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Product Description: One of the most charismatic leaders to sit on the English throne Charismatic, insatiable, and cruel, Henry VIII was, as John Guy shows, a king who became mesmerized by his own legend—and in the process destroyed and remade England...read more

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9780141977126 | Penguin Uk, November 1, 2015, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: One of the most charismatic leaders to sit on the English throne Charismatic, insatiable, and cruel, Henry VIII was, as John Guy shows, a king who became mesmerized by his own legend—and in the process destroyed and remade England.

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9780394876658, titled "Fun With Numbers: Grade One" | Random House Childrens Books, March 1, 1986, cover price $2.99 | also contains Fun With Numbers: Grade One | About this edition: What better way to learn about reading and math than with the help of Lowly Worm, Huckle Cat, and the rest of the Scarry merry menagerie!

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Product Description: When a cruise ship wrecks off the Costa Brava, Tani’s world is turned upside down. A dancer on the ship, she struggles to save passengers while the Captain bungles the evacuation. Ed is a journalist who sent his parents on the ill-fated cruise...read more

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9781515339366 | Createspace Independent Pub, August 26, 2015, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: When a cruise ship wrecks off the Costa Brava, Tani’s world is turned upside down.

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COSTA AWARD FINALIST  ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR Film rights acquired by Gold Circle Films, the team behind My Big Fat Greek Wedding.Working Title is in production with a film on the rivalry between Elizabeth and Mary staring Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie based on John Guy's portraits of the warring queens.“A fresh, thrilling portrait… Guy’s Elizabeth is deliciously human.” –Stacy Schiff, The New York Times Book Review Elizabeth was crowned queen at twenty-five, but it was only when she reached fifty and all hopes of a royal marriage were behind her that she began to wield power in her own right. For twenty-five years she had struggled to assert her authority over advisers, who pressed her to marry and settle the succession; now, she was determined not only to reign but to rule. In this magisterial biography, John Guy introduces us to a woman who is refreshingly unfamiliar: at once powerful and vulnerable, willful and afraid. We see her confronting challenges at home and abroad: war against France and Spain, revolt in Ireland, an economic crisis that triggers riots in the streets of London, and a conspiracy to place her cousin Mary Queen of Scots on her throne. For a while she is smitten by a much younger man, but can she allow herself to act on that passion and still keep her throne?   For the better part of a decade John Guy mined long-overlooked archives, scouring handwritten letters and court documents to sweep away myths and rumors. This prodigious historical detective work has enabled him to reveal, for the first time, the woman behind the polished veneer: determined, prone to fits of jealous rage, wracked by insecurity, often too anxious to sleep alone. At last we hear her in her own voice expressing her own distinctive and surprisingly resonant concerns. Guy writes like a dream, and this combination of groundbreaking research and propulsive narrative puts him in a class of his own. "Significant, forensic and myth-busting, John Guy inspires total confidence in a narrative which is at once pacey and rich in detail."  -- Anna Whitelock, TLS   “Most historians focus on the early decades, with Elizabeth’s last years acting as a postscript to the beheading of Mary Queen of Scots and the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Guy argues that this period is crucial to understanding a more human side of the smart redhead.” – The Economist, Book of the Year

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9780670786022 | Viking Pr, May 3, 2016, cover price $35.00
9780670922253 | Gardners Books, April 1, 2015, cover price $38.70 | About this edition: COSTA AWARD FINALIST  ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR Film rights acquired by Gold Circle Films, the team behind My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

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9780192840905 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 8, 2013, cover price $27.95

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9780198700876 | Reissue edition (Oxford Univ Pr, January 15, 2015), cover price $16.95

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9781494714246 | Createspace Independent Pub, February 23, 2014, cover price $11.99

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Product Description: Thanks to Showtime’s hit series The Tudors, (the fourth season is set to air in Spring 2010), interest in the perennially popular Royal family is at an all-time high, and this enlightening work will appeal to the many viewers eager to learn more about them...read more

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9781402775390 | Sterling Pub Co Inc, May 4, 2010, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Thanks to Showtime’s hit series The Tudors, (the fourth season is set to air in Spring 2010), interest in the perennially popular Royal family is at an all-time high, and this enlightening work will appeal to the many viewers eager to learn more about them.

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9780752497136 | Trafalgar Square, August 1, 2015, cover price $19.95

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Paperback:

9780199674725 | 2 upd new edition (Oxford Univ Pr, October 1, 2013), cover price $11.95

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By Amy Bogansky (contributor), Joyce Denney (contributor), Maria Joao Pacheco Ferreira (contributor), John Guy (contributor) and Amelia Peck (editor)

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9780300196986 | Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 24, 2013, cover price $65.00

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Product Description: This fast-paced thriller follows Abdi, a Somali boy brought up in the UK, as he is sucked into a pirate gang in Somalia. Tension builds as Islamic militias and the pirates fight over a ship held to ransom while the shipowner and insurer stall over freeing the ship...read more

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9781626463776 | Booklocker.Com Inc, May 1, 2013, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This fast-paced thriller follows Abdi, a Somali boy brought up in the UK, as he is sucked into a pirate gang in Somalia.
9781494886691 | 1 edition (Createspace Independent Pub, January 1, 2013), cover price $8.99

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Product Description: From the winner of the 2004 Whitbread Biography Award and the Marsh Biography Award John Guy, comes "Thomas Becket", a lively and enlightening new study that brings a colossal figure of British history vividly to life. Behind the legend, there was a man...read more

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9780670918461 | Gardners Books, April 5, 2012, cover price $38.60 | About this edition: From the winner of the 2004 Whitbread Biography Award and the Marsh Biography Award John Guy, comes "Thomas Becket", a lively and enlightening new study that brings a colossal figure of British history vividly to life.

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By John Guy (editor) and Regina Krahl

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9781588343055 | Smithsonian Inst Pr, March 8, 2011, cover price $65.00

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Product Description: Highlights the life of Sir Francis Drake and his accomplishments as an explorer, and describes his legacy in the field of exploration and in world history.
By Guy Croton (editor)

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9781848983045 | 1 edition (Black Rabbit Books, August 1, 2010), cover price $37.10 | also contains Drake & the Elizabethan Explorers | About this edition: Highlights the life of Sir Francis Drake and his accomplishments as an explorer, and describes his legacy in the field of exploration and in world history.

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Product Description: Accompanied by both historic and contemporary photographs, this resource is a fascinating exploration of the historical background, people, and events that shaped the development of technologies for use in war and defense. Packed with facts and statistics on the history of combat through the ages, this guide offers a fantastic look into the technological advancements in battle, machinery, weapons, and vehicles...read more

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9781846962011 | Ticktock Pub Ltd, January 30, 2010, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Accompanied by both historic and contemporary photographs, this resource is a fascinating exploration of the historical background, people, and events that shaped the development of technologies for use in war and defense.

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Hardcover:

9780618499151 | Houghton Mifflin, March 17, 2009, cover price $30.00

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Hardcover:

9781851775095 | Victoria & Albert Pubns, June 1, 2007, cover price $65.00

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Paperback:

9781599050614 | Tch edition (Saddleback Pub, August 1, 2006), cover price $5.95

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