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(0)Robin Maxwell
Author
Series
English history novels volume 4
Language
English
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Description
Two female titans -- perfectly matched in guts, guile, and political genius.
Elizabeth, queen of England, has taken on the mighty Spanish Armada and, in a stunning sea battle, vanquished it. But her troubles are far from over. Just across the western channel, her colony Ireland is embroiled in seething rebellion, with the island's fierce, untamed clan chieftains and their "wild Irish" followers refusing to bow to their English oppressors.
Grace...
Author
Series
English history novels volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"To the Tower Born is a lively tale, told with a natural novelist's eye for drama and vivid characterization." - --Carolly Erickson, author of The Girl From Botany Bay
"Spirited, colorful . . . brims with page-turning drama." - Publishers Weekly
Author
Series
English history novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
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 horse master, Robin Dudley -- described with near-shocking candor -- as too are Anne's...
Author
Series
English history novels volume 2
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Historians have long whispered that "the Virgin Queen" Elizabeth's passionate, lifelong affair with Robin Dudley, Earl of Leicester, may have led to the birth of a son, Arthur Dudley. In this exquisite sequel to The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn, Robin Maxwell fashions a stunning fictional account of the child switched at birth by a lady-in-waiting who foresaw the deleterious political consequences of a royal bastard. Set against the sweeping, meticulously...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
I suffered much cruelty as an unmarried mother and I had no recourse when they took my boy away from me. I had no rights, no prospects, no future. Everyone believed I was ruined. But no one knew the secrets of my own childhood, nor could they ever have imagined the dangerous and heretical scheme I would devise to protect and watch over my remarkable son as he grew in to manhood. Some might call me a liar, since all I describe would be impossible for...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Reimagines the classic story of Tarzan from Jane's perspective, following the only woman student in Cambridge's medical program as she travels the world to prove the theories of Darwin and finds love with an extraordinary man in the jungles of West Africa.
10) Jane
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Jane is the first reimagining of the legendary Tarzan story from Jane's point of view, and the first version by a female writer that's fully authorized and endorsed by the Edgar Rice Burroughs estate. Set in the early 1900s, Jane is both a page-turning adventure novel (complete with lush jungle settings, a devious villain, and turn-of-the-century science) and an unlikely yet intimate love story.
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