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1) Grant
Author
Language
English
Description
Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. He is often caricatured as a chronic loser and an inept businessman, or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil War. But these stereotypes don't capture the general and president whose fortunes rose and fell with dizzying speed and frequency. Before the Civil War, Grant was flailing. His business ventures had ended dismally, and despite distinguished service in the Mexican War...
2) Grant
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The dramatized mini-series examines Grant's life story using his perspective and experiences to explore a turbulent time in history: the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Author
Series
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
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...Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Sidney Chambers (James Norton, Happy Valley) is a handsome, jazz-loving village vicar haunted by his past. Geordie Keating (Robson Green, Wires in the Blood, Touching Evil) is a hard-boiled police detective, overworked and weary. Together they solve crimes and right wrongs in picturesque 1950s Cambridge. Based on a novel by James Runcie, the hit British series returns with Chambers having doubts about his pious lifestyle, now that his old flame Amanda...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
It's 1956 -- a year since Amanda left Grantchester, and the post-war rulebook is being torn up. Sidney Chambers (James Norton) is feeling adrift, a man without a cause -- until American civil rights activist Violet Todd arrives and fires up his need for social justice. But with a cause this dangerous, Sidney might not be around forever. Soon there's a new Vicar of Grantchester, firebrand Will Davenport (Tom Brittney). Idealistic and energetic, Will...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Wood was one of America's most famous regionalist painters. In his time he was an "almost mythical figure, " recognized supremely for his hard-boiled farm scene, American Gothic, a painting that has come to reflect the essence of America's traditional values--a simple decent, home spun tribute to our lost agrarian age. America's most acclaimed, and misunderstood, regionalist painter, Grant Wood, is revealed to have been anything but plain, or simple....
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"It's 1957, and it's as if the world of Grantchester has returned to an idyllic state--a metaphorical Garden of Eden. Will Davenport ... has settled into his role as the vicar of Grantchester, preaching to a packed church. His best friend, Detective Inspector Geordie Keating ... has come to accept his wife Cathy's commitment to her job--just about. Mrs. C. happily juggles her roles as the vicarage housekeeper and being a well-to-do married woman,...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
It's the long hot summer of 1959 and wedding season is in full swing in the Cambridgeshire village of Grantchester. As the Reverend Will Davenport unites happy couples in holy matrimony, Detective Inspector Geordie Keating finds himself trying to repair his own marriage to estranged wife Cathy.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"It's 1958 and trouble is brewing in the Cambridgeshire village of Grantchester. Reverend Will Davenport ... relishes his role as a firebrand vicar, willing to rock the boat and challenge conventions to help people. But the very role he loves puts him at odds with his own ideals when his kind-hearted curate, Leonard Finch ... is caught up in a scandal. Will's best friend, Detective Inspector Geordie Keating ... finds his principles shaken, housekeeper...
Series
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Will's life has changed for the better. He is happily married to the brilliant Bonnie and due to become a father, but his world is about to be rocked by a terrible accident. He's always preached the word of a compassionate God, but how can he do that now?
13) Granted
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Young fairy Ophelia gets her first wish granting assignment and discovers that, although the fate of the fairy world rests on her completing her task, the job of granting a human's wish is anything but easy.
Series
Publisher
PBS Distribution
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.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
"We were as brothers," Sherman said, describing his relationship to Grant, a friendship forged on the battlefield. They were prewar failures--Grant, forced to resign from the Army because of his drinking, and Sherman, who held four different jobs during the four years before the Confederates fired on Fort Sumter. But heeding the call to save the Union, each struggled to join the war effort. And taking each other's measure at the Battle of Shiloh,...
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