court and courtiers

After she has served a year of hard labor in the salt mines for her crimes, Crown Prince Dorian offers eighteen-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien her freedom on the condition that she act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin.

A young farm boy who possesses mysterious powers is chosen by the king to be the court's royal magician.

Examines the life and times of sixteenth-century writer and explorer Sir Walter Raleigh, discussing his early life and fortune, his favor at the court of England's Queen Elizabeth I, his founding of the first American colony at Roanoke, and his trial for treason.

A young farm boy who possesses mysterious powers is chosen by the king to be the court's royal magician.

Examines the life and accomplishments of sixteenth-century British explorer Sir Walter Raleigh, focusing on his attempts to locate the legendary city of El Dorado.