Victoria
by Evelyn Anthony | 
Orphan Train
by Christina Baker Kline | 
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Michael Chabon | 
The Invention of Wings
by Sue Monk Kidd | 
Year of Wonders
by Geraldine Brooks | 
The Storyteller
by Jodi Picoult | 
Viking Tales
by Jennie Hall | 
Let the Great World Spin
by Colum McCann | 
The Autobiography of Henry VIII
by Margaret George | 
Sarum
by Edward Rutherfurd | 
Rules of Civility
by Amor Towles | 
One Thousand White Women
by Jim Fergus | 
The Lacuna
by Barbara Kingsolver | 
The Marriage of Opposites
by Alice Hoffman | 
London
by Edward Rutherfurd | 
Of Love and Other Demons
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez | 
The Son
by Philipp Meyer | 
Remarkable Creatures
by Tracy Chevalier | 
The Memoirs of Cleopatra
by Margaret George | 
Tall Chimneys
by Allie Cresswell |
Set against the intrigue and pageantry of the sixteenth-century English court, Evelyn Anthony'??s novel tells the love story of Henry Tudor and Anne Boleyn, who would become his wife, his queen, and the mother of one of Britain'??s greatest monarchs On a lovely midsummer afternoon, Henry Tudor rides to Hever Castle. There, he feasts his eyes on Anne Boleyn, who caught his roving attention at court a few months earlier. Anne is in no mood to receive her king. He has torn from her the one man she loved: Harry Percy, who was forced to marry another. But King Henry VIII is not a man who gives up'??the thrill of the chase only excites him more. Yet the woman he desires so passionately is no fool. Educated at the French court, Anne vows that she will not share the fate of her naïve younger sister, Mary, who after bearing Henry a bastard son was cast away and married off to a country squire. No, Anne will settle for nothing less than the crown of England, even if Henry has to break with Rome in order to marry her. History comes thrillingly alive in a novel that features a teeming canvas of iconic real-life characters: Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, the enemy Anne vows to destroy; Henry'??s first wife, the proud and pious Queen Catherine of Aragon; and Thomas Cromwell, who engineers Anne'??s downfall. From the halcyon early days of courtship to her imprisonment in the palace tower for treason, this is a tale of love, ambition, and the tragic destiny of Anne of the Thousand Days.