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Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson Staff Pick Sometimes laugh-out-loud, sometimes poignant, Bill Bryson takes a trip to the villages of his beloved Britain.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch by Sally Bedell Smith Publisher Comments In this magisterial new biography, New York Times bestselling author Sally Bedell Smith brings to life one of the world’s most fascinating and enigmatic women: Queen Elizabeth II. From the moment of her ascension to the throne in 1952 at the age of... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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Wallington's World by Paul S Seaver Publisher Comments Seventeenth-century England has been richly documented by th lives of kings and their great ministers, the nobility and gentry, and bishops and preachers, but we have very little firsthand information on ordinary citizens. This unique portrait of the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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James Herriot's Yorkshire: A Guided Tour with the Beloved Veterinarian Through the Land of All Creatures Great and Small and Every Living Thing, by James Herriot Publisher Comments Here is James Herriot's best-selling personal tour through the beautiful, almost magical land of All Creatures Great and Small and his new volume of memoirs, Every Living Thing. The gorgeous northern English countryside, depicted so memorably in James... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It by Arthur Herman Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 431-452) and index.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Quest for Becket's Bones: The Mystery of the Relics of St. Thomas Becket of Canterbury by John Butler Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 170-175) and index.... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last Knight: The Twilight of the Middle Ages and the Birth of the Modern Era by Norman F Cantor Publisher Comments There may be no more fascinating historical period than the late fourteenth century in Europe. The Hundred Years' War ravaged the continent, yet gallantry, chivalry, and literary brilliance flourished in the courts of England and elsewhere. Chaucer wrote... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Women of Windsor: Their Power, Privilege, and Passions by Catherine Whitney Publisher Comments Who are the women of Windsor? Queen Elizabeth: Born to duty, adored by her parents, she swore as a teenager to serve her country above all else . . . and she has lived up to her promise, even when her crown has been a burden. Elizabeth, the Queen Mother:... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir Publisher Comments Henry VIII is perhaps England's most infamous monarch, especially when it comes to matters of the heart. He was married to six distinctly different women, and in this richly detailed and meticulously researched history, these remarkable, often... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sisters the Saga of the Mitford Family by Mary S Lovell Publisher Comments This is the Story of a close, loving family splintered by the violent ideologies of Europe between the wars. Jessica was a Communist; Debo became the Duchess of Devonshire; Nancy was one of the best-selling novelists of her day; the ethereally beautiful... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Queen Mother's Century by Robert Lacey Synopsis Born on August 4,1900, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon became a public figure in 1923 with her engagement and marriage to "Bertie, " the shy, stammering Prince Albert, Duke of New York. Now, on the eve of her hundredth birthday, and as the world awaits the new... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $7.20 Used - Hardcover
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Second World War #0006: Triumph and Tragedy by Winston S Churchill Publisher Comments Churchill's six-volume history of World War II -- the definitive work, remarkable both for its sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, universally acknowledged as a magnificent historical reconstruction and an enduring work of literature. From... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Very Short Introductions #17: Roman Britain by Peter Salway Publisher Comments Peter Salway's Very Short Introduction to Roman Britain weaves together the results of archaeological investigation and historical scholarship in a rounded and highly readable concise account. He charts life in Roman Britain from the first Roman invasion... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth-Century England by Adrian Tinniswood Publisher Comments A lively, almost novelistic account of an aristocratic family(The New Yorker) drawn from an unprecedented number of personal papers. The Verneys had a country estate, a seat in Parliament, and an astonishing habit: for four centuries generations of... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage by Stephen Budiansky Publisher Comments Sir Francis Walsinghamandrsquo;s official title was principal secretary to Queen Elizabeth I, but in fact this pious, tight-lipped Puritan was Englandandrsquo;s first spymaster. A ruthless, fiercely loyal civil servant, Walsingham worked brilliantly... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Kings and Queens of Scotland by Richard Oram Publisher Comments The history of the Scottish monarchy can be presented as a long tale of triumph over adversity, characterized by the personal achievements of its truly remarkable rulers who transformed their fragile kingdom into the master of northern Britain. This... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Anne Boleyn: A New Life of England's Tragic Queen by Joanna Denny Publisher Comments This powerful new biography presents a portrait of Anne Boleyn different from the unsavory and unflattering accounts of her that have come down through history. Instead, we learn about the real Anne-a woman who was highly literate, accomplished, an... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Pepys Anthology by Samuel Pepys Publisher Comments The essential anthology selected from Samuel Pepys's famous diary.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Nell Gwyn: Mistress to a King by Charles Beauclark Publisher Comments Written by a direct descendant of the union between Nell Gwyn and King Charles II, Nell Gwyn tells the story of one of England's great folk heroines. Born during a tumultuous period in England's past, Nell Gwyn was spotted selling oranges in the Theatre... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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Churchill: A Life by Martin Gilbert Publisher Comments Distilled from years of meticulous research and documentation, filled with material unavailable when the earliest books of the official biography's eight volumes went to press, Churchill is a brilliant marriage of the hard facts of the public life and... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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