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21682) Jasper
Author
Series
Tudor trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Preseli Press
Pub. Date
©2016
Language
English
Description
Following the best-selling historical fiction novel OWEN - Book One of The Tudor Trilogy, this is the story, based on actual events, of Owen's son Jasper Tudor, who changes the history of England forever. England 1461: The young King Edward of York has taken the country by force from King Henry VI of Lancaster. Sir Jasper Tudor, Earl of Pembroke, flees the massacre of his Welsh army at the Battle of Mortimer's Cross and plans a rebellion to return...
21684) Passing fancies
Author
Series
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When stylish young bibliophile Julia Kydd returns to 1920s New York, she's determined to launch her own private press. Julia's aspirations take her into the heart of the Harlem Renaissance, a literary movement unlike any she's known--where notions of race, sexuality, and power are slippery, and identities can be deceptively fluid. At a risqǔ soiree, Julia befriends singer Eva Pruitt, whose new book is rumored to reveal lurid details about the Harlem...
21685) The unlikely spy catchers
Author
Series
The St. Brendan volume 2
Publisher
Camel Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The Unlikely Spy Catchers is a novel about friendship and love, an unusual school for workhouse boys training for the Royal Navy, and the ever-present danger of life in a seafaring town at a time of grave national emergency, as Napoleon considers taking his war to England itself"--Amazon.com.
21686) Son of the night
Author
Series
Banners of blood volume 2
Publisher
Gollancz
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
France is on its knees. The battle of Crecy saw its angels torn from the sky by the English dragon, the flower of its nobility killed or captured. Charles the Bad of Navarre finds himself blamed for the loss. Out of allies on earth, desperate for revenge on those who have cast him inside, he will play Heaven and Hell against each other to claw his way to the French throne.
21687) Margaret Mitchell
Author
Series
Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 566
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
1990
Language
English
21688) Henry
Author
Series
Tudor trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Preseli Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Bosworth 1485: After victory against King Richard III, Henry Tudor becomes King of England. Rebels and pretenders plot to seize his throne. The barons resent his plans to curb their power and he wonders who he can trust. He hopes to unite Lancaster and York through marriage to the beautiful Elizabeth of York. With help from his mother, Lady Margaret Beaufort, he learns to keep a fragile peace. He chooses a Spanish Princess, Catherine of Aragon, as...
21689) Vystrel na Bolʹshoĭ Morskoĭ
Author
Publisher
Ėksmo
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Russian
Description
"In St. Petersburg, on one of the most luxurious streets - Bolshaya Morskaya - the former Minister of Post and Telegraphs Lev Makov committed suicide. Why would a successful, vocated sovereign and court of the minister shoot himself in the chest, and at an absolutely incredible angle? The state adviser, the pal of the nobleman Pavel Blazovo and his faithful assistant, handsome, strongman and master of reincarnations Alexei Lykov, will have to pull...
21690) El Fabricante de Muñecas
Author
Publisher
Rocaeditorial
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
Al comienzo de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el espíritu de Karolina viaja mágicamente desde la Tierra de las Muñecas a Cracovia, Polonia, tienda de Dollmaker, Cyryl, y juntos corren grandes riesgos para salvar a sus amigos judíos.
At the beginning of World War II, Karolina's spirit magically travels from the war-torn Land of the Dolls to the Kraków, Poland, shop of the Dollmaker, Cyryl, and together they take great risks to save their Jewish friends....
Author
Series
Tudor trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Preseli Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Set against a background of the conflict between the Houses of Lancaster and York the novel explores the life of Owen Tudor, grandfather of King Henry VII and the great-grandfather of King Henry VIII.
21696) The man from Mittelwerk
Author
Publisher
Inkshares, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
1950. The Cold War simmers, and ex-GI Jack Waters is called in to investigate a fatal accident at a research lab in California. When Waters recognizes the victim, he realizes he must revisit his hidden past in World War II to solve a murder and prevent Nazi scientists from creating a terrible, new weapon in America. Blending noir detective fiction with post-WWII history, The Man from Mittelwerk builds from the facts of Operation Paperclip, the U.S....
21698) Four sisters, all queens
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning author of the controversial international bestseller The Jewel of Medina, a historical novel that chronicles the lives of four sisters, all daughters of Beatrice of Provence--all of whom became queens in medieval Europe. When Beatrice of Savoy, countess of Provence, sends her four beautiful, accomplished daughters to become queens, she admonishes them: Family comes first. As a result, the daughters--Marguerite, queen of France;...
21699) La biblioteca di Parigi
Author
Series
Publisher
Garzanti
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Italiano
Description
"Parigi, 1940. I libri sono la luce. Odile non riesce a distogliere lo sguardo dalle parole che campeggiano sulla facciata della biblioteca e che racchiudono tutto quello in cui crede. Finalmente ha realizzato il suo sogno. Finalmente ha trovato lavoro in uno dei luoghi più antichi e prestigiosi del mondo. In quelle sale hanno camminato Edith Wharton ed Ernest Hemingway. Vi è custodita la letteratura mondiale. Quel motto, però, le suscita anche...
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