Celery Root Soup - The French Alternative
Apparently, Madame du Barry served celery root soup to King Louis XV every night before they went to bed. Madame du Barry thought the soup was an aphrodisiac, but according to Jackie French, the king's mistress got it wrong. Celery is well known ... [... more]
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Sara Bennett from HarperCollins Publishers
Sara Bennett, Sara Bennett is an author of historical romances, including A Seduction in Scarlet and novels such as Mistress of Scandal. [... more]
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Paula Byrne
This compelling and richly researched book presents a fascinating portrait of Mary Robinson-darling of the London stage, mistress to the most powerful men in England, feminist thinker, and bestselling author. Though one of the most flamboyant ... [... more]
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Shannon Lanier
Shannon Lanier is sixth great-grandson of Thomas Jefferson. He is also black. How is this possible? Shannon and his family are the result of Thomas Jefferson's union with his slave mistress, Sally Hemings. Two hundred years later, the facts are ... [... more]
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Nanci Kincaid
Nanci Kincaid's eight exquisite stories deftly capture the kind of moments a woman never... Dixie's in love with Mac. Mac is in love with football. And football, as every red-blooded Southern man and woman knows, is the most jealous mistress of ... [... more]
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Laura Claridge
Laura Claridge is the author of several books, including Norman Rockwell: A Life and Tamara de Lempicka: A Life of Deco and Decadence. Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners received a National Endowment for the ... [... more]
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Annie Pietri
When Marion Dutilleul enters the service of the Marquise de Montespan, she never imagines that her ability to recognize scents and to blend them into perfumes will win her the favor of Louis XIV's mistress. But the marquise quickly has the young ... [... more]
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Harvey Swados
There was a time when New York was everything to me: my mother, my mistress, my Mecca, when I could no more have wanted to live any place else than I could have conceived of myself as a daddy, disciplining my boy and dandling my daughter. Nights ... [... more]
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Anne Rampling
There is Lisa: They call her the Perfectionist. A stunning, mysterious, and fearless sexual adventurer, she is founder and supreme mistress of The Club--an expensive, exclusive island resort where forbidden... "The same kind of skillful writing ... [... more]
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Nina Burleigh
Nina Burleigh's articles have appeared in Time, The Washington Post,The Chicago Tribune, and New York Magazine. She lives in New York. The Life and Unsolved Murder of Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer In 1964, Mary Pinchot Meyer, the beautiful, ... [... more]
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Marion Davies
The was the unofficial empress of Hollywood and she spent a lifetime as the mistress of one of America's richest men. Gathered from tapes recroded a decade before Marion Davie's death, read, in her own words, the story of a fantastic and ... [... more]
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Claire Tomalin
Claire Tomalin is the author of several prize-winning biographies--of Mary Wollstonecraft; Katherine Mansfield; Dickens's secret mistress, Nelly Ternan; and Dora Jordan, the actress who for twenty years was companion to the future George IV. ... [... more]
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