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Mary, Bloody Mary
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Meyer crafts a gripping rags-to-riches account of the tumultuous childhood of Mary Tudor, the eldest daughter of King Henry VIII, whose life turns from riches to rags after Henry divorces her mother, Catherine of Aragon.
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Isabel: Jewel of Castilla
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While waiting anxiously for others to choose a husband for her, Isabella, the future Queen of Spain, keeps a diary account of her life as a member of the royal family.
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Where the Broken Heart Still Beats: The Story of Cynthia Ann Parker
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A fictionalized account of the life of Cynthia Ann Parker, a white settler who was captured and taken in as a slave by the Comanches. Twenty-four years later she married a Comanche chief and give birth to the boy who grew up to be the great Comanche chief Quanah Parker. But, in 1861, Cynthia and her baby daughter were recaptured by the Texas ...
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Anastasia: The Last Grand Duchess
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A novel in diary form in which the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II describes the privileged life her family led up until the time of World War I and the tragic events that befell them.
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Beware, Princess Elizabeth
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Carolyn Meyer
This work of historical fiction tells the story of Elizabeth Tudor in her own voice.
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Kristina, the Girl King
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Meyer offers a revealing look at Kristina, who was raised by the King and Queen of Sweden as a prince rather than a princess and assumed the throne as King at the age of 18.
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White Lilacs
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In this fictional story, based on historical events that happened in the early 1920s, Rose Lee Jefferson tries to fight the white establishment's plan to tear down Freedomtown, the black community where she lives, in order to build a park for the city's white residents. Although the residents of Freedomtown rally together to defeat the plan, they ...
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Duchessina: A Novel of Catherine de' Medici
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Young Catherine de' Medici is the sole heiress to the entire fortune of the wealthy Medici family, but her life is far from luxurious. This novel chronicles the life of a young woman who becomes one of France's most powerful queens. Includes a family tree.
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Doomed Queen Anne
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She risked everything to become queen Though born without great beauty, wealth, or title, Anne Boleyn blossomed into a captivating woman. She used her wiles to win the heart of England's most powerful man, King Henry VIII, and to persuade him to defy everyone--including his own wife--to make her his new queen. But Anne's ambition proved to be her ...
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Gideon's People
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A 12-year-old Hasidic Jewish boy is forced to stay with an Amish family when he is hurt in an accident in this story set during the turn of the century. Isaac is uncomfortable around this family and culture that is so different from his own. He is also confused by 16-year-old Gideon's interest in the world outside the Amish community. Will Isaac ...
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Patience, Princess Catherine
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Carolyn Meyer
The fate of Spanish princess Catherine of Aragon becomes uncertain when her betrothed--Prince Arthur of England--dies not long after the wedding. When Arthur's brother takes the throne and becomes Henry VIII, Catherine's resolve to become England's queen remains unshaken.
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Doomed Queen Anne: A Young Royals Book
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Carolyn Meyer, Liz Van Doren (Editor)
This is the true story of the girl everyone loved to hate. Meyer's engrossing third novel in the award-winning Young Royals series tells Anne's fascinating story in her own voice--from her life as an awkward girl to the dramatic moments before her death.
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Jubilee Journey
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Thirteen-year-old Emily Rose Chartier is comfortable being biracial. However, during her first trip to Texas to visit her great-grandmother, Emily discovers that most people in the town, especially Brandy Woodrow, who comes from the town's most prominent black family, seem to want to prove that she is black--period. Meanwhile, as Emily gets to ...
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Marie, Dancing
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Carolyn Meyer
This moving, historically based account examines the life of Marie van Goethem, a 14-year-old ballet dancer in the famed Paris Opera who was the model for Edgar Degas's most famous sculpture, "Little Dancer Aged Fourteen."
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Rio Grande Stories
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Carolyn Meyer
This collection of shorts stories explores the history of New Mexico and the many different cultural and ethnic groups who live there.
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Loving Will Shakespeare
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Carolyn Meyer
This riveting historical tale reveals the passion and romance between the world's most famous playwright and the woman who risked everything to be with him.
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Voices of South Africa: Growing Up in a Troubled Land
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Carolyn Meyer
The author recounts her visit to South Africa where she interviewed numerous young people, both black and white, to find out what growing up is like in a country torn apart by racial strife.
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Drummers of Jericho
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When 14-year-old Pazit Trujillo goes to live with her father and step-mother in a small suburban town, she expects it to be different, but she isn't prepared for the town's prejudice against Jews. Determined not to be different, she joins the school band, only to discover that the band plays hymns and marches in the shape of a cross. When Pazit ...
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Mary, Bloody Mary: A Young Royals Book
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Mary Tudor, who would reign briefly as Queen of England during the mid sixteenth century, tells the story of her troubled childhood as daughter of King Henry VIII.
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Communicating for Results: A Canadian Student's Guide
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Carolyn Meyer
In today's fast-paced, multi-tasking work environments, successful communication means more than getting the message across: it means getting noticed and getting results. Communicating for Results: A Canadian Student's Guide offers practical, classroom-tested instruction not only in grammar but in the rhetorical techniques and persuasive ...
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Brown Eyes Blue
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Carolyn Meyer
Dorcas hurries back to her home town when her elderly mother, Lavinia, a painter, shows a series of erotic paintings at a local art exhibit--paintings that depict Lavinia when young with an unidentifiable naked hunk. Dissatisfied with her life, Dorcas decides to hang around. She buys a local house, intending to start a bed-and-breakfast--and finds ...
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Voices of Northern Ireland: Growing Up in a Troubled Land
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Carolyn Meyer
The author relates her visit to Northern Ireland where she interviewed Protestants and Catholics and recorded their feelings growing up in a country torn apart by religious and political conflict.
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Blessed Is the Daughter, Eighth Edition
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Carolyn Hessel (Editor), Meyer Waxman (Editor), Sulamith Ish-Kishor (Editor)
The inspiring story of Jewish women in all lands, from Biblical days to our own time. Their courage, their devotion, their deeds of service and dedication, in heroic action and in the practice of everyday Jewish life.
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C. C. Poindexter
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Carolyn Meyer
Cynthia Charlotte Poindexter is fifteen years old and six feet one inch tall, her parents are divorced, and--spending lots of time with a feminist aunt--she has a difficult time finding where she fits in.
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The Luck of Texas McCoy
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Sixteen-year-old Texas, in order to keep the ranch left to her by her grandfather, sells some acreage to a movie company as a location for western films, and finds herself becoming involved with a young actor.
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