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The Riddle of Gender - Deborah Rudacille
Review“Sympathetic and well-researched. . . . Lively enough to be a good introduction for the educated lay reader and documented enough for the scholar.” –_Publishers Weekly_ “Amaz... -
The Property of a Lady - Elizabeth Adler
From Publishers WeeklyFrom the author of Leonie and The Rich Shall Inherit comes thiseventful novel of romantic intrigue, briskly plotted and wellresearched, centering on a fabulou... -
The Hummingbird's Daughter_ A N - Luis Alberto Urrea
This historical novel is based on Urrea's real great-aunt Teresita, who had healing powers and was acclaimed as a saint. Urrea has researched historical accounts and family records... -
The Battle of Midway - Craig L. Symonds
Review"[W]holly satisfying . . . a lucid, intensely researched, mildly revisionist account of a significant moment in American military history." --Kirkus Reviews, starred re... -
Pearl Harbor Christmas_ A World - Stanley Weintraub
Review''A vivid 11-day account of a World War II holiday . . . A master chronicler, Weintraub's moody, intensively researched play- by-play narrative traces the final days of 1941.... -
Love and Louis XIV_ The Women i - Antonia Fraser
From Publishers WeeklyProlific royal biographer Fraser (_Marie Antoinette_) has assiduously researched her measured yet engrossing study, shedding welcome light on the galaxy of in... -
Frommer's Kauai - Jeanette Foster
Meticulously researched by one of Hawaii's most noted journalists (and a long-time resident of the Big Island), this is hands-down the most reliable, up-to-date, and ... -
Fab_ An Intimate Life of Paul M - Howard Sounes
FromStarred Review Sounes has earned a well-deserved reputation for writing thoroughly researched, intricately detailed biographies. This comprehensive biography of McCartney is n.... -
Dead Heat - Dick Francis; Felix Francis
From Publishers WeeklyMWA Grand Master Francis's first collaboration with his son Felix, a former physics teacher who researched many of his father's previous bestsellers, introduc... -
Begin Again_ A Biography of Joh - Kenneth Silverman
From John Cage, whose pieces dazzled and confounded audiences for six decades, hardly seems the easiest of subjects for the biographer, but this is a well-researched, coherent, qui...