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42) Anastasia
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
p2008
Language
English
Description
The last surviving child of the Russian Royal Family joins two con men to reunite with her grandmother, the Dowager Empress, while the undead Rasputin seeks her death.
43) Charlemagne
Author
Publisher
book trade and institutional distribution by Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1968
Language
English
Description
Surveys the age of Charlemagne and his influence on subsequent periods of European history. Profusely illustrated with photographs of art dating from the time of Charlemagne.
Author
Series
Flesh and false gods volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Princess Calla Tuoleimi plans to take down her family’s monarchy but must decide between her kingdom or her new lover. Inspired by Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, Immortal Longings is a fiery collision of power plays, spilled blood, and romance amidst a set of deadly games.
45) Stormbird
Author
Series
Wars of the Roses volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
After gentle Henry VI takes the throne and a secret truce negotiated with France for a royal bride sparks revolts across England, the rival royal line, the House of York, sees the unrest as an opportunity to oust the ineffectual king.
46) King of war
Author
Series
The Viking blood and blade saga volume 4
Publisher
Peter Gibbons
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
874 AD, Norway. King Harald Fairhair fights to become king of the north. Hundr, a Northman with a dog's name... a crew of battle hardened warriors... and a legendary war where the will of the gods will determine who is victorious. After incurring the wrath of the Jarl of the Orkney isles, Hundr and his crew become drawn into King Harald's fight for supremacy over all Norway. Hundr must retrieve the Yngling sword, a blade forged for the gods themselves,...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1949
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The King, tired of rain, snow, sun, and fog, commands his magicians to make something else come down from the sky, but when oobleck falls in sticky greenish droplets, Bartholomew Cubbins shames the King and saves the kingdom.
49) Lady hotspur
Author
Series
Queens of Innis Lear volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A gender-swapped fantasy homage to Shakespeare's "Henry IV" continues the saga of Innis Lear centuries later as Banna, forced from the throne of Aremoria after a rebellion, flees to Innis Lear to plot revenge against the usurper.
Author
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Tutankhamun: Pharaoh, Icon, Enigma takes a familiar tale and turns on its head. Leading Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley has gathered ten unique perspectives together for the first time: that of the teenage pharaoh and his family, ancient embalmers and tomb robbers, famous explorers and forgotten archaeologists. It's a journey that spans from ancient Thebes in 1336 BCE - when a young king on a mission to restore his land met an unexpected and violent...
51) The black tower
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Having used his mastery of disguise and surveillance to nab some of France's most notorious criminals, early nineteenth-century detective Vidocq teams up with obscure medical student Hector to track down the most challenging adversary of his career, a case with ties to the missing son of Marie Antoinette.
Author
Series
The Viking blood and blade saga volume 2
Publisher
Peter Gibbons
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
History and legend combine in the gripping tale of Hakon Haraldsson, a Christian boy who once fought for the High Seat of a Viking realm. It is 935 A.D. and the North is in turmoil. The Norse king, Harald Fairhair, has died, leaving the High Seat of the realm to his murderous son, Erik Bloodaxe, To solidify his claim, Erik ruthlessly kills all claimants to his throne, save one: his youngest brother Hakon, who is being raised in the Christian courts...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
This acclaimed New York Times bestselling biography of the legendary Sioux warrior Red Cloud, is "a page-turner with remarkable immediacy...and the narrative sweep of a great Western" (The Boston Globe).
Red Cloud was the only American Indian in history to defeat the United States Army in a war, forcing the government to sue for peace on his terms. At the peak of Red Cloud's powers the Sioux could claim...
Red Cloud was the only American Indian in history to defeat the United States Army in a war, forcing the government to sue for peace on his terms. At the peak of Red Cloud's powers the Sioux could claim...
55) The familiar
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
During the Spanish Golden Age, Luzia Cotado, gifted with magic, garners the attention of the disgraced secretary to Spain’s king, plunging her into a world where the lines between magic, science and fraud blur—and where she must enlist the help of an embittered immortal familiar whose deadly secrets could destroy them both.
Author
Publisher
De Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
John Man charts Saladin's rise to power, his struggle to unify the warring factions of his faith, and his battles to retake Jerusalem and expel Christian influence from Arab lands. Saladin explores the life and enduring legacy of this champion of Islam while examining his significance for the world today.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Victoria is an absolutely captivating novel of youth, love, and the often painful transition from immaturity to adulthood. Daisy Goodwin breathes new life into Victoria's story, and does so with sensitivity, verve, and wit."
– AMANDA FOREMAN
Drawing on Queen Victoria's diaries, which she first started reading when she was a student at Cambridge University, Daisy Goodwin—creator and writer of the new
59) Oathbringer
Author
Series
Stormlight archive volume 3
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 69
Language
English
Description
Taking refuge from the formidable Everstorm in the tower city of Urithiru, Dalinar and the Alethi forces join newly raised Knights Radiant to explore the legendary city's mysteries and confront long-lost truths that challenge everything they believe.
60) Aquaman
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Arthur Curry, the reluctant heir of Atlantis, is recalled to the underwater kingdom when the king of Atlantis declares war on the surface world.
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