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Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Forever Changed British History
Tracy Borman - ?Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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Anne Boleyn may be best known for losing her head, but as Tudor expert Tracy Borman reveals in a book that recasts British history, her greatest legacy lies in the path-breaking reign of her daughter, ElizabethMuch of the fascination with Britain's legendary Tudors centers around the dramas... |
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The Politics of Washing: Real Life in Venice
Polly Coles - Robert Hale
Format: Book
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A riveting account of ordinary life in an extraordinary place, packed with charming anecdotes that will have readers hooked on Venetian life The beautiful city of Venice has been a fantasy land for people from around the globe for centuries, but what is it like to live there? To move... |
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Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl's Love Letter to the Power of Fashion
Tanisha C. Ford - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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From sneakers to leather jackets, a bold, witty, and deeply personal dive into Black America's closet In this highly engaging book, fashionista and pop culture expert Tanisha C. Ford investigates Afros and dashikis, go-go boots and hotpants of the sixties, hip hop's baggy jeans and bamboo... |
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In Full Flight: A Story of Africa and Atonement
John Hylan Heminway - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The remarkable story of one woman's search for a new life in Africa in the wake of World War II--a life that sparked a heroic career, but also hid a secret past.Dr. Anne Spoerry treated hundreds of thousands of people across rural Kenya over the span of fifty years. A member of the renowned... |
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Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family's Story of Slavery
Alex Renton - Canongate Books; Main edition
Format: Hardcover
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Through the story of his own family's history as slave and plantation owners, Alex Renton looks at how we owe it to the present to understand the legacy of the past. When the transatlantic slave trade was abolished across most of the British Empire in 1833, it was not the newly liberated... |
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The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy
Alexander Rose - HarperAudio
Format: Audiobook
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Washington's Spies, the thrilling story of the Confederate spy who came to Britain to turn the tide of the Civil War - and the Union agent resolved to stop him.In 1861, soon after the outbreak of the Civil War, two secret agents - one a Confederate,... |
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