Here is the real story behind the woman who inspired a bestselling biography, one of the top Broadway musicals of all time, and two classic films__and it's one that will surprise you.  The epic love story between a British governess and the King of Siam once again comes to life with the release fo Twentieth Century Fox's Anna and the King, starring Academy Award-winning actress Jodie Foster and international superstar Chow Yun-Fat.  
     The Story of Anna and the King captures all the nuances of this extraordinary relationship, as well as the extravagant film depicting it, in lush, full-color photographs.  Cecelia Holland weaves a beautiful narrative of the true histories behind Anna Leonowens and the Siamese royal family, as well as the political and cultural rises and falls of Siam__present-day Thailand__based on historical information and the published works of Anna Leonowens.
     Filmed entirely in Malaysia, Anna and the King features one of the largest motion pictures sets ever constructed__the King's Palace, which covers more than eight acres of land.  Under the direction of Andy Tennant, an international cast and crew representing more than twenty countries works with a Myriad of stunningly ornate costumes, thousands of extras, and a menagerie of specially trained animals,  The Story of Anna and the King invites you to enter King Mongkut's world.

The Story of "Anna and the King"

Humor & Entertainment

Cecelia Holland

Movies

Harpercollins Entertainment

<p>Commissioned by george r. R. Martin and gardner dozois, these tales of dangerous women by the most stellar names in fiction are available for the first time in a three volume paperback set. This third volume features an original short story by joe abercrombie. 'some desperado' centres on shy south, the protagonist of abercrombie's novel red country. Having robbed a bank, shy is carrying 2,000 silver pieces and she's on the run when her horse catches an arrow. Marooned in a dusty ghost town, she faces up to a trio of murderous, flea-bitten criminals</p>

DANGEROUS WOMEN PART 3 PB

Literature & Fiction

JOE ABERCROMBIE

PAT CADIGAN

Jim-Butcher

Melinda M. Snodgrass

Diana Rowland

Sherlynn Kenyon

Short Stories & Anthologies

Harper/Voyager

Rakossy

Genre Fiction

Hodder&Stoughton Ltd

Great Maria

Hodder and Stoughton

At the end of the long anarchy of King Stephen's reign in England, in the twelfth century, an Anglo-Norman baron connives and conspires, while struggling with troubles in his personal life.

The Earl

Alfred.A. Knopf

Literary

Two Ravens

<p>Both fascinating and frightening, The Collected What If? offers in-depth reflections on the monumental events of the past and amazing speculations as to what our world might be like had things gone differently in a singular moment in time.</p>

The Collected What If? Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been

Politics & Social Sciences

DAVID MCCULLOUGH

JOHN KEEGAN

Alistair Horne

James Bradley

John Lukas

Caleb, Carr

Stephen E.Ambrose

William H.McNeill

Social Sciences

G.P.Putnam's Sons

It was a time of religious and political upheaval--the heretic Pharaoh Akhenten's religious reforms had been defeated by the power of the Priests of Amun, and the young boy King, Tutankhamun, had been placed on the throne. There was a famine in the land, and ongoing deadly intrigue in the Court as different factions maneuvered  to gain control of Egypt. It ended in the mysterious death of the young king, and his hasty, secret burial.Nearly thirty-five hundred years later, in the 1920s, a young British archaeologist named Howard Carter becomes obsessed with finding Tutankamun's tomb. But he must struggle with more than the secretive nature of the ancient Egyptians--his world cannot go on without the approval of the modern Egyptian bureaucracy or without continued financial support from the British peer who is looking for treasure more than knowledge.

Valley of the Kings; a Novel of Tutankhamun

Victor Gollancz

The Styths, a powerful and aggressive mutant race from the Gas Planets, Uranus and Saturn, have been launching pirate raids on ships from Mars. Earth's Committee for the Revolution has been asked to mediate, to negotiate a truce between the Middle Planets and the Styth Empire. The task of conducting the talks falls to an intelligent, resourceful and unpredictable young woman, Paula Mendoza. Her initial meetings with the Styth warlord and his unruly band of bodyguards and advisers are not promising. But then Paula adopts a less conventional approach. The consequences for her are considerable and she finds herself on the Gas Planets, the only tenuous link between Earth and the Styth Empire ...

Floating Worlds

Science & Math

Gollancz

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