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Author Edghill, India, author.

Title Game of queens : a novel of Vashti and Esther / India Edghill.

Publication Info. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2015.
Edition First edition.

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Location Call Number Status
 North Haven Adult Fiction   Fiction Edghill    AVAILABLE
 Westbrook Adult Fiction   F EDG    AVAILABLE
Description xii, 386 pages ; 25 cm
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Media unmediated
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Summary The story of power and treachery, blood and deception, bravery and romance that surrounds the court of Ahasuerus and two of the most celebrated female heroines in all of history"-- Provided by publisher.
Vashti, Queen of Queens, the most beautiful woman in all the empire, defied the king her husband and so lost her crown. Ahasuerus, King of Kings, commanded that the most beautiful maidens be sent to his court so he might choose a new queen. He set the queen's crown upon the head of the virtuous and beautiful Esther, and Queen Esther herself defied both king and law to save her people from a treacherous fate. A story of power and treachery, blood and deception, bravery and romance that surrounds the court of Ahasuerus.
Subject Vashti, Queen of Persia -- Fiction.
Esther, Queen of Persia -- Fiction.
Bible. Old Testament -- History of Biblical events -- Fiction.
Women in the Bible -- Fiction.
Queens -- Fiction.
Genre Bible fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
ISBN 9780312338930
0312338937