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St. Martin's Griffin is proud to reissue acclaimed biographer Carolly Erickson's lives of the Tudor monarchs.
In this full-scale popular biography of Henry VIII, Carolly Erickson re-creates the extravagant life and times of one of history's most complex and fascinating men.
Based on voluminous records of the period, the story of Henry's life covers his troubled youth, his triumphant early reign, and his agonizing old age.
Against the lively backdrop...
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The romance of Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Devereux captures "the real drama of ambition, passion, and personality in the pageant of veracious history" (The Philadelphia Inquirer).
The author who helped to shape the modern biography turned his glorious prose and searing wit to one of the most famous romances in British history, that of Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex. As the San Francisco Chronicle raved, "Elizabeth is...
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Around the World with a King, is an eyewitness account of Hawaiian King Kalakaua's journey around the world in 1881.William Armstrong accompanied the King as a member of His Majesty's Government and Royal Commissioner for Immigration. His account of this remarkable circumnavigation, the first ever for a monarch, is told with humor and insight, although not always with sympathy for the King's aspirations or ideals .The book is a gem of Hawaiian literature....
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Anna Alexandrovna Vyrubova (1884-1964) was a Russian lady-in-waiting and close friend of Tsaritsa Alexandra Fyodorovna, Empress of Russia and wife of the last ruler of the Russian Empire, Nicholas II. Within this fascinating volume, she recounts her unique experiences of life at the Russian court and relationship with the Romanov family during the years leading up to the 1917 revolution. Offering extraordinary insights into the Romanovs and the political...
1485) The Queen's Agent
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Elizabeth I came to the throne at a time of insecurity and unrest. Rivals threatened her reign, England was a Protestant island, isolated in a sea of Catholic countries. Spain plotted an invasion, but Elizabeth's Secretary, Francis Walsingham, was prepared to do whatever it took to protect her.
He ran a network of agents in England and Europe who provided him with information about invasions or assassination plots. He recruited likely young men and...
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King John of England was married to two women: Isabella of Gloucester and Isabelle of Angoulême. The two women were central to shaping John and his reign, each in her own way molding the king and each other over their lives. Little is known about Isabella of Gloucester and she has largely become an historical footnote, Isabelle of Angoulême has a reputation as a witch and poisoner. However, both were products of their time, victims and pawns of...
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La série en sept tomes, Les-Bourbons.
Club, vous présente son premier opus sur les rois Bourbons qui ont marqué l'Histoire
Premier souverain de la branche dite de Bourbon de la dynastie capétienne, Henri IV succéda à Henri III sur le trne de France en 1584. Baptisé catholique à sa naissance, il changea plusieurs fois de religion et se reconvertit finalement au catholicisme pour être accepté comme roi de France. En 1598, il signa l'Édit...
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A true story of royal intrigue-with famed diarist Samuel Pepys as the main protagonist-as a fatal shipwreck on the shores of Restoration Britain sparks a mystery that now may finally be solved.
In 1682, Charles II invited his scandalous younger brother, James, Duke of York, to return from exile and take his rightful place as heir to the throne.
To celebrate, the future king set sail in a fleet of eight ships destined for Edinburgh, where he...
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Based on the Parable of the Hidden Treasure and the Pearl in Matthew 13:44-45, this is the perfect picture book to teach young children what a real treasure is.
In Princess Hope and the Hidden Treasure Princess Hope and her sisters are on a shopping trip in the kingdom. They come across a small box with a ring in it and realize it once belonged to their grandmother. The princesses cannot afford the ring, but Hope plans a "courtyard sale" and it is...
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From acclaimed historian Chris Skidmore comes the authoritative biography of Richard III, England's most controversial king, a man alternately praised as a saint and cursed as a villain.
Richard III is one of English history's best known and least understood monarchs. Immortalized by Shakespeare as a hunchbacked murderer, the discovery in 2012 of his skeleton in a Leicester parking lot re-ignited debate over the true character of England's most controversial...
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The extraordinary story of the Russian slave girl Roxelana, who rose from concubine to become the only queen of the Ottoman empire.
In Empress of the East, historian Leslie Peirce tells the remarkable story of a Christian slave girl, Roxelana, who was abducted by slave traders from her Ruthenian homeland and brought to the harem of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent in Istanbul. Suleyman became besotted with her and foreswore all other concubines. Then,...
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This eloquent biography of the most influential nobleman of the Elizabethan Age reveals how Robert Dudley brilliantly captivated the court of Elizabeth I-and the heart of a queen.
In many respects Lord Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, was the most significant statesman of the Elizabethan Age, ranking only behind the queen herself in precedence. As a great impresario, he honored Elizabeth I to glittering effect and became the forerunner of Shakespearean...
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La série en sept tomes, Les-Bourbons.
Club, vous présente son second opus sur les rois Bourbons qui ont marqué l'Histoire
Louis XIII, fils d'Henri IV et de Marie de Médicis, est roi de France et de Navarre entre 1610 et 1643. Son règne, marqué par l'affaiblissement des Grands et des Protestants, la lutte contre la maison de Habsbourg et l'affirmation de la domination militaire française en Europe pendant la guerre de Trente Ans, est inséparable...
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A thrilling new account of the tragic story and troubled times of Henry VI, who inherited the crowns of both England and France and lost both.
Firstborn son of a warrior father who defeated the French at Agincourt, Henry VI of the House of Lancaster inherited the crown not only of England but also of France, at a time when Plantagenet dominance over the Valois dynasty was at its glorious height. And yet, by the time he died in the Tower of London...
1495) The Devil Takes a Bride
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A high society bad girl's plan for marriage backfires in this Regency romance by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Trouble with Honor.
Once the toast of society, Grace Cabot and her sisters now await the shame of losing high status and fine luxuries upon the death of the Earl of Beckington. The dire circumstances are inevitable unless, of course, Grace's wicked plot to seduce a wealthy viscount into marriage goes off without a single...
1497) The Fairy Rose
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From the ALA YALSA Award-winning author and multiple award-winning filmmaker Kailin Gow comes the Fairy Rose Chronicles Series...Meet Rose, a fairy girl in the Kingdom of Summer, and her adventures as a fairy growing up in Fairyland, or Feyland, as it is formally called. As a summer fairy, Rose is kept busy with the Summer Harvest. The last thing on her mind was the gift she receives on her fairy 13th birthday, which brings out a gift she didn't know...
1498) Daughters of Chivalry
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Virginal, chaste, humble, patiently waiting for rescue by brave knights and handsome princes: this idealized-and largely mythical-notion of the medieval noblewoman still lingers. Yet the reality was very different, as Kelcey Wilson-Lee shows in this vibrant account of the five daughters of Edward I, often known as Longshanks.
The lives of these sisters-Eleanora, Joanna, Margaret, Mary and Elizabeth-ran the gamut of experiences open to royal women...
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The de Clare sisters Eleanor, Margaret and Elizabeth were born in the 1290s as the eldest granddaughters of King Edward I of England and his Spanish queen Eleanor of Castile, and were the daughters of the greatest nobleman in England, Gilbert "the Red" de Clare, Earl of Gloucester. They grew to adulthood during the turbulent reign of their uncle Edward II, and all three of them were married to men involved in intense, probably romantic or sexual,...
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Extrait: "Cette conscience de lui-même, - de ce qu'il était, de ce qu'il valait, de ce qu'il représentait, - Louis XIV, est-il besoin de l'ajouter? n'y atteignit que petit à petit. Il commença par aimer comme tout le monde, c'est-à-dire à la mode du jour, car il est rare qu'un adolescent ou qu'un jeune homme aime naturellement. L'amour, - je ne dis pas sensualité, - n'est souvent, chez lui, qu'un cas de mimétisme."
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