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Philippa Gregory · The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels #9
Mary Boleyn falls for Henry VIII — then watches her sister Anne steal him and the crown.
The #1 New York Times bestseller from “the queen of royal fiction” (USA TODAY) and the author of Boleyn Traitor Philippa Gregory is a rich, compelling novel of love, sex, ambition, and intrigue surrounding the Tudor court of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the infamous Boleyn family. When Mary Boleyn comes to court as an innocent girl of fourteen, she catches the eye of the handsome and charming Henry VIII. Dazzled by the king, Mary falls in love with both her golden prince and her growing role as unofficial queen. However, she soon realizes just how much she is a pawn in her family’s ambitious plots as the king’s interest begins to wane, and soon she is forced to step aside for her best friend and rival: her sister, Anne. With her own destiny suddenly unknown, Mary realizes that she must defy her family and take fate into her own hands. With more than one million copies in print and adapted for the big screen, The Other Boleyn Girl is a riveting historical drama. It brings to light a woman of extraordinary determination and desire who lived at the heart of the most exciting and glamorous court in Europe, and survived a treacherous political landscape by following her heart.

Sara Gruen
A Depression-era circus, a married equestrian star, and the young vet who falls for her against all odds.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid
A reclusive Hollywood icon finally tells the truth — including the one great love she could never make public.
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Diana Gabaldon · Outlander #1
A 1940s nurse slips through a standing stone into 1743 Scotland — and into the arms of a Highland warrior.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid
Two magnetic rock stars. One legendary band. The explosive love story the world was never supposed to know.
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Nicholas Sparks · The Notebook #1
A decade apart couldn't kill their love — but her upcoming wedding just might.
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Madeline Miller
Patroclus narrates his epic, doomed love for Achilles from boyhood to the walls of Troy.
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Erin Morgenstern
Two rival magicians are bound to compete in a deadly game — and fall in love inside a dreamlike night circus.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid
A reserved physicist joins NASA in 1980 and finds the stars — and an unexpected love — among the astronaut corps.
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Gabriel García Márquez
After 51 years of waiting, a man finally tells the widow he never stopped loving her.
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Sarah Waters
A thief sent to con a sheltered heiress into an asylum finds herself falling for her mark instead.
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Francine Rivers
A God-fearing man marries a broken prostitute and loves her unconditionally — even as she keeps running away.
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Paullina Simons · The Bronze Horseman #1
In besieged Leningrad, a Soviet soldier and a young woman fall into an impossible, devastating love.
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Colleen McCullough
A woman loves a priest across a lifetime — a bond as beautiful and doomed as a thorn bird's song.
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Laura Esquivel · Como agua para chocolate #1
Forbidden from marrying, Tita pours her love — and heartbreak — into food that enchants everyone who eats it.
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Julia Quinn · Bridgertons
A headstrong German princess falls for a king who keeps her at arm's length — and hides a world-altering secret.
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Kathleen Winsor
A penniless girl claws her way to become Charles II's mistress — but her heart belongs to a man she can never have.
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Colleen Hoover · It Ends with Us #1
Lily falls for a brilliant surgeon who hides a dangerous side — and her first love just walked back in.
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Annemarie Selinko
Napoleon's forgotten fiancée finds her heart — and a throne — after history sweeps her away from him.
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Amy Harmon
A grieving woman travels back to 1920s Ireland and falls for the doctor who mistakes her for someone else.
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Chanel Cleeton · The Perez Family #1
A Cuban-American woman scatters her grandmother's ashes in Havana — and uncovers a revolutionary love story.
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