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1) The Duchess
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2008, c1998
Language
English
Description
Lady Georgiana Spencer was the great-great-great-great-aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, and was nearly as famous in her day. In 1774 Georgiana achieved immediate celebrity by marrying William Cavendish, fifth duke of Devonshire, one of England's richest and most influential aristocrats. She became the queen of fashionable society and founder of the most important political salon of her time. But Georgiana's public success concealed an unhappy marriage,...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this follow-up to her critically acclaimed memoir, "Home", Andrews shares reflections on her astonishing career and unveils her personal story of dealing with the demands of unimaginable success, being a new mother, the end of her first marriage, embracing two stepchildren, adopting two more children, and falling in love with Blake Edwards.
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2009, c2007
Language
English
Description
The autobiography of Clarissa Dickson Wright, covering her upbringing in a family of wealth and privilege, achievements in the field of law, struggle with alcohol abuse, and later success--after achieving sobriety--as as part of a television show, "Two Fat Ladies."
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Geniuses at War is the dramatic, untold story of the brilliant team who built the world's first digital electronic computer at Bletchley Park, during a critical time in World War II. Decoding the communication of the Nazi high command was imperative for the success of the Allied invasion of Normandy. The Nazi missives were encrypted by the "Tunny" cipher, a code that was orders of magnitude more difficult to crack than the infamous Enigma code. But...
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