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Elizabeth the Queen
The Life of a Modern Monarch
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Perfect for fans of The Crown, this magisterial biography of Queen Elizabeth II is a close-up view of the woman we’ve known only from a distance—and a captivating window into the last great monarchy.
From the moment of her ascension to the throne in 1952 at...
Victoria: The Queen
An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
The true story for fans of the PBS Masterpiece series Victoria, this page-turning biography reveals the real woman behind the myth: a bold, glamorous, unbreakable queen—a Victoria for our times. Drawing on previously unpublished papers, this stunning new portrait is a story of love and heartbreak,...
by Amanda Foreman
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2008
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
Lady Georgiana Spencer was the great-great-great-great-aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, and was nearly as famous in her day. In 1774 Georgiana achieved immediate celebrity by marrying William Cavendish, fifth duke of Devonshire,...
Secret Lives of the Tsars
Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
“Michael Farquhar doesn’t write about history the way, say, Doris Kearns Goodwin does. He writes about history the way Doris Kearns Goodwin’s smart-ass, reprobate kid brother might. I, for one, prefer it.”—Gene Weingarten, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and Washington Post columnist
Scandal!...
by Robert K. Massie
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
**“Riveting . . . unfolds like a detective story.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review **
In July 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a shallow mass grave near Ekaterinburg, Siberia, a few miles from the infamous cellar room where the last tsar and his family had been murdered seventy-three...
by Alison Weir
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Alison Weir's Mary Boleyn.
Handsome, accomplished, and charming, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, staked his claim to the English throne by marrying Mary Stuart, who herself claimed to be the Queen of England. It was not long before Mary discovered that...
Diana in Search of Herself
Portrait of a Troubled Princess
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Diana in Search of Herself is the first authoritative biography of one of the most fabled women of the century. Even those who knew Princess Diana will be surprised by author Sally Bedell Smith's insightful and haunting portrait of Diana's inner life.
For all that has been written about Diana--the...
Rasputin
The Saint Who Sinned
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Grigory Efimovich Rasputin came to St. Petersburg from his Siberian cabin in 1903 like a projectile from the medieval past, tattered, black-clad, muttering. By the time he was murdered thirteen years later, the peasant was the "beloved" Friend of Tsar Nicholas and Empress Alexandra and...
Mary Tudor
Princess, Bastard, Queen
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
She was the first woman to inherit the throne of England, a key player in one of Britain’s stormiest eras, and a leader whose unwavering faith and swift retribution earned her the nickname “Bloody Mary.” Now, in this impassioned and absorbing debut, historian Anna Whitelock offers a modern perspective...
by Robert K. Massie
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
“[A] tale of power, perseverance and passion . . . a great story in the hands of a master storyteller.”—The Wall Street Journal
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The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the...
Behind the Palace Doors
Five Centuries of Sex, Adventure, Vice, Treachery, and Folly from Royal Britain
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Spanning 500 years of British history, a revealing look at the secret lives of some great (and not-so-great) Britons, courtesy of one of the world’s most engaging royal historians
Beleaguered by scandal, betrayed by faithless spouses, bedeviled by ambitious children, the kings and queens...
Frederick the Great
King of Prussia
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
The definitive biography of the legendary autocrat whose enlightened rule transformed the map of Europe and changed the course of history
Few figures loom as large in European history as Frederick the Great. When he inherited the Prussian crown in 1740, he ruled over a kingdom of scattered...
The First Star
Red Grange and the Barnstorming Tour That Launched the NFL
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2009
In The First Star, acclaimed sports writer Lars Anderson recounts the thrilling story of Harold "Red" Grange, the Galloping Ghost of the gridiron, and the wild barnstorming tour that earned professional football a place in the American sporting firmament.
Red Grange's on-field exploits...
The Genius
How Bill Walsh Reinvented Football and Created an NFL Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
The Genius is the gripping and definitive account of Bill Walsh’s career and how he built a football dynasty from the rubble of a fallen franchise. David Harris gives a stellar account of the silver-haired sophisticate from humble working-class roots who was hired as head coach and general manager...