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Hopkinson, Deborah

Summary: In 1582 thirteen-year-old Emilia Bassano is a lute player and aspiring playwright who stumbles on a plot to kill Queen Elizabeth, and is recruited by Sir Francis Walsingham to go to the castle where Mary Queen of Scots is being held and discover who is responsible for the plot.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HOP

Dunn, Jane.

Summary: A dual portrait of England's Queen Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots documents their complex relationship, different characteristics, and ideals, and discusses their reigns, power struggle, and influence on British history.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942.055 DUNN

Lee, Tony

Summary: When Ireland suffers under the rule of Henry VIII, Grace O'Malley takes to the seas after her husband's murder and gains a reputation as the Pirate Queen of Ireland and confronts Queen Elizabeth I.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 OMA

Summary: Anne of the thousand days: Follow King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn in one of history's most famous tragic love affairs in the Academy Award winning masterpiece starring Richard Burton and Genevieve Bujold.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ANN

Cornick, Nicola

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Summary: 1560: Amy Robsart is trapped in a loveless marriage to Robert Dudley, a member of the court of Queen Elizabeth I. Surrounded by enemies, Amy hatches a desperate scheme to escape-- one with devastating consequences that will echo through the centuries. Present Day: When Lizzie Kingdom is forced to withdraw from the public eye in a blaze of scandal, she encounters Johnny Robsart, whose fate will...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2020

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COR

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COR

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2023

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

Yomtov, Nelson

Summary: "The book explains the life of Queen Elizabeth I"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ELI

Weir, Alison

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Summary: A vivid fictional portrait of the tumultuous early life of Queen Elizabeth I describes her perilous path to the throne of England and the scandal, political intrigues, and religious turmoil she confronted along the way, from the deaths of her parents, Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII, to the fanaticism of her sister, Mary I.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2008

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEI

Stanley, Diane.

Summary: Follows the life of the strong-willed queen who ruled England in the time of Shakespeare and the defeat of the Spanish Armada.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001

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Summary: A look at Elizabeth's turbulent early years, from age three when her mother was executed and she was declared illegitimate and banished from court, through to the start of her reign.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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

Herring, Peg.

Summary: "Simon Maldon is sent by Queen Elizabeth to form an honest assessment of the Scottish queen's character. With Simon gone, his son Henry, wife Hannah, and old friend Calkin delve into the murder of Simon's brother-in-law, Will Clark. Determined to hide his crimes, the killer is willing even eager to murder again. Simon faces his own trials when Scottish outlaws capture his party. In order to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HER

Summary: Queen Elizabeth's realm is divided, politically unstable and dangerous. We see her troubled reign through the eyes of her spymasters, Willian and Robert Cecil, a father and son team in charge of counter terrorism and the protection of the fragile life of the one woman on whom everything depends. Looks at the entrapment and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, the capture and escape of Catholic...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2018

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Eding, June.

Summary: Presents the life of Queen Elizabeth I, from her birth to Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn in 1533 and her imprisonment by her half-sister, to her reign as queen, which brought peace, stability, and prosperity to sixteenth-century England.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2008

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ELI

Summary: Hosted and based on the book by Dr. Helen Castor, an accomplished and elegant historian, and filmed on location in England and France, this captivating BBC series explores the lives of seven English queens who challenged male power, the fierce and fiery reactions they provoked, and whether, in fact, much has changed.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2013

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

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Summary: Queen of France at sixteen, widowed at eighteen, Mary Stuart defies pressure to remarry and instead returns to her native Scotland to reclaim her rightful throne. By birth, she also has a rival claim to the throne of Elizabeth I, who rules as the Queen of England. Mary asserts her claim to the English throne, threatening Elizabeth's sovereignty. Betrayal, rebellion, and conspiracies within each...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2019

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MAR

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MAR

MacCaffrey, Wallace T.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: E. Arnold 1993

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ELIZABETH I MAC

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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1999

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Gortner, C. W.

Summary: When Mary Tudor's unpopular betrothal to the Catholic prince of Spain sparks rumors that her half-sister, Princess Elizabeth, is plotting to depose her, Brendan Prescott is thrust into a deadly cat-and-mouse game in London's treacherous underworld.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 0000

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOR

Gregory, Philippa.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Encore/Simon & Schuster Audio 2004

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

Harper, Karen (Karen S.)

Summary: "Harper's fast-paced, suspenseful ninth historical (after 2005's The Fatal Fashione) finds Elizabeth I beset by Spanish antagonism at sea and by political rivals in England, especially the scheming Mary, Queen of Scots, and the rebellious northern lords. While on a summer outing in 1569 with her new ally, Francis Drake, an arrow barely misses Elizabeth, claiming the life of her falconer...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur 2007

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAR

Holmes, Martin Rivington

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: F. A. Praeger 1969

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942.1 HOL

Weir, Alison.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WEI

Buckley, Fiona.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2000

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Quilligan, Maureen

Summary: "A leading Renaissance scholar shows in this revisionist history how four powerful women redefined the culture of European monarchy in the glorious sixteenth century. Library Journal "Books and Authors to Know: Titles to Watch 2021" Sixteenth-century Europe was a time of destabilization of age-old norms and the waging of religious wars-yet it also witnessed the remarkable flowering of a pacific...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2021

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