13th Century
Behold the Bird in Flight
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Isabelle of Angoulême, like many women in medieval royal marriages, dwells in the shadows of history, valued only for producing heirs, and ...Read Review
A Quest for God and Spices
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In 1200 AD, Pope Innocent III wants another crusade to oust Muslims from Jerusalem. He also yearns to bring back the breakaway Constantinople branch ...Read Review
The Box of Death (Tales of Castle Rory)
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Book 1 in the Tales of Castle Rory is set in 1263. The people of Hambrig and the Celtic tribe (the “Nahvitch”) living across the ...Read Review
The Whispering Dead of Rewley Abbey (The Murders in the Abbey, 1)
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
In this novel the reader glimpses a time when town-gown tensions were high in Oxford, England. This is a murder mystery set in ...Read Review
Emperor of the Seas: Kublai Khan and the Making of China
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Jack Weatherford based the title of this book on an inscription carved in a stone in the Great Wall of China, about 130 miles ...Read Review
Their Castilian Orphan (The Castilian Saga)
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The turbulent times of Welsh rebellion against English rule in the 1290s come vividly to life in this captivating novel. Against this backdrop, ...Read Review
Esperanza’s Way
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Book two of the Seekers Series follows Esperanza, an orphan taken in by two healers who run an herbal shop on the Camino ...Read Review
Rose Girl
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In 1256, a woman gives birth in a monastery deep in the Rila mountains. Ivan, a young friar, is the only witness. Roses do ...Read Review
A Past Unearthed (Legends of the Condor Heroes)
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This novel is a continuation of the wuxia (martial arts) series by the bestselling Chinese author, Jin Yong. The series follows the adventures ...Read Review
War Cry (de Norton trilogy)
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AdventureBiographical FictionMilitary
The title refers to the second Barons’ War (1264-67). Fifty years earlier, rebel nobles had curbed royal power with the Magna Carta. Now ...Read Review
