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The Constant Princess

by Philippa Gregory

Published: 2005-12-06

Hardcover: 393 pages

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I am Catalina, Princess of Spain, daughter of the two greatest monarchs the world has ever known...and I will be Queen of England."Thus, bestselling author Philippa Gregory introduces one of her most unforgettable heroines: Katherine of Aragon. Daughter of Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand...

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Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews--A History

by James Carroll

Published: 2002

Paperback: 756 pages

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In this "rare book that combines searing passion . . . with a subject that has affected all of our lives" ("Chicago Tribune"), novelist and cultural critic James Carroll maps the 2,000-year course of the Church's battle against Judaism and faces the crisis of faith it has sparked...

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Constantinople : The Last Great Siege 1453

by Roger Crowley

Published: 2006-01-01

Paperback: 320 pages

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Consuelo & Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Mother and Daughter in the Gilded Age

by Amanda MacKenzie Stuart

Published: 2006-09-04

Paperback: 608 pages

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A fabulously wealthy New York beauty marries a cold-hearted British aristocrat at the behest of her Machiavellian mother -- then leaves him to become a prominent Suffragette. Consuelo Vanderbilt was one of the greatest heiresses of the late 19th-century, a glittering prize for suitors on both sides...

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Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age (P.S.)

by Amanda Mackenzie Stuart

Published: 2007-01-09

Paperback: 640 pages

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When Consuelo Vanderbilt's grandfather died, he was the richest man in America. Her father soon started to spend the family fortune, enthusiastically supported by Consuelo's mother, Alva, who was determined to take the family to the top of New York society—forcing a heartbroken Consuelo ...

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The Consulting Room and Beyond: Psychoanalytic Work and Its Reverberations in the Analyst's Life (Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series)

by Therese Ragen

Published: 2008-09-10

Paperback: 168 pages

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Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole

by Benjamin R. Barber

Published: 2007-03-19

Hardcover: 320 pages

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A piercing and vital look at how capitalism is consuming U.S. society.An apt sequel to Benjamin R. Barber's best-selling Jihad vs. McWorld, Consumed offers a wrenching portrait of how adult consumers are infantilized in a global economy that overproduces goods and targets children as consu...

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Consuming Passions: A Food-Obsessed Life

by Michael Lee West

Published: 2000-04

Paperback: 288 pages

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Laced with delicious secret recipes passed from generation to generation, Consuming Passions is Michael Lee West's delightfully quirky memoir of an adventurous food-obsessed life.By watching a multitude of relatives cook, squabble, and carry on tradition, West went from a noncooking sytude...

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Consumption: A novel

by Kevin Patterson

Published: 2007-08-07

Hardcover: 400 pages

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In Rankin Inlet, a small town bordering the Arctic Ocean, the lives of the Inuit are gradually changing. The caribou and seals are no longer plentiful, and Western commerce has come to the community through a proposed diamond mine. Victoria Robertson wakes to a violent storm, her three chi...

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Contact

by Carl Sagan

Published: 1997-07-01

Mass Market Paperback: 448 pages

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In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who -- or what -- is out there? In Cosmos, Carl Sagan explained the universe. In Contact, he predicts its future -- and our own.