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This is a list of some of my favorite books:

Land of Silence by Tessa Afshar

Pearl in the Sand by Tessa Afshar



Feather and Flame (The Queen's Council #2) by Livia Blackburne

 

 


 



 
Anne Boleyn, An Illustrated Life of Henry VIII's Queen by Roland Hui

Judah's Wife (The Silent Years #2): A Novel of the Maccabees by Angela Hunt

Jerusalem's Queen (The Silent Years #3): A Novel of Salome Alexandra by Angela Hunt

Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst The Rwandan Holocaust by Immaculee Ilibagiza and Steve Erwin 

The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn by Eric Ives

Josephine Baker's Last Dance by Sherry Jones

I, Mona Lisa: A Novel by Jeanne Kalogridis

The Orphan of Florence by Jeanne Kalogridis




 
Sword of a Valkryie (The Vinland to Valhalla Saga #2) by Melanie Karsak

Mrs. Houdini by Victoria Kelly

Beggars or Angels: How a Single Mother Triumphed Over War, Welfare, and Cancer to Become a Successful Philanthropist by Rosemary Tran Lauer and Scott Beller

The Tigress of Forli: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de' Medici by Elizabeth Lev

The Last Heiress: A Novel of Tutankhamun's Queen by Stephanie Liaci

Catherine of Aragon: An Intimate Life of Henry VIII's True Wife by Amy License

Tracing Shadows (Scout #1) by Alex Liddel

The Valiant by Lesley Livingston

Casanova's Secret Wife by Barbara Lynn-Davis

The Fisherman's Bride: The Untold Story of the Wife of Simon Peter by Catherine Magia

A Fisher of Women by Catherine Magia

Favorite Daughter, Part One by Paula Margulies

Daughter of the Forest (Book #1 of the Sevenwaters Series) by Juliet Marillier

The Flame of Sevenwaters (Book #6 of the Sevenwaters Series) by Juliet Marillier

Son of Shadows (Book #2 of the Sevenwaters Series by Juliet Marillier

Child of the Prophecy (Book #3 of the Sevenwaters Series) by Juliet Marillier

Shadowfell (Book 1 of the Shadowfell Series) by Juliet Marillier

O Juliet: A Novel by Robin Maxwell

Empress by Evelyn McCune

Caroline: Little House, Revisited by Sarah Miller

Empress Orchid by Anchee Min

Anna the Prophetess by H.B. Moore

Ruth by H. B. Moore

The Heretic Queen by Michelle Moran

The Lost Girl of Astor Street by Stephanie Morrill

Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words by Andrew Morton

The Accidental Empress by Allison Pataki

Sisi: Empress on Her Own by Allison Pataki


Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword of Avalon (Avalon #7) by Diana L. Paxson

Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire by Leslie Peirce

The Lost Queen by Signe Pike

The Moon in the Palace by Weina Dai Randel

The Empress of Bright Moon by Weina Dai Randel








 
The President's Wife by Tracey Enerson Wood

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up For Education and Was Shot by The Taliban by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb



Here is also a list of my favorite authors:

C.W. Gortner

Juliet Marillier

Melanie Dickerson

Margaret George

Melanie Karsak

Michelle Moran

Allison Pataki

M. J. Rose

Lucinda Riley

Alison Weir

Jacqueline Winspear

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