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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xxii, 663 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Description
Drawing on numerous interviews and never-before-revealed documents, acclaimed biographer Sally Bedell Smith pulls back the curtain to show in intimate detail the public and private lives of Queen Elizabeth II, who has led her country and Commonwealth through the wars and upheavals of the last sixty years with unparalleled composure, intelligence, and grace.
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
64 p. : col. ill., col. maps, ports. ; 25 cm.
Description
Discusses the life of Queen Elizabeth I, from her birth to Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn in 1533, her imprisonment by her half-sister, through her reign as one of England's more respected monarchs, to her death in 1603.
Author
Description
"Clive Irving's stunning new narrative biography The Last Queen probes the question of the British monarchy's longevity. In 2021, the Queen Elizabeth II finally appears to be at ease in the modern world, helped by the new generation of Windsors. But through Irving's unique insight there emerges a more fragile institution, whose extraordinarily dutiful matriarch has managed to persevere with dignity, yet in doing so made a Faustian pact with the media"--...
Author
Publisher
Summit Books
Pub. Date
c1983
Physical Desc
447 p. : ports.
Description
In this remarkable biography, Carolly Erickson brings Elizabeth I to life and allows us to see her as a living, breathing, elegant, flirtatious, diplomatic, violent, arrogant, and outrageous woman who commands our attention, fascination, and awe.
With the special skill for which she is acclaimed, Carolly Erickson electrifies the senses as she evokes with total fidelity the brilliant colors of Elizabethan clothing and jewelry, the texture of tapestries,...
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Robert Hardman, the acclaimed and respected author of Her Majesty and Queen of the World has already examined the Queen as a modern monarch and her role as a stateswoman abroad. Now, in this entirely new study, including unpublished Royal Family papers and photographs along with personal stories from other world leaders, he wraps up the full story of one of the undisputed greats in a thousand years of monarchy. Hardman distils Elizabeth's complex...
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Description
When a series of passenger airplanes crashed in Elizabeth, N.J., within a three-month period in 1951-1952, Judy Blume was a teenager. "These events have lingered in my mind ever since," says Blume. Against this background, Blume uses her imagination to bring us the lives of three generations of families, friends, and strangers who will be profoundly affected by these events, either directly or indirectly. This is Blume's first novel for adults since...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
vi, 493 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm
Description
A groundbreaking biography of Elizabeth I revealing for the first time the woman behind the polished veneer as she confronts challenges at home and abroad: war against the Catholic powers of France and Spain, revolt in Ireland, an economic crisis that triggered riots in the streets of London, and a conspiracy to place her cousin Mary Queen of Scots on her throne.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Throughout history, the British monarchy has relied on its courtiers--the trusted advisers in the King or Queen's inner circle--to ensure its survival as a family and a pillar of the country. Today, as ever, a carefully selected team of people hidden from view steers the royal family's path between public duty and private life. Queen Elizabeth II, after a remarkable 70 years of service, saw the final seasons of her reign without her husband Philip...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xiii, 284 pages ; 24 cm
Description
For the crime of stealing bread, fourteen-year-old May receives a life sentence: she must become a Sin Eater-a shunned woman, brutally marked, whose fate is to hear the final confessions of the dying, eat ritual foods symbolizing their sins as a funeral rite, and thereby shoulder their transgressions to grant their souls access to heaven. Orphaned and friendless, apprenticed to an older Sin Eater who cannot speak to her, May must make her way in...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
214 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
In 1542, nine-year-old Lady Elizabeth lives on an estate near London, striving to get back into the good graces of her father, King Henry VIII, and as the years pass she faces his death and those of other close relatives until she finds herself next in line to ascend the throne of England in 1558.
Author
Series
Publisher
Leopoldo & Co, Atria
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
John Dee, a man destined to become history's first MI6 agent, protects Age of Enlightenment-era England and a brilliant Elizabeth I from a wartime Spanish plot to conquer nations that would defy its Catholic orthodoxy.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
viii, 296 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Description
The official companion to the second and third seasons of the Emmy-winning Netflix drama about the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, featuring additional historical background, expert commentary, and beautifully reproduced images.
18) Maid of secrets
Author
Series
Maids of honor volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
406 p.
Description
In 1559 England, Meg, an orphaned thief, is pressed into service and trained as a member of the Maids of Honor, Queen Elizabeth I's secret all-female guard, but her loyalty is tested when she falls in love with a Spanish courtier who may be a threat.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"In 1583, the nineteen-year-old Christopher Marlowe---with a reputation as a brawler, a womanizer, a genius, and a social upstart at Cambridge University---is visited by a man representing Marlowe's benefactors. There are rumors of a growing plot against her majesty Queen Elizabeth I, and the Queen's spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham, has charged young Marlowe with tracking down the truth. The path to that truth seems to run through an enigmatic prisoner...
20) Sacred treason
Author
Series
Clarenceux trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks, Inc
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
459 p. cm.
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