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Author : Maurice Druon
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007492220
“This is the original Game of Thrones.” George R.R. Martin.
Author : Maurice Druon
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780008117559
“This is the original Game of Thrones.” George R.R. Martin. A collection of the first three books in Maurice Druon’s epic historical fiction series, The Accursed Kings.
Author : Maurice Druon
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007492213
‘This is the original game of thrones’ George R.R. Martin From the publishers that brought you A Game of Thrones comes the series that inspired George R.R. Martin’s epic work.
Author : Maurice Druon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : French fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015013763571
No man is impervious to the poisons of the crown...Having murdered his wife and exiled his mistress, King Louis X of France becomes besotted with Princess Clemence of Hungary and makes her his new Queen. However, though the matter of the succession should be assured, it is far from so, as Louis embarks on an ill-fated war against Flanders. Where his father, Philip IV, was strong, Louis is weak, and the ambitions of his proud, profligate barons threaten his power and the future of a kingdom once ruled by an Iron King. This is the third book in the author's Accursed Kings series of novels set in the early 14th century during the period of crisis within the ruling Capetian dynasty when after the death of the Iron King, Philip IV, his three sons ruled for short periods, thus encouraging England's King Edward III to claim the French throne through his mother, thereby precipitating the conflict known later as the Hundred Years War. The first of these sons, Louis X is the subject of this novel, and in particular his relationship with his second wife Clementia of Hungary. More plotting, scandal and family tensions abound, though the plot of this novel seems a little lighter than that of the first two books.
Author : Kris Waldherr
Publisher : Crown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780767928991
Illicit love, madness, betrayal--it isn’t always good to be the queen Marie Antoinette, Anne Boleyn, and Mary, Queen of Scots. What did they have in common? For a while they were crowned in gold, cosseted in silk, and flattered by courtiers. But in the end, they spent long nights in dark prison towers and were marched to the scaffold where they surrendered their heads to the executioner. And they are hardly alone in their undignified demises. Throughout history, royal women have had a distressing way of meeting bad ends--dying of starvation, being burned at the stake, or expiring in childbirth while trying desperately to produce an heir. They always had to be on their toes and all too often even devious plotting, miraculous pregnancies, and selling out their sisters was not enough to keep them from forcible consignment to religious orders. From Cleopatra (suicide by asp), to Princess Caroline (suspiciously poisoned on her coronation day), there’s a gory downside to being blue-blooded when you lack a Y chromosome. Kris Waldherr’s elegant little book is a chronicle of the trials and tribulations of queens across the ages, a quirky, funny, utterly macabre tribute to the dark side of female empowerment. Over the course of fifty irresistibly illustrated and too-brief lives, Doomed Queens charts centuries of regal backstabbing and intrigue. We meet well-known figures like Catherine of Aragon, whose happy marriage to Henry VIII ended prematurely when it became clear that she was a starter wife--the first of six. And we meet forgotten queens like Amalasuntha, the notoriously literate Ostrogoth princess who overreached politically and was strangled in her bath. While their ends were bleak, these queens did not die without purpose. Their unfortunate lives are colorful cautionary tales for today’s would-be power brokers--a legacy of worldly and womanly wisdom gathered one spectacular regal ruin at a time.
Author : Maurice Druon
Publisher : Arrow
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1988-03-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0099540401
Author : Maurice Druon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0007508980
From the publishers that brought you A Game of Thrones comes the series that inspired George R.R. Martin's epic work.
Author : Maurice Druon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 000750876X
From the publishers that brought you A Game of Thrones comes the series that inspired George R.R. Martin's epic work.
Author : SJ Bennett
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780063050020
“Sheer entertainment… Bennett infuses wit and an arch sensibility into her prose… This is not mere froth, it is pure confection.” – New York Times Book Review “[A] pitch-perfect murder mystery… If The Crown were crossed with Miss Marple…, the result would probably be something like this charming whodunnit.” – Ruth Ware, author of One by One The bestselling first book in a highly original and delightfully clever crime series in which Queen Elizabeth II secretly solves crimes while carrying out her royal duties. It is the early spring of 2016 and Queen Elizabeth is at Windsor Castle in advance of her 90th birthday celebrations. But the preparations are interrupted by the shocking and untimely death of a guest in one of the Castle bedrooms. The scene leads some to think the young Russian pianist strangled himself, yet a badly tied knot leads MI5 to suspect foul play. When they begin to question the Household’s most loyal servants, Her Majesty knows they’re looking in the wrong place. For the Queen has been living an extraordinary double life ever since her teenage years as “Lilibet.” Away from the public eye and unbeknownst to her closest friends and advisers, she has the most brilliant skill for solving crimes. With help from her Assistant Private Secretary, Rozie Oshodi, a British Nigerian officer recently appointed to the Royal Horse Artillery, the Queen discreetly begins making inquiries. As she carries out her royal duties with her usual aplomb, no one in the Royal Household, the government, or the public knows that the resolute Elizabeth won’t hesitate to use her keen eye, quick mind, and steady nerve to bring a murderer to justice. SJ Bennett captures Queen Elizabeth’s voice with skill, nuance, wit, and genuine charm in this imaginative and engaging mystery that portrays Her Majesty as she’s rarely seen: kind yet worldly, decisive, shrewd, and, most important, a superb judge of character.
Author : Ellery Queen
Publisher : Overamstel Uitgevers
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789049982751
Queen visits an operating theater to witness a surgery, but finds a murder instead The son of a police detective, Ellery Queen grew up in a bloody atmosphere. Since he started lending his deductive powers to the New York City homicide squad, he has seen more than his fair share of mangled corpses. Though he is accustomed to gore, the thought of seeing a living person sliced open makes him ill. So when a doctor invites him to sit in on an operation, Queen braces his stomach. As it happens, his stomach is spared, but his brain must go to work. The patient is Abigail Doorn, a millionairess in a diabetic coma. To prepare her for surgery, the hospital staff has stabilized her blood sugar level and wheeled her to the operating theater—but just before the first incision, the doctors realize she is dead, strangled while lying unconscious on her gurney. Queen came to the hospital to watch surgeons work, but now it’s his time to operate.
Author : Maurice 1918-2009 Druon
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 101373436X
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Author : Kimmery Martin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780399585067
A powerful debut novel, praised by The New York Times, Bustle, and Hypable, that pulses with humor and empathy as it explores the heart's capacity for forgiveness.... Zadie Anson and Emma Colley have been best friends since their early twenties, when they first began navigating serious romantic relationships amid the intensity of medical school. Now they're happily married wives and mothers with successful careers--Zadie as a pediatric cardiologist and Emma as a trauma surgeon. Their lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, are chaotic but fulfilling, until the return of a former colleague unearths a secret one of them has been harboring for years. As chief resident, Nick Xenokostas was the center of Zadie's life--both professionally and personally--throughout a tragic chain of events during her third year of medical school that she has long since put behind her. Nick's unexpected reappearance at a time of new professional crisis shocks both women into a deeper look at the difficult choices they made at the beginning of their careers. As it becomes evident that Emma must have known more than she revealed about circumstances that nearly derailed both their lives, Zadie starts to question everything she thought she knew about her closest friend.
Author : Maurice Druon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1134565
Author : Ellery Queen
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504019149
An ordinary office worker finds a whole lot of money—and winds up running for his life—in this twist-filled thriller by a mystery master. Jim Morgan can’t afford the briefcase. His wife’s spending has strangled him with debt, and he’s down to his last $20. But the briefcase in the leather shop calls to him. It looks like something an executive would own. It smells like success. When he buys it, he feels a confidence he hasn’t felt in years. He tells off the office bully. He talks his way into a raise. The briefcase has made him a new man—and soon, it will be his downfall. Stopping on his way home for a cocktail, Morgan sets the briefcase on the barroom floor. When he picks it up, it’s filled with cash. He’s walked off with $100,000 in stolen money. And getting rid of it will turn his life upside down—or end it.
Author : Amanda Stevens
Publisher : MIRA
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780778313397
Amelia Gray has returned to her life in Charleston, and a chance meeting with John Devlin brings her back into the haunted detective's orbit. Devlin is investigating an old case--the murder of an undercover cop known as The Prophet. Original.