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Awarded a coveted month-long guest editorship at a New York fashion magazine in the summer of 1953, she moves through a world of luncheons, parties, and photo shoots that leaves her feeling numb rather than dazzled. Beneath the polished surface, she finds herself unable to reconcile the future she is expected to want — marriage, motherhood, quiet domesticity — with the writer and free self she longs to become.\n\nWhen Esther returns home to the Boston suburbs, the disconnection deepens into a full mental collapse. Sylvia Plath traces her descent with unnerving clarity, following Esther through insomnia, paralysis, and hospitalization, and into a course of psychiatric treatment that is by turns frightening and, eventually, steadying. The bell jar of the title becomes Plath's enduring image for depression: a transparent enclosure that seals a person off from the air everyone else breathes.\n\nPublished in 1963 shortly before Plath's death, and drawing closely on her own experiences, The Bell Jar is a landmark of twentieth-century literature. Its sharp, wry, unsparing voice made it a touchstone for readers grappling with mental illness and with the narrow expectations placed on women in mid-century America — a portrait that remains startlingly immediate.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Fworks\u002F01\u002F01kjqxshyz61m2czb9z2ge03rz.jpg","LGF;[@RNEnIo}?RjIqbc4pK6M_%2",1963,"3.69",8,326,[80],{"id":81,"slug":82,"name":83},"01kjqxshz7fy35z2w9j67t1g67","sylvia-plath-p0us","Sylvia Plath",[85,86,90,94,98,102,106],{"id":29,"name":30,"slug":31,"is_fiction":19},{"id":87,"name":88,"slug":89,"is_fiction":19},59,"Contemporary Literature","contemporary-literature",{"id":91,"name":92,"slug":93,"is_fiction":19},41,"Psychological Thriller","psychological-thriller",{"id":95,"name":96,"slug":97,"is_fiction":19},9,"Literary Fiction","literary-fiction",{"id":99,"name":100,"slug":101,"is_fiction":19},58,"Classics","classics",{"id":103,"name":104,"slug":105,"is_fiction":18},96,"Psychology","psychology",{"id":107,"name":108,"slug":109,"is_fiction":19},15,"Drama","drama",[],{"pace":53,"complexity":7,"audience":55,"mood":112,"themes":114,"setting_period":7,"summary":115,"content_warnings":7},[113,57],"dark",[],"A talented, ambitious young woman in 1950s New England spirals into a mental breakdown while struggling with the expectations of her generation. 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A conflict of unprecedented ferocity, it abruptly ended the relative peace and prosperity of the Victorian era, unleashing such demons of the twentieth century as mechanized warfare and mass death. It also helped to usher in the ideas that have shaped our times--modernism in the arts, new approaches to psychology and medicine, radical thoughts about economics and society--and in so doing shattered the faith in rationalism and liberalism that had prevailed in Europe since the Enlightenment. With The First World War, John Keegan, one of our most eminent military historians, fulfills a lifelong ambition to write the definitive account of the Great War for our generation. Probing the mystery of how a civilization at the height of its achievement could have propelled itself into such a ruinous conflict, Keegan takes us behind the scenes of the negotiations among Europe's crowned heads (all of them related to one another by blood) and ministers, and their doomed efforts to defuse the crisis. He reveals how, by an astonishing failure of diplomacy and communication, a bilateral dispute grew to engulf an entire continent. But the heart of Keegan's superb narrative is, of course, his analysis of the military conflict. With unequalled authority and insight, he recreates the nightmarish engagements whose names have become legend--Verdun, the Somme and Gallipoli among them--and sheds new light on the strategies and tactics employed, particularly the contributions of geography and technology. No less central to Keegan's account is the human aspect. He acquaints us with the thoughts of the intriguing personalities who oversaw the tragically unnecessary catastrophe--from heads of state like Russia's hapless tsar, Nicholas II, to renowned warmakers such as Haig, Hindenburg and Joffre. But Keegan reserves his most affecting personal sympathy for those whose individual efforts history has not recorded--\"the anonymous millions, indistinguishably drab, undifferentially deprived of any scrap of the glories that by tradition made the life of the man-at-arms tolerable.\" By the end of the war, three great empires--the Austro-Hungarian, the Russian and the Ottoman--had collapsed. But as Keegan shows, the devastation ex-tended over the entirety of Europe, and still profoundly informs the politics and culture of the continent today. His brilliant, panoramic account of this vast and terrible conflict is destined to take its place among the classics of world history.",1998,475,[179],{"id":180,"slug":181,"name":182},"01kjz5gcph7kb7g8ry3acfae4f","john-keegan-llsa","John Keegan",[184,188,189],{"id":185,"name":186,"slug":187,"is_fiction":18},91,"Military History","military-history",{"id":33,"name":34,"slug":35,"is_fiction":19},{"id":190,"name":191,"slug":192,"is_fiction":19},54,"World War II","world-war-ii",[],{"pace":53,"complexity":7,"audience":55,"mood":195,"themes":197,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[113,196],"informative",[],{"id":199,"slug":200,"title":201,"description":202,"primary_cover_url":203,"cover_blurhash":204,"first_publish_year":205,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":16,"page_count":206,"authors":207,"genres":212,"series":215,"enrichment":221},"01kx6pb829zzp2adrz8g9037n1","the-ghost-road-vqg1","The ghost road","The final book in the *Regeneration Trilogy* and winner of the 1995 Booker Prize, *The Ghost Road* is the culminating masterpiece of Pat Barker's towering World War I fiction trilogy. The time of the novel is the closing months of the most senselessly savage of modern conflicts. In France, millions of men engaged in brutal trench warfare are all \"ghosts in the making.\" In England, psychologist William Rivers, with severe pangs of conscience, treats the mental casualties of the war to make them whole enough to fight again. One of these, Billy Prior, risen to the officer class from the working class, both courageous and sardonic, decides to return to France with his fellow officer, poet Wilfred Owen, to fight a war he no longer believes in. Meanwhile, Rivers, enfevered by influenza returns in memory to his experience studying a South Pacific tribe whose ethos amounted to a culture of death. Across the gulf between his society and theirs, Rivers begins to form connections that cast new light on his--and our--understanding of war. Combining poetic intensity with gritty realism, blending biting humor with tragic drama, moving toward a denouement as inevitable as it is devastating, *The Ghost Road* both encapsulates history and transcends it. It is a modern masterpiece. 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In this remarkable and intimate account, author G. J. Meyer draws on exhaustive research to bring to life the story of how the Great War reduced Europe’s mightiest empires to rubble, killed twenty million people, and cracked the foundations of the world we live in today. The First World War is one of history’s greatest tragedies. In this remarkable and intimate account, author G. J. Meyer draws on exhaustive research to bring to life the story of how the Great War reduced Europe’s mightiest empires to rubble, killed twenty million people, and cracked the foundations of the world we live in today.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx6nyrpgst0r14h26xet2ac7.jpg?v=7aa1bccbd8","L5AB^Gx[46t600RQHZjG00i_{#Wo",2006,704,[234],{"id":235,"slug":236,"name":237},"01kx6nyrpbs97wrentewh8gf5j","g-j-meyer-shgz","G. J. 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Alistair Gellis--rich, handsome, scarred by World War I, and obsessed by ghosts--has been summoned to investigate the spirit of the nineteen-year-old maid Maddy Clare, who is said to haunt the barn where she committed suicide. Maddy hated men in life, and she will not speak to them in death. But Sarah is unprepared to go alone into a haunted barn looking for the truth. She's even less prepared for the arrival of Alistair's associate, rough, unsettling Matthew Ryder, also a veteran of the trenches, whose scars go deeper than Sarah can reach. Soon, Sarah is caught up in a desperate struggle. For Maddy's ghost is no hoax--she's real, she's angry, and she has powers that defy all reason. Can Sarah and Matthew discover who Maddy was, where she came from, and what is driving her desire for vengeance...before she destroys them all?\"--","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2ff41z0r7j9w41re40v7xr.jpg?v=9474da65d5","L8FqRF@J?Wko01~m-oni%LKK4;$%",2012,431,[256],{"id":257,"slug":258,"name":259},"01ktt0qrs0nbfggypmdev1nbeq","simone-st-james-74u8","Simone St. James",[261,265,269,270],{"id":262,"name":263,"slug":264,"is_fiction":19},212,"Historical Mystery","historical-mystery",{"id":266,"name":267,"slug":268,"is_fiction":19},35,"Paranormal Romance","paranormal-romance",{"id":33,"name":34,"slug":35,"is_fiction":19},{"id":271,"name":272,"slug":273,"is_fiction":19},141,"Paranormal","paranormal",[],{"pace":53,"complexity":7,"audience":55,"mood":276,"themes":278,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[277,244],"mysterious",[],{"id":280,"slug":281,"title":282,"description":7,"primary_cover_url":283,"cover_blurhash":284,"first_publish_year":285,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":16,"page_count":286,"authors":287,"genres":296,"series":298,"enrichment":299},"01kx2gnrfrynfgwvz3wpab0bd5","her-xcss","Her","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2gnrgaws0306w33jertmr3.jpg?v=29c04a9f29","LUODnIt7~qt7D%of%Mj[_3WBRjay",2017,160,[288,292],{"id":289,"slug":290,"name":291},"01kx23sw154c50tmvfsfw3vkpp","pierre-alex-jeanty-ffzb","Pierre Alex Jeanty",{"id":293,"slug":294,"name":295},"01kx2gnrg549b41d3m1ebw5bzr","omar-rodriguez-sdtc","Omar Rodriguez",[297],{"id":29,"name":30,"slug":31,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":52,"complexity":7,"audience":55,"mood":300,"themes":301,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[57,58],[],{"id":303,"slug":304,"title":305,"description":306,"primary_cover_url":307,"cover_blurhash":308,"first_publish_year":309,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":16,"page_count":103,"authors":310,"genres":315,"series":318,"enrichment":319},"01kx2jssd3hfgfz5npa8yv8g84","tradition-fs8z","Tradition","\"Jericho Brown's daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. Brown's poetic concerns are both broad and intimate, and at their very core a distillation of the incredibly human: What is safety? Who is this nation? Where does freedom truly lie? Brown makes mythical pastorals to question the terrors to which we've become accustomed, and to celebrate how we survive. Poems of fatherhood, legacy, blackness, queerness, worship, and trauma are propelled into stunning clarity by Brown's mastery, and his invention of the duplex--a combination of the sonnet, the ghazal, and the blues--testament to his formal skill. The Tradition is a cutting and necessary collection, relentless in its quest for survival while reveling in a celebration of contradiction\"--Goodreads.com.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2jssddfv06322v0fy0gv2n.jpg?v=f55479d58f","LoJaZbRjozoL~Bofofay-9s:Riof",2019,[311],{"id":312,"slug":313,"name":314},"01kx2jssdaxzpkckvhh5ftv95m","jericho-brown-vusl","Jericho Brown",[316,317],{"id":29,"name":30,"slug":31,"is_fiction":19},{"id":87,"name":88,"slug":89,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":52,"complexity":7,"audience":55,"mood":320,"themes":321,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[113,58],[],{"id":323,"slug":324,"title":325,"description":326,"primary_cover_url":327,"cover_blurhash":328,"first_publish_year":329,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":16,"page_count":7,"authors":330,"genres":335,"series":341,"enrichment":342},"01kx2hntzzpjpbc730dky5a6zy","dark-sparkler-1d25","Dark sparkler","Summary:Here is the American starlet: discovered, disrobed, displaced, disused, disgorged. In more than thirty haunting, visceral poetic portraits, acclaimed poet and actress Amber Tamblyn contemplates the interior lives of women who glimmered on-screen and crashed in life-- figures as diverse as Frances Farmer and Brittany Murphy, Jayne Mansfield and Dana Plato, Jean Harlow and Sharon Tate, Heather O'Rourke and Dominique Dunne and Marilyn Monroe. Their stories invite us behind the eyes of a century's worth of women, the adored and the disappeared","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2hnv0mm0kxkhjkrf2rwe3t.jpg?v=5208970270","LWQvtJt7~qxuIUayxuj[~qj[Diay",2015,[331],{"id":332,"slug":333,"name":334},"01kt4sdspf3rnsck8k42b6sscj","amber-tamblyn-zw1n","Amber Tamblyn",[336,337],{"id":29,"name":30,"slug":31,"is_fiction":19},{"id":338,"name":339,"slug":340,"is_fiction":18},88,"Biography","biography",[],{"pace":52,"complexity":7,"audience":55,"mood":343,"themes":344,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[57,113],[],[346,457,587],{"key":347,"params":348,"works":349},"genre_year",{"genre":30,"year":8},[350,369,392,413,438],{"id":351,"slug":352,"title":353,"description":354,"primary_cover_url":355,"cover_blurhash":356,"first_publish_year":357,"community_rating_avg":12,"community_rating_count":13,"page_count":103,"authors":358,"genres":363,"series":365,"enrichment":366},"01kx2hz66185k0k6dy26s9z8d8","american-sublime-watt","American Sublime","In her fourth remarkable collection, Elizabeth Alexander voices the outcries, dreams, and histories of an African American tradition that goes back to the slave rebellion on the Amistad and to the artists' canvases of nineteenth-century America. In persona poems, historical narratives, jazz riffs, sonnets, elegies, and a sequence of ars poetica, *American Sublime* is Alexander's most vivid and varied collection and affirms her place as one of America's most lively and gifted writers.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2hz66m5mzmh5btp93qbnq3.jpg?v=1b0764ed38","LUMDr-~9%Kt6+09vM}jZM}V[M}V[",2005,[359],{"id":360,"slug":361,"name":362},"01kqfpvr9c8dgg99hj5zrmqs8c","elizabeth-alexander-8d17","Elizabeth Alexander",[364],{"id":29,"name":30,"slug":31,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":52,"complexity":7,"audience":55,"mood":367,"themes":368,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[58,57],[],{"id":370,"slug":371,"title":372,"description":373,"primary_cover_url":374,"cover_blurhash":375,"first_publish_year":153,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":16,"page_count":376,"authors":377,"genres":382,"series":388,"enrichment":389},"01kr3vcvtgwtms781z9310bk0h","robinsons-crossing-lj4e","Robinson's Crossing","Jan Zwicky's \"Robinson's Crossing\" is a collection of poems that explores themes of nature, memory, and the human condition. Through evocative language and thoughtful imagery, Zwicky invites readers to consider the intersections of the personal and the universal. The poems often draw on landscapes and everyday observations to delve into deeper philosophical questions.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kr3vcvysnfhfp5nnhhkfh2ed.jpg","LGN,xYM{~Vxa0Mj]-:ay?aofIVj[",84,[378],{"id":379,"slug":380,"name":381},"01kk9hx7wgk5kvzn9c5z6rezjf","jan-zwicky-t8kw","Jan Zwicky",[383,384],{"id":29,"name":30,"slug":31,"is_fiction":19},{"id":385,"name":386,"slug":387,"is_fiction":18},93,"Nature","nature",[],{"pace":52,"complexity":7,"audience":55,"mood":390,"themes":391,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[57,58],[],{"id":393,"slug":394,"title":395,"description":396,"primary_cover_url":397,"cover_blurhash":398,"first_publish_year":399,"community_rating_avg":12,"community_rating_count":13,"page_count":400,"authors":401,"genres":406,"series":409,"enrichment":410},"01kx2h3v6r0wy9vy2wj5vjcegg","slamming-open-the-door-mekf","Slamming Open the Door","“Slamming Open the Door is an intensely individual book that takes a steadfast look at what is probably one of the most traumatic events a parent can experience—not only the death of a child, but her violent murder.” —Poetry International “Throughout Slamming Open the Door, words are a mother’s weapon against not only her daughter’s assailant, but also the potentially lethal opponent that is grief. . . . Its intimacy and rawness are undeniable, as is its author’s unflinching candor.” —West Branch “Readers will have to step outside of a familiar, comforting tradition of poetic grief while reading this book. . . . To read [Slamming Open the Door] is to stand onstage with a writer who finds herself in the middle of a story in which she has been reluctantly cast.” —The New York Times Book Review","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2h3v7bhcat4kcwbysn0hvy.jpg?v=fdae6523e1","LAS$lnwJxu_Nt6ofkCV@yC%gWBH?",2009,61,[402],{"id":403,"slug":404,"name":405},"01kx2h3v76q6ar042fawphkrrh","kathleen-sheeder-bonanno-gjgi","Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno",[407,408],{"id":29,"name":30,"slug":31,"is_fiction":19},{"id":87,"name":88,"slug":89,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":52,"complexity":7,"audience":55,"mood":411,"themes":412,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[57,113],[],{"id":414,"slug":415,"title":416,"description":417,"primary_cover_url":418,"cover_blurhash":419,"first_publish_year":420,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":16,"page_count":262,"authors":421,"genres":430,"series":434,"enrichment":435},"01kragj8g5kw4ybw0yj98ydsw1","mural-ndqi","Mural","Written after a near-death experience, 'Mural' is a monumental, autobiographical poem by Mahmud Darwish. It offers a profound meditation on the poet's life, his relationship with death, and the enduring themes of exile, memory, and homeland. This work stands as a testament to Darwish's poetic genius and his deep engagement with the human condition.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kragj8k888xaawgrce652afb.jpg","LKPP|XNgWAx=~9wJnhjYE7bFWCoy",2003,[422,426],{"id":423,"slug":424,"name":425},"01kjsvsmrbk2p2rg30gf877ebt","mahmud-darwish-kjft","Mahmud Darwish",{"id":427,"slug":428,"name":429},"01kragj8k42g5hs3mvn9kq7z4e","rosa-isabel-martinez-lillo-ecks","Rosa Isabel Martínez Lillo",[431,432,433],{"id":95,"name":96,"slug":97,"is_fiction":19},{"id":29,"name":30,"slug":31,"is_fiction":19},{"id":87,"name":88,"slug":89,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":52,"complexity":7,"audience":55,"mood":436,"themes":437,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[57,58],[],{"id":439,"slug":440,"title":441,"description":7,"primary_cover_url":442,"cover_blurhash":443,"first_publish_year":357,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":16,"page_count":444,"authors":445,"genres":450,"series":453,"enrichment":454},"01krf2v53vrgekrv7pycwzgrhp","the-spirit-of-the-walrus-jfua","The spirit of the walrus","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01krf2v57adxmhknhfzp19zjc9.jpg","LaEVEiIoR*WX~WM|WBoL?HRlaes.",46,[446],{"id":447,"slug":448,"name":449},"01kpf2fgdwkec3dg2wzhxezffw","elisavietta-ritchie-efex","Elisavietta Ritchie",[451,452],{"id":29,"name":30,"slug":31,"is_fiction":19},{"id":385,"name":386,"slug":387,"is_fiction":18},[],{"pace":52,"complexity":7,"audience":55,"mood":455,"themes":456,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[144,58],[],{"key":458,"params":459,"works":460},"genre_mood",{"genre":34,"mood":57},[461,472,489,515,540,565],{"id":199,"slug":200,"title":201,"description":202,"primary_cover_url":203,"cover_blurhash":204,"first_publish_year":205,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":16,"page_count":206,"authors":462,"genres":464,"series":467,"enrichment":469},[463],{"id":209,"slug":210,"name":211},[465,466],{"id":33,"name":34,"slug":35,"is_fiction":19},{"id":107,"name":108,"slug":109,"is_fiction":19},[468],{"id":217,"slug":218,"name":219,"position":220,"is_main_entry":19,"parent_id":7,"parent_slug":7,"parent_name":7},{"pace":52,"complexity":7,"audience":55,"mood":470,"themes":471,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[113,57],[],{"id":473,"slug":474,"title":475,"description":7,"primary_cover_url":476,"cover_blurhash":477,"first_publish_year":478,"community_rating_avg":12,"community_rating_count":13,"page_count":479,"authors":480,"genres":482,"series":485,"enrichment":486},"01kx6nbq5114fp4s3gx7gacgrg","regeneration-tie-in-w4ca","Regeneration Tie In","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx6nbq5gn1gjdfh15w36rnx7.jpg?v=5280013f2b","LF9u4*?us;x]%%xut7ogWYM|RkRP",1994,256,[481],{"id":209,"slug":210,"name":211},[483,484],{"id":107,"name":108,"slug":109,"is_fiction":19},{"id":33,"name":34,"slug":35,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":52,"complexity":7,"audience":55,"mood":487,"themes":488,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[57,58],[],{"id":490,"slug":491,"title":492,"description":493,"primary_cover_url":494,"cover_blurhash":495,"first_publish_year":496,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":16,"page_count":497,"authors":498,"genres":503,"series":508,"enrichment":509},"01kwzwwp8ad96pa3qdg6a2ydy9","taste-of-sugar-xezr","Taste of Sugar","\"Marisel Vera emerges as a major voice of contemporary fiction with a heart- wrenching novel set in Puerto Rico on the eve of the Spanish-American War. It is 1898, and groups of starving Puerto Ricans, los hambrientos, roam the parched countryside and dusty towns begging for food. Under the yoke of Spanish oppression, the Caribbean island is forced to prepare to wage war with the United States. Up in the mountainous coffee region of Utuado, Vicente Vega and Valentina Sanchez labor to keep their small farm from the creditors. When the Spanish-American War and the great San Ciriaco Hurricane of 1899 bring devastating upheaval, the young couple is lured, along with thousands of other puertorriquenos, to the sugar plantations of Hawaii-another US territory-where they are confronted by the hollowness of America's promises of prosperity. Writing in the tradition of great Latin American storytelling, Marisel Vera's The Taste of Sugar is an unforgettable novel of love and endurance, and a timeless portrait of the reasons we leave home.\"--","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kwzwwp8ykb7g6evhg5ac79jt.jpg?v=50912094c9","LFOyU.9[~p=eFwIV$*R*TJw|RQNu",2020,384,[499],{"id":500,"slug":501,"name":502},"01kwzwwp8r72ymxpahwfbev4v5","marisel-vera-apax","Marisel Vera",[504,507],{"id":77,"name":505,"slug":506,"is_fiction":19},"Historical Fiction","historical-fiction",{"id":33,"name":34,"slug":35,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":52,"complexity":7,"audience":55,"mood":510,"themes":512,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[57,511],"nostalgic",[513,514],"coming-of-age","forbidden-love",{"id":516,"slug":517,"title":518,"description":519,"primary_cover_url":520,"cover_blurhash":521,"first_publish_year":522,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":16,"page_count":523,"authors":524,"genres":529,"series":536,"enrichment":537},"01kx6nsqmk5md3gnk5ktmefg11","once-a-grand-duchess-px5h","Once a grand duchess","Important new archive of material including letters, postcards, photographs, and other Romanov documents allows a biography of Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia (a member of the last Tsar family) to be produced.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx6nsqn2bh3sgem5nmjc22sh.jpg?v=7ce4f01ade","LMKCz_Rj?^%gMxofx]kC?vx[IUIB",2002,269,[525],{"id":526,"slug":527,"name":528},"01kx6nn6dvj8sj5y128pb3p81k","john-van-der-kiste-lzhy","John Van der Kiste",[530,531,532],{"id":338,"name":339,"slug":340,"is_fiction":18},{"id":33,"name":34,"slug":35,"is_fiction":19},{"id":533,"name":534,"slug":535,"is_fiction":18},70,"History","history",[],{"pace":52,"complexity":7,"audience":55,"mood":538,"themes":539,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[57,58],[],{"id":541,"slug":542,"title":543,"description":544,"primary_cover_url":545,"cover_blurhash":546,"first_publish_year":547,"community_rating_avg":12,"community_rating_count":13,"page_count":14,"authors":548,"genres":553,"series":561,"enrichment":562},"01kx6p156xpg19096jkqjmwe5w","race-to-save-the-romanovs-6gjp","Race to Save the Romanovs","\"Investigating the murder of the Russian Imperial Family, Helen Rappaport embarks on a quest to uncover the many international plots to save them, why they failed, and who was responsible. The murder of the Romanov family in July 1918 horrified the world and its aftershocks still reverberate today. In Putin's autocratic Russia, the Revolution itself is considered a crime and its one hundredth anniversary was largely ignored. In stark contrast, the centenary of the massacre of the Imperial Family will be a huge ceremony attended by the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church. While the murder itself has received major attention, what has never been investigated in detail are the various plots behind the scenes to save the family--on the part of their royal relatives, other governments, and Russian monarchists loyal to the Tsar. Rappaport refutes the accusation that the fault lies entirely with King George V, as has been the traditional claim for the last century. The responsibility for failing the Romanovs must be equally shared. The question of asylum for the Tsar and his family was an extremely complicated issue that presented enormous political, logistical and geographical challenges at a time when Europe was still at war. Like a modern-day detective, Helen Rappaport draws on new and never-before-seen sources from archives in the United States, Russia, Spain ,and the United Kingdom, creating a powerful account of near misses and close calls with a heartbreaking conclusion. With its up-to-the-minute research, The Race to Save the Romanovs is sure to replace outdated classics as the final word on the fate of the Romanovs\"--","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx6p157en4z1j0k6jparp25v.jpg?v=5b35880d25","L?O3^HWBkCt7~qofkCWBD%j[jZj[",2018,[549],{"id":550,"slug":551,"name":552},"01kp7nctk2ryhpjtmwszpre5z1","helen-rappaport-r6iu","Helen Rappaport",[554,558,559,560],{"id":555,"name":556,"slug":557,"is_fiction":18},104,"True Crime","true-crime",{"id":33,"name":34,"slug":35,"is_fiction":19},{"id":533,"name":534,"slug":535,"is_fiction":18},{"id":338,"name":339,"slug":340,"is_fiction":18},[],{"pace":53,"complexity":7,"audience":55,"mood":563,"themes":564,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[244,113,57],[],{"id":566,"slug":567,"title":568,"description":569,"primary_cover_url":570,"cover_blurhash":571,"first_publish_year":572,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":16,"page_count":497,"authors":573,"genres":578,"series":582,"enrichment":583},"01kx6pdrf9tv1kx23bas42f1dx","the-assassination-of-the-archduke-cjk9","The assassination of the archduke","In the summer of 1914, three great empires dominated Europe: Germany, Russia, and Austria-Hungary. Four years later all had vanished in the chaos of World War I. One event precipitated the conflict, and at its heart was a tragic love story. When Austrian heir Archduke Franz Ferdinand married for love against the wishes of the emperor, he and his wife Sophie were humiliated and shunned, yet they remained devoted to each other and to their children. The two bullets fired in Sarajevo not only ended their love story, but also led to war and decades of conflict. Challenging a century of myth, this moving portrait of the end of an era also offers the startling truth behind the Sarajevo assassinations--including Serbian complicity--and examines rumors of conspiracy and official negligence.--From publisher description.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx6pdrfyn0x2vx6hqnvh2m22.jpg?v=738ff85ac7","L04-;A0e00M|^+M|0LWV00?H?F-o",2013,[574],{"id":575,"slug":576,"name":577},"01kx6pdrfrev9d852607s3xmxf","greg-king-hcww","Greg King",[579,580,581],{"id":338,"name":339,"slug":340,"is_fiction":18},{"id":33,"name":34,"slug":35,"is_fiction":19},{"id":533,"name":534,"slug":535,"is_fiction":18},[],{"pace":52,"complexity":7,"audience":55,"mood":584,"themes":585,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[57,58],[586,514],"multiple-povs",{"key":588,"params":589,"works":590},"genre",{"genre":34},[591,603,624,649,670,696],{"id":247,"slug":248,"title":249,"description":250,"primary_cover_url":251,"cover_blurhash":252,"first_publish_year":253,"community_rating_avg":124,"community_rating_count":13,"page_count":254,"authors":592,"genres":594,"series":599,"enrichment":600},[593],{"id":257,"slug":258,"name":259},[595,596,597,598],{"id":262,"name":263,"slug":264,"is_fiction":19},{"id":266,"name":267,"slug":268,"is_fiction":19},{"id":33,"name":34,"slug":35,"is_fiction":19},{"id":271,"name":272,"slug":273,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":53,"complexity":7,"audience":55,"mood":601,"themes":602,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[277,244],[],{"id":604,"slug":605,"title":606,"description":607,"primary_cover_url":608,"cover_blurhash":609,"first_publish_year":610,"community_rating_avg":12,"community_rating_count":13,"page_count":611,"authors":612,"genres":617,"series":620,"enrichment":621},"01kx6npt2wcsrkf3yz3znjb48h","thirteen-years-at-the-russian-court-xnyt","Thirteen Years at the Russian Court","In September 1905 Pierre Gilliard entered Tsar Nicholas II's household as the French tutor of Duchesses Olga Nicolaievna and Tatiana Nicolaievna. He would go on to spend a further thirteen years in the close company of the Romanov family. Within that time he would be a witness to one of the most remarkable and tragic events of modern history as a close-knit family was torn apart and executed in the midst of the Revolution. But this book is more than simply an eyewitness account of the Revolution. As one of the books early reviews notes, Gilliard 'had unusual opportunities of knowing their simple domestic life, and when the tragedy that had befallen the Royal house inevitably drew its members, and the few of their attendants who were left to them, more closely together, he was able to learn more and more intimately the ties that bound them together and the difficulties that had brought them to such a doom.' The Tablet Throughout his thirteen years Gilliard built strong personal relationships with those at the Russian court and his eyewitness account of that time is a beautifully intimate portrayal of the family. From little Aleksey who despite his haemophilia remained the centre of attention to his mischievous sisters, their anxious mother and proud father, Gilliard provides vivid sketches of each of the family members. He was also witness to figures outside of the family circle, including the infamous Rasputin. Throughout the account there are extremely personal notes interspersed with humour which provide a humanising view of the Romanov family, including the moment when Gilliard forgets to censor some of the language in Les Miserables to which Tsar Nicholas II teases with him: \"You are teaching my daughters a very curious vocabulary, monsieur...\" In 1914 Russia descended into war and over the coming years as the situation on the front becomes more tense so too does life within the court. The strain upon court and nation comes to a climax in March 1917 as the Revolution begins. Even through their abdication and imprisonment Gilliard remained with the family, until finally in 1918, after the Bolshevik's coup d'etat, Gilliard is separated from them, never to see them again. Pierre Gilliard's remarkable and tragic account of the last years of the Romanov dynasty was first published in 1921. He later became a French professor at the University of Lausanne and died in 1962.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Fworks\u002F01\u002F01kx6npt2wcsrkf3yz3znjb48h.jpg?v=ce018f8a52","LOLX6.t7tRWB~pM{fRkB0MofWBWB",2016,161,[613],{"id":614,"slug":615,"name":616},"01kx6npt34z51z9nkmmkg8zp5d","pierre-gilliard-m04a","Pierre Gilliard",[618,619],{"id":338,"name":339,"slug":340,"is_fiction":18},{"id":33,"name":34,"slug":35,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":52,"complexity":7,"audience":55,"mood":622,"themes":623,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[57,58],[],{"id":625,"slug":626,"title":627,"description":628,"primary_cover_url":629,"cover_blurhash":630,"first_publish_year":205,"community_rating_avg":220,"community_rating_count":13,"page_count":631,"authors":632,"genres":641,"series":644,"enrichment":645},"01kx6n3cc2h01qn6mkpvq0pbpn","czars-ixc2","Czars","Discusses the reigns of the czars and czarinas who ruled Russia.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx6n3ccj4a5wxk4fd65qwrdh.jpg?v=7fd512670b","L5LTNL+}00=e_Mo2iIt700WC~WOr",372,[633,637],{"id":634,"slug":635,"name":636},"01kx6n3ccc1z58v1rcgwtcxsqw","james-p-duffy-livg","James P. 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Written by a former U.S. Army general with extensive combat experience, it combines military analysis with broader political and social context.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx6nc5mjpra80hnnp1cz5ptb.jpg?v=823b053b9e","LBJPiOibo}={4STdR5-=8{v}bwIU",2001,526,[658],{"id":659,"slug":660,"name":661},"01kx6nc5mesnym2v7198a2k9hn","samuel-lyman-atwood-marshall-o5hb","Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall",[663,664,665],{"id":162,"name":163,"slug":164,"is_fiction":19},{"id":33,"name":34,"slug":35,"is_fiction":19},{"id":533,"name":534,"slug":535,"is_fiction":18},[],{"pace":53,"complexity":7,"audience":55,"mood":668,"themes":669,"setting_period":7,"summary":652,"content_warnings":7},[196,244],[],{"id":671,"slug":672,"title":673,"description":674,"primary_cover_url":675,"cover_blurhash":676,"first_publish_year":677,"community_rating_avg":12,"community_rating_count":13,"page_count":479,"authors":678,"genres":683,"series":691,"enrichment":692},"01kx6nb37r32rz79hbsx8ex23n","the-last-grand-duchess-bnx7","The last grand-duchess","Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna When she died in exile in 1960, Olga Alexandrovna was the last Grand Duchess of Russia, the favorite sister of Czar Nicholas II who was executed with his wife and five children during the Revolution. 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. 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