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The Journey
by Antonia Fraser
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by Anne Higonnet
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Read ReviewsThree women led a fashion revolution and turned themselves into international style celebrities.
by Nancy Goldstone
Published Sep 2022
Read ReviewsThe vibrant, sprawling saga of Empress Maria Theresa - one of the most renowned women rulers in history - and three of her extraordinary daughters, including Marie Antoinette, the doomed queen of France.
by Helen Castor
Published May 2016
Read ReviewsFrom the author of the acclaimed She-Wolves, the complex, surprising, and engaging story of one of the most remarkable women of the medieval world - as never told before.
by Robert K. Massie
Published Sep 2012
Read ReviewsThe extraordinary story of an obscure young German princess who traveled to Russia at fourteen and rose to become one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating women in history.
by Michelle Moran
Published Dec 2011
Read ReviewsThe world knows Madame Tussaud as a wax artist extraordinaire... but who was this woman who became one of the most famous sculptresses of all time? In these pages, her tumultuous and amazing story comes to life as only Michelle Moran can tell it. The year is 1788, and a revolution is about to begin.
by Wendy Moore
Published Mar 2010
Read ReviewsMoore resurrects history from dry names and dates, and vividly recreates this eerily familiar era with a historian's love for detail and a storyteller's passion for a good yarn.
by Sena Jeter Naslund
Published May 2007
Read ReviewsFrom the lush gardens of Versailles to the lights and gaiety of Paris, the verdant countryside of France, and finally the stark and terrifying isolation of a prison cell, Naslund brings the 18th Century, and Marie Antoinette, vividly to life.
by Chantal Thomas
Published Jun 2004
Read ReviewsWith the skill of a consummate storyteller, Chantal Thomas meticulously re-creates the miniature universe of Versailles, brilliantly juxtaposing its beauty and its dawn-to-dusk ritual with the chaos that erupts.
by Ken Alder
Published Oct 2003
Read ReviewsThe astonishing story of one of history's greatest scientific quests, a mission to measure the Earth and define the meter for all nations and for all time.
by Elizabeth Redfern
Published Aug 2002
Read ReviewsIn the London of 1795, intrigue and death walk the dark streets. England is at war with France and espionage is rampant - and it is the job of John Absey to catch these spies. Intricately plotted and beautifully paced.
by Donna Woolfolk Cross
Published Aug 1997
Read ReviewsA masterwork of suspense and passion that has as its center an unforgettable woman, the 9th Century Pope Joan. An enthralling, scholarly historical novel.
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