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1918 |
![]() ![]() Author: Carroll Leslie Publisher: William Morrow & Co € 18,50
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![]() ![]() Author: Carroll Leslie, Arndt Andi (NRT) Publisher: Baker & Taylor € 27,10
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![]() ![]() Author: Carroll Leslie, Not Available (NRT) Publisher: Baker & Taylor € 45,70
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![]() ![]() Author: Carroll Leslie, Not Available (NRT) Publisher: Baker & Taylor € 35,70
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1915 |
![]() ![]() Author: Monk Devon, Carroll Leslie (NRT) Publisher: Tantor Media Inc € 27,70
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![]() ![]() Author: Monk Devon, Carroll Leslie (NRT) Publisher: Tantor Media Inc Matilda Case isn't normal. Normal people aren't stitched together, inhumanly strong, and ageless, as she and the other galvanized are. Normal people's bodies don't hold the secret to immortality—something the powerful Houses will kill to possess. And normal people don't know that they're going to die in a few days. Matilda's fight to protect the people she loves triggered a chaotic war between the Houses and shattered the world's peace. On the run, she must find a way to stop the repeat of the ancient time experiment that gifted her and the other galvanized with immortality. Because this time, it will destroy her and everything she holds dear. Caught in a cat-and-mouse game of lies, betrayal, and unseen foes, Matilda must fight to save the world from utter destruction. But time itself is her enemy, and every second brings her one step closer to disaster . . . € 35,70
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1914 |
![]() ![]() Author: Carroll Leslie Publisher: Berkley Pub Group It’s no secret that the marriages of monarchs are often made in hell. Here are some of the most spectacular mismatches in five hundred years of royal history.... In a world where many kings, queens, and princes lacked nothing but true love, marital mismatches could bring out the baddest, boldest behavior in the bluest of bloodlines. Margaret Tudor, her niece Mary I, and Catherine of Braganza were desperately in love with chronically unfaithful husbands, but at least they weren’t murdered by them, as were two of the Medici princesses were. King Charles II’s beautiful, high-spirited sister ?Minette” wed Louis XIV’s younger brother, who wore more makeup and perfume than she did. Forced to wed her boring, jug-eared cousin Ferdinand, Marie of Roumania?a granddaughter of Queen Victoria?proved herself one of the heroines of World War I by using her prodigious personal charm to regain massive amounts of land during the peace talks at Versailles. Brimming with outrageous real-life stories of royal marriages gone wrong, this is an entertaining, unforgettable book of dubious matches doomed from the start. € 14,80
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1912 |
![]() ![]() Author: Carroll Leslie Publisher: Berkley Pub Group More breathtaking than any fairy tale, here are seven scandalous, seductive centuries of all-for-love royal desire . . . Elegant palaces, dazzling power plays, shimmering jewels, and the grandest of all-or-nothing gambles—nothing can top real-life love among the royalty. Louis XIV defied God and law, permitting his married mistress Madame de Montespan to usurp the role of Queen of France, then secretly wed her successor, Madame de Maintenon. Grigory Potemkin was a worthy equal in Catherine the Great’s bed as well as in Russia’s political arena. Dashing Count Axel von Fersen risked everything to save Marie Antoinette’s life more than once—and may have returned her passion. The unshakable devotion of the beloved late “Queen Mum” helped King George VI triumph over his, and England’s, darkest hours. And the unpretentious, timelessly glamorous—even relatable—union of Prince William and the former Kate Middleton continues to enthrall the world. Full of marvelous tales, unforgettable scandals, and bedazzled nobles who refused to rule their hearts, this delightfully insightful book is what the sweetest royal dreams are made of... € 15,20
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1911 |
![]() ![]() Author: Carroll Leslie Publisher: Newton Compton Amy è diventata mamma da poco; Meriel, governante di origine giamaicana, non sopporta più il suo datore di lavoro; Naomi e Claude, due ragazze che si amano, vorrebbero al più presto adottare un bambino; Faith ha perso da poco suo marito mentre Talia, ballerina, deve vedersela con un infortunio che la tiene lontana dal palcoscenico... Cosa hanno in comune tutte queste donne? Apparentemente nulla se non fosse per il fatto che tutte e sei vivono a Manhattan, nello stesso palazzo in cui abita anche un personaggio un po' speciale: Susan, di professione psicoterapeuta. Così nella lavanderia del seminterrato, tra un candeggio e un prelavaggio, a ciascuna di loro toccherà 'stendersi sul divanetto'. E a poco a poco ciò che inizia un po' per caso e un po' per gioco diventa un appuntamento irrinunciabile: scendere dal proprio appartamento con la cesta dei panni sporchi e approfittare della presenza di Susan per dare vita a un'alleanza tra donne sempre pronte a correre in soccorso l'una dell'altra. La condizione ideale per lanciarsi in un mondo di avventure metropolitane dedicate all'amore, al sesso e alla riscoperta della propria femminilità. € 6,90
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![]() ![]() Author: Carroll Leslie Publisher: New Amer Library The author of Notorious Royal Marriages presents some of history's boldest, baddest, and bawdiest royals. The bad seeds on the family trees of the most powerful royal houses of Europe often became the most rotten of apples: über-violent autocrats Vlad the Impaler and Ivan the Terrible literally reigned in blood. Lettice Knollys strove to mimic the appearance of her cousin Elizabeth I and even stole her man. And Pauline Bonaparte scandalized her brother Napoleon by having a golden goblet fashioned in the shape of her breast. Chock-full of shocking scenes, titillating tales, and wildly wicked nobles, Royal Pains is a rollicking compendium of the most infamous, capricious, and insatiable bluebloods of Europe. € 14,30
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1910 |
![]() ![]() Author: Carroll Leslie Publisher: Berkley Pub Group A funny, raucous, and delightfully dirty 900-year history of the royal marriages of Europe's most famous-and infamous-monarchs. Since time immemorial, royal marriages have had little to do with love- and almost everything to do with diplomacy and dynasty. Clashing personalities have joined in unholy matrimony to form such infamous couples as Russia's Peter II and Catherine the Great, and France's Henri II and Catherine de Medici-all with the purpose of begetting a male heir. But with tensions high and silverware flying, kings like England's Henry II have fled to the beds of their nubile mistresses, while queens such as Eleanor of Aquitaine have plotted their revenge... Full of the juicy gossip and bad behavior that characterized Royal Affairs, this book chronicles the love-hate marriages of the crowned heads of Europe-from the Angevins to Charles and Di-and ponders how dynasties ever survived at all. € 14,30
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2010 |
![]() ![]() Author: Carroll Leslie Publisher: Newton Compton Tessa Graig, quarant'anni, di giorno scrive i discorsi per il politico David Weyburn e di notte è la sua amante. Così, quando David la lascia, le crollano addosso in un istante tanto le sue speranze di carriera quanto i suoi sogni d'amore. Un bel viaggio a Dublino è quello che ci vuole per superare il dolore e mettere da parte il passato. Qui Tessa incontra un divertentissimo e linguacciuto pescatore cattolico, Jamie, che le ruba il cuore declamando sonetti di Yeats... Ma Tessa è ebrea e la religiosissima mamma di Jamie sembra non gradire... Nonostante le difficoltà iniziali, Tessa riuscirà a conquistare Jamie e a portarlo con sé a New York dove, inaspettatamente, il posto di David si è liberato e sembra fatto apposta per lei. Ma la politica è un mondo feroce e, proprio quando la famiglia di Jamie si presenta davanti al suo portone per reclamare l'amato figlioletto, il 'New York Post' pubblica il piccante diario di Tessa... Tutto sembra perduto, ma Tessa ha dimenticato di giocare la sua ultima carta, l'unica davvero vincente: se stessa. € 14,90
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2008 |
![]() ![]() Author: Carroll Leslie Publisher: Berkley Pub Group A funny, raucous, and delightfully dirty history of 1,000 years of bedroom-hopping secrets and scandals of Britain?s royals. Insatiable kings, lecherous queens, kissing cousins, and wanton consorts?history has never been so much fun. Royal unions have always been the stuff of scintillating gossip, from the passionate Plantagenets to Henry VIII?s alarming head count of wives and mistresses, to the Sapphic crushes of Mary and Anne Stuart right on up through the scandal-blighted coupling of Prince Charles and Princess Diana. Thrown into loveless, arranged marriages for political and economic gain, many royals were driven to indulge their pleasures outside the marital bed, engaging in delicious flirtations, lurid love letters, and rampant sex with voluptuous and willing partners. This nearly pathological lust made for some of the most titillating scandals in Great Britain?s history. Hardly harmless, these affairs have disrupted dynastic alliances, endangered lives, and most of all, fed the salacious curiosity of the public for centuries. Royal Affairs will satiate that curiosity by bringing this arousing history alive. € 15,20
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