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Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Robin of Locksley returns home from defending King and country in the Holy Land to find a corrupt and changed Nottingham. The ruthless Sheriff of Nottingham is now in charge, crippling the poor with greedy taxes and severely punishing them for stealing eve a loaf of bread. The ever-gallant Robin and his faithful, if slightly unenthusiastic, manservant Much are determined to fight for the good of these oppressed people. Aided by a gang of talented...
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Tales of Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men, who fought the forces of the evil Prince John, his local official the Sheriff of Nottingham and any aristocrat or ne'er-do-well who threatened the common people and loyal subjects of King Richard, whose return from the Crusades they awaited from their home in the shelter of Sherwood Forest.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
When the cruel regent, William of Pembroke, imprisons the king in the castle, Robert of Nottingham goes to the rescue. Robert, the son of Robin Hood, reunites the Merry Men to battle royal corruption and save the Queen Mother and the very beautiful Lady Catherine in the process
7) Lorna Doone
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
Retells the high adventure and romantic love story, set in late seventeenth-century England, about Lorna, the granddaughter of the head of a nobly-born family of robbers and outlaws, who falls in love with John Ridd, a man intent on avenging his father's death upon the Doone clan.
8) If only
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
After his impetuous musician girlfriend dies in an accident shortly after they had a fight, a grief-stricken British businessman gets a chance to relive the day all over again in the hopes of changing the events that led to his girlfriend's death.
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
"In 1688, the birth of a Prince of Wales ignited a family quarrel and a revolution. James II's drive toward Catholicism had alienated the nation and his two staunchly Protestant daughters by his first marriage, Mary and Anne. They are the 'ungrateful daughters' who usurped their father's crown and stole their brother's birthright." "Seven prominent men sent an invitation to William of Orange - James's nephew and son-in-law - to intervene in English...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Description
This groundbreaking dual biography brings to life a pioneering English feminist and the daughter she never knew. Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley have each been the subject of numerous biographies, yet no one has ever examined their lives in one book-until now. In Romantic Outlaws, Charlotte Gordon reunites the trailblazing author who wroteA Vindication of the Rights of Woman and the Romantic visionary who gave the worldFrankenstein-two courageous...
Author
Series
Montmorency volume 1
Pub. Date
2004.
Description
In Victorian London, after his life is saved by a young physician, a thief utilizes the knowledge he gains in prison and from the scientific lectures he attends as the physician's case study exhibit to create a new, highly successful, double life for himself.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Audrey Hepburn story: Experience the struggles, triumphs and tender romances of beloved screen star Audrey Hepburn. If only: A talented young singer/songerwriter had met the love of her life while studying classical music in London. Unfortunately, the two have a terrible argument and she becomes involved in a terrible accident. But when fate miraculously intervenes, her grief-stricken boyfriend gets a second chance to relive the tragic day - and hopefully...
Series
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
This classic television series ran from 1955 to 1960, featuring the tales of Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men. Richard Greene stars as our gallant hero who fought the forces of the evil Prince John, his local official the Sheriff of Nottingham and any aristocrat or ne'er-do-well who threatened the common people and loyal subjects of King Richard. Robin and his band lived in the shelter of Sherwood Forest, fighting their foes and hoping for the...
Pub. Date
[2021]
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Description
Mary Shelley: The story of Mary Shelley and the creation of her immortal monster, Frankenstein. Raised by a renowned philosopher father in eighteenth-century London, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin is a teenage dreamer determined to make her mark on the world, when she meets the dashing and brilliant poet Percy Shelley. So begins a torrid, bohemian love affair marked by both passion and personal tragedy that will transform Mary and fuel the writing of...