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May is an Iraqi and a tough-talking, hard-smoking lecturer teaching girls who study Jane Austen in Baghdad. Bee is a London mum of three, busy juggling work and family. They should have nothing in common, but when a simple e-mail brings them together, they discover a friendship that overcomes all their differences of culture, religion, and age.

American design consultant Cayce Pollard is hired by a London advertiser to find the creator of an Internet montage of video snippets that is gaining cult popularity--Cayce herself one of its hooked viewers--and her search turns up unexpected clues about her father's disappearance during the September 11 attacks.

Amy Dorrit struggles to save her family from being crushed by poverty and then corrupted by sudden wealth in nineteenth-century England.

Examines some of the masterpieces of the sixteenth century held by the National Gallery, London, looking at a variety of types of painting, including large altarpieces, devotional images, furniture decorations, portraits, and others; and provides an account of the procedures, practices, and materials used by Renaissance artists.

When several members of a feminist Christian sect in London are murdered, Mary Russell, with the help of her mentor Sherlock Holmes, begins to investigate and finds herself in danger.

A presentation of the screenplay about a young Will Shakespeare and the muse who inspires him to write Romeo and Juliet.

The People of the Abyss (1903) is a book by Jack London about life in the East End of London in 1902. He wrote this first-hand account by living in the East End (including the Whitechapel District) for several months, sometimes staying in workhouses or sleeping on the streets. The conditions he experienced and wrote about were the same as those endured by an estimated 500,000 of the contemporary London poor.--Amazon.

The story of a speech therapist who successfully converts an untutored flower girl into a darling of high society.

Chronicles the author's transition from a homeless street musician with a cat that changed his life to international celebrity author following the publication of his first book, "A Street Cat Named Bob," and discusses how Bob continues to teach him about friendship, loyalty, and trust.