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  • Proust's Duchess

    How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-de-Siecle Paris

    PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • A brilliant look at turn-of-the-century Paris through the first in-depth study of the three women Proust used to create his supreme fictional character, the Duchesse de Guermantes. “Weber has done a remarkable job of bringing to life…a world of culture, glamour and privilege.” —The Wall Street JournalGeneviève Halévy Bizet Straus; Laure de Sade, Comtesse de Adhéaume de ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Legitimacy and Revolution in a Society of Masses

    Max Weber, Antonio Gramsci, and the Fin-de-Sicle Debate on Social Order

    Edited by M. F. N. Giglioli ...
    Questions surrounding the concept of legitimacy—the force that keeps a polity together, and whose absence causes it to shatter—are possibly the most important concern of a study of politics. M. F. N. Giglioli examines the shift to a distinctly modern understanding of the concept in Continental Europe, following the crisis of liberal rationalism in the late nineteenth century, and the search for ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

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    Proust's Duchess

    How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-de-Siecle Paris

    Narrated by Suzanne Toren ...

    Unabridged

    29 hours 52 min

    PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • A brilliant look at turn-of-the-century Paris through the first in-depth study of the three women Proust used to create his supreme fictional character, the Duchesse de Guermantes. “Weber has done a remarkable job of bringing to life…a world of culture, glamour and privilege.” —The Wall Street JournalGeneviève Halévy Bizet Straus; Laure de Sade, Comtesse de Adhéaume de ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • The Daughters Of Yalta

    The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War

    A stirring account of one momentous week that would unleash fifty years of tyranny for half of Europe and plunge the world into the Cold War, as seen through the eyes of three young women. Catherine Grace Katz’s debut book, The Daughters of Yalta, is a marvelous and extraordinary work that reveals the human experience of the conference, with all its tragedy, love, betrayal, and even humor. She ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Summer at Tiffany

    by Marjorie Hart ...
    The New York Times-bestselling memoir of two Iowa girls in 1945 New York City: "Hart has a genuine gift for conveying the texture of midcentury Manhattan." — USA Today"Although the country is still at war, Manhattan during the summer of 1945 is an intoxicating place, especially for two fresh-faced young coeds who step off a train from Iowa armed with little more than their youthful exuberance and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Call the Midwife: Farewell to the East End

    The last book in the trilogy begun by Jennifer Worth's New York Times bestseller and the basis for the PBS series Call the MidwifeWhen twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the poorest section of postwar London, she not only delivered hundreds of babies and touched many lives, she also became the neighborhood's most vivid ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Starry and Restless

    Three Women Who Changed Work, Writing, and the World

    by Julia Cooke ...
    “Read this book and be enthralled.” —The New York TimesA Parade Most Anticipated Book of the YearThe page-turning story of three women reporters and the way they changed the world, work, and journalism.She hid on a Red Cross boat to reach Omaha Beach on D-Day. She walked the abandoned streets of Hong Kong to take food to her daughter’s father, a prisoner of war. She fought off the advances of ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • American Jezebel

    The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans

    by Eve LaPlante ...
    "[A] fast-paced and elegant. . . . stimulating . . . first-rate biography . . .of a much-neglected figure in early American religious history." — Publishers Weekly, starred reviewIn 1637, Anne Hutchinson, a forty-six-year-old midwife who was pregnant with her sixteenth child, stood before forty male judges of the Massachusetts General Court, charged with heresy and sedition. In a time when women ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Queen Victoria's Daughters-in-Law

    The first book to study the four wives of Queen Victoria's sons as a family group—based partly on previously unpublished material from the Royal Archives.The first to join the family of the "Grandmama of Europe" was Alexandra, eldest daughter of the prince about to become King Christian IX of Denmark. Charming, ever sympathetic and widely considered one of the most attractive royal women of her ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blood Sisters

    The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses

    "[A] gem of a book . . . enlivened by incisive analysis, exquisite detail and an elegant and witty style." -- Alison WeirThe Wars of the Roses, which tore apart the ruling Plantagenet family in fifteenth-century England, was truly a domestic drama, as fraught and intimate as any family feud before or since. But as acclaimed historian Sarah Gristwood reveals, while the events of this turbulent time ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Agent Josephine

    American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy

    by Damien Lewis ...
    **The thrilling account of how Josephine Baker, the world’s richest and most glamorous entertainer, became an Allied spy in Occupied France“Four hundred pages of bravery and heroism that read like a spy novel you can’t put down.” —Vanity FairA Vanity Fair and The New Yorker Best Book of the Year**In Agent Josephine, bestselling author Damien Lewis uncovers the extraordinary story of Josephine ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Action Park

    Fast Times, Wild Rides, and the Untold Story of America's Most Dangerous Amusement Park

    "Citizen Kane does Adventureland." —The Washington PostThe outlandish, hilarious, terrifying, and almost impossible-to-believe story of the legendary, dangerous amusement park where millions were entertained and almost as many bruises were sustained, told through the eyes of the founder's son.Often called "Accident Park," "Class Action Park," or "Traction Park," Action Park was an American icon. ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD