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David Wadsworth Ball, born September 12, 1949, is an American author of several historical novels, as well as suspense and short stories.

History lies at the heart of every Steve Berry novel.
A founding member of International Thriller Writers, Steve Berry was born and raised in Georgia and for 30 years was a trial lawyer.

"As a child, former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone was told his father died in a submarine disaster in the North Atlantic, but now he wants the full story and asks his ex-boss, Stephanie Nelle, to secure the military files. What he learns stuns him: His father's sub was a secret nuclear vessel lost on a highly classified mission beneath the ice shelves of Antarctica.
But Malone isn't the only one after the truth.
As Malone embarks on a dangerous quest ... he will finally confront the shocking truth if his father's death and the distinct possibility of his own."

2008, Stated First Edition
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C. W. Gortner, half-Spanish by birth, holds an M.F.A. in writing, with an emphasis on historical studies, from the New College of California and has taught university courses on women of power in the Renaissance.
He was raised in Malaga, Spain and now lives in Northern California.

Philippa Gregory is a recognized authority on women's history. She studied history at the University of Sussex and received a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh.
A writer and broadcaster for radio and television, she lives in the north of England with her family.

A rich and compelling novel of love, sex, ambition, and intrigue, The Other Boleyn Girl introduces a woman of extraordinary determination and desire who lived at the heart of the most glamorous court in Europe and survived by following her heart.
When Mary Boleyn come to court as an innocent girl of fourteen, she catches the eye of Henry VIII. Dazzled, Mary falls in love with both her golden prince and her growing role as unofficial queen ...
... the king's interest begins to wane and she is forced to step aside for her best friend and rival: her sister, Anne.
... then Mary knows that she must defy her family and her king and take her fate into her own hands."

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The Kingmaker's Daughter - Philippa Gregory's first sister story since The Other Boleyn Girl - is the gripping tale of the daughters of the man known as the Kingmaker, Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: the most powerful magnate in fifteenth-century England. Without a son and heir, he uses his daughters, Anne and Isabel, as pawns in his political games, and they grow up to be influential players in their own right.
At the court of Edward IV and his beautiful queen, Elizabeth Woodville, Anne grows from a delightful child to become ever more fearful and desperate when her father makes war on his former friends. Married at age fourteen, she is soon left widowed and fatherless, her mother in a sanctuary and her sister married to the enemy. Anne manages her own escape by marrying Richard, Duke of Gloucester, but her choice will set he on a collision course with the overwhelming power of the royal family."

2013
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Two Women competing for a man's heart
Two queens fighting to the death for dominance
The untold story of Mary, Queen of Scots

"This dazzling novel presents a new and unique view of one of history's most intriguing, romantic, and maddening heroines. Biographers often neglect the captive years of Mary, Queen of Scots, who trusted Queen Elizabeth's promise of sanctuary when she fled from rebels in Scotland and then found herself imprisoned as the "guest" of George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, and his indomitable wife, Bess of Hardwick."

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The first of a new series set amid the deadly feuds of England known as the Wars of the Roses

"Brother turns on brother to win the ultimate prize, the throne of England, in this dazzling account of the wars of the Plantagenets. They are the claimants and kings who ruled England before the Tudors, and now Philippa Gregory brings them to life through the dramatic and intimate stories of the secret players: the indomitable women, starting with Elizabeth Woodville, the White Queen."

2009, First Edition
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Juliet Grey has extensively researched European royal history and is a particular devotee of Marie Antoinette. She is also a classically trained professional actress with numerous portrayals of virgins, vixens, and villainesses to her credit.

"Raised alongside her numerous brothers and sisters by the formidable empress of Austria, ten-year-old Maria Antonia knew that her idyllic existence would one day be sacrificed to her mother's political ambitions. What she never anticipated was that the day in question would come so soon. ...
But does she possess the ingenuity and influence it will take to become queen?"

This enthralling confection of a novel, the first in a new trilogy, follows the transformation of a coddled Austrian archduchess into the reckless, powerful, beautiful queen Marie Antoinette.

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Alice Hoffman is of Russian descent and was born March 16, 1952 in New York City. She is a novelist, as well as a young adult and children's writer, and is best known for her 1995 novel Practical Magic that was adapted into the 1998 movie of the same name.
She has written over 30 novels and also wrote the 1983 screenplay for the movie Independence Day.
She lives near Boston.

"Growing up on idyllic St. Thomas in the early 1800's, Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris. Rachel's mother, a pillar of their small refugee community of Jews who escaped the European Inquisition, has never forgiven her daughter for being a difficult girl who refuses to live by the rules.
But Rachel's life is not her own. To save her father's business, she is married off to a widower with three children. When her husband dies suddenly and his handsome, much younger nephew, Frederic, arrives from France to settle the estate, Rachel seizes her own life story, beginning a defiant, passionate love affair that sparks a scandal that affects her entire family. Including her favorite son, Camille (Pisarro) who will become one of the greatest artists of France."

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"Nearly two thousand years ago, nine hundred Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on Masada, a mountain in the Judean desert. According to the ancient historian Josephus, two women and five children survived. Based on this tragic and iconic event, Hoffman's novel is a spellbinding tale of four extraordinarily bold, resourceful, and sensuous women, each of whom has come to Masada by a different path."

"In her remarkable new novel, Alice Hoffman holds a mirror to our ancient past as she explores the contemporary themes of sexual desire, women's solidarity in the face of strife, and the magic that's quietly present in our day-to-day living."

2012
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Rosalind Miles, PH.D., is a well-known and critically acclaimed English novelist, essayist, and broadcaster. Her novels, which include the Guenevere trilogy and the Tristan and Isolde trilogy, have been international bestsellers.

"Publicaly declared a bastard at the age of three, daughter of a disgraced and executed mother, last in the line of succession to the throne of England, Elizabeth I inherited an England ravaged by bloody religious conflict, at war with Spain and France, and badly in debt. When she died in 1603, after a forty-five year reign, her empire spanned two continents and was united under one church, victorious in war, and blessed with an overflowing treasury. What's more, her favorites - William Shakespeare, Sir Francis Drake, and Sir Walter Raleigh - had made the Elizabethan era a cultural Golden Age still remembered today.
From the days of her brutal father, Henry VIII, to her final dying moments, Elizabeth tells her story in her own words."

1994, First U.S. Trade Paperback
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Edward Rutherfurd, the pen name of Francis Edward Wintle, was born in 1948 in Salisbury, England, and educated at Cambridge University. He is a master storyteller known for his epic historical novels whose sense of place and of character - whether fictional or historical - is at its most vibrant in The Forest.

"In The Forest, Edward Rutherfurd unfolds the saga of nine turbulent centuries in the life of the quintessential English heartland: the New Forest.
The New Forest lies in a vast bowl scooped from England's southrn coast. To its west runs the river Avon, from Sarum to the harbor at Christchurch, and to its east the port of Southampton. In the heart of the New Forest itself, some one hundred thousand acres of forest and heath sweep down to the Solent water and the Isle of Wight and overlook the English Channel just beyond.
From the time of the Norman Conquest to the present day, the New Forest has remained a mysterious, powerful, almost mythical place."

2000, Stated First Edition
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