Sophia: Mother of Kings: The Finest Queen Britain Never Had
By: Catherine Curzon
4.02
Format: 193 pages, Hardcover
Sophia, Electress of Hanover, was born to greatness. Granddaughter of James I and mother to George …
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1. Titanic Survivor: The Newly Discovered Memoirs of Violet Jessop Who Survived Both the Titanic and Britannic Disasters
By: Violet Jessop , John Maxtone-Graham
3.54
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
After a childhood in Argentina and formative years in England, Violet Jessop spent her entire caree… read more
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2. The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
By: Lindsey Fitzharris
3.44
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
The gripping story of how Joseph Lister's antiseptic method changed medicine forever In The Butcher… read more
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3. Circling the Sun
By: Paula McLain
4.40
Format: 82 pages, Hardcover
Brought to Kenya from England as a child and then abandoned by her mother, Beryl is raised by both … read more
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4. King George & Queen Caroline
By: John van der Kiste
2.50
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
This biography of the last king to lead British troups into baffle and his able wife provides intri… read more
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5. Babylon's Ashes (The Expanse, #6)
By: James S.A. Corey
4.50
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
The Free Navy - a violent group of Belters in black-market military ships - has crippled the Earth … read more
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6. The Paris Secret
By: Karen Swan
4.42
Format: 718 pages,
Not every door should be opened . . . With stunning locations and page-turning tension, The Paris S… read more
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7. The Painted Veil
By: W. Somerset Maugham
3.44
Format: 336 pages,
Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, The Painted Veilis the story of the beautiful, but love-… read more
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8. Queens of the Conquest: England’s Medieval Queens
By: Alison Weir
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The story of England's medieval queens is vivid and stirring, packed with tragedy, high drama and e… read more
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9. The Good People
By: Hannah Kent
3.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
From the author of Burial Rites, "a literary novel with the pace and tension of a thriller [that] t… read more
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10. George V's Children
By: John van der Kiste
3.65
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
The six children of King George V and Queen Mary all lived to maturity except the youngest, Prince … read more
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11. Zorba the Greek
By: None , None , Nikos Kazantzakis
4.04
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
The classic novel, international sensation, and inspiration for the film starring Anthony Quinn exp… read more
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"فالروح نفسها تبدو وكأنها بحر وغيمة وعطر"-None, Zorba the Greek
"كم هو حزين ان تسير بمفردك على ساحل البحر"-None, Zorba the Greek
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"You can knock on a deaf man's door forever."-None, Zorba the Greek
12. The Widows of Malabar Hill (Perveen Mistry, #1)
By: Sujata Massey
3.67
Format: 117 pages, Hardcover
Bombay, 1921: Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her f… read more
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13. Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day
By: Peter Zuckerman , Amanda Padoan
4.16
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
When Edmund Hillary first conquered Mt. Everest, Sherpa Tenzing Norgay was at his side. Indeed, for… read more
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14. Edward VII's Children
By: John van der Kiste
3.48
Format: 241 pages, ebook
Of the six children of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, only the future King George V has ever … read more
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15. Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake, #1)
By: C.J. Sansom
3.71
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
It is 1537, a time of revolution that sees the greatest changes in England since 1066. Henry VIII h… read more
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16. Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
By: Sonia Purnell
4.54
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
A long-overdue tribute to the extraordinary woman behind Winston Churchill By Winston Churchill's o… read more
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17. Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman
By: Lucy Worsley
4.20
Format: 498 pages, Kindle Edition
A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural his… read more
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18. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
19. The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream
By: Charles Spencer
4.06
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The sinking of the White Ship is one of the greatest disasters in English history. Here, Sunday Tim… read more
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20. Lost Heirs of the Medieval Crown: The Kings and Queens Who Never Were
By: J.F. Andrews
4.23
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
“A fascinating study of the also-rans and almost-made-its of medieval history . . . Beautifully wri… read more
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21. The Facemaker
By: Lindsey Fitzharris
4.29
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
Lindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, presents the compelling, true s… read more
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22. 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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23. 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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24. Royal Witches: Witchcraft and the Nobility in Fifteenth-Century England
By: Gemma Hollman
3.80
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Until the mass hysteria of the seventeenth century, accusations of witchcraft in England were rare.… read more
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25. On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
By: Caroline Dodds Pennock
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Ag… read more
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26. In the Shadow of the Empress: The Defiant Lives of Maria Theresa, Mother of Marie Antoinette, and Her Daughters
By: Nancy Goldstone
4.16
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
The vibrant, sprawling saga of Empress Maria Theresa—one of the most renowned women rulers in histo… read more
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27. The Coburgs of Belgium
By: Theo Aronson
3.96
Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition
The Coburgs, remarked Bismarck, were ‘the stud farm of Europe'; if unkindly phrased, there was neve… read more
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28. Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Hearts
By: Nadine Akkerman
3.95
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
The dazzling new biography of one of history's most misunderstood queens Elizabeth Stuart is one… read more
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29. Sophia: Mother of Kings: The Finest Queen Britain Never Had
By: Catherine Curzon
4.02
Format: 193 pages, Hardcover
Sophia, Electress of Hanover, was born to greatness. Granddaughter of James I and mother to George … read more
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30. Catherine of Aragon: Infanta of Spain, Queen of England
By: Theresa Earenfight
3.77
Format: 251 pages, Hardcover
Catherine of Aragon is an elusive subject. Despite her status as a Spanish infanta , Princess of Wa… read more
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