Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife: The Extraordinary Lives of Medieval Women
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The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV
From an acclaimed historian and author comes an epic the dual biography of Richard II and Henry IV, two cousins whose lives played out in extraordinary parallel, until Henry deposed the tyrant Richar…
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Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives
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At eighteen, your life is full of of what-ifs and why-nots. You have everything to look forward to – unless you’ve got the plague.
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The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women's Lives Forever
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A Little Trickerie
Listen. My one-time friend Maria did tell me once: "Make your own paradise, Tibb, since this world is no sweet place for people like us."
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A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire
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Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond
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She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
When Edward VI - Henry VIII’s longed-for son - died in 1553, extraordinarily, there was no one left to claim the title King of England. For the first time, all the contenders for the crown were female…
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Revelations of Divine Love
One of the first woman authors, Julian of Norwich produced in Revelations of Divine Love a remarkable work of revelatory insight, that stands alongside The Cloud of Unknowing and Piers Plowman as a cl…
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Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death
How animals conceive of death and dying—and what it can teach us about our own relationships with mortality
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The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World
Spanning 3,000 years, from the birth of Minoan Crete to the death of the Julio-Claudian dynasty in Rome, a magisterial new history of the ancient world told, for the very first time, through women.
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Woman's Lore: 4,000 Years of Sirens, Serpents and Succubi
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House of Lilies: The Dynasty That Made Medieval France
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