One for the Books: Monarchs — imagined and real — featured in library’s Royalty Reads challenge – Chicago Tribune

Hear ye! Hear ye! From clever queens to dashing dukes, explore the ins and outs of the royal court with enchanting tales of faraway kingdoms, real and imagined, with this Amazing Book Challenge category: Royal Reads.

Here are some of the books Naperville Public Library has available to borrow. To see the full list of recommendations and the other categories in the challenge, go to www.naperville-lib.org/ABC .

“I was Anatasia” by Ariel Lawhon

In 1918, Bolshevik secret police forced Anastasia Romanov and her imperial family into a damp basement to face a merciless firing squad. None survive. At least that is what the executioners have always claimed. But two years later, a young woman bearing an uncanny resemblance to Anastasia Romanov is pulled shivering from a canal. The questions swi