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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...
The Cradle King
The Life of James VI and I, the First Monarch of a United Great Britain
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
As the son of Mary Queen of Scots, born into her 'bloody nest,' James had the most precarious of childhoods. Even before his birth, his life was threatened: it was rumored that his father, Henry, had tried to make the pregnant Mary miscarry by forcing her to witness the assassination of her supposed...
by Christopher Hibbert
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
When Charles Stuart was a young child, it seemed unlikely that he would survive, let alone become ruler of England and Scotland. Once shy and retiring, an awkward stutterer, he grew in stature and confidence under the guidance of the Duke of Buckingham; his marriage to Henrietta of Spain, originally...
The Last Days of Glory
The Death of Queen Victoria
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Queen Victoria's death in January 1901 shook Britain to its core, and reverberated not just throughout the Commonwealth, but around the world. She was a woman in her eighties, and yet it seems no one could contemplate the end of a reign that had lasted so long. Most could not remember a time when...
Frederick the Great
A Life in Deed and Letters
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Piet and soldier, misanthrope and philospher, Frederick the Great was a contradictory, almost unfathomable man. His conquests made him one of the most formindable and feared leaders of his era. But as a patron of artists and intellectuals, Frederick re-created Berlin as one of the continent's great...
by Christopher Hibbert
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Hibbert delivers a superbly detailed picture of the life and times of George IV including his exorbitant spending on his homes, his clothes, and his women; his patronage of the arts; his 'illegal' marriage to Catholic Mrs Fitzherbert, and lesser known facts such as his generous charity donations andhis...
Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Alice Keppel, the married lover of Queen Victoria's eldest son and great-grandmother to Camilla Parker-Bowles, was a key figure in Edwardian society. Hers was the acceptable face of adultery. Discretion was her hallmark. It was her art to be the king's mistress and yet to laud the Royal Family and...
Basketball Junkie
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
I was dead for thirty seconds.
That's what the cop in Fall River told me.
When the EMTs found me, there was a needle in my arm and a packet of heroin in the front seat.
At basketball-crazy Durfee High School in Fall River, Massachusetts, junior guard Chris Herren carried his family's...
Death by Fame
A Life of Elisabeth, Empress of Austria
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
"A well-written, thoroughly researched story of a popular and beautiful empress, who, while self-indulgent, sought a life of privacy and peace, and showed sympathy and charity toward the poor." - Kirkus Reviews
In 1898 Luigi Lucheni fatally stabbed Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, on...
Clubhouse Confidential
A Yankee Bat Boy's Insider Tale of Wild Nights, Gambling, and Good Times with Modern Baseball's Greatest Team
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Clubhouse Confidential is the explosive, inside story of Yankees players and managers by a bat boy who saw it all
You are invited to come behind the closed doors of the Yankees' clubhouse for the ride of your life in this intimate memoir about the team's recent glory years and the superstars...
by Benjamin Lorr
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Author Benjamin Lorr wandered into a yoga studio—and fell down a rabbit hole
Hell-Bent explores a fascinating, often surreal world at the extremes of American yoga. Benjamin Lorr walked into his first yoga studio on a whim, overweight and curious, and quickly found the yoga reinventing his...
Ever After
Diana and the Life She Led
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
"This is the stuff of fairy tales," said the Archbishop of Canterbury on July 23, 1981, after the 20-year-old Lady Diana Spencer arrived in a glass coach for her wedding to Prince Charles. But everyone knows how that fairy tale ended.
Drawing upon intensive research and interviews,...
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...