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The Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare, originally published in the First Folio of 1623. Although it was grouped among the comedies, some modern editors have relabeled the play as one of Shakespeare's late romances. Some critics consider it to be one of Shakespeare's "problem plays", because the first three acts are filled with intense psychological drama, while the last two acts are comedic and supply a happy ending.
The play has been...
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William Shakespeare's shortest-but one of his most popular, tragedies features a man, who will do anything to fulfill a prophecy that will lead him to become the King of Scotland. Fresh from battle, Macbeth and his companion Banquo come across three witches who tell of great power that is in store for Macbeth. Driven by their prophecy and aided by his wife, Macbeth sets out on a journey that is, wrought with deceit, murder, and suffering to acquire...
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Threads of power volume 1
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"It's been seven years since Kell, Lila, and Holland defeated the evil force known as Osaron. Lila has spent those seven years as captain of a ship, exploring her new magical world and occasionally spying for the Crown. Kell has spent them learning to fight with ordinary weapons now that wielding his magic causes him intense pain. Holland, of course, gave his life to defeat Osaron. But now a shadowy organization called the Hand is plotting against...
5) Henry VIII
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Henry VIII - William Shakespeare - King Henry VIII has one of the fullest theatrical histories of any play in the Shakespeare canon, yet has been consistently misrepresented, both in performance and in criticism. This edition offers a new perspective on this ironic, multi-layered, collaborative play, revealing it as a complex meditation on the progress of Reformation which sees English life since Henry VIII's day as a series of bewildering changes...
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Throne of glass novel volume 3
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Royal assassin Celaena must travel to a new land to confront a truth about her heritage, while brutal and monstrous forces are gathering on the horizon, intent on enslaving her world.
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1 videodisc (52 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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From Catherine the Great up until the last Russian Empress, all of the Russian Tsarinas were, in fact, German. What brought them to Petrograd were marriages arranged in the royal courts of Europe. Once wed, the young brides were firmly in the straitjacket of the Russian monarchy. An individual personality and identity was denied; the sole purpose of her being became her role as custodian of centuries of Russian tradition and as figurehead to the Russian...
11) Macbeth
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Themes: Adapted Classics, Low Level Classics, William Shakespeare, Fiction, Tween, Teen, Young Adult, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Timeless Shakespeare-designed for the struggling reader and adapted to retain the integrity of the original play. These classic plays...
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Harlequin Bianca volume 762
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El rey guardaba un secreto...
Nadie en el reino de Zaffirinthos sabía que, a consecuencia de un horrible accidente, el rey tenía amnesia. Era tal la pérdida de memoria, que no sabía por qué Melissa Maguire, esa mujer inglesa tan bella, le inspiraba unos sentimientos tan profundos.
Convencido de que no estaba capacitado para reinar, decidió renunciar a sus derechos dinásticos, pero Melissa tenía algo importante que decirle: ¡tenía un heredero!
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Saul Parenti siempre se ha alegrado de ser el segundo en la línea sucesoria de la monarquía de Arezzio. Así puede concentrarse en su imperio financiero... y en los encantos de su esposa Giselle.
Pero cuando su primo es asesinado, debe subir al trono. En lugar de perseguir sus propios sueños, Saul y Giselle deberán ahora vivir rodeados de pompa y protocolo. Pero los traumas secretos del pasado de Giselle la han dejado profundamente marcada, y...
14) Wolfish
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408 pages ; 20 cm
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"A young shepherdess, her wolf companion, and a young oracle-apprentice must stop a king's reign of terror after he receives a frightening prophecy"--
15) Titus alone
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"Titus, lord of Castle Gormenghast, has abdicated his throne. Born and brought to the edge of manhood in the huge, rotting castle, Titus rebels against the age-old ritual of which he is both lord and prisoner and rushes headlong into the world. From that moment forward, he is thrust into a stormy land of a dark imagination, where figures and landscapes loom up with force and vividness of a dream -- or a nightmare."--P. [4] of cover.
16) Taj Mahal
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47 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 27 cm.
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The well-illustrated story of the building of the Taj Mahal, one of the world's most beautiful monuments, and the Mughal dynasty in India whose 5th emperor built it.
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National Book Award Finalist: The most widely read and enduring interpretation of this ancient Babylonian epic. One of the oldest and most universal stories known in literature, the epic of Gilgamesh presents the grand, timeless themes of love and death, loss and reparations, within the stirring tale of a hero-king and his doomed friend. A National Book Award finalist, Herbert Mason's retelling is at once a triumph of scholarship, a masterpiece of...
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Lucy Worsley gets into bed with the past monarchs to uncover the "Tales from the royal bedchamber". She reveals that the obsession with royal bedrooms, births and succession is nothing new. In fact, the rise and fall of their magnificent beds reflects the changing fortunes of the monarchy itself.
Looks at the creation of private chambers in response to the public nature of royal bedrooms, and the changing fortunes of the British monarchy as reflected...
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