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  • The Tudor Tutor

    Your Cheeky Guide to the Dynasty

    From the bloody Wars of the Roses to Queen Elizabeth I’s iconic rule, the Tudor Dynasty was a period of sex, scandal, and intrigue. Monarchs such as Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth I have become a part of modern pop culture, resulting in endless parodies, satires, rumors, and urban legends that grace our television screens. But like all urban legends and parodies, facts surrounding the lives of ... Read more

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  • Thwarted Queen

    Award-winning author of "Farewell My Life" writes a saga about the Yorks, Lancasters & Nevilles, whose family feud inspired "Game of Thrones."When Robert Baratheon died suddenly after a boar hunt, he left two young sons and an alarming wife.When Edward IV, King of England, died suddenly after a fishing trip in April 1483, he left two young sons, a dangerous wife, and war broke out, the Yorks ... Read more

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  • The Presidents

    Noted Historians Rank America's Best--and Worst--Chief Executives

    The complete rankings of our best -- and worst -- presidents, based on C-SPAN's much-cited Historians Surveys of Presidential Leadership.Over a period of decades, C-SPAN has surveyed leading historians on the best and worst of America's presidents across a variety of categories -- their ability to persuade the public, their leadership skills, their moral authority, and more. The crucible of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Scourge of Henry VIII

    The Life of Marie de Guise

    by Melanie Clegg ...
    The little-known story of the mother of Mary, Queen of Scots and her feud with the Tudors: "Will fascinate anyone who loves a simmering, twisting tale" ( All About History).Mary, Queen of Scots continues to intrigue both historians and the general public—but the story of her mother, Marie de Guise, is much less well known. A political power in her own right, she was born into the powerful and ... Read more

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  • American Witches

    A Broomstick Tour through Four Centuries

    by Susan Fair ...
    The history of American witches is way weirder than you ever imagined. From bewitched pigs hell-bent on revenge to gruesome twentieth-century murders, American Witches reveals strange incidents of witchcraft that have long been swept under the rug as bizarre sidenotes to history.On a tour through history that’s both whimsical and startling, we’ll encounter seventeenth-century children flying ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Life at the Dakota

    New York's Most Unusual Address

    A history of the Manhattan building and its famous tenants, from Lauren Bacall to John Lennon, by the New York Times–bestselling author of "Our Crowd".When Singer sewing machine tycoon Edward Clark built a luxury apartment building on Manhattan's Upper West Side in the late 1800s, it was derisively dubbed "the Dakota" for being as far from the center of the downtown action as its namesake ... Read more

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  • Pickett's Charge

    A New Look at Gettysburg's Final Attack

    Main Selection of the History Book ClubThe Battle of Gettysburg, the Civil War’s turning point, produced over 57,000 casualties, the largest number from the entire war that was itself America’s bloodiest conflict. On the third day of fierce fighting, Robert E. Lee’s attempt to invade the North came to a head in Pickett’s Charge. The infantry assault, consisting of nine brigades of soldiers in a ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Guardian of Mercy

    How an Extraordinary Painting by Caravaggio Changed an Ordinary Life Today

    by Terence Ward ...
    Now celebrated as one of the great painters of the Renaissance, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio fled Rome in 1606 to escape retribution for killing a man in a brawl. Three years later he was in Naples, where he painted The Seven Acts of Mercy. A year later he died at the age of thirty-eight under mysterious circumstances. Exploring Caravaggio's singular masterwork, in The Guardian of Shadows and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Beethoven's Skull

    Dark, Strange, and Fascinating Tales from the World of Classical Music and Beyond

    by Tim Rayborn ...
    Beethoven’s Skull is an unusual and often humorous survey of the many strange happenings in the history of Western classical music. Proving that good music and shocking tabloid-style stories make excellent bedfellows, it presents tales of revenge, murder, curious accidents, and strange fates that span more than two thousand years. Highlights include:A cursed song that kills those who hear itA ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Corsets and Codpieces

    A History of Outrageous Fashion, from Roman Times to the Modern Era

    by Karen Bowman ...
    Have you ever wondered why we wear the type of clothes we do? Packed with outlandish outfits, this exciting history of fashion trends reveals the flamboyant fashions adopted (and discarded) by our ancestors.In the days before cosmetic surgery, people used bum rolls and bombastic breeches to augment their figures, painted their faces with poisonous concoctions, and doused themselves with scent to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Thyme and Place

    Medieval Feasts and Recipes for the Modern Table

    Revive your inner period cook and master the art of gode cookery with thirty-five recipes celebrating festivals throughout the year!Fancy a leap back in time to the kitchens in the Middle Ages, where cauldrons bubbled over hearths, whole oxen were roasted over spits, and common cooking ingredients included verjuice, barley, peafowl, frumenty, and elder flowers? You, too, can learn the art of gode ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Red Roses

    Blanche of Gaunt to Margaret Beaufort

    by Amy Licence ...
    The Wars of the Roses were not just fought by men on the battlefield. Behind the scenes, there were daughters, wives, mistresses, mothers and queens whose lives and influences helped shape the most dramatic of English conflicts.This book traces the story of women on the Lancastrian side, from the children borne by Blanche, wife of John of Gaunt, through the turbulent fifteenth century to the ... Read more

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