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By Moira Johnston, Trevor Rees-Jones. 2000
A first-hand account of the crash that killed Diana, Princess of Wales, its causes and its consequences, by the bodyguard…
who survived it. As bodyguard to Diana's companion, Dodi Fayed, Trevor Rees-Jones was in the car with them when it crashed. Trevor survived, but his struggle to recover from his appalling injuries was only the beginning of a much bigger battle: to clear his name.A portrait of Empress Frederick of Germany, eldest daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Groomed by her liberal father…
in statecraft, the empress married the heir to the Prussian throne in an ill-fated attempt to introduce British liberalism to autocratic Germany. Her son, Kaiser Wilhelm II, led Germany in World War I. 1996.By Mark Logue, Peter Conradi. 2010
The grandson of Lionel Logue (1880-1953) uses his ancestor's diaries and correspondence to depict Australian-born Logue's life and his role…
as speech therapist for Albert, the duke of York, who was crowned King George VI on May 12, 1937. Bestseller. 2010.After a thirty-year career as high profile vet, columnist, presenter and author, Bruce Fogle - the UK's bestselling cat &…
dog writer - decided to leave urban Britain and take a journey with his dog Macy. Travelling in the footsteps of the great American novelist John Steinbeck, who published Travels with Charley - his standard poodle - in the '60s, Fogle set off in search of the North America of his childhood. 2006.By Daisy Goodwin, Sara Sheridan. 2017
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were two extremely strong-willed individuals, and first cousins in an arranged marriage. This companion book…
to the ITV series explores their passionate and tempestuous relationship, against the background of a rapidly changing Victorian society. It is full of rich historical detail and takes fans deeper into the period than ever before. 2017.By Alison Weir. 2012
Revisits the life of Isabella, Edward II's Queen. A pawn in 14th century European politics she was married to Edward…
at the age of 12 and so began a turbulent and eventful life. 2012.By Maclean'S. 1997
By Christopher P Andersen. 2011
Prince William and Kate Middleton defied all odds to forge a storybook romance amid the scandals, power struggles, tragedies, and…
general dysfunction that are the hallmarks of Britain's Royal Family. Relates their families' backgrounds, including William's bond with his mother Princess Diana. Describes Kate and William's meeting while students at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Explicit strong language, descriptions of sex and some descriptions of violence. c2011.By Cheryl Strayed. 2013
Lorsque sur un coup de tête, Cheryl Strayed boucle son sac à dos, elle n'a aucune idée de ce qui…
l'attend. Tout ce qu'elle sait, c'est que sa vie est un désastre. Entre une mère trop aimée, brutalement disparue, un divorce douloureux et un lourd passé de junkie, Cheryl vacille. Pour tenir debout et affronter les fantômes de son passé, elle choisit de s'en remettre à la nature et de marcher. Elle part seule pour une randonnée de mille sept cents kilomètres sur le Chemin des crêtes du Pacifique, un parcours abrupt et sauvage de l'Ouest américain. Au fil de cette longue route, elle va surmonter douleurs et fatigue pour renouer avec elle-même et finalement trouver sa voie. 2013.By Richard L Florida. 2008
Florida posits that where you live affects every aspect of your life. Focuses on various types of communities - gay,…
straight, affluent, low-income, and others - and on the different life stages, such as single, married with children, and empty nester, of community residents. Discusses the "geography of happiness." 2008.Wallis Simpson was the woman for whom England's Edward VIII famously abdicated his throne. But her whole story has yet…
to be told. From new sources and records comes this fresh portrait. 2018.By George Reiger. 1983
By Marian Botsford Fraser. 1989
The author walked the Canadian-American border, visiting people on both sides in an effort to understand what it means to…
them. She discovered living memories, legends and stories present in family albums and graveyards. 1989.By Smoke Blanchard. 1985
A professional mountain guide who began his climbing career as a teenager in the depression years relates his many exciting…
adventures in the mountains of California, Alaska, the Yukon, and Nepal. Blanchard offers advice on equipment and technique and discusses the people he has met. 1985.By Charles Wilkins. 2004
In the spring of 2002, writer Charles Wilkins walked east from his home in Thunder Bay, Ontario to New York…
City. Wilkins met poets, hillbillies, even a baronial black African recently released from a torture prison, and visited wilderness mansions, mountain shacks, a Toronto cemetery, and the Baseball Hall of Fame. Throughout, he muses on walking - its history, its culture, its decline, and perhaps most of all its ability to replenish the senses and reconstitute a world shrunken by cyberspace and jet travel. 2004.By R. D Lawrence. 1982
Si Lady Diana et Dodi Al-Fayed n'étaient pas morts, cette nuit du 30 août 1997, ils auraient vécu villa Windsor,…
près de Paris... Quelques heures avant le tragique accident, la princesse et son amant visitent secrètement cet hôtel particulier de Neuilly, là où fleurissent les jardins de Bagatelle. La demeure a déjà accueilli un autre couple de proscrits illustres : le roi d'Angleterre Édouard VIII et Wallis Simpson, une Américaine deux fois divorcée pour qui, le 11 décembre 1936, le souverain décida d'abdiquer afin de devenir simplement le duc de Windsor. Les vies qui se sont succédé ici dessinent une histoire singulière de l'Europe où se croisent Renée Van Cleef, l'héritière de la célèbre maison, Adolf Hitler pour qui le duc de Windsor eut une sympathie qu'il paiera cher, Winston Churchill, Coco Chanel, lord Mountbatten, le prince Charles et, bien sûr, la reine Élisabeth. Sans oublier Charles de Gaulle qui occupa la Villa à la Libération et s'amusa même à y entreposer la voiture du Führer. Quatre-vingts ans après l'abdication d'Édouard VIII, vingt ans après la mort de Lady Di, les derniers témoins, des voisins, des amis de toujours, des employés fidèles des Windsor, ont confié à Bertil Scali leurs souvenirs de cette époque révolue. 2016.By Neil Grant. 1970
By Nina Epton. 1971
By Louis Beroud. 2005