Elizabeth Acevedo

Book just needs compressed, has a small bend in the middle of the book

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Pennsylvania

A Novel

"Sisters Matilde, Pastora, Camila, and Flor thought they knew each other well, until Flor-inspired by a documentary her daughter Ona made her watch-decides she wants a living wake, a party to bring her family and community together and celebrate the long life she's led, while she's still around to enjoy it. She's not ill, as far as anybody knows, but Flor does have a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. Has she foreseen her own death, or someone else's, or does she have other motives? She refuses to say. But Flor isn't the only person with secrets. Matilde has tried for decades to cover the extent of her husband's infidelity, but she now must confront the true state of her marriage. Pastora is typically the most reserved sister, but Flor's wake motivates this driven woman to attempt to solve her sibling's problems. And the next generation, cousins Ona and Yadi, face tumult of their own: Yadi, reuniting with her first love, who was imprisoned when they were both still kids; and Ona, married for years and attempting to conceive. Ona must decide whether it's worth it to keep trying-in having a child, and in the anthropology research that's begun to feel lackluster. Spanning the three days prior to the wake, FAMILY LORE traces the lives of each of the Marte women, weaving together past and present, the Dominican Republic and New York City. Told with Elizabeth Acevedo's inimitable voice, this is an indelible portrait of sisters and cousins, aunts and nieces - one family's journey through their history helping them better navigate all that is to come"--

Family Lore

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Elizabeth Haddad

This book is pre-owned in excellent condition with minor scratches and wear on cover if any. Please look at all pictures for more details. 

California

In Praise of Thought is Elizabeth Haddad's debut collection of poetry. Troubled by an increasingly algorithmic world, Haddad set out to examine our internet poetically by turning inward, to the core of what it means to be alive. The poems are arranged as a stream of consciousness between the tangible and the virtual, conjuring the most human parts of the self - memory, rejection, identity, personal history, fear - to combat the sense of loss - of autonomy, privacy, even reputation - that can occur in a virtual existence. In Praise of Thought is poetry in response to technology, but more powerfully, in praise of the human experience. With a stunning book design by Visnja Brdar, unexpected color and undulating graphics will draw the reader through, in hopes to inspire and question: What does it mean for you to be alive, right now?

In Praise of Thought

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Elizabeth George Speare

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New Jersey

The Sign of the Beaver

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Elizabeth Longford

1983 first American Edition. Excellent condition. New dj cover will be added.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Arizona

The Life of Elizabeth II

A biography of Queen Elizabeth II, prepared with the cooperation of Princess Margaret and the Queen Mother and with full access to the Royal Archives.

The Queen

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Minnesota

One of today's premier historical novelists, "New York Times" bestseller George dazzles here as she tackles her most difficult subject yet: the legendary Elizabeth Tudor, queen of enigma. But what was she really like? In this novel, her flame-haired, lookalike cousin, Lettice Knollys, thinks she knows all too well.

Elizabeth I

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Texas

Large Print - October 2016

Guideposts Elizabeth Vargas

New Mexico

Is it an accident? Or murder?

Inspector Thomas Lynley is mystified when he's sent undercover to investigate the death of Ian Cresswell at the request of the man's uncle, wealthy and influential Bernard Fairclough. The death has been ruled an accidental drowning, and nothing on the surface indicates otherwise. But when Lynley enlists the help of his friends Simon and Deborah St. James, the trio's digging soon reveals that the Fairclough clan is awash in secrets, lies, and motives.

As the investigation escalates, the Fairclough family's veneer cracks, with deception and self-delusion threatening to destroy everyone from the Fairclough patriarch to the troubled son Ian left behind.

Believing the Lie

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New York

Elizabeth and her Parliaments 1559-1581

June Eding

Who HQ

Presents the life of Queen Elizabeth I, from her birth to Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn in 1533 and her imprisonment by her half-sister, to her reign as queen, which brought peace, stability, and prosperity to sixteenth-century England.

Who Was Queen Elizabeth?

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Valerie Tripp

Susan McAliley

Connecticut

When Elizabeth's sister, Annabelle, becomes engaged, Elizabeth and Felicity play pranks on her to tease her out of her silliness, but when their pranks backfire, Elizabeth and Felicity must find a way out of the trouble they've created.

Very Funny, Elizabeth!

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Books is in overall good shape, its got just some small glue residue on the front cover, but its easily removed! #prideandprejudice #janeausten #darcy #elizabeth #regency #romance #england #paperback 

Michigan

In The Darcy Connection, Mr. Collins of Pride and Prejudice is now the Bishop of Ripon, living with his wife, Charlotte, and their two daughters, who have reached marriageable age. The elder, another Charlotte, is extraordinarily beautiful, and her parents hope her looks and connections will ensure a brilliant marriage. Her sister, Eliza, while not as handsome, possesses a lively intelligence that, in Mr. Collins's opinion, is too like her godmother, Mrs. Darcy. In London, Charlotte's beauty wins her many admirers, despite her small fortune. But Eliza's wit and attempts to interfere in what she considers an unsuitable marriage for her sister infuriate her family and Charlotte's suitor -- until Eliza herself meets her match. New and old fans alike will relish this witty, romantic, thoroughly entertaining novel from a highly talented author.

The Darcy Connection

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Kate Williams

The Making of Our Queen

'Young Elizabeth' explores the sheltered upbringing of the young princess, with a gentle father and domineering mother, her complicated relationship with her sister, Princess Margaret, and her dependence on her nanny, Marion Crawfie Crawford.

Young Elizabeth

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Sally Bedell Smith

The Life of a Modern Monarch

In this magisterial new biography, New York Times bestselling author Sally Bedell Smith brings to life one of the world's most fascinating and enigmatic women: Queen Elizabeth II.

From the moment of her ascension to the throne in 1952 at the age of twenty-five, Queen Elizabeth II has been the object of unparalleled scrutiny. But through the fog of glamour and gossip, how well do we really know the world's most famous monarch? Drawing on numerous interviews and never-before-revealed documents, acclaimed biographer Sally Bedell Smith pulls back the curtain to show in intimate detail the public and private lives of Queen Elizabeth II, who has led her country and Commonwealth through the wars and upheavals of the last sixty years with unparalleled composure, intelligence, and grace.
 
In Elizabeth the Queen, we meet the young girl who suddenly becomes "heiress presumptive" when her uncle abdicates the throne. We meet the thirteen-year-old Lilibet as she falls in love with a young navy cadet named Philip and becomes determined to marry him, even though her parents prefer wealthier English aristocrats. We see the teenage Lilibet repairing army trucks during World War II and standing with Winston Churchill on the balcony of Buckingham Palace on V-E Day. We see the young Queen struggling to balance the demands of her job with her role as the mother of two young children. Sally Bedell Smith brings us inside the palace doors and into the Queen's daily routines--the "red boxes" of documents she reviews each day, the weekly meetings she has had with twelve prime ministers, her physically demanding tours abroad, and the constant scrutiny of the press--as well as her personal relationships: with Prince Philip, her husband of sixty-four years and the love of her life; her children and their often-disastrous marriages; her grandchildren and friends.
 
Compulsively readable and scrupulously researched, Elizabeth the Queen is a close-up view of a woman we've known only from a distance, illuminating the lively personality, sense of humor, and canny intelligence with which she meets the most demanding work and family obligations. It is also a fascinating window into life at the center of the last great monarchy.

Elizabeth the Queen

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Jane Dunn

Virginia

Cousins, Rivals, Queens

A dual portrait of England's Queen Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots documents their complex relationship, different characteristics, and ideals, and discusses their reigns, power struggle, and influence on British history.

Elizabeth and Mary

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Felicitys friend Elizabeth short story. American Girl 

Montana

Alison Weir

#nonfiction #biography #paperback #queen #elizabeth #historical #royalty

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Presents an exhaustively researched biography that reveals the personality, private life, and romantic intrigues of Elizabeth I

Life of Elizabeth First

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Margaret George

Very good tight copy, a mark on the bottom end. Very good dust jacket.

First edition/1st * Elizabeth I

Secure in the Everlasting Arms

Florida

Elizabeth 1

Katharine Anthony

Ex Libris
Published in 1929
Collectible 
Antique (almost)
No dust cover
Some stains on the front & back covers

Queen Elizabeth

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#hardcover #british #espionage #16thcentury #history #Elizabeth 

Francis Walsingham and the Secret War That Saved England

England in the time of Elizabeth was on the brink of disaster. On the continent, Catholic Spain sought to forcefully reimpose the Catholic Church on its Protestant neighbors. At home, a network of powerful Catholic families posed a real and serious threat to the Protestant queen. In this world, information was power: those closest to the Queen were there because they had the best network to gather it.
"Elizabeth's Spymaster" is the story of the greatest spy of the time: Sir Francis Walsingham. Walsingham was the first 'spymaster' in the modern sense. His methods anticipated those of MI5 and MI6 and even those of the KGB. He maintained a network of spies across Europe, including double agents at the highest level in Rome and Spain---the sworn enemies of Queen Elizabeth and her protestant regime. His entrapment of Mary, Queen of Scots is a classic intelligence operation that resulted in her execution.
As Robert Hutchinson reveals, his cypher experts' ability to intercept other peoples' secret messages and his brilliant forged letters made him a fearsome champion of the young Elizabeth. Yet even this Machiavellian schemer eventually fell foul of Elizabeth as her confidence grew (and judgment faded). The rise and fall of Sir Francis Walsingham is a Tudor epic, vividly narrated by a historian with unique access to the surviving documentary evidence.

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Alison Weir

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Very Funny, Elizabeth!

Margaret George

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Secure in the Everlasting Arms

Valerie Tripp; Susan McAliley

Very Funny, Elizabeth!

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Elizabeth 1

Katharine Anthony

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