 | High Spirits: A Tale of Ghostly Rapping and Romance by Dianne K Salerni
Buy new: $20.95 / Used from: $8.25 Maggie and Kate Fox claim the ability to communicate with the dead and become nationally famous as America's first spirit mediums in the 1850's. Kate is a devoted spiritualist who believes she has been given a special gift, but Maggie knows quite well the two of them are frauds and she lives in fear that they will be found out.
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 | Inamorata by Joseph Gangemi
Buy used from: $0.01 Martin Finch is a Harvard graduate student sent to test the validity of the spirit phenomena produced by beautiful Mina Crawley, a Philadelphia society medium. Mina uses all her wiles to win over young Finch, and he finds it harder and harder to maintain his neutrality. Based on the famous real life medium Margery.
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 | The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
Buy new: $11.52 / Used from: $0.01 Mary and Anne Boleyn are both sisters, both beautiful and beguiling, and both favorites of King Henry. The difference between them is that only one of them will keep her head when things go wrong.
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 | The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory
Buy new: $18.68 / Used from: $0.01 You have to be deceitful and conniving just to stay alive in King Henry's court. This novel is unique for its sympathetic portrayal of Anne of Cleves -- not stupid or ugly at all -- and poor Katherine Howard, a foolish girl and pawn of her ambitious uncle.
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 | The Emancipator's Wife by Barbara Hambly
Buy new: $11.90 / Used from: $0.31 An interesting portrayal of Mary Todd Lincoln. From girlhood, she teetered on the edge of insanity -- possibly a bipolar disorder. This novel depicts Abraham Lincoln as a man, rather than an icon, and presents a different point of view on his unfortunate marriage.
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 | Alias Grace: A Novel by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $0.01 Margaret Atwood examines a famous nineteenth century Canadian murder and the purported murderess, Grace Marks. Was she a violent fiend, a seductress, or merely a young servant girl in the wrong place at the wrong time?
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 | Marrying Mozart by Stephanie Cowell
Buy new: $11.90 / Used from: $0.01 Madame Weber has four beautiful daughters and she is absolutely determined that one of them will make an advantageous marriage. She is just not sure whether young Mozart is going to be a success or a failure ...
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 | Caraboo: The Servant Girl Princess : The Real Story of the Grand Hoax by Jennifer Raison
Buy new: $11.86 / Used from: $2.68 A beautiful young woman is found wandering the English countryside. She speaks no English, wears an outlandish costume, and practices strange customs. Apparently she is a princess from an Indian island who escaped the slaving ship which had captured her. Or ... maybe she is not.
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 | Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $4.74 Amber St. Clare claws her way up from a country village to the court of Charles II, where she aspires to be the mistress of the king, but really pines away for the love of the one man she cannot have. For true history buffs only -- it is 972 pages long!
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 | Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey by Alison Weir
Buy used from: $0.20 Pity poor Jane Grey. Her mother, Lady Dorset, was one of the most conniving and hard-hearted women of the Tudor court, and she literally sacrificed her daughter in a bid for power.
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 | Pirate Spirit: The Adventures of Anne Bonney by Jeffery Williams
Buy new: $11.66 / Used from: $8.53 Anne Bonney escaped marriage to a husband she detested by dressing as a man and joining her pirate lover on the Caribbean Sea.
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 | The Traitor's Wife: A Novel of the Reign of Edward II by Susan Higginbotham
Buy used from: $14.47 When Isabella of France married Edward II of England, she expected a long and powerful reign. When her husband the king did not live up to her expectations, she set in motion a plan to remove him from the throne to make way for her son.
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 | Vengeance Is Mine: A Novel of Anne Boleyn, Katherine Howard, and Lady Rochford--the woman who helped destroy them both. by Brandy Purdy
Buy used from: $19.85 Lady Jane Rochford, wife of George Boleyn helped bring down two of King Henry's wives, sending both of them to the chopping block.
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