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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.
Author
Series
Queen's favorite witch volume 2
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
As a young witch, Daisy Sparrow, gets used to her role as Queen Elizabeth I's right-hand witch, providing spells and cures at her beck and call. But things aren't completely merry in the castle. The constant pressure from the Queen's advisors for her to marry and turn over her power to a male sovereign boils over. Enter a prince from rival-country Spain. Only, Daisy feels she has seen him before and something's not quite right about him now. Can a...
Author
Language
English
Description
With his death in 1547, King Henry VIII left four heirs to the English throne: his only son the nine-year-old Prince Edward; the Lady Mary, the adult daughter of his first wife, Katherine Aragon; the Lady Elizabeth, the teenage daughter of his second wife, Anne Boleyn; and his young great-niece, the Lady Jane Grey. In this riveting account, Alison Weir paints a unique portrait of these extraordinary rulers, examining their intricate relationships...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
In 1582 thirteen-year-old Emilia Bassano is a lute player and aspiring playwright who stumbles on a plot to kill Queen Elizabeth, and is recruited by Sir Francis Walsingham to go to the castle where Mary Queen of Scots is being held and discover who is responsible for the plot.
Author
Series
Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Creme de la Crime
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
11) The tournament
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When the feared sultan of the mid-16th-century Ottoman Empire issues a chess tournament challenge to European royals, a young Elizabeth I accompanies England's champion, only to witness a brutal murder amid dangerous court machinations.
Author
Series
Queen's favorite witch volume 1
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Elizabethan England is a time of superstition and strange goings on. If you have a problem, it's common to go to a witch for help. And Queen Elizabeth I is no different... When Daisy -- a precocious young witch -- learns of the death of the Queen's Royal Witch, she flies to London to audition as her replacement. But Daisy is from a poor family, and they don't let just anyone into the Royal Court. The only way into the palace is to take a job as a...
13) Maid of secrets
Author
Series
Maids of honor volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In 1559 England, Meg, an orphaned thief, is pressed into service and trained as a member of the Maids of Honor, Queen Elizabeth I's secret all-female guard, but her loyalty is tested when she falls in love with a Spanish courtier who may be a threat.
Author
Series
Publisher
Leopoldo & Co, Atria
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
John Dee, a man destined to become history's first MI6 agent, protects Age of Enlightenment-era England and a brilliant Elizabeth I from a wartime Spanish plot to conquer nations that would defy its Catholic orthodoxy.
15) I, Elizabeth
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
The autobiography of Queen Elizabeth I of England in which affairs of state--from the defeat of the Spanish Armada to her struggles with Queen Mary--are described through her amorous relations with men. Lots of detail on everyday life of the period. By the author of Return to Eden.
Author
Series
Maids of honor volume 2
Publisher
SSBFYR
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In 1559 England, Beatrice and her fellow Maids of Honor, Queen Elizabeth I's secret all-female guard, must rely on their charm and deadly spying skills to investigate a brewing Scottish rebellion.
18) Marvel 1602
Author
Series
Publisher
Marvel
Language
English
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Description
Collects Marvel 1602 (2003) #1-8. The year is 1602, and strange things are stirring in England. In the service of Queen Elizabeth, court magician Dr. Stephen Strange senses that the bizarre weather plaguing the skies above is not of natural origin. Her majesty's premier spy, Sir Nicholas Fury, fends off an assassination attempt on the Queen by winged warriors rumored to be in service to a mad despot named Doom. News is spreading of witchbreed sightings
...19) In search of a kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the perilous birth of the British Empire
Author
Language
English
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Description
In this grand and thrilling narrative, the acclaimed biographer of Magellan, Columbus, and Marco Polo brings alive the singular life and adventures of Sir Francis Drake, the pirate/explorer/admiral whose mastery of the seas during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I changed the course of history
"Bergreen masterly portrays ... the swashbuckling life and times of the explorer
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