralleled elegance of the Art Deco era, these beautifully remastered adaptations star David Suchet as the peerless Hercule Poirot.
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