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  • The Times Great Women's Lives

    A Celebration in Obituaries

    Edited by Sue Corbett ...
    This selection of Times obituaries from 1872 to 2014 revisits the lives of 125 women who have all, in their own way, played an important part in women's educational, professional, social, cultural and emotional journey over the best part of two centuries.The anthology starts with the obituary of 91-year-old pioneering mathematician and scientist Mary Somerville (d. 1872) and concludes with that of ... Read more

    $19.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Closer: Young Readers Edition

    by Mariano Rivera ...
    The legendary, record-breaking Hall of Fame pitcher tells his inspiring storyMariano Rivera never dreamed of becoming a professional athlete. He didn't grow up collecting baseball cards, playing Little League, or cheering on his home team at the World Series. He had never heard of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, or Mickey Mantle. One day, that all changed.From a childhood playing pickup games ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Last Newspaper Boy in America

    by Sue Corbett ...
    Big Heart + Big Brain = Funny, Feel Good Fiction!Wil?s sidearm throw can land a paper on your porch from twenty yards out. But he doesn?t know if he?ll be able to put his unusual talent to use because the big newspaper company has canceled delivery to Wil?s small town.Well, that was the paper?s first mistake. Underestimating Wil was the second. With physics, his clueless brother, and a neighbor ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Free Baseball

    by Sue Corbett ...
    Felix knows his dad was a famous baseball player in Cuba—and that his father risked everything to send Felix to America. But his mom won’t reveal anything else. When a baseball team with Cuban players comes to town, Felix wonders if they knew his dad and sneaks into their locker room to ask. That’s when the players mistake him for their new batboy. Determined to uncover the truth about his ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Throwing Strikes

    My Quest for Truth and the Perfect Knuckleball

    by R.A. Dickey, Sue Corbett, Wayne Coffey ...
    The inspiring story of the 2012 National League Cy Young Award WinnerAdapted for young readers from his New York Times bestselling memoir Wherever I Wind Up, this is the inspiring story of how knuckleballer R. A. Dickey became one of the game’s best pitchers. He had humble beginnings, and as a child kept a terrible secret. But at a local prep school, coaches saw talent in him and fostered his ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Flying V, The

    by Sue Corbett ...
    Narrated by Highlights for Children ...
    Series series Read With Highlights

    Unabridged

    5 min

    Highlights presents The Flying V by Sue Corbett. Quick thinking helps the Falcons win the game. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    A Tale of Chivalry, Passion, and Great Houses

    by Miller House Limited ...
    From the Chief Curator of the Historic Royal Palaces in England, a vivid and captivating portrait of a seventeenth-century nobleman, his household, and the dramatic decades surrounding the English Civil War.William Cavendish embodied the popular image of a cavalier. He was both courageous and cultured. His passions were architecture, horses, and women. And, along with the whole courtly world of ... Read more

    $17.19 USD

  • Royal Pains

    A Rogues' Gallery of Brats, Brutes, and Bad Seeds

    by Leslie Carroll ...
    The author of Notorious Royal Marriages presents some of history's boldest, baddest, and bawdiest royals.The bad seeds on the family trees of the most powerful royal houses of Europe often became the most rotten of apples: über-violent autocrats Vlad the Impaler and Ivan the Terrible literally reigned in blood. Lettice Knollys strove to mimic the appearance of her cousin Elizabeth I and even stole ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Matriarch

    Queen Mary and the House of Windsor

    by Anne Edwards ...
    The life of Princess May of Teck is one of the great Cinderella stories in history. From a family of impoverished nobility, she was chosen by Queen Victoria as the bride for her eldest grandson, the scandalous Duke of Clarence, heir to the throne, who died mysteriously before their marriage. Despite this setback, she became queen, mother of two kings, grandmother of the current queen, and a ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

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  • Kings and Queens - A Very Peculiar History

    by Antony Mason ...
    Series Book 12 - A Very Peculiar History
    Which king's guards massacred a group of his supporters by mistake? Who had an oversized tongue and had to slobber when they ate food? Who was so large when they died that they had to be buried in a square coffin? Who survived seven assassination attempts? As you can tell from the bizarre questions above, it wasn't all thrones and sceptres for British kings and queens. Some of them were completely ... Read more

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  • Serving Victoria

    Life in the Royal Household

    by Kate Hubbard ...
    “A vivid, entertaining and often comical portrait of life at court.” —Wall Street Journal“Compelling. . . . The rhythm of court life at Windsor or Balmoral is the backdrop to a rich human drama, a story of people existing in uneasy intimacy with the royal family.” — Daily Telegraph (London)Based on the letters and diaries of six members of Queen Victoria's household, Serving Victoria offers unique ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Royal Babylon

    The Alarming History of European Royalty

    by Karl Shaw ...
    An uproarious, eye-opening history of Europe's notorious royal houses that leaves no throne unturned and will make you glad you live in a democracy.Do you want to know which queen has the unique distinction of being the only known royal kleptomaniac? Or which empress kept her dirty underwear under lock and key? Or which czar, upon discovering his wife's infidelity, had her lover decapitated and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD