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10 best books like Sand Daughter (Sarah Bryant): The Blank Slate Boarding House for Creatives, Powder Necklace, The Falcons of Montabard, Ironfire, Color of the Sea, The Twelve Children of Paris, Rome: The Emperor's Spy, Arabian Nights: The Marvels and Wonders of The Thousand and One Nights, Virgins of Venice: Broken Vows and Cloistered Lives in the Renaissance Convent, The Sixth

The Blank Slate Boarding House for Creatives
AuthorChaunce Stanton
ISBN1482580489
An epic battle between psychological manipulation and natural magic unfolds as Perjos, the world's greatest magician, returns to the Blank Slate Boarding House for Creatives to settle old scores. The house's newest servant, Emily Turner, must resist the magician's powers alone after her only friend...
Powder Necklace
AuthorNana Ekua Brew-Hammond
ISBN1439149119
To protect her daughter from the fast life and bad influences of London, her mother sent her to school in rural Ghana. The move was for the girl’s own good, in her mother’s mind, but for the daughter, the reality of being the new girl, the foreigner-among-your-own-people, was even worse than the idea....
The Falcons of Montabard
AuthorElizabeth Chadwick
Sabin FitzSimon, disgraced son of an earl, has the opportunity to rebuild his career and salvage his reputation when the knight Edmund Strongfist leaves for the Holy Land to offer his sword and services to the King of Jerusalem. He asks Sabin to join him. Sabin is warned to keep away from Strongfist's...
Ironfire
AuthorDavid Ball
ISBN0385336012
From the acclaimed author of Empires of Sand comes a mesmerizing new adventure that Jean Auel cites as “crowded with events that both forecast and mirror the conflicts of today.” Sweeping from the drawing rooms of Paris to the palace of Suleiman the Magnificent to the dark hold of a slave ship racing...
Color of the Sea
AuthorJohn Hamamura
ISBN0312340737
Growing up in a time between wars, Sam Hamada finds that the culture of his native Japan is never far from his heart. Sam is rapidly learning the code of the samurai in the late 1930s on the lush Hawaiian Islands, where he is slowly coming into his own as a son and a man.

But after Sam strikes out for...
The Twelve Children of Paris
AuthorTim Willocks
ISBN0224097458
Paris, August 23rd, 1572.

What do you do when your wife disappears?

In the middle of the bloodiest massacre in European history?

And you know she is about to give birth to your only child?

Three wars of religion have turned Paris into a foetid cauldron of hatred, intrigue...
Rome: The Emperor's Spy
AuthorM.C. Scott
ISBN0593055721
'Stop this fire, whatever it takes. I, your Emperor, order it.'

The Emperor: Nero, Emperor of Rome and all her provinces, feared by his subjects for his temper and cruelty, is in possession of an ancient document predicting that Rome will burn.

The Spy: Sebastos Pantera, assassin...
Arabian Nights: The Marvels and Wonders of The Thousand and One Nights
AuthorAnonymous
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780451525420

Bawdy and exotic, Arabian Nights, features the wily, seductive Scheherazade, who saves her own life by telling tales of magical transformations, genies and wishes, flying carpets and fantastical journeys, terror and passion to entertain...
Virgins of Venice: Broken Vows and Cloistered Lives in the Renaissance Convent
AuthorMary Laven
ISBN0142004014
Venice in the late Renaissance was a city of fabulous wealth, reckless creativity, and growing social unrest. It was also a city of walls and secrets, ghettos and cloisters. In this captivating book, Cambridge historian Mary Laven uncovers the long-hidden stories of the “Virgins of Venice” and...
The Sixth
AuthorAvery Hays
ISBN0985418249
Welcome to the gaslit, cobblestoned streets of Paris, 1910.

Florbela Sarmentos, 21, knows what she wants: art, romance, and to free her father from the prison of Portugal’s despotic King Manuel II. Born in Lisbon, educated in London and at a painting academy in Cherbourg, France, the cosmopolitan...
The Spirit Room
AuthorMarschel Paul
ISBN1600478476
FINALIST - HNS INDIE AWARD 2015 (Historical Novel Society)
FINALIST - CHAUCER AWARDS FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2013
HONORABLE MENTION - WRITER'S DIGEST SELF-PUBLISHED eBook AWARDS 2013

A captivating historical novel about two independent-minded sisters in Victorian era America

Set...
The Principessa
AuthorChristie Dickason
ISBN0007230397
Sumptuous, glorious evocation of Jacobean London and Renaissance Italy from the acclaimed author of The Firemaster’s Mistress.


Robert Cecil, Secretary of State to James I, has a problem. He owes a vast and secret debt to the Prince of La Spada, who is dying and has called in the loan –...
Secret Thunder
AuthorPatricia Ryan
ISBN0451407415
INVASION OF LOVE

Faithe of Hauekleah was as proud as she was passionate, as brave as she was beautiful. Though she ached for love after the death of her noble Saxon husband in war, she vowed that the Norman conqueror she now was forced to wed would never have her heart.

But Faithe had not...
The Samurai's Garden
AuthorPatricia Kiyono
Hiro Tanaka prepared for a life as a samurai warrior. But his world changed when Japan's feudal system was abolished by the Emperor. Now, he must find a new vocation. Disillusioned with fighting and violence, he travels alone, going north to the island of Hok-kaido. Many other samurai wander through...
Praying Mantis
AuthorAndré Brink
ISBN0099488949
In his early years, growing up on a Dutch farm in the deep interior of the southern African Cape, Cupido Cockroach became the greatest drinker, liar, fornicator and fighter of his region. Coming under the spell of a woman, the soap-boiler Anna, and the great Dr Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp of the London...
My Name is Not Angelica
AuthorScott O'Dell
ISBN0440403790
The planter who buys you will put you to work in his household or in the sugar-cane fields. In the fields, under the hot sun, slaves don't last long, perhaps a year. So show your white teeth, Raisha, smile a lot, and don't say anything unless you're asked.

Snatched from her home in Africa, sixteen-year-old...
Fela: This Bitch of a Life
AuthorCarlos Moore
ISBN1556528353
African superstar, composer, singer, and musician, as well as mystic and political activist, Nigerian Fela Kuti, born in 1938, was controversy personified. He was swept to international celebrity on a wave of scandal and flamboyance, and when he died of AIDS in 1997, more than a million people attended...
No Dark Place
AuthorJoan Wolf
ISBN0061097454
In the turbulent realm of Norman England, a young nobleman discovers that his identity is the link to an incredible mystery. Hugh Corbaille has just lost the person he cares for most in the world, his adoptive father, the Sheriff of Lincoln. While Hugh's grief is still raw, he is approached by a visiting...
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