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1) Heretic
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Grail Quest (Bernard Cornwell) volume 3
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English
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The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the number one bestseller Vagabond, this is the third instalment in Bernard Cornwell's Grail Quest series. In 1347 the English capture Calais and the war with France is suspended by a truce.
But for Thomas of Hookton, the hero of Harlequin and Vagabond, there is no end to the fighting. He is pursuing the grail, the most sacred of Christendom's relics, and is sent to his ancestral homeland, Gascony, to engineer...
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A lost legacy puts one of England's great families in mortal peril ...
Lazen Castle, home to the much-envied Lazender family, is a house under siege. The heir is abroad, pursuing his own adventures, so the family estates fall under the control of his sister, Campion. Meanwhile, The Fallen Angels, a powerful and dangerous secret society in Europe, need the Lazender fortune to bring their rebellion to England. Surrounded by deceit, Campion draws ever...
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In a country at war, a secret inheritance reveals a dark conspiracy ... On a sunlit afternoon in seventeenth-century Dorset, a young girl falls in love with a stranger. But when her Puritan brother tries to force her into an unbearable marriage she flees, taking with her only the gift left to her by her unknown father, a gold pendant sealed by an engraving of an axe, and the words: St Matthew. One of four intricately wrought seals - each holding a...
4) Agincourt
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Bernard Cornwell tackles his richest, most thrilling subject yet-the heroic tale of Agincourt. Young Nicholas Hook is dogged by a cursed past-haunted by what he has failed to do and banished for what he has done. A wanted man in England, he is driven to fight as a mercenary archer in France, where he finds two things he can love: his instincts as a fighting man, and a girl in trouble. Together they survive the notorious massacre at Soissons, an event...
5) Vagabond
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Grail Quest (Bernard Cornwell) volume 2
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English
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In Harlequin, Thomas of Hookton travelled to France as an archer and there discovered a shadowy destiny, which linked him to a family of heretical French lords who sought Christendom's greatest relic. Having survived the battle of Crécy, Thomas is sent back to England, charged with finding the Holy Grail. But Thomas is an archer and when a chance comes to fight against an army invading northern England he jumps at it. Plunged into the carnage of...
7) Azincourt
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English
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A unique novel, looking at one the greatest battles in history. Print run 150,000.
8) Harlequin
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Grail Quest (Bernard Cornwell) volume 1
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English
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Harlequins are lost souls, so loved by the devil that he would not take them to hell, but left them to roam the earth. In French, the word is hellequin - the name given to the English archers who crossed the Channel to lay waste the towns and countryside. In the fourteenth century the English were just beginning to discover their national identity, and one of the strongest elements of this was the overwhelming success in battle of the English bowmen....
10) Stonehenge
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A novel by Bernard Cornwell that follows the enormous success of his Arthurian trilogy (The Winter King, Enemy of God, and Excalibur) tells the tale of three brothers and of their rivalry that creates the great temple.
One summer's day, a stranger carrying great wealth in gold comes to the settlement of Ratharryn. He dies in the old temple. The people assume that the gold is a gift from the gods. But the mysterious treasure causes great dissension,...
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Warlord chronicles volume 3
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English
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From Bernard Cornwell. the creator of the No. 1 bestselling Sharpe novels. Arthur seeks peace, with the aid of his sword Excaliber . . . After rebellions and betrayals by those he believed loved him most, Arthur looks at his most weak. His Saxon enemies decide to strike before he regains his strength, plunging Britain into war. It will require all Arthur's leadership and military cunning to win this last battle. But in this final struggle of the warlord,...
12) Archer's tale
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Grail Quest (Bernard Cornwell) volume 1
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English
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At dawn on Easter morning 1343, a marauding band of French raiders arrives by boat to ambush the coastal village of Hookton. To brave young Thomas, the only survivor, the horror of the attack is epitomized by the casual savagery of a particular black-clad knight. Thomas vows to avenge the murder of his townsmen and recapture a holy treasure that the black knight stole from the church. But Thomas must first make his way to France, so he joins the army...
13) The fort
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The bestselling author returns with a new stand-alone novel of the most infamous Naval encounter of the War of Independence. It is the summer of 1779 and a force of Scottish infantry, backed by three sloops-of-war, have been sent to harass rebel privateers and to establish a safe haven for Loyalists. Determined to expel them, the rebels will send a fleet of 40 vessels and more than one thousand infantrymen to destroy the invaders. Cornwell brings...
14) The pagan lord
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Alfred the Great is dead and Edward his son now reigns as king. Wessex survives but the Danes will never rest until the emerald crown is theirs. The seventh book in Cornwell's epic series on the making of England is a dramatic story of divided loyalties, bloody battles, and the struggle to unite Britain.
15) The burning land
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In the last years of the ninth century, King Alfred of Wessex is in failing health, and his heir is an untested youth. The Danes, who have failed so many times to conquer Wessex, smell opportunity. This novel, the fifth in Cornwell's magnificent series focused on England's history, tells of the final assaults on Alfred's kingdom of Wessex. Print run 125,000.
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Bestselling author Bernard Cornwell takes us into the heart of the Elizabethan era, long one of his favourite periods of British history. Young Richard Shakespeare, an actor struggling to make his way in a company dominated by his estranged older brother William. As the growth of theatre blooms, their rivalry - and that of the playhouses, playwrights and actors vying for acclaim and glory - propels a high-stakes story of conflict and betrayal.
17) 1356
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Thomas of Hookton, a veteran of Crecy and many other battles, is the leader of a mercenary company east of Gascony in 1356. He must fulfill an urgent task: La Malice, a sword of mythical power guaranteeing victory to its owner, is thought to be hidden near the town of Poitiers. But others are seeking the treasure too, with some pursuing their private agendas against Thomas.
18) The flame bearer
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Aspiring to reclaim the home stolen by his traitorous uncle after a truce is forged between the Vikings and Saxons, the warrior Uhtred of Bebbanburg confronts new enemy Constantin of Scotland, who resolves to claim or annihilate coveted lands.
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 12
Publisher
Harper
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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A novel of the Napoleonic wars follows the adventures of British captain Richard Sharpe as he faces a powerful and dangerous enemy--Napoleon's armies and General Guy Loup
20) War of the wolf
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AN EPIC NEW NOVEL FROM THE GLOBALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR.
In the battle for power, two enemies will collide Lord Uhtred of Bebbanburg knows that peace is far from reach. Though he has won the battle for his ancestral home, rebellion looms in Mercia and invading Norsemen appear at every turn. With the country in turmoil, Uhtred comes face-to-face with King Skoll, a violent Norseman leading an army of úlfheðinn, or wolf warriors, hellbent on seizing...
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