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The daughter of formerly enslaved parents, Mary McLeod Bethune refuses to back down as white supremacists attempt to thwart her work. She marches on as an activist and an educator, and as her reputation grows she becomes a celebrity, revered by titans of business and recognized by U.S. Presidents. Eleanor Roosevelt herself is awestruck and eager to make her acquaintance. Initially drawn together because of their shared belief in women's rights and...
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After the U.S. president's wife hints that the death of her newborn son was not from natural causes, Washington reporter Barrie Travis travels to Wyoming to visit the First Lady's lover. On her return to Washington she finds that her house has been firebombed and the president's wife has gone into seclusion.
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Lorena Hickok meets Eleanor Roosevelt in 1932 while reporting on Franklin Roosevelt's first presidential campaign. She is not instantly charmed by the idealistic, patrician Eleanor. As their connection deepens into intimacy, what begins as a powerful passion matures into a lasting love, and a life that Hick never expected to have. After she takes a job in the Roosevelt administration, promoting and protecting both Roosevelts, she comes to know Franklin...
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Kate Chase Sprague was born in 1840 in Cincinnati, Ohio, the second daughter to the second wife of a devout but ambitious lawyer. Her father, Salmon P. Chase, rose to prominence in the antebellum years and was appointed secretary of the treasury in Abraham Lincoln's cabinet, while aspiring to even greater heights. Beautiful, intelligent, regal, and entrancing, young Kate Chase stepped into the role of establishing her thrice-widowed father in Washington...
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"The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker and Mrs. Lincoln's Rival imagines the inner life of Julia Grant, beloved as a Civil War general's wife and the First Lady, yet who grappled with a profound and complex relationship with the slave who was her namesake-until she forged a proud identity of her own. In 1844, Missouri belle Julia Dent met dazzling horseman Lieutenant Ulysses S Grant. Four years passed before their parents...
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[Eleanor Roosevelt mystery] volume 15
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St. Martin's
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c1996.
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English
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In World War II, Eleanor Roosevelt, the president's wife, travels secretly to occupied France to attend a meeting to plan Hitler's assassination. When the German delegate is murdered, politics takes a back seat to sleuthing.
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[Eleanor Roosevelt mystery] volume 12
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St. Martin's
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c1993.
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English
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Eleanor Roosevelt's investigation of a senator found dead in the East Room leads her to a complex political mystery.
9) Eagle's cry
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Forge
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2000.
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Jefferson and Madison must work together to save the young country from the treachery of Aaron Burr and the schemes of Napoleon.
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Random House
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c2002.
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When First Lady Beth ManMann is charged with killing her philandering husband, the President of the United States, during a bedroom argument, she turns for help to notorious defense attorney Boyce "Shameless" Baylor, her former flame.
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On what might become one of the most significant days in her husband's presidency, Alice Blackwell considers the strange and unlikely path that has led her to the White House--and the repercussions of a life lived, as she puts it, "almost in opposition to itself." How can she both love and fundamentally disagree with her husband? How complicit has she been in the trajectory of her own life? What should she do when her private beliefs run against her...
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[Eleanor Roosevelt mystery] volume 19
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St. Martin's
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c2000.
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English
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A secret war council in the White House means that Eleanor must solve a murder herself or let the press become aware of the conference.
13) Fatal frenzy
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Fatal volume 9
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Inauguration day is almost here ... Lieutenant Sam Holland is on leave, recovering from an attack that shook her to the core. With no case to distract her, she's trying to stay busy-- even voluntarily meeting with her new White House staff. But it's not enough to keep the horrific memories at bay, and her family is worried ... especially her husband, Vice President Nick Cappuano. Nick is dealing with his own demons where his wife's safety is concerned,...
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[Eleanor Roosevelt mystery] volume 14
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St. Martin's
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1995.
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First lady Eleanor Roosevelt masquerades as a detective in a Washington night club to hunt the killer of her social secretary. Police blame a love affair gone sour, but Eleanor discovers a German spy ring in the White House. By the author of A Royal Murder.
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[Eleanor Roosevelt mystery] volume 9
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St. Martin's
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1991.
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The indomitable Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt is on her way back to the U.S. aboard the great liner Normandie, pride of the French Line. At a cocktail party the first night of the voyage, in the presence of Mrs. Roosevelt and many others, a Russian Ambassador collapses and dies, the victim of strychnine poisoning. Mrs. Roosevelt once again dons her sleuth cap to lead the reader to the tantalizing solution.
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[Eleanor Roosevelt mystery] volume 16
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St. Martin's
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c1997.
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Judge Horace Blackwell is found stabbed to death in his room at the Executive Mansion, and Sara Carter, a black maid, is summarily arrested. Faced with the steamy facts of Blackwell's private life--his mob connections and the related death of a speakeasy bouncer--Eleanor finds suspects and motives aplenty. It takes sharp wits and common sense to solve a crime while serving tea to the ladies of the crusade for decency, but can Eleanor save Sara from...
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Born into luxury and beauty, young Jacqueline Bouvier aspires to be more than the Debutante of the Year. A whirlwind courtship and fairy-tale wedding to war-hero John F. Kennedy propel her into a startling new world of power and politics. As Jackie learns to hone her survival skills, her grace and grit help catapult JFK from the Senate to the Oval Office. The country is awed by her elegance and poise even as Jackie is plagued by self-doubt. Accompanying...
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Simon & Schuster
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Always a lover of history, Mary Higgins Clark wrote this extensively researched biographical novel and titled it Aspire to the Heavens, after the motto of George Washington's mother. Published in 1969, the book was more recently discovered by a Washington family descendant and reissued as Mount Vernon Love Story. Dispelling the widespread belief that although George Washington married Martha Dandridge Custis, he reserved his true love for Sally Carey...
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