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Drawing on new scholarship, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Woman Behind the New Deal presents a biography of Isabella of Castile, the controversial Queen of Spain who sponsored Christopher Columbus' journey to the New World, established the Spanish Inquisition and became one of the most influential female rulers in history.
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Fever novels volume 11
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[2021]
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English
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"MacKayla Lane faces the ultimate threat when war breaks out between the kingdoms of shadow and light, as the #1 New York Times bestselling Fever series races to an explosive revelation. From the moment MacKayla Lane arrived in Dublin to hunt her sister's murderer, she's had to fight one dangerous battle after the next: to survive, to secure power, to keep her city safe, to protect the people she loves. The matter of who's good and who's evil can...
43) Realm of wonders
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"Jasmine thought that she had earned her happily ever after when she and Aladdin defeated Jafar. Then her beloved father dies and, overnight, all her plans for the future change. Instead of her wedding, she's now planning a funeral and a coronation--her coronation, to become the first woman to rule Agrabah. But before the sultan's crown is placed on her head, her claim to the throne is called into question. Jasmine has always been headstrong, but...
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Hutchinson delves into the forces that shaped Henry VIII from his birth in 1491 to the birth in 1533 of his daughter Elizabeth. Hutchinson is admirable at pulling out amusing tidbits from the primary sources he obviously plumbed to write this breezy account of how Henry's cloistered youth influenced his public role as monarch. The early Tudors realized their hold upon the English throne would always be precarious, and thus ruthlessly eliminated rival...
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The day my mother was killed, she told my father I wouldn't speak again, and she told him if I died, he would die too. Then she predicted the king would sell his soul and lose his son to the sky. My father has a claim to the throne, and he is waiting in the shadows for all of my mother's words to come to pass. He wants desperately to be king, and I just want to be free. But freedom will require escape, and I'm a prisoner of my mother's curse and my...
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Brothers of the desert volume 2
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From shock royal bride. To carrying his baby! When the kingdom of Riyaal is tragically left without a ruler, spare heir Prince Javid must step up to settle public unrest. The notorious playboy has never dreamed of ruling - and he has certainly never imagined needing a convenient marriage to lady-in-waiting Anaïs Dupont to take his crown! Pulled from the shadows and thrust onto an undesired throne, Anaïs knows her vows to the Sheikh are destined...
47) Night shine
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"An orphan girl undertakes a dangerous journey to rescue her friend the prince from a powerful sorceress." --
An orphan girl called Nothing slips within the shadows of the vast palace of the Empress, unseen except by the Great Demon of the palace and her true friend, Prince Kirin, heir to the throne. When Kirin is kidnapped, only Nothing and the prince's bodyguard suspect that Kirin may have been taken by the Sorceress Who Eats Girls, a powerful...
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A detailed analysis of parallels between the Old Testament story of Jezebel and the career of Hillary Clinton, including the victory of Donald Trump. "Is it possible that there exists an ancient master blueprint that holds the secret behind the events of our times? Could this blueprint lie behind the rise and fall of leaders and governments? Could events that took place nearly 3,000 years ago now be determining the course of our world and with it...
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Kagen the Damned volume 2
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"Son of the Poison Rose marks the second installment of New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry's epic, swashbuckling Kagen the Damned series. The Silver Empire is in ruins. War is in the wind. Kagen and his allies are on the run from the Witch-king. Wild magic is running rampant everywhere. Spies and secret cabals plot from the shadows of golden thrones. Kagen Vale is the most wanted man in the world, with a death sentence on his head...
50) The real Wallis Simpson: a new history of the American divorcee who became the Duchess of Windsor
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[2019]
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"In a complex, riveting and tragic true story of manipulation and betrayal, Anna Pasternak rejects the conventional view of the Duchess of Windsor and reveals a loyal and intelligent woman who was trapped by cunning, powerful men in a life she never wanted." --
Wallis Simpson is known as the woman at the center of the most scandalous love affair of the 20th century, but in this surprising new biography, bestselling author Anna Pasternak redeems a...
51) The new pope
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HBO
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[2020]
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English
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The unconventional follow-up to 2017's The Young Pope begins with Lenny Belardo, aka Pope Pius XIII, in a coma after a heart attack as the Holy See searches for his replacement. British intellectual Sir John Brannox is elected to the papal throne, assuming the name John Paul III. He soon finds that his predecessor₂s shadow looms large: The fiercely devoted cult of Pius XIII believes their pope will return, and their conviction proves hard to shake....
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2023.
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"A revelatory account of how the loving marriage of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth saved the monarchy during World War II, and how they raised their daughter to become Queen Elizabeth II, based on exclusive access to the Royal Archives--from the bestselling author of Elizabeth the Queen and Prince Charles Granted special access by Queen Elizabeth II to her parents' letters and diaries and to the papers of their close friends and family, Sally...
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World of Prime volume 2
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Pyr, an imprint of Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"The continuing adventures of Christopher Sinclair, mechanical engineer turned priest of war. Christopher, raised from the dead and promoted to a moderate rank, takes command of the army regiment he trained and equipped. Sent south to an allegedly easy posting, he finds himself in the way of several thousand rabid dog-men. Guns and fortifications turn back the horde, but Christopher has other problems that cannot be solved with mere firepower: a wicked...
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Dark Horse Books
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2016
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IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 2
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Soon after returning home following the events of The Search, Fire Lord Zuko discovers that a rebel organization calling itself the New Ozai Society has slowly gained traction among the Fire Nation's citizens. Its goal? Assassinate Zuko and restore Ozai to the throne, before the country perishes! Laying evidence to their claim of a nation at risk are the shadowy Kemurikage - figures originating in myth who are kidnapping children across the Fire Nation....
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Chronicles of the bitch queen volume 3
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Orbit
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2021.
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English
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"Queen Talyien is finally home, but dangers she never imagined await her in the shadowed halls of her father's castle. War is on the horizon. Her son has been stolen from her, her warlords despise her, and across the sea, a cursed prince threatens her nation with invasion in order to win her hand. Worse yet, her father's ancient secrets are dangerous enough to bring Jin Sayeng to ruin. Dark magic tears rifts in the sky, preparing to rain down madness,...
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Osprey Publishing, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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2023.
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English
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"A rich history of the years leading up to 1066 when Vikings, Anglo-Saxons and Normans vied for the English crown. A tale of loyalty, treason and military might. In a saga reminiscent of Game of Thrones and The Last Kingdom, Battle for the Island Kingdom reveals the life-and-death struggle for power which changed the course of history. The six decades leading up to 1066 were defined by bloody wars and intrigues, in which three peoples vied for supremacy...
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Twelve
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2021.
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English
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Based on extensive reporting, a Game of Thrones-like telling of what comes next for the factions and families within the Republican Party as they plot for supremacy in the post-Trump era. With Trump's four years in the White House now in the rearview, an unprecedented period in American political history is concluded. The transition, however, has set off a mad scramble for control of a Republican Party that for so long has reflected the domineering...
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Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Agatha Christie is undoubtedly the world's best-selling mystery author, hailed as the "Queen of Crime," with worldwide sales in the billions. Christie burst onto the literary scene in 1920, with The Mysterious Affair at Styles ; her last novel was published in 1976, a career longer than even Conan Doyle's forty-year span. The truth is that it was due to the success of writers like Anna Katherine Green in America; L. T. Meade, C. L. Pirkis, the Baroness...
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