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  • Mary, Queen of Scots

    by Jenny Wormald ...
    series The Stewart Dynasty in Scotland
    The acclaimed Scottish historian offers a provocative reassessment of one of British royalty’s most famous figures in this authoritative biography.Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, has long been portrayed as one of history’s romantically tragic figures. Devious, naive, beautiful and sexually voracious, often highly principled, she secured the Scottish throne and bolstered the position of the Catholic ... Read more

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  • Mary, Queen of Scots

    NOW A MAJOR NEW FILM

    by Jenny Wormald ...
    Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, has long been portrayed as one of history's romantically tragic figures. Devious, naïve, beautiful and sexually voracious, often highly principled, she secured the Scottish throne and bolstered the position of the Catholic Church in Scotland. Her plotting, including probable involvement in the murder of her husband Lord Darnley, led to her flight from Scotland and ... Read more

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  • Why We Love Pirates

    The Hunt for Captain Kidd and How He Changed Piracy Forever

    by Rebecca Simon ...
    A historian presents “an excellent guide to how pirates became the outlaw celebrities of the high seas” (Greg Jenner, host of the You’re Dead to Me podcast).During his life and even after his death, Captain William Kidd’s name was well known in England and the American colonies. He was infamous for the very crime for which he was hanged, piracy. In this book, historian Rebecca Simon dives into the ... Read more

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  • Year One of the Russian Revolution

    by Victor Serge ...
    An eyewitness account of the world-changing uprising—from the author of Memoirs of a Revolutionary. “A truly remarkable individual . . . an heroic work” (Richard Allday of Counterfire).Brimming with the honesty and passionate conviction for which he has become famous, Victor Serge’s account of the first year of the Russian Revolution—through all of its achievements and challenges—captures both the ... Read more

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  • It's A Strange Place, England

    by Jack Strange ...
    Book 2 - Jack's Strange Tales
    This small book looks at some of the strange things that make England unique, starting with the English language itself and looking at concepts such as sports, ghosts and the English love for eccentricity - like the sportsman who rode his horse naked.As well as strange people, the book looks at strange places. For example, there is the canal across Southern England that was dug to keep back ... Read more

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  • When Animals Rescue

    Amazing True Stories about Heroic and Helpful Creatures

    by Belinda Recio ...
    A Collection of True Tales of Animal Empathy and Altruism that will Inspire Us to Reflect on Our Own Human NatureWhat do stories about humpback whales protecting a biologist from a shark, a pride of lions rescuing a girl from kidnappers, gorillas working together to dismantle poacher snares, a parrot warding off an attacker in a park, a chimpanzee consoling a human, and an elephant trying to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Great Illyrian Revolt

    Rome's Forgotten War in the Balkans, AD 6–9

    by Jason R. Abdale ...
    **The little-known story of a fierce rebellion against the Romans:****“**A very good read for anyone interested in ancient military history and historiography.” —The NYMAS ReviewIn the year AD 9, three Roman legions were crushed by the German warlord Arminius in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. This event is well known, but there was another uprising that Rome faced shortly before, which lasted ... Read more

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  • Reconstruction: Voices from America's First Great Struggle for Racial Equality (LOA #303)

    Edited by Brooks D. Simpson ...
    The aftermath of the Civil War comes to dramatic life in this sweeping new collection of firsthand writing from the Reconstruction era—featuring pieces by Frederick Douglass, Frances Harper, and more“Very, very good. . . . Reconstruction conveys the struggle for racial equality better than many other anthologies documenting the era.” —The Wall Street JournalFew periods in American history are more ... Read more

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  • Lady Death

    The Memoirs of Stalin's Sniper

    by Martin Pegler, Lyudmila Pavlichenko ...
    The memoir of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the Russian woman who was WWII’s most accomplished sniper—and a friend of Eleanor Roosevelt.In June 1941, when Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, Lyudmila Pavlichenko left her university studies, ignored the offer of a position as a nurse, and became one of Soviet Russia’s two thousand female snipers. Less than a year later, she had 309 recorded kills, ... Read more

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  • Princess Mary

    The First Modern Princess

    by Elisabeth Basford, Hugo Vickers ...
    'At last a biography of Princess Mary, the Queen’s aunt – and a good one ... She has long deserved a full study and in Elisabeth Basford, she has found a dedicated and sympathetic biographer, who has done her full justice' - Hugo Vickers.Princess Diana is seen as the first member of the British royal family to tear up the rulebook, and the Duchess of Cambridge is modernising the monarchy in ... Read more

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  • How to Survive in Ancient Greece

    by Robert Garland ...
    What would it be like if you were transported back to Athens 420 BCE? This time-traveler’s guide is a fascinating way to find out . . .Imagine you were transported back in time to Ancient Greece and you had to start a new life there. What would you see? How would the people around you think and believe? How would you fit in? Where would you live? What would you eat? What work would be available, ... Read more

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  • Edward II's Nieces, The Clare Sisters

    Powerful Pawns of the Crown

    by Kathryn Warner ...
    “A great book to introduce you to three fascinating sisters whose marriages during the reign of the infamous Edward II transformed England.” —Adventures of a Tudor NerdThe de Clare sisters Eleanor, Margaret and Elizabeth were born in the 1290s as the eldest granddaughters of King Edward I of England and his Spanish queen Eleanor of Castile, and were the daughters of the greatest nobleman in ... Read more

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