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Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Nora May French and Carrie Sterling arrive at Carmel-by-the-Sea at the turn of the 20th century with dramatically different ambitions. Nora, a stunning, brilliant, impulsive writer in her early twenties, seeks artistic recognition and bohemian refuge among the most celebrated counter-culturalists of the era. Carrie, long-suffering wife of the poet George Sterling, wants the opposite: a semblance of the stability she thought her advantageous marriage...
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"...inspired by and partially based on James Madison Hemings's 1873 newspaper interview in which he briefly summed up his family's story, including the bombshell that he was the son of Thomas Jefferson. He was the only one of Sally Hemings's children to go public with this claim" (From author's note).
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
As the wife of a top CIA official and mistress to President John F. Kennedy, Mary Meyer "knew things." Was that why she was murdered? Journalist Nina Burleigh attempts to answer this question as she explores Meyer's links to such notables as spymaster James Angleton and LSD guru Timothy Leary in this fascinating account of the life and death of a very private woman.--From publisher description.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Few people can say they've seen some of the most significant moments of the twentieth century unravel before their eyes. Marita Lorenz is one of them. Born in Germany at the outbreak of WWII, Marita was incarcerated in a Nazi concentration camp as a child. In 1959, she traveled to Cuba where she met and fell in love with Fidel Castro. Yet upon fleeing to America, she was recruited by the CIA to assassinate the Fidel. Torn by love and loyalty, she...
53) Franklin and Lucy: President Roosevelt, Mrs. Rutherfurd, and the other remarkable women in his life
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The Paris Wife was only the beginning of the story. Paula McLain's New York Times-bestselling novel piqued readers' interest about Ernest Hemingway's romantic life. But Hadley was only one of four women married, in turn, to the legendary writer. Just as T.C. Boyle's bestseller The Women completed the picture begun by Nancy Horan's Loving Frank, Naomi Wood's Mrs. Hemingway tells the story of how it was to love, and be loved by, the most famous and...
60) Camille Claudel
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Français
Description
A lush depiction of the legendary romance between sculptor Auguste Rodin and his young pupil Camille, this is the true story of their passionate obsession with art, and with each other.
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