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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
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"On an autumn day, in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, two boys were born in England, one to a poor family by the name of Canty who lived in Offal Court, not far from London Bridge, and the other to a wealthy and high-placed family by the name of Tudor. Young Tom Canty, unwanted, unloved, began his day-dreaming early in order to forget the petty stealing to which he was forced by his cruel rogue of a father--and the royal Court and young...
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Welsh's slim, taut follow-up to her 2003 debut, The Cutting Room, she reimagines the bitter end of the great dramatist's life, retold in his own words on the eve of his still-unsolved murder. The beginning of the end comes in the form of a messenger from the queen's Privy Council, summoning him back to the city from a comfortable ensconcement at his patron's country house. Turns out that heretical verses signed by Tamburlaine, his most famous creation,...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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"April, 1555. A priest has been stabbed to death in the village of St Botolph, to the east of the City of London, his body left to rot by the roadside - and Jack Blackjack stands accused of his murder. As well as clearing his name, Jack has his own reasons for wanting to find out who really killed the priest - but this is an investigation where nothing is as it seems. Was it a random attack by a desperate outlaw, or do the answers lie in the murdered...
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Description
While helping to clean up their local community theater, twelve-year-old Mason and his friend Aubrey suddenly find themselves in 1598 London where a discouraged William Shakespeare has just lost his lease on the Globe and is thinking about quitting writing--and it is up to the children to come up with a plan to recover the theater and convince Shakespeare that the best is yet to come.
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2021.
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"July, 1556. En route to France and escape from Queen Mary's men, Jack Blackjack decides to spend the night at a Devon tavern, agrees to a game of dice - and ends up accused of murder. To make matters worse, the dead man turns out to have been the leader of the all-powerful miners who rule the surrounding moors - and they have no intention of waiting for the official court verdict to determine Jack's guilt. But who would frame Jack for murder . ....
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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The court of Elizabeth I is no stranger to plotting and intrigue, but the royal retinue is thrown into chaos when the Queen's youngest and sweetest lady-in-waiting is murdered, her body left on the high altar of the Chapel Royal in Whitehall Palace. Solving the murder will require the cunning and savvy possessed by only one man. Enter Nicholas Holt, younger brother of the Earl of Blackwell-spy, rake, and owner of the infamous Black Sheep tavern in...
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Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
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In 1592, twelve-year-old Isabel dreams of adventure and finds it, not only on her journey from her London home to her aunt's manor house in Northamptonshire, but also through the healing arts her aunt teaches her.
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Matthew Shardlake novels volume 7
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
When a distant relative of Princess Elizabeth is found dead, Matthew Shardlake is sent to investigate the murder, which may have connections reaching to a peasant rebellion sweeping the country.
12) The silent woman
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Nicholas Bracewell mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
2002
Description
The sixth novel in a series featuring Nicholas Bracewell, stage manager of an Elizabethan theater company. A fire at Queen's Head, home of the company, sends the troupe on a tour until the repairs are finished. While they are preparing for the trip a woman arrives with a verbal message, but dies from poisoning before she can speak. Bracewell investigates.
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Sir Robert Carey mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
2000.
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"In 1592, dashing courtier Sir Robert Carey took up his northern post as Warden of the West March in order to escape the complications of creditors and court life. Trouble, however, dogs his heels wherever he goes. And where he goes in autumn, after various midadventures in Carlisle, is back to London upon a summons from his father." -- Back cover.
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Pub. Date
2014.
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After his hair-raising adventures in London, Sir Robert Carey has finally tracked down Queen Elizabeth, who is about to make a state visit to Oxford. But instead of giving the Courtier his much-needed warrant and fee for being Deputy Warden of the West March with Scotland, Her Majesty orders him to investigate the most dangerous cold case of her reign--the mysterious 1560 death of Amy Dudley (n©♭e Robsart), unloved wife of Robert Dudley, Earl of...
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Matthew Shardlake novels volume 6
Pub. Date
2015.
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"As Henry VIII lies on his deathbed, an incendiary manuscript threatens to tear his court apart. Summer, 1546. King Henry VIII is slowly, painfully dying. His Protestant and Catholic councilors are engaged in a final and decisive power struggle; whoever wins will control the government. As heretics are hunted across London, and radical Protestants are burned at the stake, the Catholic party focuses its attack on Henry's sixth wife--and Matthew Shardlake's...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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"Two rival queens. History's greatest playwright. And a deadly plot for the crown. London, 1600. With no legitimate heir to Queen Elizabeth's throne, and no clear successor with her modern vision of a civilization that thrives in peace and diversity, England is in a supremely perilous moment. Elizabeth's foes understand the power of a poet's voice to shape popular opinion, and force esteemed playwright William Shakespeare to write a script detailing...
17) Love disguised
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Pub. Date
2013.
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After a mixed-up courtship with the Hathaway sisters ends badly, eighteen-year-old Will Shakespeare jumps at the chance to go to London, where he can pursue his dream of becoming an actor and where he is about to meet the girl who will change his life forever.