Philippa Gregory
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When Katherine of Aragon is brought to the Tudor court as a young bride, the oldest princess, Margaret, takes her measure. With one look, each knows the other for a rival, an ally, a pawn, destined -- with Margaret's younger sister Mary -- to a sisterhood unique in all the world. The three sisters will become the queens of England, Scotland, and France. United by family loyalties and affections, the three queens find themselves set against each other....
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"A riveting new Tudor tale featuring King Henry VIII's sixth wife Kateryn Parr, the first English queen to publish under her own name. Why would a woman marry a serial killer? Because she cannot refuse... Kateryn Parr, a thirty-year-old widow in a secret affair with a new lover, has no choice when a man old enough to be her father who has buried four wives-- King Henry VIII-- commands her to marry him. Kateryn has no doubt about the danger she...
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Descended from a river goddess, Jacquetta has always had the gift of second sight. Wed to the Duke of Bedford, she is introduced to the world of learning and alchemy. When his death leaves her a wealthy young widow, Jacquetta marries the Duke's squire, Richard Woodville. They return to England and have a daughter, Elizabeth, for whom Jacquetta senses an extraordinary future.
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This dazzling novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory presents a new and unique view of one of history's most intriguing, romantic, and maddening heroines. Biographers often neglect the captive years of Mary, Queen of Scots, who trusted Queen Elizabeth's promise of sanctuary when she fled from rebels in Scotland and then found herself imprisoned as the guest of George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, and his indomitable wife,...
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"The Kingmaker's Daughter is the gripping story of the daughters of the man known as the 'Kingmaker,' Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: the most powerful magnate in fifteenth-century England. Without a son and heir, he uses his daughters Anne and Isabel as pawns in his political games, and they grow up to be influential players in their own right. In this novel, her first sister story since The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory explores the lives...
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From "the queen of royal fiction" (USA TODAY) comes this New York Times bestseller featuring three very different women whose fates are each bound by a bloody curse: the legacy of the Boleyn family.
After the death of his third wife, Jane Seymour, King Henry VIII of England decides to take a new wife, but this time, not for love. The Boleyn Inheritance follows three women whose lives are forever changed because of the...
After the death of his third wife, Jane Seymour, King Henry VIII of England decides to take a new wife, but this time, not for love. The Boleyn Inheritance follows three women whose lives are forever changed because of the...
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Order of darkness volume 2
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Luca and Isolde continue their journey searching for evil in medieval Christendom.
9) Virgin earth
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Tradescant volume 2
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In Colonial America, an English botanist saved from misfortune by an Indian maiden promises to marry her, but on his return to England marries a rich Englishwoman. Later, back in America, he is again saved by the maiden's tribe and now the Indians are at war with the English. Whose side will he take?
10) Changeling
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Order of darkness volume 1
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In 1453, seventeen-year-old Luca Vero, accused of heresy and expelled from his monastery, is recruited to help investigate evil across Europe but frees his first subject, Isolde, from captivity in a nunnery, and together they seek the one who defends the boundaries of Christendom and holds the secrets of the Order of Darkness.
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Princess rules volume 3
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Princess Florizella may live in a classic fairy-tale world, but she's no ordinary princess... This third volume in THE PRINCESS RULES series sees the feisty princess take her baby brother and best friend, Bennett, on another round of adventures together. Can they rescue their new-found friend the sea serpent from a travelling circus? And hold back the pirate, Five-fathom Freida. Or will Florizella's worst fairy godmother prove that in a fairytale...
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"Once upon a time, there was a princess who broke all the rules, and dared to be different... So when that same princess - Florizella - finds a baby boy delivered by stork to her parents' palace, she is shocked to discover that he will one day be king and inherit her kingdom! For every prince is given a permit which allow them to do whatever they like in the same way that every princess is given a set of rules that they have to live by. As soon as...
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In this unique illustrated presentation, Gregory and her fellow historians describe the extraordinary lives of the heroines of her Cousins' War books: Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford; Elizabeth Woodville, Queen of England; and Margaret Beaufort, the founder of the Tudor dynasty.
14) Fools' gold
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Tasked to expose a coin counterfeiting scheme, Luca and Isolde, whose romantic attraction continues to grow, travel to Venice in 1454, where they meet an alchemist who plans to create the Philosopher's Stone, a mystical substance said to be capable of turning base metals into gold and producing the elixir of life.
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These three stories were originally published under the titles, and. They were originally dedicated to her daughter but have been reimagined in this edition, which she has dedicated to her grandchildren. Instead, Princess Florizella rides her horse, Jellybean, all over the kingdom, having adventures of her own...
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Angleterre, 1485. Henri Tudor fait tomber Richard III au combat et s'empare du trne après la bataille de Bosworth. Mais c'est un pays morcelé par la guerre des Deux-Roses qui attend le nouveau souverain. Un défi de taille lui incombera donc : dissoudre les rivalités et réunifier les camps, avant de pouvoir prétendre gouverner. Pour ce faire, Henri Tudor devra épouser une princesse de la maison ennemie, Élisabeth d'York. Héritière légitime...
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Summary of Three Sisters, Three Queens by Philippa Gregory | Includes Analysis Preview: Three Sisters, Three Queens by Philippa Gregory is a novel that follows more than 30 years in the life of Margaret Tudor. Starting in 1501, when she's 11 years old, the story traces Margaret's movements between England and Scotland, where she struggles to maintain her grip on power after the death of her husband, the king. Through moments of triumph and sorrow,...
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Le dernier roman de la série «Guerre des Deux- Roses», de la mini-série Starz acclamée par la critique, Philippa Gregory raconte l'histoire fascinante de Margaret Pole, cousine d'Elizabeth d'York, et dame de compagnie de Catherine d'Aragon.
Considéré comme une menace au trne pour le volatile roi Henry VII, Margaret Pole, cousine d'Elizabeth d'York (connue sous le nom de la princesse Blanche) et la fille de George, duc de Clarence, sera mariée...
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Best-seller du New York Times qui a inspiré La princesse blanche, la minisérie télévisée de Starz encensée par la critique, La fille du faiseur de rois nous raconte l'histoire d'Anne Neville, une jolie jeune femme qui doit se frayer un chemin parmi la perfidie qui règne à la cour anglaise pendant que son père, connu comme étant le faiseur de rois, les utilise, elle et sa soeur, comme des pions sur son échiquier politique. La fille du faiseur...
20) Dark tracks
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Order of darkness volume 4
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Luca and Isolde continue investigating for the Order of Darkness in the fourth book in the Order of Darkness series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory.
Luca has been tasked by his master to uncover the truth behind strange happenings. She travels across Europe with Lady Isolde, Ishraq, Freize, and Brother Peter seeking out the signs of the ends of days. Now they are trapped in a village possessed by a dancing madness-- and...