
The Fifth Queen
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The Fifth Queen is a historical novel. It tells the story of Katharine Howard's arrival at the Court of Henry VIII, her eventual marriage to the king, and her death. Katharine Howard is presented in the first book as a genuine Roman Catholic, penniless, young noblewoman escorted by her fiery cousin Thomas Culpeper. By accident, she comes to the attention of the king, in a minor way at first, is helped to a position as a lady in waiting for the then bastard Lady Mary, Henry's eldest daughter, by her old Latin tutor Nicholas Udal, a spy for Thomas Cromwell. As Katharine becomes involved with the many scheming, competing, and spying members of Henry VIII's Court, she steadily rises, almost against her will, in Court.
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- Duración: 19 h y 32 m
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A sweeping story about obsession, mysticism, art and earthly desire. At the centre of this story is the Cathedral. Its design and construction in the 13th and 14th centuries in the fictional town of Hagenburg unites a vast array of unforgettable characters whose fortunes are inseparable from the shifting political factions and economic interests vying for supremacy. From the bishop to his treasurer, from local merchants to lowly stonecutters, the fate of everyone, both Gentile and Jew, is affected by the slow rise of Hagenburg’s cathedral.
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Interesting description of life in the Middle Ages
- De leongork en 06-30-21
De: Ben Hopkins
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A Vision of Light
- A Margaret of Ashbury Novel, Book 1
- De: Judith Merkle Riley
- Narrado por: Anne Flosnik
- Duración: 15 h y 57 m
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Margaret of Ashbury wants to write her life story. However, like most women in 14th-century England, she is illiterate. Three clerics contemptuously decline to be Margaret’s scribe, and only the threat of starvation persuades Brother Gregory, a Carthusian friar with a mysterious past, to take on the task. As she narrates her life, we discover a woman of startling resourcefulness.
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Old fashioned heroine
- De Margaret en 06-22-13
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The Autobiography of Henry VIII
- De: Margaret George
- Narrado por: David Case
- Duración: 41 h y 18 m
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Margaret George's novel brings into focus the larger-than-life King Henry VIII, monarch of prodigious appetites for wine, women, and song.
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Perfection!
- De Amy M. Walts en 10-20-07
De: Margaret George
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Veil of Lies
- A Crispin Guest Medieval Mystery, Book 1
- De: Jeri Westerson
- Narrado por: Noah James Butler
- Duración: 7 h y 59 m
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Accused of treason and stripped of his knighthood, Crispin Guest has survived on the gritty streets of London by reinventing himself as The Tracker, an investigator for hire who can locate lost objects and uncover secrets. When the merchant Nicholas Walcote hires Guest to investigate his young wife Philippa for adultery, he discovers an underground world of danger and dirty dealings. Philippa is indeed hiding something—but she's not the only one. Walcote himself is rumored to possess a holy relic so powerful that some would even kill for it.
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Character insight and I am satisfied with my short answers and don’t want to count out 15 words!
- De frances anne bramhall en 05-06-24
De: Jeri Westerson
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
- De: Emmuska Orczy
- Narrado por: Harriet Stevens
- Duración: 9 h y 11 m
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Rumor has it that the Scarlet Pimpernel has super powers which aid him in evading capture along with his team of men. The Scarlet Pimpernel lives a double life, one as an English aristocrat, wealthy, and popular among society's elite, and another at night when he becomes a superhero and master of disguise to the French nobles he has vowed to save. To others, such as the revolutionists, he is something darker, and dangerous - a vigilante who must be captured and stopped at once.
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The story is delightful, the reader is not
- De KBsMomma en 04-01-22
De: Emmuska Orczy
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The Memoirs of Mary, Queen of Scots
- De: Carolly Erickson
- Narrado por: Rebekah Germain
- Duración: 9 h y 36 m
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Born Queen of Scotland, married as a young girl to the invalid young King of France, Mary took the reins of the unruly kingdom of Scotland as a young widow and fought to keep her throne. A second marriage to her handsome but dissolute cousin Lord Darnley ended in murder and scandal, while a third marriage to the dashing, commanding Lord Bothwell, the love of her life, gave her joy but widened the scandal and surrounded her with enduring ill repute.
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Fiction being the key word
- De Bonnie-Ann B en 09-25-09
De: Carolly Erickson
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The King's Witch
- A Novel
- De: Tracy Borman
- Narrado por: Esther Wane
- Duración: 14 h y 35 m
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In March of 1603, as she helps to nurse the dying Queen Elizabeth of England, Frances Gorges dreams of her parents’ country estate, where she has learned to use flowers and herbs to become a much-loved healer. She is happy to stay at home when King James of Scotland succeeds to the throne. His court may be shockingly decadent, but his intolerant Puritanism sees witchcraft in many of the old customs - punishable by death.
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I’ve read hundreds of historical fiction books....
- De K&T en 08-03-18
De: Tracy Borman
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Lorna Doone
- De: R. D. Blackmore
- Narrado por: Tim Gerard Reynolds
- Duración: 29 h y 42 m
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First published in 1869, Lorna Doone is the story of John Ridd, a farmer who finds love amid the religious and social turmoil of 17th-century England. He is just a boy when his father is slain by the Doones, a lawless clan inhabiting wild Exmoor on the border of Somerset and Devon. Seized by curiosity and a sense of adventure, he makes his way to the valley of the Doones, where he is discovered by the beautiful Lorna.
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LORNA DOONE
- De Lisa en 02-07-19
De: R. D. Blackmore
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The Outlaws of Sherwood
- De: Robin McKinley
- Narrado por: Justine Eyre
- Duración: 10 h y 56 m
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Young Robin Longbow, subapprentice forester in the King's Forest of Nottingham, must contend with the dislike of the Chief Forester, who bullies Robin in memory of his popular father. But Robin does not want to leave Nottingham or lose the title to his father's small tenancy, because he is in love with a young lady named Marian - and keeps remembering that his mother too was gentry and married a common forester. Robin has been granted a rare holiday to go to the Nottingham Fair, where he will spend the day with his friends Much and Marian.
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A great story paired with the wrong narrator
- De Gail N. en 11-01-19
De: Robin McKinley
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The Iron King
- The Accursed Kings, Book 1
- De: Maurice Druon
- Narrado por: Peter Joyce
- Duración: 11 h y 2 m
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From the publishers that brought you A Game of Thrones comes the series that inspired George R.R. Martin’s epic work. France became a great nation under Philip the Fair - but it was a greatness achieved at the expense of her people, for his was a reign characterised by violence, the scandalous adulteries of his daughters-in-law, and the triumph of royal authority.
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Historical Goodie
- De Syd Young en 08-03-13
De: Maurice Druon
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The Dragon Waiting
- De: John M. Ford
- Narrado por: Gerard Doyle
- Duración: 13 h y 58 m
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In a snowbound inn high in the Alps, four people meet who will alter fate. A noble Byzantine mercenary.... A female Florentine physician.... An ageless Welsh wizard.... And Sforza, the uncanny duke. Together they will wage an intrigue-filled campaign against the might of Byzantium to secure the English throne for Richard, Duke of Gloucester - and make him Richard III.
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Read not listen.
- De Anna Marie en 08-08-21
De: John M. Ford
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Lorna Doone [Naxos]
- De: R. D. Blackmore
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 25 h y 51 m
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The Doones are a clan of murdering thieves, and among their victims is John Ridd's father. The strong, noble Ridd determines to avenge his father's death; but his plans are complicated when he falls in love with one of the hated family - the beautiful Lorna. Lorna is promised against her will to another; and that other will not let her go lightly. Set amid the political turmoils of the late 17th century, Lorna Doone brings West Country history and legends alive with wonderfully imaginative fiction.
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I fell in love with this book
- De Linda en 11-20-12
De: R. D. Blackmore