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Eleanor Herman

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New York Times best-seller Eleanor Herman's new non-fiction book, The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul, is set to come out in June 2018. Think royal palaces were beautiful places to live? Think again!

Herman offers a rare combination of skills for a historian – her research is intensely scholarly, yet she writes the story in a colorful, witty manner. “History is so fascinating that it never has to be presented in a boring way,” she explains. “These were flesh and blood people, just like you and me, facing war and plague, falling in love, living among splendid art and gut-wrenching poverty. Sometimes people ask me if I plan to write novels. And I say, with all the things that really h ...more

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Average rating: 3.81 · 36,660 ratings · 5,452 reviews · 19 distinct works • Similar authors

	Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge 3.69 avg rating — 8,370 ratings — published 2004 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul 3.99 avg rating — 5,166 ratings — published 2018 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics 3.89 avg rating — 5,216 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Legacy of Kings (Blood of Gods and Royals, #1) 3.64 avg rating — 5,184 ratings — published 2015 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Off With Her Head: Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power 3.85 avg rating — 2,938 ratings — published 2022 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mistress of the Vatican: The True Story of Olimpia Maidalchini: The Secret Female Pope 3.95 avg rating — 1,785 ratings — published 2008 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sex with Presidents: The Ins and Outs of Love and Lust in the White House 3.79 avg rating — 1,858 ratings — published 2020 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Empire of Dust (Blood of Gods and Royals, #2) 3.84 avg rating — 1,558 ratings — published 2016 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reign of Serpents (Blood of Gods and Royals, #3) 3.84 avg rating — 781 ratings — published 2017 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Voice of Gods (Blood of Gods and Royals, #0.5) 3.82 avg rating — 536 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Chapter 2 of LEGACY OF KINGS!

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He is nothing but sweat and heat and movement. Sand sprays into his eyes as Hephaestion throws him to the ground, but he catches himself, grit digging into his palms. Alexander quickly flips himself upright. Sitting on bales of hay, their friends Telekles and Phrixos cheer loudly.
As the two boys circle each other in the round, sandy training pit, Alex watches Heph closely, the tightenin Read more of this blog post »

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Published on July 31, 2015 10:50 • Tags: alexander-the-great, eleanor-herman, historical-fiction, legacy-of-kings, ya-lit, young-adult-fiction

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“Weakness, he has learned, isn't in the arm or the leg or the back. Weakness is in the mind.”
― Eleanor Herman, Legacy of Kings

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“Questions are answered not when you want an answer but when the time for answers is right.”
― Eleanor Herman, Legacy of Kings

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“Because sometimes it doesn’t help to chase after the thing you want. No. Sometimes you have to wait, however long it takes, until what you want most comes to you.”
― Eleanor Herman, Legacy of Kings

tags: legacy-of-kings, love

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Time for the 2026 March/April Nonfiction book poll...

Poll will remain open until Feb 28th. Please vote for the nonfiction book you want to read. Thanks and good luck to all nominees.

Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home by Stephen Starring Grant

6 votes, 42.9%

Off With Her Head: Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power by Eleanor Herman

3 votes, 21.4%

We Were There, Too!: Young People in U.S. History by Phillip Hoose

3 votes, 21.4%

Mozart's Starling by Lyanda Lynn Haupt

2 votes, 14.3%

14 total votes

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