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Pen & Sword Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"Kolovou... rescues Anna from the talons of misogynist historians and places her where she belongs as an extraordinary, but very human, woman." -- Beating Tsundoku A woman of extraordinary education and intellect, Anna Komnene was the only Byzantine female historian and one of the first and foremost historians in medieval Europe. Yet few people know of her and her extraordinary story. Subsequent historians and scholars have skewed the picture of Anna...
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Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Twisty plots, fantastic characters, and pitch-perfect pacing. Fabulous! - ALLISON BRENNAN New York Times bestselling author Her life must be forfeit for his to be redeemed Historian Sarah Munro is not used to being shot at, but that's just what happens while she's poking around cemeteries on Georgia's Isle of Grace, searching for the key to a centuries-old cipher. Her quest has unwittingly drawn the attention of two deadly enemies intent on destroying...
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Pelican Book Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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A search for historic secrets may uncover a present day love. Writer-historian Jenna Cade has spent her life in search of the past, particularly with her latest quest to document abandoned cemeteries of the South and the stories behind the stones. But her search for a forgotten graveyard in quaint Sylvan Spring leads her to more than the ghosts of graves untended by human hands-it leads her to the doorstep of reclusive stone carver Con Taggart. Still...
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"Long-buried secrets, a dangerous cult, and lots of twists and turns. Sure to appeal to fans of Steve Berry and Dan Brown" (C. S. Graham, author of The Archangel Project ). Eight days before the summer solstice, a man is butchered in a blood-freezing sacrifice on the ancient site of Stonehenge before a congregation of worshippers. Within hours, one of the world's foremost treasure hunters has shot himself in his country mansion. Teaming up with an...
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Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"Two people investigate the mysteries buried deep in the bayou in this reader favorite from New York Times bestselling author Jana DeLeon... Bodyguard Brian Marcentel knew Justine Chatry had a job to do, but so did he. He'd been hired to keep her safe--from whatever lurked behind the walls of a long-neglected mansion. And yet, the beautiful researcher insisted on helping him investigate every suspicious noise and following him through the murky bayou...
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"Once a fighter, always a fighter... Former Navy SEAL Mason McCarthy is done being a fighting man. Now he and the Deep Six Salvage crew are working feverishly to find the wreck of the Santa Cristina and its legendary sunken treasure. Unfortunately for Mason's peace of mind, chatty, brilliant historian Alexandra Merriweather has joined the hunt and there's no avoiding her. Alex is exactly the kind of distraction Mason can't afford right now...or maybe...
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English
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Many great artists have had at least intermittent doubts about their own abilities. But The Education of Henry Adams is surely one of the few masterpieces to issue directly from a raging inferiority complex. The author, to be sure, had bigger shoes to fill than most of us. Both his grandfather and great-grandfather were U.S. presidents. His father, a relative underachiever, scraped by as a member of Congress and ambassador to the Court of St. James....
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An art hoarder s suspicious death paints a nasty picture for Nero Wolfe. No matter how fabulously he s being courted, infamously dour art hog Arthur Wordell isn t keen on favoring the new Guggenheim Museum with his extensive collection. Even at the urging of his beloved daughter, Nadia. Then, the night after the museum s f te, Arthur takes a twenty-story plunge from the window of his Times Square office. Nadia thinks it s no mere coincidence. Eccentric,...
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words But the photograph art historian Vicky Bliss has just received gives rise to a thousand questions instead. A quick glance at the blood-stained envelope is all the proof she needs that something is horribly wrong. The picture itself is familiar: a woman adorned in the gold of Troy. Yet this isn't the famous photograph of Frau Schliemann -- no, this picture is contemporary. The gold, as Vicky and her fellow academics...
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Publisher
GoodKnight Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Hollywood historian and film reviewer Leonard Maltin invites readers to pull up a chair and listen as he tells stories, many of them hilarious, of 50+ years interacting with legendary movie stars, writers, directors, producers, and cartoonists. Maltin grew up in the first decade of television, immersing himself in TV programs and accessing 1930s and '40s movies hitting the small screen. His fan letters to admired performers led to unexpected correspondences,...
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Publisher
Heyday
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"An autobiography of the bookseller, library collector, man of letters, and historian of the American West edited by his great-great granddaughter. A bookseller in San Francisco during the gold rush, Hubert Howe Bancroft (1832 -- 1918) rose to become the man who would define the early history of California and the West. Creating what he called a "history factory," he assembled a vast library of over sixty thousand books, maps, letters, and documents;...
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
This collection, carefully chosen and arranged by Walter Hooper, is the most extensive ever published. Included here are the letters Lewis wrote to such luminaries as J.R.R. Tolkien, Owen Barfield, Arthur C. Clarke, Sheldon Vanauken, and Dom Bede Griffiths. To some particular friends, such as Dorothy L. Sayers, Lewis wrote fifty letters alone. The letters deal with all of Lewis's interests -- theology, literary criticism, poetry, fantasy, children's...
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