Nonfiction
The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu: Scientist and Feminist
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s claim to fame is that she was the first mother in England to have a child ‘engrafted’ against ...Read Review
The Curious Lady’s Guide to Marriage (1811-1820)
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From Pretty Interesting History comes its latest release, The Curious Lady’s Guide to Marriage. Encompassing 1811 – 1820, this guide has everything to prepare young ...Read Review
Children at Sea: Lives Shaped by the Waves
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Children at Sea is a collection of eight biographies of men and women who spent at least part of their childhood at sea. ...Read Review
Cleopatra: The Queen Who Challenged Rome and Conquered Eternity
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Popular Italian historian Angela’s docudrama covers a crucial fourteen years of Roman history, complete with feasts, battles, and two legendary love affairs. ...Read Review
The Auschwitz Photographer: Based on the True Story of Wilhelm Brasse, Prisoner 3444
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Wilhelm Brasse, a Polish prisoner at Auschwitz in 1941, is recruited by the SS to take photographs of all the new arrivals. This is ...Read Review
Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy
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Anne Sebba’s biography of Ethel Rosenberg, a woman snared by a capricious justice system, lives up to its subtitle of “An American ...Read Review
The Warrior and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation
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You probably know Peter Cozzens as the author of The Earth is Weeping, his monumental study of the Indian Wars in the western ...Read Review
Princes of the Renaissance: The Hidden Power Behind an Artistic Revolution
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This gorgeous illustrated book tells many wonderful stories. Its main characters are “princes” in the broad sense of powerful rulers, as Machiavelli and ...Read Review
First to Fall: Elijah Lovejoy and the Fight for a Free Press in the Age of Slavery
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This eye-opening look at the world of U.S. newspapers and the anti-slavery movement in the decades before the Civil War is an ...Read Review
The NHS: The Story So Far
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This is a revised version of a book first published in 2018 to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the NHS. The ...Read Review