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16th Century

A Singular Captain

By John Regan - Published 2014

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In 1518, the young king of Castile, Carlos V, decided to finance a five-ship expedition led by famous Portuguese navigator and sea-captain, Ferdinand Magellan. ...Read Review

The Ugly Renaissance: Sex, Greed, Violence and Depravity in an Age of Beauty

By Alexander Lee - Published 2014 Published 2015

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Nonfiction

In his well-detailed and thoroughly researched book, The Ugly Renaissance, Alexander Lee turns our attention to the unattractive underside of what we think ...Read Review

Love Is Not Proud

By Monica E. Spence - Published 2015

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Romance

Monica Spence’s slim debut novel starts off with scream. On a moonlit night in 1536 in Florence, Marco de Medici, a scion of ...Read Review

The Lion and the Rose

By Aaron Maines (trans.) - By Ricardo Bruni - Published 2015

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Mystery/Crime

When horribly mutilated corpses start showing up in Venice’s Grand Canal, the Doge summons the only man he thinks capable of solving ...Read Review

The Secret World of Christoval Alvarez

By Ann Swinfen - Published 2014

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Mystery/Crime Thriller

This is a Tudor book with a difference. The main focus is on a young Portuguese immigrant, Christoval, known as Kit, a skilled ...Read Review

A Prisoner in Malta

By Phillip Depoy - Published 2016

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

England, 1583: Brilliant young Christopher Marlowe is recruited by his friend Dr. Lopez and Queen Elizabeth’s spymaster, Walsingham, for a secret and important ...Read Review

The Time of the Clockmaker (Seventh Miss Hatfield 2)

By Anna Caltabiano - Published 2015 Published 2015-08-27

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Adventure Historical Fantasy

After being abducted, turned into an immortal adult overnight, and sent back and forth in time at the behest of her inscrutable mentor, ...Read Review

Murder in the Merchant’s Hall: A Mistress Jaffrey Thriller

By Kathy Lynn Emerson - Published 2015

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Mystery/Crime Thriller

In this second of the Mistress Jaffrey Elizabethan spy thrillers, Rosamond Jaffrey’s old friend Godlina Walkenden has been accused of murdering her ...Read Review

The Lost Tudor Princess: A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox

By Alison Weir - Published 2015 Published 2016

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Nonfiction

This is a work of immense political and personal detail with a straightforward style, easily read by anyone with an interest in the ...Read Review

The Vatican Princess: A Novel of Lucrezia Borgia

By C.W. Gortner - Published 2016

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Biographical Fiction

Pity Lucrezia Borgia and the legacy of historical gossip permanently attached to her. Simply saying the name conjures up titillating visions of wealth, ...Read Review