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Name of Book: The Conqueror's Wife Author: Stephanie Thornton ISBN: 978-0-451-47200-7 Publisher: New American Library Type of book: 330 PME-322 PME, 308 PME, Macedonia, Alexander the Grat, wars, conquer, friendships, relationships, marriage, kingdom, India, Persia, insatiable greed, intrigue, murders, poisonings, Achilles and Patroclus relationships, Greece Year it was published: 2015 Summary: We are the women who loved Alexander the Great. We were lovers and murderers, innocents and soldiers. And without us, Alexander would have been only a man. Instead he was a god. 330s, B.C.E., Greece: Alexander, a handsome young warrior of Macedon, begins his quest to conquer the ancient world. But he cannot ascend to power, and keep it, without the women who help to shape his destiny. His spirited younger half-sister, Thessalonike, yearns to join her brother and see the world. Instead, it is Alexander's boyhood companion who rides with him into war while Thessalo...

Name of Book: The Tiger Queens; The Women of Genghis Khan Author: Stephanie Thornton ISBN: 978-0-451-41780-0 Publisher: New American Library Type of book: Genghis Khan, family, historical fiction, 1171-1248, conquerors, Mongolia, Asia, Europe, Muslim, friendship, relationships, romance, mother/daughter relationship Year it was published: 2014 Summary: In the late twelfth century, across the sweeping Mongolian grasslands, brilliant, charismatic Temujin ascends to power, declaring himself the Great, or Genghis, Khan. But it is the women who stand beside him who ensure his triumph.... After her mother foretells an ominous future for her, gifted Borte becomes an outsider within her clan. When she seeks comfort in the arms of aristocratic traveler Jamuka, she discovers he is the blood brother of Temujin, the man who agreed to marry her and then abandoned her long before they could wed. Temujin will return and make Borte his queen, yet it will take many women to saf...