A Woman of Influence: The Spectacular Rise of Alice Spencer in Tudor England
By: Vanessa Wilkie
4.11
Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. Things I've Been Silent About
By: Azar Nafisi
3.72
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
I started making a list in my diary entitled Things I Have Been Silent About. Under it I wrote: “Fa… read more
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"I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you. In one way or another we articulate what has happened to us through the kind of people we become."-Azar Nafisi, Things I've Been Silent About
"Our personal fears and emotions are at times stronger than public danger. By keeping them secret, we allow them to remain malignant. You need to be able to articulate something if you want it to go a…"-Azar Nafisi, Things I've Been Silent About
"All our lives my brother and I were caught by the fictions my parents told us—fictions about themselves as well as others. Each wanted us to judge the other in his or her favor. Sometimes I felt chea…"-Azar Nafisi, Things I've Been Silent About
"What I am searching for is the gaps - the silences. This is how I see the past: as an excavation. You sift through the rubble, pick up one fragment here, another there, label it and record where you …"-Azar Nafisi, Things I've Been Silent About
2. Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
By: Bill Schutt , None
4.32
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
For centuries scientists have written off cannibalism as a bizarre phenomenon with little biologica… read more
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3. Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe
By: John Guy
4.16
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
“A fierce, scholarly tour-de-force. . . . Hunting the Falcon brilliantly shows how time, circumst… read more
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- british literature
- historical
- nonfiction
- tudor period
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4. Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words
By: Jenni Nuttall
3.82
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
An enlightening linguistic journey through a thousand years of feminist language--and what we can l… read more
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- historical
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- history
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5. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
By: Antonia Hylton
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
6. Empty Theatre: or, The Lives of King Ludwig II of Bavaria and Empress Sisi of Austria (Queen of Hungary), Cousins, in Their Pursuit of Connection and Beauty...
By: Jac Jemc
3.90
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A wildly over-the-top social satire reimagining the mad misadventures of the iconic royal cousins K… read more
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- historical
- audiobook
"Loneliness is keenest when in the company of others, when comparisons suggest that everyone else is relating to and forming bonds with one another ... To make a connection requires risking rejection.…"-Jac Jemc, Empty Theatre: or, The Lives of King Ludwig II of Bavaria and Empress Sisi of Austria (Queen of Hungary), Cousins, in Their Pursuit of Connection and Beauty...
7. Cleopatra's Daughter: From Roman Prisoner to African Queen
By: Jane Draycott
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The first modern biography of one of the most influential yet long-neglected rulers of the ancient … read more
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- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- audiobook
8. The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of British History at Hampton Court
By: Gareth Russell
4.21
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
The popular and “scrupulous historian” (Daily Mail , London) Gareth Russell presents five hundred y… read more
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- history
- british literature
- historical
- nonfiction
- european history
- tudor period
- medieval
- audiobook
9. The Passionate Tudor: A Novel of Queen Mary I
By: Alison Weir
4.02
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of the Six Tudor Queens series explores the dramatic and poig… read more
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- audiobook
10. The Tudors in Love: Passion and Politics in the Age of England's Most Famous Dynasty
By: Sarah Gristwood
3.71
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Sarah Gristwood's The Tudors in Love offers a brilliant history of the Tudor dynasty, showing how t… read more
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- history
- british literature
- historical
- nonfiction
- tudor period
- audiobook
11. Blood, Fire and Gold
By: Estelle Paranque
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
'A story told with verve and passion' The Times, Book of the Week'An alternative and engaging biogr… read more
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- european history
- tudor period
- audiobook
12. Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature
By: Elizabeth Winkler
4.21
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An “extraordinarily brilliant” and “pleasurably naughty” (André Aciman) investigation into the Shak… read more
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- history
- british literature
- historical
- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery
By: Earl Swift
3.98
Format: 419 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Chesapeake Requiem comes a gripping new wor… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
14. A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire
By: Emma Southon
4.23
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum comes a wildly entertai… read more
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- history
- historical
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- audiobook
15. Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History
By: Tracy Borman
4.26
Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
Anne Boleyn is a subject of enduring fascination. By far the most famous of Henry VIII's six wives,… read more
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- nonfiction
- tudor period
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16. Margaret of Austria: Governor of the Netherlands and Early 16th-Century Europe's Greatest Diplomat
By: Rozsa Gaston
4.30
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗲𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗮 was the most significant political negotiator of early 16th century Europe. Abo… read more
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- biography
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- medieval
17. Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power
By: Leah Redmond Chang
4.18
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de’ Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and M… read more
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- audiobook
18. The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice
By: C. Alexander Hortis
3.61
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Before the sensational cases of Amanda Knox and Casey Anthony—before even Lizzie Borden—there was P… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
19. The Real Queen Charlotte
By: Catherine Curzon
3.76
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Known to millions as the imperious matriarch of Bridgerton’s court, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Streli… read more
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20. I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever
By: Barbara Rae-Venter
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For twelve years the Golden State Killer terrorized California, stalking victims and killing withou… read more
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"The cost in time, personnel, and money for trying to identify the Golden State Killer prior to the use of IGG was significant,"-Barbara Rae-Venter, I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever
21. 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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- audiobook
22. Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage
By: Nathalia Holt
3.93
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The never-before-told story of a small cadre of influential female spies in the precarious early da… read more
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- historical
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- audiobook
"A woman who will tell you her age will tell you anything"-Nathalia Holt, Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage
23. Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson
By: Rebecca Boggs Roberts
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A nuanced portrait of the first acting woman president, written with fresh and cinematic verve by a… read more
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- audiobook
24. The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History
By: Elizabeth Norton
3.87
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
The Tudor period conjures up images of queens and noblewomen in elaborate court dress; of palace in… read more
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- european history
- tudor period
- audiobook
25. The Curse of the Marquis de Sade: A Notorious Scoundrel, a Mythical Manuscript, and the Biggest Scandal in Literary History
By: Joel Warner
3.60
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The captivating, deeply reported true story of how one of the most notorious novels ever written—Ma… read more
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- biography
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- audiobook
26. Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist
By: Jennifer Wright
4.19
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“This is the story of one of the boldest women in American history: a self-made millionaire, a cele… read more
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- history
- historical
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27. House of Lilies: The Dynasty That Made Medieval France
By: Justine Firnhaber-Baker
4.30
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The definitive history of the Capetians, the crusading dynasty that made the French crown the wealt… read more
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- medieval
28. When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe
By: Maureen Quilligan
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Library Journal • "Books and Authors to Know: Titles to Watch 2021" Sixteenth-century Europe w… read more
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"In a short six weeks, the “Northern Rebellion,"-Maureen Quilligan, When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe
"Although these were not necessarily gifts Mary consciously gave to Elizabeth, as the first independent queen of England it was she who established a powerful rhetoric for female rule, which Elizabeth…"-Maureen Quilligan, When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe
"Mary Stuart and Elizabeth both aimed at toleration in an intolerant age, in the same ways that Catherine de’ Medici, the mother-in-law of one and the almost mother-in-law of another English queen, la…"-Maureen Quilligan, When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe
"Because [Michel de Castelnau] had been charged with making peace between [Mary Stuart] and her barons, he ignored Mary’s adamant insistence on how anti-monarchal she considered the rebel lords to be;…"-Maureen Quilligan, When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe
29. A Woman of Influence: The Spectacular Rise of Alice Spencer in Tudor England
By: Vanessa Wilkie
4.11
Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition
This “engrossing, fast-paced, extremely well-researched biography” (Booklist) transports us to Tudo… read more
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- historical
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- european history
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30. Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan
By: Ruby Lal
3.57
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
A captivating biography of one of the world’s greatest adventurers, the itinerant Mughal Princess G… read more
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