Susan Higginbotham
Hatemail: Anti-Semitism on Picture Postcards
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In this handsome, full-color volume, collector Aizenberg has assembled an utterly chilling array of postcards from around the world in which Jews are ...Read Review
Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I
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In this, the second book in his history of England, Peter Ackroyd takes on the ever-popular Tudor family, from Henry VIII forward. (Henry ...Read Review
The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance That Changed the World
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In June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, accompanied by his wife, Sophie, reluctantly paid a visit to Bosnia, having tried his best to avoid the ...Read Review
The Wives: The Women Behind Russia’s Literary Giants
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In her latest book, biographer Alexandra Popoff profiles six literary spouses—Anna Dostoevsky, Sophia Tolstoy, Nadezhda Mandelstam, Véra Nabokov, Elena Bulgakov, and ...Read Review
Heretic Queen: Queen Elizabeth and the Wars of Religion
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When Elizabeth I came to the throne, it was to reign over a country deeply divided by religion and still reeling from the ...Read Review
Miss Lizzie’s War
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While Richmond, Virginia suffers through the American Civil War, the wealthy Elizabeth van Lew supports the war effort—for the Union. Starting by ...Read Review
Days of Splendor, Days of Sorrow
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In this novel, the second in a planned trilogy, Juliet Grey picks up Marie Antoinette’s story from the beginning of her husband’...Read Review
Iago
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Iago, Shakespeare’s famous villain, has escaped from Cyprus, leaving a trail of corpses behind him. He falls into the hands of Annibale ...Read Review
The Tigress of Forlì: The Life of Renaissance Italy’s Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici
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Caterina Sforza, born in 1463, lived a full life. The illegitimate daughter of the future Duke of Milan, she was married at age ten ...Read Review
Birthright: The True Story that Inspired Kidnapped
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In 1728, twelve-year-old James Annseley, heir to a large fortune, was snatched off the streets of Dublin by his uncle and sent as an ...Read Review