books about: palaces (organization versailles antoinette)

books about: palaces

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23 reviews
Stephen L. Carter

Knopf, 2008

Riveting mystery meets history
Having enjoyed Stephen L. Carter's Emperor of Ocean Park and New England White, I was very excited to read Palace Council. Of the three books mentioned, Palace Council was by far the best. Carter draws you into a heart wrenching love story of Eddie, a journalist, and Aurelia, a young socialite, who marries an upper class young gentleman who is more "suitable" for a woman of her stature. Then ...

Nancy's Mysterious Letter (Nancy Drew, Book 8)

20 reviews
Carolyn Keene

Grosset & Dunlap, 1963

Wonderful Gift for Girls, ages 8-11
My cousin's daughter just celebrated her 9th birthday, and I plan on giving her this book, along with some other Nancy Drew books, for Christmas. I gave her volumes 1 through 6 for her birthday, and her mom tells me that she is just blazing through each book, because she loves them so much. It warmed my heart to give her these books, as I remember reading them when I was her age. I used to ...

The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street (Everyman's Library)

23 reviews
Naguib Mahfouz

Everyman's Library, 2001

Great book for a long trip
Naguib Mahfouz relates a distant time in a far away place with simple sentences and rich details. He relates the breadth of human experience equally well, offering depth and understanding of women as well as men. For the first time I feel that I have some understanding of the daily life of Muslim men and women. If you want to laugh, read this book. If you want to cry, read this book. If ...

Marie-Antoinette and the Last Garden at Versailles

1 review
Christian Duvernois

Rizzoli, 2008

VERSAILLES THROUGH MARIE-ANTIONETTE
Marie-Antoinette is something of an enigma, some feel she is the misunderstood tragic heroine of the Ancient Regime and some feel she is that Austria wh*re, who may or my not have said, let them eat cake, and spent France into Revolution, I feel she is probably all of this and more. One thing is for certain, she held herself and her family in honor as she took the guillotine, she died with grace ...

Wall Street: America's Dream Palace (Icons of America)

3 reviews
Steve Fraser

Yale University Press, 2008

Well researched and elegantly written history of the Street
There are few institutions in America that evoke such strong emotions among the general public. For over two centuries most Americans have viewed the goings on on Wall Street with a very jaundiced eye....and with very good reason. From the Gilded Age to the dot.com boom of the 1990's the way business was conducted on Wall Street would have an enormous impact of the lives of farmers, factory ...

Buckingham Palace Gardens: A Novel (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt Novels)

27 reviews
Anne Perry

Ballantine Books, 2008

An avid thriller
Anne Perry's BUCKINGHAM PALACE GARDENS receives a hard-hitting narration by veteran Michael Page, who has recorded over 50 titles for this publisher alone. His voice spices a survey of Buckingham palace after a fatal house party draws in one Thomas Pitt to investigate the crisis. An avid thriller evolves.

The Puzzle Palace: Inside the National Security Agency, America's Most Secret Intelligence Organization

47 reviews
James Bamford

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1983

Dateline, America, Dec. 19, 2005
The recent revelation that President Bush authorized NSA spying on its own citizens (and the sad fact that the New York Times sat on this for a year, despite being a victim itself in the past) makes this book both incredibly timely and obviously, unfortunately, timeless. The history of the National Security Agency and its predecessor organizations, along with the NSA's willingness to skirt, if ...

Palace Walk (Cairo Trilogy)

67 reviews
Naguib Mahfouz

Anchor, 1990

Mahfouz Rewards Patience
Naguib Mahfouz, the only Arabic language writer ever to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, begins Palace Walk with Amina, the devout and devoted Muslim wife of al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad patiently waiting for her husband to return home from another long night of drinking, music, and carousing with his male friends and pursuing illicit sexual relations in Cairo's clubs and cafes. Mahfouz thus ...

The Clue in the Diary (Nancy Drew, Book 7)

27 reviews
Carolyn Keene

Grosset & Dunlap, 1932

Love these old classics!
they are just as good as they were when I was 10 years old!!! Nancy and her convertible!!! :-)

Versailles: A Biography of a Palace
Tony Spawforth

St. Martin's Press, 2008

The behind-the-scenes story of the world?s most famous palace, painting a picture of the way its residents truly lived and examining the palace?s legacy, from French history through today The story of Versailles is one of historical drama, under the last three kings of France?s old regime, mixed with the high camp and glamour of the European courts, all in an iconic home for the French arts. The palace itself has been radically altered since ...

The Clue of the Broken Locket (Nancy Drew, Book 11)

27 reviews
Carolyn Keene

Grosset & Dunlap, 1943

Nancy Drew #11 The Clue of the Broken Locket
I would highly recommend this book for any Nancy Drew book collection. It all starts when Nancy sees a key near her place at breakfast. Mystery & Suspense build as she investigates the double of Cecily Curtis, a phantom launch that was drowned years ago, & the mysterious noise coming from the location of Pudding Stone Lodge. How Nancy Drew solves a family mystery involving a Iron Bird & kills ...

The Pink Palace (Triple Crown Publications Presents)

27 reviews
Marlon McCaulsky

Triple Crown Publications, 2008

SO HOT!!!!!
I loved this book! The Pink Palace had me on the edge of my seat from start to finish! I love Janelle in this book. No matter all the awful things that happen to her she found a way out. Runaway from a monster at home and being brought to the strip club by her cousin Nikki, Janelle becomes Mo'Nique the best dancer and money maker at The Pink Palace. She meets a sexy hustler from Chi-Town ...

The Glass Palace: A Novel

75 reviews
Amitav Ghosh

Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2002

a sprawling historical novel set in colonial Asia
What a wonderful, wonderful novel! Mr. Ghosh has concocted a deeply engaging, epic, tale chronicling the life of one character (and his extended family) against the backdrop of Burman, Malayan and Indian history over more that 100 years. The novel clocks in at little over 600 pages yet it feels almost two short. In fact my only (albeit small) criticism is that at times the narration feels a ...

Flying Burrito Brothers' the Gilded Palace of Sin (33 1/3)
Bob Proehl

Continuum, 2008

Bob Proehl uses the Seven Deadly Sins as a device to understand this classic album.In 1968, the Flying Burrito Brothers released their debut album, "The Gilded Palace of Sin" on A&M Records, selling a disappointing 400,000 copies. Forty years later, the band's front man, Gram Parsons, is still spoken of with an almost messianic reverence. Patron saint of altcountry, emblazoned with a shining cross, dead at twenty six. Overshadowed by the legend ...

Palace of Mirrors

26 reviews
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 2008

If You Liked JUST ELLA...
This is a good read for the younger teen girl, especially if she is into the "princess" genre. It is a satisfying sequel to its predecessor, JUST ELLA, yet lt leaves one or two questions for a third book in the fuure.

The Palace of Illusions: A Novel

23 reviews
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Doubleday, 2008

Panchali as a human
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's new book `The Palace of Illusions' may elicit a variety of responses from its readers based mainly on their background, understanding and loyalty to Indian epics rather than their standing as mere critics of a novel. As one who grew up with Hindu religious stories inculcated into me and as the legend of Mahabharatha with its heroes and villains influenced even my ...

Tuxedo Park : A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II

43 reviews
Jennet Conant

Simon & Schuster, 2003

Have we lost the spark?
Alfred Loomis was a bona fide "Wall Street tycoon" who made his fortune in the 1920s by helping to organize the financing for the electrification of America and had the foresight to sell out before the stock market crash in 1929. Thereafter, he became an amateur scientist who cultivated the best and the brightest in the scientific world and maintained a laboratory complex in an enclave of the ...

Disney's Little Einsteins: Halloween Surprise (Little Einsteins)

4 reviews
Marcy Kelman

Disney Press, 2007

Colorful Book That Includes 25 Holographic Stickers!
If you happen to have purchased Mickey Mouse Clubhouse - Mickey's Treat on DVD, you will have no doubt seen the engaging bonus episode A Little Einsteins' Halloween. (In my opinion, that episode alone makes it worth getting Mickey's Treat!) A softcover book, Halloween Surprise featuring the Little Einsteins is based upon the bonus episode, which follows Leo, June, Quincy and Annie as they go ...

Algebra 1, Student Edition

10 reviews
McGraw-Hill

Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, 2002

algebra 1
Book came with the cover a little dirty. The edges were bent as stated by the seller. Some pages were marked , but overall a good bargain. It was the first received of many orders I placed.

Living with Brain Injury: A Guide for Families, Second Edition

6 reviews
Richard C Senelick, Karla Dougherty

Delmar Cengage Learning, 2001

The absolute best book on living with Traumatic Brain Injury
All the other books I've read on that subject (my husband has TBI) are too techical. This is written in easy to understand languate and gives you the truth on what to expect when your loved one has a TBI.