The Sphinx: The Life of Gladys Deacon – Duchess of Marlborough
By: Hugo Vickers
3.84
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
One of the most beautiful and brilliant women of her time, Gladys Deacon dazzled, as much as she pu…
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1. The Glitter and the Gold
By: Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan
3.56
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A new edition of Consuela Vanderbilt Balsan's memoir—the story of the "real" Lady Grantham of Downt… read more
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2. The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York
By: Anne de Courcy
4.29
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange i… read more
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3. The Housekeeper's Tale - The Women who really ran the English Country House
By: Tessa Boase
0.00
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
The story of The Housekeeper's Tale follows the lives of five women to delve into the secret existe… read more
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4. Bess of Hardwick: First Lady of Chatsworth, 1527-1608
By: Mary S. Lovell
3.54
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the author of The Sisters, a chronicle of the most brutal, turbulent, and exuberant period of … read more
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5. Rose: My Life in Service to Lady Astor
By: Rosina Harrison
4.00
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
In 1928, Rosina Harrison arrived at the illustrious household of the Astor family to take up her ne… read more
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6. Mrs. Astor Regrets: The Hidden Betrayals of a Family Beyond Reproach
By: Meryl Gordon
3.70
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
A riveting look behind the gates of the house of Astor as a famous family falls apart in public The… read more
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7. Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters
By: Laura Thompson
3.70
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman… read more
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8. How to Murder Your Life
By: Cat Marnell
3.87
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
At the age of 15, Cat Marnell unknowingly set out to murder her life. After a privileged yet emotio… read more
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9. The Rothschilds
By: Virginia Cowles
3.37
Format: 40 pages,
Perhaps no other name in history can so truly encapsulate the phrase "rags to riches" as Rothschild… read more
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10. Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt
By: Arthur T. Vanderbilt II
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
Vanderbilt: the very name signifies wealth. The family patriarch, "the Commodore," built up a fortu… read more
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11. Capote
By: Gerald Clarke
5.00
Format: None pages,
From instant celebrity at age 23 to alcoholic loner by mid-life, Truman Capote streaked across the … read more
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12. Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown
By: Anne Glenconner
4.06
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary memoir of drama, tragedy, and royal secrets by Anne Glenconner--a close member of … read more
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"According to Princess Margaret, "You can't possibly have a picnic without your butler."-Anne Glenconner, Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown
"One of the protocols of being in the company of a member of the Royal Family is that if they are standing, you have to stand - you can't sit down until they do. They seem to do an awful lot of standi…"-Anne Glenconner, Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown
13. Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau
By: Susan J. Eischeid
4.21
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The first-ever biography of SS Overseer Maria Mandl, the highest-ranked woman in the Nazi killing m… read more
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14. The Good Wife: The Shocking Betrayal and Brutal Murder of a Godly Woman in Texas
By: Clint Richmond
3.95
Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition
Roger and Penny Scaggs seemed a poster couple for family values. Evangelical Christians living in b… read more
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15. Hell's Half-Acre : The Untold Story of the Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family
By: Susan Jonusas
3.45
Format: 345 pages, Hardcover
A suspense filled tale of murder on the American frontier—shedding new light on a family of serial … read more
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- nonfiction
16. Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era
By: Laurence Leamer
3.83
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Laurence Leamer reveals the complex web of relationships and scan… read more
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17. Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century
By: Roseanne Montillo
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Exploring the darkly intertwined fates of infamous socialite Ann Woodward and literary icon Truman … read more
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18. Wives Like Us
By: Plum Sykes
3.55
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Take a grand English country house, one (heartbroken) American divorcee, three rich wives, two tyco… read more
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19. Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy
By: Elizabeth Beller
3.86
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The life and legacy of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy Jr., are reexamined in thi… read more
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20. American Gilt: Absinthe
By: J.D. Peterson
4.13
Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition
Paris, January 1883 – The new year finds Oliver and Sara celebrating their recent marriage. After t… read more
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21. Women of Means: The Fascinating Biographies of Royals, Heiresses, Eccentrics and Other Poor Little Rich Girls
By: Marlene Wagman-Geller
3.44
Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition
People are riveted by royals, captivated by celebrities, mesmerized by the monied and enthralled by… read more
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22. The American Adventuress
By: C.W. Gortner
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A big, juicy biopic novel by the author of Mademoiselle Chanel about the scandalous life of Jennie … read more
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23. An American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew
By: Annejet van der Zijl
3.73
Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition
The true story of a girl from the wilderness settlements of a burgeoning new America who became one… read more
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- biography
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"If you no longer had a future, what else is there left but dreams of the past?"-Annejet van der Zijl, An American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew
"If there was one thing that was truly American, it was the belief that it was always possible to start again."-Annejet van der Zijl, An American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew
24. The Astors (Dynasties Book 1)
By: Virginia Cowles
3.77
Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition
'Recounted at great speed, and with splendid life, vigour and readability' Antonia Fraser The Asto… read more
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25. Zenith Man: Death, Love, and Redemption in a Georgia Courtroom
By: McCracken Poston Jr.
4.45
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Like a nonfiction John Grisham thriller with echoes of Rainman, Just Mercy, and a captivating small… read more
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26. The House of Dudley: A New History of Tudor England
By: Joanne Paul
4.17
Format: 506 pages, Hardcover
Told for the very first time, this is the shocking and extraordinary story of the most-conniving an… read more
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27. Upstairs & Downstairs: My Life In Service as a Lady's Maid
By: Tim Tate
3.85
Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition
A fascinating memoir of life as a lady's maid in a big house in the 1930s, covering the beauty of t… read more
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28. The Mountbattens: Their Lives & Loves
By: Andrew Lownie
3.66
Format: 528 pages, Kindle Edition
DICKIE MOUNTBATTEN: A major figure behind his nephew Philip's marriage to Queen Elizabeth II and in… read more
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29. The Sphinx: The Life of Gladys Deacon – Duchess of Marlborough
By: Hugo Vickers
3.84
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
One of the most beautiful and brilliant women of her time, Gladys Deacon dazzled, as much as she pu… read more
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30. Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 3): 1943-57
By: Henry Channon
4.43
Format: 1161 pages, Kindle Edition
This third and final volume of the unexpurgated diaries of Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon begins as the … read more
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