Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood
By: Hilary A. Hallett
3.77
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Unlike typical romances, which end with wedding bells, Elinor Glyn’s (1864–1943) story really began…
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1. The Vicissitudes of Evangeline
By: Elinor Glyn
3.63
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
An excerpt from the "Branches Park, November 3. I wonder so much if it is amusing to be an adventur… read more
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- romance
2. The Mistresses of Cliveden: Three Centuries of Scandal, Power and Intrigue in an English Stately Home
By: Natalie Livingstone
3.70
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A Sunday Times bestseller, The Mistresses of Cliveden is the extraordinary story of how five women … read more
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- history
- biography
- historical
- nonfiction
- audiobook
3. The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
By: Judith Flanders
3.65
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
"Superb... Flanders's convincing and smart synthesis of the evolution of an official police force, … read more
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4. The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
By: Ron Chernow
3.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
The winner of the National Book Award and now considered a classic, The House of Morganis the most … read more
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5. Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
By: Monica Murphy , Bill Wasik
4.00
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An engrossing, lively history of a fearsome and misunderstood virus that binds man and dog. The mos… read more
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6. Circle in the Water (A Sharon McCone Mystery)
By: Marcia Muller
3.57
Format: 221 pages, Kindle Edition
In this twisting mystery in a New York Times bestselling series, pranks escalate into a deadly sche… read more
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- audiobook
7. Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers
By: Mary Rodgers
4.24
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
The memoirs of Mary Rodgers Guettel--writer, composer, Broadway royalty, and "a woman who tried eve… read more
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- biography memoir
- biography
- history
- nonfiction
8. Dolls of Our Lives
By: Mary Mahoney
3.53
Format: None pages, None
For Feiwel & Friends, Kat Brzozowski bought world rights to a currently untitled book by Allison Ho… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
9. The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History
By: Karen Valby
4.31
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The forgotten story of a pioneering group of five Black ballerinas and their fifty-year sisterhood,… read more
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- biography
- history
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
10. Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears
By: Michael Schulman
4.09
Format: 589 pages, Hardcover
The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively histor… read more
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- history
- film
- historical
- media tie in
- nonfiction
- audiobook
11. Blood & Ink: An Heiress, a Tabloid War, and the Unsolved Double Murder That Hooked America on True Crime
By: Joe Pompeo
3.58
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
Vanity Fair's Joe Pompeo investigates the notorious 1922 double murder of a high-society minister a… read more
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- american history
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
By: Janice P. Nimura
3.59
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope… read more
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- biography
- history
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. White House by the Sea: A Century of the Kennedys at Hyannis Port
By: Kate Storey
4.16
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
“Impeccably researched…captivating!” —Elin Hilderbrand * “A well-paced history.” — The New York Tim… read more
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- american history
- biography
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. 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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- american history
- biography
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. 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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- american history
- biography
- history
- historical
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- 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
16. A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
By: Mark Dawidziak
3.62
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A biography of Edgar Allan Poe that examines the renowned author’s life through the prism of his my… read more
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- biography
- history
- historical
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I have great faith in fools--self-confidence my friends will call it.' -- EDGAR ALLAN POE"-Mark Dawidziak, A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
"The glow of the fireside poets failed to warm a world coping with the cold realities of a new century. Their light faded as we became less sure of comforting messages and more intrigued by Poe's trou…"-Mark Dawidziak, A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
17. The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont
By: Shawn Levy
3.67
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Since 1929, Hollywood’s brightest stars have flocked to the Chateau Marmont as if it were a second … read more
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- american history
- biography
- history
- film
- historical
- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. The Stolen Lady
By: Laura Morelli
3.77
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
From the acclaimed author of The Night Portrait comes a stunning historical novel about two women, … read more
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- historical
- audiobook
"I am a man of peace, but my father loves to argue, to blame to accuse."-Laura Morelli, The Stolen Lady
"That I've perhaps taken a step longer, than my leg. Pride is a mortal sin, of course..."-Laura Morelli, The Stolen Lady
19. Hollywood: The Oral History
By: Jeanine Basinger
4.04
Format: 768 pages, Paperback
The real story of Hollywood as told by such luminaries as Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra, Katharine … read more
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- biography
- history
- film
- media tie in
- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century
By: Dana Stevens
4.19
Format: 432 pages, ebook
Named a Best Book of 2022 by The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, and NPR In this genre-defying work … read more
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- biography
- history
- film
- media tie in
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
21. Sensational: The Hidden History of America's “Girl Stunt Reporters”
By: Kim Todd
3.85
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A vivid social history that brings to light the “girl stunt reporters” of the Gilded Age who went u… read more
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- biography
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I never loved anyone so much that I thought it would last. In fact, I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. (Susan B. Anthony being interviewed by Nellie Bly)"-Kim Todd, Sensational: The Hidden History of America's “Girl Stunt Reporters”
22. 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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- american history
- biography
- history
- historical
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
23. A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts
By: Leanna Renee Hieber
3.68
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
From the notorious Lizzie Borden to the innumerable, haunted rooms of Sarah Winchester's mysterious… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"The power of the name is the same across all people."-Leanna Renee Hieber, A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts
"The symbolic meaning is far more interesting than the literal meaning."-Leanna Renee Hieber, A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts
"Idealization is not reality; it is a dream, an expectation, and a projection that does not need a woman to be alive to still be beholden to its trappings."-Leanna Renee Hieber, A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts
"While it's easy to dismiss and belittle a living woman who dares to be vocally critical or angry, it is much harder to silence a ghost: She has remarkable staying power."-Leanna Renee Hieber, A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts
24. 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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- biography
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- audiobook
25. Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age
By: Debby Applegate
3.82
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The compulsively readable and sometimes jaw-dropping story of the life of a notorious madam who pla… read more
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- american history
- biography
- history
- historical
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
26. Captain of Her Soul: The Life of Marion Davies
By: Lara Gabrielle
4.20
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
The comprehensive critical biography of silent-screen star Marion Davies, who fittingly referred to… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- film
27. The Con Queen of Hollywood: The Hunt for an Evil Genius
By: Scott C. Johnson
3.31
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
“This book is as engrossing as anything by Agatha Christie, as unsettling as a novel by Stephen Kin… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
28. Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood
By: Hilary A. Hallett
3.77
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Unlike typical romances, which end with wedding bells, Elinor Glyn’s (1864–1943) story really began… read more
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- romance
- american history
- biography
- history
- film
- historical
- media tie in
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
29. The Secret Life of the Savoy: and the D'Oyly Carte family
By: Olivia Williams
3.61
Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition
THE STORY OF THE SAVOY HOTEL'S FOUNDERS, THROUGH A CENTURY OF LUXURY."For The Gondoliers-themed bir… read more
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- historical
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
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