The Twelve Caesars

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As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, the scholar Suetonius had access to the imperial archives and used them (along with eyewitness accounts) to produce one of the most colourful biographical works in history. "The Twelve Caesars" chronicles the public careers and private lives of the men who wielded absolute power over Rome, from the foundation of the empire under Julius Caesar and Augustus, to the decline into depravity and civil war under Nero and the rec... More >>

The Twelve Caesars

Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor

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He found Rome made of clay and left it made of marble. As Rome’s first emperor, Augustus transformed the unruly Republic into the greatest empire the world had ever seen. His consolidation and expansion of Roman power two thousand years ago laid the foundations, for all of Western history to follow. Yet, despite Augustus’s accomplishments, very few biographers have concentrated on the man himself, instead choosing to chronicle the age in which he lived. Here, An... More >>

Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor

Apologia Pro Vita Sua

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John Henry Newman's conversion to Roman Catholicism rocked the Church of England to its foundation and escalated the spread of virulent anti-Catholicism in Victorian England.. In this book, Apologia pro Vita Sua, John Henry Newman, in order to defend himself from charges of insincerity, outlines the history of his spiritual development, from his beginnings as a liberal thinker, to his conversion to the Evangelical wing of the Church of England, to his ordination as ... More >>

Apologia Pro Vita Sua

The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and The Gospel of Wealth

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Here is the enlightening memoir of the industrialist as famous for his philanthropy as for his fortune.... More >>

The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and The Gospel of Wealth

A Simple Girl: Stories My Grandmother Told Me

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Edith Flagg is truly an inspiration to all. A Simple Girl tells the life story of a woman who survived the unimaginable and fulfilled the American Dream. Flagg was born in a small town in Romania in 1919. Having traveled to Vienna to go to fashion school at the young age of 15, she watched Hitler march into Austria and decided at that moment she would not let him decide her fate. Flagg fled Austria to Holland, where she became an active member of the Dutch Undergro... More >>

A Simple Girl: Stories My Grandmother Told Me

Black Like Me, 2nd edition

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This American classic has been corrected from the original manuscripts and indexed, featuring historic photographs and an extensive biographical afterword.... More >>

Black Like Me, 2nd edition

The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America

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This book is the story of how three brilliant scholars and one ambitious freshman crossed paths in the early sixties at a Harvard-sponsored psychedelic-drug research project, transforming their lives and American culture and launching the mind/body/spirit movement that inspired the explosion of yoga classes, organic produce, and alternative medicine. The four men came together in a time of upheaval and experimentation, and their exploration of an expanded conscio... More >>

The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America

AGS ILLUSTRATED CLASSICS: THE STORY OF MY LIFE BOOK

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Students with lower reading abilities can enjoy some of the most important literature of our culture.Amazon.com Review
Helen Keller would not be bound by conditions. Rendered deaf and blind at 19 months by scarlet fever, she learned to read (in several languages) and even speak, eventually graduating with honors from Radcliffe College in 1904, where as a student she wrote The Story of My Life. That she accomplished all of this in an age when few women... More >>

AGS ILLUSTRATED CLASSICS: THE STORY OF MY LIFE BOOK

Young Men and Fire

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On August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen of the United States Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of these men were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths for forty years, Norman Maclean puts back together the scattered pieces of the Mann Gulch tragedy.

Young Men and Fire won the National Book Critics Circle Aw... More >>

Young Men and Fire

The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow

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In 1943, with Lvov's 150,000 Jews having been exiled, killed, or forced into ghettos and facing extermination, a group of Polish Jews daringly sought refuge in the city's sewer system. The last surviving member this group, Krystyna Chiger, shares one of the most intimate, harrowing and ultimately triumphant tales of survival to emerge from the Holocaust. The Girl in the Green Sweater is Chiger's first-person account of the fourteen months she spent with her family i... More >>

The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow

Henry VIII

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This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.... More >>

Henry VIII

Rees Howells: Intercessor

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Rees Howells was a man of little worldly fame, yet through Norman Grubb's best-selling biography, his life story has become known to millions. Born in a Welsh mining village, Rees Howells left school at twelve and worked in a tin mill and a coal mine. As he came to know the redeeming power of his Lord and Saviour he faced the implications of an entire surrender, learned to love the unlovely and found the key to the power of prayer. As a result he became a man of gre... More >>

Rees Howells: Intercessor

Blood Brothers

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As a child, Elias Chacour lived in a small Palestinian village in Galilee. The townspeople were proud of their ancient Christian heritage and lived at peace with their Jewish neighbors. But early in 1947, their idyllic lifestyle was swept away as tens of thousands of Palestinians were killed and nearly one million forced into refugee camps. An exile in his native land, Elias began a years-long struggle with his love for the Jewish people and the world's misunde... More >>

Blood Brothers

Jeanne D'arc - Her Life and Death

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This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.... More >>

Jeanne D'arc - Her Life and Death

Mistress of the Monarchy: The Life of Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster

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Acclaimed author Alison Weir has been prolific with her books on English royalty covering everything from the Houses of York and Lancaster to the reigns of the Tudors and beyond. Now this remarkable historian brings to life the extraordinary tale of the woman who was ancestor to them all: Katherine Swynford, a royal mistress who was to become one of the most crucial figures in the history of the British royal dynasties.

Born in the mid-fourteenth century, Kat... More >>

Mistress of the Monarchy: The Life of Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster

The Pulitzer Prize Collection

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A collection of twelve Pulitzer Prize winning books with an active table of contents to help you easily find the book you are looking for.

Alice Adams
Anna Christie
The Americanization of Edward Bok - The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After
The Age of Innocence
Cornhuskers
A Daughter of the Middle Border
The Education of Henry Adams
His Family
The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I
The Life and Letters of Walter... More >>

The Pulitzer Prize Collection

Henry VIII: The King and His Court

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“WEIR’S BOOK OUTSHINES ALL PREVIOUS STUDIES OF HENRY. Beautifully written, exhaustive in its research, it is a gem. . . . She succeeds masterfully in making Henry and his six wives . . . come alive for the reader.”
–Philadelphia Inquirer

Henry VIII, renowned for his command of power and celebrated for his intellect, presided over one of the most magnificent–and dangerous–courts in Renaissance Europe. Never before has a detailed, personal... More >>

Henry VIII: The King and His Court

Who Was King Tut?

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Ever since Howard Carter uncovered King Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922, the young pharaoh has become a symbol of the wealth and mystery of ancient Egypt. Now, a two-and-a-half-year-long museum exhibit of Tut’s treasures is touring major cities in the U.S., drawing record crowds. This Who Was . . . ? is complete with 100 black-andwhite illustrations and explains the life and times of this ancient Egyptian ruler, covering the story of the tomb’s discovery, as ... More >>

Who Was King Tut?

Black Hawk: An Autobiography

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  This story is told in the words of a tragic figure in American history - a hook-nosed, hollow-cheeked old Sauk warrior who lived under four flags while the Mississippi Valley was being wrested from his people. The author is Black Hawk himself - once pursued by an army whose members included Captain Abraham Lincoln and Lieutenant Jefferson Davis. Perhaps no Indian ever saw so much of American expansion or fought harder to prevent that expansion from driving his pe... More >>

Black Hawk: An Autobiography

Moab Is My Washpot: An Autobiography

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A number one bestseller in Britain that topped the lists there for months, Stephen Fry's astonishingly frank, funny, wise memoir is the book that his fans everywhere have been waiting for. Since his PBS television debut in the Blackadder series, the American profile of this multitalented writer, actor and comedian has grown steadily, especially in the wake of his title role in the film Wilde, which earned him a Golden Globe nomination, and his supporting role in A C... More >>

Moab Is My Washpot: An Autobiography

The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn

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The King of England broke away from the Catholic Church and started another so he could divorce his wife and marry Anne Boleyn. Anne was unable to bear him a son. She did bear him a daughter who later became Elizabeth I.
Three years after her marriage Queen Anne was executed on the King's orders on false charges of witchcraft, incest and adultery.
This book contains the letters written by Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn to each other.

A clear demonstration... More >>

The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn

Ten Days in a Mad-House

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The classic book by Nellie Bly, one of the greatest journalists who ever lived. Bly wrote this memoir after going undercover in the Women's Lunatic Assylum on Blackwell's Island. Introduction by M. William Phelps and Gregg Olsen.... More >>

Ten Days in a Mad-House

The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire

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The Mongol queens of the thirteenth century ruled the largest empire the world has ever known. Yet sometime near the end of the century, censors cut a section from The Secret History of the Mongols, leaving a single tantalizing quote from Genghis Khan: “Let us reward our female offspring.” Only this hint of a father’s legacy for his daughters remained of a much larger story. 

The queens of the Silk Route turned their father’s conquests into the world... More >>

The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire

A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent

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When James K. Polk was elected president in 1844, the United States was locked in a bitter diplomatic struggle with Britain over the rich lands of the Oregon Territory, which included what is now Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. Texas, not yet part of the Union, was threatened by a more powerful Mexico. And the territories north and west of Texas -- what would become California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and part of Colorado -- belonged to Mexico. When Polk r... More >>

A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent

Cleopatra: A Life of Romance

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Cleopatra: A Life of Romance is the highly acclaimed historical novel by the worldwide bestselling author of Queen Sheba's Ring and The Virgin of the Sun. The story, told from the point of view of the Egyptian priest Harmachis, is recounted in the form of papyrus scrolls found in a tomb. The portrait of Cleopatra in this novel is quite stunning, revealing her wit, her treachery, and her overwhelming presence. Written in a true epic style, this inte... More >>

Cleopatra: A Life of Romance

Cleopatra: A Life of Passion

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Cleopatra: A Life of Passion is the worldwide bestselling original historical romance about the life, lusts, passions and loves of Egypt's last pharaoh and Greek queen. Of all the beautiful women of history, none has left us such legends of her seductive charms as Cleopatra, for the tide of Rome's destiny, and, therefore, that of the world, turned aside because of her beauty. Julius Caesar, ... More >>

Cleopatra: A Life of Passion

We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals

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It was the most influential marriage of the nineteenth century–and one of history’s most enduring love stories. Traditional biographies tell us that Queen Victoria inherited the throne as a naïve teenager, when the British Empire was at the height of its power, and seemed doomed to find failure as a monarch and misery as a woman until she married her German cousin Albert and accepted him as her lord and master. Now renowned chronicler Gillian Gill turns this fa... More >>

We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals

Out of the Darkness: The Story of Mary Ellen Wilson

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IT BEGAN WITH ONE ABUSED CHILD . . .


A Little Girl's Terror:

By April of 1987, nine-year-old Mary Ellen Wilson had been beaten, cut, and burned by her foster mother for more than seven years. She had never once been allowed outdoors, her keeper locking her inside a tiny, dark closet while she was away. In the coldest New York winters, the chil... More >>

Out of the Darkness: The Story of Mary Ellen Wilson

The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy

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Machiavelli praised his military genius. European royalty sought out his secret elixir against poison. His life inspired Mozart's first opera, while for centuries poets and playwrights recited bloody, romantic tales of his victories, defeats, intrigues, concubines, and mysterious death. But until now no modern historian has recounted the full story of Mithradates, the ruthless king and visionary rebel who challenged the power of Rome in the first century BC. In this... More >>

The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy

Iron Coffins

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This is a story of triumph, disaster and eventual survival - against all odds. Herbert Werner was one of the few U-boat commanders whose skill, daring and incredible luck saw him safely through to the end of the war. His is an epic and chilling description of the fearful havoc wrought by one small U-boat on the Atlantic convoys. But easy success ebbed away in the face of ever-improving Allied detection and attack techniques. The hunters became the prey, to suffe... More >>

Iron Coffins

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

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American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, “father of the atomic bomb,” the brilliant, charismatic physicist who led the effort to capture the awesome fire of the sun for his country in time of war. Immediately after Hiroshima, he became the most famous scientist of his generation–one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, the embodiment of modern man confronting the consequences of scientific progress.

He w... More >>

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II

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Given unprecedented access to Pope John Paul II and the people who have known and worked with him throughout his life, George Weigel presents a groundbreaking portrait of the Pope as a man, a thinker, and a leader whose religious convictions have defined a new approach to world politics -- and changed the course of history. John Paul II has systematically addressed every major question on the world's agenda at the turn of the millennium: the human yearning for the... More >>

Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II

Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love

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Galileo Galilei's telescopes allowed him to discover a new reality in the heavens. But for publicly declaring his astounding argument--that the earth revolves around the sun--he was accused of heresy and put under house arrest by the Holy Office of the Inquisition. Living a far different life, Galileo's daughter Virginia, a cloistered nun, proved to be her father's greatest source of strength through the difficult years of his trial and persecution.

Drawing u... More >>

Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love

The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea

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October 1991. It was "the perfect storm"--a tempest that may happen only once in a century--a nor'easter created by so rare a combination of factors that it could not possibly have been worse. Creating waves ten stories high and winds of 120 miles an hour, the storm whipped the sea to inconceivable levels few people on Earth have ever witnessed. Few, except the six-man crew of the Andrea Gail, a commercial fishing boat tragically headed towards its hellish center.More >>

The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea

Elizabeth Taylor: The Queen and I

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    Elizabeth Taylor: The Queen and I is a remarkable collection of Gianni Bozzacchi’s photographs of Elizabeth Taylor, most of them previously unpublished, capturing her as a film star, a woman, and a personal friend.
    It was 1965 when Bozzacchi, an impetuous twenty-two-year-old, was given the chance of a lifetime. The streetwise kid from Rome was sent to Africa as special photographer on the set of The Comedians, a movie starring Elizabeth Taylor, ... More >>

Elizabeth Taylor: The Queen and I

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

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One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman prizes, The Power Broker tells the hidden story behind the shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York (city and state) and makes public what few have known: that Robert Moses was, for almost half a century, the single most powerful man of our time in New York, the shaper not only of the city's politics but of its physical structure and the problems of... More >>

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

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Walter Benjamin was one of the most original cultural critics of the twentieth century. Illuminations includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and on Brecht's Epic Theater. Also included are his penetrating study "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," an enlightening discussion of translation as a literary mode, and Benjamin's theses on the philosophy ... More >>

Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

Pearl Buck in China: Journey to The Good Earth

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The much honored biographer unearths the life and work of Nobel Prize winner Pearl Buck, whose novels captured ordinary life in China.... More >>

Pearl Buck in China: Journey to The Good Earth

The Life of Hon. William F. Cody Known As Buffalo Bill the Famous Hunter, Scout and Guide: An Autobiography

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The real achievements of William F. (Buffalo Bill) Cody as a plainsman, hunter, scout, and Indian fighter have tended to be obscured by his fame as a showman. From its opening performance in 1883, Buffalo Bill's Wild West (it was never advertised as a show or circus) enthralled audiences in America and Europe, urchins and crowned heads alike; and probably no one man did more to establish and ro-manticize the tradition of the old West of cowboy and Indian. Because he... More >>

The Life of Hon. William F. Cody Known As Buffalo Bill the Famous Hunter, Scout and Guide: An Autobiography

The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life and Legacy of Frances Perkins, Social Security, Unemployment Insurance,

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“Kirstin Downey’s lively, substantive and—dare I say—inspiring new biography of Perkins . . . not only illuminates Perkins’ career but also deepens the known contradictions of Roosevelt’s character.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR Fresh Air
 
One of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s closest friends and the first female secretary of labor, Perkins capitalized on the president’s political savvy and popularity to enact most of the Depression-era programs t... More >>

The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life and Legacy of Frances Perkins, Social Security, Unemployment Insurance,

Once Upon a Time: Behind the Fairy Tale of Princess Grace and Prince Rainier

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Grace Kelly was swept away when the handsome Prince Rainier, a man she barely knew, asked for her hand in marriage.Amazon.com Review
She was an Oscar-winning Hollywood actress; he the scion of Europe's longest reigning monarchy. The marriage of movie star Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier Grimaldi of Monaco (a romance ironically spawned by a chance, MGM publicity-driven photo op) was one of the 20th century's most enchanting fables come to life. Yet, in veter... More >>

Once Upon a Time: Behind the Fairy Tale of Princess Grace and Prince Rainier

Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth

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The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Great Britain; Architecture / Residential; Biography... More >>

Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth

The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431-1519

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The first major biography of the Borgias in thirty years, Christopher Hibbert's latest history brings the family and the world they lived in—the glittering Rome of the Italian Renaissance—to life. The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism, and greed that were rife in Renaissance Italy. The powerful, voracious Rodrigo Borgia, better known to history as Pope Alexander VI, was the central figure of the dynasty. Two of his seven papal offspring al... More >>

The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431-1519

Clara's War: One Girl's Story of Survival

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This heart-stopping story of a young girl hiding from the Nazis is based on Clara Kramer's diary from her years surviving in an underground bunker with seventeen other people. Clara Kramer was a typical Polish Jewish teenager from a small town at the outbreak of the Second World War. When the Germans invaded, Clara's family was taken in by the Becks, a Volksdeutsch (ethnically German) family from their town. Mr. Beck was known to be an alcoholic, a womanizer, a... More >>

Clara's War: One Girl's Story of Survival

George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I

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In the years before the First World War, the great European powers were ruled by three first cousins: King George V of Britain, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Together, they presided over the last years of dynastic Europe and the outbreak of the most destructive war the world had ever seen, a war that set twentieth-century Europe on course to be the most violent continent in the history of the world.
 
Through brilliant and ofte... More >>

George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I

Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words

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The sudden and tragic death of Princess Diana caused the world to reflect on how much this singular woman meant to us all. This new edition of her life story -- which includes Diana's personal recollections in her own words, as well as an account of the events surrounding her death -- poignantly strengthens her hold on our hearts. From her fairy-tale wedding and the births of her two wonderful boys to the stunning collapse of her marriage, Diana's luminous but trou... More >>

Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words

The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom

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In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman ("Elegant and scrupulous"—New York Times Book Review) and Krakatoa ("A mesmerizing page-turner"—Time) brings to life the extraordinary story of Joseph Needham, the brilliant Cambridge scientist who unlocked the most closely held secrets of China, long the world's most technologically advanced country. No cloistered don, this tall, married Englishman ... More >>

The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom

Dead End Gene Pool: A Memoir

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In the tradition of Sean Wilsey's Oh The Glory of It All and Augusten Burrough's Running With Scissors, the great-great-great-great granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt gives readers a grand tour of the world of wealth and WASPish peculiarity, in her irreverent and darkly humorous memoir.

For generations the Burdens were one of the wealthiest families in New York, thanks to the inherited fortune of Cornelius "The Commodore" Vanderbilt. By 1955, the... More >>

Dead End Gene Pool: A Memoir

Harold: The Last of the Saxon Kings

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Complete biography of the great Saxon King, Harold.... More >>

Harold: The Last of the Saxon Kings