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Author
Series
Sir Robert Carey mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
After his hair-raising adventures in London, Sir Robert Carey has finally tracked down Queen Elizabeth, who is about to make a state visit to Oxford. But instead of giving the Courtier his much-needed warrant and fee for being Deputy Warden of the West March with Scotland, Her Majesty orders him to investigate the most dangerous cold case of her reign--the mysterious 1560 death of Amy Dudley (née Robsart), unloved wife of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester....
123) Maid of deception
Author
Series
Maids of honor volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
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.
Author
Series
Lady Helen novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
London, April 1812. Eighteen-year-old Lady Helen Wrexhall is on the eve of her debut presentation to the Queen. Her life should be about gowns and dancing, and securing a suitable marriage. Instead, when one of her family's housemaids goes missing, Lady Helen is drawn to the shadows of Regency London. There, she finds William, the Earl of Carlston. He has noticed the disappearance, too, and is one of the few who can stop the perpetrators: a cabal...
Author
Series
Dune (Graphic novels) volume 1
Publisher
Abrams Comicarts
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Dune, Frank Herbert's epic science-fiction masterpiece set in the far future amidst a sprawling feudal interstellar society, tells the story of Paul Atreides as he and his family accept control of the desert planet Arrakis. A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism, and politics, Dune is a powerful, fantastical tale that takes an unprecedented look into our universe, and is transformed by the graphic novel format. In the first...
126) Anonymous
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Set in the political snake-pit of Elizabethan England, this program speculates on an issue that has for centuries intrigued academics and brilliant minds...who was the author of the plays credited to William Shakespeare? This program poses one possible answer, focusing on a time when clock-and-dagger political intrigue, illicit romances in the Royal Court, and the schemes of greedy nobles hungry for power were exposed in the most unlikely of places:...
Author
Series
Time-traveling fashionista volume 2
Publisher
Poppy
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
While seeking the perfect dress for her friend's birthday party, twelve-year-old Louise Lambert dons a vintage gown and finds herself with a young Marie Antoinette in eighteenth-century France where, between cute commoner boys and glamorous trips to Paris, she finds that life in the palace is not all cake and couture.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Presents a portrait of Henry VIII through the lens of his relationships with the men who surrounded him--companions, confidants, servants, ministers, and rivals--and explores how they impacted his life and historic reign.
129) The poison bed
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
©2019
Language
English
Description
"In the autumn of 1615, scandal rocks the Jacobean court, when a celebrated couple, Robert and Frances Carr, are imprisoned on suspicion of murder. Frances is young, captivating, and from a notorious family. She has been rescued from an abusive marriage by Robert, and is determined to make a new life for herself. Whatever the price. Robert is one of the richest and most famous men in the kingdom. He has risen from nothing to become one of the countrys...
131) Victoria rebels
Author
Series
Young royals volume 8
Publisher
Simon and Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Through diary entries, reveals the life of Britain's strong-willed and short-tempered Queen Victoria from the age of eight through her twenty-fourth birthday, up to her third wedding anniversary with her beloved Albert in 1843.
Author
Series
Mistborn novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
The Skaa, having slaved in misery for a thousand years under the corrupt, absolute power of the Lord Ruler, still manage to find hope, which rises once again when a criminal mastermind teams up with an unlikely heroine.
Now with over 10 million copies sold, The Mistborn Series has the thrills of a heist story, the twistiness of political intrigue, and the epic scale of a landmark fantasy saga. For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed....
134) Crown of midnight
Author
Series
Throne of glass novels volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
As the royal assassin to an evil king, eighteen-year-old Celaena Sardothien must decide what she will fight for--survival, love, or the future of a kingdom.
135) The judging eye
Author
Series
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Some twenty years have passed since the events narrated in The Prince of Nothing. Anasurimbor Kellhus now rules all the Three Seas, the first true Aspect-Emperor in a thousand years leading a holy war deep into the wastes of the Ancient North, intent on destroying Golgotterath and preventing the Second Apocalypse.
136) Poison study
Author
Series
Study books volume 1
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Yelena, about to be executed, is offered the job of food taster to the Commander of Ixia, but politics and magic keep threatening her life.
137) Princess of Dune
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Set two years before Dune: Princess of Dune is the never-before-told story of two key women in the life of Paul Muad’Dib―Princess Irulan, his wife in name only, and Paul’s true love, the Fremen Chani. Both women become central to Paul’s galaxy-spanning Imperial reign. Raised in the Imperial court and born to be a political bargaining chip, Irulan was sent at an early age to be trained as a Bene Gesserit Sister. As Princess Royal, she also...
138) Princess Ben
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
"With her parents lost to unknown assassins, Princess Ben ends up under the thumb of the conniving Queen Sophia. Starved and miserable, locked in the castle's highest tower, Ben stumbles upon a mysterious enchanted room. So begins her secret education in the magical arts: mastering an obstinate flying broomstick, furtively emptying the castle pantries, setting her hair on fire . . . But Ben's private adventures are soon overwhelmed by a mortal threat...
139) My contrary Mary
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Renaissance France, a place of poison and plots, of beauties and beasts, of mice and . . . queens? Mary is the queen of Scotland and the jewel of the French court. Except when she's a mouse. Yes, reader, Mary is a shapeshifter in a kingdom where Verities rule. It's a secret that could cost her a head--or a tail. Luckily, Mary has a confidant in her betrothed, Francis. But things at the gilded court take a treacherous turn after the king...
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