The Maid of the White Hands
10 best books like The Maid of the White Hands (Rosalind Miles): Beware, Princess Elizabeth, Doomed Queen Anne, Patience, Princess Catherine, Gap Creek, Out of Oz, Once Upon a Flock: Life with My Soulful Chickens, Nine Days a Queen: The Short Life and Reign of Lady Jane Grey, A Lion Among Men, The Chicken Health Handbook, The Introvert Advantage: How to Thrive in an Extrovert World
Author | Carolyn Meyer |
ISBN | 0152045562 |
Imprisonment. Betrayal. Lost love. Murder. What more must a princess endure?
Elizabeth Tudor's teenage and young adult years during the turbulent reigns of Edward and then Mary Tudor are hardly those of a fairy-tale princess. Her mother has been beheaded by Elizabeth's own father, Henry...
Author | Carolyn Meyer |
ISBN | 0152050868 |
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 persuade him to defy everyone--including his own wife—to make her his new queen. But Anne's ambition was her...
Author | Carolyn Meyer |
ISBN | 0152054472 |
Will Catherine ever become queen?
England anxiously awaits Prince Arthur’s betrothed—the Spanish princess who will be its future queen. But when Arthur dies not long after the wedding, Catherine of Aragon’s fate becomes uncertain. Will the king and Catherine’s parents arrange...
Author | Robert Morgan |
ISBN | 0743203631 |
Young Julie Harmon works "hard as a man," they say, so hard that at times she's not sure she can stop. People depend on her to slaughter the hogs and nurse the dying. People are weak, and there is so much to do. At just seventeen she marries and moves down into the valley of Gap Creek, where perhaps life will...
Author | Gregory Maguire |
ISBN | 0060548940 |
After the third book, I did not have high hopes for the end of the series. The previous books had left too much unfinished - too many characters had dropped off the map, too many unexplained occurrences, too much dull backstory (*cough* book three)
This book, however, was fantastic. The writing...
Author | Lauren Scheuer |
ISBN | 1451698704 |
This delightful memoir about life with a spirited, sometimes reckless flock of backyard chickens—inspired by the author’s popular blog, “Scratch and Peck”—includes color photographs and imaginative illustrations throughout.
When longtime illustrator and lover of power...
Author | Ann Rinaldi |
ISBN | 0060549254 |
I had freckles.
I had sandy hair.
I was too short.
Would my feet even touch the ground if I sat on the throne?
These are the words of lady Jane Grey, as imagined by celebrated author Ann Rinaldi. Jane would become Queen of England for only nine days before being beheaded at the age of...
Author | Gregory Maguire |
ISBN | 0060548924 |
In this much-anticipated third volume of the Wicked Years, we return to Oz, seen now through the eyes of the Cowardly Lion - the once tiny cub defended by Elphaba in Wicked. While civil war looms, a tetchy oracle named Yackle prepares for death. Before her final hour, an enigmatic figure known as Brrr -...
The Chicken Health Handbook
Author | Gail Damerow |
ISBN | 0882666118 |
Healthy chickens are happy chickens. This one-of-a-kind reference book covers the health problems that plague chickens of all breeds and ages. Practical charts identify common symptoms and causes of infection, while an alphabetic listing of diseases provides advice on treatment. You’ll find...
The Introvert Advantage: How to Thrive in an Extrovert World
Author | Marti Olsen Laney |
ISBN | 0761123695 |
Do you "zone out" if too much is going on? Are you energised by spending time alone? In meetings, do you need to be asked for your opinions and ideas? Do you tend to notice details that other people miss? Is your ideal celebration a small get-together, rather than a big party? Do you often feel like a tortoise...
Author | James Patterson |
ISBN | 0316034045 |
A secret buried for centuries
Thrust onto Egypt's most powerful throne at the age of nine, King Tut's reign was fiercely debated from the outset. Behind the palace's veil of prosperity, bitter rivalries and jealousy flourished among the Boy King's most trusted advisors, and after only nine...
Brightest Kind of Darkness
Nara Collins is an average sixteen-year-old, with one exception: every night she dreams the events of the following day. Due to an incident in her past, Nara avoids using her special gift to change fate...until she dreams a future she can't ignore.
After Nara prevents a bombing at Blue Ridge...
This is an alternate Cover Edition for ASIN: B008IRJYYA.
Once Nara combines her prophetic ability with Ethan’s power to outsmart Fate at his own deadly cat-and-mouse game, she’s more determined than ever to help Ethan learn the meaning behind the raven sword tattoo that suddenly appeared...