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• Lapvona

  Moshfegh, Ottessa,

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  In this bleak and gruesome novel, a peasant boy gets an introduction to civilization, such as it is, in the medieval village of Lapvona which is ruled by Villiam, who’s paranoid and cruel when he’s not inept. Moshfegh has a particular flair for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Good Wife of Bath

  a (mostly) True Story

  Brooks, Karen (Australian author),

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  In the middle ages, a famous poet told a story that mocked a strong woman. It became a literary classic. But what if the woman in question had a chance to tell her own version? Dramatic, suspenseful and thought-provoking.

• Matrix

  Groff, Lauren,

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  In this mystical and complex novel, 17-year-old Marie de France (born the last in a long line of women warriors) is cast out of the royal court and sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey where she vows to chart a bold new…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Abbot's Tale

  Iggulden, Conn

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  At the side of Alfred the Great in 973, priest Dunstan of Glastonbury helps guide England into a unified country. Richly detailed and engaging prose brings history into shining clarity.

• The Half-drowned King

  a Novel

  Hartsuyker, Linnea,

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  First book in the Golden Wolf saga! Surviving his stepfather's plot to have him killed during a raiding voyage, Ragnvald Eysteinsson vows to seek revenge and reclaim his stolen birthright. Meanwhile Ragnvald's sister Svanhild, faced with an arranged…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Pillars of the Earth

  Follett, Ken,

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  First in a series! Set in twelfth-century England, this dramatic epic with a large cast of kings and peasants juxtaposes the building of a magnificent church with the violence and treachery that often characterized the Middle Ages.

• The Siege Winter

  Franklin, Ariana,

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  A traumatized apprentice archer, disguised as a boy, and the young chatelaine of a strategically important fortress risk their lives to support the Empress Matilda's campaign for the throne of mid-12th-century England in this suspenseful novel.

• The Name of the Rose

  Eco, Umberto,

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  Atmospheric, dramatic and lyrical! In 1327, finding his sensitive mission at an Italian abbey further complicated by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William of Baskerville turns detective.

• 1356

  a Novel

  Cornwell, Bernard,

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  Bringing to life the violence, action and heroism of the battlefield, this brilliant recreation of the Battle of the Poitiers in 1356 follows a severely outnumbered English army as they, through the ingenious planning of Edward the Black Prince,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hild

  Griffith, Nicola,

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  Daughter of a poisoned prince and a crafty noblewoman, quiet, bright-minded Hild arrives at the court of King Edwin of Northumbria, where the six-year-old takes on the role of seer/consiglieri for a monarch troubled by shifting allegiances and Roman…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lady and the Unicorn

  Chevalier, Tracy

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  Historical fact alongside fiction! This lushly descriptive novel explores the mystery behind the creation of the remarkable Lady and the Unicorn tapestries, woven at the end of the fifteenth century, which today hang in the Cluny Museum in Paris.

• Death Comes as Epiphany

  Newman, Sharan,

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  Set in twelfth-century France, this atmospheric historical thriller is brimming with romance and intrigue! The story follows Catherine LeVendeur as she travels across the land tracking down evil priests, stolen jewels, and a heretical manuscript.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Princes of Ireland

  the Dublin Saga

  Rutherfurd, Edward,

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  An epic family saga and first in a series. This fictional account of the history of Ireland recreates such events as the mission of Saint Patrick, the Viking invasion, and the trickery of Henry II that led to England's establishment in Ireland.

• The Boy Bishop's Glovemaker

  Jecks, Michael

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  It's a medieval mystery! Sir Baldwin de Furnshill, Lady Jeanne, and Simon Puttock arrive in Exeter for the Christmas celebration, but upon their arrival they discover a murder victim and, as they search for the murderer, they uncover many…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Plague on Both Your Houses

  Gregory, Susanna, 1958-

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  Physician Matthew Bartholomew must find who has murdered a man and pinned him to a waterwheel while the Black Death begins to afflict the population of his town. First in a series of engaging medieval mysteries!

• The Skystone

  Whyte, Jack

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  This richly detailed first book in the Camulod chronicles explores the turbulent world of Roman-occupied Britain, as two Romans struggle to build lives in a land savaged by warring Picts, Celts, and invading Saxons.