Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Karen Harper tells the tale of Consuelo Vanderbilt, her 'The Wedding of the Century' to the Duke of Marlborough, and her quest to find meaning behind 'the glitter and the gold.' Consuelo finds the inner strength to makethe best of a life she did not choose"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"April, 1897: A young nanny arrives at Sandringham, ancestral estate of the Duke and Duchess of York. She is excited, exhausted-and about to meet royalty. . . .So begins the unforgettable story of Charlotte Bill, who would care for a generation of royals as their parents never could."--
Author
Language
English
Description
1939. As the wife of King George VI and mother of the future queen, Elizabeth-“the queen mother”-shows a warm, smiling face to the world. But it's no surprise that Hitler himself calls her the “Most Dangerous Woman in Europe.” For behind that soft voice and kindly demeanor is a will of steel. Two years earlier, George was thrust onto the throne when his brother Edward abdicated, determined to marry his divorced, American mistress Mrs. Simpson....
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Karen Harper’s crowd-pleasing Elizabeth I Mystery series, hailed as “extraordinary” by the Los Angeles Times, continues with this marvelous, majestic novel. The Queene’s Cure transports us into the shadowy world of sixteenth-century medicine, as an enlightened young queen seeks the cures that could heal a realm and transform a land....
In late summer of 1562, within a bedchamber at Whitehall Palace,...
In late summer of 1562, within a bedchamber at Whitehall Palace,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Karen Harper brings a legendary era to life, drawing us into an intoxicating world of majesty and mayhem, political intrigue and adventure ... where danger is everywhere ... and where a young queen journeys to greatness in the long shadow of her bloodstained past.
6) The it girls
Author
Language
English
Description
Promoting themselves from genteel poverty to fame, two beautiful sisters, one a daring fashion designer and the other a writer of scandalous novels, become each other's most staunch supporter and harshest critic in the face of misunderstandings and confidences.
Author
Language
English
Description
aHoping to redeem her family's disgraced name, Joan of Kent journeys to the intrigue-filled court of King Edward III, where, as part of her revenge on the royal family for their betrayal of her father, she targets Edward, Prince of Wales, but her vengeance is undermined by her growing feelings for the prince
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fictionalized account of the life of Anne Whateley of Temple Grafton, who was betrothed to William Shakespeare days before he was forced to marry the pregnant Anne Hathaway of Shottery, and went on to secretly marry the playwright, her great love, during a treacherous time in Elizabethan England.
Author
Language
English
Description
London, 1501. Varina, a young widow and candle maker, agrees to perform a clandestine service for Queen Elizabeth of York, wife of Henry VII-carve four wax figures, two of her offspring lost in infancy and two of brothers, the Princes of the Tower, who disappeared mysteriously years ago. Having lost a child herself, Varina feels a sympathetic bond with the queen. And as she works under the watchful eye of handsome Nicholas Sutton, she develops feelings...
Author
Language
English
Description
Raised in a family at the center of the struggle for Irish home rule, young Irish noblewoman Elizabeth Fitzgerald, known as "Gera", flees to England as most of her relatives are imprisoned or executed. Entering court politics first as a lady-in-waiting to Henry's doomed fifth queen and later wife to highly placed courtier Sir Anthony Browne, her desire for revenge and the reinstatement of her family is balanced by respect for the disinherited princesses...
Author
Language
English
Description
She survived her own innocence, and the treachery of Europe’s royal courts; The Last Boleyn is the story of the rise and fall of the Boleyns, one of England’s most powerful families, through the eyes of the eldest daughter, Mary.
Although her sister, Anne, the queen; her brother, George, executed alongside Anne; and her father, Thomas, are most remembered by history, Mary was the Boleyn who set into motion the chain of...
Although her sister, Anne, the queen; her brother, George, executed alongside Anne; and her father, Thomas, are most remembered by history, Mary was the Boleyn who set into motion the chain of...
Author
Series
Elizabeth I mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the fall of 1558, Princess Elizabeth plunges into an investigation of a multiple murder where she might become a master poisoner's next victim.
14) Circle of gold
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rebecca Blake is an orphaned mountain girl who is adopted by the Shakers and marries a British lord, and eventually returns to her Kentucky roots.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Though summering in the lush countryside to escape the plague rampaging through London, the queen and her court cannot escape the reach of a multiple murderer who seems to disappear at will. The queen calls upon her small, select band of advisors to help ferret out the identity of the maze murderer.
18) The tidal poole
Author
Series
Elizabeth I mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Young Queen Elizabeth I places herself in charge of a secret investigation when a high-born, high-living lady of the court is murdered during Elizabeth's coronation procession to Westminster Palace.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request