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22) Lark
Author
Publisher
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Pub. Date
[1964]
Language
English
Description
During the time of Cromwell's England, thirteen-year old Lark runs away from her Puritan uncle's household and joins forces with young James Trelawney, a messenger for King Charles II.
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Longing for a life beyond housemaid chores and her drunken father's abuse, Ella Appleby of mid-17th-century England and her sister flee to London and take up with a dashing gentleman with ties to the underworld, unaware that they are being pursued by her former employer's twin brother.
30) The white witch
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"The Great Plague has come to England, and no one is safe, least of all Gwendoline Riston. With fair skin and hair and a way with plants and animals, the villagers are calling her a witch and blaming her for the disease"--Publisher.
33) The judge hunter
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"London, 1664. Twenty years after the English revolution, the monarchy has been restored and Charles II sits on the throne. The men who conspired to kill his father are either dead or disappeared. Baltasar 'Balty' St. Michel is twenty-four and has no skills and no employment. He gets by on handouts from his brother-in-law Samuel Pepys, an officer in the king's navy. Fed up with his needy relative, Pepys offers Balty a job in the New World. He is to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Moody Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Imagines the search for faith experienced by the ten-year-old blind daughter of John Bunyan, author of "Pilgrim's Progess," during her father's imprisonment for preaching found contrary to the edicts of the Church of England.
Author
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A novel on the way we interpret events to suit our purpose. The protagonists are four people giving evidence in a murder in 17th century England. One blames the crime on too much authority, another on the lack of it. A look at the controversies of the day, from medical experiments to religious freethinking.