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Kings of Infinite Space: A Novel

by James Hynes

Published: 2005-03-01

Paperback: 352 pages

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"Immensely witty...thoroughly entertaining."--The Washington Post Book WorldPaul Trilby is having a bad day. If he were to be honest with himself, Paul Trilby would have to admit that he's having a bad life. His wife left him. Three subsequent girlfriends left him. He's fallen from a top-...

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Kings of the Earth: A Novel

by Jon Clinch

Published: 2010-07-06

Hardcover: 416 pages

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Following up Finn, his much-heralded and prize-winning debut whose voice evoked ?the mythic styles of his literary predecessors . . . William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Cormac McCarthy and Edward P. Jones? (San Francisco Chronicle), Jon Clinch returns with Kings of the Earth, a powerful and ...

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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...