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Summary: Seven award-winning young adult authors illuminate the lives of Britain's King Henry VIII and his six wives from different viewpoints.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2018

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FAT

Lasky, Kathryn.

Summary: In a series of diary entries, Princess Elizabeth, the eleven-year-old daughter of King Henry VIII, celebrates holidays and birthdays, relives her mother's execution, revels in her studies, and agonizes over her father's health.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1999

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Russell, Gareth

Summary: "Written with narrative flair and historical authority, this biography of the tragic life of Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII, breaks new ground in our understanding of the young, doomed woman who became queen at a time of unprecedented social and political tension. On the morning of July 28, 1540, as King Henry VIII's former confidant Thomas Cromwell was being led to his execution, a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CATHERINE HOWARD, QUEEN RUS

Summary: Lucy Worsley brings to life key events in European royal history, covering: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and England's parting of ways with Catholic Europe; the Regency, and the reasons that George III reliquished power; the Russian Revolution, revealing that the Czar had actually been deposed by an uprising that had preceded the October Revolution of 1917.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LUC

Gregory, Philippa.

Summary: After her husband and his sister Anne Boleyn lose their heads, Jane Boleyn returns to advise Anne of Cleves, Henry VIII's fourth wife. Freed from her brother's oppression, Anne wants to be a good wife and queen, but soon discovers she's traded one tyrant for another. And when the queen's stunning 15-year-old attendant enters the royal palace, her charms turn the king's head and give his aging...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC Gre

Dunn, 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 DUN

Starkey, David.

Summary: Starkey examines the rituals of diplomacy, marriage, pregnancy, and religion that were part of daily life for women at the Tudor Court.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2003

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 920 STARK

Weir, 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, Call number: FIC WEI

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEI

Gregory, Philippa.

Summary: 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2007

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRE

Weir, Alison.

Summary: Profiles the oft-married English monarch and the women that came to define him through marriage, detailing their little-known histories and personalities. "Brilliantly written and meticulously researched...Alison Weir is adept at bringing to life these historical figures." Henry VIII is perhaps England's most infamous monarch, especially when it comes to matters of the heart. He was married to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1991

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942.052 WEI

Erickson, 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 ERI

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Gregory, Philippa.

Summary: Daughter of Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain, Katherine of Aragon has been fated her whole life to marry Prince Arthur of England. When they meet and are married, the match becomes as passionate as it is politically expedient. But tragically, Arthur falls ill and extracts from his young bride a deathbed promise to marry his brother Henry, become Queen, and fulfill their dreams and her...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2005

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Borman, Tracy

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Summary: "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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BOR

Fraser, Antonia

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Publisher / Publication Date: Chivers 1992

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Weir, Alison

Summary: A novel of the devout young woman who became the unwilling object of King Henry VIII's ardor-and the mother of his only son. In this third book in the epic Six Tudor Queens series, the acclaimed historian and bestselling author brings new insight to this dramatic story, showing how pure fear for her life determined Jane Seymour's actions. 25-year-old Jane Seymour wants nothing more than to...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018

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Weir, Alison.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEN

Fox, Julia.

Summary: Exposes the inner sanctum of court life during the reign of Henry VIII through the eyes and ears of Jane Boleyn, wife of George Boleyn and sister-in-law to Queen Anne Boleyn. Jane emerges as a courageous spirit, a modern woman forced by circumstances to fend for herself in a privileged but vicious world.--From source other than Library of Congress.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 TUDOR, HOUSE OF FOX

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 942.05 FOX

Hutchinson, Robert

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CROMWELL, THOMAS HUT

Weir, Alison

Summary: This novel brings to life the idealistic monarch who expanded Parliament, founded the Royal Navy, modernized medical training, composed music and poetry, and patronized the arts. A passionate man in search of true love, he was stymied by the imperative to produce a male heir, as much a victim of circumstance as his unhappy wives. Had fate been kinder to him, the history of England would have...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WEI

Plaidy, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rivers Press 2005

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PLA

Summary: Provides short biographies of each of the women to whom the king was married.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: British Broadcasting Corp. 2010

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SIX

Murphy, Anne.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Triumph Books 1997

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942.052 MUR

Wick, Lori.

Summary: 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?

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harvest House Publishers 1995

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIC

Guy, John

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Summary: Based on new research, this history of Henry VIII's courtship, short union, and brutal execution of Anne Boleyn provides dispels previously held myths about Boleyn's role in the marriage.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 942.05 GUY

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