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Author
Series
Kingsbridge volume 3
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
"International bestselling author Ken Follett has enthralled millions of readers with The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End, two stories of the Middle Ages set in the fictional city of Kingsbridge. The saga now continues with Follett's magnificent new epic, A Column of Fire. In 1558, the ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral look down on a city torn apart by religious conflict. As power in England shifts precariously between Catholics and...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For as long as Elizabeth can remember, she has watched her father trail after her mother, kissing her multiple times a day and holding her hand. She watched her mother smooth the lines in her father's face and pay attention to his every move, even when she was desperate for some time to herself. When her parents began to age, Elizabeth and her siblings are placed in the difficult position of taking over more and more supportive roles and tasks. They...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Jane Austen's witty comedy of manners features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet as they play out their spirited courtship in a series of 18th-century drawing-room intrigues.
9) Conspiracy
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Maid of Honor Lady Grace Cavendish becomes fearful for her queen, Elizabeth I, when mysterious events begin to unfold and sets out to investigate the strange happenings.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 238 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A deeply personal and illuminating approach to antiracism and allyship, revealing the power of imagination and action to dismantle oppressive systems and build liberating ones, from a highly lauded lecturer, public academic, writer, and activist. In A Renaissance of Our Own, Rachel Cargle details the seminal event that put her on the map-her viral 2017 Women's March appearance that thrust her into the national conversation on feminism and allyship-and...
11) Exile
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
188 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lady Grace Cavendish, maid of honor to Queen Elizabeth I, describes in her diary how she tries to discover who stole a magical ruby belonging to the visiting princess of Sharakand.
12) Feud
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
184 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
When one of her fellow Ladies-in-Waiting becomes mysteriously ill, Lady Grace Cavendish suspects the cause is poison and sets out to learn who is responsible.
Author
Language
English
Description
"London, 1947: Besieged by the harshest winter in living memory, burdened by onerous shortages and rationing, the people of postwar Britain are enduring lives of quiet desperation in spite of their nation's recent victory. Among them are Ann Hughes and Miriam Dassin, embroiderers in the famed Mayfair fashion house of Norman Hartnell. Together they forge an unlikely friendship, but their bond, along with their nascent hopes for a brighter future, are...
14) Assassin
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lady Grace Cavendish, favorite maid of honor of Elizabeth I, must solve a murder mystery and clear the name of her betrothed.
15) Betrayal
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Lady Grace Cavendish, Elizabeth I's youngest maid of honor, finds herself in the midst of a battle at sea while posing as a boy aboard the ship of Francis Drake, where she and Masou stowed away in hopes of finding the kidnapped Lady Sarah.
16) Maybe an artist
Author
Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
159 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A heartfelt and funny graphic novel memoir by one of the first Black female cartoonists to be published in the New Yorker, at the age of 22"--
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
237 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a series of diary entries, Princess Elizabeth, the eleven-year-old daughter of King Henry VIII, celebrates holidays and birthdays, relives her mother's execution, revels in her studies, and agonizes over her father's health.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
310 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Looks at the lives of the two women at the center of a famous historic photograph taken during the Little Rock school desegregation crisis in 1957, in a book that discusses how each dealt with the fallout from that day.
20) The other queen
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st Touchstone hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
438 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a tale inspired by the story of Mary, Queen of Scots, in a work that follows the doomed monarch's long imprisonment in the household of the Earl of Shrewsbury and his spying wife, Bess.