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Young Mr. Obama
Chicago and the Making of a Black President
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
Barack Obama's inspirational politics and personal mythology have overshadowed his fascinating history. Young Mr. Obama gives us the missing chapter: the portrait of the politician as a young leader, often too ambitious for his own good, but still equipped with a rare ability to inspire change. The...
Send in the Idiots
Stories from the Other Side of Autism
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
In 1982, when he was four years old, Kamran Nazeer was enrolled in a special school alongside a dozen other children diagnosed with autism. Calling themselves the Idiots, these kids received care that was at the cutting edge of developmental psychology. Now a policy adviser in England, Kamran decides...
by Chaim Bermant
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
Lord Jakobovits has been described by one commentator as Mrs Thatcher's father confessor. A staunch defender of Victorian values and family life, he has propounded his views with a forthrightness and vigour which have often placed him at the centre of controversy and have given him national prominence....
Pope Francis
The Struggle for the Soul of Catholicism
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
For the past two years Pope Francis has enchanted and bewildered the world in equal measure with his compassion and his contradictions. Expanding greatly on his acclaimed earlier book Pope Francis: Untying the Knots, Paul Vallely reexamines the complex past of Jorge Mario Bertoglio and adds nine new...
Killers of the King
The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
On August 18, 1648, with no relief from the siege in sight, the royalist garrison holding Colchester Castle surrendered and Oliver Cromwell's army firmly ended the rule of Charles I of England. To send a clear message to the fallen monarch, the rebels executed four of the senior officers captured...
by Hector Bolitho
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
On 10 February 1840 a young Queen formed a union that would define an age.
Victoria and Albert charts the passionate relationship of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, and examines how their loving and forward-thinking union propelled Britain into a golden age of innovation, conquest and social...
King, Kaiser, Tsar
Three Royal Cousins Who Led the World to War
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
The extraordinary family story of George V, Wilhelm II, and Nicholas II: they were tied to one another by history, and history would ultimately tear them apart.
Drawing widely on previously unpublished royal letters and diaries, made public for the first time by Queen Elizabeth II, Catrine...
Inside the Christmas Story
Reflections for Advent
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
If you are troubled by the loss of 'Christ' in 'Christmas'; and by the noise, pressure and materialism of secular Advent with its emphasis on material and commercial rather than spiritual preparation for Christmas, this book will help you to read and think about Advent and Christmas in a new way....
Queen Emma and the Vikings
A History of Power, Love, and Greed in 11th-Century England
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Emma, one of England's most remarkable queens, made her mark on a nation beset by Viking raiders at the end of the Dark Ages, a period often neglected by conventional history. At the center of a triangle of Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, and Normans all jostling for control of England, Emma was a political...
The Watchers
A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
In a Europe aflame with wars of religion and dynastic conflicts, Elizabeth I came to the throne of a realm encircled by menace. To the great Catholic powers of France and Spain, England was a heretic pariah state, a canker to be cut away for the health of the greater body of Christendom. Elizabeth's...
by Edward Crankshaw
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
When Edward Crankshaw's Maria Theresa was published in 1969, it was the first full length study of Maria Theresa to be written in English for sixty years.
Called to the throne in 1740, at the age of twenty-three, Maria Theresa was wholly unprepared for the events that were to confront her,...
The Ultimate Family
The Making of the Royal House of Windsor
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
From the author of All the Money in the World, now a major motion picture directed by Ridley Scott, comes a "fascinating and healthily skeptical book" about the British royal family.
In recent times the British monarchy has become an 'ultimate family' of international superstars,...
Jacobites
A New History of the '45 Rebellion
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
The dramatic story of Bonnie Prince Charlie and his quixotic attempt to regain the throne of England.
The Jacobite Rebellion of 1745-46 is one of the most important turning points in British history--in terms of national crisis every bit the equal of 1066 and 1940. The tale of Charles Edward...
Scribe
My Life in Sports
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Ever since he joined the sports department of the Boston Globe in 1968, sports enthusiasts have been blessed with the writing and reporting of Bob Ryan. Tony Kornheiser calls him the "quintessential American sportswriter.†? For the past twenty-five years, he has also been a regular on various...