39 imprint: 18462 books
by Jerrold M. Packard
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 1999
The story of five women who shared one of the most extraordinary and privileged sisterhoods of all time.
Vicky, Alice, Helena, and Beatrice were historically unique sisters, born to a sovereign who ruled over a quarter of the earth's people and who gave her name to an era: Queen Victoria. Two...
The Last Princess
The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's Youngest Daughter
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008
An engrossing biography of Queen Victoria's youngest daughter that focuses on her relationship with her willful mother---a powerful and insightful look into two women of signi?cant importance and in?uence in world history.
Beatrice was the last child born to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert....
The Little Princesses
The Story of the Queen's Childhood by her Nanny, Marion Crawford
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2003
Once upon a time, in 1930s England, there were two little princesses named Elizabeth and Margaret Rose. Their father was the Duke of York, the second son of King George V, and their Uncle David was the future King of England.
We all know how the fairy tale ended: When King George died, "Uncle...
My Dearest, Dearest Albert
Queen Victoria's Life Through Her Letters and Journals
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
Using excerpts from her letters and diaries, this book shows the very human face of Queen Victoria, from spirited young princess to caring Queen, passionate bride and loving mother to great-grandmother of a royal dynasty who gave her name to the age of improvement. Photographs of Queen Victoria most...
The King's Grave
The Discovery of Richard III’s Lost Burial Place and the Clues It Holds
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
The first full-length book about the discovery of Richard III's remains, by the person who led the archaeology team and the historian whose book spurred her on
The mystery of who Richard III really was has fascinated historians, readers and audiences familiar with Shakespeare's dastardly portrait...
Richard III
England's Most Controversial King
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
From acclaimed historian Chris Skidmore comes the authoritative biography of Richard III, England’s most controversial king, a man alternately praised as a saint and cursed as a villain.
Richard III is one of English history’s best known and least understood monarchs. Immortalized by Shakespeare...
Sarah Churchill Duchess of Marlborough
The Queen's Favourite
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
The true story of Lady Sarah, who was portrayed by BAFTA Award-winning actress Rachel Weisz in the critically acclaimed film The Favourite
An unforgettable portrait of Sarah Churchill, first Duchess of Marlborough (1660-1744), the glamorous and controversial founder of the Spencer-Churchill...
Hero of the Underground
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
I wasn't afraid of death.
How could I be? I lived under death's shadow every day. When you swallow eighty Vicodin, twenty sleeping pills, drink a bottle of vodka, and still survive, a certain sense of invulnerability stays with you. When you continually use drugs with the kind of reckless determination...
The Man Watching
Anson Dorrance and the University of North Carolina Women's Soccer Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
As coach of the University of North Carolina women's soccer team, Anson Dorrance has won more than 90 percent of his games, groomed far more All-Americans, and captured more NCAA championships than any other coach in the sport ten times over. Author Tim Crothers spent four years interviewing Dorrance...
Road Racer
It's in My Blood
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER-ONE BESTSELLER. Michael Dunlop is quite simply the greatest road racer on the planet. Brother of William, also an accomplished rider, son of the late Robert and nephew of the late great Joey Dunlop, Michael can fairly claim that racing is in his blood. Now for the first time...
America's Girl
The Incredible Story of How Swimmer Gertrude Ederle Changed the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
America's Girl is an intimate look at the life and trials of Gertrude Ederle, who in 1926 not only became the first woman to swim across the English Channel, but broke the record set by men. The feat so thrilled America that it welcomed her home with a ticker tape parade that drew two million people....
Saving Baby
How One Woman's Love for a Racehorse Led to Her Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
"If we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt." --Anna Sewell, author of Black Beauty
Jo Anne Normile was not supposed to keep the foal, an exuberant Thoroughbred with only a few white hairs on his reddish-brown...
Death Grip
A Climber's Escape from Benzo Madness
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Death Grip chronicles a top climber's near-fatal struggle with anxiety and depression, and his nightmarish journey through the dangerous world of prescription drugs. Matt Samet lived to climb, and craved the challenge, risk, and exhilaration of conquering sheer rock faces around the United States...
Glory Days
On Sports, Men, and Dreams-That Don't Die
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 1998
Bill Reynolds built his youth around sports. As a boy in a blue-collar Rhode Island town, he spend his hours shooting hoops and dreaming of stardom. From his adolescence to high school fame to a scholarship at Brown University, Reynolds enjoyed the perks of athletic glory. But those days soon ended...