The Raucous Royals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Raucous Royals write by Carlyn Beccia. This book was released on 2008. The Raucous Royals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This one-of-a-kind combination of a non-fiction picture book, graphic novel, and tabloid magazine invites readers on a journey through time to discover the ugly truth behind the even uglier rumors that persist about some of history's most important and eccentric figures.
Who Put the B in the Ballyhoo?
Who Put the B in the Ballyhoo? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Who Put the B in the Ballyhoo? write by Carlyn Beccia. This book was released on 2007. Who Put the B in the Ballyhoo? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A rhyming alphabetical description of Big Top life and attractions, interspersed with facts about particular circus acts and personalities of the past.
I Feel Better with a Frog in My Throat
I Feel Better with a Frog in My Throat - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook I Feel Better with a Frog in My Throat write by Carlyn Beccia. This book was released on 2010-10-25. I Feel Better with a Frog in My Throat available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It wasn’t too long ago that people tried all sorts of things to help sick people feel better. They tried wild things like drinking a glass full of millipedes or putting some mustard on one's head. Some of the cures worked, and some of them…well, let’s just say that millipedes, living or dead, are not meant to be ingested. Carlyn Beccia takes readers on a colorful and funny medical mystery tour to discover that while times may have changed, many of today’s most reliable cure-alls have their roots in some very peculiar practices, and so relevant connections can be drawn from what they did then to what we do now.
Royal Affairs
Royal Affairs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Royal Affairs write by Leslie Carroll. This book was released on 2008-06-03. Royal Affairs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A funny, raucous, and delightfully dirty history of 1,000 years of bedroom-hopping secrets and scandals of Britain's royals. Insatiable kings, lecherous queens, kissing cousins, and wanton consorts-history has never been so much fun. Royal unions have always been the stuff of scintillating gossip, from the passionate Plantagenets to Henry VIII's alarming head count of wives and mistresses, to the Sapphic crushes of Mary and Anne Stuart right on up through the scandal-blighted coupling of Prince Charles and Princess Diana. Thrown into loveless, arranged marriages for political and economic gain, many royals were driven to indulge their pleasures outside the marital bed, engaging in delicious flirtations, lurid love letters, and rampant sex with voluptuous and willing partners. This nearly pathological lust made for some of the most titillating scandals in Great Britain's history. Hardly harmless, these affairs have disrupted dynastic alliances, endangered lives, and most of all, fed the salacious curiosity of the public for centuries. Royal Affairs will satiate that curiosity by bringing this arousing history alive.
Peter the Great
Peter the Great - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Peter the Great write by Diane Stanley. This book was released on 1999-08-25. Peter the Great available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Peter the Great, crowned tsar of Russia at the age of ten, believed that whatever he wanted he should have -- and the sooner the better. What he wanted most was to bring his beloved country into the modem world. He traveled to the West to learn European ways -- the first tsar ever to leave Russia -- disguised as a common soldier. He explored the West with excitement and curiosity and returned home ready to undertake a series of momentous social reforms. And to satisfy his boyhood dream of a Russian naval port, he began to build, on a freezing swamp, a glittering new capital to be named St. Petersburg. In this welcome reissue of Diane Stanley's acclaimed picturebook biography, her meticulously researched text and sumptuous illustrations capture the fabulous world of seventeenth -- and eighteenth-century tsarist Russia and the greatness of its larger-than-life leader -- a man of huge stature and tremendous spirit whose impatience and vision, insatiable curiosity and boundless energy transformed half a continent.
