Hilary
Author
Series
Thomas Cromwell Trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Description
'If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?' England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith's son from Putney emerges from the spring's bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The sequel to Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller, Wolf Hall delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has failed to give him a son and her sharp intelligence and audacious will alienate his old friends and the noble families of England. When the discarded Katherine dies in exile from the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Description
Henry VIII, anxious about the consequences of dying without a male heir, is denied permission to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn, but the power struggle between the Church and the Crown is mediated by astute politician Thomas Cromwell, who manages to get the king what he wants while keeping his eye on the prize of a free England.
Author
Language
English
Description
From a former Fleet Street journalist and an accomplished British suspense writer comes a complex puzzle wrapped in a plot that could almost be ripped from contemporary U.S. headlines. Imagine what would happen if a vanished woman's body lay underwater for almost three decades, the police unable to charge her guilty-as-sin husband until her remains are finally discovered by pure chance...
27 years ago, Clara Marshall and her two young children vanished...
Author
Language
English
Description
In the wake of Hilary Mantel's captivating memoir, 'Giving Up the Ghost', this collection of loosely autobiographical stories locates the transforming moments of a haunted childhood. This sharp, funny collection of stories drawn from life begins in the 1950s in an insular northern village 'scoured by bitter winds and rough gossip tongues.' For the child narrator, the only way to survive is to get up, get on, get out. In 'King Billy is a Gentleman',...
8) Beyond black
Author
Language
English
Description
After a quick divorce, Colette teams up with Alison, a psychic who hears voices from the dead, and moves to an English countryside where they take in a vagrant who also hears voices; however, her connections with the spirit world begin to threaten her life.
Author
Language
English
Description
A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the Light
In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, ‘I have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to be more brisk and breezy than scholarly.’ This collection of twenty
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Series
LuLu volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Lulu discovers her next-door neighbour isn't very interested in his rabbit, she decides he is missing out on the best parts of having a pet. Can Lulu find a way to show him rabbits are fun?
Author
Publisher
Harper Design, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Entertainment and lifestyle expert Hilary Sheinbaum explores the incredible health benefits our bodies, minds, and souls undertake by ditching alcohol for a month and provides us with a comprehensive guide on navigating the Dry January and Sober Octoberchallenges"--
Author
Series
LuLu volume 2
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Seven-year-old Lulu and her cousin think their vacation house is the most perfect place ever until they find a trouble-prone, stray dog living on the beach.