The King's Assassin: The Fatal Affair of George Villiers and James I
By: Benjamin Woolley
3.62
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. 1494: How a Family Feud in Medieval Spain Divided the World in Half
By: Stephen R. Bown
3.88
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
"This is a starry love story, a tale of seething jealousies and subterfuge, a political imbroglio, … read more
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2. Fellow Travelers
By: Thomas Mallon
4.16
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the highly acclaimed author of Bandboxand Dewey Defeats Truman-a searing new historical novel … read more
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3. Three Bags Full
By: Anthea Bell , Leonie Swann
4.11
Format: 500 pages, Hardcover
A witty philosophical murder mystery with a charming twist: the crack detectives are sheep determin… read more
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4. Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart
By: John Guy
3.34
Format: None pages,
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5. Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe
By: John Guy
4.16
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
“A fierce, scholarly tour-de-force. . . . Hunting the Falcon brilliantly shows how time, circumst… read more
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6. You Should Be So Lucky
By: Cat Sebastian
4.39
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
An emotional, slow-burn, grumpy/sunshine, queer mid-century romance about grief and found family, b… read more
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"Sometimes you want to look at a guy and say: Well, he’s fucked, but he’s trying."-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky
"But he also wants that feeling he had earlier, that feeling of being seen for who he is, and of being liked anyway."-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky
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"The actual problem is incredibly boring, and Mark hates admitting it even to himself. Unless a couple has the good fortune to get hit by the same freight train, their story ends in exactly one way. H…"-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky
7. The Emperor and the Endless Palace
By: Justinian Huang
3.52
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
“What if I told you that the feeling we call love is actually the feeling of metaphysical recogniti… read more
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"Despair not. History is carved by men who did not have their fathers' favor."-Justinian Huang, The Emperor and the Endless Palace
"You mean like a past life?' Calvin says. Garden snorts. 'Are you for real?' 'Excuse me, this is a "yes and" environment, G,' Calvin replies, 'and billions of people around the world believe in reinca…"-Justinian Huang, The Emperor and the Endless Palace
"[River] 'Maybe he was just trying to shake me off. I mean, why would he want to be with me?' Without warning, Calvin bonks me on the side of my head, not hard, though it startles me, and some wine sp…"-Justinian Huang, The Emperor and the Endless Palace
8. The New Life
By: Tom Crewe
3.77
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
Two Victorian marriages, two dangerous love affairs, one extraordinary partnership . . .London, 189… read more
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"Science requires a rational audience."-Tom Crewe, The New Life
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"We British are used to being ruthless, of course, but only the men. The women aren't. We don't grab. We shouldn't . But we have to, to make some room for ourselves."-Tom Crewe, The New Life
"...John wondered if she would ever be so unthinkingly imperious again; whether her childish powers of command would survive the dislocation from home, the knowledge of her smallness in the greater wo…"-Tom Crewe, The New Life
9. Queen Macbeth
By: Val McDermid
3.77
Format: 122 pages, Kindle Edition
Shakespeare fed us the myth of the Macbeths as murderous conspirators. But now Val McDermid drags t… read more
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10. A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire
By: Emma Southon
4.23
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum comes a wildly entertai… read more
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11. Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power
By: Leah Redmond Chang
4.18
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de’ Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and M… read more
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12. The King's Assassin: The Fatal Affair of George Villiers and James I
By: Benjamin Woolley
3.62
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
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13. CARMINE and the 13th AVENUE BOYS: Surviving Brooklyn's Colombo Mob
By: Craig McGuire
4.24
Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition
This is the true story of Carmine Imbriale – a gambler, a brawler, a bandit, a bookie, an enforcer.… read more
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14. Frontier Justice: A Coogan Mystery
By: Michael Cardwell
4.42
Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition
Danny Coogan, a freshly minted Montana Fish and Game Officer and recent Afghanistan veteran, hopes … read more
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15. Erotic Vagrancy: Everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor
By: Roger Lewis
3.72
Format: 605 pages, Hardcover
Thirteen years in the writing, Erotic Vagrancy doesn't only surpass every other biography of Elizab… read more
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16. The Promise of Pain (Thomas Berrington #7)
By: David Penny
4.49
Format: 340 pages, Kindle Edition
WHEN REVENGE IS THE ONLY REDEMPTION Thomas Berrington has come to the high mountains of Spain’s Sie… read more
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17. The Great Ice Age: A History from Beginning to End (Prehistory)
By: Hourly History
4.30
Format: 61 pages, Kindle Edition
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18. The Pairing
By: Casey McQuiston
3.90
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
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19. The Wisest Fool: The Lavish Life of James VI and I
By: Steven Veerapen
4.41
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
In this new biography, the story of James VI and I is laid bare, and a welter of scurrilous assumpt… read more
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20. Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich
By: Richard J. Evans
4.27
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
Through a connected set of biographical portraits of key Nazi figures that follows power as it radi… read more
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