A knight's widow in 1461, Elizabeth employs her considerable charms to reel in the biggest catch of all--virile King Edward IV. When their clandestine marriage comes to light, powerful enemies eye Elizabeth with contempt. After Edward...
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Author:Gregory, PhilippaSummary: -
Author:Gregory, PhilippaSummary:Passionately in love with Richard III in spite of her arranged marriage to pretender to the throne Henry Tudor, Princess Elizabeth of York is forced to marry the man who murdered her lover and create a royal family under the controlling...
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Author:Pilkington, RichardSummary:In 1971, authorities in Islamabad perpetrated mass atrocities in East Pakistan. How did the North Atlantic powers - the United Kingdom, United States, and Canada - respond? The West and the Birth of Bangladesh explores decision-making...
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*2016 Newbery Honor book
*Winner of the 2016 Schneider Family Book AwardThis New York Times bestseller is an exceptionally moving story of triumph against all odds set during World War 2. For fans of Counting by 7s....
- Author:Grann, DavidSummary:
From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on...
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Author:Starr, MelSummary:A local lord asks Hugh of Singleton to track the killer of a young woman whose bones have been found in the castle cesspit, identified as the impetuous missing daughter of a local blacksmith.
- Author:HARDY, ThomasSummary:
Our heroine, Anne Garland, lives quietly in a rural community deep in the English countryside. However, the arrival of several regiments preparing for an expected invasion brings colour and chaos to the county. A graceful and charming...
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- Author:Neuvel, SylvainSummary:
Award-winning author Sylvain Neuvel explores an immigration dystopia in The Test Britain, the not-too-distant future. Idir is sitting the British Citizenship Test. He wants his family to belong. Twenty-five questions to determine their...
- Author:Simmons, Dan.Summary:
The men on board the HMS Terror -part of the ill-fated 1945 Franklin Expedition-are entering a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, stranded in a nightmarish landscape of ice and desolation. Endlessly cold, they struggle...
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Author:Vayden, KristinSummary:Dogged by gossip and scandal, Ramsey Scott, Marquess of Sterling, is the last man who should stand guard over lovely Miss Grace Morgan, much less fall for her. When the innocent's first outings of the season land her in Temptations...
- Author:BRUTON, Francis ArchibaldSummary:
On 16th August 1819 around 60,000 people gathered at St. Peter’s Fields, Manchester, to rally for parliamentary reform. Shortly after the meeting began, a troop of Hussars and local yeomanry rode into the crowd, wielding...
- Author:Fleming, IanSummary:
When 007 turns up at a sleepy American backwoods motel, he soon realizes that Vivienne Michel is in a tight spot-and that Sol Horror and Sluggsy Morant are hardened killers bent on destruction. Escaping from a past she doesn't want...
- Author:Larson, ErikSummary:
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz NAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2020 BY...
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Author:Rose, SimonSummary:Travelling back in time a boy fights for his life in the terrifying London of 1483.
- Author:Rioux, SébastienSummary:
The distribution of food played a considerable yet largely unrecognized role in the economic history of Victorian and Edwardian Britain. In the midst of rapid urbanization and industrialization, retail competition intensified and the...
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When Marcus Didius Falco, a private informer, encounters the young and beautiful Sosia Camillina in the Forum, he senses that something is amiss. He offers to help her and, in doing so, gets himself mixed up in a deadly plot involving...
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Author:Aitchison, JohnSummary:For twenty years John Aitchison has been traveling the world to film wildlife for a variety of international TV shows, taking him to far-away places on every continent. The Shark and the Albatross is the story of these journeys of...
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Author:Plaidy, JeanSummary:The marriage of Katharine of Aragon and King Henry VIII was a right royal match. England loved the young lovers, but hardly were they wed when powerful people in Henry's court were spinning webs of intrigue around the innocent...
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Author:Fraser, John, CMSummary:Award-winning journalist, author, and royal authority John Fraser explores the endurance and allure of the Crown in Canada. With his trademark wit and artful agility, Fraser looks at the Crown's evolution from the Age of Deference to...
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