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Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2019
Description
Learn all about the true story behind Misty, Chincoteague Island, and Marguerite Henry! Ever since Marguerite Henry's Misty of Chincoteague was first published in 1947, generations of children have continued to be captivated by the beloved story. But did you know that the Newbery Award-winning author owned a pet pony named Misty in real life? Learn all about Misty and Marguerite's friendship in this true story.
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"When life collapses around you in a single day, how do you continue living? Marguerite Wadin MacKay believes her 17-year marriage to explorer Alex MacKay is strong, until his sudden fame destroys it. When he returns from a cross-Canada expedition, he announces their frontier marriage is void in Montréal, where he plans to find a society wife-not one with native blood. Taking their son, MacKay sends Marguerite and their three daughters to a trading...
4) The illustrated Marguerite Henry: with Wesley Dennis, Robert Lougheed, Lynd Ward, and Rich Rudish
Author
Publisher
Rand McNally
Pub. Date
1980
Description
Marguerite Henry explains how she gets ideas for her books, briefly describes the illustrators of her books, and shows excerpts from their work.
6) The gatekeeper: Missy LeHand, FDR, and the untold story of the partnership that defined a presidency
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"The first biography of arguably the most influential member of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's administration, Marguerite 'Missy' LeHand, FDR's de facto chief of staff, who has been misrepresented, mischaracterized, and overlooked throughout history...until now"--
"Journalist Smith (A Necessary War) grants readers an unusual insider's view of F.D.R.'s political career by profiling his longtime private secretary. Marguerite 'Missy' LeHand, a young woman...
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"As the internationally bestselling historian Katie Hickman writes, 'Myth and misunderstanding spring from the American frontier as readily as rye grass from sod, and--like the wiry grass--seem as difficult to weed out and discard.' But the true-life story of women's experiences in the Wild West is more gripping, heart-rending, and stirring than all the movies, novels, folk-legends, and ballads of popular imagination. Hard-drinking, hard-living poker...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Set against the backdrop of the turbulent thirteenth century, a time of chivalry and crusades, poetry and knights, comes the story of the four daughters of the count of Provence whose brilliant marriages made them the queens of France, England, Germany, and Sicily. From a cultured childhood in Provence, each sister was propelled into a world marked by shifting alliances, intrigue, and subterfuge. Marguerite, the eldest, whose resolution and spirit...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"The true story of socialite spy Marguerite Harrison, who slipped behind enemy lines in Russia and Germany in the fraught period between the world wars Foreign correspondent. Author. Filmmaker. Spy. Marguerite Harrison was born into Gilded Age American privilege and launched a successful career as a culture writer for the Baltimore Sun as a young widow. But when America entered World War I, Harrison secretly applied for a position in intelligence....
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