Goldstone, Nancy Bazelon

Summary: Goldstone documents the turbulent mother-daughter relationship between Catherine de' Medici and Marguerite de Valois to explore the court politics, assassinations, espionage and betrayals that shaped their time.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown, and Company 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 GOL

Tuchman, Barbara Wertheim.

Summary: The Bubonic Plague of the 14th century killed one third of all human beings in Europe and Western Asia; many who survived the plague killed each other in the Hundred Years War that followed. What was it like to live in this calamitous century, when knighthood (and much more) died a violent death?

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1978

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.025 TUC

Smith, Sally Bedell

Summary: "When the Duke of Windsor abdicated the throne in 1936, his shy, uncertain, unprepared younger brother became King. Sally Bedell Smith was granted by Queen Elizabeth II special access to the letters and diaries of George VI and Elizabeth, to tell the story of how their love, devotion, and strong marriage led George VI to overcome insecurities and difficulty speaking and to become an exceptional...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SMI

Vance, J. D.

Summary: Vance, a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, provides an account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm. J. D. Vance tells the true story...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2017

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4 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 VANCE, J.D. VAN

Brandreth, Gyles Daubeney

Summary: This is the story of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh - the longest-serving consort to the longest-reigning sovereign in British history. It is an extraordinary story, told with unique insight and authority by an author who knew the prince for more than forty years. Philip - elusive, complex, controversial, challenging, often humorous, sometimes irascible - is the man Elizabeth II once...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Coronet 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PHILIP, PRINCE BRA

Vance, J. D.

Summary: Shares the story of the author's family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan that included the author, a Yale Law School graduate, while navigating the demands of middle class life and the collective demons of the past.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VAN

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 VAN

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6 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VANCE, J.D. VAN
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 Van

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