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The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
Tom Reiss
Paperback: 05/14/2013
Here is the remarkable true story of the real Count of Monte Cristo – a stunning feat of historical ...
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How to Create the Perfect Wife: Britain's Most Ineligible Bachelor and his Enlightened Quest to Train the Ideal Mate
Wendy Moore
Hardcover: 04/09/2013
Stranger than fiction, blending tragedy and farce, How to Create the Perfect Wife is an engrossing tale of the...
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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
Robert K. Massie
Paperback: 09/18/2012
The extraordinary story of an obscure young German princess who traveled to Russia at fourteen and rose to ...
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Abigail Adams
Woody Holton
Paperback: 06/01/2010
Winner of BookBrowse's 2009 Nonfiction Book Award.
In this vivid new biography of Abigail Adams, the most ...
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Wedlock: The True Story of the Disastrous Marriage and Remarkable Divorce of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore
Wendy Moore
Paperback: 03/02/2010
Moore resurrects history from dry names and dates, and vividly recreates this eerily familiar era with a ...
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American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
Jon Meacham
Paperback: 04/30/2009
Jon Meacham in American Lion has delivered the definitive human portrait of a pivotal president who forever ...
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The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder and Survival in the Amazon
Robert Whitaker
Paperback: 12/28/2004
Whitaker weaves a riveting tale rich in adventure, intrigue, and scientific achievement. Never before told, ...
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