nobility

Presents a retelling of "Little Red Riding Hood, " in which Ruth, training to be a blacksmith since her brother was lost in the Crusades, begins to fall in love with William, a young noble whose dark secret makes Ruth's trips to her grandmother's forest home much more dangerous.

Describes the life of an Egyptian nobleman of the Eighteenth Dynasty and the mummification and funeral rites that followed his death.

Sixteen-year-old Finley Jayne and her "straynge band of mysfits" have journeyed from London to America to rescue their friend Jasper, hauled off by bounty hunters. But Jasper is in the clutches of a devious former friend demanding a trade ; the dangerous device Jasper stole from him for the life of the girl Jasper loves. One false move from Jasper and the strange clockwork collar around Mei's neck tightens. And tightens. From the rough streets of lower Manhattan to elegant Fifth Avenue, the motley crew of teens with supernatural abilities is on Jasper's elusive trail. And they're about to discover how far they'll go for friendship.

Edward Wozny's curiosity turns to mystery and obsession when he realizes that a medieval codex may be hidden among a personal library of rare books and enlists the help of Margaret Napier, a medieval scholar, to help him discover the strange history that lies within its pages.

Chronicles the life of Lucrezia Borgia, daughter of Pope Alexander VI, discussing how she used her beauty and intelligence to secure a key role in the political struggles of Renaissance Italy.

A graphic novel adaptation of Shakespeare's "The Tempest, " in which Prospero, the deposed Duke of Milan, uses his skill at controlling natural forces to cause the shipwreck of his old opponents, forcing them to seek refuge on the island where he and his daughter Miranda have been living in exile, and setting the stage for Miranda to fall in love with Ferdinand, the prince of Naples.

Thirteen-year-old Elske escapes rape and certain death at the hands of the leaders of her barbaric society and later becomes handmaiden to a rebellious noblewoman whose rightful throne together they reclaim.

A brief biography of William the Conqueror who, in 1066 led his Norman army to victory over the Anglo-Saxon forces at the Battle of Hastings.

Recounts the true story of the life of Joseph Bologne, an eighteenth-century French man born to a slave mother and a wealthy father who was taken to France, renamed the Chevalier de Saint-George and educated as a young aristocrat.

Describes the rise to power of the high noblesse de Robe--the personnel of the sovereign courts of France--after the death of Louis XIV, and the concurrent resurgence of the French aristocracy.