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"This debut novel tells the gripping and tragic story of Queen Victoria's eldest daughter, Victoria, Princess Royal. To the world, she was Princess Victoria, daughter of a queen, wife of an emperor, and mother of Kaiser Wilhelm. Her family just called her Vicky--smart, pretty, and self-assured, she changed the course of the world. January 1858: Princess Victoria glides down the aisle of St James Chapel to the waiting arms of her beloved, Fritz, Prince...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Pub. Date
1999.
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English
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Piet and soldier, misanthrope and philosopher, Frederick the Great was a contradictory, almost unfathomable man. His conquests made him one of the most formidable and feared leaders of his era. But, as a patron of artists and intellectuals, Frederick re-created Berlin as one of the continent's great cities, matching his state's reputation for military ferocity with one for cultural achievement.
Though history remembers Frederick as a "Potsdam Fuhrer,"...
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ECW Press
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English
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"A sweeping, cinematic novel about the life of the Winter Queen, Elizabeth Stuart. King James I is looking to expand England's influence in Europe, especially among the Protestants. He invites Prince Frederic of the Palatinate to London and offers him his sixteen-year-old daughter Elizabeth's hand in marriage. The fierce and intelligent Elizabeth moves to Heidelberg Castle, Frederic's ancestral home, where she is favored with whatever she desires,...
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works of Thomas Carlyle ; 12-19
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Scholarly Press
Pub. Date
1972.
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English
9) Royal web
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McGraw-Hill Book Co
Pub. Date
[1982]
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English
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The story of Princess Victoria and Frederick of Prussia.
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English
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A tale spanning 150 years and two continents reimagines the peace efforts of democracy champion Frederick Douglass, Senator George Mitchell and World War I airmen John Alcock and Teddy Brown through the experiences of four generations of women from a matriarchal clan.
Newfoundland, 1919: Aviators Jack Alcock and Arthur Brown set course for Ireland as they attempt the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Dublin, 1845 and '46: On an international...
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Seabury Press
Pub. Date
[1970]
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English
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"Frederick Buechner invites his reader to share with him an ordinary day in his life. There is no withholding in his account; everything is here--the personal rituals, the Buechner family routines, the seasonal glories of the Vermont countryside, remembrances of the past both poignant and carefree, the novelist working, shared joys, separate pleasures, disappointments--all unique in one way, yet universal in another."--Dust jacket.
