Lords of the White Castle by Elizabeth Chadwick When Prince John accuses Fulke FitzWarin, a young courtier, of cheating at chess, the royal household is thrown into terrible turmoil, sparking a rivalry that could prevent the FitzWarin family from reclaiming their rightful estate.

The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier This story interweaves historical fact with fiction to explore the mystery behind the creation of the remarkable Lady and the Unicorn tapestries, woven at the end of the 15th century, which today hang in the Cluny Museum in Paris.

Into the Wilderness by Sara Donati When Elizabeth Middle-ton, 29 years old and unmarried, leaves her Aunt Merriweather's comfortable English estate to join her father and brother in the remote mountain village of Paradise on the edge of the New York wilderness, she does so with a strong will and an unwavering purpose: to teach school. It is 1792 when she arrives in a cold climate unlike any she has ever experienced. And she meets Nathaniel Bonner, also known to the Mohawk people as “Between Two Lives.”

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon In Scotland with her husband on a second honeymoon after World War II, Claire enters a circle of stones and is transported back to the Battle of Culloden 200 years earlier, where she must marry a Scot to save her husband.

The Autobiography of Henry VIII by Margaret George This is Henry's story from his own perspective. We are given an intimate view of how it must have felt for Henry to grow up under the influence of a dour father and a frail, distant mother. When he becomes king, we watch as his exuberant, trusting nature slowly turns sinister and cruel. Interspersed with Henry's words are comments by his fool, Will.

The Innocent by Posie Graeme-Evans Anne is a young peasant girl in medieval Britain, whose ability to heal others with her knowledge of herbs brings her to the attention of young King Edward IV, and has unexpected results when she becomes a member of his household.

To Dance With Kings by Rosalind Laker The descendants of a fan maker from a village near Versailles are hired by the courts of Louis XIV, XV and XVI, and the family's fortunes slowly rise through the French Revolution.

The Rose Without a Thorn

by Jean Plaidy Catherine Howard becomes lady-in-waiting to Anne of Cleaves and enjoys being near Thomas Culpepper, but when Henry VIII decides to marry her, she has to give up her plans to marry Culpepper.