Philippa Gregory
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Pub. Date
2017.
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"The latest novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory features one of the most famous girls in history, Lady Jane Grey, and her two sisters, each of whom dared to defy her queen. Seventeen-year-old Jane Grey was queen of England for nine days. Her father and his allies crowned her instead of the dead king's half-sister Mary Tudor, who quickly mustered an army, claimed her throne, and locked Jane in the Tower of London. When...
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Cousins' war volume 5
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After his victory at Bosworth field, to unify war-torn England, Henry Tudor, now King, must marry Elizabeth of York, princess of the enemy house, who is still in love with Richard III, his slain enemy. Elizabeth must choose between a young man who claims to be her brother and his claim to the throne, and her husband, she is coming to love.
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Cousins' war volume 3
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Descended from a river goddess, Jacquetta has always had the gift of second sight. Wed to the Duke of Bedford, she is introduced to the world of learning and alchemy. When his death leaves her a wealthy young widow, Jacquetta marries the Duke's squire, Richard Woodville. They return to England and have a daughter, Elizabeth, for whom Jacquetta senses an extraordinary future.
6) Tidelands
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Fairmile novels volume 1
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Midsummer's Eve, 1648, England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. The struggle reaches to every corner of the kingdom, even the remote Tidelands - the marshy landscape of the south coast. Alinor a descendant of wise women, crushed by poverty and superstition, waits in the graveyard under the full moon for a ghost who will declare her free from her abusive husband. Instead, she meets James, a young man on the...
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Fairmile novels volume 2
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"Midsummer Eve 1670. Two unexpected visitors arrive at a shabby warehouse on the south side of the River Thames. The first is a wealthy man hoping to find the lover he deserted twenty-one years before. James Avery has everything to offer, including the favour of the newly restored King Charles II, and he believes that the warehouse's poor owner Alinor hasthe one thing his money cannot buy-his son and heir. The second visitor is a beautiful widow from...
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Cousins' war volume 2
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Determined to see her son Henry on the throne of England, pious Margaret Beaufort arranges politically advantageous marriages, sends her son out of the country for his safety, and lays secret plans for a battle between the houses of York and Lancaster.
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Fairmile novels volume 3
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It is 1685 and England is on the brink of a renewed civil war. King Charles II has died without an heir and his brother James is to take the throne. But the people are bitterly divided, and many do not welcome the new king or his young queen. Ned Ferryman cannot persuade his sister, Alinor, that he is right to return from America with his Pokanoket servant, Rowan, to join the rebel army. Instead, Alinor and her daughter Alys, have been coaxed by the...
10) The other queen
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Series
Tudor novels (Philippa Gregory) volume 6
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
438 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
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 George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, and his indomitable wife,...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Anne Boleyn is a doe-eyed vixen who is ordered by her power-hungry uncle to bewitch King Henry VIII. Her shy sister Mary has always been in Anne's shadow. Anne is prettier, more accomplished, and desired by many men. So when the King picks Mary as his mistress, Anne turns on her sister and schemes to become not only the King's consort, but his new queen. Though the Boleyn girls' mother points out that her 'daughters are being traded like cattle for...