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The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt
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3.66 avg rating — 7,803 ratings
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She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
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4.04 avg rating — 8,580 ratings
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The Life of Elizabeth I
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4.03 avg rating — 32,821 ratings
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Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt
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4.08 avg rating — 2,537 ratings
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Cleopatra's Daughter: From Roman Prisoner to African Queen
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3.78 avg rating — 801 ratings
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The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily
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3.93 avg rating — 1,851 ratings
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Isabella of Castile: Europe's First Great Queen
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4.13 avg rating — 657 ratings
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Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan
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3.82 avg rating — 859 ratings
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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
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3.94 avg rating — 108,441 ratings
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Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire
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3.77 avg rating — 784 ratings
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Cleopatra: A Life
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3.73 avg rating — 123,545 ratings
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Sisi: Empress on Her Own
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12,008 ratings
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Shirley Chisholm: Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics
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4.11 avg rating — 92 ratings
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From Splendor to Revolution: The Romanov Women, 1847--1928
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4.01 avg rating — 873 ratings
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Elizabeth, empress of Austria,
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4.06 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson
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3.81 avg rating — 1,488 ratings
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I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
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4.16 avg rating — 626,205 ratings
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The Shadow Queen
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3.96 avg rating — 1,191 ratings
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Empathy Economics: Janet Yellen’s Remarkable Rise to Power and Her Drive to Spread Prosperity to All
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3.84 avg rating — 117 ratings
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The Winter Crown (Eleanor of Aquitaine, #2)
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4.23 avg rating — 6,656 ratings
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Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power
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4.14 avg rating — 1,880 ratings
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Queen of Our Times: The Life of Queen Elizabeth II
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4.32 avg rating — 1,957 ratings
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The Summer Queen (Eleanor of Aquitaine, #1)
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4.13 avg rating — 11,667 ratings
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With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Black Community Activism
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3.86 avg rating — 171 ratings
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Castile for Isabella (Isabella and Ferdinand, #1)
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3.94 avg rating — 1,370 ratings
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Barbra Streisand: Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power
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3.65 avg rating — 177 ratings
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Matilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior
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4.20 avg rating — 950 ratings
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The Princess of Celle (Georgian Saga, #1)
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3.88 avg rating — 407 ratings
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Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood
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4.35 avg rating — 329 ratings
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The Empress Matilda: Queen Consort, Queen Mother and Lady of the English
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3.92 avg rating — 136 ratings
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The Widow of Windsor (Queen Victoria, #4)
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3.95 avg rating — 480 ratings
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Queen Emma and the Vikings: A History of Power, Love, and Greed in 11th-Century England
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3.81 avg rating — 819 ratings
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The Tigress of Forlì: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici
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4.07 avg rating — 2,884 ratings
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Murder Most Royal (Tudor Saga, #5)
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4.02 avg rating — 4,172 ratings
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Leading the Way: Women In Power
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Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England
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3.77 avg rating — 7,915 ratings
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The Three Crowns: The Story of William and Mary (Stuart Saga, #7)
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3.76 avg rating — 542 ratings
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Cleopatra and Antony: Power, Love, and Politics in the Ancient World
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4.05 avg rating — 875 ratings
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Victoria, The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire
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4.11 avg rating — 12,314 ratings
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Isabella of Castile: The First Renaissance Queen
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3.84 avg rating — 141 ratings
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Isabella: The Warrior Queen
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4.12 avg rating — 3,118 ratings
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You Wouldn't Want to Be Cleopatra!: An Egyptian Ruler You'd Rather Not Be
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3.93 avg rating — 252 ratings
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Cleopatra Rules!: The Amazing Life of the Original Teen Queen
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3.61 avg rating — 246 ratings
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In the Shadow of the Empress: The Defiant Lives of Maria Theresa, Mother of Marie Antoinette, and Her Daughters
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4.19 avg rating — 1,315 ratings
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The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt
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4.02 avg rating — 476 ratings
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Maria Theresa: The Habsburg Empress in Her Time
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4.33 avg rating — 139 ratings
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Isabella Warrior Queen
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Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power
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Uncrowned Queen: The Treacherous Life of Margaret Beaufort, Tudor Rebel
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4.16 avg rating — 1,050 ratings
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The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World
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4.08 avg rating — 5,149 ratings
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Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
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3.93 avg rating — 16,721 ratings
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Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Biography
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4.08 avg rating — 1,404 ratings
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Cleopatra: The Queen Who Challenged Rome and Conquered Eternity
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3.85 avg rating — 1,580 ratings
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Boudica: Iron Age Warrior Queen
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The Life and Times of Elizabeth I (Life and Times Series)
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3.76 avg rating — 113 ratings
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Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality
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Behind the Mask: The Life of Queen Elizabeth I
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3.86 avg rating — 228 ratings
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Founder, Fighter, Saxon Queen: Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians
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3.50 avg rating — 113 ratings
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Wu: The Chinese Empress Who Schemed, Seduced and Murdered Her Way to Become a Living God
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3.79 avg rating — 356 ratings
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Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
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3.92 avg rating — 10,756 ratings
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Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
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3.81 avg rating — 6,175 ratings
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Women Leaders of China: Soong May-Ling, Jiang Qing, Wu Zetian, Empress Dowager CIXI, Princess Taiping, Empress Lu Zhi, Empress Dowager Hu
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Great Catherine: The Life of Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia
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3.84 avg rating — 1,415 ratings
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An Angry Drum Echoed: Mary Musgrove, Queen of the Creeks
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4.05 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire
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3.93 avg rating — 4,731 ratings
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Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World
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3.82 avg rating — 5,158 ratings
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Margaret of York: The Diabolical Duchess
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The Rival Queens: Catherine de' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal that Ignited a Kingdom
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3.95 avg rating — 3,319 ratings
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Joan of Arc: A History
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The Sultan and the Queen: The Untold Story of Elizabeth and Islam
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The Maid and the Queen: The Secret History of Joan of Arc
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Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations
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Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured
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Defending the City of God: A Medieval Queen, the First Crusades, and the Quest for Peace in Jerusalem
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Agrippina: Empress, Exile, Hustler, Whore
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4.20 avg rating — 3,053 ratings
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Sea Queens: Women Pirates Around the World
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Agrippina: Sex, Power, and Politics in the Early Empire
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3.95 avg rating — 141 ratings
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The Maid and the Queen: The Secret History of Joan of Arc
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3.84 avg rating — 1,405 ratings
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Domina: The Women Who Made Imperial Rome
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Heretic Queen: Queen Elizabeth I and the Wars of Religion
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3.54 avg rating — 510 ratings
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Messalina: Empress, Adulteress, Libertine: The Story of the Most Notorious Woman of the Roman World
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3.97 avg rating — 972 ratings
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Victoria: The Heart and Mind of a Young Queen
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Victoria The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire
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4.11 avg rating — 12,314 ratings
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Mary Queen of Scots
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Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch
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3.88 avg rating — 29,223 ratings
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Queens of the Conquest (England's Medieval Queens, #1)
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The Life and Times of Victoria
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Njinga of Angola: Africa’s Warrior Queen
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Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne
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The Crown: The Official Companion, Volume 1: Elizabeth II, Winston Churchill, and the Making of a Young Queen (1947-1955)
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4.05 avg rating — 3,355 ratings
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Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France
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Daughters of the Winter Queen: Four Remarkable Sisters, the Crown of Bohemia, and the Enduring Legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots
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4.07 avg rating — 2,543 ratings
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Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe
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4.01 avg rating — 1,645 ratings
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Empress Zenobia: Palmyra's Rebel Queen
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Phoolan Devi, Rebel Queen
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The Young Victoria
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Theodora: Actress, Empress, Saint
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Boudica: The Life and Legends of Britain's Warrior Queen
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In Search of Amrit Kaur: A Lost Princess and Her Vanished World
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