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A Kingsbury Collection: Three Novels in One: Where Yesterday Lives, When Joy Came to Stay, On Every Side

by Karen Kingsbury

Published: 2012-10-02

Paperback: 752 pages

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Three Page-Turning Novels in One Volume! Where Yesterday Lives Ellen Barrett is a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist with an uncertain marriage, a forgotten faith, and haunting memories of her picturesque hometown and the love she left behind. The eldest of five siblings, she longs for the ...

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The Kings' Mistresses: The Liberated Lives of Marie Mancini, Princess Colonna, and Her Sister Hortense, Duchess Mazarin

by Elizabeth C. Goldsmith

Published: 2012-04-03

Hardcover: 288 pages

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The Mancini Sisters, Marie and Hortense, were born in Rome, brought to the court of Louis XIV of France, and strategically married off by their uncle, Cardinal Mazarin, to secure his political power base. Such was the life of many young women of the age: they had no independent status unde...

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The King's Daughter

by Barbara Kyle

Published: 2010-12-01

Mass Market Paperback: 528 pages

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Upon the death of her father, Henry VIII, Queen Mary assumes the throne after a long exile. Her first order of business is to wed the devout Prince Philip of Spain, creating a powerful alliance that will transform Mary-s fanatical dream of ridding England of Protestantism into terrifying r...

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The King's Daughter. A Novel of the First Tudor Queen

by Sandra Worth

Published: 2008-12-02

Paperback: 416 pages

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Elizabeth of York, England's first Tudor queen was born into the era of violence that ended the valiant Plantagenet dynasty and ushered in the reign of the Tudors. She lived at the very epicenter of the Wars of the Roses and knew intimately four very different kings: her golden father, Edward IV, who...

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The King's Favorite: A Novel of Nell Gwyn and King Charles II

by Susan Holloway Scott

Published: 2008-07-01

Paperback: 448 pages

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The King's Grace: A Novel

by Anne Easter Smith

Published: 2009-03-10

Paperback: 608 pages

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The King's Mistress: A Novel

by Emma Campion

Published: 2010-07-06

Hardcover: 464 pages

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History has not been kind to Alice Perrers, the notorious mistress of King Edward III. Scholars and contemporaries alike have deemed her a manipulative woman who used her great beauty and sensuality to take advantage of an aging and increasingly senile king. But who was the woman behind th...

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The King's Speech

by Mark Logue, Peter Conradi

Published: 2010-11-25

Paperback: 0 pages

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The subject of a major motion picture starring Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter. One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - amazingly he was an almost unknown, and certainly unqualified, speech therapist called Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper...

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The King's Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy

by Mark Logue, Peter Conradi

Published: 2010-11-26

Paperback: 242 pages

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The "quack" who saved a king... Featuring a star-studded cast of Academy Award winners and nominees, The King's Speech won the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival People's Choice Award and is generating plenty of Oscar buzz. This official film tie-in is written by London Sunday Time...

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Kino: A Novel

by Jurgen Fauth

Published: 2012-04-12

Paperback: 258 pages

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''I came from nothing, I scaled the Olymp, and I can do it again. Even when the Nazis burned my movies, I clung to hope. You have marked me crazy and yet you ask me to explain myself. Art will prevail! I'll make another movie yet. Cinema cannot be detained! Nothing can stop me, for I am Ki...