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






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














A Noble Cunning: The Countess and the Tower by Patricia Bernstein

Sacrifice: Book One of y Ddraig (The Dragons of Brython) by Gwendolyn Beynon 

 







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
 
 

 





















Song of the Nile by Hannah Fielding

 The Cards Don't Lie by Sue Ingalls Finan

 Lord Esterleigh's Daughter (Book One of the Serpent Tooth Trilogy) by Kathy Fischer-Brown

 Sacred Legacy by Kat Flannery

 West (History Interrupted #1) by Lizzy Ford

 Juliet by Anne Fortier

 The Lost Sisterhood by Anne Fortier

 The Widow of Pale Harbor by Hester Fox

 The Witch of Willow Hall by Hester Fox

 Sister Queens: The Noble, Tragic Lives of Katherine of Aragon and Juana, Queen of Castile by Julia Fox

 Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy by Karen Foxlee

 A Most Magical Girl by Karen Foxlee

 Anna Howard Shaw: The Work of Women Suffrage (Women In American History) by Trisha Franzen

 Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser

Caesars' Wives: Sex, Power, and Politics in the Roman Empire by Annelise Freisenbruch

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 Enheduana: Princess, Priestess, Poetess (Routledge Ancient Biographies) by Alhena Gadotti
 

 

 



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






















 

 














 









 

 
 



 























 

 






 



 




 
 










Clytemnestra's Bind (The House of Atreus #1) by Susan C. Wilson

 Young Elizabeth: The Making of the Queen by Kate Williams

 The English Wife by Lauren Willig

The Hidden Hills Saga: Ice Whispers (Book 1) by K. Willow

Victoria: A Life by A.N. Wilson

 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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