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1) Blood royal
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Her Royal Highness, the Princess of Wales, was an ordinary young woman who was picked to be the future queen. Her wedding was a worldwide sensation. But, she was deceived and betrayed before the honeymoon was over. Five months after a fairy tale wedding, she threw herself down a flight of stairs when she was pregnant with a future heir to the throne. Suicide attempts, illicit affairs, and paranoia that there were plots by the Royals to kill her became...
2) Blood Royal
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The latest entry in this acclaimed series of new translations of the Musketeer novels, Blood Royal continues the adventures of the valiant d'Artagnan and his three loyal friends.
The latest translation in Lawrence Ellsworth's acclaimed new series of Alexandre Dumas's greatest adventures is Blood Royal, the second half of what Dumas originally published as Twenty Years After. In this volume all the plots and schemes set up in the previous novel come...
3) Blood Royal
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"Rene', what will you do if I kick his ass?" I jerked my head toward Tony.
"Nothing, as long as you do not inflict permanent harm," Rene' smiled slightly. I got up to go after Tony, but Wlodek hauled me back.
"We will not allow a brawl between our two youngest," he declared and settled me back in my seat. "Now, Anthony, where may we find your father and does he have other children?"
Xenides is searching for Lissa and out for blood. Nothng less...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 On October 14, 1407, two condemned men were brought to the gibbet at the Montfaucon hill in Paris. The execution was attended by a crowd of spectators, who were there to watch the two hanged men struggle and kick their way out of this world and into the next.
#2 The provost of Paris, Guillaume de Tignonville, led the procession that day. He was the city's chief of...
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Wars of the Roses (Hugh Bicheno) volume 2
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The Yorkist Edward IV has been king for three years since his victory at Towton. The former Lancastrian King Henry VI languishes in the Tower of London. But Edward will soon alienate his backers by favoring the family of his ambitious wife, Elizabeth Woodville. And he will fall out with his chief supporter, Warwick "the Kingmaker", with dire consequences. Told with extraordinary authority and narrative verve, Blood Royal is the second part of a two-volume...
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The latest entry in this acclaimed series of new translations of the Musketeer novels, Blood Royal continues the adventures of the valiant d'Artagnan and his three loyal friends.
The latest translation in Lawrence Ellsworth's acclaimed new series of Alexandre Dumas's greatest adventures is Blood Royal, the second half of what Dumas originally published as Twenty Years After. In this volume all the plots and schemes set up in the previous novel come...
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Throughout medieval Europe, for hundreds of years, monarchy was the way that politics worked in most countries. This meant power was in the hands of a family-a dynasty; that politics was family politics; and political life was shaped by the births, marriages and deaths of the ruling family. How did the dynastic system cope with female rule, or pretenders to the throne? How did dynasties use names, the numbering of rulers and the visual display of...
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On a chilly November night in 1407, Louis of Orleans was murdered by a band of masked men. The crime stunned and paralyzed France since Louis had often ruled in place of his brother King Charles, who had gone mad. As panic seized Paris, an investigation began. In charge was the Provost of Paris, Guillaume de Tignonville, the citys chief law enforcement officer, and one of history's first detectives. As de Tignonville began to investigate, he realized...
11) In the Blood
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Her crown was taken. She will risk it all to get it back.
Get bitten by the international award-winning IN THE BLOOD's suspense, compelling characters, and darkly humorous take on the classic horror genre, featuring Marie Antoinette.
Art Student Sybill Lysander had an ordinary life, working in a coffee shop in the Central West End of St. Louis, with every day much like the one before. Then a vampire named Fin walked in the door, and her whole world...
12) Out For Blood
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A QUEEN HUNTED FOR CENTURIES, SURROUNDED BY SPIES. LOYALTIES WILL BE, TESTED AND BETRAYED.
What had seemed like a simple rescue mission, to bring Raul back home turns out to be much more, complex than Marie or Sybill could ever have anticipated.
Intrigue and secrets are on all sides, and somewhere there's a spy in their midst. Out of her element, whom can Marie trust? The former queen is in danger, and as a result so is everyone around her.
Meanwhile,...
13) Trial By Blood
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THE QUEEN FACES HER GREATEST FEAR. THE FIGHT MAY COST HER EVERYTHING.
"I had thought of myself as a survivor, but this was a fundamentally, flawed strategy. I had survived all this time by simply, reacting to events after they happened. But, this behavior made me an eternal victim, and I was, tired of feeling helpless.
I needed to break the cycle if I wanted to ensure a better outcome. I needed to behave like the queen I was, not skulk away into my...
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