Author: Susan Ronald
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Keywords: queen, religion, wars, elizabeth, heretic
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2012-08-07
List price: $27.99
ISBN-10: 0312645384
ISBN-13: 9780312645380
From the acclaimed biographer, an account of Elizabeth I focusing on her role in the Wars on Religion that tore apart Europe in the sixteenth centuryElizabeths 1558 coronation procession was met with an extravagant outpouring of love. Only twenty-five years old, the young queen saw herself as their Protestant savior; aiming to provide the nation with new hope, prosperity, and independence from the foreign influence that had plagued her sister Marys reign. Given the scars of the Reformation, Elizabeth would need all of the powers of diplomacy and tact she could summon. Extravagant, witty, a
Author: Phyllis Ann Karr
Publisher: Borgo Press
Keywords: queen, guenevere, tale, idylls
Number of Pages: 348
Published: 1982-12-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 1587150123
ISBN-13: 9781587150128
In The Idylls of the Queen, Phyllis Ann Karr takes an incident (the murder of Sir Patrise) from Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur and creates an intelligent, complex, and fascinating mystery novel perfect for fans of historical mysteries, of British legends, and of fantasy. Queen Guenevere is giving a dinner to honor King Arthur’s knights when one guest, Sir Patrise, falls dead of poison. The dead man’s cousin accuses the Queen of murder, and she is taken away, to be held until her trial by combat. If her knight-champion wins, Guenevere will be declared innocent and
Author: Kathryn Lasky
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Keywords: queen, royal, diaries, france, country, scots, mary
Number of Pages: 202
Published: 2002-04-01
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 0439194040
ISBN-13: 9780439194044
Sent from her native Scotland to live in the court of her future father-in-law, King Henry II of France, young Mary, Queen of Scots, spends her time attending balls, hunting and hawking, learning Latin and fractions and music, and playing with her future husband, Francis. In Kathryn Lasky’s fictionalized diary of the 11-year-old queen, readers will get a piquant taste of 16th-century life in Europe. Mary is quite aware of her role as the betrothed to France’s royal family. Playing chess together one day, Francis comments to Mary, "Did it ever strike you, Mary, that we are not so mu
Author: Susan Ronald
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: pirate, queen, empire, dawn, elizabeth, adventurers
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2008-06-24
List price: $15.99
ISBN-10: 0060820675
ISBN-13: 9780060820671
Extravagant, whimsical, and hot-tempered, Elizabeth was the epitome of power, both feared and admired by her enemies. Dubbed the "pirate queen" by the Vatican and Spain’s Philip II, she employed a network of daring merchants, brazen adventurers, astronomer philosophers, and her stalwart Privy Council to anchor her throneand in doing so, planted the seedlings of an empire that would ultimately cover two-fifths of the world. In The Pirate Queen, historian Susan Ronald offers a fresh look at Elizabeth I, relying on a wealth of historical sources and thousands of the queen’s person
Author: Queen
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Keywords: bass, versions, tab, recorded, collection*, guitar, queen
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 1996-04-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0793548802
ISBN-13: 9780793548804
18 bass transcriptions, including: Another One Bites the Dust * Bicycle Race * Bohemian Rhapsody * Crazy Little Thing Called Love * Killer Queen * Under Pressure * We Are the Champions * You’re My Best Friend * and more.
Author: Frans Mensink
Publisher: Eurotica
Keywords: vampires, queen, kristina, chapter
Number of Pages: 44
Published: 2007-10-01
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 1561635170
ISBN-13: 9781561635177
Author: Frans Mensink
Publisher: Eurotica
Keywords: vampires, queen, kristina
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 1969-12-31
List price: $11.99
ISBN-10: 1561635855
ISBN-13: 9781561635856
