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Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
ix, 270 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"1975: A young Irish-American man joins an elite US Marine unit to get the most intensive military training possible -- then joins the Irish Republican Army, during the days of some of the bloodiest fighting ever in the Irish-British conflict . . . In a powerful, brutally honest, no-holds-barred recounting of his experience, John Crawley details, first, the grueling challenges of his Marine Corps training, then how he put his hard-earned munitions...
9362) Science on the Mayflower
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"You may have heard of the Mayflower. The ship set sail in 1620, carrying English pilgrims across the sea to Plymouth. But did you know that science played a big role in this voyage? Learn how the Mayflower was constructed. Find out how science helped sail the ship across the ocean. And discover how modern technology is being used to understand the journey and the people aboard"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
288 pages.
Language
English
Description
In this unique illustrated presentation, Gregory and her fellow historians describe the extraordinary lives of the heroines of her Cousins' War books: Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford; Elizabeth Woodville, Queen of England; and Margaret Beaufort, the founder of the Tudor dynasty.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xiii, 287 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The tragic and fascinating history of the first epic struggle between white settlers and Native Americans in the early seventeenth century: a fresh look at the aggressive expansionist Puritans in New England and the determined Narragansett Indians, who refused to back down and accept English authority over people and their land."--Amazon.
9365) The mesmerist
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Jess and her mother make a living as sham spiritualists--until they discover that Jess is a mesmerist and that she really can talk to the dead. Soon she is plunged into the dark world of Victorian London's supernatural underbelly and learns that the city is under attack by ghouls, monsters, and spirit summoners"--
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xiii, 316 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A remarkable work about women writers in the Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shakespearean period and brings us in close to four women who were committed to their craft before there was any possibility of "a room of one's own." In a sparkling and engaging narrative of everyday life in Shakespearean England, Ramie Targoff carries us from the sumptuous coronation of Queen Elizabeth in the mid 16th century into the private lives of four women...
9368) Maggie's choice
Author
Series
American adventure (Barbour) volume 8
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
140 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The death of a young slave girl in Boston as well as a religious revival led by Jonathan Edwards during the Great Awakening prompt Maggie to make an important decision.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
viii, 407 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A history of Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I, two women struggling for supremacy in a man's world, describes how their bonds of friendship sustained them until jealousy and antipathy turned them into enemies.
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
xiii, 336 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Set against the backdrop of the turbulent thirteenth century, a time of chivalry and crusades, poetry and knights, comes the story of the four daughters of the count of Provence whose brilliant marriages made them the queens of France, England, Germany, and Sicily. From a cultured childhood in Provence, each sister was propelled into a world marked by shifting alliances, intrigue, and subterfuge. Marguerite, the eldest, whose resolution and spirit...
9371) The wild Irish
Author
Series
English history novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
391 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
ix, 278 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"One man's journey to uncover the final resting place of the historical King Arthur. One of the most enigmatic figures in world history, King Arthur has been the subject of many fantastical tales over the past 1500 years, leading many scholars to regard him and his fabled city of Camelot simply as myth. But, as Graham Phillips shows through a wealth of literary and scientific evidence, King Arthur was a real man, Camelot a real place, and the legendary...
9373) The duke's refuge
Author
Series
The Leeward Islands volume Book 1
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
470 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Georgia Lennox has traded in her boyish ways for pink gowns and a coy smile to capture the eye of the Earl of Claremont. However, on the day she's convinced the earl will propose, Georgia is shipped off to the Leeward Islands to care for her ailing father. But when she arrives on Nevis, the last thing she expects is to learn that her abrupt departure was not at her father's bidding but that of the infuriating, yet captivating, island schoolmaster....
9374) Angel mecanico
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
443 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
EspaƱol
Description
Tessa Fell's search for her missing brother leads her into Victorian London's supernatural underworld, where she must learn to trust the demon-killing Shadowhunters if she ever wants to learn to control her powers and find her brother.
9376) Dark chapter
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Vivian is a cosmopolitan Taiwanese-American tourist who often escapes her busy life in London through adventure and travel. Johnny is a fifteen year old Irish teenager, growing up in a family where crime is customary, violence is necessary, and everything and anyone is yours for the taking. Their paths collide one afternoon in West Belfast, culminating in a horrific act of violence. Vivian tries to recapture the woman she was, as she struggles with...
9378) A study in emerald
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"This supernatural mystery set in the world of Sherlock Holmes and Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos features a brilliant detective and his partner as they try to solve a horrific murder. The complex investigation takes the Baker Street investigators from the slums of Whitechapel all the way to the Queen's Palace as they attempt to find the answers to this bizarre murder of cosmic horror! From the Hugo, Bram Stoker, Locus, World Fantasy, Nebula award-winning,...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xiii, 210 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1582 thirteen-year-old Emilia Bassano is a lute player and aspiring playwright who stumbles on a plot to kill Queen Elizabeth, and is recruited by Sir Francis Walsingham to go to the castle where Mary Queen of Scots is being held and discover who is responsible for the plot.
9380) Death and glory
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In 1894, Cyrus Barker, London's premier enquiry agent, is entangled in a conspiracy to revive the American Civil War by prominent figures, long believed deceased. Private Enquiry agent Cyrus Barker, along with his partner Thomas Llewelyn, has a long, accomplished history - he's taken on cases for Scotland Yard, the Foreign Office, and even the crown itself, fulfilling them all with great skill and discretion. None of those cases, however, are as...
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