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The white queen is the first book in philippa gregorys cousins war series about the war of the roses. A best book of the year so far from esquire, refinery 29, and financial times the queen of the night joins tipping the velvet and the crimson petal and the white as the rare historical novel in which the setting may be old, but the writing makes everything feel brand new. The queen of the night, by alexander chee the new york. War has been ravaging throughout the land over who is the rightful king of england.
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