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  • Shakespeare's Christmas

    The Festive Season in Early Modern England

    by Andrew Hubert von Staufer ...
    Series series Literary Christmas
    Christmas in Shakespeare's day was an extravagant festival that included a long season of merrymaking, feasting and, most important of all, masques and plays.Shakespeare's Christmas is a delightful glimpse into an Elizabethan Christmas, comprising little-known stories – such as the time Elizabeth I interrupted Shakespeare's performance by walking across the stage and dropping a glove at his feet – ... Read more

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  • The Brontës' Christmas

    The Festive Season in Victorian England

    Edited by Maria Hubert ...
    Series series Literary Christmas
    The Brontës' Christmas invites you to step back in time and explore the delights of a Victorian Christmas through the eyes of our most beloved authors.While the Brontë family's celebrations weren't the most exuberant, Victorian society cheerfully embraced the newfound idea of Christmas as a time for feasts, decorations, the exchanging of gifts and parlour games.Through a selection of seasonal ... Read more

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  • Jane Austen's Christmas

    The Festive Season in Georgian England

    Edited by Maria Hubert ...
    Series series Literary Christmas
    'I wish you a Merry Xmas but no compliments of the season' – Jane AustenChristmas comes up time and time again in Jane Austen's books, from childish chaos in Persuasion to fraught festivities in Northanger Abbey. Join Christmas historian Maria Hubert on a delightful meander through Georgian Christmases both fact and fiction.Eavesdrop on Austen family letters, immerse yourself in prose, drama and ... Read more

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  • A Wartime Christmas

    Edited by Maria Hubert, Andrew Hubert von Staufer, Andrew Hubert von Staufer ...
    For those who lived through wartime Christmases, the celebrations during those years had an especially poignant flavour. This unique anthology recreates those times of heartache and brief moments of pleasurable escape and happiness.Share with wartime veterans and their families memories of Christmas under fire; read about the gift of a pig for POWs' dinner from the Japanese emperor and how Glenn ... Read more

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  • The Great British Christmas

    Edited by Maria Hubert ...
    A delightful history of how Christmas has been celebrated in Britain over the past 2,000 years. From the legend of Arthur pulling the sword from the stone one Christmas day, to when the Puritan Parliament tried to 'ban' Christmas, through to Charles Dickens's vivid recollections of his boyhood celebrations, and his delight in the present of a jumping frog. Amongst the wealth of stories and ... Read more

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  • The Daughters of George III

    Sisters & Princesses

    by Catherine Curzon ...
    An in-depth look into the lives of the six daughters of King George III of England.In the dying years of the 18th century, the corridors of Windsor echoed to the footsteps of six princesses. They were Charlotte, Augusta, Elizabeth, Mary, Sophia, and Amelia, the daughters of King George III and Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Though more than fifteen years divided the births of the eldest ... Read more

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  • Another Kind of Madness

    A Journey Through the Stigma and Hope of Mental Illness

    by Stephen P. Hinshaw ...
    A deeply personal memoir of a family's struggle with bipolar disorder, calling for an end to the dark shaming of mental illness.Winner, Best Autobiography/Memoir, 2018 Best Book Awards, sponsored by American Book Fest"This heartfelt memoir shares insights into the effects of mental illness on all involved." — BooklistFamilies are riddled with untold secrets. But Stephen Hinshaw never imagin... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Grandes Dames

    by Stephen Birmingham ...
    The acclaimed social historian provides an in-depth look at eight society women who shaped upper class culture from the Gilded Age to WWII.Astor. Rockefeller. McCormick. Belmont. Family names that still adorn buildings, streets, and charity foundations. While their men blazed across America with their oil, industry, and railways, the matriarchs founded art museums, opera houses, and symphonies ... Read more

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  • Moguls

    The Lives and Times of Hollywood Film Pioneers Nicholas and Joseph Schenck

    by Michael Benson, Craig Singer ...
    The incredible true story of the most powerful brothers in Hollywood history—an wildly entertaining saga studded with glamorous stars, scandals, mobsters, murders, and one legendary blond bombshell. . . .They were the Godfathers of the Movies. Groundbreaking pioneers of the Hollywood Dream Factory, Joseph and Nicholas Schenck may not have been household names like the Warner brothers or Louis B. ... Read more

    $17.19 USD

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  • House of Tudor

    A Grisly History

    by Mickey Mayhew ...
    Forty-five gruesome but not gratuitous accounts from the Tudor reign, including the death of Richard III and the botched execution of Mary Queen of Scots.This decidedly darker take on the Tudors, from 1485 to 1603, covers a whole host of horrors from the Tudor reign. Particular attention is paid to the various gruesome ways in which the Tudors despatched their various villains and lawbreakers, ... Read more

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  • The Lioness

    by Gigi Griffis ...
    The king killed the love of her life—and she's going to make him pay.Step into this epic revenge tale a la The Count of Monte Cristo**, based on the true story of France's most notorious lady pirate. By the author of** The Empress**—as seen on Netflix.**It's 1343 and Jeanne de Clisson is out for revenge.At forty-three, her perfect life—a loving husband, three young childre... ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • The Girl and the Sword

    A Novel of Medieval History

    by Gerald Weaver ...
    First she changed England. Then she changed the world.For all fifteen years of her life, Pauline de Pamiers has witnessed an attack on her family, friends, and faith. It’s the early thirteenth century and the Pope and King of France are conducting a Crusade against the Cathars; the only crusade on European soil and against another Christian sect. As a member of this sect in France that sits ... Read more

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