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Favorite Books and Authors

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




 
 
Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer by Samuel Noah Kramer and Diane Wolkstein

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




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
 
Philippa Gregory

Melanie Karsak

 Michelle Moran

 Allison Pataki

 M. J. Rose

 Lucinda Riley

 Alison Weir

 Jacqueline Winspear

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