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Series
Mary novels (Cynthia Hand) volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Renaissance France, a place of poison and plots, of beauties and beasts, of mice and ... queens? Mary is the queen of Scotland and the jewel of the French court. Except when she's a mouse. Yes, reader, Mary is a shapeshifter in a kingdom where Verities rule. It's a secret that could cost her a head--or a tail. Luckily, Mary has a confidant in her betrothed, Francis. But things at the gilded court take a treacherous turn after the king...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the author of The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn comes a riveting portrait of Anne Boleyn’s youth and her unconventional education in the court of the King of France.
When her father is assigned the task of spying on the French Court, the charming and sweetly innocent Anne Boleyn is delighted by the thought of a new adventure. And she is not to be disappointed, for her beautiful sister, Mary, has been handed a...
When her father is assigned the task of spying on the French Court, the charming and sweetly innocent Anne Boleyn is delighted by the thought of a new adventure. And she is not to be disappointed, for her beautiful sister, Mary, has been handed a...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xxx, 352 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps, genealogical tables ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Catherine de Medici's father-in-law, King Francis of France, was the perfect Renaissance knight, the movement's exemplar and its Gallic interpreter. An aesthete, diplomat par excellence, and contemporary of Machiavelli, Francis was the founder of modern France, whose sheer force of will and personality molded his kingdom into the first European superpower. Arguably the man who introduced the Renaissance to France, Francis was also the prototype Frenchman--a...
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Catherine de Medici is one of the most maligned monarchs in history: blamed for the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in which hundreds of innocents died. What motivated this Renaissance woman who was born of Florence's most powerful family, and one day came to rule France?
In her latest historical fiction bestseller, Jeanne Kalogridis tells the story of Catherine, a tender young girl, destined to be a pawn in Machiavellian games. Left a fabulously
Author
Series
Genealogy and local history volume G1411
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
1949.
Physical Desc
217 pages in various pagings, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : folded geneological table, map, portraits
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jorge Mario Bergoglio, aka Pope Francis, from Argentina, is the first Jesuit pope, the first from the Americas, and the first from the Southern Hemisphere. Since being elected pope he has shown a humbler, less formal approach to his office than his predecessors: a warm style that has been referred to as "no frills." His common touch and accessibility, as well as his insistence that the church be more open and welcoming, has quickly endeared him not...
Author
Series
Genealogy and local history volume G2318
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[1900?]
Physical Desc
19 unnumbered pages
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The "Fresh Air" book critic investigates the enduring power of The Great Gatsby -- "The Great American Novel we all think we've read, but really haven't." Conceived nearly a century ago by a man who died believing himself a failure, it's now a revered classic and a rite of passage in the reading lives of millions. But how well do we really know The Great Gatsby? As Maureen Corrigan, Gatsby lover extraordinaire, points out, while Fitzgerald's masterpiece...
15) To serve a king
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
viii, 415 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 445 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
This biography of Pope Francis describes how this revolutionary thinker uses the power of his position to challenge and redirect one of the world's most formidable religions.
17) Daughter of silk
Author
Series
The silk house trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
315 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pursuing the family name as the finest silk producer in Lyon, the young Huguenot Rachelle Dushane-Macquinet is thrilled to accompany her famous couturier Grandmere to Paris, there to create a silk trousseau for the Royal Princess Marguerite Valois. The Court is magnificent; its regent, Catherine de Medici, deceptively charming ... and the circumstances, darker than Rachelle could possibly imagine. At a time in history when the tortures of the Bastille...
20) Pope Francis
Author
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
251 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
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