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Biography

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Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr, the Last Wife of Henry VIII
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Catherine of Aragon

Cleopatra: A Life
Charlemagne
Mistress of the Monarchy
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Jane Boleyn

Catherine of Siena
How the States Got Their Shapes Too: The People Behind the Borderlines
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Caligula

Stories I Only Tell My Friends
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
Life Itself
Ten popes who shook the world
Sister queens
Juliette Gordon Low
The Abacus and the Cross: The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages
Queen of the Conqueror: The Life of Matilda, Wife of William I
The Chessboard Queen
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Becoming Queen Victoria

Leonardo and the Last Supper
Shakespeare's tremor and Orwell's cough
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Blood Will Tell

Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic's First-Class Passengers and Their World
Blood Sisters: The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses
The Creation of Anne Boleyn
The Lady and Her Monsters
The Real Jane Austen : A Life in Small Things
The Deadly Sisterhood: A Story of Women and Power in Renaissance Italy
Dearie
Who Was Dracula?
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The Children of Henry VIII

The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
The twelve caesars
Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World
Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History—Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
Lady Almina and the real Downton Abbey the lost legacy of Highclere Castle
Autobiography
The Woodvilles: The Wars of the Roses and England's Most Infamous Family
The Queen's Bed: An Intimate History of Elizabeth's Court
Love Life
The Sons of Caesar: Imperial Rome's First Dynasty
Renaissance People: Lives that Shaped the Modern Age
Isabella: The Warrior Queen
Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured
Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time
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The Age of Wonder

Constantine the Emperor
The Heir Apparent: A Life of Edward VII, the Playboy Prince
Prince Rupert: The Last Cavalier
Dr. Mutter's Marvels
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Queen Isabella

The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects
Inglorious Royal Marriages: A Demi-Millennium of Unholy Mismatrimony
The Rival Queens: Catherine de' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal that Ignited a Kingdom
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The Borgias

Secret Lives of the Tsars: Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia
Marie Antoinette: The Journey
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The Wise King

The Lost Tudor Princess
The Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor
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Henry IV

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Ambition and Desire

Richard III: A Ruler and his Reputation
The Romanovs: 1613-1918
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Henry V

King John and the Road to Magna Carta
Crown of Blood
Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
Lives of the Romans
Isabella of Castile: Europe's First Great Queen
Young and Damned and Fair
Victoria
So High a Blood: The Story of Margaret Douglas, the Tudor that Time Forgot
Queens Consort: England's Medieval Queens from Eleanor of Aquitaine to Elizabeth of York
Jane Austen at Home
She Wolves: the Notorious Queens of England
Alexander Hamilton
Six Wives
Wallis in Love : The Untold Life of the Duchess of Windsor, the Woman Who Changed the Monarchy
The Plantagenets
Daughters of the Winter Queen
The Wright Brothers
Queen Victoria's Granddaughters 1860-1918
Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum
The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots: Elizabeth I and Her Greatest Rival
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Queen Victoria

Born to Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria
The Women of the Cousins' War: The Duchess, the Queen, and the King's Mother
Louis XIV: The Power and the Glory
Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
The Borgias: Power and Fortune
Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine
Thomas Cromwell
Leonardo Da Vinci
Sovereign Ladies
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Red Roses

You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington
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