Picnic at Hanging Rock

Title : Picnic at Hanging Rock

Publ Info : [S.l.] : Home Vision Cinema, [1998]

Call No. : AVI 791.4372 P587N

Summary :
On St Valentine’s Day in 1900, a party of nineteen girls accompanied by two schoolmistresses sets off from the elite Appleyard College for Young Ladies, for a day’s outing at the spectacular volcanic mass called Hanging Rock. Some were never to return. The picnic, which begins innocently and happily, ends in terror.

Rebecca

Title : Rebecca

Publ Info : [United States] : Metro Goldwyn Mayer ; Beverly Hills, Calif. : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2008

Call No. : AVI 791.4372 R241 2008

Summary :
Working as a lady’s companion, the heroine of Rebecca learns her place. Her future looks bleak until, on a trip to the South of France, she meets Max de Winter, a handsome widower whose sudden proposal of marriage takes her by surprise. She accepts, but whisked from glamorous Mote Carlo to the ominous and brooding Manderley, the new Mrs de Winder finds Max a changed man. And the memory of his dead wife Rebecca is forever kept alive by the forbidding housekeeper, Mrs Danvers…

The Da Vinci Code (達文西密碼)

Title : The Da Vinci Code (達文西密碼)

Publ Info : [S.l.] : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment ; [Hong Kong] : Distributed by Era Movies Ltd., c2006

Call No. : AVI 791.4372 D11

Summary :
What if Christ had a tryst with Mary Magdalene, and the interlude produced a child? Such a possibility provides the framework for Brown's latest thriller (after "Angels and Demons"), an exhaustively researched page-turner about secret religious societies, ancient coverups and savage vengeance.

Picnic at hanging rock

Author : Joan Lindsay

Title : Picnic at hanging rock

Publ Info : London : Vintage, 1998, c1967

Call No. : 823.3 L645P 1998

Summary :

On St Valentine’s Day in 1900, a party of nineteen girls accompanied by two schoolmistresses sets off from the elite Appleyard College for Young Ladies, for a day’s outing at the spectacular volcanic mass called Hanging Rock. Some were never to return. The picnic, which begins innocently and happily, ends in terror.

Rebecca

Author : Daphne Du Maurier

Title : Rebecca

Publ Info : London : Virago, 2003, c1938

Call No. : 823 D892RE 2003



Summary : 
Working as a lady’s companion, the heroine of Rebecca learns her place. Her future looks bleak until, on a trip to the South of France, she meets Max de Winter, a handsome widower whose sudden proposal of marriage takes her by surprise. She accepts, but whisked from glamorous Mote Carlo to the ominous and brooding Manderley, the new Mrs de Winder finds Max a changed man. And the memory of his dead wife Rebecca is forever kept alive by the forbidding housekeeper, Mrs Danvers…

The Da Vinci code : a novel

Author : Dan Brown

Title : The Da Vinci code : a novel

Publ Info : New York : Anchor, 2006, c2003

Call No. : 813.54 B812D 2006


Summary :

What if Christ had a tryst with Mary Magdalene, and the interlude produced a child? Such a possibility provides the framework for Brown's latest thriller (after "Angels and Demons"), an exhaustively researched page-turner about secret religious societies, ancient coverups and savage vengeance.