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Night
of Sorrows
Author: Frances Sherwood; Buy New: $22.46
Set at the twilight of the Aztec empire, April 1519
through The Night of
Sorrow, La Noche Triste, June 30, 1520, this novel tells the
engrossing
story about the Conquistador Cortes and the Aztec Princess
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Shadow
of the Lords
Author: Simon Levack
In 1517 The Aztec capital is awash with fears and rumors that
Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered Serpent, has returned. But Yaotl, the chief
minister's slave, has more to worry about, as he searches for his
missing son.
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Circle
of Stars
Author: Anna Lee Waldo Buy New: $7.50
A
good deal of this unusual novel takes place in North America (around
Mississippi) as the legendary Welsh explorer Madoc finds himself blown
across the Atlantic.
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The
Discovery of Chocolate
Author: James Runcie Buy New: $13.95
The year is 1518 and the discovery of chocolate in the New
World, and
its subsequent importation back to Europe, will have grave
consequences for one young conquistador.
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17th Century Americas
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Ariel
Author: Grace Tiffany; Buy New: $16.99
Retelling of Shakespeare's "The Tempest" starting
with Columbus's arrival in America.
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Jamestown
Woman
Author: Sue Allan;
Part of a trilogy about women in the New World.
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Dare
Author: Philip Jose Farmer
We now know what happened to the Lost Colonists of
Roanoke--They were abducted by aliens! Well, that's one less
mystery for us to ponder. BP
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Feathered
Serpent
Author: Colin Falconer Buy New: $11.86A novel of the Aztec woman
Malinali and the Conquistador
Cortes.
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Malinche
Author: Laura Esquivel Buy New: $17.21
The passionate and tragic love affair between the conquistador Hernan
Cortes and his interpreter, the Aztec woman, Malinalli.
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Ines
of My Soul
Author: Isabel Allende Buy New: $10.17
A novel of Dora Ines Suarez (1507-1580) the spirited conquistadora who
helped found the nation of Chile.
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Deepwater
Author: Pamela Neal Jekel
A family saga beginning with the founding of Roanoke Colony.
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Croatan
Author: Mary Johnston
The Lost Colony of Roanoke.
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Tall
Woman
Author: Harry S. Gibbons
The story of Virginia Dare, the first child
born to the Roanoke Colony.
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The
Rising Shore - Roanoke
Author: Deborah Homsher Buy New: $11.86
With the number of historical novelists writing
about the Roanoke Colony, it's a wonder it ever got lost! NH
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The
Last Witchfinder
Author: James Morrow Buy New: $10.85
The daughter of England's greatest witchfinder, disgusted by her
father's work and the horrendous suffering and death it brings to
countless women, vows to end the laws that permit these atrocities, even
though it consumes most of her life, takes her from England to America,
and even to court to stand trial as an accusd witch herself.
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Note: Definitely
pushing the definition of "medieval" here.. but until there
are more novels set in the Americas before 1600 AD.. better than
nothing. We are trying to keep these earlier than 1610.
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