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Daughter of Kura

By Debra Austin - Published 2009

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Over half a million years ago on the plains of Africa, the ancient ancestors of humans—the species known today as homo erectus—...Read Review

The Myth of Bloody Mary

By Linda Porter - Published 2009

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Nonfiction

This fascinating biography of Mary Tudor cuts through centuries of assumption, legend, and demonization to reveal a more even-handed portrait of the first ...Read Review

The Secret Wife of Louis XlV: Francoise d’Aubigne, Madame de Maintenon

By Veronica Buckley - Published 2009

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Nonfiction

When Françoise d’Aubigné was born in a French prison cell to a disgraced criminal and the warden’s daughter, no ...Read Review

Staff Publication: Hugh and Bess

By Susan Higginbotham - Published 2009

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Biographical Fiction Romance

Susan Higginbotham’s debut novel The Traitor’s Wife told the story of Eleanor, wife of Hugh le Despenser, intimate of King Edward ...Read Review

Staff Publications: The Traitor’s Wife

By Susan Higginbotham - Published 2009

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Biographical Fiction

At age thirteen young Eleanor de Clare, favorite niece of King Edward II, becomes the wife of Hugh le Despenser. She is installed ...Read Review

The Treasure

By Iris Johansen - Published 2008

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Adventure Romance

In this sequel to 1996’s Lion’s Bride, two popular side characters get a passionate story of their own. Lady Selene Ware, a ...Read Review

Germania

By Brendan McNally - Published 2008

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Thriller

Germany, 1945: the final days of the Third Reich. As the Allies close in, the upper echelons of the Nazi regime plan their various ...Read Review

Scarlet

By Stephen Lawhead - Published 2008

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Adventure Historical Fantasy

In the second book of his King Raven trilogy Stephen Lawhead continues his re-imagination of the Robin Hood legend as mythic Welsh adventure, ...Read Review

Mistress of the Monarchy: The Life of Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster

By Alison Weir - Published 2008 (UK)Published 2009 (US)

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Nonfiction

The latest beneficiary of Alison’s Weir’s biographical attentions is the little-known but often reviled Katherine Swynford, the long-time mistress and eventual ...Read Review

The Heretic Queen

By Michelle Moran - Published 2008

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Biographical Fiction

THE HERETIC QUEEN As the sole survivor of the line of Nefertiti, a family denounced as heretics and erased from history, Princess Nefertari ...Read Review