Jane Adams
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Good balance and a strong body are essential for living an active independent life, and to prevent falls. This DVD has a wide variety of exercises to strengthen your entire body and improve your balance. Drawing on traditional exercises, with Tai Chi, yoga, and dance based movements, you'll challenge your balance in many different ways to help you function at your best.--from container.
4) Old sins
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"1929. The discovery of the bodies of two retired policemen, Walter Cole and Hayden Paul, sounds warning bells to DCI Henry Johnstone. Both men were experiencing financial difficulties, and their deaths were staged to look like suicides. Hayden left a note containing two words: old sins. And when Henry attends his sister's Halloween party, he is approached by a flamenco dancer who leaves a note with the name of another man. Could this be a grim warning?Henry...
5) Kith and kin
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"December, 1928. When two bodies are found washed up in the Kentish marshes, it doesn't take long for DCI Henry Johnstone and DS Mickey Hitchens to identify at least one of them. Billy Crane was a known associate of Josiah Bailey, one of the East End's most notorious gangsters. But what were the victims doing in this remote and desolate spot? Is it a set-up? A revenge attack? Or could this be the start of a vicious turf war? If so, who would be brave...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
A chilling murder ruins a fun day at the races in the fifth historical mystery featuring Detective Chief Inspector Henry Johnstone. 1929. Police surgeon Dr Clive Mason is devastated when his wife Martha is found dead in an empty horsebox at Southwell Races, her handbag stolen. The Masons were enjoying a day out at the races with their friends, Dr Ephraim Phillips and his wife Nora, when Martha went to speak to a face she recognized in a crowd--and...
7) Death scene
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Cissie Rowe, a rising star of the silent screen, is found brutally murdered in her own home in the seaside town of Shoreham-By-Sea, home to a film studio and thriving theatrical community. DCI Henry Johnstone and DS Mickey Hitchens are despatched to investigate.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"Lincolnshire, England. June, 1928. When three freshly-buried bodies are unearthed in the front yard of a rented cottage, DCI Henry Johnstone, a specialist murder detective from London, is summoned to investigate. Two of the victims are identified as Mary Fields, known to have worked as a prostitute, and her seven-year-old daughter Ruby. But who is the third victim and what was he doing at the cottage? Johnstone is determined to do things by the book,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Victor Griffin seemed to be one of the good guys, but that didn't stop someone coming to his home and killing him and his wife. The last act of Vic's life was to try and save his children: fifteen monthold Jack, and his beloved stepdaughter, Sarah. But why were Vic and his wife shot dead? Why is there no record of them before they came to live in Ferrymouth three years ago? The one clue to their past is a business card, wedged between the pages of...
Author
Series
Henry Johnstone novels (Jane Adams) volume 9
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"December, 1930. Henry Johnstone has retired from his role as detective chief inspector at London’s Scotland Yard and is staying at the home of the late Sir Eamon Barry on the south coast, cataloguing and inventorying his extensive library. Until he suddenly – and inexplicably – vanishes. Mickey Hitchens, Henry’s old partner-in-crime, now an inspector himself, investigates the house with his colleague, Sergeant Tibbs. The room Henry was staying...
Author
Pub. Date
[1997]
Appears on list
Description
Daphne Scholinski spent the years of her adolescence from age 15 to age 18 living in mental institutions, where she was taught how to apply eye-liner and blush, how to fix her hair, and how to "act more like a girl". This is her memoir of that experience, when she was labeled as "an inappropriate female."
13) Dog
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Army Ranger Briggs (Channing Tatum) and Lulu (a Belgian Malinois dog) buckle into a 1984 Ford Bronco and race down the Pacific Coast in hopes of making it to a fellow soldier's funeral on time. Along the way, they'll drive each other completely crazy, break a small handful of laws, narrowly evade death, and learn to let down their guards in order to have a fighting chance of finding happiness.
Series
Jesse Stone volume St1 Cold
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Stone is a quiet chief of police in a cold, gray, seaside town. When a serial killer strikes, this tough cop is in the thick of it. Add his girlfriend, an ex-wife, and a sexy defense attorney, and things really heat up.
16) Songcatcher
17) Happiness
Author
Pub. Date
p1999
Description
Three middle class New Jersey sisters seek love and happiness.
19) Songcatcher
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
When musicologist Doctor Lily Penleric is passed over for a prominent teaching position, she decides to leave the city to visit her sister in the rugged mountains of Appalachia. Here she discovers a wellspring of emotional tunes passed down from the original Irish and Scottish immigrants who settled in the area. Determined to document the history of the songs, she immerses herself in mountain life, falls in love with a local musician, and is profoundly...
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
Stone cold: "Chief of Police Jesse Stone must track down a pair of serial killers and lead an investigation while trying to recover from alcoholism."-- Container.
Jesse Stone: death in paradise: "Jesse Stone is a small-town police chief whose investigation into the death of a troubled teenager leads him to suspect a prominent philanthropist and author."-- Container.
Jesse Stone: night passage: "After moving to a quaint Massachusetts town, troubled...