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The king's speech
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.Victoria & Albert: a royal love affair
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.Isabella: She-Wolf of France, Queen of England
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.Diana: 1961-1997, her life and legacy : Canadians remember their princess
By Maclean'S. 1997
William and Kate: a royal love story
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.Who wrote the Dead Sea scrolls?: the search for the secret of Qumran
By Norman Golb. 1995
A scholarly inquiry into the origins of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the first of which was discovered in the Qumran…
caves in 1947. The author refutes the theory that scribes produced the scrolls in a local Essenean monastery and asserts that the manuscripts were transferred from Jerusalem when the city was under Roman siege. c1995.When bad things happen to good people
By Harold S Kushner. 1981
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.Vie et mort dans la Bible (Aux origines du Dieu unique. #3.)
By Jean Soler. 2004
" Jean Soler se penche sur la signification des interdits alimentaires et des rites sacrificiels dans la Bible. Il met…
en évidence l'usage symbolique de la nourriture dans les comportements rituels des Hébreux : interdiction de consommer certaines viandes décrétées impures, jeûnes pouvant aller jusqu'à l'interdiction totale de boire, sacrifices d'animaux : quel sens revêt donc un tel sacrifice pour un Dieu qu'on appelle précisément le " Dieu vivant " ? Le sacrifice du Christ se situe-t-il en continuité ou en rupture avec cette tradition ? Avec ce volume, paru précédemment sous le titre Vie et mort dans la Bible, s'achève la trilogie que Jean Soler a consacrée à une lecture historique serrée des textes bibliques, pour comprendre comment s'est inventé le monothéisme. Il propose ici le volet anthropologique d'une enquête dont L'Invention du monothéisme présentait la dimension métaphysique et La Loi de Moïse celle de la morale. " -- 4e de couv.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.Victoria: Queen And Empress (Immortals of history)
By Neil Grant. 1970
Victoria and her daughters
By Nina Epton. 1971
Une dame de l'ombre à la cour de Russie
By Louis Beroud. 2005
Understanding Conservative Judaism (Emet ve'emunah = studies in Conservative Jewish thought ; #2)
By Robert Gordis, Max Gelb. 1978
A rabbi elucidates the ground rules by which Conservatism operates and how it applies its principles to solving communal problems.…
Also considers Jewish survival in general and the future of Conservative Judaism in particular. 1978.Tutankhamen: the life and death of the boy-king
By Christine El Mahdy. 1999
Egyptologist examines archaeological and historical evidence to reconstruct the life of the Eighteenth Dynasty pharaoh. El Mahdy separates fact from…
legend as she describes Egyptian civilization based on evidence from Luxor in the fourteenth century B.C. Also provides details of British archaeologist Howard Carter's 1922 discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb. 1999.Truffes royales: histoire des animaux de cour
By Danièle Momont, Katharine MacDonogh. 2008
Jamais encore n'avait été publiée une véritable histoire des animaux de cour, surtout des chiens, bien qu'abondent témoignages, anecdotes et…
oeuvres d'art mêlant princes et bêtes. Ces compagnons à truffe se sont toujours révélés les plus fidèles des sujets pour leurs maîtres couronnés. Ils furent en outre des substituts de parents, d'enfants ou d'amis dans des familles royales où les émotions intimes trouvaient difficilement à s'exprimer entre humains. 2008. Titre uniforme: Reigning cats and dogs.Traitors of the tower (2010 Quick Reads Series)
By Alison Weir. 2010
More than four hundred years ago, seven people - five of them women - were beheaded in the Tower of…
London. Three had been queens of England. The others were found guilty of treason. Why were such important people put to death? This book tells their stories: from the former friend betrayed by a man set on being king, to the young girl killed after just nine days on the throne. 2010. (2010 Quick Reads Series)Tough questions Jews ask: a young adult's guide to building a Jewish life
By Edward Feinstein. 2003
Author Rabbi Feinstein answers typical teen questions about Judaism, like "Why should I believe in God?", "Is Any of That…
Stuff in the Bible True?", and "No Cheeseburgers? No Going to the Mall on Saturday? Why Does Religion Need So Many Rules?" Includes discussions about God, intermarriage, prayer, bar/bat mitzvah, Israel, Christianity, anti-Semitism, the meaning of life, and the Messiah. Some descriptions of violence. Grades 5-8. 2003.To the scaffold: the life of Marie Antoinette
By Carolly Erickson. 1991
Time change: an autobiography
By Hope Cooke. 1980