Jean-Baptiste Cléry: Eyewitness to Louis XVI & Marie-Antoinette's Nightmare
10 best books like Jean-Baptiste Cléry: Eyewitness to Louis XVI & Marie-Antoinette's Nightmare (Will Bashor): The Divorce of Henry VIII: The Untold Story from Inside the Vatican, In Triumph's Wake: Royal Mothers, Tragic Daughters, and the Price They Paid for Glory, We All Wore Stars: Memories of Anne Frank from Her Classmates, The Road to Compiegne, Tudor England, Farewell, My Queen, Painted Ladies: Women At The Court Of Charles II, Finn's Fate, The Naked Foods Cookbook: Easy, Unprocessed, Gluten-Free, Full-Fat Recipes for Losing Weight and Feeling Great, My Lady Scandalous: The Amazing Life and Outrageous Times of Grace Dalrymple Elliott, Royal Courtesan
| Author | Catherine Fletcher |
| ISBN | 0230341519 |
In 1533 the English monarch Henry VIII decided to divorce his wife of twenty years Catherine of Aragon in pursuit of a male heir to ensure the Tudor line. He was also head over heels in love with his wife's lady in waiting Anne Boleyn, the future mother of Elizabeth I. But getting his freedom involved a terrific...
| Author | Julia P. Gelardi |
| ISBN | 0312371055 |
The powerful and moving story of three royal mothers whose quest for power led to the downfall of their daughters.
Queen Isabella of Castile, Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, and Queen Victoria of England were respected and admired rulers whose legacies continue to be felt today. Their...
In 1941, Theo Coster was a student at the Amsterdam Jewish Lyceum, one in a class of 28 Jewish children that the Nazis had segregated from the rest of the Dutch population. Among Theo's fellow students was a young Anne Frank, whose diary would later become one of the most important documents of the Holocaust....
| Author | Jean Plaidy |
| ISBN | 0330231715 |
No longer the well-beloved, Louis XV is becoming ever more unpopular - the huge expense of his court and decades of costly warfare having taken their toll.
As the discontent grows, Louis seeks refuge in his extravagances and his mistress, the powerful Marquise de Pompadour.
Suspicions,...
| Author | John Guy |
| ISBN | 0192852132 |
John Guy here provides the most complete narrative history of Tudor England in more than 30 years. A compelling account of political and religious developments from the advent of the Tudors in the 1460s to the death of Elizabeth I in 1603, his authoritative study discusses the far-reaching changes...
| Author | Chantal Thomas |
| ISBN | 0743260783 |
It was once the job of Madame Agathe-Sidonie Laborde to read books aloud to Marie-Antoinette. Now exiled in Vienna, she looks back twenty-one years to the legendary opulence of Versailles and meticulously reconstructs July 14, 15, and 16 of 1789. When Agathe-Sidonie is summoned to the Queen's side...
Painted Ladies: Women At The Court Of Charles II
| Author | Catherine MacLeod |
| ISBN | 1855143216 |
The court of Charles II was a focus for exuberance, glamor and revelry after the constraints of the Civil War and Interregnum. Portraits, both literary and visual, were an important part of the cultural production of the court, reflecting the spirit of the age as much as the characteristics of the individuals...
This is the story of an epic journey in the tenth century which takes three young men from Lapland to Denmark where they become crew members on "Ulf", a Viking ship. They cross the North sea to plunder Anglo Saxon England. The book is linked to authentic historical events and culminates in a disaster for...
The Naked Foods Cookbook: Easy, Unprocessed, Gluten-Free, Full-Fat Recipes for Losing Weight and Feeling Great
| Author | Margaret Floyd |
| ISBN | 1608823180 |
Why go out to eat? Cooking at home is easy, healthy, delicious, and affordable—and with the right techniques and ingredients, preparing a home-cooked meal can be quicker than picking up take-out. Cook Naked, the anticipated follow-up cookbook to Margaret Floyd’s Eat Naked, shows readers how...
My Lady Scandalous: The Amazing Life and Outrageous Times of Grace Dalrymple Elliott, Royal Courtesan
A wicked turnabout on Jane Austen's oft-quoted adage - "a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife" - is My Lady Scandalous, a richly raucous history that traverses the notoriously licentious British Regency era in the company of its most celebrated courtesan.
Following...
The Queen Mother: The Untold Story of Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, Who Became Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
| Author | Lady Colin Campbell |
Packed with stunning revelations, this is the inside story of The Queen Mother from the New York Times bestselling author who first revealed the truth about Princess Diana
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother has been called the "most successful queen since Cleopatra." Her personality was so...
The One Thing More: An epic historical novel of breathtaking suspense
| Author | Anne Perry |
| ISBN | 0747263175 |
It is January 1793. France is at war with Belgium, Prussia and Austria, and Louis XVI has just been sentenced to death. In Paris, a small group of people fears for the future of a throneless France surrounded by countries terrified that republican ideas - or anarchy - will spread throughout the continent....
| Author | Évelyne Lever |
| ISBN | 0312283334 |
In MARIE ANTOINETTE, Evelyn Lever draws on a variety of resources, including diaries, letters, and firsthand accounts, to write this sumptuous, addictive delight. From family life in Vienna to the choke of the guillotine, this gripping work combines a fast-paced historical narrative with all the...
| Author | Thomas Christensen |
| ISBN | 1582437742 |
The world of 1616 was a world of motion. Enormous galleons carrying silk and silver across the Pacific created the first true global economy, and the first international megacorporations were emerging as economic powers. In Europe, the deaths of Shakespeare and Cervantes marked the end of an era in...
Food Grown Right, In Your Backyard: A Beginner's Guide to Growing Crops at Home
| Author | Colin McCrate |
| ISBN | 1594856834 |
As the founders behind the Seattle Urban Farm Company, Colin McCrate and Brad Halm have heard it all: My backyard is too small; how can I make space for a garden? Do I really need to buy fertilizer? What on earth is that creature crawling on the tomatoes? My crops took off and the zucchini are in the sidewalk...
The Queen and the Courtesan
| Author | Freda Lightfoot |
| ISBN | 0727880926 |
A brand-new historical novel from a well-loved storyteller -
Henriette d’Entragues isn’t satisfied with simply being the mistress of Henry IV of France; she wants a crown too. Despite his promises to marry her, the King is obliged by political necessity to ally himself with a rich Italian princess....
Homemade Health - Home remedies your grandmother knew. Simple & effective treaments from the pantry
Homemade Health is a collection of home remedies straight from a time, not so long ago, when people went to their garden or kitchen pantry before going to a doctor.Some tried and true, some quirky, but all based on natural remedies your grandmother knew and most likely used on a regular basis.
• Healing...
| Author | Teresa R. Funke |
| ISBN | 1934649007 |
When the going got tough during World War II, America's women got going. By the millions, housewives and mothers took off their aprons and stepped into factories, offices, hospitals-anywhere capable hands were needed to replace those of the husbands and sons now battling overseas. The eleven fictional...
The Boleyns: The Rise and Fall of a Tudor Family
| Author | David Loades |
| ISBN | 1445603047 |
The fall of Anne Boleyn and her brother George is the classic drama of the Tudor era. The Boleyns had long been an influential English family. Sir Edward Boleyn had been Lord Mayor of London. His grandson, Sir Thomas had inherited wealth and position, and through the sexual adventures of his daughters,...
When the World Spoke French
| Author | Marc Fumaroli |
| ISBN | 1590173759 |
“Conceived as ‘a portrait gallery of foreigners conquered by Enlightenment France,’ Fumaroli’s book provides biographical essays about diverse and fascinating cast of characters. He depicts them all as wonderfully distinct individuals—real people whose eclectic interests, messy...
A Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert, and the Death That Changed the British Monarchy
| Author | Helen Rappaport |
| ISBN | 0312621051 |
As she did in her critically acclaimed The Last Days of the Romanovs, Helen Rappaport brings a compelling documentary feel to the story of this royal marriage and of the queen's obsessive love for her husband - a story that began as fairy tale and ended in tragedy.
After the untimely death of Prince...
Real Food All Year: Eating Seasonal Whole Foods for Optimal Health and All-Day Energy
| Author | Nishanga Bliss |
| ISBN | 1608821552 |
For thousands of years, human lives and diets have been closely tied to the rhythms of the seasons—and for good reason. Following the season-by-season nutritional principles of Chinese medicine is the best way to maximize the nutrients in your diet and strengthen your body. Real Food All Year offers...
| Author | Harlow Giles Unger |
| ISBN | 1584659254 |
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais was an eighteenth-century French inventor, famed playwright, and upstart near-aristocrat in the court of King Louis XVI. In 1776, he conceived an audacious plan to send aid to the American rebels. What's more, he convinced the king to bankroll the project,...
| Author | Alison Plowden |
| ISBN | 0750921927 |
Elizabeth I is perhaps England's most famous monarch. Born in 1533, the product of the doomed marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth was heir to her father's title, then disinherited and finally imprisoned by her half-sister Mary. But in 1558, on Mary's death, she ascended the throne and...
