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"Respected biographer Katie Nicholl details the most insightful book on Prince Harry to date, based on exclusive interviews with former Palace aides, courtiers, friends, and family members, and including stories, clandestine lovers, family feuds, and family secrets never before revealed."--Provided by publisher.
1902) Cloak of scarlet
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Dericott tale volume 5
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Orphan Violet and knight Sir Merek team up to fight against the villainous Baron Dunham and corruption in the kingdom, while also navigating their growing feelings for each other.
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A first-ever account of one of the United Kingdom's foremost ducal families and a history of the times in which they lived.
Discover over two hundred years of fascinating history relating to one of Great Britain's foremost aristocratic dynasties, the (Orde-) Powletts, for several generations the Dukes of Bolton. The family motto, Love Loyalty, references their devotion to the monarchy, but it applies equally to their hearts. Willing to risk all in...
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Like William Wallace in Scotland, Owain Glyndwr fought for his country and was only finally defeated by superior numbers and the military genius of Henry V. Yet Glyndwr was not just a freedom fighter. He was the last native-born Prince of Wales, a man who initiated the first Welsh parliament at Machynlleth and proposed an entirely independent Welsh church. Glyndwr also laid plans for two Welsh universities, proposed a return to the far sighted and...
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A young girl discovers that playtime is as boundless as imagination in this empowering, rhyming picture book.
I can be anything that I want to be,
I'm a princess, a pirate, and I'm also just me!
Her name is Eleanor Wyatt, and some days she's a princess, some days she's a pirate.
Eleanor's parents have taught her she can be anything she wants to be, from a ninja to a cowgirl to a fairy with wings.
She can even star in her own book! Join Eleanor...
1906) The Restless Republic
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1649. King Charles I had been executed. A quarter of a million had died in the Second English Civil War. Two hundred great houses stood in ruins, with hundreds of villages and towns left battered and broken. The monarchy, the House of Lords and the Church of England were all abruptly abolished. What next? This is the story of 1649 to 1660, the eleven years when England, Wales and later Scotland and Ireland were governed as a republic. In the midst...
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Scholar Susan Godwin is hooked when she comes across the captivating story of Mary of Modena-a seventeenth-century Italian princess who was only fourteen when coerced into marriage with the future king of England, James II, yet went on to cultivate a court full of women writers in an age when female authorship was rare. How did Mary achieve such a feat?
Rain Dodging is Susan's creative nonfiction account of the years-long search upon which this...
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This intimate look at the bond between Queen Victoria and her granddaughter is "full of details regarding many European royals... thoroughly engrossing"(Kathryn J. Atwood, author of Women Heroes of World War II).
When Queen Victoria's second daughter Princess Alice married the Prince Louis of Hesse and Rhine in 1862, even her own mother described the ceremony as "more of a funeral than a wedding," thanks to the fact that it took place shortly after...
1909) Quintana of Charyn
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Lumatere chronicles volume 3
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Froi and his companions travel through Charyn to find Quintana and build an army to secure her unborn child's right to rule, an effort that culminates in an ultimate showdown with Isaboe of Lumatere.
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Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince and Other Stories(1888) is an inscrutable, magical fairy tale collection that has filled readers of all ages with joy and wonder. Each story explores profound truths of love, morality, and suffering; yet there is a poignant beauty that shines through each of these remarkable and timeless tales.
The opening story, "The Happy Prince" is set in a town full of suffering, where a little sparrow who had been abandoned by...
1912) Crown & sceptre: a new history of the British monarchy, from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II
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"Since William the Conqueror, duke of Normandy, crossed the English Channel in 1066 to defeat King Harold II and unite England's various kingdoms, forty-one kings and queens have sat on Britain's throne: "shining examples of royal power and majesty alongside a rogue's gallery of weak, lazy, or evil monarchs," as Tracy Borman evocatively describes them in her sparkling chronicle, Crown & Sceptre. Ironically, during very few of these 955 years has the...
1913) Napoleon: a life
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"The definitive biography of Napoleon, revealing the true man behind the legend. The story of Napoleon has been written many times. In some versions, he is a military genius, in others a war-obsessed tyrant. Here, historian Adam Zamoyski cuts through the mythology and explains Napoleon against the background of the European Enlightenment, and what he was himself seeking to achieve. This most famous of men is also the most hidden of men, and Zamoyski...
1914) Princess unlimited
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When a dragon attacks the kingdom and her parents are too preoccupied with sparkly things to help, the ever resourceful Princess Susan, with the help of some friends, puts into motion a delightfully unexpected plan.
1915) Outlaws
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Royal Academy rebels volume 2
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Banished to the Hollow Woods, Devin and her friends, old and new, devise a plan to expose the truth about evil fairy godmother Olivina to all of Enchantasia.
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Prince Henry of Wales has emerged as the unexpected jewel in the crown of the modern British monarchy. Despite his unruly antics, for which he's made headlines all over the world, Harry's popularity rivals that of the Queen herself. Heartthrob and loveable rogue, he has won the public's heart Duncan Larcombe's insightful and highly entertaining biography of the rebellious royal recalls Harry's Eton days, his military career and his tempestuous love...
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“Mary Queen of Scots and Lord Bothwell” is a short history of the life of Mary Stuart with a focus on the love affair between her and Lord Bothwell, a Scottish nobleman. Extracted from Lyndon Orr's “Famous Affinities of History”, published in 1912, this timeless story of love and intrigue will entice fans of the 2018 film “Mary Queen of Scots” starring Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie.
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Step behind the curtain and get an exclusive look at the lives of Britain's most iconic family with "Royal Family: Behind The Crown" - a captivating book bundle that features four distinct volumes exploring the history, traditions, scandals, and secrets of the British monarchy.
Book 1, "The Crowned Legacy," takes you on a journey through the storied history of the British Royal Family. From the early days of the House of Windsor to the reigns of...
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The stories of four royal women, their lives intertwined by family and bound by persecution, unravel the history of witchcraft in fifteenth-century England.
Until the mass hysteria of the seventeenth century, accusations of witchcraft in England were rare. However, four royal women, related in family and in court ties-Joan of Navarre, Eleanor Cobham, Jacquetta of Luxembourg and Elizabeth Woodville-were accused of practicing witchcraft in order to...
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“Princess Mononoke” meets “How to Train Your Dragon” in this magical middle grade adventure from Cindy Lin, author of The Twelve, featuring a blend of East and Southeast Asian folklore and mythical creatures, and starring a boy with a hero's destiny.
Prince Jin is running out of time.
He must find a monster companion before his thirteenth birthday or lose the throne completely.
And that means travelling to the only place where monsters...
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