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Pub. Date
2020.
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"A young royal from the far north, is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of imperial China. Her brothers are dead, her armies and their war mammoths long defeated and caged behind their borders. Alone and sometimes reviled, she must choose her allies carefully. Rabbit, a handmaiden, sold by her parents to the palace for the lack of five baskets of dye, befriends the emperor's lonely new wife and gets more than she bargained...
Publisher
Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of Catherine the Great, a young girl who would transform herself from an obscure German Princess into Russia's most powerful regent. Tells her story from her memoirs and personal letters.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xxiii, 404 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), geneal. tables ; 25 cm.
Description
Compares the lives of three royal matriarchs and their daughters, in a collection of histories that illuminates the disparities between Queen Isabella and Catherine of Aragon, Empress Maria Theresa and Marie Antoinette, and Queen Victoria and the Empress Frederick.
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Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
395 pages ; 21 cm
Description
There is no easy path for a woman aspiring to power. A concubine at the palace learns quickly that there are many ways to capture the Emperor's attention. Many paint their faces white and style their hair attractively, hoping to lure in the One Above All with their beauty. Some present him with fantastic gifts, such as jade pendants and scrolls of calligraphy, while others rely on their knowledge of seduction to draw his interest. But young Mei knows...
8) Corsage
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Description
Faced with a future of strict ceremony and royal duties, Empress Elisabeth of Austria rebels against her public image and comes up with a plan to protect her legacy.
9) Empress
Author
Publisher
ReaganBooks
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
321 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
Empress Wu, China's only female emperor, rises from a humble clan and position of concubine to brave the intrigues, betrayal, and violence of the court to become the first Empress of China during the great Tang dynasty in seventh-century China.
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xiii, 625 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.
Description
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure young German princess who traveled to Russia at fourteen and rose to become one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating women in history. Born into a minor noble family, Catherine transformed herself into Empress of Russia by sheer determination. Possessing...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
585 pages : illustrations (black and white, and color) ; 23 cm.
Description
"Michael Broers' biography draws on the thoughts of Napoleon himself as his incomparable life unfolded. It reveals a man of intense emotion, but also of iron self-discipline; of acute intelligence and immeasurable energy. Tracing his life from its dangerous Corsican roots, through his rejection of his early identity, and the dangerous military encounters of his early career, it tells the story of the sheer determination, ruthlessness, and careful...
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xiii, 436 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Description
"In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Cixi fought against monumental obstacles to change China. Under her the ancient country attained virtually all the attributes of a modern state: industries, railways, electricity, the telegraph and an army and navy with up-to-date weaponry. It was she who abolished gruesome punishments like "death by a thousand cuts" and put an end to foot-binding. She inaugurated women's liberation...
Author
Series
Rise of the Empress volume 1
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
363 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"Eighteen-year-old Xifeng is beautiful. The stars say she is destined for greatness, that she is meant to be Empress of Feng Lu. But only if she embraces the darkness within her. Growing up as a peasant in a forgotten village on the edge of the map, Xifeng longs to fulfill the destiny promised to her by her cruel aunt, the witch Guma, who has read the cards and seen glimmers of Xifeng's majestic future. But is the price of the throne too high? Because...
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Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
2 blurays (195 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Max feels neglected by his mother, he runs away wearing his wolf costume to a world in his imagination inhabited by unruly beasts who befriend Max after he is proclaimed king.
Join the young warrior Atreyu and the faith of a young boy, Bastian, as they battle the unknown of 'The Nothing' to save the creatures of Fantasia and their Childlike Empress.
19) Napoleon & love
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (468 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
British drama depicting the many women in Napoleon Bonaparte's love life, starring Ian Holm as Napoleon and Billie Whitelaw as Josephine.
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