16th Century
Emmie and the Tudor King (Hearts and Crowns Book One)
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A month before senior year ends, Emmie’s history teacher assigns a paper about a Tudor King named Nicholas the First, known as ...Read Review
Lux
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This complex novel is written in three main sections. In the first, we read of how the Ark of the Covenant was captured ...Read Review
Lent
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Characters who live multiple lives are a trend in novels recently, but few are as historically ambitious as this one. Jo Walton imagines (...Read Review
The Catherine Howard Conspiracy
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The Catherine Howard Conspiracy is an “alternate” tale of Henry VIII’s fifth wife which slips timeframes between the 1500s and the present. ...Read Review
The Heavens
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In 2000, Ben meets Kate at an activist’s fancy party in Manhattan, and he is instantly smitten. Kate is ethereal, mysterious, and just ...Read Review
Black Death (A Tudor mystery featuring Christopher Marlowe)
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It’s 1592 in London, and playwright/sleuth Christopher Marlowe receives a letter from archenemy Robert Greene shortly after his death to investigate it ...Read Review
Galileo’s Revenge: Or, A Cure for the Itch
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Poison is quickly suspected in the sudden fatal illnesses of Francesco de’ Medici, Grand-Duke of Florence, and his duchess at Poggio a Caiano ...Read Review
Pirate Queen: The Legend of Grace O’Malley
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Grace O’Malley was lord of the O Maille dynasty in the west of Ireland. The story opens with her childhood, brought up ...Read Review
At the Blue Hour
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This is the fictionalized story of Irina, a Roma slave girl in late 16th-century Moldavia who became the mistress of the Voivode Petru ...Read Review
Henry VIII: And the Men Who Made Him
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In this biography, Tracy Borman delivers an exhaustive study not only of Henry VIII, but of the men who shaped him as a ...Read Review