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Author
Series
Shepherd king novels volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Elspeth Spindle needs more than luck to stay safe in the eerie, mist-locked kingdom she calls home--she needs a monster. She calls him the Nightmare, an ancient, mercurial spirit trapped in her head. He protects her. He keeps her secrets. But nothing comes for free, especially magic. When Elspeth meets a mysterious highwayman on the forest road, her life takes a drastic turn. Thrust into a world of shadow and deception, she joins a dangerous quest...
2) Hamlet
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Presents the text of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, that includes detailed explanations of difficult words and phrases, plot summaries, list of characters, and profile on the author.
Author
Language
English
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Description
For more than 1,000 years the British monarchy has dramatically shaped national and international history. Kings and queens have conquered territory, imposed religious change and extracted taxation, each with their own motivations and ambitions.
In this beautifully illustrated book, Cath Senker delves into the extraordinary history of the British monarchy and its host of kings, queens and pretenders. There have been benevolent rulers, violent ones,...
4) Breakwater
Author
Series
Elemental series (Shannon Mayer) volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
My name is Larkspur, and I am an Elemental. My people use the earth to sustain life and defy our enemies. I should be at my father's side as a royal princess. But as a half-breed, bastard child, that isn't going to happen. As an Ender, on of my father's Elite guards, it's my job to do as I'm told. When my older sister is sent as an ambassador to the realm of the water elemental--the Deep--I have no choice but to accompany her as her bodyguard. With...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Full-color portraits illustrate the stories of ten people-rulers, educators, inventors, scholars, and explorers-who helped shape the African continent and the world from ancient times through the tumultuous sixteenth century-- Provided by publisher.
6) Macbeth
Author
Language
English
Description
Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In this hilarious book that takes history seriously, a British actor and comedian introduces England's earliest kings and queens, who were mostly as silly and weird in real life as they appear today in their portraits, revealing a story of narcissists, inadequate self-control, excessive beheadings, uncivil wars and more.
10) Cymbeline
Author
Language
English
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Description
Performed as early as 1611 and published in the "First Folio" in 1623, Shakespeare's "Cymbeline" weaves an elaborate tale of palatial envy and power in Ancient Britain. Cymbeline, King of Britain, commands that his lovely young daughter Imogen marry Cloten, the violent and callous son of the current Queen by her former husband. With her heart already promised to the poor yet heroic Posthumus, Imogen refuses. Disgusted at the prospect of his daughter...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A reimagining of Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare's most famous villainess-- Provided by publisher.
The Lady knows the stories: how her eyes induce madness in men.
The Lady knows she will be wed to the Scottish brute, who does not leave his warrior ways behind when he comes to the marriage bed.
The Lady knows his hostile, suspicious court will be a game of strategy, requiring all of her wiles and hidden witchcraft to survive.
But the Lady does...
13) Taj Mahal
Author
Publisher
Mikaya
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
17) The pretender
Author
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A sweeping historical novel set during the time of the Tudors' ascent-- Provided by publisher.
In 1480 John Collan's greatest anxiety is how to circumvent the village's devil goat on his way to collect water. But the arrival of a well-dressed stranger from London upends his life forever: John is not John Collan, not the son of Will Collan but the son of the long-deceased Duke of Clarence, and has been hidden in the countryside after a brotherly rift...
18) My lady Jane
Author
Series
Lady Janies volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Edward is the King of England. He's also dying, which is inconvenient, as he's only sixteen and he'd rather be planning his first kiss than who will inherit his crown. Jane, Edward's cousin, is far more interested in books than romance. Unfortunately, Edward has arranged to marry her off to Gifford secure the line of succession. And Gifford is, well, a horse. That is, he an E?ian (eth-y-un, for the uninitiated) who becomes a chestnut steed every morning,...
19) King donkey ears
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Shhh! The king has a secret. I'll whisper it to you. 'He has donkey ears.' This is a funny traditional tale with puzzles after the story.--Back cover.
Author
Series
Throne of glass novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Formats
Description
Everyone Celaena Sardothien loves has been taken from her. Embracing her identity as Aelin Galathynius, Queen of Terrasen, Celaena returns to the empire--for vengeance, to rescue her once-glorious kingdom, and to confront the shadows of her past-- Provided by publisher.
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