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[2023]
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"On August 27, 1943, news broke in the United States that First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was on the other side of the world. A closely guarded secret, she had left San Francisco aboard a military transport plane headed for the South Pacific to support and report the troops on WW2's front lines. Meanwhile, for those ten days, Americans had believed she was secluded at home. As Allied forces battled the Japanese for control of the region, Eleanor was...
48) Eleanor and Franklin: the story of their relationship, based on Eleanor Roosevelt's private papers
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Pub. Date
[1971]
Description
Gives insight into Eleanor's childhood, how she overcame personal insecurity, how she coped as a politician's wife, and describes her relationship with her husband, Franklin.
51) The ladies
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Pub. Date
1993
Description
A tender and imaginative retelling of the adventures of two of history's most compelling women In 1778 Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby left County Kilkenny for Wales to live together as a married couple. Both well born, highly educated Irish women, the Ladies of Llangollen, as they came to be known, defied all eighteenth-century social convention and spent half a century together in a loving relationship. Removed from the intrusive gaze of the world,...
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Series
Justin de Quincy mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
1998
Description
Justin de Quincy, working on behalf of Eleanor of Aquitaine to find her missing son Richard Lionheart and prevent Prince John from usurping the throne, is distracted when he becomes obsessed with the death of a beautiful, beloved young girl found murdered in a local churchyard.
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Pub. Date
2012
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Timber Ridge, North Carolina is the home of Eleanor Swift's pizzeria, A Slice of Delight. When famous TV chef Antonio Benet comes into town and insults everyone during a book signing engagement, someone does the chef in. It is Eleanor's role to discover who the killer is before she gets a knife in the back as well.