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This historical novel offers an "imaginative chronicle of an extraordinary woman" whose exploits across the Middle East helped create modern-day Iraq (Kirkus Reviews).
A brilliant academic, mountaineer, explorer, linguist, politician, and towering literary figure, Gertrude Bell is the most significant unsung heroine of the twentieth century. She was the most celebrated adventurer of her day—the brains behind Lawrence...
A brilliant academic, mountaineer, explorer, linguist, politician, and towering literary figure, Gertrude Bell is the most significant unsung heroine of the twentieth century. She was the most celebrated adventurer of her day—the brains behind Lawrence...
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She's the most famous woman in history, yet almost nothing is known about her. Although she's portrayed as the gentlest and most tragic of all women, her name has been used as an excuse for internecine hatred and wars between peoples.
But, who was Mary, mother of Jesus Christ? What type of family did she have? What was the community like in which she grew from child to teenager forced to marry a man three times her age?
And why have virtually all...
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A story of justice through the ages ... and revenge.
Germany, 1945. The bloodiest war in history is at an end. Now the retribution and search for justice begins. In a series of Nuremberg trials, war criminals are hanged or commit suicide. Others are judged and sent to prison for their part in the most heinous crimes of all time.
But in the final trial, one in which ordinary Germans are forced to confront their complicity, a leading American defense...
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From the author of The Last Testament comes the true love of Bonnie Prince Charlie, her adventures in America and her lasting legacy.
In the page-turning popular genre trail-blazed by Antonia Fraser and Phillippa Gregory, The Pretender's Lady, Alan Gold's meticulously researched novel, accurately opens history's pages on a peerless woman who helped change the course of history and whose legend lives on in Scotland today-Flora MacDonald.
She was...
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From the jungles of Indonesia to the very heart of New York City comes a plague that kills 100 percent of its victims. Medicine's greatest nightmare, this modern black death is caused by the most virulent and uncontrollable mutant virus humanity has ever witnessed. And medicine can do nothing to stop its merciless spread.
Scientist Debra Hart and her team of experts are tasked by the United Nations to stop the disease. Racing against time, they must...
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Bedwetting is an irritation for parents, but a nightmare for their children. Up to 20% of youngsters beyond the age, where they're supposed to no longer need nappies, still wet their beds, or suffer leakage during the day.
Bedwetting children tend to be withdrawn from their friends, often ridiculed at kindergarten, or school, and socially isolated when it comes to sleepovers.
Now, two world-ranking pelvic floor doctors have discovered a cure for bedwetting...