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In these pages, her tumultuous and amazing story comes to life as only Michelle Moran can tell it. The year is 1788, and a revolution is about to begin.   Smart and ambitious, Marie Tussaud has learned the secrets of wax sculpting by working alongside her uncle in their celebrated wax museum, the Salon de Cire. From her popular model of the American ambassador, Thomas Jefferson, to her tableau of the royal family at dinner, Marie's museum provides Parisians with the very latest news on fashion, gossip, and even politics. Her customers hail from every walk of life, yet her greatest dream is to attract the attention of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI; their stamp of approval on her work could catapult her and her museum to the fame and riches she desires. After months of anticipation, Marie learns that the royal family is willing to come and see their likenesses. When they finally arrive, the king's sister is so impressed that she requests Marie's presence at Versailles as a royal tutor in wax sculpting. It is a request Marie knows she cannot refuse--even if it means time away from her beloved Salon and her increasingly dear friend, Henri Charles.   As Marie gets to know her pupil, Princesse Élisabeth, she also becomes acquainted with the king and queen, who introduce her to the glamorous life at court. From lavish parties with more delicacies than she's ever seen to rooms filled with candles lit only once before being discarded, Marie steps into a world entirely different from her home on the Boulevard du Temple, where people are selling their teeth in order to put food on the table.   Meanwhile, many resent the vast separation between rich and poor. In salons and cafés across Paris, people like Camille Desmoulins, Jean-Paul Marat, and Maximilien Robespierre are lashing out against the monarchy. Soon, there's whispered talk of revolution. . . . Will Marie be able to hold on to both the love of her life and her friendship with the royal family as France approaches civil war? And more important, will she be able to fulfill the demands of powerful revolutionaries who ask that she make the death masks of beheaded aristocrats, some of whom she knows?   Spanning five years, from the budding revolution to the Reign of Terror, Madame Tussaud brings us into the world of an incredible heroine whose talent for wax modeling saved her life and preserved the faces of a vanished kingdom.",2011,"en","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx7dczv646m8hgxhpy68bahk.jpg?v=3ddc3dca16","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Fworks-3d\u002F01\u002F01kx7dcwp6me3khthbepwta3rb.png?v=fc757f8a2a","L9Jtx1-V0e$|0ENL0#E24uIV~Vt5",0,464,527,"complete",false,true,[21],{"id":22,"slug":23,"name":24,"role":25,"bio":7},"01kx7d3gxsy7x1z5rdnajcmvaa","michelle-moran-tasx","Michelle Moran","author",[27,31],{"id":28,"name":29,"slug":30,"is_fiction":19},8,"Historical Fiction","historical-fiction",{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":18},88,"Biography","biography",[],[],[38,42],{"id":39,"name":40,"type":41},"01kjq6yq7bb20z9mdwg86230sa","Historical","subject",{"id":43,"name":44,"type":41},"01kjqxhjqq54kz39tb4sjwd84x","Biographical",[],[47,57,66],{"id":48,"title":6,"edition_name":7,"format":49,"format_label":50,"page_count":51,"audio_duration_minutes":7,"narrator":7,"publish_date":52,"cover_url":11,"cover_blurhash":13,"isbn_13":53,"asin":7,"publisher":54,"language":10,"quality_score":55,"submission_status":56},"01kx7dczv646m8hgxhpy68bahk","paperback","Paperback",480,"2011-12-27","9780307588661","Crown",10,"approved",{"id":58,"title":59,"edition_name":7,"format":60,"format_label":61,"page_count":51,"audio_duration_minutes":7,"narrator":7,"publish_date":62,"cover_url":63,"cover_blurhash":7,"isbn_13":64,"asin":7,"publisher":65,"language":10,"quality_score":55,"submission_status":56},"01kx7dcwq1m8gbgges0282n68n","Madame Tussaud","kindle","Kindle","2011-02-15","https:\u002F\u002Fimages.isbndb.com\u002Fcovers\u002F13627153482297.jpg","9780307588678","Random House Digital Inc.",{"id":67,"title":6,"edition_name":7,"format":68,"format_label":69,"page_count":70,"audio_duration_minutes":7,"narrator":7,"publish_date":71,"cover_url":72,"cover_blurhash":73,"isbn_13":74,"asin":7,"publisher":54,"language":10,"quality_score":55,"submission_status":56},"01kx7dcwprydbj4crzaprb3frt","hardcover","Hardcover",448,"2011","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx7dcwprydbj4crzaprb3frt.jpg?v=6c959c60ce","L5EyC{MJ00=Y1Q-o4or=00NG~Vt5","9780307588654",{"summary":7,"pace":76,"complexity":77,"complexity_score":78,"audience":79,"mood":80,"themes":83,"setting_period":7,"content_warnings":84},"fast","moderate",4,"adult",[81,82],"adventurous","inspiring",[],[85,86],"violence","death-of-a-parent",{"id":48,"title":6,"edition_name":7,"format":49,"format_label":50,"page_count":51,"audio_duration_minutes":7,"publish_date":52,"cover_url":11,"cover_blurhash":13,"isbn_13":53,"asin":7,"publisher":54,"language":10},[],"2026-07-11T01:41:44.000000Z",[91,132,180,218,244,273,296,313,333,353],{"id":92,"slug":93,"title":94,"description":95,"primary_cover_url":96,"cover_blurhash":97,"first_publish_year":98,"community_rating_avg":99,"community_rating_count":100,"page_count":15,"authors":101,"genres":106,"series":125,"enrichment":126},"01kjr3bm25g7v8rjvsx07zzxsq","the-devil-in-the-white-city-8kme","Devil in the White City","In 1893, Chicago staked its reputation on the World's Columbian Exposition — a fair meant to outshine Paris and announce America's arrival as a global power. 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Sisi tells the little-known story of Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary, the Princess Diana of her time, in an enthralling work of historical fiction that is also a gripping page-turner. Married to Emperor Franz Joseph, Elisabeth--fondly known as Sisi--captures the hearts of her people as their \"fairy queen,\" but beneath that dazzling persona lives a far more complex figure. In mid-nineteenth-century Vienna, the halls of the Hofburg Palace buzz not only with imperial waltzes and champagne but with temptations, rivals, and cutthroat intrigue. Feeling stifled by strict protocols and a turbulent marriage, Sisi grows restless. A free-spirited wanderer, she finds solace at her estate outside Budapest. There she rides her beloved horses and enjoys visits from the Hungarian statesman Count Andrássy, the man with whom she's unwittingly fallen in love. 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Born in splendor difficult to imagine today, she endured a lifetime of relentless tragedy with courage and exceptional powers of adjustment. The Last Grand Duchess is a valuable account of the final decades of the house of Romanov as seen through the eyes of its last surviving member. Through Olga, we meet Queen Victoria, George V of England, Rasputin, Mrs. Anderson - on whose story the movie Anastasia was made - and other impostors who plagued the exiled duchess with false hope. In this official memoir, Ian Vorres captures the loneliness and violence of Olga's years in Russia, her loveless first marriage to Prince Peter of Oldenburg, her years of exile in England and Denmark, and her final settlement with her second husband and family in Canada.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx6nb389wtpv472vsskg8f5w.jpg?v=8f7818a0d3","LBLymSE1Q8rt4mRi%MxvY+xb*0xu",1964,256,[731],{"id":732,"slug":733,"name":734},"01kx6nb384563fnrc58ymtnd9m","ian-vorres-idbg","Ian Vorres",[736,740,744,745],{"id":737,"name":738,"slug":739,"is_fiction":19},34,"Historical Romance","historical-romance",{"id":741,"name":742,"slug":743,"is_fiction":19},55,"World War I","world-war-i",{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":18},{"id":110,"name":111,"slug":112,"is_fiction":18},[],{"pace":173,"complexity":7,"audience":79,"mood":748,"themes":749,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[176,175],[178,242],{"id":751,"slug":752,"title":753,"description":754,"primary_cover_url":755,"cover_blurhash":756,"first_publish_year":757,"community_rating_avg":140,"community_rating_count":141,"page_count":758,"authors":759,"genres":768,"series":776,"enrichment":777},"01kx6nsge3ekzh6ggkj314rnmf","the-presidents-aomn","The Presidents","The Presidents collects the complete rankings from C-SPAN's Historians Surveys of Presidential Leadership, the long-running poll in which leading presidential historians and biographers rate every U.S. president across categories such as persuasive ability, moral authority, and administrative skill.\n\nBuilt from decades of interviews C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb and Susan Swain conducted with presidential biographers, the book profiles each of the 43 men who had served as president at the time of the 2017 survey, ordering them from the highest-ranked (Abraham Lincoln) to the lowest (James Buchanan). Each chapter runs roughly a dozen pages, combining basic biography with the historians' reasoning for a president's placement. Contributors include historians such as Douglas Brinkley and Richard Norton Smith.\n\nDonald Trump is not included in the rankings, since his term was still in progress when the survey and book were completed, though the closing pages touch on how historians were beginning to assess his presidency.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx6nsgehp0vdqs8t12m2m6hv.jpg?v=d614774246","L15rPwWY4n.T+pjYS*RN00aIbwS6",2019,560,[760,764],{"id":761,"slug":762,"name":763},"01kx6nsgecexnj6fqc8hggkza6","brian-lamb-q5yi","Brian Lamb",{"id":765,"slug":766,"name":767},"01kx6nsged92gvzbsbys0tnt18","susan-swain-auiy","Susan Swain",[769,773,774,775],{"id":770,"name":771,"slug":772,"is_fiction":18},102,"Politics","politics",{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":18},{"id":110,"name":111,"slug":112,"is_fiction":18},{"id":114,"name":115,"slug":116,"is_fiction":18},[],{"pace":7,"complexity":7,"audience":79,"mood":778,"themes":780,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[779,215],"informative",[],{"id":782,"slug":783,"title":784,"description":785,"primary_cover_url":786,"cover_blurhash":787,"first_publish_year":788,"community_rating_avg":789,"community_rating_count":141,"page_count":7,"authors":790,"genres":795,"series":801,"enrichment":802},"01kx2a91wdrsvq8m8cab2zp44t","thoughts-from-walden-pond-by-henry-david-thoreau-rfnd","Thoughts from Walden Pond by Henry David Thoreau","This contribution to European historical literature--based on extensive research in Madrid--provides a clear and dispassionate account of successive ecclesiastical-secular conflicts and controversies, and deftly summarizes the diverse ideological and intellectual currents of the times. Nowhere in Europe has the Roman Catholic Church exerted a more mystical hold on the life of a nation than it has in Spain. Yet this hold has not been unchanging or unchallenged. By the mid-eighteenth century the Church was no longer the only legitimate source of authority, the all-pervasive presence that it had been, most forcefully in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Still, its power remained formidable. The Spanish Church imposed standards of conduct over the entire range of society, from the aristocracy to the peasant masses, and it possessed the material resources necessary to maintain an elaborate ecclesiastical network that influenced every aspect of Spanish life. The heart of the book deals with the reactions of the Church to the dramatic, sometimes violent, changes that occurred during the critical nineteenth-century period of national transition from royal absolutism to popular liberalism. The study examines the responses of the Church to the new social and political forces that could no longer be excluded or contained, among them an emergent secular--even anticlerical--culture and a developing capitalism.Callahan demonstrates that these changes engendered resentments and frustrations deep within the ecclesiastical order that persisted well into the twentieth century, notably with the Spanish Church's embrace of Franco.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Fworks\u002F01\u002F01kx2a91wdrsvq8m8cab2zp44t.jpg?v=40f5ef3581","LwKSg$WDoKxW~8jHR+WV%JWCsmWp",1998,"1.00",[791],{"id":792,"slug":793,"name":794},"01kjqz7rn338hakt9x7rffhvn0","henry-david-thoreau-lynz","Henry David Thoreau",[796,797],{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":18},{"id":798,"name":799,"slug":800,"is_fiction":18},93,"Nature","nature",[],{"pace":173,"complexity":7,"audience":79,"mood":803,"themes":805,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[215,804],"philosophical",[],{"id":807,"slug":808,"title":809,"description":810,"primary_cover_url":811,"cover_blurhash":812,"first_publish_year":757,"community_rating_avg":281,"community_rating_count":141,"page_count":813,"authors":814,"genres":819,"series":826,"enrichment":827},"01kx2bk08tj3mt47crfa5kcsk4","long-live-the-tribe-of-fatherless-girls-ucyq","Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls","\"The book I wish I'd had growing up.\" —Chanel Miller, author of Know My Name Best Books of 2019: Esquire O, The Oprah Magazine Variety Lit Hub Book Riot Electric Literature Autostraddle Finalist: NBCC John Leonard First Book Prize Lambda Literary Award New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Selection Paste Best Memoirs of the Decade Elle Best Books of the Season Washington Post Best Books of the Month Indie Next Pick Indies Introduce Pick \"A fearless debut.\" — New York Times \"[A] gorgeous reckoning.\" — Washington Post \"Flat out breathtaking.\" — Lit Hub \"Gripping and gloriously written.\" — Elle \"Utterly unforgettable.\" — NYLON \"Unnervingly satisfying.\" — Oprah Magazine \"Deeply compassionate.\" —NPR.org \"Truly stunning.\" — Cosmopolitan Acclaimed literary essayist T Kira Madden's raw and redemptive debut memoir is about coming of age and reckoning with desire as a queer, biracial teenager amidst the fierce contradictions of Boca Raton, Florida, a place where she found cult-like privilege, shocking racial disparities, rampant white-collar crime, and powerfully destructive standards of beauty hiding in plain sight. As a child, Madden lived a life of extravagance, from her exclusive private school to her equestrian trophies and designer shoe-brand name. But under the surface was a wild instability. The only child of parents continually battling drug and alcohol addictions, Madden confronted her environment alone. Facing a culture of assault and objectification, she found lifelines in the desperately loving friendships of fatherless girls. With unflinching honesty and lyrical prose, spanning from 1960s Hawai'i to the present-day struggle of a young woman mourning the loss of a father while unearthing truths that reframe her reality, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls is equal parts eulogy and love letter. It's a story about trauma and forgiveness, about families of blood and affinity, both lost and found, unmade and rebuilt, crooked and beautiful. 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