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Born in 9th-century Frankland, Joan demonstrates her brilliance early but must hide her learning from her missionary father, who considers the education of women sacrilegious and dangerous. Tutored first by her older brother and then a Greek scholar, Joan eventually secures a place at the schola in Dorstadt. To protect herself after a Viking raid, Joan dons her dead brother's clothing and assumes a man's identity. Suddenly the intelligence that once...

During the building of a cathedral in the fictional town of Kingsbridge, the ambitions of three men merge, conflict and collide through 40 years of social and political upheaval as internal church politics affect the progress of the cathedral and the fortunes of the protagonists.

On his way to rescue his father, Kerbouchard becomes a famed scholar, warrior, merchant, doctor and lover.

After Drest manages to free her father, Sir Oswyn captures Faintree Castle and convinces the court that Drest has slain Lord Faintree, with a substantial reward for her capture, but Drest, knowing that Lord Faintree is alive, must find a way to restore him to his throne.

Set in the fourteenth century in Europe's most farflung outpost, a land of glittering fjords, blasting winds, sun-warmed meadows, and high, dark mountains, The Greenlanders is the story of one family-proud landowner Asgeir Gunnarsson; his daughter Margret, whose willful independence leads her into passionate adultery and exile; and his son Gunnar, whose quest for knowledge is at the compelling center of this unforgettable book. Jane Smiley takes us...

In the late 1100s, thirteen-year-old Will, the future Lord of Shackley, is exiled to Sherwood Forest, where he meets Robin Hood and the Merry Men and bands with them to try retake Shackley Castle.

Sophie Turner, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Pilou Asbaek, Aiden Gillen, Conleth Hill, and Harry Lloyd team up to narrate this digitally animated telling of Aegon Targaryen's attempts to conquer the Seven Kingdoms, wirtten by show writer Dave Hill.

Find out how people lived a thousand years ago. All the famous figures, big battles and important discoveries of the Middle Ages are here , as well as lots of fascinating facts about everyday life throughout the world.

A satisfying quest fantasy to another time and another place. William is off on another fantastic quest to another land and another time.

In medieval Hagenheim, Germany, Aladdin, a poor orphan from the Holy Land, tries to rescue and win the heart of Kirstyn, the Duke of Hagenheim's daughter, his friend since childhood who is now pursued by greedy men seeking her father's fortune.