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Tudor novels (Philippa Gregory) volume 3
Tudor court volume 03
Plantagenet and Tudor novels volume 10
Thorndike large print core
Tudor court volume 03
Plantagenet and Tudor novels volume 10
Thorndike large print core
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Three women who share one fate: The Boleyn Inheritance: Anne of Cleves: She runs from her tiny country, her hateful mother, and her abusive brother to a throne whose last three occupants are dead. King Henry VIII, her new husband, instantly dislikes her. Without friends, family, or even an understanding of the language being spoken around her, she must literally save her neck in a court ruled by a deadly game of politics and the terror of an unpredictable...
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Tudor novels (Philippa Gregory) volume 6
Plantagenet and Tudor novels volume 15
Thorndike Press large print core
Tudor court novels volume 06
Plantagenet and Tudor novels volume 15
Thorndike Press large print core
Tudor court novels volume 06
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This dazzling novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory presents a new and unique view of one of history's most intriguing, romantic, and maddening heroines. Biographers often neglect the captive years of Mary, Queen of Scots, who trusted Queen Elizabeth's promise of sanctuary when she fled from rebels in Scotland and then found herself imprisoned as the guest of George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, and his indomitable wife,...
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In their world they are alone, a family haunted by banishment, struggling for survival in a harsh new land. A woman who has borne and buried children, Eve sees danger shadowing those she loves, while her husband drifts further and further from the man he was in the Garden, blinded by his need to rebuild a life outside of Eden. One daughter, alluring, self-absorbed Naava, turns away from their beliefs. Another, crippled, ever-faithful Aya, harbors...
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Cousins' war volume 1
Plantagenet and Tudor novels volume 03
Thorndike Press large print core
Plantagenet and Tudor novels volume 2
Plantagenet and Tudor novels volume 03
Thorndike Press large print core
Plantagenet and Tudor novels volume 2
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In this account of the wars of the Plantagenets, a woman of extraordinary beauty and ambition, Elizabeth Woodville, catches the eye of the newly crowned boy king, marries him in secret and ascends to royalty. While Elizabeth rises to the demands of her exalted position and fights for the success of her family, her two sons become central figures in a mystery that has confounded historians for centuries: the missing princes in the Tower of London whose...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 15
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"Indiana, 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods around a one-room cabin where nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his mother's deathbed. Only later does the grieving son learn that his mother's fatal affliction was the work of a vampire. Gifted with legendary height, strength, and skill with an ax, Abe sets out on a path of vengeance that will lead all the way to the White House. Lincoln is lauded for saving the Union and freeing millions...
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Katherine Ashley, the daughter of a poor country squire, happily secures an education and a place for herself in the Tudor court of Henry VIII. As a dying favor to the doomed Anne Boleyn, Kat becomes governess and surrogate-mother to the young Elizabeth Tudor ... ultimately emerging as the lifelong confidante to Queen Elizabeth I.
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2010.
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"Heiress to the red rose of Lancaster, Margaret Beaufort never surrenders her belief that her house is the true ruler of England and that she has a great destiny before her. Married, quickly widowed, and a mother by age fourteen, Margaret is determined to turn her lonely life into a triumph. She sets her heart on putting her son on the throne regardless of the cost to herself, to England, and even to the boy. She masterminds one of the greatest rebellions...
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Second novel in the George Washington series picks up the narrative a year after Washington's surprise attack on Trenton. Washington's battered army has retreated to Valley Forge where there is little food or winter clothing, while British troops in Philadelphia live in luxury. In spite of all, Washington's army endures and is soon joined by Baron von Steuben who recasts the troops as a professional fighting force.
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Bethia Mayfield is growing up in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans. Restless and curious, she yearns after an education that is closed to her by her sex. As often as she can, she slips away to explore the island's glistening beaches and observe its native Wampanoag inhabitants. At twelve, she encounters Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a tentative secret friendship that draws each...
10) The chaperone
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Accompanying a future famous actress from her Wichita home to New York, chaperone Cora Carlisle shares a life-changing five-week period with her ambitious teenage charge during which she discovers the promise of the 20th century and her own purpose in life.
11) Sutton
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A fictionalized account of Willie Sutton, one of the most notorious criminals in American history, which traces his life, his doomed romance with his first love, and his surprise pardon on Christmas Eve in 1969.
12) Fever
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2013.
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On the eve of the twentieth century, Irish 15-year-old Mary Mallon emigrated to New York City to climb the rungs of the domestic-service ladder until she became a cook. Sought after by New York aristocracy, Mary seemed to have achieved the life she'd aimed for--until a medical engineer noticed that she left a trail of disease wherever she cooked. Labeled an "asymptomatic carrier" of typhoid fever and now a hunted woman, Mary spends three years in...
13) A wilder rose
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"In 1928, Rose Wilder Lane-world traveler, journalist, highly-paid magazine writer-returned from an Albanian sojourn to her parents' Ozark farm. Almanzo Wilder was 71 and Laura 61, and Rose felt obligated to stay and help. Then came the Crash. Rose's investments vanished and the magazine market dried up. That's when Laura wrote "Pioneer Girl," her story of growing up in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, on the Kansas prairie, and by the shores of Silver...
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A tale inspired by the marriage of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald follows their union in defiance of her father's opposition and her abandonment of the provincial finery of her upbringing in favor of a scandalous flapper identity that gains her entry into the literary party scenes of New York, Paris and the French Riviera.
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"The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker, Jennifer Chiaverini, reveals the famous First Lady's very public social and political contest with Kate Chase Sprague, memorialized as "one of the most remarkable women ever known to Washington society." (Providence Journal) Kate Chase Sprague was born in 1840 in Cincinnati, Ohio, the second daughter to the second wife of a devout but ambitious lawyer. Her father, Salmon P. Chase,...
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"SISTERS OF TREASON, the second novel by Elizabeth Fremantle, is a story of love, politics and tragedy. Beginning early in Mary Tudor's turbulent reign, SISTERS OF TREASON explores the lives of a pair of sisters as dangerously close to the throne as their sister Lady Jane Grey, who died on the executioner's block at the age of 16, after being queen for nine days. After Jane's death, Lady Catherine becomes the focus of plots to thwart Mary Stuart's...
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The year is 1853, and the Habsburgs are Europe's most powerful ruling family. With his empire stretching from Austria to Russia, from Germany to Italy, Emperor Franz Joseph is young, rich, and ready to marry. Fifteen-year-old Elisabeth ("Sisi"), Duchess of Bavaria, travels to the Habsburg Court with her older sister, who is betrothed to the young emperor. But shortly after her arrival at court, Sisi finds herself in an unexpected dilemma: she has...
19) Christmas bells
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In 1860, the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow family celebrated Christmas at Craigie House, their home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The publication of Longfellow's classic Revolutionary War poem, “Paul Revere's Ride,” was less than a month hence, and the country's grave political unrest weighed heavily on his mind. Yet with his beloved wife, Fanny, and their five adored children at his side, the delights of the season prevailed. In present-day Boston,...
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"The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker and Mrs. Lincoln's Rival imagines the inner life of Julia Grant, beloved as a Civil War general's wife and the First Lady, yet who grappled with a profound and complex relationship with the slave who was her namesake-until she forged a proud identity of her own. In 1844, Missouri belle Julia Dent met dazzling horseman Lieutenant Ulysses S Grant. Four years passed before their parents...
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