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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical Empress, consort of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French Josephine 1763-1814 Empresses France Biography HISTORY / Europe / France HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century HISTORY / Social History HISTORY / Women I, Emperor of the French Napoleon 1769-1821 Marriage Mères de premiers ministres Grande-Bretagne Biographies Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) 1882-1945Buruma, Ian.
Summary: "A family history of surpassing beauty and power: Ian Buruma's account of his grandparents' enduring love through the terror and separation of two world wars. During the almost six years England was at war with Nazi Germany, Winifred and Bernard Schlesinger, Ian Buruma's grandparents, and the film director John Schlesinger's parents, were, like so many others, thoroughly sundered from each...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BUREgan, Timothy.
Summary: "From the National Book Award-winning and best-selling author Timothy Egan comes the epic story of one of the most fascinating and colorful Irishman in nineteenth-century America. The Irish-American story, with all its twists and triumphs, is told throughthe improbable life of one man. A dashing young orator during the Great Famine of the 1840s, in which a million of his Irish countrymen died,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 MEACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MEAGHER, THOMAS FRANCIS EGACopies Available at Peninsula
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Summary: "The stories of Sara Delano and Jennie Jerome, before and after birthing their sons, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, consecutively."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 GRAWilliams, Kate
Summary: From CNN's official royal historian, a highly praised young author with a doctorate from Oxford University, comes the extraordinary rags-to-riches story of the woman who conquered Napoleon's heart -- and with it, an empire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2015