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The King's Curse

Philippa Gregory · 903 pages

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For the Wolf

Hannah Whitten · 437 pages

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The Boleyn King

Laura Andersen · 358 pages

Just seventeen years old, Henry IX, known as William, is a king bound by the restraints of the regency yet anxious to prove himself. With the French threatening battle and the Catholics sowing the seeds of rebellion at home, William trusts only three people: his older sister Elizabeth; his best friend and loyal counselor, Dominic; and Minuette, a young orphan raised as a royal ward by William’s mo

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Two Dark Reigns

Kendare Blake · 463 pages

Queen Katharine has waited her entire life to wear the crown. But now that she finally has it, the murmurs of dissent grow louder by the day. There s also the alarming issue of whether her sisters are actually dead or if they re waiting in the wings to usurp the throne.

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The City of Brass

S.A. Chakraborty · 560 pages

"Step into The City of Brass, the spellbinding debut from S. A. Chakraborty--an imaginative alchemy of The Golem and the Jinni, The Grace of Kings, and Uprooted, in which the future of a magical Middle Eastern kingdom rests in the hands of a clever and defiant young con artist with miraculous healing gifts. Nahri has never believed in magic. Certainly, she has power; on the streets of eighteenth-c

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Devil's Brood

Sharon Kay Penman · 792 pages

The long-awaited and highly anticipated final volume in Penman’s trilogy of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine—a tumultuous conclusion to this timeless story of love, power, ambition, and betrayal.Where the second novel in the trilogy, Time And Chance, dealt with the extraordinary politics of the twelfth century, climaxing with the murder of Thomas Becket and Henry’s confrontation with the Church a

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The Man in the Iron Mask

Alexandre Dumas · 479 pages

Alexandre Dumas was already a best-selling novelist when he wrote this historical romance, combining (as he claimed) the two essentials of life--"l'action et l'amour." The Man in the Iron Mask climactically concludes the epic adventures of the three Musk3ateers: here, Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and their friend D'Artagnan, once invincible, meet their destinies.

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Violet Made of Thorns

Gina Chen · 364 pages

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The Throne of the Five Winds

S.C. Emmett · 654 pages

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Lightlark (the Lightlark Saga Book 1)

Alex Aster · 432 pages

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Elantris

Brandon Sanderson · 600 pages

Elantris: gigantic, beautiful, radiant-----filled with powerful individuals who use their magical abilities to benefit all the people of Arelon. Yet each of these godlike beings was once an ordinary person until touched by the mysterious transforming power of Shaod. Then, ten years ago, without warning, the magic failed. Elantrians became wizened, feeble, leper-like creatures, and Elantris itself

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The Wrath and the Dawn

Renee Ahdieh · 404 pages

A sumptuous and epically told love story inspired by A Thousand and One Nights Every dawn brings horror to a different family in a land ruled by a killer. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, takes a new bride each night only to have her executed at sunrise. So it is a suspicious surprise when sixteen-year-old Shahrzad volunteers to marry Khalid. But she does so with a clever plan

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Finnikin of the Rock

Melina Marchetta · 398 pages

Finnikin was only a child during the five days of the unspeakable, when the royal family of Lumatere were brutally murdered, and an imposter seized the throne. Now a curse binds all who remain inside Lumatere's walls, and those who escaped roam the surrounding lands as exiles, persecuted and despairing, dying by the thousands in fever camps. In a narrative crackling with the tension of an imminent

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The Queen of the Tearling

Erika Johansen · 464 pages

"On her nineteenth birthday, Princess Kelsea Raleigh Glynn, raised in exile, sets out on a perilous journey back to the castle of her birth to ascend her rightful throne. Plain and serious, a girl who loves books and learning, Kelsea bears little resemblance to her mother, the vain and frivolous Queen Elyssa. But though she may be inexperienced and sheltered, Kelsea is not defenseless: Around her

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Stolen Songbird

Danielle L. Jensen · 480 pages

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Two Twisted Crowns

Rachel Gillig · 415 pages

Instant New York Times bestseller • Instant USA Today bestseller • Booktok sensation • Amazon Charts bestseller • Over 3 million copies sold of The Shepherd King Duology Elspeth must confront the weight of her actions as she and Ravyn embark on a perilous quest to save the kingdom in this incredible sequel to One Dark Window, from the queen of gothic romantasy. Gripped by a tyrant king and in the

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Sword Catcher

Cassandra Clare · 624 pages

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The Dragonbone Chair

Tad Williams · 672 pages

In the peaceful land of Osten Ard, the good king is dying-and a long-dreaded evil is about to be unleashed. Only Simon, a lowly castle scullion apprenticed to a secret order dedicated to halting the coming darkness, can solve the dangerous riddle that offers salvation to the land.

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Innocent Traitor

Alison Weir · 432 pages

I am now a condemned traitor . . . I am to die when I have hardly begun to live.Historical expertise marries page-turning fiction in Alison Weir's enthralling debut novel, breathing new life into one of the most significant and tumultuous periods of the English monarchy. It is the story of Lady Jane Grey--"the Nine Days' Queen"--a fifteen-year-old girl who unwittingly finds herself at the center o

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Queen of Someday

Sherry D. Ficklin · 262 pages

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Myrren's Gift

Fiona McIntosh · 514 pages

For the sake of an imperiled kingdom, the line between "traitor" and "savior" must blur . . . and vanish.Though barely a teenager, Wyl Thirsk must now assume the role he has been destined for since birth: commander of the Morgravian army -- an awesome responsibility that calls him to the royal palace of the crown prince Celimus. Already a cruel despot who delights in the suffering of others, Celim

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Legacy of Kings

Eleanor Herman · 432 pages

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Enchanters' End Game

David Eddings · 372 pages

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