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Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xx, 282 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn vividly reveal in their diaries and correspondence the world of Restoration England. Now Margaret Willes uses the analogy of a cabinet of curiosities to provide a detailed account not only of the two friends but also of their times. Pepys was down to earth and realistic, while Evelyn was a genteel aesthete, but, brought together by their work to help distressed sailors, they developed a long and close friendship. This...
203) The Dark Days deceit
Author
Series
Lady Helen novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
531 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lady Helen has retreated to a country estate outside Bath to prepare for her wedding to the Duke of Selburn, yet she knows she has unfinished business to complete. She and the dangerously charismatic Lord Carlston have learned they are a dyad, bonded in blood, and only they are strong enough to defeat the Grand Deceiver, who threatens to throw mankind into chaos. But the heinous death-soaked Ligatus Helen has absorbed is tearing a rift in her mind....
Author
Series
Young royals volume 6
Pub. Date
2010.
Lexile measure
990L
Physical Desc
420 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In eighteenth-century France, Marie Antoinette rails against the rules of etiquette that govern her life even as she tries to fulfill her greatest obligation, giving birth to the next king, but she finds diversion in spending money on clothing, parties, and gambling despite her family's warnings and the whispers of courtiers.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Lexile measure
930L
Physical Desc
348 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Her father, Baron of Stone, announced his twelve-year-old daughter Eliza Rose Camperdowne would soon wed the son of the Earl of Westmoreland, in hope to revive the distressed family fortune through her marriage.
Headstrong Elizabeth Rose Camperdowne is the sole heiress to an old but impoverished noble family, and must marry a man of wealth and title. When a turn of events lands her in the royal court as a maid of honor to Anne of Cleves, Eliza is...
Author
Series
Three musketeers series volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 807 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Red Sphinx picks up right where the The Three Musketeers left off, continuing the stories of Cardinal Richelieu, Queen Anne, and King Louis XIII and introducing a charming new hero, the Comte de Moret, a real historical figure from the period. A young cavalier newly arrived in Paris, Moret is an illegitimate son of the former king, and thus half-brother to King Louis. The French Court seethes with intrigue as king, queen, and cardinal all vie for...
208) The poison bed
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
405 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A spellbinding thriller set in the Jacobean Court of 1615 surrounding a famed couple imprisoned on suspicion of murder--but was it Lord Robert or Lady Frances who committed the crime?" --amazon.com.
Autumn, 1615. Scandal rocks the Jacobean court when Robert and Frances Carr are imprisoned on suspicion of murder. Frances-- young, captivating, and from a notorious family-- was rescued from an abusive marriage by Robert, and is determined to make a...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Atria paperback edition.
Physical Desc
432 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"And you thought sisters were a thing to fear. In this scandalous follow-up to Sally Christie's clever and absorbing debut, we meet none other than the Marquise de Pompadour, one of the greatest beauties of her generation and the first bourgeois mistress ever to grace the hallowed halls of Versailles. I write this before her blood is even cold. She is dead, suddenly, from a high fever. The King is inconsolable, but the way is now clear. The way is...
210) Da Vinci's tiger
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
880L
Physical Desc
287 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In fifteenth-century Florence, the dashing Venetian ambassador commissions young Leonardo da Vinci to paint a portrait of his Platonic love, Ginevra de' Benci, a well-educated, teenaged poet in a passionless marriage, propelling her into the world of art, politics, and romance, with all of its complications.
Author
Series
Elizabethan spy novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
England, 1586. Tensions rise as threats to the realm abound. Traitors are plotting for Mary Queen of Scots to depose Elizabeth I and take the throne. Rumors of a Spanish invasion by sea mount daily. And the body of one of Sir Francis Walsingham's agents is found floating in the Thames as other agents face enemies armed with crossbows and vials of poison. Nicholas Holt, a spy in Walsingham's employ, narrowly averts the same fate while setting off in...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Atria paperback edition.
Physical Desc
399 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the final installment of Sally Christie's "tantalizing" (New York Daily News) Mistresses of Versailles trilogy, Jeanne Becu, a woman of astounding beauty but humble birth, works her way from the grimy back streets of Paris to the palace of Versailles, where the aging King Louis XV has become a jaded and bitter old philanderer. Jeanne bursts into his life and, as the Comtesse du Barry, quickly becomes his official mistress. "That beastly bourgeois...
Author
Series
Crown of coral and pearl volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ever since Nor was forced to go to a nearby kingdom in her sister's place, she's wanted nothing more than to return to the place and people she loves. But when her wish comes true, she soon finds herself cast out from both worlds, with a war on the horizon. As an old enemy resurfaces more powerful than ever, Nor will have to keep the kingdom from falling apart with the help of Prince Talin and Nor's twin sister, Zadie. There are forces within the...
215) Victoria rebels
Author
Series
Young royals volume 8
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
960L
Physical Desc
265 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Winter, 1564. Beautiful young Princess Margot is summoned to the court of France, where nothing is what it seems and a wrong word can lead to ruin. Known across Europe as Madame la Serpente, Margot's intimidating mother, Queen Catherine de Médicis, is a powerful force in a country devastated by religious war. Among the crafty nobility of the royal court, Margot learns the intriguing and unspoken rules she must live by to please her poisonous family....
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