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The House in France: A Memoir
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In 2009, six years after her mother's death, Gully Wells returns to La Migoua, the house in Provence...
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Bessie Blount: Mistress to Henry VIII
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Bessie Blount was the longest-lasting mistress of Henry VIII, and one of the earliest known. She was...
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Franco: A Personal and Political Biography
Stanley G. Payne and Jesus Palacios
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General Francisco Franco ruled Spain for nearly forty years, as one of the most powerful and...
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Kim Philby: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal
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Foreword by Phillip Knightley Kim Philby, the so-called Third Man in the Cambridge spy ring, was the...
Letters and Photographs from the Battle Country: The World War I Memoir of Margaret Hall
Margaret Hall and Margaret R. Higonnet
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In August 1918 a Massachusetts-born woman named Margaret Hall boarded a transport ship in New York...
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Mrs. Tsenhor: A Female Entrepreneur in Ancient Egypt
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Tsenhor was born about 550 bce in the city of Thebes (Karnak). She died some sixty years later,...
Merchants and Explorers: Roger Barlow, Sebastian Cabot, and Networks of Atlantic Exchange 1500-1560
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In the early sixteenth century, a young English sugar trader spent a night at what is now the port...
Visions of Loveliness: Great Flower Breeders of the Past
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Gardeners of today take for granted the many varieties of geraniums, narcissi, marigolds, roses, and...
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There Your Heart Lies
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From the award-winning novelist Mary Gordon, here is a book whose twentieth-century wisdom can help...
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Ice Cream
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This mouth-watering book is brimming with delicious ice cream concoctions and iced wonders from the...