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Chiaverini, 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?

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAudio 2020

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Chiaverini, Jennifer

Summary: 1875. Elizabeth Todd Edwards reels from news that her younger sister Mary, former First Lady and widow of President Abraham Lincoln, has attempted suicide. The shocking act followed legal proceedings arranged by Mary's eldest and only surviving son that declared her legally insane. The Todd sisters - maternal Elizabeth, peacemaker Frances, envious Ann, and much adored Emilie - had always turned...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020

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Pataki, 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,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAT

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Pataki 2016

Jemc, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JEM

Goodwin, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Goodwin 2015

Pataki, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Howard Books 2015

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Dray, 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.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC DRA

Gregory, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2008

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRE

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Plaidy, Jean

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1971

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PLA

Gregory, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008

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Alpsten, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALP

Bagwell, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAG

Barnhill, 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,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAR

Miles, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rivers Press 2003

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIL

Parris, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAR

Byrd, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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

Erickson, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2010

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ERI

Keneally, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEN

Maxwell, Robin

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2003

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAX

Howes, Emily

Summary: The daughters of one of England's most famous portrait artists of the 1700s, Peggy and Molly Gainsborough are inseparable due to Molly's bouts of mental confusion, and as Peggy goes to great lengths to protect her sister's secret, she falls in love with a charming composer, which sparks the bitterest of betrayals.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2024

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Ellis, Bella

Summary: Before they became legendary writers, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, and Anne Brontë were "lady detectors" in this charming historical mystery. Not yet published novelists, they have well-honed imaginations and are expert readers. And, as Charlotte remarks, "detecting is reading between the lines--it's seeing what is not there."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2019

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ELL

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELL

Holden, Wendy

Summary: "Sunday Times bestselling author Wendy Holden brings to life the unknown childhood years of one of the world's most iconic figures, Queen Elizabeth II, and reveals the little-known governess who made Britain's queen into the monarch we know today. In 1933, twenty-two-year-old Marion Crawford accepts the role of a lifetime, tutoring their Royal Highnesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose. Her one...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Holden

Cobbs Hoffman, Elizabeth

Summary: Set against the dramatic backdrop of the American Revolution, and featuring a cast of iconic characters such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and the Marquis de Lafayette, The Hamilton Affair tells the sweeping, tumultuous, true love story of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler, from tremulous beginning to bittersweet ending—his at a dueling ground on the shores of the Hudson...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Publishing 0000

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COB

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Gregory, Philippa.

Summary: "Follows Lady Margaret Beaufort as she desperately tries to ensure her son Henry VII becomes the rightful heir to the throne" -- from publisher's web site.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010

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

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