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  • Audiobook

    Her Dark Materials - Volume 4

    Mary E Penn to Virginia Woolf

    Unabridged

    12 hours 14 min

    In these more welcome days of equality between the sexes we usually forget that the often cited ‘Gentler Sex’ can have dark and disturbing trains of thought that are more than the equal of their male brethren. Indeed, they can manipulate words in a matter of lines from comforting and loving to dark, foreboding and utterly terrifying. These femme fatales really do create stories that leech vile ... Read more

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  • Elizabethan Rebellions

    Conspiracy, Intrigue and Treason

    Elizabeth I. Tudor, Queen, Protestant. Throughout her reign, Elizabeth I had to deal with many rebellions which aimed to undermine her rule and overthrow her. Led in the main by those who wanted religious freedom and to reap the rewards of power, each one was thwarted but left an indelible mark on Queen Elizabeth and her governance of England. Learning from earlier Tudor rebellions against ... Read more

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    Hate Thy Neighbor [Dramatized Adaptation]

    The Kerrigans 4

    Series series Kerrigans

    Unabridged

    4 hours 45 min

    They risked their lives to make a home in the heart of West Texas. Now the Kerrigan family must face the deadliest challenges of the land they love—and the evil that men do.COME HELL OR HIGH WATER...After a two-year drought, the Kerrigan ranch is dry as a bone and as dusty as a honky-tonk bible. On the brink of ruin, Kate Kerrigan hires the rainmaker Professor Somerset Lazarus, who promises ... Read more

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  • Amanda Knox

    Crime, Trial, Release and Controversy

    by Helen Saxton ...
    In November 2007 the body of British student Meredith Kercher was discovered in her bedroom in Perugia, Italy. She had been brutally killed. Over the course of the next eight years one man, Rudy Guede, would be convicted of her murder and two other suspects, Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito, would be convicted, acquitted and convicted again for their part in the crime, before having their ... Read more

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  • The Many Faces of Anne Boleyn

    Interpreting Image and Perception

    Explores Anne Boleyn’s life and legacy through 500 years of images, perceptions, and historical interpretations.Mistress. Queen. Reformer. Traitor. Icon.This book is not like any others you might have read on Anne Boleyn. It is not a biography of the life of Henry VIII’s second wife and queen. What this book does is to examine Anne Boleyn through images and perceptions of her. Through documents, ... Read more

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  • Victorian Convicts

    100 Criminal Lives

    "An interesting introduction to Victorian crimes, the people who committed them, and how effective rehabilitation may have been." — Ripperologist MagazineWhat was life like in the Victorian underworld—who were the criminals, what crimes did they commit, how did they come to a criminal career, and what happened to them after they were released from prison? Victorian Convicts, by telling the stories ... Read more

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  • The 1066 Norman Bruisers

    How European Thugs Became English Gentry

    by Helen Kay ...
    The fascinating story of the social evolution of William the Conqueror's invaders and the generations that followed: "A great book." — Medieval Sword SchoolThe 1066 Norman Bruisers conjures up the vanished world of England in the late Middle Ages and casts light on one of the strangest quirks in the nation's history: how a bunch of European thugs became the quintessentially English gentry.In 1066, ... Read more

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  • Before She Was Helen

    EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST NOVEL"As Before She Was Helen opens, readers are drawn into what appears to be a light, retirement-community caper. But author Caroline B. Cooney quickly flips expectations upside-down in this deceptively dark mystery. Between old crimes and fresh murders, septuagenarian protagonist Clemmie faces an unspeakable fear that will keep readers hooked in this twisty whodunit ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Legitimacy of Bastards

    The Place of Illegitimate Children in Later Medieval England

    An in-depth look at the lives of illegitimate children and their parents in England in the later Middle Ages.For the nobility and gentry in later medieval England, land was a source of wealth and status. Their marriages were arranged with this in mind, and it is not surprising that so many of them had mistresses and illegitimate children. John de Warenne, earl of Surrey, married at the age of ... Read more

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  • Fatal Evidence

    Professor Alfred Swaine Taylor & the Dawn of Forensic Science

    by Helen Barrell ...
    "An engrossing read . . . Her description of the ways in which forensic experiments evolved is as fascinating as the courtroom dramas they accompanied." —Jess Kidd, The Guardian, "Best Summer Books 2018, as Picked by Writers"A surgeon and chemist at Guys Hospital in London, Professor Alfred Swaine Taylor used new techniques to search the human body for evidence that once had been unseen. As well ... Read more

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  • Early Childhood and Development Work

    Theories, Policies, and Practices

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This edited volume provides a critical account of the theories and policies that have informed work in the field of early childhood and explores how they have operated in practice. Underpinning the theoretical debates are the familiar tensions between global norms and local contexts; increasing inequality alongside economic progress, and the increasing prominence of business and the private sector ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Henry VIII's Quest for an Heir

    The King's Great Matter

    The king’s annulment battle with religious authority ignited England’s upheaval, reshaping church, politics, and Tudor lives.If there was a single event that shaped the Tudor century, it would have to be Henry VIII’s ‘Great Matter’. This is more commonly known as his divorce from Katherine of Aragon, but it was actually an annulment – the ending of a marriage as if it had never been.Henry VIII, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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