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Some years ago, a remarkable manuscript long rumoured to exist was discovered: the legend of Broken. It tells of a prosperous fortress city where order reigns at the point of a sword - even as scheming factions secretly vie for control of the surrounding kingdom. Meanwhile, outside the city's granite walls, an industrious tribe of exiles known as the Bane forages for sustenance in the wilds of Davon Wood. At every turn, the lives of Broken's defenders...
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A Doubleday image book volume D36
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Image
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1956.
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English
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G.K. Chesterton's brilliant sketch of the life and thought of Thomas Aquinas is as relevant today as when it was published in 1933. Then it earned the praise of such distinguished writers as Etienne Gilson, Jacques Martain, and Anton Pegis as the best book ever written on the great thirteenth-century Dominican. Today Chesterton's classic stands poised to reveal Thomas to a new generation.
63) Mystique
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In medieval Scotland, Lady Alice offers Hugh the Relentless a bargain, she will help find the stolen Stone of Scarcliffe, which he needs to rule his lands, if he will provide a dowry so she can leave her nasty uncle and enter a convent. The knight agrees on condition that she will be his bride for a year first. By the author of Mistress.
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Mary Pope Osborne's Magic tree house volume 2
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English
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"Retells, in graphic novel form, the tale of eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie, who are whisked back in the magic treehouse to the time of knights and castles"--
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Medieval mystery volume 3
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Poisoned Pen
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2006.
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English
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As the autumn storms of 1271 ravage the East Anglian coast, Crowner Ralf finds the corpse of a brutally murdered soldier in the woods near Tyndal Priory. The dagger in the mans chest is engraved with a strange, cursive design, and the body is wrapped in a crusaders cloak. Was the murder the act of a member of the Assassin sect, or was the weapon meant to mislead him in finding the killer? Ralfs decision to take the corpse to the priory for advice...
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Medieval mystery volume 4
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Poisoned Pen
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2007.
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English
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Recovering from a winter fever, Eleanor travels home to Amesbury, which is now believed to be haunted by a ghost that has turned murderous.
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In 1210 Scotland, when invading knights capture 12-year-old Drest's father, the Mad Wolf of the North, and her beloved brothers who make up his fearsome war-band, she sets off to rescue them from the castle prison, taking along a wounded knight as her captive to trade for her family's freedom.
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Heirs of Saint Camber volume 3
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A king shows he is no puppet in this medieval fantasy. When King Javan dies, the Regents of Gwynedd rejoice: Rhys Michael, Javan's brother, is soft, wine-loving and malleable, and they can control the kingdom once more. But fate wills otherwise, an invasion provides Rhys Michael with the opportunity to show what he is made of.
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Pocket Books
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[2005]
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England's most valiant knights paid court to wealthy Liana Neville, but only the infamous warrior Rogan Peregrine made no secret of his powerful desires. His very caress melted Liana into liquid fire, and she vowed to capture this manificent, wild man. Boldly the delicate beauty gave him her hand -- and Britain's richest dower. Yet he was bound to a bitter feud: for love betrayed, brothers killed, and ancestral land usurped. In Rogan's war-ravaged...
71) Hild
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2013.
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Hild is born into a world in transition. In seventh-century Britain, small kingdoms are merging, usually violently. A new religion is coming ashore; the old gods' priests are worrying. Edwin of Northumbria plots to become overking of the Angles, ruthlessly using every tool at his disposal: blood, bribery, belief. Hild is the king's youngest niece. She establishes herself as the king's seer. Hild is a young woman at the heart of the violence, subtlety,...
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2023.
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"A major reinterpretation of the religious superstate that came to define both Europe and Christianity itself, by one of our foremost medieval historians. In the 4th century AD, a new faith grew out of Palestine, overwhelming the paganism of Rome, and resoundingly defeating a host of other rival belief systems. Almost a thousand years later, all of Europe was controlled by Christian rulers, and the religion, ingrained within culture and society, exercised...
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Max and the Midknights volume 1
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"Max and a group of friends dubbed the Midknights go on a quest to rescue the Kingdom of Byjovia from the mean King Gastley!"--
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Tales of the Otori volume 1
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In his black-walled fortress at Inuyama, the warlord Iida Sadamu surveys his famous nightingale floor. Constructed with exquisite skill, it sings at the tread of each human foot. No assassin can cross it unheard. The youth Takeo has been brought up in a remote mountain village among the Hidden, a reclusive and spiritual people who have taught him only the ways of peace. But unbeknownst to him, his father was a celebrated assassin and a member of the...
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Crispin Guest novels volume 1
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Minotaur
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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Crispin Guest is a disgraced knight, stripped of his rank and his honor - but left with his life - for plotting against Richard II. Having lost his bethrothed, his friends, his patrons and his position in society. With no trade to support him and no family willing to acknowledge him, Crispin has turned to the one thing he still has - his wits - to scrape a living together on the mean streets of London. In 1383, Guest is called to the compound of a...
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