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41) Doc Holliday
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Doc Holliday is a well written biography that follows the life of John Henry Holliday aka "Doc Holliday" from his birth to his death in Colorado 36 years later. Information for the book compiled from newspaper accounts, period sources and public records.
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Henry Huggins volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
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For Henry Huggins and his friends Robert and Murph, a clubhouse is a place where they can do as they please, without being bothered by girls. The sign that says NO GIRLS ALLOWED -- THIS MEANS YOU especially means Ramona Quimby. Lately Ramona has been following Henry on his newspaper route, embarrassing him in front of Henry's customers. The day Ramona follows Henry to the clubhouse, she wants to teach him girls aren't so bad, but she almost puts an...
48) Dissolution
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Matthew Shardlake novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2003]
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It is England in the year 1537, and Thomas Cromwell is Henry VIII's vicar-general and in the process of dissolving all of the large monastic houses, granting the land to his favorites or the highest bidders. When one of his commissioners is murdered at the monastery in Scarnsea, Cromwell sends the hunchback lawyer Matthew Shardlake and Mark, his young assistant, to solve the mystery. They find that not only has the murder been covered up but also...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"From Emmy-award winning actor, author, comedian, producer, and director Henry Winkler, a deeply thoughtful memoir of the lifelong effects of stardom and the struggle to become whole. Henry Winkler, launched into prominence as "The Fonz" in the beloved Happy Days, has transcended the role that made him who he is. Brilliant, funny, and widely-regarded as the nicest man in Hollywood (though he would be the first to tell you that it's simply not the...
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Tudor rose trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2009]
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"Frustrated by his own failures at matrimony, King Henry VIII punishes an insolent nobleman by commanding him to marry the vagabond woman caught stealing his horse. Stephen de Lacey is a cold and bitter widower, long accustomed to the sovereign's capricious and malicious whims. He regards his new bride as utterly inconvenient ... though undeniably fetching. But Juliana Romanov is no ordinary thief--she is a Russian princess forced into hiding by the...
53) Horrid Henry
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Horrible Henry causes his brother Perfect Peter all sorts of problems when he behaves properly for a change, upstages Peter at a dance recital, plays pirates, and goes on a camping trip.
54) The Maine woods
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Thoreau's narratives of his journeys into the Maine wilderness are presented
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John Henry Cole novels volume 1
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John Henry Cole is a hardcase frontier detective with the Ike Kelly Agency whose conscience and firearms hamper his attempts to solve the murders of three young prostitutes in the employ of Ike Kelly's former sweetheart, now a high-class bordello owner, who wanted Ike for the job but got John Henry instead.
57) Revelation
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Series
Matthew Shardlake novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
The first three Shardlake mysteries have won over critics and readers alike. In Revelation, Sansom's newest book in the series, the year is 1543 and King Henry VIII is wooing Lady Catherine Parr, a woman sympathetic to reform, whom he wants for his sixth wife--much to the dismay of Archbishop Cranmer and the embattled Protestant faction at court. Meanwhile, Matthew Shardlake is working to defend a teenage boy, a religious fanatic who is being held...
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Young royals volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 9
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In 1520, thirteen-year-old Anne Boleyn, jealous of her older sister's beauty and position at court, declares that she will one day be queen of England, and that her sister will kneel at her feet.
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Wars of the roses volume 1
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After gentle Henry VI takes the throne and is promised a royal bride from France, the rival royal line, the House of York, begins their quest to oust him. In 1437, after years of regency, the pious and gentle Henry VI, the Lamb, comes of age and accedes to the English throne. His poor health and frailty of mind render him a weakling king; Henry depends on his closest men, Spymaster Derry Brewer and William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk, to run his kingdom....
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English history novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 18
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When the young Queen Elizabeth I is entrusted with Anne Boleyn's secret diary, she discovers a great deal about the much-maligned mother she never knew. And on learning the truth about her lascivious and despotic father, Henry VIII, she vows never to relinquish control to any man. But this avowal doesn't prevent Elizabeth from pursuing a torrid love affair with her horsemaster, Robin Dudley -- described with near-shocking candor -- as too are Anne's...