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by Mary Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
PRISONERS OF HOPE is a gripping historical romance set in the early days of the settlement of colonial Virginia by noted historical novelist Mary Johnston.
Mary Johnston (1870-1936) was a bestselling American romantic and historical novelist. Born in Virginia to a Civil War veteran and...
by Louise Muhlbach
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to Wikipedia: "Luise Mühlbach was the pen name of Clara Mundt (18141873), a German writer best known for her works of historical fiction."
Queens of the Conquest
England's Medieval Queens Book One
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
In the first volume of an exciting new series, bestselling author Alison Weir brings the dramatic reigns of England’s medieval queens to life.
The lives of England’s medieval queens were packed with incident—love, intrigue, betrayal, adultery, and warfare—but their stories have been...
The Mistresses of Cliveden
Three Centuries of Scandal, Power, and Intrigue in an English Stately Home
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
For fans of Downton Abbey comes an immersive historical epic about a lavish English manor and a dynasty of rich and powerful women who ruled the estate over three centuries of misbehavior, scandal, intrigue, and passion.
Five miles from Windsor Castle, home of the royal family, sits the Cliveden...
by Hourly History
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
The character Count Dracula is well-known throughout the world. He is a dark, seductive, pale man wearing a cape. His gaze is quite literally captivating, and he has the strength of ten men. The story, written by Bram Stoker in 1897, has been retold hundreds of times, but is there a historical figure...
Dear Abigail
The Intimate Lives and Revolutionary Ideas of Abigail Adams and Her Two Remarkable Sisters
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
For readers of the historical works of Robert K. Massie, David McCulough, and Alison Weir comes the first biography on the life of Abigail Adams and her sisters.
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“Never sisters loved each other better than we.”—Abigail Adams in a letter to her sister Mary, June 1776
Much has been written...
The Infernos of Dante and Dan Brown
A Visitor's Guide to Hell: A Special from Tarcher/Penguin
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
A terrific companion to the new Dan Brown movie, Inferno! Take an extraordinary journey into the signs and symbols behind Dan Brown’s latest Robert Langdon thriller.
Just in time for the blockbuster movie, this short guide introduces readers to Dante Alighieri’s fourteenth-century epic...
Incarnations
A History of India in Fifty Lives
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
An entertaining and provocative account of India’s past, written by one of the country’s leading thinkers
For all India’s myths, its sea of stories and moral epics, Indian history remains a curiously unpeopled place. In Incarnations, Sunil Khilnani fills that space, bringing to life fifty...
Alice
Memoirs of a Barbary Coast Prostitute
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
**Winner of the 2015 California Historical Society Book Award **
In 1913 the San Francisco Bulletin published a serialized, ghostwritten memoir of a prostitute who went by the moniker Alice Smith. "A Voice from the Underworld" detailed Alice's humble Midwestern upbringing and her...
The Promise of Canada
150 Years--People and Ideas That Have Shaped Our Country
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
What does it mean to be a Canadian? What great ideas have changed our country? An award-winning writer casts her eye over our nation’s history, highlighting some of our most important stories.
From the acclaimed historian Charlotte Gray comes a richly rewarding book about what it means to...
by William L. Shirer
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
The former CBS foreign correspondent provides an invaluable look back at his life—and the events that forged the twentieth century.
A renowned journalist and author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William L. Shirer chronicles his own life story—in a personal history that parallels...
The Force of Things
A Marriage in War and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
A masterpiece of literary memory—a powerful exploration of the intersections of family, history, and memory
"One evening in May 1948, my mother went to a party in New York with her first husband and left it with her second, my father." So begins the passionate and stormy union of...
by Hermione Lee
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2009
Biography is one of the most popular, best-selling, and widely-read of literary genres. But why do certain people and historical events arouse so much interest? How can biographies be compared with history and works of fiction? Does a biography need to be true? Is it acceptable to omit or conceal...
by Jacob Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS***
Synopsis:
Abraham Lincoln raved that this series of historical biographies gave him "just that knowledge of past men and events which I need. I have read them with the greatest interest. To them I am indebted...