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Princess Garnet '13 Reads

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Princess Garnet '13 Reads

Post by princess garnet » Mon January 7th, 2013, 4:56 pm

January
Lavinia by Ursula Le Guin
Dreamspinner by Lynn Kurland
The Queen's Daughter by Susan Coventry (YA)
The Missing Manuscript of Jane Austen by Syrie James
Italian Woman by Jean Plaidy
Jane and the Madness of Lord Byron by Stephanie Barron (Jane Austen Mystery #10)
Jane and the Canterbury Tale by Stephanie Barron (Jane Austen Mystery #11)
A Dangerous Inheritance by Alison Weir
Daemon Prism by Carol Berg (#3 in the Collegia Magica trilogy)

February
Frederick: Local and National Crossroads by Chris Heidenrich (NF)
The Forgotten Queen by DL Bogdan
Theft of Swords (1st in "Riyria Revelations" trilogy) by Michael J. Sullivan
Boston Miscellany by William P. Marchione (NF)
God's Battalions by Rodney Stark (NF)
Chocolate: A Global History by Sarah Moss & Alexander Badenoch (NF)
Frederick County Chronicles by Marie Ann Erickson (NF)
Rise of Empire by Michael J. Sullivan (#2 "Riyria Revelations")
Chocolate by Mort Rosenblum (NF)
Death in the Floating City by Tasha Alexander (#7 Lady Emily mysteries)
Heir of Novron by Michael Sullivan (final & #3 "Riyria Revelations")
Lucrezia Borgia by Sarah Bradford (NF)
Mistress of My Fate by Hallie Rubenhold

March
Chicago's Loop: Then & Now by Janice Knox (NF)
Lithuanian Chicago by Justin Riskus (NF)
Lady of Ashes by Christine Trent
The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier
The Iron King by Maurice Druon
Bosnian Chronicle by Ivo Andric
The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andric
Queen Jezebel by Jean Plaidy

April
Maryland Women in the Civil War by Claudia Floyd (NF)
It Happened in Maryland by Judy Colbert (NF)
Mid-Maryland by Michael A. Powell & Bruce A. Thompson, eds. (NF)
The Ninth Daughter by Barbara Hamilton
Crown of Thorns by Stephane Groueff (NF)
Anne Frank's Family by Mirjam Pressler (NF)
Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker by Jennifer Chiaverini
Then & Now: Harpers Ferry by Dolly Nasby (NF)
Circling the Savannah by Tom Mack (NF)
Beacon Hill, Back Bay, & the Building of Boston's Golden Age by Ted Clarke (NF)
State Street: One Brick at a Time by Robert P. Ledermann (NF)
Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln by Stephen Carter
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey by the Countess of Carnarvon (NF)
Marshall Field's by Gayle Soucek (NF)

May
Mid-Maryland History by Barbara Powell & Michael Powell, eds. (NF)
While We were Watching Downton Abbey by Wendy Wax
Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers Don George, ed. (NF)
Hidden History of Aiken County by Tom Mack (NF)
Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Avenue by Sharon F. Jones (NF)
The Last Princess by Galaxy Craze (teen read)
Jewels by Victoria Finlay (NF)
The Runaway Princess by Hester Browne
Hidden History of Civil War Charleston by Margaret M.R. Eastman (NF)
Chesapeake Legends & Lore from the War of 1812 by Ralph Eshelman and Scott Sheads (NF)
Catoctin Furnace by Elizabeth Anderson (NF)
The Red Knight by Miles Cameron
Shopping, Seduction, and Mr. Selfridge by Lindy Woodhead (NF)
The Potomac River by Garrett Peck (NF)

June
Queen Jezebel by Jean Plaidy (reread)
Civil War Maryland by Richard P. Cox (NF)
Charleston's Old Exchange Building by Ruth M. Miller & Ann T. Andrus (NF)
The North End by Alex Goldfield (NF)
Civil War Atlanta by Robert S. Davis (NF)
Andover in the Civil War by Joan S. Patrakis (NF)
Maryland Wine by Regina Mc Carthy (NF)

July
The Plan of Chicago by Carl Smith (NF)
Frederick Douglass in Washington, DC by John Muller (NF)
Godiva by Nicole Galland
The Queen's Vow by CW Gortner
Chicago by Dominic Pacyga (NF, reread)
Blood & Beauty by Sarah Dunant
The Age of Ice by J.M. Sidorova
The White Princess by Philippa Gregory

August
The Secret History by Stephanie Thornton
Lost Washington, DC by John DeFerrari (NF)
Las Vegas by Thomas Ainlay, Jr. and Judy D. Gabaldon (NF)
The Living Wood by Louis de Wohl
The Last Crusader by Louis de Wohl
Frederick in the Civil War by John W. Schildt (NF)

September
Mysteries & Lore of Western Maryland by Susan Fair (NF)
The Crown Tower by Michael J. Sullivan (Riyria Chronicles #1 )
Vanished Kingdoms by Norman Davies (NF)
Death in the Floating City by Tasha Alexander (reread, see Feb.)
The Rose & the Thorn by Michael J. Sullivan (Riyria Chronicles #2)
Formation of Christendom by Christopher Dawson (NF)
Once Upon a Prince by Rachel Hauck
The Dividing of Christendom by Christopher Dawson (NF)

October
Confessions of Marie-Antoinette by Juliet Grey
King Breaker by Rowena Corey Daniells (#4, 'King Rolen's Kin Chronicles')
Williamsburg: A City that History Made by Timothy E. Morgan (NF)
Practicing History by Barbara Tuchman (NF)
The Serpent and the Pearl by Kate Quinn
Urban Legends & Historic Lore of Washington, DC by Robert Pohl (NF)

Girl of Fire and Thorns trilogy
Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson (YA read)
The Crown of Embers by Rae Carson (YA read)

November
A History of the Baltic States by Andres Kasekamp (NF)
Behind the Scenes at Downton Abbey by Emma Rowley (NF)
The Princess in the Opal Mask by Jenny Lindquist (YA read)
Woodward & Lothrop: A Store Worthy of the Nation's Capitol by Michael J. Kisicky (NF)
Lady Catherine, the Earl, and the Real Downton Abbey by the Countess of Carnarvon (NF)
A Rose for Virtue by Norah Lofts
Historic Restaurants of Washington, DC by John De Ferrari (NF)
Frederick County Characters by John Ashbury (NF)
I Am Abraham Lincoln by Jerome Charyn (ARC)
The Strangled Queen by Maurice Druon

December
Snow White & the Huntsman by Lily Blake (YA read)
Queen Anne by Anne Somerset (NF)
Tudor by Leanda de Lisle (NF)
Daughters of the Nile by Stephanie Dray (#3 and final on Cleopatra Selene)
Anne Frank by Melissa Muller (NF)
A Guide to Civil War Washington, DC by Lucinda P. Janke (NF)
Princess of the Silver Woods by Jessica Day George (YA read)
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