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The red queen
The Red Queen by Philippa Gregory tells the story of Margaret Beaufort, a determined woman who, despite the limitations of her time, becomes a powerful force in English history. Married young and widowed early, she is driven to secure a future for herself and her son. Through political maneuvering and strategic alliances, she plots the downfall of the Yorkist regime and the eventual ascension o…
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- 9781451627206
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- 429 p. : ill. ; 17 cm.
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- SS F GRE t
All the queen's players
All the Queen's Players is a historical romance novel set in the court of Queen Elizabeth I. It follows the story of Rosamund Walsingham, the niece of the powerful spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham. Rosamund is drawn into the world of intrigue and espionage as she navigates the complexities of court life. Her life intertwines with the lives of famous historical figures such as Christopher Marlow…
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- 9781451613025
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- 455 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
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- A F FEA a
The rise of tudors: the family that changed english history
The Rise of the Tudors tells the story of a Welsh family's unlikely rise to the English throne. From Owen Tudor's scandalous affair with a queen to Henry Tudor's victory at Bosworth Field, the book explores how the Tudors ended the Wars of the Roses and ushered in a new era for England.
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- 9781250061447
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- xxi, 437 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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- SS 942.04 SKI r
Horton halfpott, or, the friendish mystery of smugwick manor, or, the looseni…
Horton, an upstanding kitchen boy in a castle in nineteenth-century England, becomes embroiled in a mystery surrounding a series of thefts, which is also connected to the pursuit of a very eligible and wealthy young lady's affections
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- 9780810997158
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- 206 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
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- SS F ANG h
The usborne history of britain
A look at the history of Britain from the Ice Age to the start of the new millenium
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- 9780746084441
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- 512 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
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- SS 941 BRO u
The professor and the madman: a tale of murder, insanity and the making of th…
The creation of the Oxford English Dictionary began in 1857, took seventy years to complete, drew from tens of thousands of brilliant minds, and organized the sprawling language into 414,825 precise definitions. But hidden within the rituals of its creation is a fascinating and mysterious story - a story of two remarkable men whose strange twenty-year relationship lies at the core of this histo…
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- 61030228
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- xi, 242 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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- SS 423.092 WIN p
The great game: the struggle for empire in central asia
The Great Game, a deadly struggle in the last century between secret agents of the two superpowers--Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia--has once again become ominously topical, as a new power struggle begins in Central Asia
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- 9781568360225
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- xxiv, 565 p : ill., maps, portraits; 25 cm.
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- SS 320.958 HOP g
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