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 | 
Any Human Heart
by William Boyd |
What is the true root of royal blood? A band of gold belonging to a young Viking prince is passed from generation to generation. Follow this convoluted, yet heroic, path to the making of one of history's greatest leaders.