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Author
Series
Tudor Rose volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Young Henry began his rule as a magnificent and chivalrous Renaissance prince who embodied every virtue. He had all the qualities to make a triumph of his kingship, yet we remember only the violence. Henry famously broke with the pope, founding the Church of England and launching a religious revolution that divided his kingdom. He beheaded two of his wives and cast aside two others. He died a suspicious, obese, disease-riddled tyrant, old before...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The future Queen Elizabeth was not yet three when her mother, Anne Boleyn, was beheaded on May 19, 1536, on King Henry VIII's order, incensed that she had not given him a son and tired of her contentious nature. Elizabeth had been raised away from court, rarely even seeing Anne; and after her death, Henry tried in every way to erase Anne’s presence and memory. At that moment in history, few could have predicted that mother and daughter would each...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
With profound heart, charm and self-deprecating humor, the Emmy award-winning actor, producer and director, who has endeared himself to a new generation, shares the disheartening truth of his childhood, the pressures of a role that takes on a life of its own and the path forward once your wildest dream seems behind you.
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (542 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After failing to have his marriage to Katherine annulled, Henry appoints himself the head of the Church of England. Anne Boleyn insists that Henry remove the Queen from the picture. A royal visit to France finally prompts Anne to consummate her relationship with Henry. After failed attempts to have his marriage annulled, Henry's patience finally wears out and he marries Anne in secret. The king and new queen are disappointed that their first child...
Author
Language
English
Description
"This suspenseful and propulsive account of the days leading up to the end of World War II, is told through the stories of three men: Henry Stimson, the Secretary of War, who had overall responsibility for decisions about the atomic bomb; Gen. Carl "Tooey" Spaatz, head of strategic bombing in Europe and the Pacific, who was in charge of actually dropping the bombs; and Shigenori Tōgō, the Japanese Foreign Minister, who was the only one in Emperor...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xxvii, 203 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this book, John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle illuminate an underexplored aspect of worked-over cultural icon Henry David Thoreau and what his thinking has to tell us about the way we work now. Henry at Work overturns the popular perception of Thoreau as a navel-gazing recluse, scornful of work and other mundanities. Just the opposite, they argue, Thoreau worked hard and thought intensely about work: why we do it, what we hope to gain from it, and...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 244 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Some years ago, Oliver Darkshire stepped into the hushed interior of Henry Sotheran Ltd (est. 1761) to apply for a job. Allured by the smell of old books and the temptation of a management-approved afternoon nap, Darkshire was soon unteetering stacks of first editions and placating the store's resident ghost (the late Mr. Sotheran, hit by a tram). By turns unhinged and earnest, Once Upon a Tome is the colorful story of life in one of the world's...
14) Gallop toward the sun: Tecumseh and William Henry Harrison's struggle for the destiny of a nation
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"William Henry Harrison was born to a prominent Virginia family, son of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He journeyed west, became governor of vast Indiana Territory and sought statehood by attracting settlers and imposing one-sided treaties. Tecumseh belonged to an honored line of Shawnee warriors and chiefs. His father died while fighting the Virginians flooding into Kentucky and in his dying words, extracted a promise from...
Author
Publisher
Penzler Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
v, 275 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
They say that Lord Mantling's mansion is haunted--at least, one room of it is. Known as the Red Widow's Chamber, the now-sealed quarters once housed the wife of a guillotine operator in the French Revolution and, since her passing, have been host to a century of unsolved horrors including the death of a man in 1802, the death of a child in 1895, and a number of mysterious mortalities in the years in between. Now, in 1935, eight men and women join...
Author
Publisher
[John A. Shinpaugh]
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
unnumbered leaves ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"This document combines a summary of a soldier's life, the place where he died and the time in which his death occurred. The man was Henry Shinpock, the author's 3rd-great-grandfather; the place was Fort Montgomery, Alabama; and the time was the year 1814, near the end of the War of 1812. For this document, the author has combined selected facts, opinions and his own assumptions to tell the story of Henry and his final resting place, then and now."--Overview....
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