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Alison Weir
Mistress of the Monarchy: The Life of Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster

Acclaimed author Weir brings to life the extraordinary tale of Katherine Swynford, a 15th-century royal mistress who became one of the most crucial figures in the history of Great Britain.

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Wesley Moody
Hero of Fort Sumter

"The first biography of a military officer famous then and now for his role on the Union side at Fort Sumter, who also played an overlooked role in mentoring future general William T. Sherman"--

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Eden Collinsworth
The Improbable Victoria Woodhull

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • From the acclaimed author of What the Ermine Saw and Behaving Badly, a portrait of Victoria Woodhull, a celebrated and maligned 19th-century businesswoman …

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Megan Hoyt,
Bartali's Bicycle: The True Story of Gino Bartali, Italy's Secret Hero

This 2021 National Jewish Book Award finalist by author Megan Hoyt and illustrator Iacopo Bruno brings to light the inspiring, true story of Gino Bartali, a beloved Italian cyclist and secret champion in …

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Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson
Claire McCardell

Named one ofThe New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2025T he riveting hidden history of Claire McCardell, the most influential fashion designer you've never heard of.Claire McCardell forever changed fas…

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Rose Mary Wood
Chronicles of Cass County, Michigan

Along the Indiana border in Southwest Michigan lies Cass County, a place rich in historical significance.Nearly one thousand freedom seekers traveled through the area on their way to Canada. The first ren…

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Alexandra M Nickliss
Phoebe Apperson Hearst

In Phoebe Apperson Hearst: A Life in Power and Politics , Alexandra M. Nickliss offers the first biography of one of the Gilded Age's most prominent and powerful women. A financial manager, businesswoman,…

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Kevin Jackson
Legion: Thirteen Ways of Looking at Lawrence of Arabia

There have been literally hundreds of books about T. E. Lawrence, best known as Lawrence of Arabia, but never a work quite like Legion.Legion tells the astonishing life story of an man who was far more th…

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Jonny Steinberg
Winnie and Nelson

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • THE SUNDAY TIMES LITERARY AWARD WINNER • AN LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST • A WASHINGTON POST AND NEW YORKER 2023 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A deeply researched, …

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Rachel Trethewey
Muv

The story of the "seventh Mitford woman," a long-overlooked figure in the Mitford canon---told in full for the first time.Everyone knows about the six flamboyant Mitford girls but in fact there …

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Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson
Claire McCardell

Named one ofThe New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2025T he riveting hidden history of Claire McCardell, the most influential fashion designer you've never heard of.Claire McCardell forever changed fas…

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Deborah Lutz
This Dark Night

Emily Brontë (1818-48) was only twenty-seven years old when she began work on one of the most important novels in the English language. It took the world almost a century to catch up to Wuthering Heights …

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Nancy Goldstone
The Rebel Empresses

"When they married Emperors Franz Joseph and Napoleon III, respectively, Elisabeth of Austria and Eugâenie of France became two of the most famous women on the planet. Young and beautiful--becoming c…

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Andrew Jamieson
On the Couch: Twenty Extraordinary Personalities, from Picasso to Putin

Psychotherapist Andrew Jamieson considers ten key principles of psychoanalysis and illuminates them through psychobiographies of twenty extraordinary people, including Ernest Hemingway, Josephine Baker, C…

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Harlan Greene
Porgy's Ghost

On the world stage, the opera Porgy and Bess is acclaimed as a distinctively American, yet universal, classic. Though scholars and the popular press have discussed it for nearly one hundred years, no one …

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Michael Gross
Flight of the Wasp

Fifteen families. Four hundred years. The complex saga of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant elite in America's history.For decades, writers from Cleveland Amory to Joseph Alsop to the editors of Politico h…

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Sylvio J. Godon,
Ich bin ein Pole. Jestem Polakiem.

In Warschau unter der Militärregierung entdeckt ein junger deutscher Student den wahren Puls Polens. Durch die Augen von Sylvio J. Godon erleben wir den Alltag zwischen Ausgangssperren und Lebensmittelkar…

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Boncompagni Ludovisi (1856-1935), Ugo,
The Twilight of Rome's Papal Nobility

The Twilight of Rome's Papal Nobilityis an intimate look at an ancient papal family who grew up accustomed to almost unimaginable wealth, power, and glamour. A tender elegy to a bygone era, this book offe…

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Nancy K Williams
Colorado Outlaws & Lawmen

Taming a Tumultuous TerritoryHollywood westerns of the twentieth century brought a history of raucous frontier justice to life, but 1800s Colorado was anything but fiction. Bandits held up the Denver and …

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Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
American Prometheus

J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself…

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