 | Napoleon's Privates: 2,500 Years of History Unzipped by Tony Perrottet
Buy new: $11.66 / Used from: $1.98 fun and informative! Great start to the year :) 3/5
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 | Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England by Alison Weir
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $6.25 a bit dry in parts, but still informative and interesting. 3/5
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 | A Treasury of Royal Scandals: The Shocking True Stories History's Wickedest, Weirdest, Most Wanton Kings, Queens, Tsars, Popes, and Emperors by Michael Farquhar
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.24 Parts of it was fun, others very boring. The title made the book sound so much more scandalous than it was... 3/5
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 | Mysteries of the Middle Ages: And the Beginning of the Modern World (Hinges of History) by Thomas Cahill
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $6.99 Repetitive and boring...all things I have read in other books. I was hoping, since the title was so intriguing, that some actual 'mysteries' would be discussed... 2/5
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 | The Perfect King by Ian Mortimer
Buy used from: $54.74 Since amazon did not have the actual book I read by this author in it's library, I added another book of his instead. The actual title was Mortimer's "The Time-Traveler's Guide to Medieval England" and it was great! Very informative and fun! I ordered it from the UK and am not disappointed! Hopefully Amazon.com will supply it soon so others can read it! 5/5
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 | The Love Knot by Elizabeth Chadwick
Buy used from: $8.95 Beautiful Story...much better than the Daughters of the Grail, in my opinion... 4/5
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 | Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue
Buy new: $11.25 / Used from: $0.01 Great Great Great!! very engrossing read! 4/5
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 | Why Buffy Matters: The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Rhonda V. Wilcox
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $5.33 I know, i know...but Buffy is my guilty pleasure so back off! this has well thought out essays, some a bit too wordy though... 3/5
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 | The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition by Lewis Carroll
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $15.94 i loved this! great background information on one of the most loved stories of all time! 4/5
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 | The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 I read this because i LOVED the movie, however, this is awful...sadly.
Thank god the screenwriters reworked almost all the dialogue!! 1/5
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 | The Death of Kings: A Medical History of the Kings and Queens of England by Clifford Brewer
Buy new: $16.30 / Used from: $5.94 very informative and interesting...also a good reference! 4/5
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 | Lascivious Bodies: A Sexual History of the Eighteenth Century by Julie Peakman
Buy used from: $47.49 I ordered this from the UK. Great book and so rich in detail. The pictures were a bit scandalous too! 5/5
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 | The Forgotten Garden: A Novel by Kate Morton
Buy new: $15.21 / Used from: $12.17 Again, I ordered this from the UK because I couldn't wait for it to come out in the states. Morton is a great story teller, and this has quickly become a new favorite of mine. :) 5/5
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 | The Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber: Weimar Berlin's Priestess of Depravity by Mel Gordon
Buy new: $17.90 / Used from: $8.95 the photographs and advertisements from the period contained within the book are beautiful. 3/5
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 | A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $1.38 this was a great YA book. I don't normally go for these kinds of stories, but I quite enjoyed this one. And it helped that I found it at a used book store for only 3 dollars :) 4/5
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 | The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Buy used from: $12.75 I read this because 1)everyone seems to have read it, and 2)I heard it is being made into a movie. While I liked it and enjoyed it, I could have gone without the blatant sexual scenes. I just don't think they added to the story at all 3/5
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 | The Photograph by Penelope Lively
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.01 Thank god I got this from the Library before deciding to buy this one! None of these characters were likable and the story went nowhere. 0/5
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 | The Observations by Jane Harris
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $0.01 I really don't understand all the rave reviews for this book. I found the main character extremely annoying. Maybe it was the way she spoke...i dont know... 2/5
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 | Mistress of the Monarchy: The Life of Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster by Alison Weir
Buy new: $18.48 / Used from: $13.35 I love Alison Weir...enough said. 4/5
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 | The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $1.05 I liked this one. It was different and unique. Just what I was looking for at the time... 4/5
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 | Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale by Holly Black
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $1.65 Why is this book billed as a YA book? The language used by this author is atrocious. 1/5
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 | Mistress of the Sun: A Novel by Sandra Gulland
Buy new: $22.23 / Used from: $0.01 Wow, wow, wow...absolutely beautiful. I am saddened that I have not read anything by Gulland until now. I loved this tale of Louise and Louis so much I purchased her Josephine B. trilogy and am eagerly awaiting her next novel. 5/5
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 | Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $1.00 it was okay...better than Tithe, anyways... 2/5
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 | The China Garden by Liz Berry
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 I liked this one...it was a bit different, as it is a paranormal YA romance, and I didn't figure that out until the last few chapters. haha It was charming though. 3/5
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 | The Red Tent: A Novel by Anita Diamant
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.24 I'll admit it, the prologue drew me in. In fact, the whole first half (give or take) was beautifully written. Unfortunately, I didn't find Dinah interesting. I felt that as a character, she was stagnant. I became completely bored and had to force myself to finish the last part of the book. AND, what is with the all the male characters' penchant for animal sodomy?! 2.5/5
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 | Graceling by Kristin Cashore
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $4.98 this was also a dud. Just not my type of a story...the cover is beautiful though... 0/5
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 | Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: $9.35 / Used from: $3.62 Charming...and quite disturbing 3/5
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 | Eternal by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Buy new: $12.23 / Used from: $4.06 I had hopes for this book, but sadly it turned out to be YA drivel. Good premise, horrible execution... 1.5/5
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 | Now Face to Face: A Novel by Karleen Koen
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $3.35 Wonderful sequel to TAGD. I liked the first a bit better, only because I find colonial America somewhat boring, but overall, it was a moving read. As always, I love Koen's prose. Simply beautiful... 4/5
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 | Wake by Lisa McMann
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $2.74 It didn't pass my 50 page rule....back to the library it went... 0/5
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 | Dark Angels: A Novel by Karleen Koen
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $0.01 Koen has done it again! I simply LOVE her writing. This time she brought to life the court of Charles II. Not to be missed. 4/5
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 | The Courtier's Secret by Donna Russo Morin
Buy new: $11.90 / Used from: $0.01 Quite a few readers have said there are "too many" descriptions of Louis XIV's Versailles in this book, but I, myself don't find that to be true at all. I loved this book because of its beautiful descriptions of France's golden age. Recommended to anyone looking to lose themselves in the opulence that was Versailles. 4/5
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