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Looks at the postwar life of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor in their Paris mansion and describes their jewels, clothing, and household furnishings.

Filled with more than 150 four-color photographs of the most beautiful jewels of our time, Extraordinary Jewels also tells the stories -- and often the scandals -- surrounding each jewel.

For nearly a quarter of a century, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were Hollywood royalty, and their fiery romance often called "the marriage of the century" was the most notorious, publicized, and celebrated love affair of its day. Addictive and ente

Oxford: The First Three Centuries (Used Books) (pb) - Preston

Thew Jewels of The Duchess of Windsor (Used Books) (hc) - Culme and Rayner

Wallis Warfield Spencer Simpson retains her pride and courage through an unhappy childhood, secures money and status through her lovers, and finds fame as the Duchess of Windsor.

Behind Closed Doors: The Tragic, Untold Story of the Duchess of Windsor (Used Books) (hc) - Vickers

Intriguing, suspenseful, and witty, this is the story of journalist and novelist Caroline Blackwood's search for the late Duchess of Windsor.

A New York Times bestseller!

From #1 New York Times bestselling author, Pulitzer Prize winner, and leading historian Doris Kearns Goodwin comes an essential middle grade guide to Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, and L

A Biography of a Map in Motion: Augustine Herrman's Chesapeake (hc) - Koot

In this revelatory and enthralling book, award-winning historian Richard Bell reveals the full breadth and depth of America’s founding event. The American Revolution was not only the colonies’ triumphant liberation from the rule of an overbearing England;

A Pulitzer Prize finalist in History, this eye-opening rethinking of nineteenth-century American history reveals the interdependence of the Northern industrial economy and Southern slave labor.

The industrializing North and the agricultural South—that’