The King's Rose
10 best books like The King's Rose (Alisa M. Libby): Anastasia's Secret, Cate of the Lost Colony, The Queen's Daughter, A Golden Web, The Stolen One, A Lady Raised High: A Novel of Anne Boleyn, A Sweet Disorder, The Bad Queen: Rules and Instructions for Marie-Antoinette, The Queen's Soprano, At the King's Pleasure
| Author | Susanne Dunlap |
| ISBN | 1599904209 |
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...
| Author | Lisa M. Klein |
| ISBN | 1599905078 |
Lady Catherine is one of Queen Elizabeth's favorite court maidens until her forbidden romance with Sir Walter Ralegh is discovered. In a bitter twist of irony, the jealous queen banishes Cate to Ralegh's colony of Roanoke, in the New World. Ralegh pledges to come for Cate, but as the months stretch out,...
| Author | Susan Coventry |
| ISBN | 0805089926 |
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...
| Author | Barbara Quick |
| ISBN | 0061448877 |
Alessandra is desperate to escape.
Desperate to escape her stepmother, who's locked her away for a year; to escape the cloister that awaits her and the marriage plans that have been made for her; to escape the expectations that limit her and every other girl in fourteenth-century Italy. There's...
| Author | Suzanne Crowley |
| ISBN | 0061232009 |
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,...
| Author | Laurien Gardner |
| ISBN | 0515140899 |
A Lady Raised High is the story of Frances Pierce, Anne Boleyn’s first maid-of-honour; loyal and faithful to her until the queen’s tragic end.
Frances‘father was a baronet in Hertfordshire and her mother, a French baron’s daughter. The family pretty much ran their own estate and...
| Author | Jacqueline Kolosov |
| ISBN | 1423112458 |
Sixteen-year old Miranda has no idea how much her life is going to change upon hearing the news of her father's death. Left with little dowry to offer, Miranda faces a broken engagement, and is sent to live with her father's cousin, the Count John Hardwood, and his wife whose primary goal is to take her to...
| Author | Carolyn Meyer |
| ISBN | 0152063765 |
History paints her as a shallow party girl, a spoiled fashionista, a callous ruler. Perhaps no other royal has been so maligned and so misunderstood as Marie-Antoinette.
From the moment she was betrothed to the dauphin of France at age fourteen, perfection was demanded of Marie-Antoinette....
| Author | Carol Dines |
| ISBN | 0152054774 |
Seventeen-year-old Angelica Voglia has the voice of an angel. But in seventeenth-century Rome, the pope has forbidden women to sing in public. To make matters worse, her controlling mother is determined to marry her off to a wealthy nobleman, even though Angelica is in love with a poor French artist....
| Author | Kate Emerson |
| ISBN | 1439177821 |
The fourth novel in Kate Emerson’s well-reviewed series set in Tudor England—based on a real life member of the royal court of Henry VIII.
Following the acclaimed By Royal Decree, Pleasure Palace, and Between Two Queens, Kate Emerson again plucks a real figure from history in this lushly...
| Author | Diane Haeger |
| ISBN | 0451232208 |
From the author of The Queen's Mistake comes the untold story of King Henry VIII's first well-known mistress.
As the beautiful daughter of courtiers, Elizabeth "Bessie" Blount is overjoyed when she secures a position as maid of honor to Katherine of Aragon. But when she captures the attention...
| Author | Henning Mankell |
| ISBN | 0385734964 |
Reviewed by Christina Tsichlis for TeensReadToo.com
SHADOWS IN THE TWILIGHT by Henning Mankell is written using the distinctive voice of the main character, Joel. This is a companion book to A BRIDGE TO THE STARS.
This is a story that asks philosophical questions and does it in a way...
| Author | Sabine Durrant |
| ISBN | 0060854790 |
Love, money, friendship . . . and incredibly uncomfortable underwear ? All these eternal mysteries are small challenges to Constance de Bellechasse. Too bad the glamorous inner persona of Constance comes through only as plain old Connie Pickles in everyday life.
Connie's first order of...
| Author | Catherine Banner |
| ISBN | 0375838775 |
Asking for the truth can be as painful as telling it. . . .
Anselm Andros has clearly defined roles in his family and they are roles he plays very well—he is confidante to his mother, Maria. He is the confessor to his stepfather, Leo, a man haunted by the secrets of his past. And Anselm is also the...
| Author | Jason Hightman |
| ISBN | 0060540168 |
Dragons. They masquerade as their victims, unrecognizable to all but a select few. In the West, Simon St. George and his father are the last living descendants of a legendary clan of dragon hunters. In the Far East, fierce Samurai warriors are bound by an oath to defeat the dragons. Now, faced with an apocalyptic...
| Author | Gillian Summers |
| ISBN | 0738713325 |
After squelching an evil plot by a rotten fairy, Keelie Heartwood is ready for fun at the upcoming Wildewood Renaissance Faire. Getting to know her elf dad has been great, but camping out in his homemade RV while acting out the 16th century isn't so fab. Keelie prefers hot showers and wearing a watch, thankyouverymuch....
| Author | Ford Madox Ford |
| ISBN | 0307744914 |
Now back in print, Ford's highly acclaimed portrait of Henry VIII's controversial fifth Queen
This masterful performance of historical fiction centers on Katharine Howard--clever, beautiful, and outspoken--who catches the jaded eye of Henry VIII and becomes his fifth Queen. Corruption...
| Author | Robert Spiller |
| ISBN | 1932815724 |
This book suffered from a couple of marketing faults and one snag by the author that made it less popular than it has the potential to be. First off is the name, the name The Witch of Agnesi conjures up a paranormal tale of sorcery to most people. I suppose if you are a mathematician then it would conjure up...
Vengeance Is Mine: A Novel Of Anne Boleyn, Katherine Howard, And Lady Rochford The Woman Who Helped Destroy Them Both
| Author | Brandy Purdy |
| ISBN | 0595481248 |
There was room for only one woman in George Boleyn's heart: his sister, the mercurial and fascinating Anne Boleyn, who was destined to change history and wear a crown. To his adoring wife, Lady Jane Rochford, he was cold and indifferent.
When Anne failed to give Henry VIII the son she had promised...
No Will But His: A Novel of Kathryn Howard
| Author | Sarah A. Hoyt |
| ISBN | 0425232514 |
The author who "masterfully builds a dramatic story" presents another gripping novel of the women of Tudor England.
As the bereft, orphaned cousin to the ill-fated Anne Boleyn, Katherine Howard knows better than many the danger of being favored by the King. But she is a Howard, and therefore...
| Author | Margaret Irwin |
| ISBN | 0749003898 |
In this, the second of Margaret Irwin's great trilogy about the life of 'Good Queen Bess', Elizabeth I, the imperious, high spirited heroine of Young Bess finds herself the prey of her sister Mary's jealous suspicions. The death of her young brother, Edward IV; the accession of Bloody Mary; the execution...
An explosion in a nuclear power plant.
Kids patched up with scavenged body parts and bionic implants.
A growing army of superhuman soldiers programmed for destruction.
"No," whispered Cameron to the monster in the glass. And he watched it shaking its hideous head. "That's not me....
