nobility

Young drawing master Walter Hartright's life takes an unexpected turn after his encounter with a mysterious apparition in the early morning hours on a deserted London road.

"A biography of Margaret Douglas, the beautiful, cunning niece of Henry VIII of England who used her sharp intelligence and covert power to influence the succession after the death of Elizabeth I."--Dust jacket.

Briony Eddons, heir to the kingdom of Shadowmarch along with her twin brother Barrick, struggles to save the kingdom from the inhuman Qar who have begun to reach beyond the Shadowline after centuries of peace, while also trying to deal with Barrick's increasing strangeness, and other enemies from without and within.

An abridged version of Shakespeare's play about the magical storm, shipwreck, and the deposed duke living in exile with his daughter, Miranda, and includes stage directions and character suggestions.

Presents evidence that the writings attributed to William Shakespeare were in fact written by Elizabethan court playwright Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, and chronicles the life and writing career of de Vere.

In eleventh-century Japan, Sugawara Akitada returns to Heian Kyo and his mother's sickbed, where he is soon pulled into his family's complicated lives when he is asked to clear his brother-in-law of a crime.

Looks at several nineteenth century American women who married into the British aristocracy.