The Empress - Meg Clothier

For a contemporary artist of serious aesthetic purpose, David Hockney enjoys immense, perhaps unequaled public visibility: the shock of dyed blond ...

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...

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. "Submarinul unei echipe de cercetatori este atacat de o creatura marina uriasa, despre care se stia ca disparuse, iar acum a ramas avariata pe fund...

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...

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

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

Everything you need to know about the sea and shore, from high tides to half-hitches.Publisher: Profile Books LtdAuthor(s): Chris ClothierIllustrat...

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...

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

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

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...

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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...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Mighty Meg book 4, Meg pulls a page from comic book superheroes by trying to create her very own superhero disguise Can she find the ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn book 3 of the Mighty Meg series, Meg finds her nemesis in a mean boy at school who may have super-strength After mastering her superp...

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...

Reducere. DescriptionAn extraordinary book that combines travel- and history-writing with brilliant storytelling to give us a portrait of Mumtaz Mahal, in wh...

Nothing preordained Elisabeth of Wittelsbach, known as "Sissi", to become Empress of Austria at the age of seventeen. It was, in fact, despite hers...

DescriptionThis evocative collection celebrates the prescience, wit, and enduring relevance of a fashion legend. Diana Vreeland's insightful edicts...

Reducere. When the British Arean Company founded its Martian colony, it welcomed any settlers it could get. Outcasts, misfits, and dreamers emigrated in drov...

The astonishing true story of how Catherine the Great joined forces with a Quaker doctor from Essex to spearhead a groundbreaking public health cam...

Reducere. Fitzwilliam Darcy avoided visiting Hertfordshire when first invited by his friends, but when an engagement is announced between Charles Bingley and...

DescriptionGendered Power sheds light on the sources of power for three prominent women of the Meiji period: Meiji Empress Haruko; public speaker, ...

Reducere. The thrilling sequel to S.J. Kincaid's New York Times bestselling novel, The Diabolic, which TeenVogue.com called "the perfect kind of high-pressur...

How a unique alliance between two women in the 1970s led to the acquisition of a treasure trove of modern art now worth billionsIn the 1970s, Ameri...

Publisher: Stenlake PublishingAuthor(s): Peter J. KeatIllustration(s): 90 photographs, illustrationsNumber of pages: 96Collection: Series XPublicat...