Margaret Greville of Polesden Lacey, who styled herself 'Mrs Ronnie', rose from obscure and humble origins to become a fabulously wealthy and ambitious society hostess, traveling the world and acquiring a portfolio of movie stars, monarchs, maharajahs and millionaires.
The Real Custer takes a good hard look at the life and storied military career of George Armstrong Custerfrom cutting his teeth at Bull Run in the Civil War, to his famous and untimely death at Little Bighorn in the Indian Wars.
Carla Lane's enchanting autobiography fizzes with the wry humour, sharp insights and fabulous characterization one would expect from the author of such award-winning TV dramas as the Liver Birds, Bread and Butterflies.
The Real Custer takes a good hard look at the life and storied military career of George Armstrong Custerfrom cutting his teeth at Bull Run in the Civil War, to his famous and untimely death at Little Bighorn in the Indian Wars.
When John Wilkes Booth diedshot inside a burning barn and dragged out twelve days after he assassinated President Lincolnall he had in his pocket were a compass, a candle, a diary, and five photographs of five different women.
William E Simon-quintessential American figure of the American century: Wall Street wunderkind, treasury secretary under Presidents Nixon and Ford, successful entrepreneur, US Olympic Committee president, best-selling author, pioneering philanthropist, and devout Catholic.
En las páginas de este libro, se despliega la historia de Soledad, una joven con síndrome de Down que desafió con coraje y determinación los obstáculos que se presentaron desde el mismo momento de su nacimiento.
A nostalgic A-Z of the most special and well-remembered 60s, 70s and 80s cars, with stylish illustrations accompanied by warm, humorous personal memories.
"e;Perhaps it is a cliche that a politician thinks of the next election and a statesman of the next generation, yet my grandfather found merit in the maxim.
The head of the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics organizing committee describes how he assumed the leadership of the troubled organization and turned it around to present one of the most successful Olympic Games ever.
Romina nos sumerge en una lectura tan descriptiva y vívida, tal como lo es ella, al contar sus relatos, yendo y viniendo por su vida, sus miedos, sus enojos, sus desilusiones, pero también por sus formas de resolverlas, su cambio de postura frente a ciertas cuestiones.
'Assia was my true wife, and the best friend I ever had', wrote Ted Hughes, after his lover surrendered her life and that of their young daughter in 1969, six years after Sylvia Plath had suffered a similiar fate.
Cuerpos para odiar es un retrato crudo, auténtico y conmovedor de la vida de las travestis, exponiendo la sordidez de la calle, la brutalidad policial, el hambre y el rechazo implacable de la sociedad.
When a California beauty queen had the audacity the nerve to stand up for traditional marriage in front of a national televised audience, well then, the liberal media went crazy.
'She'd done more to belittle, undermine and scar me, with her ten years of scorn and hatred, than Starling with his brutal physical batterings or any of the others with their attempts at forced sexual contact.
Obliterated from the pages of history, as women often are, Odisha's first woman Chief Minister, Nandini Satpathy, known also as the Iron Lady of Orissa, was born to a family of revolutionaries and intellectuals.
Friedrich Nietzsche's 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' is a philosophical novel that explores themes of eternal recurrence, the will to power, and the concept of the "e;superman.
