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Price: $25.95
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Sale: $0.99
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Manufacturer: Viking Adult
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Sarah Bradford
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Publisher: Viking Adult
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Dewey Decimal Number: 941.085092
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Publication Date: 2006-09-26
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Reading Level: 464
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Description: From The New York Times bestselling author of America’s Queen—the definitive biography of Diana, Princess of Wales
Diana, Princess of Wales, is nothing less than an icon, remembered in death as vividly as she appeared in life. Yet throughout her brief life, Diana was plagued by rumor, innuendo, and scandal. With exclusive access to those closest to Diana, Sarah Bradford now casts aside the gossip and lies and takes us to the very heart of the royal family to separate the myth from the truth of the Diana years. Diana follows the old-fashioned courtship that saw her captivate the Prince of Wales; the transformation of an unworldly teenager into an emotionally demanding, but adoring, wife and mother; the damage caused by the ever-present specter of Camilla Parker Bowles; and the eventual collapse of a doomed marriage once hailed as the ultimate fairy tale. Bradford examines Diana’s lovers and her relationships with her staff, friends, and family, as well as her children, husband, and the royal family. She also charts Diana’s profound commitment to her charities and her rare connection to and empathy with all those she met; the struggle to find an identity after the separation from Charles; and the final, complicated year as a single woman. With the authority missing from all previous accounts, as well as remarkable new sources and firsthand accounts, acclaimed royal biographer Sarah Bradford delivers a complex and explosive study of one of the most popular figures of the twentieth century.
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Price: $8.95
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Sale: $3.11
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Manufacturer: HarperCollins UK
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Neil Grant
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Publisher: HarperCollins UK
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Dewey Decimal Number: 941
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Publication Date: 2004-10-04
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Reading Level: 255
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Description: New Edition.
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $4.95
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Manufacturer: Alpha
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Buskin
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Publisher: Alpha
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Dewey Decimal Number: 941
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Publication Date: 1997-11-11
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Reading Level: 332
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Description: You're no idiot, of course. You know that Charles is the Prince of Wales, that Princes William and Harry are "the heir and the spare," and that Queen Elizabeth is a ship. But when it comes to knowing who's who in the British monarchy, you think that the Windsors are a family on a TV miniseries. Don't change the channel yet! The Complete Idiot's Guide to British Royalty helps you make sense of the world's longest-running soap opera--and illustrates how the behavior of current royal rulers pales in comparison to that of their colorful predecessors. In this Complete Idiot's Guide, you get:
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Price: $34.95
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Sale: $17.15
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Manufacturer: John Blake
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Glenn Harvey::Mark Saunders
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Publisher: John Blake
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Dewey Decimal Number: 770.922
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Publication Date: 2007-06-15
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Reading Level: 228
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Description: Princess Diana's beautiful face adorned everything from charity campaigns to style magazines, from royal family memorabilia to tabloid newspapers. Through their work, paparazzi photographers Glenn Harvey and Mark Saunders witnessed a side to her personality that the public did not. This collection brings together their most exclusive pictures with the extraordinary stories behind them. There are confrontations, elaborate games of cat and mouse, and hilarious anecdotes within these pages as well as a unique insight into the workings of the paparazzi and the pressures they place upon their subjects. The photographs discussed include Diana sneaking the married Oliver Hoare into Kensington Palace for a secret nightcap and Princess Diana with Will Carling during a secret visit to Twickenham. Mark and Glenn's exploits highlight the tenuous relationship they had with the Princess, often angering her, at other times being manipulated to protect her public image, but throughout, the photographers never lose sight of the respect and high esteem in which they held the Princess.
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $4.48
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Manufacturer: Arcadia Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Lady Colin Campbell
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Publisher: Arcadia Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 920
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Publication Date: 2007-04-01
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Reading Level: 336
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Description: Say what you will about the author of The Real Diana, but Lady Colin Campbell certainly is no practitioner of noblesse oblige. This is a book for those who like their gossip explicit and in large quantities, and who aren't bothered by little details like verifiable attribution. (The vast majority of quotes in this book are from "a member of the Wales household," "a lady-in-waiting," "a courtier," and most ironically of all, "a friend.") Lady Campbell claims to be the person whom Diana first approached to write the tell-all biography that Andrew Morton was later to author. And though she turned down that opportunity, this is her second publication to cash in on her "insider status" (Diana in Private was her first), which is seemingly a reference to her title by marriage and a casual acquaintance with the princess. With its paucity of named sources, it's probably impossible to authoritatively separate fact from fiction in The Real Diana, though it does seem that what with affairs, petty vengeances, and temper tantrums, Di would have had little time left for her courtly duties. Campbell's style is lively enough, and she has some interesting insights into the modern British aristocracy and its unconventional values. But are you truly curious to learn not only the details of the late princess's lovers' techniques, but also the names of the two therapists Diana went to for colonic irrigation? --John Longenbaugh
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $2.49
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Manufacturer: PublicAffairs
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jeremy Paxman
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Publisher: PublicAffairs
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Dewey Decimal Number: 941.0099
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Publication Date: 2008-06-09
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: The notable characteristic of the royal families of Europe is that they have so very little of anything remotely resembling true power. Increasingly, they tend towards the condition of pipsqueak principalities like Liechtenstein and Monaco--fancy-dress fodder for magazines that survive by telling us things we did not need to know about people we have hardly heard of. How then have kings and queens come to exercise the mesmeric hold they have upon our imaginations? In On Royalty, renowned BBC journalist Jeremy Paxman examines the role of the British monarchy in an age when divine right no longer prevails and governing powers fall to the country's elected leaders. What Desmond Morris did for apes, Paxman has done for these primus inter primates: the royal families.
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Price: $34.95
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Sale: $19.59
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Manufacturer: The National Archives
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: David Loades
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Publisher: The National Archives
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Dewey Decimal Number: 941
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Publication Date: 2007-05-29
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Reading Level: 248
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Description: Henry VIII focuses on the fluctuating, often fraught relationships between the king and his court, his Church and his people--and with the other powers of continental Europe, relations with whom were thrown into turmoil by Henry's successive marriages. It explores Henry's policies and strategies and his manipulation of key players such as Wolsey, Cromwell, Fisher and More, as well as the shaping of his royal image of the decades of change. It also probes the intriguing nature of the man behind the monarch, especially his complex religious beliefs that changed the direction of England's history. David Loades, an authoritative historian of Tudor England, begins by explaining how historians have treated Henry and the expectations contemporaries had of the renaissance prince who ascended the throne. He describes the England that the young king inherited and explores his rich and varied reign in detail. Henry VIII considers the king's role in the wars, law enforcement, the succession question, the court, the rebellions and the problem of Ireland, illustrating the narrative with original National Archives documents and full color portraits of those involved. Finally Loades unravels the ambiguous but still tangible legacy that his most high-profile of monarchs has left us.
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $47.90
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Manufacturer: Citadel
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Greg King
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Publisher: Citadel
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Dewey Decimal Number: 941.084092
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Publication Date: 2000-09-01
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Reading Level: 556
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Description: Popular biographer Greg King revisits the love story of the century with sympathy in this story about the romantic marriage between King Edward VIII and Wallis Warfield Simpson, a twice-divorced American. of photos.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $12.19
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Manufacturer: Allen & Unwin
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Karin Palshoj::Gitte Redder
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Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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Edition: 1st English Ed
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Dewey Decimal Number: 948.906092
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Publication Date: 2006-04-30
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Reading Level: 203
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Description: The modern-day, real-life fairy tale of the young Australian commoner who became the Crown Princess of Denmark is detailed in this definitive biography. When Mary Donaldson walked into the Slip Inn restaurant in Sydney on the first Saturday of the 2000 Olympic Games, she met Frederik, the Crown Prince of Denmark, by chance, and her life was never the same again. The world watched as the Prince wooed Mary, and women everywhere swooned as Frederik shed a tear as he watched his bride walk down the aisle. This biography chronicles the incredible story of the thoroughly modern and elegant woman who has risen to the formidable challenge of being the Crown Princess of Denmark with grace and style.
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Price: $27.50
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Sale: $8.99
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Manufacturer: HarperCollins UK
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Roy Strong
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Publisher: HarperCollins UK
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Dewey Decimal Number: 941
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Publication Date: 2007-04-01
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Reading Level: 592
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Description: This splendid volume is the first of its kind—a comprehensive history that sets each of Britain's coronations in its political, religious, and cultural context. Meticulously researched, it also examines celebratory poetry and a musical history of extraordinary brilliance. Illustrated with illuminated manuscripts, engravings, portraits, photographs, and images from film and television, this work as rich as its subject.
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