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1) Stormbird
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Wars of the Roses volume 1
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English
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“Capturing the violence and romance of medieval life, Iggulden makes real those grand characters who live in the collective memory. A page-turner sure to have readers eager for the next in the series." —Kirkus
The first book in #1 New York Times-bestselling author Conn Iggulden’s brilliant new historical series about two families who plunged England into a devastating, decades-long civil war.
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The first book in #1 New York Times-bestselling author Conn Iggulden’s brilliant new historical series about two families who plunged England into a devastating, decades-long civil war.
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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""If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?" England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith's son from Putney emerges from the spring's bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness...
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English
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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...
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Kensington chronicles volume 4
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English
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Marigold scorns the king's edict and vows she will never marry a lowly earl, so Lord Vincent must call his beloved Megan from the abbey and send her to marry Bracken of Hawkings Crest. Soon jealousy drives Marigold to madness when she discovers that Bracken has been made a duke for his obedience. Will Megan be rescued from Marigold's wicked scheme?
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English
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The daughters of a ruthlessly ambitious family, Mary and Anne Boleyn are sent to the court of Henry VIII to attract the attention of the king, who first takes Mary as his mistress, in which role she bears him an illegitimate son, and then Anne as his wife.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Anne Boleyn may be best known for losing her head, but as Tudor expert Tracy Borman reveals in a book that recasts British history, her greatest legacy lies in the path-breaking reign of her daughter, Elizabeth. Much of the fascination with Britain's legendary Tudors centers around the dramas surrounding Henry VIII and his six wives and Elizabeth I's rumored liaisons. Yet the most fascinating relationship in that historic era may well be that between...
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Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Richly researched and utterly captivating, "The Lady in the Tower" presents the full array of evidence of Anne Boleyn's guilt--or innocence. Only in Weir's capable hands can readers learn the truth about the fate of one of the most influential and important women in English history.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Young Henry began his rule as a magnificent and chivalrous Renaissance prince who embodied every virtue. He had all the qualities to make a triumph of his kingship, yet we remember only the violence. Henry famously broke with the pope, founding the Church of England and launching a religious revolution that divided his kingdom. He beheaded two of his wives and cast aside two others. He died a suspicious, obese, disease-riddled tyrant, old before...
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English
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Albom becomes involved with a Detroit pastor - a reformed drug dealer and convice - who preaches to the poor and homeless in a decaying church with a hole in its roof. Moving between worlds, Christian, Jewish, African-American and white, impoverished and well-to-do, Albom observes how these very different men employ faith similarly in fighting for survival: the older, suburban rabbi embracing it as death approaches; the younger inner-city pastor...
17) Firebrand
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Widowed for the second time at age thirty-one, Katherine Parr falls deeply for the dashing courtier Thomas Seymour and hopes at last to marry for love. Instead, she attracts the amorous attentions of the ailing, egotistical, and dangerously powerful Henry VIII. No one is in a position to refuse a royal proposal. Haunted by the fates of his previous wives--two executions, two annulments, one death in childbirth--Katherine must wed Henry and rely on...
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Young royals volume 4
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
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English
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In 1501 fifteen-year-old Catharine of Aragon arrives in England to marry Arthur, the eldest son of King Henry VII, but soon finds her expectations of a happy settled life radically changed when Arthur unexpectedly dies and her future becomes the subject of a bitter dispute between the kingdoms of England and Spain.
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English
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Eleanor of Aquitaine, after having spent the past dozen years as consort to King Louis VII of France, meets Henry, the future king of England. After her first marriage is annulled, Eleanor and Henry marry, but that union charged with physical heat, begins a fiery downward sp iral marred by power struggles, betrayals, bitter rivalries.
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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In this new 2022 high-definition program, learn all about King Henry VIII. What was he known for during his reign as the King of England? Who were his six wives and why were two beheaded? What was the curse of King Henry VIII's brother's widow? The answers to all of these questions and more are covered in depth with detailed graphics, diagrams and exciting video that reinforce important concepts.
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