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Cleopatra's Moon

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Song of the Nile

Stephanie Dray · 398 pages

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The Memoirs of Cleopatra

Margaret George · 976 pages

The mesmerizing story of Queen Cleopatra in her own words - by bestselling novelist Margaret George, author of *The Autobiography of Henry VIII* and *Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles*. Told in the first person - from the young queen's earliest memories of her father's tenuous rule to her own reign over one of the most glittering kingdoms in the world - this is an enthralling saga of ambition a

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The Heretic Queen

Michelle Moran · 383 pages

In ancient Egypt, a forgotten princess must overcome her family's past and remake history.The winds of change are blowing through Thebes. A devastating palace fire has killed the Eighteenth Dynasty's royal family--all with the exception of Nefertari, the niece of the reviled former queen, Nefertiti. The girl's deceased family has been branded as heretical, and no one in Egypt will speak their name

Ancient EgyptPrinces and PrincessesFirst Person NarratorHistorical Fiction
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Caesar and Cleopatra

George Bernard Shaw · 136 pages

Caesar and Cleopatra satirizes Shakespeare's use of history and comments wryly on the politics of Shaw's own time, but the undertone of melancholy makes it one of his most affecting plays.

Ancient EgyptAncient RomePrinces and PrincessesHistorical Fiction
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When We Were Gods: A Novel of Cleopatra

Colin Falconer · 503 pages

**From Amazon.com:** Arrestingly beautiful and fiercely intelligent, Cleopatra VII of Egypt was barely more than a teenager when she inherited the richest empire in the world—one that stretched from the scorching deserts of lower Egypt to the shining Mediterranean metropolis of Alexandria. Imperiled at every turn by court conspiracies and Roman treachery, Cleopatra brazenly sought a partnership

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Pandora

Anne Rice · 353 pages

The novel opens in present-day Paris in a crowded cafe, where David meets Pandora. She is two thousand years old, a Child of the Millennia, the first vampire ever made by the great Marius. David persuades her to tell the story of her life. Pandora begins, reluctantly at first and then with increasing passion, to recount her mesmerizing tale, which takes us through the ages, from Imperial Rome t

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Desert God

Wilbur Smith · 583 pages

Taita the fusspot slave, spiritual wiseman and advisor to the Pharaoh is caught in a maelstrom of passion and danger in his efforts to destroy the Hyksos army by forming a dubious alliance with Crete.

Ancient EgyptPrinces and PrincessesHistorical FictionFirst Person Narrator
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Antony and Cleopatra

Colleen McCullough · 571 pages

Passion, politics, love and death combine in a novel of the legendary love triangle between the three leaders of the Roman era: Cleopatra, Mark Antony and Octavian, from the bestselling author of The Thorn BirdsMark Antony, famous warrior and legendary lover, expected that he would be Julius Caesar's successor. But after Caesar's murder it was his 18-year old nephew, Octavian, who was named in the

Ancient EgyptAncient RomeHistorical FictionPolitical Intrigue
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The Crook and Flail

Libbie Hawker, L.M. Ironside · 288 pages

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What the River Knows

Isabel Ibañez · 404 pages

Ancient EgyptHistorical FictionYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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Daughter of the Gods: A Novel of Ancient Egypt

Stephanie Thornton · 448 pages

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Patience, Princess Catherine

Carolyn Meyer · 198 pages

Daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella, the famous catholic kings, Catherine of Aragon was a young Spanish princess known as Catalina when she left her home in the summer of 1501 to sail to England. Catherine had known since childhood that she was betrothed to Prince Arthur, heir to the throne of England, and that one day she would have to leave Spain to marry him. Now that she is fifteen, that day ha

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Alexandria

Lindsey Davis · 313 pages

In A.D. 77, Marcus Didius Falco, agent to the Emperor Vespasian, investigates the mysterious death of the head librarian of the world-famous library of Alexandria, bringing him into immediate conflict with the darker side of academic life.

Ancient RomeAncient EgyptFirst Person NarratorHistorical Fiction
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Anna of Byzantium

Tracy Barrett · 209 pages

In the eleventh century the teenage princess Anna Comnena fights for her birthright, the throne to the Byzantine Empire, which she fears will be taken from her by her younger brother John because he is a boy

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Cleopatra: A Life

Stacy Schiff · 441 pages

From back cover: Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons; her supple personality and the drama of her circumstances have been lost. In a masterly return to the classical sources, Stacy Schiff boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order.

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Queen of Kings

Maria Dahvana Headley · 401 pages

Desperate to resurrect Antony after his suicide, Cleopatra strikes a bargain with Sekhmet, goddess of death and destruction. Cleopatra is transformed into a vampire, an immortal shapeshifter of superhuman strength-- and yearning for revenge as much as she craves human blood.

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Tiger, Tiger

Lynne Reid Banks · 195 pages

A swashbuckling tale set in Ancient Rome.The setting of this novel is Ancient Rome, where Caeser is all-powerful, Christians are heretics who must die, and animals are mere playthings, to be baited, challenged and destroyed...Two tiger cubs are transported on a frightening voyage from their home to Rome. One (Boots) is tamed, his claws removed, to be an amusing and prestigious pet for Aurelia, Cae

Ancient RomePrinces and PrincessesHistorical FictionYoung Adult
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The Legion

Simon Scarrow · 369 pages

Trouble is brewing in Egypt. Rebel gladiator Ajax and his men have been posing as Roman soldiers and attacking naval bases, merchant vessels and villages. Prefect Cato and Centurion Macro have been charged with the task of tracking down the renegade warrior before the problem gets out of control.

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Lady Smoke

Laura Sebastian · 496 pages

Princes and PrincessesYoung AdultFirst Person NarratorDeath of a Parent
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Queen of Someday

Sherry D. Ficklin · 262 pages

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Hush: An Irish Princess' Tale

Donna Jo Napoli · 320 pages

Melkorka is a princess, the first daughter of a magnificent kingdom in mediæval Ireland -- but all of this is lost the day she is kidnapped and taken aboard a marauding slave ship. Thrown into a world that she has never known, alongside people that her former country's laws regarded as less than human, Melkorka is forced to learn quickly how to survive. Taking a vow of silence, however, she finds

Princes and PrincessesHistorical FictionYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator

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