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Royal Sisters : A novel of the Stuarts
by Jean Plaidy
England is on the verge of revolution. Antagonized by the Catholicism of King James II, the people plot to drive him from the throne. But at the heart of the plot is a deep betrayal: the defection of the daughters James loves, Mary and Anne.
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Elizabeth I
by Margaret George
Growing up at the side of her cousin, Elizabeth I, Lettice Knollys struggles to regain power and position for her family while competing against the queen for the love of Robert Dudley, a rivalry that is set against a backdrop of the flourishing Elizabethan age.
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Outlander : A novel
by Diana Gabaldon
Hurtled back through time more than two hundred years to Scotland in 1743, Claire Randall finds herself in the midst of an world torn apart by violence, pestilence, and revolution, and haunted by her feelings for a young soldier.
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Anne Boleyn : A king's obsession : A novel
by Alison Weir
Henry VIII risks his marriage and the political strategies of Cardinal Wolsey in his obsession with Anne Boleyn, who does not welcome the king's advances and loathes the cardinal for breaking her betrothal to Harry Percy.
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Cleopatra's Daughter : A novel
by Michelle Moran
A tale inspired by the lives of the children of Cleopatra and Marc Antony finds Selene, her twin Alexander and their younger brother Ptolemy sent to the palace of a formidable family rival after the deaths of their parents, where they adapt to Roman culture while making perilous journeys toward adulthood. By the best-selling author of Nefertiti.
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Girl in Hyacinth Blue
by Susan Vreeland
Chronicles the history of a painting and the lives with which it intersects, from the artist's inspiration to its admiration by two art scholars three hundred years later.
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