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Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
593 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Young Henry began his rule as a magnificent and chivalrous Renaissance prince who embodied every virtue. He had all the qualities to make a triumph of his kingship, yet we remember only the violence. Henry famously broke with the Pope, founding the Church of England and launching a religious revolution that divided his kingdom. He beheaded two of his wives and cast aside two others. He died a suspicious, obese, disease-riddled tyrant, old before...
Author
Series
Boleyn volume 1
Publisher
Scribner Paperback Fiction
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
664p. 23cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Boleyn volume 2
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
518 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
An only survivor of the ambitious Boleyn family, lady-in-waiting Jane Boleyn testifies against Henry VIII's latest queen, Anne of Cleves, and conspires to place her young cousin, Katherine Howard, on the throne.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini celebrates Christmas, past and present, with a wondrous novel inspired by the classic poem "Christmas Bells," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. I heard the bells on Christmas Day/ Their old familiar carols play/ And wild and sweet/ The words repeat/Of peace on earth, good-will to men! In 1860, the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow family celebrated Christmas at Craigie House, their home in Cambridge,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Language
English
Description
"The sequel to Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller, Wolf Hall delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has failed to give him a son and her sharp intelligence and audacious will alienate his old friends and the noble families of England. When the discarded Katherine dies in exile from the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First Touchstone hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
528 pages : map, genealogical table ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
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 gaze of his mother, Margaret Beaufort.
Author
Series
Wolf Hall volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Description
Assuming the power recently lost by the disgraced Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas Cromwell counsels a mercurial Henry VIII on the latter's efforts to marry Anne Boleyn against the wishes of Rome, a successful endeavor that comes with a dangerous price.
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First U.S edition.
Language
English
Description
""If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?" England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith's son from Putney emerges from the spring's bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness...
14) The king's curse
Author
Series
The Cousins' war volume 6
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
612 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"...the story of lady-in-waiting Margaret Pole and her unique view of King Henry VIII's stratospheric rise to power in Tudor England"--Book jacket.
Author
Series
Six Tudor Queens volume 4
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
498 pages : geneaology chart ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Six Tudor queens volume 6
Publisher
Ballantine Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
521 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir brings her Tudor Queens series to a close with the remarkable story of Henry VIII's sixth and final wife, who manages to survive him and remarry, only to be thrown into a romantic intrigue that threatens the very throne of England. Having sent his much-beloved but deceitful young wife Katheryn Howard to her beheading, King Henry fixes his lonely eyes on a more mature woman, thirty-year-old, twice-widowed...
Author
Series
Six Tudor Queens volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
559 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Acclaimed author and historian Alison Weir continues her epic Six Tudor Queens series with this third captivating novel, which brings to life Jane Seymour, King Henry VIII's most cherished bride and mother of his only legitimate male heir. Ever since she was a child, Jane has longed for a cloistered life as a nun. But her large noble family has other plans, and as an adult, Jane is invited to the King's court to serve as lady-in-waiting to Queen...
18) Into the Dim
Author
Series
Into the Dim volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
428 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Hope Walton travels back in time to help rescue her mother, a member of the secret society of time travelers, who is trapped in twelfth-century England in the age of Eleanor of Aquitaine.
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