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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The saga now continues with Follett's magnificent new epic, A Column of Fire. In 1558, the ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral look down on a city torn apart by religious conflict. As power in England shifts precariously between Catholics and Protestants, royalty and commoners clash, testing friendship, loyalty, and love. Ned Willard wants nothing more than to marry Margery Fitzgerald. But when the lovers find themselves on opposing sides of the...
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Photographs, illustrations, and text provide information about life in England before and during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, covering the years between 1533 and 1603, discussing the Queen's court, conditions in London, foreign affairs, and other topics.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is the concluding volume of the saga of Barnabus Sackett, patriarch of that family. He returns to England, where he learns of an order for his arrest. The gold coins he found in Sackett's land are thought to be the royal treasure King John lost in the Wash during the time of the Crusades. After encountering some old friends and enemies from the previous book, he returns to America with Abigail, his new bride. He establishes a community between...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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Description
When Edward VI died in 1553, the extraordinary fact was that there was no one left to claim the title of king of England. For the first time, England would have a reigning queen, but the question was which one: Katherine of Aragon's daughter, Mary; Anne Boleyn's daughter, Elizabeth; or one of their cousins, Lady Jane Grey or Mary, Queen of Scots. But female rule in England also had a past. Four hundred years before Edward's death, Matilda, daughter...
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An Elizabethan expert describes the court of Queen Elizabeth I, painting a vivid picture of the gossip, conspiracy, intrigue, and romantic dalliances that surrounded the monarch and the daily lives of the women that attended her.
6) Shakespeare
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Language
English
Description
In this enthralling book, Michael Wood evokes the physical and intellectural environment in which Shakespeare lived and worked with vivid and original immediacy.
Author
Series
Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 16
Publisher
Crème de la Crime, an imprint of Severn House Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"March, 1581. Queen Elizabeth is once again being urged to consider marriage to the Duke of Alenc̦on, a French Catholic twenty years her junior. The prospect of the match is causing unrest throughout the kingdom. Ursula however has more immediate matters to worry about when her 9-year-old son is snatched away while out riding. If she is ever to see him again, Ursula must undertake an impossibly difficult and dangerous mission - and commit an act...
Author
Series
Wakefield dynasty volume 2
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
The sweeping saga of the noble Wakefields and the lower-class Morgans continues with this compelling account of the Spanish Armada during the reign of Elizabeth I.
10) The countryside
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Examines several aspects of people's lives who lived in rural England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
Author
Series
Shakespeare stealer volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In plague-ridden 1602 England, a fifteen-year-old orphan boy, who has become an apprentice actor, goes on the road with Shakespeare's troupe, and finds out more about his parents along the way.
12) The city
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"A social history of Elizabethan England, focusing on life among the merchants, craftspeople, and other city dwellers during the reign (1558-1603) of the famous monarch"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In Stratford-upon-Avon in the sixteenth century, Anne Hathaway suffers her stepmother's cruelty and yearns for love and escape, finally finding it in the arms of a boy she has grown up with, William Shakespeare.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Anne Boleyn may be best known for losing her head, but as Tudor expert Tracy Borman reveals in a book that recasts British history, her greatest legacy lies in the path-breaking reign of her daughter, Elizabeth. Much of the fascination with Britain's legendary Tudors centers around the dramas surrounding Henry VIII and his six wives and Elizabeth I's rumored liaisons. Yet the most fascinating relationship in that historic era may well be that between...
Author
Series
Nathan Fox volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Sir Francis Walsingham, England's spymaster general, has eyes and ears all over the world. His secret service protects Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth and ensures the might of the whole English empire. Now, he has a new recruit. Fourteen-year-old Nathan Fox is an actor in the same company as young Will Shakespeare. His life in the theater had taught him a thing or two about disguises and deception. But nothing can prepare Nathan for the shadowy world...
Author
Series
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
The Elizabethan era was a time of Shakespeare, the English Renaissance, pirates in the Caribbean, and the majestic glory of Queen Elizabeth. It was also a time of plague, poverty, and religious revolution. Elizabethan England explores the good and bad of a nation transformed, from the pomp of the royal court to daily life in London and naval battles on the high seas.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
On May 30, 1593, London's most popular playwright was stabbed to death. The royal coroner ruled that Christopher Marlowe was killed in self-defense, but historians have long suspected otherwise, given his role as an "intelligencer" in the queen's secret service. In sixteenth-century London, Marlowe embarks on his final intelligence assignment, hoping to find his missing muse, as well as the culprits behind a high-stakes smuggling scheme. In present-day...
Author
Series
Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 19
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"May, 1586. Ursula and her retinue return home from a lengthy trip to discover she has an unexpected visitor. Etheldreda Hope is a simple countrywoman who has come to Ursula with disturbing tales of strange goings-on in her rural village. Fearing that Etheldreda's reports of mysterious forest rites indicate a possible conspiracy to overthrow Queen Elizabeth in favour of her cousin, Mary Stuart, the queen's spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham, orders...
20) The heiress
Author
Publisher
Compass Press
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
The Earl of Dalkeith is looking for a rich bride, and an opportunity presents itself when he is hired to escort Axia Maidenhall and her cousin on a tour of England. Axia is very rich. Problem is Dalkeith is much more attracted to her cousin. What should he do? The answer is he would be wiser to follow his heart as the cousin is the real Axia. You see, Axia doesn't want people to marry her for money so she changed places.