Rabbit: A Memoir
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That's how things go in the 'hood: It's a never ending cycle of trouble, and once it grabs you, it...
The Icing on the Cake: Delicious Memories of Family and Food
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With her grandmother the society beauty Dame Gladys Cooper, and her father the renowned actor Robert...
Canadian Girl in South Africa: A Teacher's Experiences in the South African War, 1899-1902
Maud E. Graham, Michael Dawson, Catherine Gidney and Susanne M. Klausen
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As the South African War reached its grueling end in 1902, colonial interests at the highest levels...
Dark Lady: Winston Churchill's Mother and Her World
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Jennie Jerome was a controversial American society girl and mother of Britain's most revered...
Elihu Yale: Merchant, Collector & Patron
Diana Scarisbrick and Benjamin Zucker
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Rare is the man with the force of character, powers of leadership, and variety of cultural,...
Eyewitness Accounts: Pilgrimage to Meccah
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The journey that made Richard Burton famous as a traveller and explorer in the nineteenth century...
Freud: The Making of an Illusion
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Sigmund Freud is one of the most influential figures of western society. His ideas transformed the...
Jean Ternant and the Age of Revolutions: A Soldier and Diplomat (1751-1833) in the American, French, Dutch and Belgian Uprisings
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Jean Ternant's life (1751-1833) spanned a period of enormous change in European life. Born when men...
Land of the Turquoise Mountains: Journeys Across Iran
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For Cyrus Massoudi, a young British-born Iranian, the country his parents were forced to flee thirty...
May Irwin: Singing, Shouting, and the Shadow of Minstrelsy
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May Irwin reigned as America's queen of comedy and song from the 1880s through the 1920s. A genuine...