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An American Beauty: A Novel of the Gilded Age by Shana Abe

The Tragic Life of Lady Jane Grey by Beverley Adams

Kateryn Parr: Henry VIII's Sixth Queen by Laura Adkins






Land of Silence by Tessa Afshar



 



Carolina Built by Kianna Alexander

The Romanov Bride: A Novel by Robert Alexander

The Mermaid and the Treasure of the Bay by A. Algeri





















The Family Behind the Girl Scouts of America: Lives of the Kinzie-Gordon Clan, 1750s-1950s by Melissa Langley Biegert

 










Once in a Blood Moon by Dorothea Hubble Bonneau

The Creation of Anne Boleyn: A New Look at England’s Most Notorious Queen by Susan Bordo

Shoot Like A Girl (A Prequel Novella to Girl With a Gun) by Kari Bovee









 
 















 

 









 







 







 


The Healer's Apprentice (Hagenheim series #1) by Melanie Dickerson

The Merchant's Daughter (Hagenheim series #2) by Melanie Dickerson

The Fairest Beauty (Hagenheim series #3) by Melanie Dickerson

The Captive Maiden (Hagenheim series #4) by Melanie Dickerson

The Princess Spy (Hagenheim series #5) by Melanie Dickerson

The Golden Braid (Hagenheim series #6) by Melanie Dickerson

The Silent Songbird (Hagenheim series #7) by Melanie Dickerson

The Orphan's Wish (Hagenheim series #8) by Melanie Dickerson

A Spy's Devotion (The Regency Spies of London series #1) by Melanie Dickerson

The Huntress of Thornbeck Forest (A Medieval Fairy Tale Book #1) by Melanie Dickerson

The Beautiful Pretender (A Medieval Fairy Tale Book #2) by Melanie Dickerson

The Noble Servant (A Medieval Fairy Tale Book #3) by Melanie Dickerson

Princess: The Early Life of Queen Elizabeth II by Jane Dismore
 
 


 



























 

 

 



Boleyn Traitor by Philippa Gregory

Becoming Marie Antoinette by Juliet Grey


Days of Splendor, Days of Sorrow: A Novel of Marie Antoinette by Juliet Grey

Confessions of Marie Antoinette: A Novel by Juliet Grey








 My Name Is Ona Judge by Suzette D. Harrison

Seraphina (Seraphina #1) by Rachel Hartman

Shadow Scale (Seraphina #2) by Rachel Hartman

Tess of the Road by Rachel Hartman

The Lonely Empress: Elizabeth of Austria by Joan Haslip





 
The Woman at the Wheel by Penny Haw



 



 





 


 












 

 
 

 

























Mother, Daughter, Traitor, Spy by Susan Elia MacNeal

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

A Fisher of Women by Catherine Magia

Sewing Can Be Dangerous and Other Small Threads by S.R. Mallery

Favorite Daughter, Part One by Paula Margulies

Daughter of the Forest (Book #1 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

Heir to Sevenwaters (Book #4 of the Sevenwaters Series by Juliet Marillier

Seer of Sevenwaters (Book #5 of the Sevenwaters Series) by Juliet Marillier

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

Dreamer's Pool (Book #1 of the Blackthorn and Grim Series) by Juliet Marillier

Tower of Thorns (Book #2 of the Blackthorn and Grim Series) by Juliet Marillier

























 

 



















 












 

 
 



 



























 

 






 



 






 
 

















Gershwin's Bess by Lisa K.Winkler

Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs #1) by Jacqueline Winspear

Birds of a Feather (Maisie Dobbs #2) by Jacqueline Winspear

Pardonable Lies (Maisie Dobbs #3) by Jacqueline Winspear

Messenger of Truth (Maisie Dobbs #4) by Jacqueline Winspear

An Incomplete Revenge (Maisie Dobbs #5) by Jacqueline Winspear

Among the Mad (Maisie Dobbs #6) by Jacqueline Winspear

The Mapping of Love and Death (Maisie Dobbs #7) by Jacqueline Winspear

A Lesson in Secrets (Maisie Dobbs #8) by Jacqueline Winspear

Elegy for Eddie (Maisie Dobbs #9) by Jacqueline Winspear

Leaving Everything Most Loved (Maisie Dobbs #10) by Jacqueline Winspear

A Dangerous Place (Maisie Dobbs #11) by Jacqueline Winspear

Journey to Munich (Maisie Dobbs #12) by Jacqueline Winspear

In This Grave Hour (Maisie Dobbs #13) by Jacqueline Winspear

The Confessions of X by Suzanne M. Wolfe

Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk

Feathered (Swan Maiden #1) by Rachel Wollanston

The Fortune Teller by Gwendolyn Womack

The Memory Painter by Gwendolyn Womack

The Time Collector by Gwendolyn Womack

Daughter of the Sun: A Novel of the Toltec Empire by Barbara Wood

 


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