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Braver presents this highly imaginative novel about the last years of Sarah Bernhardt, exploring her opium addiction, her many sexual liasons, and ... More

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An historically detailed account of the life of an actress, based on the true story of Sarah Bernhardt whose career began in Paris during the 1860s ... More

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Award-winner Peter Lovesey returns with his third whimsical whodunit--starring the endearing and highly entertaining Victorian royal sleuth, Bertie, ... More

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"Originally published in Great Britain in 1952 by Arrow Books"--T. p. verso.

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The beloved and prolific English historical novelist Plaidy (a.k.a. Victoria Holt and Eleanor Hibbert) is back, thanks to Three Rivers Press's ... More

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Includes a reader's guide and an excerpt from Days of splendor, days of sorrow: a novel of Marie Antoinette.

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I was ten years old when I discovered I might be a witch...The sixteenth century: the era of queens. Catherine de Medici is an impressionable, ... More

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The most celebrated actress of her age, Sarah Bernhardt - "La Divine" - achieved a remarkable degree of fame in an era before film and television. In ... More

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"A smart, sensitive book about independence, identity, and survival. Scott can really write. Her sentences are lean and move with authority."--THE ... More

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The Good Doctor Guillotin follows five characters to a common destination--the scaffold at the first guillotining of the French Revolution: Dr. ... More

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Princess Mary Rose is the youngest sister of King Henry VIII, and one of the few people whom he adores unconditionally. Known throughout Europe for ... More

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From London's slums to its bawdy playhouses, "The Darling Strumpet" transports readers to 17th-century England, charting the meteoric rise of the ... More

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When her father is assigned the task of spying on the French Court, the charming and sweetly innocent Anne Boleyn is delighted by the thought of a ... More

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An absorbing debut novel about the photograher Edward Steichen's wartime return to France and his reckoning with his painful past.

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Empress Josephine's family has been called to Napoleon's court to hear the terrible news that he intends to divorce his wife of thirteen years - who ... More

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"Originally published in the United Kingdom in 1952 by Robert Hale Ltd."--T.p. verso.

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Originally published as: The Queen's favorite. London: Hale, 1966.

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Sarah Jennings' ascent from poverty to the highest echelons of late 17th- and early 18th-century English society has all the trappings of supermarket ... More

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