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Summary: When Katherine of Aragon is brought to the Tudor court as a young bride, the oldest princess, Margaret takes her measure. With one look, each knows the other for a rival, an ally, a pawn, destined with Margaret's younger sister Mary to a sisterhood unique in the world. The three sisters will become the queens of England, Scotland, and France. United by family loyalties and affections, the three...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GREWeir, Alison
Summary: "Newly widowed and the father of an infant son, Henry VIII realizes he must marry again to ensure the royal succession. Forty-six, overweight, and suffering from gout, Henry is soundly rejected by some of Europe's most eligible princesses. Anna of Kleve, from a small German duchy, is twenty-four, and has a secret she is desperate to keep hidden. Henry commissions her portrait from his court...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEIErickson, Carolly
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Wife of Henry VIII comes a powerful and moving novel about Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII's first wife and mother of Mary I When young Catherine of Aragon, proud daughter of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, is sent to England to marry the weak Prince Arthur, she is unprepared for all that awaits her: early widowhood, the challenge of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERIPlaidy, Jean
Summary: As a teenager, Katharine leaves her beloved Spain, land of olive groves and soaring cathedrals, for the drab, rainy island of England. There she is married to the king's eldest son, Arthur, a sickly boy who dies six months after the wedding. Katharine is left a widow who was never truly a wife, lonely in a strange land, with a very bleak future. Her only hope of escape is to marry the king's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rivers Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PLAGregory, Philippa
Summary: United in sisterhood by birth and marriage, Katherine of Aragon, Queen of England; Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots; and Mary Tudor, Queen of France immediately recognize each other as both allies and rivals in the treacherous world of court and national politics. Their bonds extend beyond natural and expeditious loyalties, as romance, scandal, war, and religion inextricably unite these three for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Gregory 2016Gregory, Philippa.
Summary: "A riveting new Tudor tale featuring King Henry VIII's sixth wife Kateryn Parr, the first English queen to publish under her own name. Why would a woman marry a serial killer? Because she cannot refuse... Kateryn Parr, a thirty-year-old widow in a secret affair with a new lover, has no choice when a man old enough to be her father who has buried four wives-- King Henry VIII-- commands her to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRECopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Gregory 2015Dunn, Suzannah
Summary: The tragic, moving, and gripping story of the ascendance and fall of Katherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII-- and the best friend she nearly dragged down with her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNPlaidy, Jean
Summary: Dangerous court intrigue and affairs of the heart collide as renowned novelist Jean Plaidy tells the story of Katherine Parr, the last of Henry VIII’s six queens.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rivers Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PLAWeir, Alison
Summary: Henry VIII is risking his marriage and the political strategies of Cardinal Wolsey in his obsession to marry Anne Boleyn, who does not welcome the king's advances and loathes the cardinal for breaking her betrothal to Harry Percy. Anne is barely a teenager when she is sent from her family's Hever Castle to serve at the royal court of the Netherlands. There, and later in France, Anne thrives....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEIPlaidy, Jean
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Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rivers Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PLAErickson, Carolly
Summary: A tale inspired by the life of Jane Seymour follows her dedicated service as a Maid of Honor to Catherine of Aragon until a scheming Anne Boleyn throws the court into turmoil, a situation that culminates in Jane's dangerous relationship with Henry VIII.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ERIWeir, Alison
Summary: Anne is barely a teenager when she is sent from her family's Hever Castle to serve at the royal court of the Netherlands. There, and later in France, Anne thrives. But her powerful family has ambitious plans for her future that override any wishes of her own. When the King of England himself, Henry VIII, asks Anne to be his mistress, she spurns his advances-- he is a married man who has already...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC WEIBarnhill, Anne Clinard.
Summary: "A sweeping tale of sexual seduction and intrigue at the court of Henry VIII, At the Mercy of the Queen is a rich and dramatic debut historical about Madge Shelton, cousin and lady-in-waiting to Anne Boleyn. At the innocent age of fifteen, Lady Margaret Shelton arrives at the court of Henry VIII and quickly becomes the confidante of her cousin, Queen Anne Boleyn. But she soon finds herself...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARErickson, Carolly
Summary: A fictionalized account of the life of Catherine Howard traces her early years as a sensual plaything for a series of lovers and her treasonous passion for Tom Culpeper before her failure to produce a son for the king and scandalous allegations condemn her to death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ERIMaxwell, Robin
Summary: A look at the future queen of England between the ages of nine and seventeen when she lived in France and was befriended by Queen Claude, the brilliant Marguerite of Savoy, the clever but lecherous Francois I, and even Leonardo da Vinci.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAXGregory, Philippa.
Summary: Passionately in love with Richard III in spite of her arranged marriage to pretender to the throne Henry Tudor, Princess Elizabeth of York is forced to marry the man who murdered her lover and create a royal family under the controlling gaze of his mother, Margaret Beaufort.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GREBarnes, Margaret Campbell
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P BARMaxwell, Robin
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAXWeir, Alison
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2023