The Lady and Her Monsters: A Tale of Dissections, Real-Life Dr. Frankensteins, and the Creation of Mary Shelley's Masterpiece, Paperback - Roseanne Mo

Reducere. The Lady and Her Monsters by Roseanne Motillo brings to life the fascinating times, startling science, and real-life horrors behind Mary Shelley's ...

1906Lady Elizabeth "Libby" Sinclair, with her love of microscopes and nature, isn't favored in society. She flees to the beautiful Isles of Scilly ...

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Reducere. In late nineteenth-century Boston, home to Herman Melville and Oliver Wendell Holmes, a serial killer preying on children is running loose in the c...

Reducere. "It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another." Mary Shelley, Franken...

Reducere. Limited power; extraordinary influence. The strategies, friendships, and enduring impact of a remarkable C14th noblewoman. Elizabeth de Burgh showe...

Reducere. Fairchild's Lady and A Hero's Promise, the two novellas in the Culper Ring Series, are brought together in one volume.Fairchild's LadyIn 1789 Gener...

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When angsty teenager Mary Shelley is not interested in carrying on her family's celebrated legacy of being a great writer, but she soon discovers t...

Reducere. The Lady and the Sharks...Filled with the Engaging Explorations and the Adventures of a Remarkable Woman, The Lady and the Sharks is about the joys...

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Publisher: Princeton Architectural PressAuthor(s): Beatrice FontanelNumber of pages: 349Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 227 x 271 x 13Cover type:...

Read just about any textbook and watch about any movie and what do you hear? The universe and all of life began millions and billions of years ago....

Reducere. The Ghost of Cleopatra is a work of historical fiction by John Rice and Gail Tanzer. It tells the story of African-American/Native American sculpto...

Spend a year in the company of the ancient Egyptians, during the twenty-sixth and final year of the reign of Amenhotep II (c.1400 BC), which saw a ...

Reducere. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Drawing on the diaries of one woman in eighteenth-century Maine, this intimate history illuminates the medical practic...

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The vivid scenes on the Bayeux Tapestry depict the events leading up to the Battle of Hastings in 1066. Hicks shows us this world and the miracle o...

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Mallory O'Meara uncovers the fascinating story of Milicent Patrick-creator of one of Hollywood's classic monsters. A true-life detective story and ...

Reducere. A tour de force of history and imagination, The Lady and the Unicorn is Tracy Chevalier s answer to the mystery behind one of the art world s great...

Reducere. Elizabeth Black is the headmistress of a girls' school in 1830s Victorian London. She is also a well-respected author of "silver-fork" novels, stor...

Reducere. How the rise of the West was a temporary exception to the predominant world order What accounts for the rise of the state, the creation of the firs...

DescriptionA thrilling and gruesome look at the science that influenced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The year 1818 saw the publication of one of th...

One of Japan's great modern writers, Kaoru Takamura, makes her English-language debut with Lady Joker, the million copy bestselling Japanese phenom...

Spend a year in the company of the ancient Greeks, during an historic and triumphant Olympic year, and experience the drama and excitement that swe...

Reducere. Mary Jones was poor and illiterate. She learned to read and walked two miles to study a neighbor's Bible. A resolution became fixed in her mind tha...

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In 2017 the Salvator Mundi was sold at auction for $450m. But is it a real da Vinci? In a thrilling narrative built on formidable research, Ben Lew...

Publisher: Nabu PressAuthor(s): Mary Ann KeltyIllustration(s): black & white illustrationsPublication date: 2010Dimensions: 246 x 235 x 27Cover typ...

An instant New York Times bestseller!The first in a gripping fantasy duology inspired by West African folklore in which a grieving crown princess a...

Reducere. He's the most feared monster in the realm. And she's what he needs to win his war... In a world of warring orcs and men, Lady Norr is condemned to ...

Retraces author's life and her transformation from a post-office clerk who left school at fourteen to a sophisticated professional writer. Revealin...

Discover the real science behind 2001, ET, Signs, and all your favourite fictional alien civilisations.Publisher: Skyhorse PublishingAuthor(s): Mar...

DescriptionHow the rise of the West was a temporary exception to the predominant world orderWhat accounts for the rise of the state, the creation o...

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Reducere. Mirror of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Psalter of Our Lady. This is two books combined into one by Saint Bonaventure. Saint Bonaventure begins with ...

Three years into the Great War, England's greatest asset is their intelligence network--field agents risking their lives to gather information, and...

One of Japan's great modern writers, Kaoru Takamura, makes her English-language debut with Lady Joker, the million copy bestselling Japanese phenom...

Reducere. The story of creation that's never been told...now told by a real angel.The future is the past healed. By understanding where you came from, the fu...

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Reducere. Lilly Arendale has fought the anger of prejudice all her life. Her Guatemalan mother and wealthy English father were very much in love and gave her...

Reducere. The wild Montana mountains are no place for an aging widow to live alone with dementia. And when Cathleen Donaghue discovers the poor woman's condi...

Reducere. Leah Townsend, a recently orphaned heiress, flees Richmond after discovering her fianc 's plot to kill her after their wedding. She needs a safe pl...