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 Nelson: Love and FameBest Price: $6.74 In 1805, almost exactly 200 years ago, Horatio Nelson was killed just as his plans to defeat the... |  Matthew Boulton: Selling What All the World DesiresBest Price: $10.85 Matthew Boulton was an 18th-century designer, inventor, and industrialist, a consummate... |  Julie Andrews: A Life on Stage and ScreenThe story of Julie Andrews--her meteoric rise, devastating fall, and incredible comeback, from... |  Precious LivesIn this excellent memoir, Margaret Forster has succeeded in writing about death and dying... |  Georgiana: Duchess of DevonshireBest Price: $35.00 Sex, intrigue and adultery in the world of high politics and huge wealth in late... |
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