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Author |
: John Guy |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 514 |
Release |
: 2016-05-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781101609019 |
ISBN-13 |
: 110160901X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Elizabeth by : John Guy
COSTA AWARD FINALIST ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR Film rights acquired by Gold Circle Films, the team behind My Big Fat Greek Wedding “A fresh, thrilling portrait… Guy’s Elizabeth is deliciously human.” –Stacy Schiff, The New York Times Book Review A groundbreaking reconsideration of our favorite Tudor queen, Elizabeth is an intimate and surprising biography that shows her at the height of her power. Elizabeth was crowned queen at twenty-five, but it was only when she reached fifty and all hopes of a royal marriage were behind her that she began to wield power in her own right. For twenty-five years she had struggled to assert her authority over advisers, who pressed her to marry and settle the succession; now, she was determined not only to reign but to rule. In this magisterial biography, John Guy introduces us to a woman who is refreshingly unfamiliar: at once powerful and vulnerable, willful and afraid. We see her confronting challenges at home and abroad: war against France and Spain, revolt in Ireland, an economic crisis that triggers riots in the streets of London, and a conspiracy to place her cousin Mary Queen of Scots on her throne. For a while she is smitten by a much younger man, but can she allow herself to act on that passion and still keep her throne? For the better part of a decade John Guy mined long-overlooked archives, scouring handwritten letters and court documents to sweep away myths and rumors. This prodigious historical detective work has enabled him to reveal, for the first time, the woman behind the polished veneer: determined, prone to fits of jealous rage, wracked by insecurity, often too anxious to sleep alone. At last we hear her in her own voice expressing her own distinctive and surprisingly resonant concerns. Guy writes like a dream, and this combination of groundbreaking research and propulsive narrative puts him in a class of his own. "Significant, forensic and myth-busting, John Guy inspires total confidence in a narrative which is at once pacey and rich in detail." -- Anna Whitelock, TLS “Most historians focus on the early decades, with Elizabeth’s last years acting as a postscript to the beheading of Mary Queen of Scots and the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Guy argues that this period is crucial to understanding a more human side of the smart redhead.” – The Economist, Book of the Year
Author |
: Emma Healey |
Publisher |
: Harper Collins |
Total Pages |
: 216 |
Release |
: 2014-06-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780062309709 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0062309706 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Elizabeth Is Missing by : Emma Healey
HOW DO YOU SOLVE A MYSTERY WHEN YOU CAN'T REMEMBER THE CLUES? In this darkly riveting debut novel—a sophisticated psychological mystery that is also an heartbreakingly honest meditation on memory, identity, and aging—an elderly woman descending into dementia embarks on a desperate quest to find the best friend she believes has disappeared, and her search for the truth will go back decades and have shattering consequences. Maud, an aging grandmother, is slowly losing her memory—and her grip on everyday life. Yet she refuses to forget her best friend Elizabeth, whom she is convinced is missing and in terrible danger. But no one will listen to Maud—not her frustrated daughter, Helen, not her caretakers, not the police, and especially not Elizabeth’s mercurial son, Peter. Armed with handwritten notes she leaves for herself and an overwhelming feeling that Elizabeth needs her help, Maud resolves to discover the truth and save her beloved friend. This singular obsession forms a cornerstone of Maud’s rapidly dissolving present. But the clues she discovers seem only to lead her deeper into her past, to another unsolved disappearance: her sister, Sukey, who vanished shortly after World War II. As vivid memories of a tragedy that occurred more fifty years ago come flooding back, Maud discovers new momentum in her search for her friend. Could the mystery of Sukey’s disappearance hold the key to finding Elizabeth?
Author |
: Lexie Elliott |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 386 |
Release |
: 2019-04-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780399586965 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0399586962 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Missing Years by : Lexie Elliott
A woman's unsolved family history comes back to haunt her in an eerie, old, isolated manor in the Scottish Highlands. Ailsa Calder has inherited half of a house. The other half belongs to a man who disappeared from her life without a trace twenty-seven years ago—her father. Leaving London behind to settle the inheritance, Ailsa returns to her childhood home, nestled amongst the craggy peaks of the Scottish Highlands, joined by the half-sister who's almost a stranger to her. Ailsa can't escape the claustrophobic feeling that the house itself is watching her—as if her past hungers to consume her. She also can't ignore how the neighborhood animals refuse to set one foot within the gates of the garden. When the first nighttime intruder shows up and the locals in the isolated community pry into her plans for the manor, Ailsa becomes terrified that the mysteries surrounding the beautiful old home will cost her everything.
Author |
: Elizabeth Dowling Taylor |
Publisher |
: HarperCollins |
Total Pages |
: 295 |
Release |
: 2017-01-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780062346117 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0062346113 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Original Black Elite by : Elizabeth Dowling Taylor
New York Times–Bestselling Author: “A compelling biography of Daniel Murray and the group the writer-scholar W.E.B. DuBois called ‘The Talented Tenth.’” —Patricia Bell-Scott, National Book Award nominee and author of The Firebrand and the First Lady In this outstanding cultural biography, the author of A Slave in the White House chronicles a critical yet overlooked chapter in American history: the inspiring rise and calculated fall of the black elite, from Emancipation through Reconstruction to the Jim Crow Era—embodied in the experiences of an influential figure of the time: academic, entrepreneur, political activist, and black history pioneer Daniel Murray. In the wake of the Civil War, Daniel Murray, born free and educated in Baltimore, was in the vanguard of Washington, D.C.’s black upper class. Appointed Assistant Librarian at the Library of Congress—at a time when government appointments were the most prestigious positions available for blacks—Murray became wealthy as a construction contractor and married a college-educated socialite. The Murrays’ social circles included some of the first African-American US senators and congressmen, and their children went to Harvard and Cornell. Though Murray and others of his time were primed to assimilate into the cultural fabric as Americans first and people of color second, their prospects were crushed by Jim Crow segregation and the capitulation to white supremacist groups by the government, which turned a blind eye to their unlawful—often murderous—acts. Elizabeth Dowling Taylor traces the rise, fall, and disillusionment of upper-class African Americans, revealing that they were a representation not of hypothetical achievement but what could be realized by African Americans through education and equal opportunities. “Brilliantly researched . . . an emotional story of how race and class have long played a role in determining who succeeds and who fails.” —The New York Times Book Review “Brings insight to the rise and fall of America’s first educated black people.” —Time “Deftly demonstrates how the struggle for racial equality has always been complicated by the thorny issue of class.” —Patricia Bell-Scott, author of The Firebrand and the First Lady “Reads like a sweeping epic.” —Library Journal
Author |
: Nicholas D. Hayes |
Publisher |
: University of Wisconsin Pres |
Total Pages |
: 199 |
Release |
: 2021-04-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780299331801 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0299331806 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Frank Lloyd Wright's Forgotten House by : Nicholas D. Hayes
Frank Lloyd Wright's foray into affordable housing--the American System-Built Homes--is frequently overlooked. When Nicholas and Angela Hayes became stewards of one of them, they began to unearth evidence that revealed a one-hundred-year-old fiasco fueled by competing ambitions and conflicting visions that eventually gave way to Wright's most creative period.
Author |
: Elizabeth Hardwick |
Publisher |
: New York Review of Books |
Total Pages |
: 145 |
Release |
: 2011-07-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781590174388 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1590174380 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sleepless Nights by : Elizabeth Hardwick
In Sleepless Nights a woman looks back on her life—the parade of people, the shifting background of place—and assembles a scrapbook of memories, reflections, portraits, letters, wishes, and dreams. An inspired fusion of fact and invention, this beautifully realized, hard-bitten, lyrical book is not only Elizabeth Hardwick’s finest fiction but one of the outstanding contributions to American literature of the last fifty years.
Author |
: Margaret George |
Publisher |
: Viking Adult |
Total Pages |
: 671 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0670022535 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780670022533 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis Elizabeth I by : Margaret George
One of today's premier historical novelists, "New York Times" bestseller George dazzles here as she tackles her most difficult subject yet: the legendary Elizabeth Tudor, queen of enigma. But what was she really like? In this novel, her flame-haired, lookalike cousin, Lettice Knollys, thinks she knows all too well.
Author |
: Ben Macintyre |
Publisher |
: A&C Black |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 2013-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781408838150 |
ISBN-13 |
: 140883815X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Forgotten Fatherland by : Ben Macintyre
From the bestselling author of Agent Zigzag and Double Cross the true story of Friedrich Nietzsche's bigoted, imperious sister who founded a 'racially pure' colony in Paraguay together with a band of blond-haired fellow Germans.
Author |
: Amy Licence |
Publisher |
: Amberley Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1445609614 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781445609614 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis Elizabeth of York by : Amy Licence
The biography of Henry VII's queen, and mother of Henry VIII, the true story of the 'White Princess'.
Author |
: Nicola Cornick |
Publisher |
: Harlequin |
Total Pages |
: 337 |
Release |
: 2020-11-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781488076527 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1488076529 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Forgotten Sister by : Nicola Cornick
A modern-day woman investigates two suspicious deaths, centuries apart, in this paranormal tale based on a real-life Tudor mystery. 1560: Amy Robsart is trapped in a loveless marriage to Robert Dudley, a member of the court of Queen Elizabeth I. Surrounded by enemies and with nowhere left to turn, Amy hatches a desperate scheme to escape—one with devastating consequences that will echo through the centuries . . . Present Day: When Lizzie Kingdom is forced to withdraw from the public eye in a blaze of scandal, it seems her life is over. But she’s about to encounter a young man, Johnny Robsart, whose fate will interlace with hers in the most unexpected of ways. For Johnny is certain that Lizzie is linked to a terrible secret dating back to Tudor times. If Lizzie is brave enough to go in search of the truth, then what she discovers will change the course of their lives forever. Perfect for fans of Philippa Gregory and Kate Morton. “What a brilliant story, resonating as it does over time and space. Brava Nicola Cornick.” —Criminal Element “Cornick incorporates elements of romance and paranormal genres into a fascinating . . . historical that centers on the 16th-century death of Amy Robsart, wife of Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester. . . . The author does a good job with pacing and plot detail. Cornick’s rich mystery will serve readers well on a rainy day.” —Publishers Weekly