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Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne

by David Starkey

Published: 2001-12-01

Paperback: 384 pages

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An abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a man's world, passionately sexual-- though, as she maintained, a virgin -- Elizabeth I is famed as England's most successful ruler. David Starkey's brilliant new biography concentrates on Elizabeth's formative years -...

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Ella Enchanted

by Gail Carson Levine

Published: 2004-02

Paperback: 288 pages

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Ella is a girl with a most unusual gift, and her story has charmed readers and critics alike. Now Miramax Films brings this wholly original Cinderella story to the silver screen, complete with princes, ogres, wicked stepsisters, and a fairy-tale ending fit for a princess.At birth, Ella is ...

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Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters

by Mark Dunn

Published: 2002-09-17

Paperback: 208 pages

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Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin Nollop, author of the immortal phrase containing all the letters of the alphabet, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” Now Ella finds...

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Ella Minnow Pea: A Progressively Lipogrammatic Epistolary Fable

by Mark Dunn

Published: 2001-10

Hardcover: 205 pages

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Ella Minnow Pea is an epistolary novel set in the fictional island of Nollop situated off the coast of South Carolina and home to the inventor the pangram The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog. Now deceased, the islanders have erected a monument to honor their hero, but one day a ti...

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Ella Price's Journal

by Dorothy Bryant

Published: 1997-10-01

Paperback: 256 pages

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Elle

by Douglas Glover

Published: 2007-09-07

Paperback: 226 pages

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A 16th-century belle turned Robinson Crusoe, a female Don Quixote with an Inuit Sancho Panza -- this is the heroine of the novel that won the 2003 Governor General's Award. Elle is a lusty, subversive riff on the discovery of the New World, the moment of first contact. Based on what might be a true story,...

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Ellen Foster

by Kaye Gibbons

Published: 2012-10-17

Paperback: 144 pages

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Winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation's Citation for Fiction. An eleven-year-old heroine tells her unforgettable story with honesty, perceptivity, humor, and unselfconscious heroism. "The honesty of thought and eye...

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by Kaye Gibbons

Published: 1997-11-05

Paperback: 0 pages

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"When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy. I would figure out this or that way and run it down through my head until it got easy." So begins the tale of Ellen Foster, the brave and engaging heroine of Kay Gibbons's first novel, which won the Sue Kaufman Prize from the Ameri...

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Ellis Island: A Novel

by Kate Kerrigan

Published: 2011-06-28

Paperback: 368 pages

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“A standout novel….A rare combination of historical enlightenment and sheer enjoyment.”—Peter Quinn, author of The Man Who Never ReturnedAlready a hit in the United Kingdom, Ellis Island by Kate Kerrigan is both a poignant love story and a lyrical, evocative depiction of the immigr...

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An Elm Creek Quilts Sampler: The First Three Novels in the Popular Series (Elm Creek Quilters Novels)

by Jennifer Chiaverini

Published: 2003-10-21

Hardcover: 721 pages

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Three Complete Novels, The Quilter's Apprentice, Round Robin, and The Cross-Country Quilters, from The New York Times Bestselling Author, Jennifer Chiaverini Here's where it all began -- the three novels that first made beloved friends of the Elm Creek Quilters, who stepped out of Pen...