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10 best books like Nobody's Prize (Esther M. Friesner): Radiant Darkness, Anastasia's Secret, Cleopatra's Moon, Goddess of Yesterday, Pandora Gets Lazy, Lady Macbeth's Daughter, The Queen's Daughter, Sovay, Inside the Walls of Troy: A Novel of the Women Who Lived the Trojan War, Patience, Princess Catherine

Radiant Darkness
AuthorEmily Whitman
ISBN0061724491
He smiles. "Hello."

It's a deep voice. I can feel it reverberate in my chest and echo all the way down to my toes.

I know I should leave, but I don't want to. I want to keep my senses like this forever. I'm all eye, all ear, all skin.

Persephone lives in the most gorgeous place in the...
Anastasia's Secret
AuthorSusanne Dunlap
ISBN1599904209
For Anastasia Romanov, life as the privileged daughter of Russia's last tsar is about to be torn apart by the bloodshed of revolution. Ousted from the imperial palace when the Bolsheviks seize control of the government, Anastasia and her family are exiled to Siberia. But even while the rebels debate...
Cleopatra's Moon
AuthorVicky Alvear Shecter
ISBN0545221307
This book utterly blew me away. The research that went into it was obviously extensive and i was so glad to see that it was so historically accurate. I've always been fascinated by Cleopatra and ancient Egypt, but i would often get frustrated when authors portray the great queen as a promiscuous sex symbol...
Goddess of Yesterday
AuthorCaroline B. Cooney
ISBN0440229308
At age six Anaxandra is taken by King Nicander to be a companion to his crippled daughter on the island of Siphnos. Anaxandra has adjusted to her new life when, six years later, Siphnos is sacked by pirates, and she is the sole survivor. When a fleet of ships stops on the island to investigate, she assumes...
Pandora Gets Lazy
AuthorCarolyn Hennesy
ISBN1599901986
Pandora is completely distraught after Hera kidnapped her beloved dog Dido, and can barely think about getting to the Atlas Mountains to capture the next evil, Laziness. But with the fate of the world still in her hands, Pandy can't afford to get lazy herself. Full of humor, sharp dialog and cinematic...
Lady Macbeth's Daughter
AuthorLisa M. Klein
ISBN1599903474
The daughter Macbeth might have had, if Shakespeare had thought to create her
Albia has grown up with no knowledge of her mother or her father, the powerful Macbeth. Instead she knows the dark lure of the Wychelm Wood and the moors, where she's been raised by three strange sisters. It's only when the...
The Queen's Daughter
AuthorSusan Coventry
ISBN0805089926
Joan's mother is Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, the most beautiful woman in the world. Her father is Henry II, the king of England and a renowned military leader. She loves them both, so what is she to do when she's forced to choose between them? As her parents' arguments grow ever more vicious, Joan begins...
Sovay
AuthorCelia Rees
ISBN1599902036
It's England, 1783. When the rich and beautiful Sovay isn't sitting for portraits, she's donning a man's cloak and robbing travelers—in broad daylight. But in a time when political allegiances between France and England are strained, a rogue bandit is not the only thing travelers fear. Spies abound,...
Inside the Walls of Troy: A Novel of the Women Who Lived the Trojan War
AuthorClemence McLaren
ISBN0689873972
Two women, one war.
Helen, at age twelve, is not prepared to deal with her famous beauty: to have the face that will launch a thousand ships, kill fifty thousand men, and cause the fall of the world's greatest city. But when she is kidnapped by Theseus of Athens, she begins her journey into womanhood...
Patience, Princess Catherine
AuthorCarolyn Meyer
ISBN0152054472
Will Catherine ever become queen?

England anxiously awaits Prince Arthur’s betrothed—the Spanish princess who will be its future queen. But when Arthur dies not long after the wedding, Catherine of Aragon’s fate becomes uncertain. Will the king and Catherine’s parents arrange...
The Stolen One
AuthorSuzanne Crowley
ISBN0061232009
No one wanted you. But I did. Kat's true identity is a secret, even from her. All she has ever known are Grace and Anna and their small village. Kat wants more than hours spent embroidering finery for wealthy ladies and more than Christian, the gentle young farmer courting her. But there are wolves outside,...
Warrior Princess
AuthorAllan Frewin Jones
ISBN0060871431
"you can be a warrior, if you choose to be."

It takes just a moment for fifteen-year-old Branwen's life to change forever. In the blink of an eye the Saxons attack and her brother is killed. Almost as quickly, she is sent away from her home to a neighboring stronghold where she'll be safe from harm....
Exile
AuthorAnne Osterlund
ISBN0142417394
Thoughts from the author (and Aurelia):


Exile began with Aurelia, of course.

She has always insisted on a sequel to her first book—at least as far back as I can recall.

Though, technically, I started typing the initial draft of Exile the weekend after my first submission...
Ithaka
AuthorAdèle Geras
ISBN0152056033
Many years have passed since the end of the Trojan War, and Penelope is still waiting for her husband, Odysseus, to return home. The city of Ithaka is overrun with uncouth suitors from the surrounding islands who are vying to win Penelope's hand in marriage, thereby gaining control of the land. When a...
The Princess and the Snowbird
AuthorMette Ivie Harrison
ISBN0061553174
She is the headstrong daughter of the hound and the bear, heir to all her royal parents' magic and able to transform at will into any animal she wishes.

He is an outcast, a boy without magic, determined to make his way in the forest beholden to no one.

Though Liva and Jens are as different...
Divine One
AuthorLynne Ewing
ISBN1423103432

Following the incredible success of "Daughters of the Moon," Lynne Ewing has created an all new fun and hip teen fantasy series.
Based in Egyptian mythology and set in modern-day Washington, D.C., Sisters of Isis follows the lives of Meri, Sudi, and Dalila, three fifteen-year-old girls who...
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