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Recommended for 9-12 Grade & Adult

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical | Mystery

Topic
Heirs | Murder | Mystery
Main Character
Girl(s)
Format
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Lost Heir, The

Author: Henty, G. A.

Screen Shot 2016-08-03 at 10.13.49 AMA child, the heir to the fortune of a wealthy Indian Army officer, disappears. The general has died leaving a will in favor of the child, but, in the case of the child’s death, of the rogue, Sanderson who poses as John Simcoe. At length, after many intrigues and adventures, Sanderson is exposed as the murderer of the General and forger of his Will, and the child is found.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 9-12 Grade & Adult

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Early Modern
Date
1700s
Topic
Choices | Heirs | Outcasts
Geographic Region
Europe | France
Main Character
Man/Men
Format
Book | Ebook

Executioner’s Heir: A Novel of Eighteenth-Century France

Author: Alleyn, Susanne

Charles-Henri Sanson has good looks, a fine education, and plenty of money: everything, in fact, that a stylish young Parisian could ask for. He also has an infamous family name—and he’s trapped in a hideous job that no one wants.

The last thing Charles ever wanted to be was a hangman. But he’s the eldest son of Paris’s most dreaded public official, and in the 1750s, after centuries of superstition, people like him are outcasts. He knows that the executioner’s son must become an executioner himself or starve, for all doors are closed to him; although he loathes the role and would much rather study medicine, society’s fears and prejudices will never let him be anything else. And when disaster strikes, family duty demands that Charles take his father’s place much sooner than he had ever imagined.

Miles outside Paris, high-spirited François de La Barre is the carefree teenager who Charles would like to have been, instead of the somber public servant, bound by the Sansons’ motto of duty and honor, who carries out brutal justice in the king’s name. François proves, though, in the elegant, treacherous world of prerevolutionary France, to have a dangerous gift for making enemies . . . and when at last their paths converge, in this true story of destiny and conflicting loyalties, Charles must make a horrifying choice.

“Alleyn’s exhaustive research pays off handsomely in well-drawn characters and colorful historical context. … A well-researched, robust tale featuring an endearing executioner.” (Kirkus Reviews)

“Charles’s personal crisis and clashing loyalties evoke Greek tragedy, and speak to the issues that will resonate with readers.” (Publishers Weekly, starred review)

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 9-12 Grade & Adult

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Middle Ages
Date
1300s
Topic
Harem Girl | Heirs | Rivals | Sultan(s)
Geographic Region
Europe | Spain
Main Character
Woman/Women
Format
Book | Ebook

Sultana: Two Sisters (A Novel of Moorish Spain) (Sultana #3)

Author: Yarde, Lisa J.Part of a Series: Sultana

In fourteenth-century Spain, former friends vie for a man’s heart and the future of his kingdom. Both women are captives sold into the harem of Sultan Yusuf I of Moorish Granada.

A young girl with a hidden heritage, Esperanza Peralta, forges a new identity as Butayna and becomes the mother of Yusuf’s firstborn son. The Jewess Miriam Alubel takes the name Maryam and also bears Yusuf several children, including two sons.

The clash between former friends is inevitable, as each finds diverging paths in a dizzying rise to power beside their husband. Both remain aware of the struggle ahead of them, for only one heir may inherit Yusuf’s throne and only one woman can claim the revered title of Mother of the Sultan.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 9-12 Grade and Adult

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Ancient Egypt
Topic
Egypt | Egyptian Mythology | Heirs | Romance
Geographic Region
Africa | Egypt
Main Character
Woman/Women
Format
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Sekhmet Bed (The She-King #1)

Author: Hawker, Libbie | Ironside, L.M.Part of a Series: She-King

Queen Ahmose knows her duty: to give the Pharaoh a son. But she is young, and has just watched her closest friend die in childbirth. If the Pharaoh plants his seed in her she will die the same way, in a pool of blood, surrounded by wailing women. She has her husband’s love, but a king must have an heir…and even the Pharaoh’s patience will run out. Meanwhile, a lesser queen – Ahmose’s own sister – has given him three sweet, bright children, all of them boys. Ahmose knows her grasp on the Pharaoh’s heart is loosening.

Desperate, she begs the gods for courage to become a mother. They give her more than courage: she is granted a vision of a shining prince, her son – a gift for Egypt who will bring glory to the land. He will be more than the son of a king. He will be the son of the god Amun.

But when the child arrives, it’s a girl.

Ahmose knows the vision was not wrong. Her daughter Hatshepsut has a male soul, and Amun intends the girl to rule. But the Pharaoh will not scandalize Egypt by proclaiming a female successor. If she cannot convince the Pharaoh to accept Hatshepsut as his heir, everything Ahmose loves will be destroyed. ~Stephanie Dray, author of the critically acclaimed Lily of the Nile

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 9-12 Grade & Adult

Genre/Category
Biographies | History | Nonfiction

Historical Time Period
Medieval | Tudor Era in England
Date
1500s
Topic
British Literature | Court Intrigue | Heirs | King Henry VIII | Kings and Queens
Geographic Region
England | Europe
Main Character
Children
Format
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Children of Henry VIII

Author: Guy, John

Behind the facade of politics and pageantry at the Tudor court, there was a family drama.
Nothing drove Henry VIII, England’s wealthiest and most powerful king, more than producing a legitimate male heir and so perpetuating his dynasty. To that end, he married six wives, became the subject of the most notorious divorce case of the sixteenth century, and broke with the pope, all in an age of international competition and warfare, social unrest and growing religious intolerance and discord.
Henry fathered four living children, each by a different mother. Their interrelationships were often scarred by jealously, mutual distrust, sibling rivalry, even hatred. Possessed of quick wits and strong wills, their characters were defined partly by the educations they received, and partly by events over which they had no control.
Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond, although recognized as the king’s son, could never forget his illegitimacy. Edward died while still in his teens, desperately plotting to exclude his half-sisters from the throne. Mary’s world was shattered by her mother’s divorce and her own unhappy marriage. Elizabeth was the most successful, but also the luckiest. Even so, she lived with the knowledge that her father had ordered her mother’s execution, was often in fear of her own life, and could never marry the one man she truly loved.
Henry’s children idolized their father, even if they differed radically over how to perpetuate his legacy. To tell their stories, John Guy returns to the archives, drawing on a vast array of contemporary records, personal letters, and first-hand accounts.

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Recommended for 9-12 Grade & Adult

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Rennaisance | Tudor Era in England
Date
1500s
Topic
Court Intrigue | Heirs | King Edward VI | Kings and Queens
Geographic Region
England | Europe
Main Character
Woman/Women
Format
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Her Highness, the Traitor

Author: Higginbotham, Susan

As Henry VIII draws his last breath, two very different women, Jane Dudley, Viscountess Lisle, and Frances Grey, Marchioness of Dorset, face the prospect of a boy king, Edward VI.

For Jane Dudley, basking in the affection of her large family, the coming of a new king means another step upward for her ambitious, able husband, John. For Frances Grey, increasingly alienated from her husband and her brilliant but arrogant daughter Lady Jane, it means that she—and the Lady Jane—are one step closer to the throne of England.

Then the young king falls deathly ill. Determined to keep England under Protestant rule, he concocts an audacious scheme that subverts his own father’s will. Suddenly, Jane Dudley and Frances Grey are reluctantly bound together in a common cause—one that will test their loyalties, their strength, and their faith, and that will change their lives beyond measure.

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Recommended for 9-12 Grade & Adult

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Reformation | Rennaisance
Date
1500s
Topic
British Literature | Heirs | King Henry VIII | Kings and Queens | Marriage and Divorce
Geographic Region
England | Europe
Main Character
Man/Men
Award-Winning Book
Man Booker Prize | Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Shortlist | Other Awards
Format
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Wolf Hall: A Novel

Author: Mantel, Hilary

England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe opposes him. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 4-7 Grade

Genre/Category
Fiction

Historical Time Period
Medieval | Middle Ages
Date
1100's
Topic
Abbys | Courage | Forgiveness | Heirs | Love
Geographic Region
England | Europe
Main Character
Boy(s)
Award-Winning Book
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award
Format
Book

Red Falcons Of Tremoine (Living History Library)

Author: Peart, HendryPart of a Series: Living History Library

Leo is an orphan being raised in an abbey in the days of King Richard the Lionhearted. He knows nothing of his parentage and has little hope for a future outside the familiar but sometimes restrictive monastery walls. Abbot Michael alone knows Leo s story and family line and unexpectedly, when the heir to the house of Wardlock is killed in the Crusades, he sets in motion events in which Leo will need every scrap of wisdom and endurance. For he is not only heir to Wardlock, but also to its rival – the house of Tremoine! Vividly set in the pious but turbulent England of the twelfth-century this authentic and stirring tale of suffering and courage shows a boy who – to claim his heritage – must first see it transformed by the power of love and forgiveness. Recommended in Seton Home Study Grade 6 Author: Hendry Peart Format: Paperback Publisher: Ignatius Press

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 6-12 Grade

Genre/Category
Adventure | Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Modern
Date
1800s
Topic
Falsely Accused | Gold | Heirs | Journey | Native Americans/Canadians | Sailing the seas
Geographic Region
California | England | United States - America
Main Character
Man/Men
Format
Book | Ebook | Free Ebook

Captain Bayley’s Heir – A Tale of the Gold Fields of California

Author: Henty, G. A.

A frank, manly lad and his cousin are rivals in the heirship of a considerable property. The former falls into a trap laid by the latter, and while under a false accusation of theft foolishly leaves England for America. He works his passage before the mast, joins a small band of hunters, crosses a tract of country infested with Indians to the California gold diggings, and is successful both as digger and trader.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 7-12 Grade

Genre/Category
Adventure | Fiction | Historical

Topic
Heirs | Jewelry | Mystery
Geographic Region
England | Europe | India
Main Character
Boy(s)
Format
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Colonel Thorndyke’s Secret

Author: Henty, G. A.

The story of a valuable bracelet, of diamonds, stolen from a Hindoo idol by a British soldier in India. This bracelet becomes the possession of Colonel Thorndyke. A little later he is wounded and returns home to England. The secret of the bracelet is told to the Colonel’s brother, a country squire, and the treasure is left to younger members of the Thorndyke family.

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