Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas
By: Donna M. Lucey
3.85
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In this seductive, multilayered biography, based on original letters and diaries, Donna M. Lucey il…
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1. The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
By: Myra MacPherson
3.47
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
A fresh look at the life and times of Victoria Woodhull and Tennie Claflin, two sisters whose radic… read more
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- biography
- history
- historical
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- womens
2. Every Frenchman Has One
By: Olivia de Havilland
3.84
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
Olivia de Havilland planted her standard on the Left Bank of the River Seine in late October of 195… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
3. The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder
By: Daniel Stashower
3.69
Format: None pages,
On July 28, 1841, the body of Mary Rogers, a twenty-year-old cigar girl, was found floating in the … read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
4. Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found
By: Frances Larson
3.73
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The human head is exceptional. It accommodates four of our five senses, encases the brain, and boas… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
5. Death in Ecstasy (Roderick Alleyn, #4)
By: Ngaio Marsh
3.77
Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback
When lovely Cara Quayne dropped dead to the floor after drinking the ritual wine at the House of th… read more
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- audiobook
"Look here,' said Nigel suddenly, 'let's pretend it's a detective novel. Where would we be by this time? About halfway through, I should think. Well, who's your pick' 'I am invariably gulled by detect…"-Ngaio Marsh, Death in Ecstasy (Roderick Alleyn, #4)
6. American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the "It" Girl and the Crime of the Century
By: Paula Uruburu
3.88
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The scandalous story of America's first supermodel, sex goddess, and modern celebrity, Evelyn Nesbi… read more
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7. Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
By: Les Standiford
4.09
Format: 372 pages, Paperback
Last Train to Paradiseis acclaimed novelist Les Standiford's fast-paced and gripping true account o… read more
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8. Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X
By: Deborah Davis
3.47
Format: 288 pages,
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9. Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
By: Laura Cumming
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming “combines first-rate art history with deeply felt m… read more
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- art
- art history
- biography
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- historical
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"It is such a long journey out, this one, from where we came; this life, our life, the journey between the first and last shores."-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"We see pictures in time and place. We cannot see them otherwise. They are fragments of our lives, moments of existence that may be as unremarkable as rain or as startling as a clap of thunder. Whatev…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"I cannot get enough of Dutch art. You can turn to this other world -- and it is a picture world as no other, a whole society visualised through time and place, seasons and generations, moment by mome…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"Fabritius is thirty-two, and I was the same age when I first wrote about his self-portrait. He and I remain the same age whenever we meet. He is dead, I am still alive, so the existential maths [sic]…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
10. The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
By: Mallory O'Meara
3.98
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The Lady from the Black Lagoon uncovers the life and work of Milicent Patrick—one of Disney’s first… read more
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- audiobook
"Having a new tattoo really sucks,"-Mallory O'Meara, The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
"To the privileged, equality feels like oppression"-Mallory O'Meara, The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
"One hundred percent of the top American films of 1954, the year Creature from the Black Lagoon was released, were directed by men. Ninety-six percent of the top American films for 2016, the year I st…"-Mallory O'Meara, The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
"Milicent Patrick’s final resting place is in every single Creature from the Black Lagoon T-shirt, every Metaluna Mutant toy, every VHS tape of Fantasia, every DVD of The Shape of Water. It’s on the d…"-Mallory O'Meara, The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
11. The Family Roe: An American Story
By: Joshua Prager
4.13
Format: 672 pages, Hardcover
Despite her famous pseudonym, “Jane Roe,” no one knows the truth about Norma McCorvey (1947–2017), … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- history
- audiobook
12. Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul
By: Michael Fanone
4.54
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An urgent warning about the growing threat to our democracy from… read more
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- biography
- history
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"That’s why “reforming"-Michael Fanone, Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul
"Mom, they tried to kill me."-Michael Fanone, Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul
"I wasn't a "good" cop or a "bad" cop. I was an "every" cop."-Michael Fanone, Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul
"To say that members of Congress have egos is like saying that I like cold beer."-Michael Fanone, Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul
13. The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free
By: Paulina Bren
3.67
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning author Paulina Bren comes the remarkable history of New York’s most famous resid… read more
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- history
- historical
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- womens
- audiobook
"[Negli anni '30] Molti ritenevano anche, sebbene il Women's Bureau del governo avesse ripetutamente contraddetto tale convinzione, che le donne lavoravano per comprarsi il superfluo, rubando i posti …"-Paulina Bren, The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free
"Nel 1932, ventisei Stati avevano decretato che fosse illegale per le donne sposate avere un lavoro, e negli Stati in cui non era obbligatorio lasciare il lavoro al momento delle nozze era comunque ne…"-Paulina Bren, The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free
"[Negli anni ‘50] Le regole erano chiare, e le attese elevatissime: le donne dovevano essere vergini ma non bacchettone; dovevano fare l'università, dedicarsi a un certo tipo di carriera e poi rinunci…"-Paulina Bren, The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free
14. The Man in the Red Coat
By: Julian Barnes
3.68
Format: 311 pages, ebook
The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty tour of Bel… read more
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- art
- biography
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The past is the present's toy and plaything, gratifyingly unable to answer back."-Julian Barnes, The Man in the Red Coat
"Art outlasts individual whim, family pride, society's orthodoxy; art always has time on its side."-Julian Barnes, The Man in the Red Coat
15. The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History's Most Astonishing Murder Ring
By: Patti McCracken
3.45
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The Angel Makers is a true-crime story like no other--a 1920s midwife who may have been the century… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
16. Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University
By: Richard White
3.26
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son.… read more
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- history
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
17. Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over
By: Nell Irvin Painter
3.50
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
How are women, and artists, "seen" and judged by their age, race, and looks? And how does this seei… read more
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- biography
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas
By: Donna M. Lucey
3.85
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In this seductive, multilayered biography, based on original letters and diaries, Donna M. Lucey il… read more
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- 19th century
- historical
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- womens
- audiobook
19. Girl in Black and White: The Story of Mary Mildred Williams and the Abolition Movement
By: Jessie Morgan-Owens
3.71
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The riveting, little-known story of Mary Mildred Williams—a slave girl who looked “white”—whose pho… read more
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- 19th century
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. The Gilded Edge: Two Audacious Women and the Cyanide Love Triangle That Shook America
By: Catherine Prendergast
3.81
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
Astonishingly well written, painstakingly researched, and set in the evocative locations of earthqu… read more
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- biography
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
21. Mr. President, How Long Must We Wait?: Alice Paul, Woodrow Wilson, and the Fight for the Right to Vote
By: Tina Cassidy
4.17
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this “heroic narrative” ( The Wall Street Journal ), discover the inspiring and timely account o… read more
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- history
- historical
- nonfiction
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