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  • Marie Antoinette's Confidante

    The Rise and Fall of the Princesse de Lamballe

    de Geri Walton ...
    The true story of the woman who befriended the last queen of France—and the price she paid for her devotion.Perhaps no one knew Marie Antoinette better than one of her closest confidantes, Marie Thérèse, the Princess de Lamballe. The princess became superintendent of the queen's household in 1774, and through her relationship with Marie Antoinette, she gained a unique perspective of the lavishness ... Leer más

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  • Jane Austen's Cousin

    The Outlandish Countess de Feuillide

    de Geri Walton ...
    Discover the real story behind the French countess who inspired several fictional characters create by her cousin, celebrated novelist Jane Austen.Eliza de Feuillide seemed fascinating and outlandish to her cousins in rural eighteen century England. When she visited their village, her appearance was electrifying. She was an attractive, accomplished French countess with a vivacious personality who ... Leer más

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  • Madame Tussaud

    Her Life and Legacy

    de Geri Walton ...
    A "meticulously researched and deftly written biography" of the woman behind the famed wax museums, and their origins in the era of the French Revolution ( Midwest Book Review).Madame Marie Tussaud is known worldwide for the chain of wax museums she started over two hundred years ago. Less known is that her original wax models were often of the famous and infamous people she personally knew during ... Leer más

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  • Napoleon's Downfall

    Madame Récamier and Her Battle with the Emperor

    de Geri Walton ...
    An account of the wealthy socialite who opposed the French emperor and found herself exiled from Paris—from the author of Marie Antoinette's Confidante.Napoleon Bonaparte and Juliette Récamier were both highly influential and well-known in France, yet they were often at odds with each other. Their story played out on the European stage during a period of political upheaval and new political ideas. ... Leer más

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  • A People's History of the Civil War

    Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom

    de David Williams ...
    "Does for the Civil War period what Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States did for the study of American history in general." — Library JournalHistorian David Williams has written the first account of the American Civil War as viewed though the eyes of ordinary people—foot soldiers, slaves, women, prisoners of war, draft resisters, Native Americans, and others. Richly illustrated ... Leer más

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  • When Women Ruled the World

    Six Queens of Egypt

    de Kara Cooney ...
    This riveting narrative explores the lives of six remarkable female pharaohs, from Hatshepsut to Cleopatra--women who ruled with real power--and shines a piercing light on our own perceptions of women in power today.Female rulers are a rare phenomenon--but thousands of years ago in ancient Egypt, women reigned supreme. Regularly, repeatedly, and with impunity, queens like Hatshepsut, Nefertiti, ... Leer más

    $28.00 USD

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  • Book Row

    An Anecdotal and Pictorial History of the Antiquarian Book Trade

    de Marvin Mondlin, Roy Meador ...
    The American Story of the Bookstores on Fourth Avenue from the 1890s to the 1960sNew York City has eight million stories, and this one unfolds just south of Fourteenth Street in Manhattan, on the seven blocks of Fourth Avenue bracketed by Union Square and Astor Place. There, for nearly eight decades from the 1890s to the 1960s, thrived the New York Booksellers’ Row, or Book Row.This richly ... Leer más

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  • Beautiful

    The Life of Hedy Lamarr

    de Stephen Michael Shearer ...
    "A fascinating biography that re-creates Hollywood's Golden Age of Glamour" as it recounts the life of the star and inventor ( Publishers Weekly).Hedy Lamarr's exotic beauty was heralded across Europe in the early 1930s. Yet she became infamous for her nude scenes in the scandalous movie Ecstasy. Trapped in a marriage to one of Austria's munitions barons, a friend of Mussolini's who hid his Jewish ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Grit in the Pearl

    The Scandalous Life of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll (The shocking true story behind A Very British Scandal, starring Claire Foy and Paul Bettany)

    de Lyndsy Spence ...
    The shocking true story behind A Very British Scandal, starring Claire Foy and Paul Bettany Margaret, Duchess of Argyll's life was one of complexity and controversy. Born Ethel Margaret Whigham, the only child of a Scottish self-made millionaire and a beautiful high-society woman, her childhood was rich and splendid – but empty. She was a daddy's girl with an absent father, living with a jealous ... Leer más

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  • Fortune's Child

    A Novel of Empress Theodora

    de James Conroyd Martin ...
    Series Libro 1 - The Theodora Duology
    GRAND PRIZE 2019 Best Book, Chanticleer International Book Awards"A meticulously researched historical account presented in the form of a thrilling political drama." ~KIRKUS REVIEWS“Amazing history—I felt like I was there.” —Lisa Wingate, bestselling author of Before We Were YoursTheodora: actress, prostitute, mistress. And Byzantine Empress of the civilized world.S... ... Leer más

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  • Scourge of Henry VIII

    The Life of Marie de Guise

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Kings of Georgian Britain

    de Catherine Curzon ...
    This royal historian's "lively study of the four Georges who sat on the English throne for over a century is a joy" (Jane Austen's Regency World).For over one hundred years of turmoil, upheaval, and scandal, Great Britain was a Georgian land. From the day the German-speaking George I stepped off the boat from Hanover to the night that George IV, bloated and diseased, breathed his last at Windsor, ... Leer más

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