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|  | | The Last Queen
Who was the alleged Mad Queen of Spain? Was she truly a bereaved and unstable princess? Or was she a courageous, vibrant woman who became the centerpiece in a spell-binding struggle of passion and betrayal?
Juana of Castile was the third daughter of Isabel and Fernando, the monarchs who united Spain and led a crusade against the last Moorish caliphs of Granada; her youngest sister was Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII's first wife, and her eldest son became the Emperor Charles V. She became the mother of an empire, though her own extraordinary life has been shrouded in lurid myth.
Sent from Spain to wed Philip of Hapsburg, Archduke of Flanders, Juana's marriage began as a fairytale romance; like her sisters, she was never expected to be more than a consort and mother to heirs. But when tr | |  | | The Secret Lion
Filled with the intrigue and pageantry of Tudor England, The Secret Lion is the first book in The Spymaster Chronicles. This book contains a special Readers Group Guide
In this rousing historical adventure set in the Tudor court, we are swept back to the final days of Edward VI's reign, and a time of danger, deceit, and courage. Brendan Prescott, a foundling reared in Dudley household, arrives at court to serve as a squire to the arrogant Lord Robert Dudley. Keen and ambitious, Brendan hopes to gain advancement in his new post - until Lord Robert dispatches him on an illicit mission to the King's enigmatic sister, the Princess Elizabeth, and Brendan discovers that nothing in his world is as it appears. A dark plot brews around Elizabeth's quest to unravel the |
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Galveston, 1900 Indignities, The Arrival
by N Brown
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 Compelling historical fiction that traces the life of a young English immigrant woman who travels to America at the turn of the century to start a new life for herself. Encountering danger, romance, heartache and tragedy, she strives to fit into a |
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