"O Bandit Queen!" the bandits cried. "Little horror! Poison weed!We'll give you everything a queen could ever need..."The bandits give their queen treasure, tigers, mischief and mayhem. But sometimes a little girl needs something more...A beautiful book about finding family in unexpected places, fro[...]

Everyone knows the flamboyant, larger-than-life Celia Cruz, the extraordinary salsa singer who passed away in 2003, leaving millions of fans brokenhearted. indeed, there was a magical vibrancy to the Cuban salsa singer. to hear her voice or to see her perform was to feel her life-affirming energy de[...]

View our feature on Sarah Gristwood's "Elizabeth & Leicester." Though the story has been told on film--and whispered in historic gossip--this is the first book in almost fifty years to solely explore the great queen's attachment to her beloved Robert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester. Fueled by scandal [...]

"Attention, 'Game of Thrones' fans: The most enjoyably sensational aspects of medieval politics"--"double-crosses, ambushes, bizarre personal obsessions, lunacy and naked self-interest"--"are in abundant evidence in Nancy Goldstone's "The Maid and the Queen.""(Laura Miller, Salon.com) Joan of Arc, t[...]

An engrossing, unadulterated biography of Bloody Mary elder daughter of Henry VIII, Catholic zealot, and England s first reigning Queen
Mary Tudor was the first woman to inherit the throne of England. Reigning through one of Britain s stormiest eras, she earned the nickname Bloody Mary for her [...]

Shy Juliet Dove leaves Mr. Elives' magic shop with Helen of Troy's amulet--a virtual man magnet. Juliet doesn't know what she's got, but soon every boy in town is swoony for her. Yet, much as she'd like to lose all the unwanted attention, she can't: The amulet won't come off
A sidesplittingly f[...]

Receiving the two-hundred-year-old memoir of a Korean crown princess from an anonymous sender, Oxford student Barbara Halliwell reads about the princess's tragic experiences of motherhood and childlessness in the eighteenth-century Korean court, visits the sites of the princess's life, and finds pro[...]

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If a shard of the magic mirror enters your eye, you become a servant of the cold-hearted Snow Queen, doomed to a life of ice and snow. At least, that's what the storybook says ...and surely it can't be true? But when her best friend Kai disappears without a trace, Gerda begins to suspect that this m[...]

The Stage 9 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories provide humorous storylines to engage and motivate children. The popular characters and familiar settings are brought to life by Roderick Hunt and Alex Brychta. The stories are unchanged from the previous edition but the cover notes have been updated to supp[...]

Literature and Party Politics at the Accession of Queen Anne is the first detailed study of the final Stuart succession crisis. It demonstrates for the first time the centrality of debates about royal succession to the literature and political culture of the early eighteenth century. Using previousl[...]

Provides reading and language support for the "Magpies Storybooks" at Stages 8 and 9. The range of activities to accompany each storybook encourages children to look more closely at the stories, to focus on comprehension, aspects of language and grammar; develop rhyme awareness; sequencing skills an[...]

As the last Stuart monarch, Queen Anne (1665-1714) received the education thought proper for a princess, reading plays and poetry in English and French while learning dancing, singing, acting, drawing, and instrumental music. As an adult, she played the guitar and the harpsichord, danced regularly, [...]