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“arthur vanderbilt”

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  • Fortune's Children

    The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt

    by Arthur T. Vanderbilt II ...
    Vanderbilt: the very name signifies wealth. The family patriarch, "the Commodore," built up a fortune that made him the world's richest man by 1877. Yet, less than fifty years after the Commodore's death, one of his direct descendants died penniless, and no Vanderbilt was counted among the world's richest people. Fortune's Children tells the dramatic story of all the amazingly colorful spenders ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Best-Kept Boy in the World

    by Arthur Vanderbilt ...
    "Denny, long before he surfaced in my cove, was a legend well-known to me, a myth entitled: Best-Kept Boy in the World.”—Truman CapoteDenham (Denny) Fouts, the twentieth century's most famous male prostitute, was a socialite and literary muse whose extraordinary life started off humbly in Jacksonville, Florida. But in short order he befriended (and bedded) the rich and celebrated and in the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • JACK'D

    A Novel

    by Arthur Vanderbilt ...
    Every once in a while, certainly not often, a god or goddess descends to earth and walks among us, a young person whose looks are so striking that they seem of another world, and who, for a brief moment, have no idea of the power of their looks over others.Jack is just such a god, strayed from Olympus, a 24-year-old who is hired as a Personal Trainer at a suburban gym. Often such gods have other ... Read more

    $9.61 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Fortune's Children

    The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt

    by Arthur T. Vanderbilt II ...
    Narrated by Patrick Lawlor ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 5 min

    Vanderbilt: The very name is synonymous with the Gilded Age. The family patriarch, "the Commodore," built a fortune that made him the world's richest man by 1877. Yet less than fifty years after his death, no Vanderbilt was counted among the world's richest people.Written by descendant Arthur T. Vanderbilt II, Fortune's Children traces the dramatic and amazingly colorful history of this great ... Read more

    $42.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Gardening in Eden

    The Joys of Planning and Tending a Garden

    by Arthur T. Vanderbilt II ...
    "Though an old man," Thomas Jefferson wrote at Monticello, "I am but a young gardener." Every gardener is.In Gardening in Eden, we enter Arthur Vanderbilt's small enchanted world of the garden, where the old wooden trestle tables of a roadside nursery are covered in crazy quilts of spring color, where a catbird comes to eat raisins from one's hand, and a chipmunk demands a daily ration of salted ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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    The Romanov Brides

    A Novel of the Last Tsarina and Her Sisters

    by Clare McHugh ...
    Narrated by Yelena Shmulenson ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 7 min

    From the author of A Most English Princess comes a rich novel about young Princess Alix of Hesse—the future Alexandra, last Empress of Imperial Russia—and her sister, Princess Ella. Their decision to marry into the Romanov royal family changed history.They were granddaughters of Queen Victoria and two of the most beautiful princesses in Europe. Princesses Alix and Ella were destined to wed well ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Sinatra and Me

    In the Wee Small Hours

    by Tony Oppedisano ...
    Narrated by Pete Simonelli ...
    Series series A Gift for Frank Sinatra Fans

    Unabridged

    10 hours 34 min

    This intimate, revealing portrait of Frank Sinatra—from the man closest to the famous singer during the last decade of his life—features never-before-seen photos and new revelations about celebrities like Jackie Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Sam Giancana, Madonna, and Bono. “If you are a Frank fan, buy this book” (Jimmy Kimmel).More than a hundred books have been written about the legendary crooner. ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Iron Empires

    Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America

    by Michael Hiltzik ...
    Narrated by Nick Tecoksy ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 57 min

    In 1869, when the final spike was driven into the Transcontinental Railroad, few were prepared for its seismic aftershocks. Once a hodgepodge of short, squabbling lines, America’s railways soon exploded into a titanic industry helmed by a pageant of speculators, crooks, and visionaries. The vicious competition between empire builders such as Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, J. P. Morgan, and E. H. ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Wars of the Roosevelts

    The Ruthless Rise of America's Greatest Political Family

    by William J. Mann ...
    Narrated by Christopher Grove ...

    Unabridged

    21 hours 17 min

    The award-winning author presents a provocative, thoroughly modern revisionist biographical history of one of America’s greatest and most influential families—the Roosevelts—exposing heretofore unknown family secrets and detailing complex family rivalries with his signature cinematic flair.Drawing on previously hidden historical documents and interviews with the long-silent ""illegitimate"" branch ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Romanov Brides

    A Novel of the Last Tsarina and Her Sisters

    by Clare McHugh ...
    From the author of A Most English Princess comes a rich novel about young Princess Alix of Hesse—the future Alexandra, last Empress of Imperial Russia—and her sister, Princess Ella. Their decision to marry into the Romanov royal family changed history.They were granddaughters of Queen Victoria and two of the most beautiful princesses in Europe. Princesses Alix and Ella were destined to wed well ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Sinatra and Me

    In the Wee Small Hours

    by Tony Oppedisano, Mary Jane Ross ...
    Series series A Gift for Frank Sinatra Fans
    This intimate, revealing portrait of Frank Sinatra—from the man closest to the famous singer during the last decade of his life—features never-before-seen photos and new revelations about celebrities like Jackie Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Sam Giancana, Madonna, and Bono. “If you are a Frank fan, buy this book” (Jimmy Kimmel).More than a hundred books have been written about the legendary crooner. ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Mozart

    The Reign of Love

    by Jan Swafford ...
    From the acclaimed composer and biographer Jan Swafford comes the definitive biography of one of the most lauded musical geniuses in history, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.At the earliest ages it was apparent that Wolfgang Mozart’s singular imagination was at work in every direction. He hated to be bored and hated to be idle, and through his life he responded to these threats with a repertoire of ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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