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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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"On the night that Aunty dies, the raggedy witches come for Mup's family. Pale, cold, and relentless, the witches will do anything for the tyrannical queen who has outlawed most magic and enforces her laws with terror and cruelty -- and who happens to be Mup's grandmother. When witches carry off her dad, Mup and her mam leave the mundane world to rescue him. But everything is odd in the strange, glittering Witches Borough, even Mam. Even Mup herself....
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English
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"'Good people, I am come hither to die, and by a law I am condemned to the same.' These were the heartbreaking words of a seventeen-year-old girl, Lady Jane Grey, as she stood on the scaffold on a cold February morning in 1554. Her death for high treason sent shockwaves through the Tudor world and served as a gruesome reminder to all who aspired to the Crown that the axe could fall at any time. Jane is known to history as 'the Nine-Day Queen,' but...
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Series
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In The Mother Goose diaries, Mother Goose's diary entries over the last five hundred years take listeners on a journey to learn buried secrets. In Queen Red Riding Hood's guide to royalty, the young queen gives us her take on politics, government, health, love, and of course, what it means to be royalty.
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date?a brutally honest, surprisingly poignant, and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the power of performance, found family, and self-acceptance. A profound introspection of his life, relationships, and identity,?The House of Hidden Meanings?is a self-portrait of the legendary icon on...
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Series
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Mark Antony, one of the three rulers of the Roman World, has beome the thrall of the fascinating Cleopatra. Affairs of state call him to Rome, but the attractions of the Queen of Egypt prove impossible to resist.
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Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The soon after the marriage of Katharine of Aragon and King Henry VIII Spanish spies, the Pope's men, the Queen's seductive ladies-in-waiting, and especially the King's brilliant advisor, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey all were obsessed with one question. Would Queen Katharine be able to give Henry the healthy son he so desperately wanted?
168) Frozen beginnings
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Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Anna finds a friend: Anna feels lonelier than ever when her parents go off on a trip without her. She imagines another girl her own age, Astrid, and sends her a letter. To her surprise, Astrid writes back."--
"Elsa's icy rescue: Elsa cannot wait to spend time at her family's summer home and test her icy powers. But after a series of magical mishaps, Elsa begins to wonder if she has what it takes to one day become queen of Arendelle, or if her powers...
169) The queen
Author
Publisher
Blackstone
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Painfully shy, Elizabeth Windsor's personality was well suited to her youthful ambition of living quietly in the country, raising a family, and caring for her dogs and horses. But when her uncle, King Edward VIII, abdicated, she became heir to the throne, embarking on a journey that would test her as a woman and as a queen."--
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
An analysis of Elizabeth I's use of piracy to promote her financial security offers insight into the personal beliefs and vision that motivated her choices, in an account that also traces the contributions of her merchants, philosophers, and councillors.
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