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Captain from Castile

Samuel Shellabarger

A young Spaniard joins Cortés's expedition, entering the ambitions and violence surrounding the sixteenth-century capture of Mexico City.

Historical fiction

Lord Vanity

Samuel Shellabarger

Eighteenth-century Venice provides the world of Shellabarger's historical novel, inviting readers into lives shaped by the city's society and fortunes.

Historical fiction

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Prince of Foxes

Samuel Shellabarger

Renaissance intrigue links Venice with the Borgia world, giving Shellabarger's historical fiction a setting of ambition, power and shifting allegiance.

Literary fiction

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