"The story of a real-life girl in early eighteenth-century America called Ocean-born Mary due to her birth at sea, and her youth and experiences in coastal New Hampshire"--

Ever since Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland, was a little girl, the English have wanted her country and her crown. As a teenager, Mary is sent to France to wed its next king in order to save herself and her people. Waiting at the French Court is the gorgeous Prince Francis, his illegitimate half-brother Sebastian, a king on the brink of madness, a scheming queen, and the seer Nostradamus, who holds a devastating prophecy.

"A picture book biography sharing the inspiring and incredible true story of the nation's oldest student, Mary Walker, who learned to read at the age of 116"--

"In her ... memoir-in-essays, Mary Pipher ... taps into a cultural moment to offer wisdom, hope, and insight into loss and change. Drawing from her own experiences and expertise as a psychologist specializing in women, trauma, and the effect of our culture on our mental health, she looks inward [here] to what shaped her as a woman, one who has experienced darkness throughout her life but was always drawn to the light. Her plainspoken depictions of...

"The Wollstonecraft detectives (Mary Shelley & Ada Lovelace) tackle their second case, this time involving a horrible hospital, a missing will, a hasty engagement and a client who can't be trusted"--

Begins with the slaughter of Bethlehem's innocents under orders from a paranoid King Herod. Go back a year to the prophecy that informs Zechariah that his wife, Elizabeth, will bear a child. Elizabeth's cousin, the adolescent Mary, struggles with her family to make ends meet and is promised to the carpenter Joseph. Mary is told by the angel Gabriel that she will carry, while still a virgin, the long-awaited Messiah who will liberate the Jews from...

"Queen Victoria has a problem: there's a petty thief at work in Buckingham Palace. The Agency, the all-female detective unit, assigns quick-witted Mary Quinn to the case. Posing as a palace maid and fending off the attentions of the Prince of Wales are challenging enough, but when the prince witnesses a murder, Mary's case becomes antything but petty. Engineer and former flame James Easton has an assignment in the sewers, where someone is making illicit...

"A sapphic reimagining of Mary Shelley's youth, vividly exploring innocence, young love, gothic mystery, and the roots of her literary masterpiece, Frankenstein"--

The second season begins with Mary and Francis on the throne of a nation burning. France is rocked by the aftereffects of the plague, a disease that crept inside the castle walls, taking thousands upon thousands of lives across the land, and ravaging the stability of a nation. From the ashes, powerful lords will rise, carrying out personal, religious and political vendettas, taking lives, and tearing at Mary and Francisb2s commitment to their people;...