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English
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The author of "The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England" takes readers through the world and daily life of Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth I, and others. Organized as a travel guide for time-hopping tourists, Mortimer's work will interest Elizabethan enthusiasts and history buffs alike.
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
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Named after a character in a Shakespeare play, misfit sixth-grader Hero becomes interested in exploring this unusual connection because of a valuable diamond supposedly hidden in her new house, an intriguing neighbor, and the unexpected attention of the most popular boy in school.
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Series
Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 18
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When the queen's spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham, learns Ursula is to visit her relatives in Devon, he asks her to find out what has happened to two of his local agents, who have been strangely silent. On arrival in Devon, Ursula learns both men have met with mysterious, and fatal, accidents.
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Series
Nicholas Bracewell mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Allyson & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old orphan Christopher "Kit" Buckles becomes a stage boy in a London theater in 1598, tries his hand at acting, and later helps build the Globe Theater for playwright William Shakespeare and the Chamberlain's Men acting troupe.
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Series
John Dee papers volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Summoned by William Cecil to address dangerous questions about Elizabeth I's legitimacy, royal astrologer John Dee teams up with Robert Dudley to retrieve the bones of King Arthur, a mission that is complicated by magic, a first love, and a complex plot against the queen.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Presents the life of Queen Elizabeth I, from her birth to Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn in 1533 and her imprisonment by her half-sister, to her reign as queen, which brought peace, stability, and prosperity to sixteenth-century England.
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Sir Robert Carey mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
Thursday, 12th October, 1592. Eighteen days after the action closes in An Air of Treason, courtier Sir Robert Carey and Carey's surly, larcenous, and loyal henchman Henry Dodd, Land Sergeant of Gilsland, are back in Carlisle and the Debateable Lands -- the Border country, the Wild North, the land of the hot trod where the thieving, feuding reiver clans are "English when it suited, and Scots at their pleasure." A Chorus of Innocents ushers forward...
11) A web of silk
Author
Series
Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 17
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"August, 1582. The queen's spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham, has ordered Ursula to keep an eye on her new neighbor, Giles Frost, who is rumoured to be spying for King Philip of Spain. Arriving at Knoll House on the pretext of teaching his two daughters embroidery, Ursula's secret mission is to feed false information to Frost to pass on to the Spanish. Walsingham has assured Ursula that she'll be in no danger. But events take a decidedly sinister...
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