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Countess of Leicester, Lettice Dudley 1543-1634 Fiction Countess of Shrewsbury, Elizabeth Hardwick Talbot 1527?-1608 Fiction Earl of Leicester, Robert Dudley 1532?-1588 Fiction Empress, consort of Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria Elisabeth 1837-1898 Fiction Families Great Britain History Elizabeth, 1558-1603 Fiction I, Queen of England Elizabeth 1533-1603 Fiction Nobility Great Britain Fiction Queens Fiction Queens Great Britain FictionChapin, Andrea.
Summary: Katharine de L'Isle, a young widow living at Lufanwal Hall during Queen Elizabeth's brutal persecution of the English Catholics in 1590, is thrown into turmoil when the family priest is murdered and a new schoolmaster named William Shakespeare arrives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAMaxwell, Robin
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2005
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Summary: A "novel of native-white relations in North America, intimately told through the life of Daytime Smoke--the real-life red-haired son of William Clark and a Nez Perce woman. In 1805, Lewis and Clark stumble out of the Rockies on the edge of starvation. The Nez Perce help the explorers build canoes and navigate the rapids of the Columbia, then spend two months hosting them the following spring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OSBJemc, Jac
Summary: History knows them as King Ludwig II of Bavaria and Empress Elizabeth of Austria, icons of the late nineteenth century who died young and left behind magnificent portraits and palaces. But to each other they were Ludwig and Sisi, cousins who shared a passion for beauty and a stubborn refusal to submit to the roles imposed upon them. Ludwig, simultaneously spoiled and punished for his softness...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JEMPataki, Allison
Summary: "In imperial Vienna, where the court halls buzzed with waltzes and champagne, as well as temptation, rivals, and cutthroat intrigue, the intensely personal tale of Empress Sisi unraveled. Infamously beautiful, a mother of four, and wife of Emperor Franz Joseph - whom she unintentionally stole away from her sister - Sisi's reign was anything but simple. Against the backdrop of a rich, romantic,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Pataki 2016Pataki, Allison.
Summary: The New York Times best-selling author of The Traitor's Wife fictionalizes the little-known and tumultuous love story of "Sisi," the 19th-century Austro-Hungarian empress and captivating wife of Emperor Franz Joseph.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Howard Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATGoodwin, Daisy.
Summary: "Empress Elizabeth of Austria, known as "Sisi," is the Princess Diana of nineteenth-century Europe. Famously beautiful, as captured in a portrait with diamond stars in her hair, she is unfulfilled in her marriage to the older Emperor Franz Joseph. Sisi has spent years evading the stifling formality of royal life on her private train or yacht or, whenever she can, on the back of a horse. Captain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Goodwin 2015Dray, Stephanie
Summary: A fictional retelling of the life of Eliza Hamilton describes her passionate dedication to America's independence, her unlikely marriage to penniless but brilliant officer Alexander Hamilton, and the turmoil and tragedies that challenged her legacy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC DRAGregory, Philippa.
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GreAlpsten, Ellen
Summary: "Ellen Alpsten's stunning new novel, The Tsarina's Daughter, is the dramatic story of Elizabeth, daughter of Catherine I and Peter the Great, who ruled Russia during an extraordinary life marked by love, danger, passion and scandal. Born into the House of Romanov to the all-powerful Peter the Great and his wife, Catherine, a former serf, beautiful Tsarevna Elizabeth is the envy of the Russian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALPBagwell, Gillian.
Summary: Twelve years old when she enters the court of King Henry VII, where she is plunged into a world of politics and intrigue, Bess of Hardwick eventually discovers that, for a woman of substance, power and possibility are endless.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAGBarnhill, Anne Clinard.
Summary: "Mistress Mary Shelton is Queen Elizabeth's favorite ward, enjoying every privilege the position affords. The queen loves Mary like a daughter, and, like any good mother, she wants her to make a powerful match. The most likely prospect: Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford. But while Oxford seems to be everything the queen admires: clever, polished and wealthy, Mary knows him to be lecherous, cruel,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARMcNeal, Laura
Summary: "A tender and engrossing historical novel about the unlikely love affair between two great nineteenth-century poets, Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett. On a bleak January day in 1845, a poet who had been confined to her room for four years by recurrent illness received a letter from a writer she secretly idolized but had never seen."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC MCNMiles, Rosalind.
Summary: A fictional autobiography of Elizabeth I of England combines historical accuracy with insightful character studies to provide a picture of the world in 1600.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rivers Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILParris, S. J.
Summary: When several of the queen's maids of honor are found dead, rumors of black magic abound. Elizabeth calls upon her personal astrologer, John Dee, and Giordano Bruno to solve the crimes. While Dee turns to a mysterious medium claiming knowledge of the murders, Bruno fears that something far more sinister is at work.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARPlaidy, Jean
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1971
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PLAChiaverini, Jennifer
Summary: Elizabeth Todd Edwards reels from news that her sister Mary, widow of President Lincoln, has attempted suicide. If Mary's sisters can put past grievances aside, will their love be powerful enough to save her?
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAudio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CHIGregory, Philippa.
Summary: Presents a tale inspired by the story of Mary, Queen of Scots, in a work that follows the doomed monarch's long imprisonment in the household of the Earl of Shrewsbury and his spying wife, Bess.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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Summary: Spring, 2016. Queen Elizabeth is at Windsor Castle in advance of her 90th birthday celebrations. When a guest is found dead in one of the Castle bedrooms, the scene suggests the young Russian pianist strangled himself, but a badly tied knot leads MI5 to suspect foul play was involved. Unhappy at the handling of the case and concerned for her staff's morale, the monarch-- with help from her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BENByrd, Sandra.
Summary: In 1565, seventeen-year-old Elin von Snakenborg leaves Sweden on a treacherous journey to England. Her fiance has fallen in love with her sister and her dowry money has been gambled away, but ahead of her lies an adventure that will take her to the dizzying heights of Tudor power. Transformed through marriage into Helena, the Marchioness of Northampton, she becomes the highest-ranking woman in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BYRErickson, Carolly
Summary: A novel about the bitter rivalry between Queen Elizabeth I and her fascinating cousin, Lettice Knollys, for the love of one extraordinary man--Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ERIKeneally, Thomas
Summary: "From the bestselling author of Schindler's List and The Daughters of Mars, a new historical novel set on the remote island of Saint Helena about the remarkable friendship between a young woman and one of history's most intriguing figures, Napoleon Bonaparte, during the final years of his life in exile. In October 1815, after losing the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte was banished to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KENMaxwell, Robin
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAXBird, Sarah
Summary: "The compelling, hidden story of Cathy Williams, a former slave and the first woman to ever serve in the US Army "Here's the first thing you need to know about Miss Cathy Williams: I am the daughter of a daughter of a queen and my Mama never let me forget it." Missouri, 1864 Powerful, epic, and compelling, Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen shines light on a nearly forgotten figure in history....
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018