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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Catherine the Great	Miriam Kochan	A biography of the German princess who became the absolute ruler of the Russian empire and won for herself the reputation of a great enlightened monarch.	OL131001W
Catherine the Great	Robert K. Massie	The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure young Ger…	OL15936526W
Sex with the queen	Eleanor Herman	Explores the sexual lives of some of the most beloved and infamous female rulers, including Catherine the Great, Marie Antoinette, and the bastion of virtue, Queen Victoria.	OL16026840W
Agrippina	Shirin Yim Bridges	Details the life of Agrippina the Younger, explores the customs of her time period, and discusses the empress' fierce reputation and whether it was deserved.	OL16699528W
The Dragon and the Pearl	Jeannie Lin	"Former Emperor's consort Ling Suyin was renowned for her beauty: the ultimate seductress. Now she lives quietly alone - until the most ruthless warlord in the region comes and steals her away. Li Ta…	OL17427268W
Forest of a Thousand Lanterns (Rise of the Empress)	Julie C. Dao,Scheherezade Surià	Eighteen-year-old Xifeng is beautiful. The stars say she is destined for greatness, that she is meant to be Empress of Feng Lu. But only if she embraces the darkness within her. Growing up as a peasa…	OL19564073W
Empress	Ruby Lal	"In 1611, thirty-four-year-old Nur Jahan, daughter of a Persian noble and widow of a subversive official, became the twentieth and most cherished wife of the Emperor Jahangir. While other wives were …	OL19748072W
The Scorpion's Empress	Yoshiyuki Ly	After years of serving a corrupt government, Ser Videl, an idealistic paladin, learns that her younger sister is tangled in a dark scheme against Raj Mangala, the compassionate yet troubled empress o…	OL20234213W
Lady of the English	Elizabeth Chadwick	Queen Adeliza is married to a warrior who supports Stephen, grandson of the Conqueror, while her stepdaughter, Empress Matilda, will let no one, not even Stephen himself, stand in the way of her inhe…	OL22073125W
The last empress	Anchee Min	At the end of the nineteenth century China is rocked by foreign attacks and local rebellions. The only constant is the power wielded by one woman, Tzu Hsi, also known as Empress Orchid, who must face…	OL24277866W
Wrush	Karakul	A young girl who is confined to a wheelchair receives a magical pen and is able to draw herself into the enchanted world of Wrush where she will become the empress. A magical adventure ensues.	OL24309291W
Da Ming xian hou	Haiying Zhang	她,是仁慈,善良,俭朴,爱民的一代贤后;她敢于在明太祖施行暴政时进行劝谏,保全了许多忠臣良将的性命;她善待后宮嫔妃,不为娘家谋私利开创了明朝后宮和外戚不干政的风气.她就是明朝开国皇帝朱元璋的结发妻子马秀英--马皇后.	OL33202437W
The Last Empress	Anchee Min	Empress Orchid, a small-town woman rises to power through sexual seduction and even murder to become Empress of China. This book chronicles Orchid's rule as she raises two sons to be emperors and con…	OL37491W
The Dragon Empress	Marina Warner	I have not read it but based in my reading of her first novel,"In a dark wood" she is very learned about Chinese Art and Art History.Also about the Jesuits connection to China. So this book must…	OL482103W
Eugenie and Napoleon III	Duff, David	This is another of those relatively harmless books dedicated to transforming history into sentimental, soft-core porn. David Duff (author of Victoria and Albert among other works) promises at the out…	OL5638997W
The Hidden Stars	Madeline Howard	More than a century ago, the cataclysmic struggle between the wizards and the mages ended in their mutual destruction -- leveling great cities and reducing grand palaces to dust. From the vast gravey…	OL5733702W
The Empress of farewells	Prince of Greece Michael,Prince Michael of Greece,Michel Prince of Greece	"The lives of Europe's royalty in the nineteenth century were as full of drama and incident as any opera. In The Empress of Farewells, royal historian Prince Michael of Greece tells with intimacy and…	OL582977W
Two Years in the Forbidden City	Princess Der Ling	From the book:MY father and mother, Lord and Lady Yu Keng, and family, together with our suite consisting of the First Secretary, Second Secretary, Naval and Military Attaches, Chancellors, their fam…	OL6457459W
Five empresses	E. V. Anisimov	From the untimely demise of the 52-year-old Peter the Great in 1725 to nearly the end of that century, the fate of the Russian empire would rest largely in the hands of five tsarinas. In this vivid, …	OL702774W
Livia	Anthony A. Barrett	"Livia (58 B.C. - A.D. 29) - wife of the first Roman emperor, Augustus, and mother of the second, Tiberius - wielded power at the center of Roman politics for most of her long life. Livia has been po…	OL8270609W