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    Mistress

    A History of Women and their Country Houses

    Unabridged

    11 hours 55 min

    An insightful, hugely engaging new history of elite women and the country house from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuryGrand houses can be found across the countryside of England and Wales. From the Stuart and Georgian periods to the Edwardian and Victorian, these buildings were once home to the aristocratic families of the nation. But what was life like for the mistresses of these great ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Eye of Stone: The Inheritors 1

    Series Book 1 - The Inheritors
    In the tradition of The Clan of the Cave Bear**, a fabulous story of ancient Java and the shaman, Fern, who reaches into the future.**The fiery mountain is gone. In its place, naked figures crouch within the dark mouth of a cave. The faces are strange, yet Fern knows them. They inhabit a world of echoes, alien yet familiar.Fifty thousand years ago: The People, who for time immemorial have lived in ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Spirits of the Earth: The Inheritors 3

    Series Book 3 - The Inheritors
    Fern must find the mountain that has haunted her dreams and visions. Or will she and her tribe be destined to wander forever?The People have come to this land over a vast and frightening mass of water. They must put aside memories of their ancestral home in ancient Java, sacrificed to the Newcomers.Now they are newcomers, struggling to live at one with the land and its ancient dreaming. And they ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Gods of the Inferno: The Inheritors 2

    Series Book 2 - The Inheritors
    In the tradition of Jean Auel's Clan of the Cave Bear**, Fletcher Anthony brings us a magical world inhabited by the spirits.**The world of ancient Indonesia, and modern-day Gondwanaland: Australia. Thousands of years ago, the People lived and worshipped their gods in the rainforests of the Indonesian archipelago.Then the Newcomers began to come from the north and the People were forced to move ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Life, Death, and Growing Up on the Western Front

    Series series Vices and Virtues
    A powerful account of life and loss in the Great War, as told by British soldiers in their letters homeThis book was inspired by the author's discovery of an extraordinary cache of letters from a soldier who was killed on the Western Front during the First World War. The soldier was his grandfather, and the letters had been tucked away, unread and unmentioned for many decades. Intrigued by the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tudor Rebellions

    Series series Seminar Studies
    Tudor Rebellions, now in its seventh edition, gives a chronological account of the major rebellions against the Tudor monarchy in England from the reign of King Henry VII until the death of Queen Elizabeth I in 1603.The book throws light on some of the main themes of Tudor history, including the dynasty’s attempt to bring the north and west under the control of the capital, the progress of the ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Historians on John Gower

    The late fourteenth century was the age of the Black Death, the Peasants' Revolt, the Hundred Years War, the deposition of Richard II, the papal schism and the emergence of the heretical doctrines of John Wyclif and the Lollards.These social, political and religious crises and conflicts were addressed not only by preachers and by those involved in public affairs but also by poets, including ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    An Enduring American classic

    Series Book 4 - Action and Adventure Collection
    Cooper’s most enduringly popular novel combines heroism and romance with powerful criticism of the destruction of nature and tradition. Set against the French and Indian siege of Fort William Henry in 1757, The Last of the Mohicans recounts the story of two sisters, Cora and Alice Munro, daughters of the English commander, who are struggling to be reunited with their father. They are aided in ... Read more

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  • Katherine Swynford

    The History of a Medieval Mistress

    Katherine Swynford – sexual temptress or powerful woman at the centre of the medieval court?This book unravels the many myths and legacies of this fascinating woman, to show her in a whole new light. Katherine was sister-in-law to Geoffrey Chaucer and governess to the daughters of Blanche of Lancaster and John of Gaunt. She also became John of Gaunt's mistress – a role that she maintained for 20 ... Read more

    $10.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 1536

    The Year that Changed Henry VIII

    One of the best-known figures of British history, collective memory of Henry VIII presents us with the image of a corpulent, covetous, and cunning king whose appetite for worldly goods met few parallels, whose wives met infamously premature ends, and whose religion was ever political in intent. 1536 - focusing on a pivotal year in the life of the King - reveals a fuller portrait of this complex ... Read more

    $12.95 USD

  • The Heart and Stomach of a King

    Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power

    by Carole Levin ...
    In her famous speech to rouse the English troops staking out Tilbury at the mouth of the Thames during the Spanish Armada's campaign, Queen Elizabeth I is said to have proclaimed, "I may have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king." Whether or not the transcription is accurate, the persistent attribution of this provocative statement to England's most ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Tudor England

    An Encyclopedia

    This is the first encyclopedia to be devoted entirely to Tudor England. 700 entries by top scholars in every major field combine new modes of archival research with a detailed Tudor chronology and appendix of biographical essays.Entries include: * Edward Alleyn [actor/theatre manager] * Roger Ascham * Bible translation * cloth trade * Devereux fami ... Read more

    $49.99 USD