See search resultsfor this author Linda Porter(Author) 4. Urn:oclc:733350936 Republisher_date 20180117112910 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 923 Scandate 20180116125442 Scanner Scanningcenter hongkong Top_six true Tts_version v1. The First Queen of England: The Myth of 'Bloody Mary' Hardcover 8 July 2008 by Linda Porter (Author) Visit Amazons Linda Porter Page Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Urn:lcp:firstqueenofengl00port:epub:9761212d-a824-4d74-8c70-ea87398db634 Extramarc University of Toronto Foldoutcount 0 Identifier firstqueenofengl00port Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t3615285j Invoice 1213 Isbn 9780312368371Ġ312368372 Lccn 2008013396 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL18725040M Openlibrary_edition Linda Porter offers a striking and sympathetic portrait of Englands first queen, Mary I - whose character has been vilified for over 400 years Originally published: London: Portrait, 2007 Includes bibliographical references and index Notes. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 00:07:43 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA1163702 City New York Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 1st U.S.
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Brief Summary of Book: The Best Cook in the World by Rick Bragg All the light we cannot see book review6/28/2023 Doerr takes readers back and forth in time, gradually peeling back the layers of each story and making readers anxious to see how they will converge. The novel opens in 1944 as the Americans drop incendiary bombs on Saint-Malo, forcing both 16-year-old Marie-Laure and 18-year-old Werner to separately fight to survive. Meanwhile, readers watch Werner as he grows up in an orphanage in a mining town in Germany with his younger sister, where his love of learning takes him on a journey from fixing and building radios to attending a school for the Hitler Youth to designing and using systems to weed out the resistance. 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