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The Legend of Princess Der Ling
"Imperial Masquerade: The Legend of Princess Der Ling, the first biography of one of the twentieth century's most intriguing cross-cultural personalit...
The Life and Afterlife of a Canadian Canine War Hero
The unusual and moving tale of Muggins, a famed fundraising dog who became a mascot of the Canadian Red Cross during the First World War. Born in 1913...
The Uncommon Friendship of Two Women and Two Worlds
This is the story of two women from worlds that could not seem farther apart--imperial China and the American Midwest--who found common ground before ...
The Life and Career of the Comic Star of Vaudeville, Radio and Film
Charlotte Greenwood never intended to become a comedienne, but she was unfashionably tall at 5' 10" and her early aspirations to become a great dramat...
Born in June 1883 to an aristocratic Scottish family, Dorothy Gibson-Craig was brought up with dogs and horses. In 1926 she married Maj. Gen. Geoffrey...
The Public and Private Lives of Billie Burke
"After her husband Florenz Ziegfeld's death, Billie Burke recreated herself as a Hollywood character actress. In addition to studying the character an...
The Extraordinary Career of Pauline Benton
Kansas-born Pauline Benton (1898-1974) was encouraged by her father, one of America's earliest feminist male educators, to reach for the stars. Instea...
A Compassionate Life
Written with the cooperation of President Jimmy Carter and his family, this book provides an intimate glimpse inside the life of the woman who--as nur...
The Paris Terrier Who Joined the First Division
On the streets of Paris one day in July 1918, an American doughboy, Sgt. Jimmy Donovan, befriended a stray dog that he named Rags. No longer an unwant...
Sons and Grandsons of Russia's Grand Dukes
"Examines the biographies of nearly forty men whose birth gave them the right to one of the world's most prestigious positions. All sons of Russian ts...
Shared Legacies of Race and Reconciliation
"Slavery's Descendants brings together twenty-five contributors from a variety of racial backgrounds, to tell their personal stories of exhuming and e...
Echoes of Slavery in a New England Family
Distinguished biographer Grant Hayter-Menzies has written a memoir of his journey through the past and the present, to his understanding of the comple...
The Rescue Dog Who Rescued Me
The moving memoir of a writer--a biographer of historical animals--whose life was forever changed when a rescue dog named Freddie came into his life....
The Passion of Dorothy Brooke
In 1930 wealthy Scottish socialite Dorothy Brooke followed her new husband to Cairo, where she discovered thousands of suffering former British war ho...
A Biography
A lyrical biography of Emily Carr's beloved and enigmatic pet monkey, Woo....
The Passion of Dorothy Brooke, Animal Welfare Pioneer
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