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Suggested DVDs and Audiobooks for Downton Abbey Lovers
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It's 1924 in Downton Abbey: skirts are getting shorter, women have more freedom and new-fangled inventions like radios are in wide use much to the dismay of Mr Carson. Many of the following titles can be found on Hoopla, Axis 360 or OverDrive.
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The Paying Guests (sound recording)
by Sarah Waters
Forced to take in lodgers in economically challenged 1922 South London, widow Mrs. Wray and her spinster daughter find their lives profoundly and disturbingly changed by the arrival of a modern young couple. By the best-selling author of The Little Stranger.
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Secrets of Highclere Castle (DVD)
It may be more famous now than any time in its 1,300-year history as the setting of Downton Abbey, but England's Highclere Castle has its own stories to tell. In its heyday, Highclere was the social epicenter of Edwardian England. See how all the inhabitants of Highclere lived, from the aristocrats who enjoyed a life of luxury to the army of servants toiling "below stairs." Also find out how the current inhabitants, Lord and Lady Carnarvon, spend their $1 million in annual upkeep funds, and what life in a fairytale castle is like today
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Fall of Giants [sound recording]
by Ken Follett
Follows the fates of five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English and Welsh--as they move through the world-shaking dramas of World War I, the Russian Revolution and the struggle for women's suffrage. By the best-selling author of The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End. Simultaneous.
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In her first epic romantic novel since The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCullough weaves a sweeping story of two sets of twins—all trained as nurses but each with her own ambitions—stepping into womanhood in 1920s and '30s Australia OverDrive audiobook also available
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The American heiress [sound recording] : a novel
by Daisy Goodwin
A first novel by the anthologist of 101 Poems That Could Save Your Life presents the story of vivacious Cora Cash, whose early 20th-century marriage to England's most eligible duke is overshadowed by his secretive nature and the traps and betrayals of London's social scene.
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Only Time Will Tell [sound recording]: a novel
by Jeffrey Archer
A first installment of a planned five-part series introduces the character of 1920s Bristol dock worker Harry Clifton, whose unexpected scholarship leads him to pursue a very different life while uncovering the truth about his father's identity. By the best-selling author of Kane and Abel.
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Brideshead revisited (DVD)
Epic story of three decades of the life of a young man, Ryder, who meets the Marchmain family and becomes wrapped up in their lifestyle, but who eventually comes to accept his own fate
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The House at Riverton [electronic resource]:
by Kate Morton
Grace Bradley went to work at Riverton House as a servant when she was just a girl, before the First World War. For years her life was inextricably tied up with the Hartford family, most particularly the two daughters, Hannah and Emmeline. In the summer of 1924, at a glittering society party held at the house, a young poet shot himself. The only witnesses were Hannah and Emmeline and only they -- and Grace -- know the truth. In 1999, when Grace is ninety-eight years old and living out her last days in a nursing home, she is visited by a young director who is making a film about the events of that summer. She takes Grace back to Riverton House and reawakens her memories. Told in flashback, this is the story of Grace's youth during the last days of Edwardian aristocratic privilege shattered by war, of the vibrant twenties, and the changes she witnessed as an entire way of life vanished forever
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