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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
In this clever reimagining of the Cinderella fairytale, the narrator, taught how to get everything she wants in the world, is distracted from her true purpose by waning magic, looming war and a handsome—and strictly forbidden—hostage prince who could ruin everything.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A young emperor, whose advisors have taken advantage of him, enlists the help of honest tailors to reveal their misdeeds in this retelling of the classic fairy tale. Includes historical notes and instructions for making a robe.
163) A woman of passion
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
A steamy historical romance featuring a commoner who rises to become Queen Elizabeth's lady-in-waiting. She is Elizabeth Hardwick and in all she marries four men. Through her eyes is seen the debauched life of the royal court at the time. By the author of A Year and a Day.
164) Threads of silk
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Survival rests with Rachelle Macquinet, a beautiful young couturiere, and Marquis Fabien de Vendome, her dashing nobleman-husband, when Queen Mother Catherine de Medici unfolds her murderous scheme to preserve her reign. Faith in Christ must uphold them to escape the Queen's web of treachery.
165) The morning star
Author
Series
Katerina trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
"Necromancer Katerina Alexandrovna, Duchess of Oldenburg, wages her final battle against against Russia's greatest threat--Konstantin the Deathless"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
"Long before tabloids and television, Beau Brummell was the first person famous for being famous, the male socialite of his time, the first metrosexual -- 200 years before the word was conceived. His name has become synonymous with wit, profligacy, fine tailoring, and fashion. A style pundit, Brummell was singly responsible for changing forever the way men dress -- inventing, in effect, the suit. Brummell cut a dramatic swath through British society,...
167) Sworn to raise
Author
Series
Courtlight volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Seventeen-year-old Ciardis has grown up in poverty, a cleaner in a small vale on the outskirts of the empire. But beneath her empire's seemingly idyllic surface lies a hidden secret. Whispers of an inept crown Prince are growing ever louder--intensified by the five year anniversary of the soulbond initiations. But she must master those skills quickly. If the legends are true, only Ciardis can harness the power to raise a Prince in an Imperial Court...
Author
Pub. Date
c2014.
Description
"The Winter Palace" ... reimagined the rise of Catherine the Great through the watchful eyes of her clever servant Varvara. Now, in Eva Stachniaḱ£s... new novel, Catherine takes center stage as she relives her astonishing ascension to the throne, her rule over an empire, and the sacrifices that made her the most feared and commanding woman of her time"--From the publisher.
Author
Series
Faeriewalker volume 3
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Invited to Faerie to be officially presented at the Seelie Court, Dana is soon implicated in an assassination attempt against Titania's granddaughter, and is suddenly a fugitive, forced to leave her father behind as she and her friends flee for their lives. Will she be able to prove her innocence before the forces of the Seelie Court -- or, worse, the Erlking -- catch up with her? And will she save her father before he pays the ultimate price in her...
171) The Paris affair
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
"In the wake of the Battle of Waterloo, Paris is a house divided. The triumphant Bourbons flaunt their victory with lavish parties, while Bonapartists seek revenge only to be captured and executed. Amid the turmoil, British attache and Intelligence Agent Malcolm Rannoch and his wife, Suzanne, discover that his murdered half-sister, Princess Tatiana Kirsanova, may have borne a child--a secret she took to the grave. And Malcolm suspects there was more...
Author
Description
Historian Alison Weir brings to life the tale of Katherine Swynford, a royal mistress who became a crucial figure in the British royal dynasties. Born in the mid-14th century, Katherine experienced the Hundred Years' War, the Black Death, and the Peasants' Revolt, and crossed paths with many eminent figures, among them her brother-in-law, Geoffrey Chaucer. At age ten, she was appointed to the household of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster and fourth...
173) Choque de reyes
Author
Series
Song of ice and fire volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Lord Eddard Stark y Baratheon Robert están muertos, tanto de las vÃctimas de la traiciÃçn real. El caos reina en la estela de la muerte de seis facciones batalla por el Trono de Hierro de los Siete Reinos.
Lord Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheon are dead, both victims of royal treachery. Chaos reigns in the wake of their deaths as six factions battle for the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"It's 1629, and King Charles I and his French queen Henrietta-Maria have reigned in England for less than three years. Young dwarf Jeffrey Hudson is swept away from a village shambles and plunged into the Stuart court when his father sells him to the most hated man in England--the Duke of Buckingham. Buckingham trains Jeffrey to be his spy in the household of Charles' seventeen-year-old bride, hoping to gain intelligence that will help him undermine...
Author
Series
Seraphina volume 2
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 24
Description
"Seraphina, half-dragon and half-human, searches for others like her who can make the difference in the war between dragons and humans in the kingdom of Goredd"--
176) Shatter
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"After being forced to marry the evil King, Dani must use her power as Queen to stop selling Glitter for good and escape with Saber, the boy she loves"--
177) The Dark Days Club
Author
Series
Lady Helen novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 22
Description
"In April 1812, as she is preparing for her debut presentation to Queen Charlotte, Lady Helen Wrexhall finds herself in the middle of a conspiracy reaching to the very top of society, and learns the truth about her mother, who died ten years ago"--
Preparing for her debut presentation to Queen Charlotte, Lady Helen Wrexhall finds herself in the middle of a conspiracy reaching to the very top of society, and learns the truth about her mother, who...
Author
Series
Folk of the air volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Appears on list
Description
"Jude was seven years old when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey despise humans. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King. To win a place at the Court, she must defy him--and face the consequences. In doing so, she becomes embroiled in palace intrigues...
179) Daughter of Silk
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Born to the family known as the finest silk producer in Lyon, teenager Rachelle Dushane-Macquinet accompanies her famous grandmother to Paris to design a trousseau for Royal Princesse Marguerite just as political woes invade the court of Catherine de Medici.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Swan maiden Hilde sacrifices her magical wings to seek freedom in the human world, but when her pact with an upstart baron takes her the court of Ludwig II, she struggles to fit in, and only Jewish artist Franz, who has the power to paint souls, can help her escape her newfound prison.