 | Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes; Third Edition (Yale Nota Bene) by Dr. Eamon Duffy
Buy new: $14.82 / Used from: $8.95 |
 | Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge (P.S.) by Eleanor Herman
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $0.01 Though the author tends to jump around, her accounts of royal mistresses are very enjoyable (and sometimes unbelievable).
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 | Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics (P.S.) by Eleanor Herman
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $2.99 |
 | 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: $0.32 Michael Farquhar recounts juicy historical bits with wit, humor and EASY to read prose.
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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 Get the gory details.
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 | A Treasury of Great American Scandals: Tantalizing True Tales of Historic Misbehavior by the Founding Fathers and Others Who Let Freedom Swing by Michael Farquhar
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.79 Scandals in the good 'ol US of A! Excellent author.
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 | A Treasury of Deception: Liars, Misleaders, Hoodwinkers, and the Extraordinary True Stories of History's Greatest Hoaxes, Fakes and Frauds by Michael Farquhar
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.59 Some of history's biggest LIES!
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 | Curious Myths of the Middle Ages: The Sangreal, Pope Joan, The Wandering Jew, and Others (Dover Books on Anthropology and Folklore) by Sabine Baring-Gould
Buy new: $14.78 / Used from: $5.80 |
 | Lucrezia Borgia (Phoenix Press) by Maria Bellonci
Buy used from: $0.01 If it weren't historical fact, this woman's life would be hard to believe! Set in Italy.
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 | The Borgia Bride: A Novel by Jeanne Kalogridis
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.50 History tells us Sancha de Aragon married the Pope's son--this is a fictional account of her life. Set in Italy.
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 | The Princes in the Tower by Alison Weir
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.99 This one is very fast paced--explores the murder of two royal children. Couldn't put it down.
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 | Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Murder of Lord Darnley by Alison Weir
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $3.91 |
 | The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $4.98 Get the juicy details! Only one of his wives outlived him.
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 | The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall by Christopher Hibbert
Buy new: $11.52 / Used from: $2.99 More scandalous history set in Italy.
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 | Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage by Stephen Budiansky
Buy new: $11.25 / Used from: $0.99 Before the CIA, there was Walsingham...
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 | The Story of Chicago May by Nuala O'Faolain
Buy used from: $3.91 Also set in America. Story of Nuala O'Faolain , a fmous thief and prostitute.
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 | Murder Most Royal: The Story of Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard by Jean Plaidy aka Eleanor Hibbert
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $3.29 Historical fiction. Henry VIII put both of these wives to death, this is their point of view.
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 | The Last Days of Henry VIII: Conspiracy, Treason and Heresy at the Court of the Dying Tyrant by Robert Hutchinson
Buy new: $14.35 / Used from: $5.30 |
 | Unwise Passions: A True Story of a Remarkable Woman---and the First Great Scandal of Eighteenth-Century America by Alan Pell Crawford
Buy new: $12.48 / Used from: $0.47 Set in America. Story of Virginian aristocrat Nancy Randolph, who supposedly bore a child to her brother-in-law who then killed it.
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 | Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare by Clare Asquith
Buy new: $11.66 / Used from: $1.49 Explores the political themes hidden in Shakespeare's work.
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 | The Myth of Pope Joan by Alain Boureau
Buy new: $18.56 / Used from: $12.00 |
 | Terrorism and the Illuminati: A Three Thousand Year History by David Livingstone
Buy new: $18.99 / Used from: $18.98 Secret societies!
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 | Geisha: A Life by Mineko Iwasaki
Buy new: $11.70 / Used from: $0.01 Autobiography.
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 | Courtesans: Money, Sex and Fame in the Nineteenth Century by Katie Hickman
Buy new: $12.71 / Used from: $0.38 More on royal mistresses.
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 | The Uncrowned Kings of England: The Black History of the Dudleys and the Tudor Throne by Derek Wilson
Buy new: $17.21 / Used from: $6.11 |
 | Cupid and the King: Five Royal Paramours by Princess Michael of Kent
Buy new: $13.26 / Used from: $0.68 |
 | Shakespeare's Bawdy (Routledge Classics) by Eric Partridge
Buy new: $14.21 / Used from: $7.48 Reunite with Shakespeare on his level. Get the dirty jokes and sexual innuendos that are rampant in the Bard's plays.
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 | An Unchaste Life: Memoir of a Tudor Queen by Anne Cato
Buy new: $16.68 / Used from: $7.95 |
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