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Jefferson, Marci.

Summary: "In 1660, the Restoration of Stuart Monarchy in England returns Frances Stuart and her family to favor. Frances discards threadbare gowns and goes to gilded Fontainebleau Palace, where she soon catches the Sun King's eye. But Frances is no ordinary courtbeauty--she has Stuart secrets to keep and her family to protect. King Louis XIV turns vengeful when she rejects his offer to become his...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JEF

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Jefferson 2014

Henley, Virginia.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HEN

Taylor, Andrew

Summary: "Two young girls plot a murder by witchcraft. Soon afterwards a government clerk dies painfully in mysterious circumstances. His colleague James Marwood is asked to investigate - but the task brings unexpected dangers. Meanwhile, architect Cat Hakesby is working for a merchant who lives on Slaughter Street, where the air smells of blood and a captive Barbary lion prowls the stables. Then a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC TAY

Gregory, Susanna

Summary: London, 1664. The infamous church-smasher Dick Culmer is killed among the tottering, ramshackle buildings of London Bridge and Chaloner's investigations into the death link Culmer to a group of puritan conspirators. Further west, in the opulence of Somerset House and in the Palace of White Hall, Chaloner gradually realizes that the ring-leaders of a rebellion are planning an explosive climax to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sphere 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRE

Gregory, Susanna

Summary: Rebellion is in the air of London in the spring of 1663. Thomas Chaloner, spy for the King's intelligence service, has just returned from thwarting a planned revolt in Dublin, but soon realizes that England's capital is no haven of peace. He is ordered to investigate the shooting of a beggar during a royal procession. He soon learns the man is no vagrant, but someone with links to the powerful...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sphere 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRE

Calkins, Susanna

Summary: "Lucy Campion, a ladies' maid turned printer's apprentice in 17th-century London, is crossing Holborn Bridge over the most vile portion of the River Fleet one morning when she encounters a distraught young woman, barely able to speak and clad only in a blood-spattered nightdress. The woman has no memory of who she is or what's happened to her, and the townspeople believe she's possessed. But...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAL

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CAL

Taylor, Andrew

Summary: "Brother against brother. Father against son. Friends turned into enemies. No one in England wants a return to the bloody days of the Civil War. But Oliver Cromwell's son, Richard, has abandoned his exile and slipped back into England. The consequences could be catastrophic. James Marwood, a traitor's son turned government agent, is tasked with uncovering Cromwell's motives. But his assignment...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC TAY

Calkins, Susanna.

Summary: When her daily routine of servitude is shattered by the murder of a fellow servant, seventeenth-century chambermaid Lucy Campion battles legal obstacles, plague-infected crowds, and a brutal killer to prove her wrongly accused brother's innocence.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAL

Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WOR

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010

Lawton, Wendy.

Summary: Imagines the search for faith experienced by the ten-year-old blind daughter of John Bunyan, author of "Pilgrim's Progess," during her father's imprisonment for preaching found contrary to the edicts of the Church of England.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Moody Press 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC LAW

Bucholz, R. O.

Summary: During the 229-year period 1485-1714, England transformed itself from a minor feudal state into "the first modern society," emerging as the wealthiest, most powerful nation in the world. The English people survived epidemics, famines, one failed invasion and two successful ones, two civil wars, violent religious reformations and counter-reformations, and confrontations with two of the most...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942 HIS

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