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(0)Dan Jones
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Language
English
Description
Bestselling historian Dan Jones and the brilliant artist Marina Amaral have combined their talents to create a illuminating visual history of women around the world.⍾⍾Dan Jones and Marina Amaral, the acclaimed team behind The Color of Time, combine their talents again to explore the many roles, domestic, social, cultural and professional-played by women across the world before second-wave feminism took hold.⍾⍾Using Marina Amaral's colorized...
Author
Series
Essex dogs trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"1347. Bruised and bloodied by an epic battle at Crécy, six soldiers known as the Essex Dogs pick through the wreckage of the fighting—and their own lives.
Now a new siege is beginning, and the Dogs are sent to attack the soaring walls of Calais. King Edward has vowed no Englishman will leave France ‘til this city falls. To get home, they must survive a merciless winter in a lawless camp deadlier than any battlefield.
Obsessed with tracking...
3) Essex dogs
Author
Series
Essex dogs trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"The New York Times bestselling historian makes his historical fiction debut with an explosive novel set during the Hundred Years' War. July 1346. Ten men land on the beaches of Normandy. They call themselves the Essex Dogs: an unruly platoon of archers and men-at-arms led by a battle-scarred captain whose best days are behind him. The fight for the throne of the largest kingdom in Western Europe has begun. Heading ever deeper into enemy territory...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"For more than one thousand years, Christians and Muslims lived side by side, sometimes at peace and sometimes at war. When Christian armies seized Jerusalem in 1099, they began the most notorious period of conflict between the two religions. Depending on who you ask, the fall of the holy city was either an inspiring legend or the greatest of horrors. In Crusaders, Dan Jones interrogates the many sides of the larger story, charting a deeply human...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The best-selling author of The Plantagenets traces the 15th-century civil wars that irrevocably shaped the British crown, particularly evaluating the roles of strong women including Margaret of Anjou, Elizabeth Woodville and Margaret Beaufort in shifting power between two ruling families. Includes six maps and four genealogies.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"An epic reappraisal of the medieval world--and the rich and complicated legacy left to us by the rise of the West--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Templars. When the once-mighty city of Rome was sacked by barbarians in 410 and lay in ruins, it signaled the end of an era--and the beginning of a thousand years of profound transformation. In a gripping narrative bursting with big names--from St Augustine and Attila the Hun to the Prophet...
10) All for One
Publisher
Gravitas
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A five year journey. Thousands of miles biked. Unlikely champions born. ALL FOR ONE follows the a tremendous team of Aussies on their long road to success becoming Australia’s first ProTour cycling team. Nominated for Best Documentary at the **Australian Film Critics Association Awards.** Winner of Best Documentary at the **Melbourne International Film Festival.**
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Series
Elizabeth I and Her Enemies volume 1
Language
English
Description
Born in 1533 to King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth was declared illegitimate when her mother was beheaded. Restored to the line of succession with the help of Henry's final wife, Catherine Parr, Elizabeth spent years thwarting the attentions of Catherine's new husband, Thomas Seymour. Later, Elizabeth's sister, Queen Mary, accused Elizabeth of treason in a plot to take the throne.
Author
Series
Elizabeth I and Her Enemies volume 3
Language
English
Description
As Europe was being torn apart in a religious war, Elizabeth faced her greatest threat yet: Philip II of Spain, the Catholic king who built the Spanish armada, the most powerful military fleet in the world. After Philip's defeat, Elizabeth was adored by her subjects, but there remained one enemy she was powerless to defy: old age.
Author
Series
Elizabeth I and Her Enemies volume 2
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth became queen at the age of 25, but her reign was far from safe. As a high-profile Protestant monarch surrounded by Catholics in Europe, Elizabeth was pressured to marry and produce a Protestant heir, drawing the ire of her Catholic cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots.
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The Justice League needed a covert team that could operate on the sly, so who better than experienced crime fighters Robin, Kid Flash and Aqualad? Together with Superboy, recently rescued from the top-secret Project Cadmus, and the crush-worthy shape-shifting alien Miss Martian, these teens are ready to stop being sidekicks and start taking down their own villains--like League of Shadows and the Joker--all on their own"--Back cover.
