English history novels
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English history novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 18
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When the young Queen Elizabeth I is entrusted with Anne Boleyn's secret diary, she discovers a great deal about the much-maligned mother she never knew. And on learning the truth about her lascivious and despotic father, Henry VIII, she vows never to relinquish control to any man. But this avowal doesn't prevent Elizabeth from pursuing a torrid love affair with her horsemaster, Robin Dudley -- described with near-shocking candor -- as too are Anne's...
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English history novels volume 2
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A novel on Queen Elizabeth I's son, the product of a love affair. After she gives birth she is told the baby died, when in fact it was switched with a stillborn. The boy becomes a soldier and adventurer, then one day the man who took him confesses, and son and mother are reunited
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English history novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2002
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Queen Elizabeth I, daughter of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII and later England's most beloved monarch, was banished by her father at the age of two, but is readmitted to the Tudor fold at nine when Henry's sixth wife, Katherine Parr, softens his heart towards Elizabeth. After Henry's death, Katherine marries Thomas Seymour, a shallow man of reckless ambition. The amoral Seymour orchestrates his master plan to capture the crown, one that includes the...
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English history novels volume 4
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Two female titans -- perfectly matched in guts, guile, and political genius.
Elizabeth, queen of England, has taken on the mighty Spanish Armada and, in a stunning sea battle, vanquished it. But her troubles are far from over. Just across the western channel, her colony Ireland is embroiled in seething rebellion, with the island's fierce, untamed clan chieftains and their "wild Irish" followers refusing to bow to their English oppressors.
Grace...
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English history novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
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"To the Tower Born is a lively tale, told with a natural novelist's eye for drama and vivid characterization." - --Carolly Erickson, author of The Girl From Botany Bay
"Spirited, colorful . . . brims with page-turning drama." - Publishers Weekly