Eleanor Herman, Author . Morrow $25.95 (287p) ISBN 978-0-06-058543-3
When kings marry foreign strangers for dynastic or financial reasons and queens are trained in piety over sensuality, royal mistresses seem an inevitability. Kings had flings and extramarital relationships through much of European history, and in...
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Eleanor Herman, Author William Morrow & Company $25.95 (452p) ISBN 978-0-06-124555-8
In this engrossing ""forgotten story"" of the Vatican, Herman (Sex with the Queen) relays not only the life of 17th Cenutry Papal puppet-master Olimpia Maidalchini, but the political and social history of her age, including glimpses of art and...
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Eleanor Herman. Harlequin Teen, $19.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-373-21172-2
In a magic-tinged reimagining of Alexander the Great’s formative years, the 16-year-old heir to the throne of Macedon becomes intrigued by a young woman, Kat, an orphaned peasant who meets the prince after the Blood Tournament, a brutal fighting...
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Eleanor Herman. St. Martin’s, $27.99 (302p) ISBN 978-1-250-14086-9
History is rife with tales of poison, as Herman (Sex with Kings, Sex with Queens) shows in her rip-roaring pop history of the role poison played in the royal courts of Western Europe. She includes expected tales of nobles using poison as a means of...
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Eleanor Herman. Morrow, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-297056-5
Historian Herman (The Royal Art of Poison) examines the love lives of U.S. politicians in this gossip-fueled account. “The same compulsions that send a man hurtling toward the White House,” Herman writes, “can also send him into a foolhardy tryst...
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Eleanor Herman. Morrow, $29.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-309567-0
Bestseller Herman (Sex with Presidents) delivers a brisk and witty examination of the “organized smear operations” aimed at powerful women from ancient Egyptian ruler Hatshepsut to U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris. Contending that female leaders...
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