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The bigamist: the true story of a husband's ultimate betrayal
By Mary Turner Thomson. 2007
In April 2006, Mary Turner Thomson received a call that blew her life apart: the woman on the other end…
of the line told her that Will Jordan, Mary's husband and the father of her two younger children, had been married to her for fourteen years and they had five children together. It's a story we all think could never happen to us, but this shameless con man has been doing the same thing to various other women for at least 27 years, spinning a tangled web of lies and deceit to cover his tracks. 2007.The Paper Garden
By Molly Peacock. 2010
The Paper Garden is unlike anything else you have ever read. At once a biography of an extraordinary 18th century…
gentlewoman and a meditation on late-life creativity, it is a beautifully written tour de force from an acclaimed poet. Mary Granville Pendarves Delany (1700-1788) was the witty, beautiful and talented daughter of a minor branch of a powerful family. Married off at 16 to a 61-year-old drunken squire to improve the family fortunes, she was widowed by 25, and henceforth had a small stipend and a horror of a marriage. She spurned many suitors over the next twenty years, including the powerful Lord Baltimore and the charismatic radical John Wesley. She cultivated a wide circle of friends, including Handel and Jonathan Swift. And she painted, she stitched, she observed, as she swirled in the outskirts of the Georgian court. In mid-life she found love, and married. Upon her husband's death 23 years later, she arose from her grief, picked up a pair of scissors and, at the age of 72, created a new art form, mixed-media collage. Over the next decade, Mrs Delany created an astonishing 985 botanically correct, breathtaking cut-paper flowers, now housed in the British Museum and referred to as the Botanica Delanica.Delicately, Peacock has woven parallels in her own life around the story of Mrs Delany's and, in doing so, has made this biography into a profound and beautiful examination of the nature of creativity and art.Gorgeously designed and featuring 35 full-colour illustrations, this is a sumptuous and lively book full of fashion and friendships, gossip and politics, letters and love. It's to be devoured as voraciously as one of the court dinners it describes.From the Hardcover edition.Out of this century: confessions of an art addict
By Peggy Guggenheim. 1946
Nancy: a portrait of my years with Nancy Reagan
By Michael K Deaver. 2004
Daughter of the desert: the remarkable life of Gertrude Bell
By Georgina Howell. 2006
Archaeologist, spy, Arabist, linguist, author, poet, photographer, mountaineer, and nation builder, Gertrude Bell was born in 1868 into a world…
of privilege and plenty. Turning her back on that, she became the architect of the independent kingdom of Iraq and saw its first king safely onto the throne in 1921. A compelling portrait of a woman who transcended the restrictions of her class and age and, in so doing, created a remarkable and enduring legacy. Some descriptions of violence. 2007, c2006.Close the door softly behind you
By Emmaleen Kriel. 2005
How does a woman who has only ever been a mother to seven children find out who she is? She…
takes her caring to London, where she looks after various well-heeled English people (or their children). She helps nervous first-time mothers; a feisty old woman with Alzheimer's; a professor with Parkinson's who just wants to "cuddle"; and cooks and cleans for minor aristocrats at their villa in France, an old Lady's two overweight Corgis, and ex Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath. Through these experiences: some painful, some joyful, all holding hope and laughter, she discovers more about herself and even meets a new love. 2005.The far-off hills
By Rita Anton. 1979
Following her husband's death in 1976, Anton spent several years in India as a volunteer Jesuit Lay Missionary. Having travelled…
extensively in India, she presents a realistic look at this nation in transition. 1979.Bess & Harry: an American love story
By Jhan Robbins. 1980
Reprieve: a memoir
By Agnes De Mille. 1981
Marion Hilliard (Canadians)
By Mary Carol Wilson. 1977
Legend: the life and death of Marilyn Monroe
By Fred Lawrence Guiles. 1984
With unrestrained detail, the author relates Monroe's lifelong path to self-oblivion and the manifestation of her abiding sense of uselessness.…
Guiles tracks the series of emotional traumas that clouded her life, influencing and spoiling her relationships with men. Some strong language. 1984.Barbara Cartland
By Gwen Robyns. 1984
Condoleezza Rice: A Memoir of My Extraordinary, Ordinary Family and Me
By Condoleezza Rice. 2010
In this captivating memoir for young people, looking back with candor and affection, Condoleezza Rice evokes in rich detail her…
remarkable childhood.Her life began in the comparatively placid 1950s in Birmingham, Alabama, where black people lived in a segregated parallel universe to their white neighbors. She grew up during the violent and shocking 1960s, when bloodshed became a part of daily life in the South. Rice's portrait of her parents, John and Angelena, highlights their ambitions and frustrations and shows how much they sacrificed to give their beloved only child the best chance for success. Rice also discusses the challenges of being a precocious child who was passionate about music, ice skating, history, and current affairs. Her memoir reveals with vivid clarity how her early experiences sowed the seeds of her political beliefs and helped her become a vibrant, successful woman.Condoleezza Rice: A Memoir of My Extraordinary, Ordinary Parents and Me is a fascinating and inspirational story for young people.From the Hardcover edition.Time change: an autobiography
By Hope Cooke. 1980
The light in the night
By Nadine Mackenzie. 1981
Me
By Katharine Hepburn. 1991
Admired and beloved by movie audiences for over sixty years, four-time Academy Award-winner Katharine Hepburn is an American classic. Now…
Miss Hepburn breaks her long-kept silence about her private life in this absorbing and provocative memoir.A NEW YORK TIMES Notable Book of the YearA Book-of-the-Month-Club Main SelectionNOTE: This edition does not include photographs.Theodora: portrait in a Byzantine landscape
By Antony Bridge. 1978
Biography of the brilliant and beautiful actress and notorious courtesan, Theodora. She caught the eye of the future Emperor Justinian…
who ruled the Roman world from 527 to 565. Considered by many to be one of the most fascinating women in Western history, Bridge believes she held a central position in politics, was consulted on temporal and ecclesiastical affairs, and was in fact the power behind the throne. 1984, c1978.Ruth Benedict, patterns of a life
By Judith Schachter Modell. 1983
The author, herself an anthropologist, depicts Benedict's life as a pattern of personal searching. A student of Franz Boaz and…
the teacher of Margaret Mead, anthropologist Benedict is known especially for two classics, "Patterns of Culture" and "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword." 1983.Mabel Bell: Alexander's silent partner
By Lilias M Toward, Mabel Gardiner Hubbard Bell. 1984
Keep on dancing: an autobiography
By Sarah Churchill, Paul Medlicott. 1981