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IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
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"Margaret Atwood's best-loved novel has taken the world by storm again. Riding high on bestseller lists for months and the basis for Hulu's Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning smash hit series, The Handmaid's Tale is everywhere--and it's primed for a stunning new graphic novel adaptation. The story is iconic: In the Republic of Gilead, a Handmaid named Offred lives in the home of the Commander, to the purpose that she become pregnant with his child....
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"Margaret Cavendish, then Lucas, was born in 1623 to an aristocratic family. In 1644, as England descended into civil war, she joined the court of the formidable Queen Henrietta Maria at Oxford. With the rest of the court she went into self-imposed exile in France. Her family's wealth and lands were forfeited by Parliament. It was in France that she met her partner, William Cavendish, Marquess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, a marriage that made her the Duchess...
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A witty and profound audiobook portrait of the most talked-about English royal.
She made John Lennon blush and Marlon Brando tongue-tied. She iced out Princess Diana and humiliated Elizabeth Taylor. Andy Warhol photographed her. Jack Nicholson offered her cocaine. Gore Vidal revered her. Francis Bacon heckled her. Peter Sellers was madly in love with her. For Pablo Picasso, she was the object of sexual fantasy.
Princess Margaret aroused
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To contemporaries, the Wars of the Roses were known collectively as a "cousins' war." The series of dynastic conflicts that tore apart the ruling Plantagenet family in fifteenth-century England was truly a domestic drama, as fraught and intimate as any family feud before or since.
As acclaimed historian Sarah Gristwood reveals in Blood Sisters, while the events of this turbulent time are usually described in terms of the male leads who fought and...
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"Ahead of the German Blitz during World War II, the British royal family secretly moves the young princesses to the estate of the Duke of Edenmore in Ireland. A female English secret agent, Miss Celia Nashe, and a young Irish detective, Garda Strafford, are assigned to watch over 'Ellen' and 'Mary' at Clonmillis Hall. But the Irish stable hand, the housemaid, the formidable housekeeper, the Duke himself, and other townspeople, go freely about their...
11) The red queen
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2010
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English
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The inspiration for the critically acclaimed Starz miniseries The White Queen, #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory brings to life Margaret Beaufort, heiress to the red rose of Lancaster, who charts her way through treacherous alliances to take control of the English throne.
Margaret Beaufort never surrenders her belief that her Lancaster house is the true ruler of England, and that she has a great destiny...
Margaret Beaufort never surrenders her belief that her Lancaster house is the true ruler of England, and that she has a great destiny...
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Originally published in 1905, Daughters of the Puritans captures the lives of seven extraordinary American women from the New England area, whose influential writings and work in the nineteenth century transformed the nation.
This audiobook contains biographies of:
Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1789—1867
Mary Lovell Ware - 1798—1849
Lydia Maria Child - 1802—1880
Dorothea Lynde Dix - 1802—1887
Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli - 1810—1850
Harriet...
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