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Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Description
"Explore one of the most prominent names from British royal history with this biography of Queen Elizabeth II. Kids will learn about her rise to become the current queen of the United Kingdom"--
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
103 pages : illustrations, maps ; 19 cm.
Description
Presents the life of Queen Elizabeth I, from her birth to Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn in 1533 and her imprisonment by her half-sister, to her reign as queen, which brought peace, stability, and prosperity to sixteenth-century England.
Author
Publisher
Aguilar
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
334 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
"When a young Princess Elizabeth met and fell in love with the dashing Naval Lieutenant Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, it wasn't without complications. The romance between the sailor prince and the young princess brought a splash of color to a nation still in the grip of post-war austerity. When they married in Westminster Abbey in November 1947, there were 3,000 guests, including six kings and seven queens. Within five years, as Queen Elizabeth...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
x, 310 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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Description
Anne Boleyn may be best known for losing her head, but as Tudor expert Tracy Borman reveals in a book that recasts British history, her greatest legacy lies in the path-breaking reign of her daughter, Elizabeth. Much of the fascination with Britain's legendary Tudors centers around the dramas surrounding Henry VIII and his six wives and Elizabeth I's rumored liaisons. Yet the most fascinating relationship in that historic era may well be that between...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xiii, 210 pages, 44 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
In 1582 thirteen-year-old Emilia Bassano is a lute player and aspiring playwright who stumbles on a plot to kill Queen Elizabeth, and is recruited by Sir Francis Walsingham to go to the castle where Mary Queen of Scots is being held and discover who is responsible for the plot.
Author
Publisher
Dey Street Books, an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
403 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"On September 8, 2022, the world stood still as news broke of Queen Elizabeth II's passing. Her death dismantled the protective shield around the world's most famous family and saw a long-simmering crisis of confidence in the British monarchy begin to resurface. Now, with unique insight, deep access, and exclusive revelations, journalist Omid Scobie pulls back the curtain on an institution in turmoil, exposing the infighting, family deterioration,...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
238 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
A deeply personal and illuminating approach to antiracism and allyship, revealing the power of imagination and action to dismantle oppressive systems and build liberating ones, from a highly lauded lecturer, public academic, writer, and activist. In A Renaissance of Our Own, Rachel Cargle details the seminal event that put her on the map-her viral 2017 Women's March appearance that thrust her into the national conversation on feminism and allyship-and...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023.]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (8 hrs., 56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ambitious and acclaimed series from The Queen writer Peter Morgan offers a comprehensive look at the adult life and reign of Elizabeth II over a projected six-season arc. The fifth season follows Elizabeth from the early to late '90s, as the fraying union of Charles and Diana ultimately came to separation, and John Major saw his tenure as prime minister end with the election of Tony Blair.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xxxviii, 215 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, photographs ; 24 cm
Description
An award-winning scholar of white supremacy tackles her toughest research assignment yet: the unsolved murder of a black man in rural Mississippi while her grandfather was the local sheriff--a cold case that sheds new light on the hidden legacy of racial terror in America.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
419 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"One of the most esteemed critics and writers of our time recalls his friendship and apprenticeship with Elizabeth Hardwick and Barbara Epstein and the introduction they offered him to the New York literary world in the 1970s"--
Author
Series
Shakespeare stealer volume 2
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
vi, 265 pages ; 20 cm
Description
In plague-ridden 1602 England, a fifteen-year-old orphan boy, who has become an apprentice actor, goes on the road with Shakespeare's troupe, and finds out more about his parents along the way.
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