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I Fired God
My Life Inside---and Escape from---the Secret World of the Independent Fundamental Baptist Cult
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
A compelling memoir and account of the Independent Fundamental Baptist church and its shocking history of religious abuse.
Jocelyn Zichterman was born, raised, married into, and finally, with her family, fled the Independent Fundamental Baptist church. Founded by the fiery preacher Bob Jones,...
One Nation Under Sex
How the Private Lives of Presidents, First Ladies and Their Lovers Changed the Course of American History
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Ben Franklin saved the American Revolution by seducing French Women. A gay love affair between President James Buchanan and Senator William King aided the secession movement. Woodrow Wilson's girlfriend dictated his letters to the German Kaiser. And lesbian relationships inspired Eleanor Roosevelt...
A Slave in the White House
Paul Jennings and the Madisons
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Paul Jennings was born into slavery on the plantation of James and Dolley Madison in Virginia, later becoming part of the Madison household staff at the White House. Once finally emancipated by Senator Daniel Webster later in life, he would give an aged and impoverished Dolley Madison, his former...
That Woman
The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
The first full scale biography of Wallis Simpson to be written by a woman, exploring the mind of one of the most glamorous and reviled figures of the Twentieth Century, a character who played prominently in the blockbuster film The King's Speech.
This is the story of the American divorcee notorious...
The Romanov Sisters
The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
A 12-WEEK NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"Helen Rappaport paints a compelling portrait of the doomed grand duchesses." —People magazine
"The public spoke of the sisters in a gentile, superficial manner, but Rappaport captures sections of letters and diary entries to showcase...
The Queen Mother
The Untold Story of Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, Who Became Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Packed with stunning revelations, this is the inside story of The Queen Mother from the New York Times bestselling author who first revealed the truth about Princess Diana
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother has been called the "most successful queen since Cleopatra." Her personality...
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....
by Christopher Hibbert
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2007
A riveting biography that vividly captures the life and times of the last Victorian king.
To his mother, Queen Victoria, he was "poor Bertie," to his wife he was "my dear little man," while the President of France called him "a great English king," and the German...
Katherine the Queen
The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr, the Last Wife of Henry VIII
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
The general perception of Katherine Parr is that she was a provincial nobody with intellectual pretensions who became queen of England because the king needed a nurse as his health declined. Yet the real Katherine Parr was attractive, passionate, ambitious, and highly intelligent. Thirty-years-old...
The Race to Save the Romanovs
The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue the Russian Imperial Family
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
In this international bestseller investigating the murder of the Russian Imperial Family, Helen Rappaport embarks on a quest to uncover the various plots and plans to save them, why they failed, and who was responsible.
The murder of the Romanov family in July 1918 horrified the world, and...
Alix and Nicky
The Passion of the Last Tsar and Tsarina
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
The dramatic story of Emperor Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra Fyodorovna, the last Tsar and Tsarina of Russia—A penetrating and deeply personal study that gives profound psychological insight into their marriage and how it shaped the events that engulfed them.
There are few characters...
From Splendor to Revolution
The Romanov Women, 1847--1928
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
This sweeping saga recreates the extraordinary opulence and violence of Tsarist Russia as the shadow of revolution fell over the land, and destroyed a way of life for these Imperial women
The early 1850s until the late 1920s marked a turbulent and significant era for Russia. During that time...
A Magnificent Obsession
Victoria, Albert, and the Death That Changed the British Monarchy
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
As she did in her critically acclaimed The Last Days of the Romanovs, Helen Rappaport brings a compelling documentary feel to the story of this royal marriage and of the queen's obsessive love for her husband – a story that began as fairy tale and ended in tragedy.
After the untimely death...
A Princess Found
An American Family, an African Chiefdom, and the Daughter Who Connected Them All
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Sarah Culberson was adopted one year after her birth by a loving, white, West Virginian couple and was raised in the United States with little knowledge of her ancestry. Though raised in a loving family, Sarah wanted to know more about the birth parents that had given her up. In 2004, she hired a...