Setting the World on Fire
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One of only two patron saints of Italy, the other being St. Francis of Assisi, St. Catherine was...
Telegram from Guernica: The Extraordinary Life of George Steer, War Correspondent
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On 26 April 1937, in the rubble of the bombed city of Guernica, the world's press scrambled to...
Becoming a Romanov. Grand Duchess Elena of Russia and Her World (1807-1873)
Marina Soroka and Charles A. Ruud
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The Russian Great Reforms of the 1860s were the last major modernizing effort by the Romanov...
Dickens: London into Kent
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Few novelists have written so intimately about a city as Charles Dickens wrote about London. A...
Flying Man: Hugo Junkers and the Dream of Aviation
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Hugo Junkers (1859-1935) was a German engineer and aircraft designer generally credited as the...
Frank & Ava
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The love story of Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner has been told piecemeal, from one side or the other,...
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murder and the Birth of the FBI
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'A riveting true story of greed, serial murder and racial injustice' JON KRAKAUER 'A fiercely...
Ladies in the Laboratory IV: Imperial Russia's Women in Science, 1800-1900: A Survey of Their Contributions to Research: IV
Mary R.S. Creese and Thomas M. Creese
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The first volume of Ladies in the Laboratory provided a systematic survey and comparison of the work...
Maya Angelou: Adventurous Spirit
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A comprehensive biographical and critical reading of the works of American poet and memoirist Maya...
Mrs Miles's Diary: The Wartime Journal of a Housewife on the Home Front
S.V. Partington and Constance Miles
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At the outbreak of the Second World War Constance Miles was living with her husband in the pretty...