The Accidental Empress

The Empress is a dazzling reimagining of the courtship between one ofhistory's most iconic and beloved couples: Sisi and Franz of Austria.Publisher...

Publisher: Strident Publishing LimitedAuthor(s): Kirkland CicconeNumber of pages: 240Collection: Castlecrankie ChroniclesPublication date: 2014Dime...

Reducere. Born a princess of Schleswig-Holstein in 1858, Empress Augusta Victoria, known in the family as 'Dona', was marked out from early childhood as a po...

In this touching saga a young woman from the slums of 1930s Ireland sets out for Liverpool - and dreams of a life on the ocean waves working on the...

Reducere. This memoir by empress Farah Pahlavi looks back on her reign over an Iran so modern it is unrecognizable today--written just a few years before the...

Out of the thrilling and tempestuous eighteenth century comes the sweeping family saga of beautiful Maria Theresa, a sovereign of extraordinary str...

Reducere. Don't miss the first book in the Anthony Award-winning Accidental Alchemist Mystery Series by USA Today bestselling author Gigi Pandian. A chance f...

A new, hilarious book from author Tom McLaughlin, creator of the highly-acclaimed The Accidental Prime Minister. Funny by Name. Funny by Nature. Ja...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Tanika (Author) GuptaNumber of pages: 144Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 129 x 197 x 14Cover type:...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Tanika (Author) GuptaNumber of pages: 152Collection: Student EditionsPublication date: 2022Dimension...

Reducere. As one of the very first women in law enforcement in 1965 in Franklin County, Ohio, Nancy Gene Giles faced challenges in a male-dominated professio...

Reducere. Pasari de ceata - pentru-o mana de orez, din somnul cui vin? Kiri no tori - for a handful of rice grains from whose dream they come? Editie bilingv...

Reducere. Oscar Hijuelos vividly brings to life the joys, desires, and disappointment of American life witnessed through the experience of a formerly prosper...

Some secrets change the worldOnce a privileged heiress, Annabelle Ross is now struggling to hold her home and her life together through the devasta...

Accidental Amnesia by Tyler Anne Snell Robbed of her memory... and implicated in a murder.Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Geri Krotow...

"The most unimpressive favorite in history." "Fat, clumsy, gushing and stupid." These were but a few of the things said about Anna Vyroubova, favor...

From a bestselling author in Mexico comes her English-language debut--an enthralling historical novel about the tragic reign of Empress Carlota of ...

Reducere. Crown Princess Ioanna of Xytae has kept her truthsayer blessing a secret for twenty years. In any other nation, her powerful magic would be cause f...

Reducere. The last decades of the nineteenth century were a violent period in China's history marked by humiliating foreign incursions and domestic rebellion...

Publisher: Little, Brown & CompanyAuthor(s): YunaNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 146 x 210 x 15Cover type: Paperback / softba...

Paul Krugman has made a reputation for himself by telling us the truth about economics however unlikely it may seem and however little we want to b...

Gigi is a little girl who dreams of being special. She'd love to be a ballerina like her mother, butshe just isn't able to keep her feet going in t...

Reducere. With the heart of an Atwood tale and the visuals of a classic Asian period drama, Nghi Vo's The Empress of Salt and Fortune is a tightly and lushly...

Reducere. Empress Alexandra Romanov - the last empress of Russia, wife of Tsar Nicholas II, and now a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church - chose Countess S...

Ruthless and passionate, Catherine the Great is singularly responsible for amassing one of the most awe-inspiring collections of art in the world a...

Less than a decade after Queen Elizabeth I, a Muslim woman ruled an empire more than twenty- five times the size of Elizabethan England and vastly ...

When it came to hunting, she was a master shot. As a dress designer, few could compare. An ingenious architect, she innovated the use of marble in ...

About the AuthorKenneth Atkinson is a professor of history at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls. The author of several books, he is re...

This account of Queen Victoria's relationship with the Raj argues for the monarch's engagement with India's culture and politics having been humane...

Paperback edition of the extraordinary biography of the woman who single-handedly dragged China into the modern age, from the author of }Wild Swans...