Elizabeth: 10009 books

The Color Of Love reveals the power of racial hierarchies to infiltrate our most intimate relationships. Delving far deeper than previous sociologists have into the black Brazilian experience, Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman examines the relationship between racialization and the emotional life of a family....

The revealing memoir of a woman who bought her freedom from slavery and became a White House dressmaker and confidant to Mary Todd Lincoln. Born into slavery in Virginia, Elizabeth Keckley was whipped, sexually abused, and separated from her mother for long stretches of time. When her master...

In the fall of 1941, the Philippines was a gardenia-scented paradise for the American Army and Navy nurses stationed there. War was a distant rumor, life a routine of easy shifts and dinners under the stars. On December 8 all that changed, as Japanese bombs began raining down on American bases in...

Elizabeth David's Italian Food was one of the first books to demonstrate the enormous range of Italy's regional cooking. For the foods of Italy, explained David, expanded far beyond minestrone and ravioli, to the complex traditions of Tuscany, Sicily, Lombardy, Umbria, and many other regions. David...

"A spectacular achievement and one of the very best travel books I have read." —Simon Winchester, Wall Street Journal Declaring independence in 1945, Indonesia said it would "work out the details of the transfer of power etc. as soon as possible." With over 300 ethnic...

Endings always arrived! Yes, Andrea was miserable without Mike, but their steamy affair would have ended eventually. She’d just…hurried the process, knowing that extending the relationship would have caused more pain. So why was he in her office? And how was she going to survive...

Third story in the Cordova Royal Family Trilogy! In love with a prince is a horrible state of affairs for a commoner. Especially when he's your boss. Tara Jacobs smothers her feelings of love for Prince Maximillian, determined to find someone else who can share her life with. Someone...

Second story in the Cordova Royal Family Trilogy! Royal obligations be dammed! Sam Montrose was too much! Too arrogant, too irritating, too intelligent....too everything for Princess Marabeth's peace of mind. He would never do for a royal husband despite what everyone thinks! And oh...

After one night of incredible passion, Alicia Miller is accused of embezzlement, by the same man who'd brought her to heaven with his touch. Corporate tycoon and billionaire, Adam Meyers, is no longer the gentle passionate lover who took Alicia to the heights of ecstasy, but in his place is a cold,...

Loving someone can be brutal. Sada had loved Zahir for years…but he was off limits! Every month, he came to her school to take her out for dinner. And every month, she fell a little bit more in love with him. Unfortunately, Zahir was best friends with Sada’s older brothers – very...

Sabrina I would do anything to save my sister’s life. Which is why I‘m about to be living on the alien planet of Draax. Giving up three years of my life on earth to be a nanny for the alien who healed my sister should be easy. Only, I think there’s been a mix up. This is a palace,...

Her destiny wasn’t to be a man’s arm candy! Zarah Andromeda Busain had known what her role as a princess of Tasain would be since she could first walk and talk. That didn’t mean she agreed with it. From the beginning, she fought against those expectations, challenging them and asking...

Secrets hurt. No one knows that better than Charlotte but that painful lesson is forgotten under the charm and heat of Oz Cole’s intense green gaze. He is insufferably infuriating…and shockingly charismatic. It’s no wonder that she forgot to protect her heart. Oz is stunned when...

Not trusting love, Penny is wary of Deputy Louis’ attentions. The men in her past have abused her trust to the point where she’s unwilling to believe in men any longer. But somehow, Louis’s smiles and his charm slowly inch past her defenses. Is there any way to guard her heart against...