<p>This is the fascinating story of the American heiress, Consuelo Vanderbilt, who married the ninth Duke of Marlborough for anything but love in 1895. A very human story told with candor and objectivity. It will keep your interest from the first page to the last. Everybody who was anybody can be seen in these pages. From artists and writers to statesmen of the world - view her world from the splendors of the courts of St. Petersburg and Vienna to the cold and desolate winter in France of 1940's. Here is a very candid and revealing personal story coupled with a unique insider's view of aristocracy's golden age.</p>

The Glitter and the Gold

Biographies & Memoirs

Balsan, Consuelo Vanderbilt

Community & Culture

George Mann Books

Hide and Seek

Fielding, Xan

Nostradamus or the future foretold

James Laver

London Cage

Alexander Paterson Scotland

Piece of Cake

Taylor, Geoff

This is the fascinating story of the American heiress, Consuelo Vanderbilt, who married the ninth Duke of Marlborough for anything but love in 1895. A very human story told with candor and objectivity. It will keep your interest from the first page to the last. Everybody who was anybody can be seen in these pages. From artists and writers to statesmen of the world - view her world from the splendors of the courts of St. Petersburg and Vienna to the cold and desolate winter in France of 1940's. Here is a very candid and revealing personal story coupled with a unique insider's view of aristocracy's golden age.

Glitter and the Gold

Balsan, Consuelo

Some weeks before the end of World War II, five men parachuted into the jungle on Japanese held Sumatra. Led by a 23-year old Royal Marine Commando Major, their orders were incredibly simple and simply incredible: Whatever the cost, take control of the island's 80,000-strong Japanese army, and get the prisoners out! ... This is that Royal Marine Major's own tense and true story.

Prelude to the Monsoon

Literature & Fiction

Jacobs, G. F.

Contemporary

You know how sometimes friendship blossoms in the Þrst few moments of meeting? “Something clicked,” we say. Well, that’s what discovering Betty MacDonald was like for me: I happened to read a couple of pages of one of her books and — click — knew right away that here was a vivacious writer whose friendly, funny, and Þery company I was really going to enjoy. Although MacDonald’s Þrst and most popular book, The Egg and I, has remained in print since its original publication, her three other volumes have been unavailable for decades. The Plague and I recounts MacDonald’s experiences in a Seattle sanitarium, where the author spent almost a year (1938-39) battling tuberculosis. The White Plague was no laughing matter, but MacDonald nonetheless makes a sprightly tale of her brush with something deadly. Anybody Can Do Anything is a high-spirited, hilarious celebration of how “the warmth and loyalty and laughter of a big family” brightened their weathering of The Great Depression. In Onions in the Stew, MacDonald is in unbuttonedly frolicsome form as she describes how, with husband and daughters, she set to work making a life on a rough-and-tumble island in Puget Sound, a ferry-ride from Seattle.

Anybody Can Do Anything

MacDonald, Betty

<p>Jennie Jerome, the dark, decisive beauty from New York who married the brilliant, unruly son of the 7th Duke of Marlborough in 1874, and who subsequently gave birth to one of the greatest leaders the free world has ever known, was a remarkable person in her own right. For the story of Jennie is an important aid in beginning to understand her world famous son. From his mother, Winston Churchill undoubtedly drew the physical and moral courage, the formidable stamina, the bulldag tenacity and the strong sense of both duty and destiny which sustained him all of his life, and which enabled him to inspire his countrymen to undreamed of heights when they stood alone as the saviors of civilization in 1940. Here is the memorable bioghraphy of an outstanding woman.</p>

Jennie, The Mother of Winston Churchill

LESLIE, Anita

When Betty MacDonald married a marine and moved to a small chicken farm on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, she was largely unprepared for the rigors of life in the wild. With no running water, no electricity, a house in need of constant repair, and days that ran from four in the morning to nine at night, the MacDonalds had barely a moment to put their feet up and relax. And then came the children. Yet through every trial and pitfallâ€”through chaos and catastropheâ€”this indomitable family somehow, mercifully, never lost its sense of humor.   A beloved literary treasure for more than half a century, Betty MacDonald's The Egg and I is a heartwarming and uproarious account of adventure and survival on an American frontier.

The Egg and I

Betty, MacDonald

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