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Conn Iggulden - 21 knjiga

in AAA, Bestseller, Biography, Conn Iggulden, Conqueror Series, Emperor Series, Historical Fiction, History, Medieval, Military/War, Nonfiction, Thriller, Wars of the Roses Series / with No comments /

Emperor Series:
(5 primary works; 6 total works)

- Best-selling Series -

F - 2489/1 | The Gates of Rome (Emperor #1) by Conn Iggulden

F - 2489/2 | The Death of Kings (Emperor #2) by Conn Iggulden

F - 2489/3 | The Field of Swords (Emperor #3) by Conn Iggulden

F - 2489/4 | The Gods of War (Emperor #4) by Conn Iggulden

F - 2489/5 | The Blood of Gods (Emperor #5) by Conn Iggulden

Wars of the Roses Series:
(4 primary works; 6 total works)

- Best-selling Series -

F - 2490/1 | Stormbird (Wars of the Roses #1) by Conn Iggulden

F - 2490/2 | Trinity (Wars of the Roses #2) by Conn Iggulden

F - 2490/3 | Bloodline (Wars of the Roses #3) by Conn Iggulden

F - 2490/4 | Ravenspur Rise of the Tudors (The Wars of the Roses #4) by Conn Iggulden

Conqueror Series:
(5 primary works; 8 total works)

- Best-selling Series -

F - 2491/1-5 | The Khan Series (Conqueror #1-5) by Conn Iggulden

F - 2492 | Blackwater by Conn Iggulden

F - 2493 | Dunstan by Conn Iggulden

F - 2494 | Quantum of Tweed The Man with the Nissan Micra by Conn Iggulden (Mystery, Short Stories, Humor)

F - 2495 | Fig Tree by Conn Iggulden

F - 2496 | The Falcon of Sparta by Conn Iggulden

N - 222 | The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn Iggulden, Hal Iggulden - Bestseller (Nonfiction, Childrens)

N - 223 | The Dangerous Book of Heroes by Conn Iggulden, David Iggulden (Nonfiction, History, Biography)

World Leaders Past & Present Series:
(159 primary works; 159 total works) - different authors

N - 4 | Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life (World Leaders Past & Present) by Alison Weir

N - 216 | Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Murder of Lord Darnley by Alison Weir

N - 217 | Queen Isabella Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England by Alison Weir

N - 218 | The Princes in the Tower by Alison Weir

N - 220 | Traitors of the Tower by Alison Weir

N - 221 | Mistress of the Monarchy: The Life of Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster by Alison Weir

Stuart Woods - 81 knjiga

in Bestseller, Biography, Ed Eagle Series, Herbie Fisher Series, Holly Barker Series, Nonfiction, Rick Barron Series, Stone Barrington Series, Stuart Woods, Teddy Fay Series, Thriller, Will Lee Series / with No comments /

Herbie Fisher Series:
(1 primary work; 1 total work)

TH - 944/1 | Barely Legal (Herbie Fisher #1) by Stuart Woods

Ed Eagle Series:
(4 primary works; 5 total works)

TH - 943/1 | Santa Fe Rules (Ed Eagle #1) by Stuart Woods

TH - 943/2-4 | Ed Eagle: Short Straw / Santa Fe Dead / Santa Fe Edge (Ed Eagle #2-4) by Stuart Woods

Holly Barker Series:
(6 primary works; 8 total works)

TH - 946/1 | Orchid Beach (Holly Barker #1) by Stuart Woods

TH - 946/2-3,5-6 | Holly Barker Collection: Orchid Blues / Blood Orchid / Iron Orchid / Hothouse Orchid (Holly Barker #2-3, 5-6) by Stuart Woods

TH - 946/4 same as:
TH - 945/10 | Reckless Abandon (Stone Barrington #10) by Stuart Woods

Rick Barron Series:
(2 primary works; 2 total works)

TH - 947/1 | The Prince of Beverly Hills (Rick Barron #1) by Stuart Woods

TH - 947/2 | Beverly Hills Dead (Rick Barron #2) by Stuart Woods

Teddy Fay Series:
(4 primary works; 4 total works)

TH - 948/1 | Smooth Operator (Teddy Fay #1) by Stuart Woods, Parnell Hall

TH - 948/2 | The Money Shot (Teddy Fay #2) by Stuart Woods, Parnell Hall

TH - 948/3 | Skin Game (Teddy Fay #3) by Stuart Woods, Parnell Hall

TH - 948/4 | Bombshell (Teddy Fay #4) by Stuart Woods, Parnell Hall

Will Lee Series:
(7 primary works; 7 total works)

TH - 949/1 | Chiefs (Will Lee #1) by Stuart Woods - Bestseller

TH - 949/2 | Run Before the Wind (Will Lee #2) by Stuart Woods

TH - 949/3 | Deep Lie (Will Lee #3) by Stuart Woods

TH - 949/4 | Grass Roots (Will Lee #4) by Stuart Woods

TH - 949/5 | The Run (Will Lee #5) by Stuart Woods

TH - 949/6 | Capital Crimes (Will Lee #6) by Stuart Woods

TH - 949/7 | Mounting Fears (Will Lee #7) by Stuart Woods

N - 7 | Blue Water, Green Skipper by Stuart Woods (Nonfiction, Biography)

Brad Meltzer - 13 knjiga

in Biography, Brad Meltzer, Culper Ring Series, History, Nonfiction, Thriller / with No comments /

N - 24 - The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington by Brad Meltzer, Josh Mensch (History, Nonfiction, Biography)

TH - 789/1 - The Inner Circle (Culper Ring #1) by Brad Meltzer

TH - 789/2 - The Fifth Assassin (Culper Ring #2) by Brad Meltzer

TH - 789/3 - The President's Shadow (Culper Ring #3) by Brad Meltzer

TH - 788 - The House of Secrets by Brad Meltzer, Tod Goldberg

TH - 787 - The Zero Game by Brad Meltzer

TH - 786 - The Tenth Justice by Brad Meltzer

TH - 785 - The Millionaires by Brad Meltzer

TH - 784 - The First Counsel by Brad Meltzer

TH - 783 - The Escape Artist by Brad Meltzer

TH - 782 - The Book of Lies by Brad Meltzer

TH - 781 - The Book of Fate by Brad Meltzer

TH - 780 - Dead Even by Brad Meltzer

N - 35 | Seducing and Killing Nazis: Hannie, Truus and Freddie: Dutch Resistance Heroines of WWII by Sophie Poldermans

in Biography, History, Military/War, Nonfiction, Sophie Poldermans, True Crime, World War II / with No comments /

This is the astonishing true story of three teenage Dutch girls, Hannie Schaft and sisters Truus and Freddie Oversteegen, that has inspired many throughout the world.

When Nazi Germany invaded the Netherlands in World War II, these girls took up arms against the enemy by seducing high-ranking Nazi officers, luring them into the woods and killing them. They provided Jewish children with safe houses and gathered vital intelligence for the resistance. They did what they did "because it had to be done." Above all, they tried to remain human in inhuman circumstances.

Hannie Schaft was executed by the Nazis three weeks before the end of the war and became the icon of female Dutch resistance. Truus and Freddie Oversteegen survived the war, but were forever haunted by the demons of their past.

ID: N - 35

N - 46 | Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven by John Eliot Gardiner

in Art, Biography, History, John Eliot Gardiner, Music, Nonfiction / with No comments /

Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who (when we can discern his personality at all) seems so ordinary, so opaque—and occasionally so intemperate?

John Eliot Gardiner grew up passing one of the only two authentic portraits of Bach every morning and evening on the stairs of his parents’ house, where it hung for safety during World War II. He has been studying and performing Bach ever since, and is now regarded as one of the composer’s greatest living interpreters.

The fruits of this lifetime’s immersion are distilled in this remarkable book, grounded in the most recent Bach scholarship but moving far beyond it, and explaining in wonderful detail the ideas on which Bach drew, how he worked, how his music is constructed, how it achieves its effects—and what it can tell us about Bach the man.

Gardiner’s background as a historian has encouraged him to search for ways in which scholarship and performance can cooperate and fruitfully coalesce. This has entailed piecing together the few biographical shards, scrutinizing the music, and watching for those instances when Bach’s personality seems to penetrate the fabric of his notation. Gardiner’s aim is “to give the reader a sense of inhabiting the same experiences and sensations that Bach might have had in the act of music-making. This, I try to show, can help us arrive at a more human likeness discernible in the closely related processes of composing and performing his music.”

It is very rare that such an accomplished performer of music should also be a considerable writer and thinker about it. John Eliot Gardiner takes us as deeply into Bach’s works and mind as perhaps words can. The result is a unique book about one of the greatest of all creative artists.

ID: N - 46

N - 200 | The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War by Tim Butcher

in Biography, History, Military/War, Nonfiction, Politics, Tim Butcher, World War I / with No comments /

On a summer morning in Sarajevo a hundred years ago, a teenage assassin named Gavrilo Princip fired not just the opening shots of the First World War but the starting gun for modern history, when he killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Yet the events Princip triggered were so monumental that his own story has been largely overlooked, his role garbled and motivations misrepresented.

The Trigger puts this right, filling out as never before a figure who changed our world and whose legacy still has an impact on all of us today. Born a penniless backwoodsman, Princip’s life changed when he trekked through Bosnia and Serbia to attend school. As he ventured across fault lines of faith, nationalism and empire, so tightly clustered in the Balkans, radicalisation slowly transformed him from a frail farm boy into history’s most influential assassin.

By retracing Princip’s journey from his highland birthplace, through the mythical valleys of Bosnia to the fortress city of Belgrade and ultimately Sarajevo, Tim Butcher illuminates our understanding both of Princip and the places that shaped him. Tim uncovers details about Princip that have eluded historians for a century and draws on his own experience, as a war reporter in the Balkans in the 1990s, to face down ghosts of conflicts past and present.

The Trigger is a rich and timely work that brings to life both the moment the world first went to war and an extraordinary region with a potent hold over history.

ID: N - 200

N - 199 | Blood Sisters: The Women Behind The Wars Of The Roses by Sarah Gristwood

in Biography, History, Nonfiction, Sarah Gristwood / with No comments /

From best-selling historian, Sarah Gristwood comes the true story behind Philippa Gregory’s recent novels – the women who gave birth to the Tudor dynasty. It is a fiery history of Queens, the perils of power and of how the Wars of the Roses were ended – not by knights in battle, but the sinewy political skills of women.

The events of the Wars of the Roses are usually described in terms of the men involved; Richard, Duke of York, Henry VI, Edward IV and Henry VII. The reality though, argues Sarah Gristwood, was quite different. These years were also packed with women's drama and – in the tales of conflicted maternity and monstrous births – alive with female energy.

In this completely original book, acclaimed author Sarah Gristwood sheds light on a neglected dimension of English history: the impact of Tudor women on the Wars of the Roses. She examines Cecily Neville, the wife of Richard Duke of York, who was deprived of being queen when her husband died at the Battle of Wakefield; Elizabeth Woodville, a widow with several children who married Edward IV in secret and was crowned queen consort; Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII, whose ambitions centred on her son and whose persuasions are likely to have lead her husband Lord Stanley, previously allied with the Yorkists, to play his part in Henry's victory.

Until now, the lives of these women have remained little known to the general public. Sarah Gristwood tells their stories in detail for the first time. Captivating and original, this is historical writing of the most important kind.

ID: N - 199

N - 198 | Arbella: England's Lost Queen by Sarah Gristwood

in Biography, History, Nonfiction, Sarah Gristwood / with No comments /

An extraordinary life lost in history: the compelling biography of Arbella Stuart spans both Tudor and Stuart courts and encompasses espionage, a clandestine marriage, imprisonment and eventual death in the Tower of London.

Arbella Stuart was the niece of Mary Queen of Scots and first cousin to James VI of Scotland.
Acknowledged as her heir by Elizabeth 1, Arbella's right to the English throne was equaled only by James.

Raised under close supervision by her grandmother, but still surrounded by plots -- most of them Roman Catholic in origin -- she became an important pawn in the struggle for succession, particularly during the long, tense period when Elizabeth lay dying.

The accession of her cousin James thrust her into the colourful world of his extravagant and licentious court, and briefly gave her the independence she craved at the heart of Jacobean society.

At thirty-five, however, Arbella's fate was sealed when she risked everything to make a forbidden marriage, for which she was forced to flee England. She was intercepted off the coast of Calais and escorted to the Tower where she died some years later, alone and, most probably, from starvation.

This is a powerful and vivid portrait of a woman forced to carve a precarious path through turbulent years. But more remarkably, the turmoil of Arbella's life never prevented her from claiming the right to love freely, to speak her wrongs loudly, and to control her own destiny. For fans of historical biography, Arbella is possibly the most romantic heroine of them all. Hers was a story just waiting to be told.

Sarah Gristwood is a journalist and broadcaster, specializing in the arts and women's issues. She is the author of one previous book, Recording Angels, a study of women's diaries through the ages.

ID: N - 198

N - 197 | Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe by Sarah Gristwood

in Biography, History, Nonfiction, Sarah Gristwood / with No comments /

Sixteenth-century Europe saw an explosion of female rule. From Isabella of Castile, and her granddaughter Mary Tudor, to Catherine de Medici, Anne Boleyn, and Elizabeth Tudor, these women wielded enormous power over their territories, shaping the course of European history for over a century.

Across boundaries and generations, these royal women were mothers and daughters, mentors and protégées, allies and enemies.

For the first time, Europe saw a sisterhood of queens who would not be equaled until modern times.

A fascinating group biography and a thrilling political epic, Game of Queens explores the lives of some of the most beloved (and reviled) queens in history.

ID: N - 197

N - 186 | Elvis and Me: The True Story of the Love Between Priscilla Presley and the King of Rock N' Roll by Priscilla Presley

in Autobiography, Biography, Nonfiction, Priscilla Presley, Romance / with No comments /

The New York Times bestseller that reveals the intimate story of Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley, told by the woman who lived it.

Decades after his death, millions of fans continue to worship Elvis the legend. But very few knew him as Elvis the man. Here in her own words, Priscilla Presley tells the story of their love, revealing the details of their first meeting, their marriage, their affairs, their divorce, and the unbreakable bond that has remained long after his tragic death.

A tribute to both the man and the legend, Elvis and Me gives Elvis fans the world over an unprecedented look at the true life of the King of Rock N' Roll and the woman who loved him.

ID: N - 186

N - 160 | The Housekeeper's Tale - The Women Who Really Ran the English Country House by Tessa Boase

in Biography, History, Nonfiction, Relationships, Tessa Boase / with No comments /

The story of The Housekeeper’s Tale follows the lives of five women to delve into the secret existence of these powerful yet invisible women who ran our great English country houses.

From the 19th- to the mid 20th-century this was the most important professional job an uneducated woman could aspire to; the female equivalent of the butler. But we know very little about the women who filled these posts.

In the fictional view, the housekeeper was invariably a spinster in black silk: cold, remote and calculating. But what of the real lives? Tessa Boase turns domestic detective to take the reader on a journey of investigation, unearthing secret diaries, bundles of letters and neglected archives from the service wings of great houses – the housekeeping accounts, the doctor’s bills, the shopping lists, the character references.

Mrs Doar, Mrs Wells, Mrs Penketh, Mrs Mackenzie and Mrs Higgens are forgotten women, but each had an intriguing personal story. Through meticulous research and imaginative reconstruction, their tales are told here for the first time.

There is a pregnancy, a court case, a love affair, a scandal. These were real women, with real problems. But they were also determined, ambitious and single-minded.

Whatever their era – Victorian, Edwardian, the roaring Twenties, the liberated Sixties – without these women the world’s that they kept in order would have stopped spinning altogether.

ID: N - 160

N - 159 | The Mistresses of Cliveden: Three Centuries of Scandal, Power and Intrigue in an English Stately Home by Natalie Livingstone

in Bestseller, Biography, History, Natalie Livingstone, Nonfiction, Relationships / with No comments /

A Sunday Times bestseller, The Mistresses of Cliveden is the extraordinary story of how five women used their home to influence British society.

From its dawn in the 1660s to its twilight in the 1960s, Cliveden was an emblem of elite misbehaviour and intrigue. Conceived by the Duke of Buckingham as a retreat for his scandalous affair with Anna-Maria, Countess of Shrewsbury, the house later served as the backdrop for the Profumo Affair, which would bring down a government and change the course of British history.

In the three hundred years between the Countess and Christine Keeler, the house was occupied by a dynasty of remarkable women: Elizabeth Villiers, an intellectual who brokered the rise and fall of governments; Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, a minor German royal who almost became queen of England; Harriet Duchess of Sutherland, the glittering society hostess turned political campaigner; and Nancy Astor, the consummate controversialist who became the first woman to take a seat in parliament. Under the direction of these women, Cliveden provided a stage for political plots and artistic premieres, hosted grieving monarchs and republican radicals, was idealised as a family home, and maligned as a threat to national security.

The Mistresses of Cliveden is by turns a historical epic, a political thriller, a family drama, and an intimate history of the relationships between people and place. Above all, it is a story about sex and power, and the ways in which exceptional women have evaded, exploited, and confronted the expectations of their times.

ID: N - 159

N - 144 | Get Capone: The Secret Plot That Captured America's Most Wanted Gangster by Jonathan Eig

in Bestseller, Biography, History, Jonathan Eig, Nonfiction, True Crime / with No comments /

Drawing on thousands of pages of recently discovered government documents, wiretap transcripts, and Al Capone’s handwritten personal letters, New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Eig tells the dramatic story of the rise and fall of the nation’s most notorious criminal in rich new detail.

From the moment he arrived in Chicago in 1920, Capone found himself in a world of limitless opportunity. He was an impetuous, affable young man of average intelligence, ill prepared for fame and fortune, whose most notable characteristic was his scarred left cheek. Yet within a few years, Capone controlled an illegal bootlegging business with annual revenue rivaling that of some of the nation’s largest corporations. Along the way he corrupted the Chicago police force and local courts while becoming one of the world’s first international celebrities.

Get Capone explores every aspect of the man called “Scarface,” paying particular attention to the myths that have for so long surrounded and obscured him. Capone emerges as a worldly, emotionally complex man, doomed as much by his ego as by his vicious criminality. This is the real Al Capone.

ID: N - 144

N - 143 | The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X, Alex Haley

in Alex Haley, Autobiography, Bestseller, Biography, Malcolm X, Nonfiction / with No comments /

Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century. In this riveting account, he tells of his journey from a prison cell to Mecca, describing his transition from hoodlum to Muslim minister. Here, the man who called himself "the angriest Black man in America" relates how his conversion to true Islam helped him confront his rage and recognize the brotherhood of all mankind.

An established classic of modern America, "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" was hailed by the New York Times as "Extraordinary. A brilliant, painful, important book." Still extraordinary, still important, this electrifying story has transformed Malcom X's life into his legacy. The strength of his words, the power of his ideas continue to resonate more than a generation after they first appeared.

ID: N - 143

N - 108 | The Lost Tudor Princess: The Life of Lady Margaret Douglas by Alison Weir

in Alison Weir, Biography, History, Nonfiction / with No comments /

INDEPENDENT: From bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir comes the first biography of Margaret Douglas, the beautiful, cunning niece of Henry VIII of England who used her sharp intelligence and covert power to influence the succession after the death of Elizabeth I.

Royal Tudor blood ran in her veins. Her mother was a queen, her father an earl, and she herself was the granddaughter, niece, cousin, and grandmother of monarchs. Lady Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, was an important figure in Tudor England, yet today, while her contemporaries—Anne Boleyn, Mary, Queen of Scots, Elizabeth I—have achieved celebrity status, she is largely forgotten.

Margaret’s life was steeped in intrigue, drama, and tragedy—from her auspicious birth in 1530 to her parents’ bitter divorce, from her ill-fated love affairs to her appointment as lady-in-waiting for four of Henry’s six wives. In an age when women were expected to stay out of the political arena, alluring and tempestuous Margaret helped orchestrate one of the most notorious marriages of the sixteenth century: that of her son Lord Darnley to Mary, Queen of Scots...

- starts on page 44 -

ID: N - 108

N - 105 | Prince of Darkness: The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's First Black Millionaire by Shane White

in Biography, History, Nonfiction, Shane White / with No comments /

Winner of the 2015 Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Best Book Prize: the amazing and forgotten story of Wall Street's first black millionaire in pre-Civil War New York

In the middle decades of the nineteenth century, Jeremiah G. Hamilton was a well-known figure on Wall Street. And Hamilton was African American. Although his origins were lowly, possibly slave, he was reportedly the richest black man in the United States, possessing a fortune of two million, or in excess of two hundred and fifty million in today’s currency.

In Prince of Darkness: The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's First Black Millionaire, a groundbreaking account, eminent historian Shane White reveals the larger-than-life story of a man who defied every convention of his time.

ID: N - 105

N - 88 | Audrey Hepburn: An Intimate Portrait by Diana Maychick

in Autobiography, Biography, Diana Maychick, Nonfiction / with No comments /

A biography of the screen legend, based on more than one hundred interviews with family and friends, discusses her early years, her personal life, her work opposite Hollywood's greatest leading men, and her tireless work for UNICEF

When she began writing her biography of Audrey Hepburn, author Diana Maychick never dreamed she would have such unprecedented access to the reclusive and legendary star. Audrey Hepburn insisted that a proper biography could never be completed unless she was willing to share some intensely personal and painful memories. For the next year, Hepburn and Maychick spent countless hours together in conversation, as Audrey opened up about her childhood, her careers, and the loves of her life.

What Diana Maychick did not know was that Audrey Hepburn was dying and that these conversations would, all too soon and all too sadly, come to an end.

ID: N - 88

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