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1) Pope Joan
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Language
English
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A captivating historical novel, Pope Joan is an international best-seller. Set in the brutal Dark Ages, a time when women were viewed as the root of sin, this novel tells the remarkable tale of one of history's greatest controversies.
Denied the priesthood by society's rules, young Joan seizes her opportunity to join a monastery when she assumes her murdered brother's identity and takes the name John Anglicus. Putting her brilliant mind to good use,...
Author
Series
Oxford time travel novels volume 2
Language
English
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Description
One of the most respected and awarded of all contemporary science fiction writers, Connie Willis repeatedly amazes her many admiring fans with her ability to create vivid characters in unusual situations. With Doomsday Book, she takes listeners on a thrilling trip through time to discover the things that make us most human. For Oxford student Kivrin, traveling back to the 14th century is more than the culmination of her studies-it's the chance for...
Author
Series
Owen Archer mysteries volume 5
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Hagenheim volume 10
Language
English
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Description
In 1424 Hamlin, Katerina reluctantly allies with the handsome but brash Steffan to protect herself and her city from formidable dangers--missing children, hordes of rats, a marauding beast, and her devious stepfather, the town's mayor.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1984
Physical Desc
423 p. : 2 maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Warrior, lover, and scholar, Kerbouchard boldly sweeps through the castles, villages, and galleys of twelfth-century Europe, in an adventure that takes him from the shores of Brittany to the steppes of Russia.
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
430, xiv, ix p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Lady Ember Morrow fulfills a family obligation by joining her friend Alistair in the Conatus Guard and begins training to help with the order's true mission, to seek out and stop evildoers and their unnatural creations.
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
1989, c1985
Physical Desc
309 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of "The Prize" and "The Secret" comes an exquisite tender tale of love, adventure and passion!
In feudal England, Elizabeth Montwright barely escaped the massacre that destroyed her family and exiled her from her ancestral castle. Bent on revenge, disguised as a peasant, she rode again through the fortress gates... to seek aid from Geoffrey Berkley, the powerful baron who had routed the murderers.
He heard...
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Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
461 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Margrave of Thornbeck has two weeks to find a noble bride. What will happen when he learns he has fallen for Avelina, a lovely servant girl in disguise? But something else is afoot in the castle. Something sinister that could have far worse--far deadlier--consequences. Will Avelina and Lord Thornbeck be able to stop the evil plot?"--
11) Revelations
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Language
English
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"Bishop's Lynn, England, 1413. At the age of forty, Margery Kempe has nearly died giving birth to her fourteenth child. Fearing that another pregnancy might kill her, she makes a vow of celibacy, but she can't trust her husband to keep his end of the bargain. Desperate for counsel, she visits the famous anchoress Dame Julian of Norwich and confesses that she has been haunted by visceral religious visions. Julian offers up a confession of her own:...
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Language
English
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Description
"Illuminating the end of the twelfth century and the notorious queen--Eleanor of Aquitaine--who dominated it, this sweeping, suspenseful tale follows Isabelle, a spirited, questing young woman, who defies convention--and her controlling, falconry-obsessed husband--to lead an extraordinary life"--
Set in France and England at the end of the twelfth century, the moving story of a spirited, questing young woman, Isabelle, who defies convention to forge...
Author
Publisher
Wisdom House Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 644 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"12th Century Europe was a time of ferment and change as Crusaders returning from Palestine brought with them innovative ideas in architecture and art, medicine and science. Newly available translations from the ancient Greeks invigorated learning and philosophy and led to the rise of the university. The formation of towns and a growing merchant class loosened the bondage of serfdom and the medieval system of feudalism, furthering technical innovation...
14) Lapvona
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself the unlikely pivot of a power struggle that puts all manner of faith to a savage test, in a spellbinding novel that represents Ottessa Moshfegh's most exciting leap yet. Little Marek, the abused and delusional son of the village shepherd, never knew his mother; his father told him she died in childbirth. One of life's few consolations for Marek...
Author
Series
Medieval fairy tale romances volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
455 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jorgen is the forester for the wealthy margrave, and must find and capture the poacher who has been killing and stealing the margrave's game. When he meets the lovely and refined Odette at the festival and shares a connection during a dance, he has no idea she is the one who has been poaching the margrave's game. Odette justifies her crime of poaching because she thinks the game is going to feed the poor, who are all but starving, both in the city...
Author
Publisher
Debols!llo
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
534 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Siglo XIII. Época de la persecución de los cátaros, de las Cruzadas y del comienzo de la Inquisición. Ante la masacre que está sufriendo su pueblo, Braira de Fanjau, una joven cátara occitana, viaja a Zaragoza para escapar del exterminio, ocultando el secreto de su fe. Allí conocerá a la reina Constanza de Aragón, casada en segundas nupcias con Federico II de Hohenstaufen, rey de Sicilia y emperador del Sacro Imperio Romano-Germánico, que...
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