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Lady Jane Grey, who at sixteen was Queen of England for nine days before being executed, recounts her life story from the age of nine.

Jack and Annie travel back to nineteenth-century Ireland to inspire a young Augusta Gregory to share her love of Irish legends and folktales with the world.

Presents a fictional autobiography of Lady Jane Grey in which she tells the story of her life, from age nine to sixteen when she was executed after being queen of England for only nine days.

We think of Stanley as a cruel imperialist who connived with King Leopold II of Belgium in horrific crimes against the people of the Congo--and the journalist who conducted the most legendary celebrity interview in history, opening with, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" But these perceptions are not quite true, as biographer Jeal shows. With access to previously closed Stanley family archives, Jeal reveals the extent to which Stanley's career and life have been misunderstood and undervalued. Few have started life as disadvantaged as Stanley. Rejected by both parents and consigned to a Welsh workhouse, he emigrated to America as a penniless eighteen-year-old. Jeal re-creates Stanley's rise to success, his friendships and romantic relationships, and his life-changing decision to assume an American identity. Stanley's epic but unfairly forgotten African journeys are described, establishing the explorer as the greatest to set foot on the continent.--From publisher description.

Recounts the friendship between Winston Churchill and Bourke Cockran, a New York City Congressman who became Churchill's mentor as well as a lover to Churchill's American-born mother Jennie.

Presents a fictional autobiography of Lady Jane Grey in which she tells the story of her life, from age nine to sixteen when she was executed after being queen of England for only nine days.

The lives of three girls with royal Tudor blood are forced to deal with the consequences of their parents and their passion for gambling, and while sixteen-year-old Jane Grey is destined to reign over the English monarch, her sister Katherine is skilled at charming all the right people, and Lady Mary Grey strives to protect those she loves despite the cost.

Examines the lives of the three Grey sisters--Mary, Katherine, and Jane--who were named heirs to the throne of England by Henry VIII and his son, Edward, and discusses their individual struggles against the politics of the Tudor court and sexual prejudices.

The story of a young girl who was forced to assume the throne of England against her will in 1553 at the death of her cousin Edward VI.

An historical fiction depicting the life and reign of Lady Jane Grey, who finds herself in the middle of civil unrest that plagued the House of Tudor during the sixteenth century.