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The Queen Mother
The Official Biography
Written by William Shawcross
Format: Hardcover, 1120 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $40.00
The official and definitive biography of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: consort of King George VI, mother of Queen Elizabeth II, grandmother of Prince Charles—and the most beloved British monarch of the twentieth century.
Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon—the ninth of the Earl of Strathmore’s ten children—was born on August 4, 1900, and... Read more >
The Official Biography
Written by William Shawcross
Format: Hardcover, 1120 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $40.00
The official and definitive biography of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: consort of King George VI, mother of Queen Elizabeth II, grandmother of Prince Charles—and the most beloved British monarch of the twentieth century.
Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon—the ninth of the Earl of Strathmore’s ten children—was born on August 4, 1900, and... Read more >
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The Queen Mother
The Official Biography
Written by William Shawcross
Read by William Shawcross
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $35.00
The official and definitive biography of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: consort of King George VI, mother of Queen Elizabeth II, grandmother of Prince Charles—and the most beloved British monarch of the twentieth century.
Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon—the ninth of the Earl of Strathmore’s ten children—was born on August 4, 1900, and... Read more >
The Official Biography
Written by William Shawcross
Read by William Shawcross
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $35.00
The official and definitive biography of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: consort of King George VI, mother of Queen Elizabeth II, grandmother of Prince Charles—and the most beloved British monarch of the twentieth century.
Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon—the ninth of the Earl of Strathmore’s ten children—was born on August 4, 1900, and... Read more >
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The Queen Mother
The Official Biography
Written by William Shawcross
Read by William Shawcross
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $17.50
The official and definitive biography of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: consort of King George VI, mother of Queen Elizabeth II, grandmother of Prince Charles—and the most beloved British monarch of the twentieth century.
Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon—the ninth of the Earl of Strathmore’s ten children—was born on August 4, 1900, and... Read more >
The Official Biography
Written by William Shawcross
Read by William Shawcross
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $17.50
The official and definitive biography of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: consort of King George VI, mother of Queen Elizabeth II, grandmother of Prince Charles—and the most beloved British monarch of the twentieth century.
Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon—the ninth of the Earl of Strathmore’s ten children—was born on August 4, 1900, and... Read more >
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The Queen Mother
Written by William Shawcross
Format: eBook, 1120 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $40.00
The official and definitive biography of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: consort of King George VI, mother of Queen Elizabeth II, grandmother of Prince Charles—and the most beloved British monarch of the twentieth century.
Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon—the ninth of the Earl of Strathmore’s ten children—was born on August 4, 1900, and... Read more >
Written by William Shawcross
Format: eBook, 1120 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $40.00
The official and definitive biography of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: consort of King George VI, mother of Queen Elizabeth II, grandmother of Prince Charles—and the most beloved British monarch of the twentieth century.
Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon—the ninth of the Earl of Strathmore’s ten children—was born on August 4, 1900, and... Read more >
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The Unruly Queen
The Life of Queen Caroline
Written by Flora Fraser
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $16.95
When the Prince Regent (who would later become King George IV) separated privately from Princess Caroline in 1796, they had been together for less than a year. Their disastrous marriage, ridiculed by the satirists of the day, led to profound political consequences and the eventual trial of Queen Caroline for adultery... Read more >
The Life of Queen Caroline
Written by Flora Fraser
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $16.95
When the Prince Regent (who would later become King George IV) separated privately from Princess Caroline in 1796, they had been together for less than a year. Their disastrous marriage, ridiculed by the satirists of the day, led to profound political consequences and the eventual trial of Queen Caroline for adultery... Read more >
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Pauline Bonaparte: Venus of Empire
Written by Flora Fraser
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $28.95
From acclaimed biographer Flora Fraser, the brilliant life of Napoleon’s favorite sister. Celebrated for her looks, notorious for her passions, immortalized by Antonio Canova’s statue, and always deeply loyal to her brother, Pauline Bonaparte Borghese is a fascinating figure in her own right.
At the turn of the nineteenth century, she was... Read more >
Written by Flora Fraser
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $28.95
From acclaimed biographer Flora Fraser, the brilliant life of Napoleon’s favorite sister. Celebrated for her looks, notorious for her passions, immortalized by Antonio Canova’s statue, and always deeply loyal to her brother, Pauline Bonaparte Borghese is a fascinating figure in her own right.
At the turn of the nineteenth century, she was... Read more >
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Doomed Queens
Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends, From Cleopatra to Princess Di
Written by Kris Waldherr
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $14.95
Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends, From Cleopatra to Princess Di
Written by Kris Waldherr
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $14.95
Illicit love, madness, betrayal--it isn’t always good to be the queen
Marie Antoinette, Anne Boleyn, and Mary, Queen of Scots. What did they have in common? For a while they were crowned in gold, cosseted in silk, and flattered by courtiers. But in the end, they spent long nights in dark prison...
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Doomed Queens
Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends, From Cleopatra to Princess Di
Written by Kris Waldherr
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $14.95
Illicit love, madness, betrayal--it isn’t always good to be the queen
Marie Antoinette, Anne Boleyn, and Mary, Queen of Scots. What did they have in common? For a while they were crowned in gold, cosseted in silk, and flattered by courtiers. But in the end, they spent long nights in dark prison... Read more >
Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends, From Cleopatra to Princess Di
Written by Kris Waldherr
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $14.95
Illicit love, madness, betrayal--it isn’t always good to be the queen
Marie Antoinette, Anne Boleyn, and Mary, Queen of Scots. What did they have in common? For a while they were crowned in gold, cosseted in silk, and flattered by courtiers. But in the end, they spent long nights in dark prison... Read more >
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The Duchess
Written by Amanda Foreman
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 8, 2008
Price: $15.95
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
Now a major motion picture starring Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes
Lady Georgiana Spencer was the great-great-great-great-aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, and was nearly as famous in her day. In 1774 Georgiana achieved immediate celebrity by marrying William Cavendish, fifth duke of Devonshire, one of England’s... Read more >
Written by Amanda Foreman
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 8, 2008
Price: $15.95
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
Now a major motion picture starring Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes
Lady Georgiana Spencer was the great-great-great-great-aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, and was nearly as famous in her day. In 1774 Georgiana achieved immediate celebrity by marrying William Cavendish, fifth duke of Devonshire, one of England’s... Read more >
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The Duchess
Written by Amanda Foreman
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: August 19, 2008
Price: $15.95
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
Now a major motion picture starring Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes
Lady Georgiana Spencer was the great-great-great-great-aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, and was nearly as famous in her day. In 1774 Georgiana achieved immediate celebrity by marrying William Cavendish, fifth duke of Devonshire, one of England’s... Read more >
Written by Amanda Foreman
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: August 19, 2008
Price: $15.95
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
Now a major motion picture starring Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes
Lady Georgiana Spencer was the great-great-great-great-aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, and was nearly as famous in her day. In 1774 Georgiana achieved immediate celebrity by marrying William Cavendish, fifth duke of Devonshire, one of England’s... Read more >
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Privilege and Scandal
The Remarkable Life of Harriet Spencer, Sister of Georgiana
Written by Janet Gleeson
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: June 24, 2008
Price: $14.95
A revealing portrait of one of the most glamorous, influential, and notorious members of the Spencer family
Intelligent, attractive, and born into wealth, Harriet Spencer, ancestor of Princess Diana, married Frederick, Viscount Duncannon, at the age of nineteen. But it was her affair with Lord Granville Leveson Gower that resulted in... Read more >
The Remarkable Life of Harriet Spencer, Sister of Georgiana
Written by Janet Gleeson
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: June 24, 2008
Price: $14.95
A revealing portrait of one of the most glamorous, influential, and notorious members of the Spencer family
Intelligent, attractive, and born into wealth, Harriet Spencer, ancestor of Princess Diana, married Frederick, Viscount Duncannon, at the age of nineteen. But it was her affair with Lord Granville Leveson Gower that resulted in... Read more >
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The Diana Chronicles
Written by Tina Brown
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: May 20, 2008
Price: $15.95
Ten years after her death, Princess Diana remains a mystery. Was she “the people’s princess,” who electrified the world with her beauty and humanitarian missions? Or was she a manipulative, media-savvy neurotic who nearly brought down the monarchy? Only Tina Brown, former editor-in-chief of Tatler, England’s glossiest gossip magazine; Vanity Fair... Read more >
Written by Tina Brown
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: May 20, 2008
Price: $15.95
Ten years after her death, Princess Diana remains a mystery. Was she “the people’s princess,” who electrified the world with her beauty and humanitarian missions? Or was she a manipulative, media-savvy neurotic who nearly brought down the monarchy? Only Tina Brown, former editor-in-chief of Tatler, England’s glossiest gossip magazine; Vanity Fair... Read more >
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Marie Therese, Child of Terror
The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter
Written by Susan Nagel
Read by Rosalyn Landor
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $27.50
In December 1795, on the midnight stroke of her seventeenth birthday, Marie-Thérèse, the only surviving child of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, fled Paris’s notorious Temple Prison. Kept in solitary confinement after her parents’ brutal execution during the Terror, she had been unaware of the fate of her family, save the... Read more >
The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter
Written by Susan Nagel
Read by Rosalyn Landor
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $27.50
In December 1795, on the midnight stroke of her seventeenth birthday, Marie-Thérèse, the only surviving child of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, fled Paris’s notorious Temple Prison. Kept in solitary confinement after her parents’ brutal execution during the Terror, she had been unaware of the fate of her family, save the... Read more >
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The People's Princess
Cherished Memories of Diana, Princess of Wales, From Those Who Knew Her Best
Written by Larry King
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 17, 2007
Price: $19.95
In the ten years since Princess Diana’s shocking and tragic death in 1997, her hold on the world’s imagination has only increased. For The People’s Princess, Larry King asked many people who knew Diana, some officially and some more personally, for their favorite memories.
Sir Richard Branson recalls Diana sitting in the... Read more >
Cherished Memories of Diana, Princess of Wales, From Those Who Knew Her Best
Written by Larry King
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 17, 2007
Price: $19.95
In the ten years since Princess Diana’s shocking and tragic death in 1997, her hold on the world’s imagination has only increased. For The People’s Princess, Larry King asked many people who knew Diana, some officially and some more personally, for their favorite memories.
Sir Richard Branson recalls Diana sitting in the... Read more >
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The Diana Chronicles
Written by Tina Brown
Read by Tina Brown
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $29.95
"Intensely well researched and an un-put-down-able read, Tina Brown's extraordinary book parts the brocaded velvet and allows us an unprecedented look at the world and mind of the most famous person on the planet. A social commentary, a historical document and a psychological examination, written by a superb investigative journalist."
–Academy... Read more >
Written by Tina Brown
Read by Tina Brown
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $29.95
"Intensely well researched and an un-put-down-able read, Tina Brown's extraordinary book parts the brocaded velvet and allows us an unprecedented look at the world and mind of the most famous person on the planet. A social commentary, a historical document and a psychological examination, written by a superb investigative journalist."
–Academy... Read more >
Also available as an
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unabridged audiobook download,
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The Diana Chronicles
Written by Tina Brown
Read by Tina Brown
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $15.00
"Intensely well researched and an un-put-down-able read, Tina Brown's extraordinary book parts the brocaded velvet and allows us an unprecedented look at the world and mind of the most famous person on the planet. A social commentary, a historical document and a psychological examination, written by a superb investigative journalist."
–Academy... Read more >
Written by Tina Brown
Read by Tina Brown
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $15.00
"Intensely well researched and an un-put-down-able read, Tina Brown's extraordinary book parts the brocaded velvet and allows us an unprecedented look at the world and mind of the most famous person on the planet. A social commentary, a historical document and a psychological examination, written by a superb investigative journalist."
–Academy... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
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The Diana Chronicles
Written by Tina Brown
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $15.95
"Intensely well researched and an un-put-down-able read, Tina Brown's extraordinary book parts the brocaded velvet and allows us an unprecedented look at the world and mind of the most famous person on the planet. A social commentary, a historical document and a psychological examination, written by a superb investigative journalist."
–Academy... Read more >
Written by Tina Brown
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $15.95
"Intensely well researched and an un-put-down-able read, Tina Brown's extraordinary book parts the brocaded velvet and allows us an unprecedented look at the world and mind of the most famous person on the planet. A social commentary, a historical document and a psychological examination, written by a superb investigative journalist."
–Academy... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
paperback and a
trade paperback.
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Privilege and Scandal
The Remarkable Life of Harriet Spencer, Sister of Georgiana
Written by Janet Gleeson
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 5, 2007
Price: $14.95
Sweeping and scandalous, rich and compellingly readable, here is the first biography of Lady Harriet Spencer, ancestor of Diana, Princess of Wales, and devoted sister of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. Harriet Spencer was without a doubt one of the most glamorous, influential, and notorious aristocrats of the Regency period.
The second daughter... Read more >
The Remarkable Life of Harriet Spencer, Sister of Georgiana
Written by Janet Gleeson
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 5, 2007
Price: $14.95
Sweeping and scandalous, rich and compellingly readable, here is the first biography of Lady Harriet Spencer, ancestor of Diana, Princess of Wales, and devoted sister of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. Harriet Spencer was without a doubt one of the most glamorous, influential, and notorious aristocrats of the Regency period.
The second daughter... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Princesses
The Six Daughters of George III
Written by Flora Fraser
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: April 11, 2006
Price: $16.95
In this sumptuous group portrait of the six daughters of “Mad” King George III, acclaimed biographer Flora Fraser takes us into the heart of the British royal family during the tumultuous period of the American and French revolutions.
Drawing on their extraordinary private correspondence, Fraser gives voice to these handsome, accomplished, extremely... Read more >
The Six Daughters of George III
Written by Flora Fraser
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: April 11, 2006
Price: $16.95
In this sumptuous group portrait of the six daughters of “Mad” King George III, acclaimed biographer Flora Fraser takes us into the heart of the British royal family during the tumultuous period of the American and French revolutions.
Drawing on their extraordinary private correspondence, Fraser gives voice to these handsome, accomplished, extremely... Read more >
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George Herbert Walker Bush
Written by Tom Wicker
Read by Michael Prichard
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 2, 2004
Price: $17.50
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Written by Tom Wicker
Read by Michael Prichard
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 2, 2004
Price: $17.50
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The Bushes
Portrait of a Dynasty
Written by Peter Schweizer and Rochelle Scwheizer
Read by Robertson Dean
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 8, 2004
Price: $32.50
Get the inside story on America’s most powerful political dynasty.
President George W. Bush leads our nation in a time of unprecedented peril. But how well do we really know him or his remarkable family, whose history often mirrors the history of America? Now, in the first full-scale biography of the Bushes... Read more >
Portrait of a Dynasty
Written by Peter Schweizer and Rochelle Scwheizer
Read by Robertson Dean
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 8, 2004
Price: $32.50
Get the inside story on America’s most powerful political dynasty.
President George W. Bush leads our nation in a time of unprecedented peril. But how well do we really know him or his remarkable family, whose history often mirrors the history of America? Now, in the first full-scale biography of the Bushes... Read more >
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Elizabeth and Mary
Cousins, Rivals, Queens
Written by Jane Dunn
Read by Donada Peters
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 15, 2003
Price: $29.95
The first dual biography of two of the world’s most remarkable women—Elizabeth I of England and Mary Queen of Scots—by one of Britain’s “best biographers” (The Sunday Times).
In a rich and riveting narrative, Jane Dunn reveals the extraordinary rivalry between the regal cousins. It is the story of two queens ruling... Read more >
Cousins, Rivals, Queens
Written by Jane Dunn
Read by Donada Peters
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 15, 2003
Price: $29.95
The first dual biography of two of the world’s most remarkable women—Elizabeth I of England and Mary Queen of Scots—by one of Britain’s “best biographers” (The Sunday Times).
In a rich and riveting narrative, Jane Dunn reveals the extraordinary rivalry between the regal cousins. It is the story of two queens ruling... Read more >
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Khrushchev
The Man and His Era
Written by William Taubman
Read by Michael Prichard
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 24, 2003
Price: $25.00
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The Man and His Era
Written by William Taubman
Read by Michael Prichard
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 24, 2003
Price: $25.00
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Winston Churchill
Written by John Keegan
Read by Richard Matthews
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: August 27, 2002
Price: $15.00
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Written by John Keegan
Read by Richard Matthews
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: August 27, 2002
Price: $15.00
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Royal Babylon
The Alarming History of European Royalty
Written by Karl Shaw
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2002
Price: $14.95
An uproarious, eye-opening history of Europe's notorious royal houses that leaves no throne unturned and will make you glad you live in a democracy.
Do you want to know which queen has the unique distinction of being the only known royal kleptomaniac? Or which empress kept her dirty underwear under lock and... Read more >
The Alarming History of European Royalty
Written by Karl Shaw
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2002
Price: $14.95
An uproarious, eye-opening history of Europe's notorious royal houses that leaves no throne unturned and will make you glad you live in a democracy.
Do you want to know which queen has the unique distinction of being the only known royal kleptomaniac? Or which empress kept her dirty underwear under lock and... Read more >
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