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From award-winning author Eva Stachniak comes this passionate novel that tells the epic story of Catherine the Great’s improbable rise to power—as seen through the ever-watchful eyes of an all-but-invisible servant close to the throne.
Her name is Barbara—in Russian, Varvara. Nimble-witted and attentive, she’s allowed into the employ of the Empress Elizabeth, amid the glitter and cruelty of the world’s...
Her name is Barbara—in Russian, Varvara. Nimble-witted and attentive, she’s allowed into the employ of the Empress Elizabeth, amid the glitter and cruelty of the world’s...
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This narrative biography tells the extraordinary story of an obscure young German princess who traveled to Russia at fourteen and rose to become one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating women in history. Born into a minor noble family, Catherine transformed herself into Empress of Russia by sheer determination. Possessing a brilliant mind and an insatiable curiosity as a young woman, she devoured the works of Enlightenment philosophers...
3) Tsarina
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2020.
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English
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"Before there was Catherine the Great, there was Catherine Alexeyevna: the first woman to rule Russia in her own right. Ellen Alpsten's rich, sweeping first-person narrative is the story of her rise to power. St. Petersburg, 1725. Peter the Great lies dying in his magnificent Winter Palace. The weakness and treachery of his only son has driven his father to an appalling act of cruelty and left the empire without an heir. Russia risks falling into...
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[2021]
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English
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"This exciting Who Was? title explores how Catherine the Great was able to turn Russia into one of the great powers of Europe by expanding its borders, helping improve its educational system, and advocating for the arts. Her three-decade reign is considered the Golden Age of Russia"--
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2019.
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English
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Ordinary. Average. Normal. The everyday is the wall-to-wall humdrum we seek to upgrade, like a fifties carpet we long to replace. More money. A bigger house. A better body. An upgraded career. The ultimate relationship. A highly inconvenient psychological phenomenon called 'the hedonic treadmill' has us eternally questing for more. Catherine Gray was a grandmaster in eye-rolling the ordinary, and the art of everlasting reaching. Until the daemon of...
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Dickens of a crime volume 1
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2018.
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English
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"A complex mystery that cunningly explores how Dickens might have been inspired to write the plot of his most well-known book, A Tale of Two Cities." —Anna Lee Huber, bestselling author of the Lady Darby Mysteries
In the winter of 1835, young Charles Dickens is a journalist on the rise at the Evening Chronicle. Invited to dinner at the estate of the newspaper's co-editor, Charles is smitten with his boss's
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2014.
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Russian
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Dahab: atlas of dive sites explores the most interesting sites of Dahab (Egypt) and its environment. A special emphasis is made on the underwater world of the Red Sea. A full underwater guide to Dahab, descriptions and dive schemes for all the most interesting sites of Dahab are explored in detail. In additon to Dahab and the underwater world of the Red Sea, we take a trip to the Bedouins in the desert and to St. Catherine's Monastery.
10) Pay it forward
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[2009]
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English
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A boy creates a scheme which involves helping three people who must each help three people and so on. His plan actually works, though not in the way he anticipated, and not until his own world is forever changed for better and worse.
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Kate Middleton is universally acknowledged as the brightest jewel in the British royal family. From her decade-long courtship with Prince William, to their fairy-tale wedding and rejuvenation of the monarchy, Kate has enchanted the public and media alike. Now, as her dreams of being a mother have come true, she and William face the challenge of bringing up their son under the watchful eyes of the world. So how has this once shy, middle-class girl...
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2021.
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English
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"A biography of Catherine Dior, Christian Dior's younger sister, that illuminates the work of the most iconic designer of the postwar world-her brother, Christian-and casts new light on the overlooked life of a quietly courageous, quietly extraordinary woman"--
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Dickens of a crime volume 2
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2019.
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English
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"London, June 1835: In the interest of being a good neighbor, Charles checks in on Miss Haverstock, the elderly spinster who resides in the flat above his. But as the young journalist and his fiance Kate ascend the stairs, they are assaulted by the unmistakable smell of death. Upon entering the woman's quarters, they find her decomposing corpse propped up, adorned in a faded gown that looks like it could have been her wedding dress, had she been married....
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Catherine Ling novels volume 3
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English
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"Catherine Ling: raised on the streets of Hong Kong, she has been a shadowy CIA Operative since she was fourteen years old. Now, years later, Catherine is as lethal as she is beautiful. There are only a few things in life she cares for. One is her son. Kidnapped when he was only two, Catherine has only recently been reunited with him and the vow of her heart is never to let him face danger again. The other is her mentor, Hu Chang. Mysterious, brilliant,...
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Dickens of a crime volume 3
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2020.
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English
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Witnessing the fatal defenestration of neighbor Jacob Harley while caroling in 1835 London, young Charles Dickens and his fianc�ee, Kate, disagree about the case's chief suspect, Emmanuel Screws, an unpleasant counting-house codger with a rather colorful imagination.
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c2011
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English
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What do you do when you love your farm . . . but it doesn't love you? After fifteen years of farming, Catherine Friend is tired. After all, while shepherding is one of the oldest professions, it's not getting any easier. The number of sheep in America has fallen by 90 percent in the last ninety years. But just as Catherine thinks it's time to hang up her shepherd's crook, she discovers that sheep might be too valuable to give up. What ensues is a...
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2016.
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English
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Biographer "Christopher Andersen takes readers behind palace walls to examine the surprising similarities and stark differences among three remarkable women--Queen Elizabeth; Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall; and Princess Kate."--Book jacket.
Andersen takes readers behind palace walls to examine the surprising similarities and stark differences among three remarkable women: Queen Elizabeth; Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall; and Princess Kate. One is a wily...
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