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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xxiii, 392 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
Traces the fifteenth-century civil wars that irrevocably shaped the British crown, particularly evaluating the roles of strong women including Margaret of Anjou, Elizabeth Woodville, and Margaret Beaufort in shifting power between two ruling families.
Author
Series
Cousins' war volume 2
Formats
Description
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.
8) The stolen crown: it was a secret marriage... one that forever changed the fate of England forever
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xii, 384 p. ; 23 cm.
11) The white queen
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
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Description
In this account of the wars of the Plantagenets, a woman of extraordinary beauty and ambition, Elizabeth Woodville, catches the eye of the newly crowned boy king, marries him in secret and ascends to royalty. While Elizabeth rises to the demands of her exalted position and fights for the success of her family, her two sons become central figures in a mystery that has confounded historians for centuries: the missing princes in the Tower of London whose...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
410 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
Taken in at the kitchens at Buckland Manor after the cruel death of his mother, young John quickly rises from kitchen boy to cook before catching the attention of the daughter of the lord of the manor, who resolves to starve herself until her father calls off her unwanted engagement.
14) The ice monster
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"When Elsie, an orphan on the streets of Victorian London, hears about the mysterious Ice Monster, a woolly mammoth found at the North Pole, she's determined to discover more. Then a chance encounter brings Elsie face to face with the creature, and sparksthe adventure of a lifetime"--
15) Clockwork angel
Author
Series
Infernal devices volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
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Description
When sixteen-year-old orphan Tessa Fell's older brother suddenly vanishes, her search for him leads her into Victorian-era London's dangerous supernatural underworld, and when she discovers that she herself is a Downworlder, she must learn to trust the demon-killing Shadowhunters if she ever wants to learn to control her powers and find her brother.
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Having sunk the first man-of-war under his command within weeks, Matthew Quinton is determined to complete his second mission without loss of life or honor. His suspicion grows that the previous captain of the "Jupiter" was murdered and many among his crew have something to hide.
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