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The maid, the witch, and the cruel queen

2006
A poor serving girl conspires to save an innocent woman that Lord Scuggate is planning to burn as a witch in order to impress the queen.

The road to Bethlehem

an Ethiopian nativity
1987
An Ethiopian retelling of the events surrounding the birth of Jesus illustrated with traditional works of art.

The handmaid and the carpenter

a novel
2006
Retells the biblical story of Mary and Joseph, beginning with their meeting at a wedding and ending with the birth of their son, Jesus, and their life in Nazareth.

In the time of the poisoned Queen

1998
Nicholas Segalla, a time-traveling scholar and diplomat, steps into the mystery surrounding the predicted, and eagerly awaited demise of England's Queen Mary in 1558.

The solace of leaving early

2003
Langston Braverman returns to her parents home in the hopes of leaving her disastrous life behind, but instead of escaping her problems, she encounters a new batch of them, including the news of her best friend's death.

Mary Tudor

a life
1989
A reappraisal of Mary Tudor's life as an English monarch.

William's Mary

a biography of Mary II
1972

Queens' play

1997
Francis Crawford of Lymond, once an accused traitor, now a valued agent of Scottish diplomacy, is sent to France to protect young Queen Mary Stuart from assassinators that extend from her native country to the court of France.

Virgin territory

2010
When an image of the Blessed Virgin Mary appears on a tree at the Jupiter, Florida, golf course where fifteen-year-old Dylan Flack is caddying for the summer, he encounters a group of "pilgrims" who dare him to take a risk and find out what he really wants out of life.

The Queen's fool

a novel
2004
Hannah Verde and her father are Jews who have escaped the Spanish Inquisition by moving to England where her father sets up his printing business. There she meets Robert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester, who introduces her to the court of King Edward VI as a "holy" fool, because Hannah can sometimes foretell the future. She stays at court after Edward dies to serve Queen Mary I and at the same time is also accepted by her half-sister, Elizabeth. Hannah soon finds her loyalties divided and she is at the center of the intrigue to replace the Catholic Queen Mary with the Protestant Princess Elizabeth.

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