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121) Murder most royal
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Painted in the rich colors of Tudor England, Murder Most Royal is a page-turning journey into the lives of two of the wives of the tempestuous Henry VIII.
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Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Contains four stories that follow the adventures of Horrid Henry, including the title work in which Henry realizes, much to his chagrin, that he has accidently worn the bright pink "big girl" panties his goofy great-aunt Greta sent him for his birthday.
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The companion book you need to learn more about the then-and-now photographs in Colorado 1870-2000! This volume, a collaboration between Colorado's most acclaimed historian and photographer, tells you the stories surrounding the photographic pairs and gives you a behind-the-scenes look at the challenging craft of rephotography. Designed to be used in tandem with Colorado 1870-2000, this book profiles our state's unrivaled character and encourages...
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Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Horrid Henry has found a new way to scare everyone, his very own monster movie. The Undead Demon Monster Who Would Not Die is going to be a BIG hit! Plus three more monstrous tales that will leave you screaming for more.
125) Velvet angel
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She came to him as a precious gift, a naked angel rolled in a rug. Once he gazed into her green eyes, saw her tangle of honey blonde hair, he was undone with passion. Elizabeth would never surrender. He was a hated Montgomery-she was a Chatworth-and the blood war between their families raged on, a wildfire of rape, murder, and betrayal. Elizabeth vowed to fight the handsome lord, to resist the burning desire in his eyes-no matter how great the temptation....
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Young royals volume 4
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 7
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In 1501 fifteen-year-old Catharine of Aragon arrives in England to marry Arthur, the eldest son of King Henry VII, but soon finds her expectations of a happy settled life radically changed when Arthur unexpectedly dies and her future becomes the subject of a bitter dispute between the kingdoms of England and Spain.
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Katherine Ashley, the daughter of a poor country squire, happily secures an education and a place for herself in the Tudor court of Henry VIII. As a dying favor to the doomed Anne Boleyn, Kat becomes governess and surrogate-mother to the young Elizabeth Tudor ... ultimately emerging as the lifelong confidante to Queen Elizabeth I.
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Six Tudor queens volume 5
Pub. Date
[2020]
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"Bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir tells the tragic story of Henry VIII's fifth wife, a nineteen-year-old beauty with a hidden past, in this fifth novel in the sweeping Six Tudor Queens series. In the spring of 1540, Henry VIII, desperate to be rid of his queen, Anna of Kleve, first sets eyes on the enchanting Katheryn Howard. Although the king is now an ailing forty-nine-year-old measuring fifty-four inches around his waist,...
130) Falls the shadow
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Welsh Princes volume 2
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In thirteenth-century England, King Henry III's sister Nell breaks tradition and marries Simon de Montfort, an outspoken nobleman who risks death in battle to preserve honor. This is Simon de Montfort's story--and the story of King Henry III, as weak and changeable as Montfort was brash and unbending. It is a saga of two opposing wills that would later clash in a storm of violence and betrayal, a story straight from the pages of history that brings...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.6 - AR Pts: 1
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No one loves to play more than Henry's puppy, Mudge. And when Fluffy the cat joins Mudge for a play date, the games are just beginning. From running to hiding to climbing galore, these two just might prove that cats and dogs really can be friends.
133) Henry VIII
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Pub. Date
c1988
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A biography of the sixteenth-century English monarch who effected the separation of England from the Church of Rome.
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Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 21
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Describes the disappearance of explorer Dr. David Livingstone while searching for the source of the Nile River, journalist Henry Morton Stanley's search for him, and the individual journeys of the two men through uncharted Africa.
136) Heartstone
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Matthew Shardlake novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2011.
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Asked by an old servant of Queen Catherine Parr to investigate claims of wrongs committed against a young ward of the court, Matthew Shardlake embarks on the most politically dangerous case of his career against a backdrop of war between England and France.
137) The wise woman
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"Alys joins the nunnery to escape hardship and poverty but finds herself thrown back into the outside world when Henry VIII's wreckers destroy her sanctuary. With nothing to support her but her looks, her magic and her own instinctive cunning, Alys has to tread a perilous path between the faith of her childhood and her own female power. When she falls in love with Hugo, the feudal lord and another woman's husband, she dips into witchcraft to defeat...
138) Castles in the air
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Medieval series (Christina Dodd) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2001], c1993
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Bound by the King . . .
The document, signed and sealed by King Henry himself, commanded lady Juliana of Lofts to marry Raymond, Count of Avraché.
Shattered by the Past . . .
She refused, though it was treason to defy one's king. What man would have her once he discovered her secret?
One Knight Would Crusade for His Lady's Heart
Yet Raymond would not be denied. And when he came for her, she'd learn that even the strongest will cannot resist...
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Henry Huggins volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
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Henry couldn't wait until he turned eleven so he could have a paper route like his friend Scooter, but his scheme to convince the route manager that he was responsible enough backfired! Who would have guessed that it would be that pest Ramona Quimby, who would cause Henry to finally get his job.
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Pub. Date
2002, c2001
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From the bestselling, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a novel that is "funny and wise and sumptuously written" (Jonathan Franzen, The New York Times Book Review).
Colson Whitehead’s triumphant novel is on one level a multifaceted retelling of the story of John Henry, the black steel-driver who died outracing a machine designed to replace him....
Colson Whitehead’s triumphant novel is on one level a multifaceted retelling of the story of John Henry, the black steel-driver who died outracing a machine designed to replace him....