5 Top biography books like The Transatlantic Marriage Bureau: Husband Hunting in the Gilded Age: How American Heiresses Conquered the Aristocracy by Julie Ferry

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The Transatlantic Marriage Bureau: Husband Hunting in the Gilded Age: How American Heiresses Conquered the Aristocracy

By: Julie Ferry

3.50

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

In 1895 nine American heiresses travelled across the Atlantic and bagged themselves husbands and ti…

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1. A Woman's Place

By: Barbara Delinsky

4.01

Format: 405 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Everything Claire Raphael has she's earned. On her own. The hard way. She built her part-time busin… read more

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2. The Transatlantic Marriage Bureau: Husband Hunting in the Gilded Age: How American Heiresses Conquered the Aristocracy

By: Julie Ferry

3.50

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

In 1895 nine American heiresses travelled across the Atlantic and bagged themselves husbands and ti… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • british literature
  • historical
  • edwardian
  • nonfiction

3. The Custom of the Country

By: Edith Wharton , Linda Wagner-Martin

3.61

Format: 8 pages, Paperback

Considered by many to be her masterpiece, Edith Wharton's second full-length work is a scathing yet… read more

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4. The Beach House

By: Jane Green

3.64

Format: 288 pages,

Nan Powell is a free-spirited, sixty-five-year-old widow who's not above skinny-dipping in her neig… read more

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5. First Ladies: Presidential Historians on the Lives of 45 Iconic American Women

By: None , C-SPAN

3.91

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A look inside the personal life of every first lady in American history, based on original intervie… read more

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6. The Real Odessa: How Peron Brought the Nazi War Criminals to Argentina

By: None

4.16

Format: None pages, Paperback

Drawing on American and European intelligence documents, Uki Goni shows how from 1946 onward a Nazi… read more

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7. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War

By: Karen Abbott

3.64

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Karen Abbott, the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and "pioneer of sizzl… read more

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8. The Forgotten Palace

By: Alexandra Walsh

4.19

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

In an underground labyrinth a lost soul wanders, waiting for revenge, waiting for love…  London … read more

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9. The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

By: Lucy Adlington

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"En Auschwitz-Birkenau, los internos aprendieron enseguida que era pocas las pertenencias personales realmente esenciales para vivir: ropa, calzado y un plato para la comida. Más allá de eso, lo que c…"

-Lucy Adlington, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

"En Auschwitz-Birkenau, los internos aprendieron enseguida que eran pocas las pertenencias personales realmente esenciales para vivir: ropa, calzado y un plato para la comida. Más allá de eso, lo que …"

-Lucy Adlington, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

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10. A Perilous Perspective (Lady Darby Mystery, #10)

By: Anna Lee Huber

4.24

Format: 387 pages, Paperback

An all-new historical mystery in this USA Today bestselling series featuring beloved inquiry agents… read more

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11. The Last Dollar Princess

By: Linda Bennett Pennell

4.13

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

It must be said. Scandal follows her family like an ever-faithful hound. No matter how hard they ki… read more

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  • historical
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12. The American Countess (An American Heiress Book 2)

By: Linda Bennett Pennell

4.40

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

Yorkshire Dales, August 1913 American heiress India, Lady Kilnsey, enjoys the very comfortable l… read more

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13. The Divorcées

By: Rowan Beaird

3.15

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Lois Saunders thought marrying the right man would cure her loneliness, but as picture-perfect as h… read more

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  • historical
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14. The Other Side of the Coin: The Queen, the Dresser and the Wardrobe

By: Angela Kelly

3.78

Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition

THE OFFICIAL BOOK, FULLY ENDORSED BY QUEEN ELIZABETH II From Her Majesty’s trusted confidant and D… read more

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  • biography
  • british literature
  • historical
  • nonfiction
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15. A Dress of Violet Taffeta

By: Tessa Arlen

4.01

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A sumptuous novel based on the fascinating true story of Belle Epoque icon Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon, … read more

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  • historical
  • british literature
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16. The Ghost Tattoo

By: Tony Bernard

4.33

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, profoundly moving Holocaust memoir from a rarely told perspective, this is the story of… read more

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  • history
  • biography
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Cover of Such Good Friends: A Novel of Truman Capote & Lee Radziwill by Stephen Greco

17. Such Good Friends: A Novel of Truman Capote & Lee Radziwill

By: Stephen Greco

3.71

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

“Fans of Capote and the era of Camelot should be delighted.” —Shana Abé, New York Times bestsellin… read more

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18. The Catherine Howard Conspiracy (The Marquess House Saga #1)

By: Alexandra Walsh

4.29

Format: 500 pages, Kindle Edition

A timeshift thriller that will have you completely gripped! Perfect for fans of Dan Brown, Philippa… read more

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  • british literature
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19. A Most English Princess: A Novel of Queen Victoria's Daughter

By: Clare McHugh

3.71

Format: 470 pages, Paperback

To the world, she was Princess Victoria, daughter of a queen, wife of an emperor, and mother of Kai… read more

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  • british literature
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20. The Scourge of the Swastika: A History of Nazi War Crimes During World War II

By: Edward Frederick Langley Russell, Baron of Liverpool

4.12

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

When discussing the German war crimes of the Second World War, modern histories have focused on the… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
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21. The Daughters of George III: Sisters and Princesses

By: Catherine Curzon

3.84

Format: 186 pages, Hardcover

From secret marriages to scandalous pregnancies and leeches to love affairs, the six daughters of G… read more

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6 Best history books like The Transatlantic Marriage Bureau: Husband Hunting in the Gilded Age: How American Heiresses Conquered the Aristocracy by Julie Ferry

Transform Your Habits

The Transatlantic Marriage Bureau: Husband Hunting in the Gilded Age: How American Heiresses Conquered the Aristocracy

Julie Ferry

3.50

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The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

Lucy Adlington

4.09

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The Other Side of the Coin: The Queen, the Dresser and the Wardrobe

Angela Kelly

3.78

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The Ghost Tattoo

Tony Bernard

4.33

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What the Lady Wants: A Novel of Marshall Field and the Gilded Age

Renée Rosen

3.71

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Diane C. McPhail

3.79

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Allison Pataki

4.11

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Linda Bennett Pennell

4.13

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