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Written on the dark / by Kay, Guy Gavriel,author.;
"Thierry Villar is a well-known -- even notorious -- tavern poet, intimately familiar with the rogues and shadows of that world, but not at all with courts and power. He is an unlikely person, despite his quickness, to be swept into the deadly contests of ambitious royals, assassins, and invading armies. But he is indeed drawn into all these things on a savagely cold night in his beloved city of Orane. And so Thierry must use all the intelligence and charm he can muster as power struggles merge with a decades-long war to bring his country to the brink of destruction. As he does, he meets his poetic equal in an aristocratic woman and is drawn to more than one unsettling person with a connection to the world beyond this one. He also crosses paths with an extraordinary young woman driven by voices within to try to heal the ailing king -- and help his forces in war. A wide and varied set of people from all walks of life take their places in the rich tapestry of this story."--
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Novels.; Ambition; Assassination; Courts and courtiers; Poets; Power (Social sciences); War;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Assassin's apprentice / by Hobb, Robin,author.;
Young Fitz is the bastard son of the noble Prince Chivalry, raised in the shadow of the royal court by his father's gruff stableman. He is treated as an outcast by all the royalty except the devious King Shrewd, who has him secretly tutored in the arts of the assassin. For in Fitz's blood runs the magic Skill -- and the darker knowledge of a child raised with the stable hounds and rejected by his family. As barbarous raiders ravage the coasts, Fitz is growing to manhood. Soon he will face his first dangerous, soul-shattering mission. And though some regard him as a threat to the throne, he may just be the key to the survival of the kingdom.
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Novels.; Assassins; Courts and courtiers; Illegitimate children; Imaginary places; Kings and rulers; Magic; Outcasts; Princes; Royal households;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Yes, ma'am : the secret life of royal servants / by Quinn, Tom,1956-author.;
Includes bibliographical references."What really makes the British royal family tick? It's a question that royal watchers have pondered for as long as there has been a royal family ... What really makes the royal family tick is the huge body of servants and staff past and present who feed and clothe the royals, organise their days, polish their shoes, carry the deer and pheasants they shoot, and even put the toothpaste on their toothbrushes. If you want to find out who these servants are, what they do and why, in so many cases, they devote their whole lives to royal service, then this book is for you. Some servants became utterly indispensable to the royals for whom they worked. Elizabeth II's childhood nanny Bobo MacDonald, for example, was closer to the late Queen than anyone in her family, not excepting even her husband Prince Philip and her sister Princess Margaret. At the other end of the spectrum, some members of staff found their royal employers arrogant, overbearing, snobbish and even infantile. As one recent member of the Kensington Palace team put it: 'What you get with one or two members of the royal family is a public angel and a private devil! And only the staff see the private devil!'"--
Subjects: Anecdotes.; Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Courts and courtiers; Household employees; Royal households;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Pandemonium / by Wooding, Chris,1977-; Diaz, Cassandra.;
Seifer Tombchewer, a peasant boy living in the macabre Darkling Realm, proves his worth when he is forced to impersonate the missing Prince Talon Pandemonium as diplomat, warrior, and Lord Defender of the Realm.LSC
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Fantasy comic books, strips, etc.; Princes; Courts and courtiers; Impersonation; Missing persons;
© 2012., Graphix,
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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A heart of crimson flames / by Mulford, A. K.,author.;
In this conclusion to the 'Golden Court' trilogy, Queen Calla faces an impossible choice: prepare for the looming battle or risk everything to rescue their twin sister Briar. With alliances crumbling and betrayal lurking at every corner, Calla must rally their court and lead their people into war, knowing the price of failure is unthinkable.
Subjects: Queer fiction.; Fantasy fiction.; Novels.; Courts and courtiers; Gender-nonconforming people; Imaginary places; Imaginary wars and battles; Magic; Man-woman relationships; Sisters; Shapeshifting; Wolves;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The half king / by Landers, Melissa,author.;
"The Great Betrayal changed everything for the Allied Realm. Long ago, the kingdom's noble houses rose up against the goddess ... and for their treachery, the firstborn of each noble family was cursed. One with perilous beauty. One with destructive knowledge. One with insatiable bloodlust. But the royal house Mortara received the worst affliction of all. For while the king exists during the day, he fades into nothingness at night ... until his twenty-first birthday, when he will be lost to the shadows forever. Now an acolyte has arrived at court. Like all the second-born children of the Allied Realm, she's destined to serve the goddess and become a Seer ... only Cerise Solon has no gift of foretelling. In fact, she has no magical gift at all. Instead, she's surrounded by courtiers and priests--smiling sycophants whose hearts are filled with secrets and lies. And at the center of it all sits His Majesty Kian Hannibal Mortara, with his haunting eyes, sharp tongue, and an unerring ability to send her pulse skittering at the worst possible moments. Falling for him is unthinkable. Because the king is the last of his line, and as the specter of his twenty-first birthday--and the full force of his curse--approaches, the kingdom holds its breath. But there's only one way to save a dying king ... and it lies with the one person who's hiding the biggest secret of all. Cerise."--
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Novels.; Blessing and cursing; Courts and courtiers; Imaginary places; Kings and rulers; Man-woman relationships; Secrecy;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The Boleyn inheritance [sound recording (CD)] / by Gregory, Philippa,1954-; Fox, Emilia,1974-;
Read by Emilia Fox.The year is 1539 and the court of Henry VIII is fearful at the moods of the ageing sick king. With only a baby in the cradle for an heir, Henry has to take another wife and the dangerous prize of the crown of England is won by Anne of Cleves.
Subjects: Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547; CD Talking books; Historical fiction;
© p2006., Harper Collins Audio,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The last queen : Elizabeth II's seventy year battle to save the House of Windsor / by Irving, Clive,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (page 349) and index.A timely and revelatory new biography of Queen Elizabeth and her family, this work explores how the Windsors have evolved and thrived as the modern world has changed around them.
Subjects: Biographies.; Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926-; Windsor, House of.; Monarchy; Queens;
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Katheryn Howard, the scandalous queen : a novel / by Weir, Alison,1951-author.;
"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, his amorous gaze lights upon the pretty teenager. Seated near him intentionally by her ambitious Catholic family, Katheryn readily succumbs to the courtship. Henry is besotted with his bride. He tells the world she is a rose without a thorn, and extols her beauty and her virtue. Katherine delights in the pleasures of being queen and the power she has to do good to others. She comes to love the ailing, obese king and tolerate his nightly attentions. If she can bear him a son, her triumph will be complete. But Katheryn has a past of which Henry knows nothing, and which comes back increasingly to haunt her--even as she courts danger yet again"--
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Catherine Howard, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, -1542; Queens;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The scapegoat : the brilliant brief life of the Duke of Buckingham / by Hughes-Hallett, Lucy,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."From the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize, an extraordinary history of the meteoric rise and fall of George Villiers, the first Duke of Buckingham. As King James I's favourite, Buckingham was also his confidant, gatekeeper, advisor and lover. When Charles I succeeded his father, he was similarly enthralled and made Buckingham his best friend and mentor. A dazzling figure on horseback and a skilful player of the political game, Buckingham rapidly transformed the influence his beauty gave him into immense wealth and power. He became one of the most flamboyant and enigmatic Englishmen at the heart of seventeenth-century royal and political life. With a novelist's touch, Lucy Hughes-Hallett transports us into a courtly world of masques and dancing, exquisite clothes, the art of Rubens and Van Dyck, gender-fluidity, same-sex desire, and appallingly rudimentary medicine. Witch hunts coexisted with Descartian rationality and public opinion was becoming a political force. Falling from grace spectacularly, Buckingham came to represent everything that was wrong with the country. From kidnappings and murder plots to men weeping in Parliament over civil liberties, The Scapegoat navigates love, war-fever and pacifism in a society on the brink of cataclysmic change. In this immersive and authoritative account, Hughes-Hallett summons an era that still resonates today."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 1592-1628.; Politicians;
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