Penman, Sharon Kay
Summary: The Christian ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem following the First Crusade, Baudouin IV, struggles to hold his throne despite political intrigue, personal health risks, and the growing threat of Saladin and his army.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PENGulland, Sandra.
Summary: Continues the story of Josephine's marriage to Napoleon Bonaparte, as she witnesses the political intrigues, betrayals, triumphs, and ruin of those around her.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GULGregory, Philippa.
Summary: A tale of the Wars of the Roses follows Elizabeth Woodville, who ascends to royalty and fights for the well-being of her family, including two sons whose imprisonment in the Tower of London precedes a devastating unsolved mystery.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster 2010
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC GREGaneshram, Ramin
Summary: Philadelphia 1793. Hercules, President George Washington's chef, is a fixture on the Philadelphia scene. He is famous for both his culinary prowess and for ruling his kitchen like a commanding general. He has his run of the city and earns twice the salary of an average American workingman. He wears beautiful clothes and attends the theater. But while valued by the Washingtons for his prowess in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Ganeshram 2018Plaidy, Jean
Summary: After gaining the throne by his victory at Bosworth, Henry VII attempts to bolster his insecure regime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1984
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Summary: As Henry VIII's only child, the future seemed golden for Princess Mary. She was the daughter of Henry's first queen, Katharine of Aragon, and was heir presumptive to the throne of England. Red-haired like her father, she was also intelligent and deeply religious like her staunchly Catholic mother. But her father's ill-fated love for Anne Boleyn would shatter Mary's life forever. The father who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rivers Press 2004
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Summary: Bishop's Lynn, England, 1413. At the age of forty, Margery Kempe has nearly died giving birth to her fourteenth child. Fearing that another pregnancy might kill her, she makes a vow of celibacy, but she can't trust her husband to keep his end of the bargain. Desperate for counsel, she visits the famous anchoress Dame Julian of Norwich and confesses that she has been haunted by visceral...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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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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Summary: "A charming picture book about the Brontë siblings as children creating their own adventures,"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Book Group 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE OLEGiovinazzo, Diana
Summary: "Austria 1767: Maria Carolina Charlotte-ninth daughter and sixteenth child of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria-knows her position as a Hapsburg archduchess will inevitably force her to leave her home, her family, and her beloved country. But not yet. The Hapsburg family is celebrating a great triumph: Charlotte's older sister, Josepha, has been promised to King Ferdinand IV of Naples, and will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GIOByrd, 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 BYRGappah, Petina
Summary: Gappah's powerful novel of exploration and adventure in 19th-century Africa is the captivating story of the loyal men and women who carried explorer and missionary Dr. Livingstone's body, his papers, and maps, 1,500 miles across the continent of Africa, so his remains could be returned home to England and his work preserved there. "This is how we carried out of Africa the poor broken body of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GAPLove, Dorothy
Summary: "A novel of enduring friendship based on the true-life account of Mary Anna Curtis Lee, great-granddaughter of Martha Washington and wife of General Robert E. Lee, and Selina Norris Gray, a slave girl who became Mary's housekeeper and confidante"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016