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By Anna Pasternak. 1994
The author claims to tell the true story of Princess Diana's affair with James Hewitt, staff captain in the palace…
Household Division. They met at a party in 1986, where Diana inquired if James, who ran the household stables, would help her overcome her fear of horseback riding. Supposedly the two were attracted immediately and soon developed a romantic relationship. The author has recreated their thoughts and conversations during a five-year period. Bestseller 1994. 1994.By Charles Elliott. 1992
Elliot's account of Marie Adelaide of Savoy is interwoven with the story of life at the court of Louis XIV,…
the Sun King. Marie is only ten when she arrives at Versailles to marry the duc de Bourgogne, but her arrival brings life back into what has become a dying court. Marie is portrayed as having a keen wit and also as kind, thoughtful, intelligent, and dignified. 1992.By Simon Sebag Montefiore. 2000
Prince Grigory Potemkin was Catherine the Great's lover, secret husband, and partner in ruling the Russian Empire. Their affair was…
so tumultuous; they negotiated an arrangement that allowed them to share power while he was free to love his beautiful nieces, and Catherine, her favourites. But they never stopped loving each other. Their endearing and passionate relationship remains one of history's most remarkable love affairs. 2000.By Paul James. 1992
By John Parker. 1990
Although born into Greek and German nobility, the early life of Prince Philip was unsettled. After his marriage to the…
future Elizabeth II, he became known for his outspoken nature and progressive causes. 1990.By Erik Orsenna. 2005
By Ivan Steenhout, John Pitt. 1986
L'auteur abandonne sa vie routinière et ennuyeuse et part à l'aventure sur sa moto. Dans ce livre, il raconte son…
voyage de 32,000 milles à travers les Amériques à l'âge de 61 ans. Quelques descriptions de nature sexuelle. 1986.By Thomas Hine. 1986
By Henry Arthur Francis Kamen. 1997
A portrait of the controversial monarch who ruled the Spanish empire through most of the sixteenth century. Traces his solitary…
childhood, his early years as a Renaissance prince, and his troubled reign as king during the Inquisition and the colonization of the New World. c1997.By Esther Bégin. 2012
Esther Bégin aime New York! Journaliste, elle a vécu plus de deux ans dans la Grosse Pomme. Le temps qu’il…
faut pour remplir son carnet des meilleures adresses new-yorkaises pour manger, magasiner, se dorloter, se balader, prendre le thé, et se cultiver. Flâneuse experte et dénicheuse de bonnes adresses, l’auteure nous fait découvrir son New York, celui qu’elle a connu et apprivoisé au fil de ses pérégrinations urbaines et de ses rencontres. 2012.By Charles Wilkins, Don Starkell. 1987
A father and his two teenaged sons left Winnipeg in a 21-foot canoe and 23 months later, after travelling 12,000…
miles, arrived in Belam, Brazil. They had paddled amidst storms, pirates and drug smugglers down the Mississippi River, along the Gulf of Mexico to Venezuela and down the Amazon River to its mouth at the Atlantic Ocean. c1987.By Paul Theroux. 1979
The way from Boston to Patagonia, Paul Theroux discovered, was one of great contrasts - contrasts in people, in temperature,…
in scenery, in altitude, in attitude. Some of the trains were superb, most were deplorable. Parochialism and xenophobia were coupled with some of the most staggeringly beautiful sights in the world, and some of the most squalid. Throughout, he observed and experienced with a sharp eye, an unbiased mind, and ultimately, a vivid pen. 1979.By Michel Wartelle. 1990
L'affaire Louis XVII, un des plus grands mystères de l'histoire de France après celui du Masque de fer. Cette énigme…
qui fascine les historiens depuis près de deux cents ans, éclairée sous un jour nouveau, pourrait bien trouver ici une solution intéressante et inédite. 1990.By Bill Bryson. 1998
This book contains eighteen months worth of the author's popular columns about the strangest of phenomena - the American way…
of life. The text discusses the dazzling efficiency of the garbage disposal unit, the exoticism of having your groceries bagged for you, the jaw-slacking direness of American TV, and the smug pleasure of being able to eat beef without having to wonder if when you rise from the table you will walk sideways into the wall. 1998.By Walt Morey, Virgil Burford. 1969
By Dan Baum. 2009
A multivoiced biography of a dazzling, imperiled city, told through the lives of nine characters and bracketed by two epic…
storms: Hurricane Betsy, which transformed New Orleans in the 1960s, and Hurricane Katrina, which nearly destroyed it. Baum shows us what was lost in the storm and what remains to be saved. Explicit strong language, descriptions of violence and explicit descriptions of sex. c2009.By Eddy L Harris. 1988
A travelogue about the author's canoe trip down the Mississippi River, from its headwaters in Minnesota's Land of 10,000 Lakes…
to New Orleans. Includes the author's impressions, philosophical reflections, and personal recollections of a St. Louis childhood. Strong language. 1988.By Jean Deviosse. 2006
By Max Gallo. 2016
Il est le roi de France et de Navarre qui a voulu dépasser les clivages et faire vivre ensemble catholiques…
et protestants. Et il en est mort. Le vendredi 14 mai 1610, Jean-François Ravaillac, catholique exalté originaire d'Angoulême, poignarde le souverain dans son carrosse, rue de la Ferronnerie. Il voulait en finir avec cet hérétique paillard, parjure et renégat dont la conversion n'était que façade. Dans un texte haletant, Max Gallo dresse le portrait d'Henri IV, ce Béarnais vigoureux, grand amateur de chasse, imbattable au jeu de paume, fou de femmes, et qui n'aura de cesse de consolider l'État, d'administrer une saine justice et d'éviter que la France sombre dans la guerre civile. Pour les ligues catholiques, Henri IV sera, jusqu'au bout, un voleur d'âmes . Mais l'Histoire retiendra de ce grand roi qu'il était celui de tous les Français, apôtre infatigable de la tolérance et de la concorde. 2016.By Luc Mary. 2009