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Book cover for "Boleyn traitor".
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Language:
English
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Her secrets shaped a kingdom. Her loyalty was deadly. Jane Boleyn watches from the shadows of the Tudor court, where nothing is more powerful than a secret. And power rests on the edge of a tyrant king's sword. She wears many masks--loving wife, devoted sister, and obedient spy. It's what a woman must do to survive. The only weapon she has is her voice. They say Jane's whispers sealed the fate of two queens. They called her a liar and a traitor. But...
Book cover for "The mirror & the light".
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Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
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4 stars
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""If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?" England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith's son from Putney emerges from the spring's bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness...
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Pub. Date:
2007
Language:
English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “vibrant and fresh” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) portrait of Lady Jane Grey, the Nine Days’ Queen—the stunning first novel from the renowned author hailed as “the finest historian of English monarchical succession writing” (The Boston Globe)
“Poignant [and] gripping.”—The Seattle Times
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Book cover for "How they choked".
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Lexile measure:
1010L
Language:
English
Description:
Presents a humorous look at the flaws and foibles of some of the most famous personalities of history, including such figures as Marco Polo, George Armstrong Custer, Thomas Edison, and Amelia Earhart.
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Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
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From the New York Times bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the tragic story of Charles I, his warrior queen, Britain's civil wars and the trial for his life. Less than forty years after England's golden age under Elizabeth I, the country was at war with itself. Split between loyalty to the Crown or to Parliament, war raged on English soil. The English Civil War would set family against family, friend against friend, and its...
Book cover for "Henry VIII and the Reformation Parliament".
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The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
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Henry VIII and the Reformation Parliament transforms students into English lords and commoners during the tumultuous years of 1529 to 1536. Cardinal Wolsey has just been dismissed as lord chancellor for failing to obtain an annulment of King Henry's marriage to Catherine of Aragon. Thomas More, the humanist author of Utopia, is named as Wolsey's replacement. More presides over Parliament, which the king has summoned in the hope that it somehow will...