Exile
10 best books like Exile (Grace Cavendish): Anacaona: Golden Flower, Haiti, 1490, Kazunomiya: Prisoner of Heaven, Japan, 1858, Lady of Palenque : Flower of Bacal, Mesoamerica, A.D. 749, Sondok: Princess of the Moon and Stars, Korea, A.D. 595, Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor, England, 1544, Victoria: May Blossom of Britannia, England, 1829, The Amaranth Enchantment, Mary, Queen of Scots: Queen Without a Country, Anna of Kleve: The Princess in the Portrait, Lady Helena Investigates
Anacaona: Golden Flower, Haiti, 1490
| Author | Edwidge Danticat |
| ISBN | 0439499062 |
With her signature narrative grace, Edwidge Danticat brings Haiti's beautiful queen Anacaona to life. Queen Anacaona was the wife of one of her island's rulers, and a composer of songs and poems, making her popular among her people. Haiti was relatively quiet until the Spanish conquistadors discovered...
Kazunomiya: Prisoner of Heaven, Japan, 1858
| Author | Kathryn Lasky |
| ISBN | 0439164850 |
As a princess of Japan in the year 1858, twelve-year-old Kazunomiya lives a life of privilege and luxury. But it is one in which she is a virtual prisoner, kept sheltered behind palace walls, only able to leave for the occasional visit to a temple or shrine. But her predictable life is changing. Japan has...
| Author | Anna Kirwan |
| ISBN | 0439409713 |
Anna Kirwan, best-selling author of THE ROYAL DIARIES: VICTORIA, MAY BLOSSOM OF BRITANNIA, offers a riveting look at Mayan culture, A.D. 749, through the eyes of Princess Green Jay, Lady of Palenque.
A political marriage is arranged between the thirty-three-year-old king of Xukpip and...
Sondok: Princess of the Moon and Stars, Korea, A.D. 595
| Author | Sheri Holman |
| ISBN | 0439165865 |
In the late seventh century, the land that we now call Korea was embroiled with political and religious conflicts. Three kingdoms (Silla, Koguryo, and Paekche) fought for supremacy, and three faiths (Shamanism, Buddhism, and Confucianism) battled for dominance. Princess Sondok, the eldest daughter...
Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor, England, 1544
| Author | Kathryn Lasky |
| ISBN | 0590684841 |
This was a reread for me. I believe I originally read this book sometime during middle school and I remembered that I really liked it. I read a bunch of the Dear America and Royal Diaries books but I would always get them from my school library. Now I’m going to try to buy the ones I liked so I can relive my childhood....
Victoria: May Blossom of Britannia, England, 1829
| Author | Anna Kirwan |
| ISBN | 0439215986 |
In 1829, nine-year-old Victoria begins a journal chronicling her life as an English princess, in a title which includes information on the reign, marriage, and family life of Queen Victoria and English civilization during that period.
29 MAY
...I had to kiss His Majesty's hand....
| Author | Julie Berry |
| ISBN | 1599903342 |
When Lucinda Chapdelaine was a small child, her parents left for the royal ball and never returned. Ever since, Lucinda has been stuck in perpetual servitude at her evil aunt's jewelry store. Then, on the very same day, a mysterious visitor and an even more bizarre piece of jewelry both enter the shop,...
| Author | Kathryn Lasky |
| ISBN | 0439194040 |
I read these books when I was little, so I have a very childish adoration for them. However, reading them now I am irritated with the historical inaccuracies since they help perpetuate the lack of knowledge having to do with history in general. MQoS is a very complex figure given a very anglo personality,...
Anna of Kleve: The Princess in the Portrait
| Author | Alison Weir |
| ISBN | 1101966572 |
Bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir tells the little-known story of Henry VIII’s fourth wife, as a grieving king chooses a bride sight unseen in the fourth novel in the epic and intrigue-filled Six Tudor Queens series.
Newly widowed and the father of an infant son, Henry...
A reluctant lady sleuth finds she’s investigating her own family.
Step into Lady Helena Whitcombe’s world with the first novel in a series that will blend family saga and mystery-driven action with a slow-burn romance in seven unputdownable investigations.
1881, Sussex....
