The French Wife

David I was never expected to become king, but on succeeding to the Scottish throne in 1124 he quickly demonstrated that he had the skills, ruthles...

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Reducere. Maurice Duruflé The Man and His Music is a new biography of the great French organist and composer (1902-86), and the most comprehensive in any lan...

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Reducere. B.M. Cron's thoroughly researched biography offers a reassessment of Margaret of Anjou's life, her character, her aims and her dealings with the me...

Reducere. Syrian immigrant Moussa Abadi was only 33, and his future wife, Odette Rosenstock, 28, when they found themselves trapped in Nazi-occupied France. ...

Contributor(s): Author: Natalie Zemon DavisThe clever peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse w...

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Reducere. The spectacular murders of a distinguished British scientist, his wife, and their young daughter in the depths of rural France in 1952 prompted one...

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Description6th September, 1942: a middle-aged Jewish refugee stands on the Swiss side of the Franco-Swiss border above Geneva. He has been living i...

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Reducere. The result of a unique international collaborative investigation by Russian, French, and Swiss scholars into hundreds of private, unpublished diari...

As French interests in the Americas dwindled, records indicate very little activity around Mexico Beach until rumors of buried riches and sunken sh...

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Reducere. The Great Lakes fur trade spanned two centuries and thousands of miles, but the story of one particular family, the Cadottes, illuminates the histo...

Reducere. The Gilded Edge is a compelling read from start to finish. Gripping, suspenseful, cinematic. This is narrative nonfiction at its best.-Lindsey Fitz...

Reducere. In this counter-historical novel, Leon Trotsky, the Russian revolutionary, survived the assassination attempt of August 1940. To prevent another su...

Reducere. "Nicci French is a specialist in the kind of evil that burrows from within." --New York Times Book ReviewIn this new heart-pounding standalone from...

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A life .... a Caribbean life ... a life of a distinct Franco-Caribbean identity against the backdrop of the all-consuming French Revolution ... a l...

Reducere. Fran oise d'Aubign , marquise de Maintenon, was born in a French prison in 1635, her father a condemned traitor and murderer, her mother the warden...

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Reducere. Back in print after more than twenty years and for the first time in eBook, Madame Serpent, the first novel in Jean Plaidy's classic Catherine de M...

Reducere. Do you want to read A Tale of Two Cities? If so then keep reading... Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, it tells the story of a fam...

Reducere. Just before Christmas, 1996, a beautiful French woman - the wife of a movie mogul - was brutally murdered outside of her holiday home in a remote r...

Reducere. Absence isn't a hole. It's a presence living inside you, eating its way out.Occupied France, 1943. Returning home from the daily hunt for the ratio...

Reducere. DescriptionA servant and former slave is accused of murdering her employer and his wife in this astonishing historical thriller that moves from a J...

Reducere. Ciji Ware - NY Times & USA Today bestselling author presents A NOVEL INSPIRED BY TRUE STORIES OF EXCEPTIONAL AMERICAN WOMEN & MEN WHO VOLUNTEERED A...

Reducere. In 1925 William Faulkner began his professional writing career in earnest while living in the French Quarter of New Orleans. He had published a vol...

Reducere. 1936, Shreveport, Louisiana Pretty young New Yorker Miriam Levenson finds herself here employed in the only job she can get - interviewing the elde...

Reducere. In 1727, twelve nuns left France to establish a community of Ursuline nuns in New Orleans, the capital of the French colony of Louisiana. Notable f...

Reducere. Named one of Shelf Unbound's 2018 Notable Indie Books and winner of Interviews and Reviews' 2017 Silver Award for Historical Fiction. Jakob Hochste...

Reducere. 1454. A noble French falconer. A spirited merchant's daughter. And a fateful decision that changes their destiny forever.When Cédric is recruited b...

As one of the earliest literary forms of colonial America, the Indian captivity narrative is important not only in the history of American letters ...

Reducere. Extremely Pale Ros follows Jamie Ivey's charming journey as he, his wife, Tanya, and their hilariously debauched friend, Peter, travel the south of...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In this riveting novel, Danielle Steel explores a high-profile affair that reverberates throughout an entire family, fr...

Reducere. A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical acc...

A recent law graduate accepts the invitation of his friend, he travels to Rome, where he is introduced to the 'Project Erika' a military science la...

As the St Clair family prepare for the grand wedding of their daughter, Clarice, trouble is brewing in the shape of an old friendship, a dangerous ...

Mother, wife, warrior, witch--the divine feminine figure has multiple voices and forms. Each goddess represents an aspect of woman, nature, and the...

Sparks of Divinity is a collection of the teachings of yoga master B. K. S. Iyengar first published in a French-English bilingual edition in 1976. ...

Reducere. DescriptionRod Laver's memoir is the inspiring story of how a diminutive, left-handed, red-headed country boy from Rockhampton, Australia became on...

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Vincent Ettrich, a genial philanderer, discovers he has died and come back to life, but he has no idea why, or what the experience was like. Gradua...

Reducere. From historian and acclaimed feminist author of How the French Invented Love and A History of the Wife comes this rich, multifaceted history of the...

Reducere. On May 10, 1940, SS Sturmbannf hrer Gunther Dettmer stands on the border of Germany and France. He waits with the German war machine for the order ...

Reducere. Nearing her thirtieth birthday, Eleanor of Aquitaine has spent the past dozen frustrating years as wife to the pious King Louis VII of France. But ...

Reducere. A majestic tale of colonialism and transformation, Mount Pleasant tells the astonishing story of the birth of modern Cameroon, a place subject to t...

Reducere. Winner of ForeWord Review's 2014 Indie Book of the Year Bronze Award for historical fiction.Drawn into the savage clashes of the French and Indian ...

Reducere. Just how did a dialect spoken by a handful of shepherds in Northern Spain become the world's second most spoken language, the official language of ...

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) From one of the most brilliant and influential thinkers of the twentieth century-two novels, six short stories, and ...

Reducere. The Black Prince of England hungers to capture the lands of France, and Sir Hyatt Laidley is just the knight for the task. In exchange for years of...

Reducere. It is 1757, and the British navy is regrouping from a slow start to the seven years war.A Spanish colonial governor and his family are pursued thro...

Reducere. From international bestselling author Posie Graeme-Evans comes the passionate tale of a woman ahead of her time. Ellen Gowan is the only surviving ...

Having the world famous novelist Leon Uris for a father had its downside. Kidnapped in Hollywood at age one, evacuated from Israel during the Suez ...

Reducere. The story of a man in love with a place, a woman, and a dream. Tom Stone went to Greece one summer to write a novel -- and stayed twenty-two years....

These two plays are set in a shabby genteel hotel on England's south coast. Except for the two leads in each (which may be doubled) the same charac...

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Scotland, 1477: Nicholas de Fleury, former banker and merchant, has re-appeared in the land that, four years earlier, he had brought very close to ...

Reducere. WOMAN OF CAIROHart Muldoon had been a "noble O.S.S. boy" in the fight against the Nazis, but now he is at loose ends. Ready to leave Europe and hea...

Reducere. ABSENCE ISN'T A HOLE. IT'S A PRESENCE LIVING INSIDE YOU, EATING ITS WAY OUT.Occupied France, 1943. Returning home from the daily hunt for the ratio...

Reducere. A New York Times Notable BookFlora Trist n, the illegitimate child of a wealthy Peruvian father and French mother, grows up in poverty and journeys...

Reducere. Judah Benjamin, the rebellion's Mephistopheles, Attorney General, Secretary of War and State and spymaster of the C.S.A., created a Mona Lisa in th...