courts and courtiers

While seeking the perfect dress for her friend's birthday party, twelve-year-old Louise Lambert dons a vintage gown and finds herself with a young Marie Antoinette in eighteenth-century France where, between cute commoner boys and glamorous trips to Paris, she finds that life in the palace is not all cake and couture.

Presents Shakespeare's "Love's Labor's Lost" about Spanish courtiers who unsuccessfully swear off relationships with women; abridged to be performed in thirty minutes while maintaining the original language, with stage directions and character suggestions.

Sixteen-year-old Silver Blackthorn of the feudal English village, Martindale, takes the coming-of-age test that determines her place in society and learns that she is to become an Offering for King Victor, placing her in a warped world of suspicion from which she knows she must escape.

Eighteen-year-old Vivienne, lady-in-waiting to the future queen Guinevere, is secretly apprenticed to Merlin the magician and helps him try to create a steam-powered metal beast to defeat Morgan La Fey, King Arthur's sorceress sister, when she declares war on Camelot.

Aemilia Lanyer, the daughter of a Venetian musician and a former favorite at Queen Elizabeth's court, begs for help from her former lover, William Shakespeare, when her son falls ill with the plague.

"When a princess captures a jinn and makes a wish, she is transported to the fiery world of the jinn, while the jinn must take her place in the royal court of Baghdad"--Provided by publisher.

This graphic novel the story of the White Lady ghost including the origins of this legend and related sightings.

Mary Howard, always in the shadow of her powerful family, marries Henry VIII's illegitimate son, Fitz, but their carefree life unravels as Queen Anne Boleyn falls out of favor and they are implicated in horrible rumors.

In 1584, Lady Jane Rievaulx enters into service in the court of Queen Elizabeth, where she meets again James Lacey with whom she was once in love, but although he cannot deny his fascination with Jane, he feels unworthy of her love.

In the fifteenth-century kingdom of Brittany, Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where she learns that the god of Death has blessed her with dangerous gifts.