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41) John Henry
Author
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
Retells the life of the legendary African American hero who raced against a steam drill to cut through a mountain.
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Language
English
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A richly detailed fictional portrait of Henry VIII's first wife, Katherine of Aragon, the daughter of Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain, follows her from her passionate youthful marriage to Henry's older brother, Arthur, her widowhood, her marriage to Henry and her denial of her true love for Arthur, and the divorce that led to Henry's second marriage to Anne Boleyn.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
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
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Henry Hughes has been fishing his entire life. But unlike those who stick to their local stream, Hughes has traveled the world in search of new and exciting adventures.Back Seat with Fish is unlike any memoir you've ever read. Traveling across East Asia--from Beijing to Bangkok--as well as throughout the United States, Hughes shares stories of the fish he's caught and the people he's met.Fishing is a sport that crosses boundaries of race, ethnicity,...
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Series
Henry Huggins volume 5
Language
English
Description
Recently, Ramona Quimby has been following Henry Huggins on his newspaper route, embarrassing him in front of his customers and his friends. The day Ramona follows Henry to his "No girls allowed" clubhouse, she almost puts an end to his newspaper career forever.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"From the bestselling neurosurgeon and author of Do No Harm, comes Henry Marsh's And Finally, an unflinching and deeply personal exploration of death, life and neuroscience. As a retired brain surgeon, Henry Marsh thought he understood illness, but he was unprepared for the impact of his diagnosis of advanced cancer. And Finally explores what happens when someone who has spent a lifetime on the frontline of life and death finds himself contemplating...
50) Twenty million acres: the story of America's first conservationist ; William Henry Harrison Beadle
Author
Pub. Date
c1937
Language
English
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Series
Six Tudor queens volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Young Katherine of Aragon, daughter of Spain's powerful monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella, was an exquisite prize in the royal marriage market. Golden-haired, sixteen years old, she was sent to England to marry the future king, Arthur, Prince of Wales. But when Arthur died a few months after their wedding, Katherine's bright future was suddenly eclipsed. It took his younger brother Henry VIII eight long years to do the honorable thing and marry her....
53) The strangler
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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Description
Before the New York Times bestselling success of Defending Jacob, William Landay wrote this widely acclaimed second novel of crime and suspense, which was named a Favorite Crime Novel of the Year by the Los Angeles Times and several other newspapers.
Boston, 1963. Meet the charming, brawling Daley brothers. Joe is a cop whose gambling habits have dragged him down into the city’s underworld. Michael...
Boston, 1963. Meet the charming, brawling Daley brothers. Joe is a cop whose gambling habits have dragged him down into the city’s underworld. Michael...
54) Conspiracy
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Paris, 1585. Giordano Bruno, heretic, philosopher and spy for Elizabeth's minister Sir Francis Walsingham, has come to Paris. King Henri III is surrounded by enemies: the Duke of Guise's Catholic League; Henri of Navarre's Protestant army; and from within his own court, where his mother Catherine of Medici wields immense influence. Bruno, alone and near destitute, turns to old friend Paul Lefevre. But when the priest is murdered, Bruno is pulled into...
55) Falconer's trial
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In 1272 Oxford, Lady Ann Segrim has been murdered, and the suspect is William Falconer, who, strangely, doesn't deny the charges, but Symon and Saphira Le Veske uncover an extraordinary plot when they try to clear his name.
56) Henry Moore
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Introduces the life and work of Henry Moore, discussing his early years, life in England, and development as an artist.
57) Lionheart
Author
Series
Richard the Lionheart volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
1179. Henry II's Norman conquerors have swept through England, Wales - and now Ireland. Irish nobleman Ferdia has been imprisoned in Wales to ensure the good behaviour of his rebellious father. But during a skirmish on a neighbouring castle, Ferdia saves the life of the man who would become one of the most legendary warriors to have ever lived: Richard Plantagenet. The Lionheart. Taken as Richard's squire, Ferdia crosses the Narrow Sea to resist the...
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