From 'girl-next-door' to Princess of Pop to ultimate dance diva, Kylie Minogue has transcended her soap opera roots to become one of the biggest icons in popular culture. You would have to have been living on a different planet not to know that Kylie is currently the shiniest star in the pop heavens. Several bestselling singles and an award winning album in 2001, two coveted Brit Awards in 2002 - the girl from down under is hotter than Venus. Her face adorns magazine covers worldwide, and even '...
Christina Rossetti was the youngest of four children. Like Elizabeth Barrett Browning, she suffered the tyranny of a loving family, being restrained by the "police surveillance" of her sister Maria and the goodness of their mother. Although she and her brother Dante Gabriel were known as the "two storms", she curbed her passionate nature, and a love of life was replaced in her work initially by the bitterness of the lonely and ultimately by the conviction of the religious. Comparing her situatio...
There's No Accounting for the Strangeness of Things
by Valley Haggard
From The Pit to The Palace (From the Pit to the Palace, #1)
by Abigail Neilson
Les Courtisanes Du Second Empire. Marguerite Bellanger. Avec Lettres Autographes (Ed.1871) (Histoire)
by Stapleaux-L
`Riveting, tragic tale’ New Yorker `Anna Pasternak has produced an irresistible account of joy, suffering and passion’ Financial Times The heartbreaking story of the passionate love affair between Boris Pasternak and Olga Ivinskaya – the tragic true story that inspired Doctor Zhivago. Doctor Zhivago has sold in its millions yet the true love story that inspired it has never been fully explored. Pasternak would often say `Lara exists, go and m...
Finding Amelia: The True Story of the Earheart Disappearance
by Ric Gillespie
Very little has been written about the background of pre-World War II labor leaders, especially of working-class women. This book fills in the gaps by tracing the history of Ellen Dawson through Scotland, England, and the United States. Anyone interested in labor history or women's history will find this book of great use.--Daniel Lee Georgianna, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth ""Paints a vivid portrait of the people, places, and events that shaped Dawson and that she, in turn, shaped. Of...
