Janet Wallach, Author . Doubleday/Talese $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-385-49046-7
A real-life 18th-century kidnapping is reimagined by biographer Wallach (Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell) in this richly detailed first novel. Thirteen-year-old Aimée du Buc de Rivery is abducted by pirates on her way home
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Janet Wallach, Author Nan A. Talese $27.5 (448p) ISBN 978-0-385-47408-5
To Sir Mark Sykes, the pre-WWI British Foreign Office Arabist, ""that damned fool,"" Miss Bell, created an ""uproar"" wherever she went in the Middle East and was ""the terror of the desert."" Three social seasons were all a young lady of good...
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Janet Wallach, Author Nan A. Talese $31.75 (192p) ISBN 978-0-385-48872-3
When she realized that the great love of her life, shipping and coal magnate Arthur ""Boy"" Capel, wouldn't marry a courtesan, Gabrielle ""Coco"" Chanel settled for his backing in business and opened her first high-fashion shop. According to Wallach'
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Janet Wallach, Author, John Wallach, Author Lyle Stuart $21.95 (465p) ISBN 978-0-8184-0533-4
The author interviewed members of Arafat's family, childhood friends and leaders who have dealt with him as ally and adversary. (Among the latter: Jordan's King Hussein, Yitzhak Shamir and Shimon Peres of Israel, Secretary of State James Baker.)...
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Janet Wallach. Doubleday/Talese, $27.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-385-53197-9
Hetty Robinson Green (1834–1916) was as rich as Rockefeller, worth $100 million at her death. Born to an emotionally withholding Quaker family that instilled in her the value of both wealth and thrift, she grew her inheritance into a massive fortune
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Janet Wallach. Doubleday, $30 (352p) ISBN 978-0-385-54508-2
In this colorful account, biographer Wallach (The Richest Woman in the World) relates the life story of one of America’s greatest female spies, Marguerite Harrison (1879–1967). Born to Gilded Age wealth as the daughter of a Baltimore shipping...
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