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  • Wait for Me!: Memoirs by Deborah Mitford - 17 January
  • Nancy: the Story of Lady Astor by Adrian Fort - 5 February
  • The Mistresses of Cliveden by Natalie Livingstone - 8 February
  • Zelda by Nancy Milford - 15 February
  • The Proposal by Mary Balogh - 27 February
  • Queen Victoria by Lucy Worsley - 1 March
  • The Race to Save the Romanovs by Helen Rappaport - 8 March
  • The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg by Helen Rappaport - 14 March
  • Caught in the Revolution by Helen Rappaport - 21 March
  • Victoria's Wars by Saul David - 1 April
  • The Husband Hunters by Anne de Courcy - 4 April
  • Winston Churchill by his Personal Secretary by Elizabeth Nel -12 April
  • Princesses: The Six Daughters of George III by Flora Fraser - 18 April
  • Habits of the House by Fay Weldon - 2 June
  • George and Marina: Duke and Duchess of Kent by Christopher Warwick - 23 July
  • Good Omens
  • Still Me by Jojo Moyes - 27 November
jan 17 2019 ∞
nov 27 2019 +
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FICTION

  • The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien

NON-FICTION: BRITISH HISTORY

  • Battle Royal by Kirsty McCleod
  • Queen Victoria's Children by John Van der Kiste
  • George V's Children by John Van Der Kiste
  • Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household by Kate Hubbard

NON-FICTION: EUROPEAN HISTORY

  • Beloved & Darling Child. Last Letters between Queen Victoria and her Eldest Daughter 1886-1901 by Agatha Ramm

NON-FICTION: RUSSIAN HISTORY

  • Little Mother of Russia: A Biography of Empress Marie Fedorovna (1847-1928) by Coryne Hall

NON-FICTION: AMERICAN HISTORY

  • Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversation... by Caroline Kennedy
sep 14 2011 ∞
apr 22 2019 +
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  • The Favourite - 1 January
  • Solo - 20 January
  • They Shall Never Grow Old - 21 January
  • Christopher Robin - 13 March
  • Green Book - 18 March
  • Captain Marvel - 20 March
  • What We Do in the Shadows - 21 March
  • Avengers: Endgame - 25 April
  • Tolkien - 18 May
jan 1 2019 ∞
jun 2 2019 +
  • Trilobite fossil hunting.
  • Visit Middle Earth.
  • Visit/tour a Medieval castle.
  • Attend/host an extended, two-day, six movie Middle Earth marathon.
  • See a sequoia redwood forest.
  • See/climb a volcano.
jul 11 2015 ∞
jan 30 2016 +
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  • "Live to the point of tears." --Albert Camus
  • "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." --Albert Einstein
  • "Make your choice, adventurous Stranger; Strike the bell and bide the danger, Or wonder, till it drives you mad, What would have followed if you had." --C. S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew
  • "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." --Robert F. Kennedy
  • "You don't have to carry him around in your pocket. Or your brother. You don't need to be afraid of the things you were afraid of when you were five." --Lionel Logue, The King's Speech
  • "I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of contro...
feb 2 2012 ∞
may 23 2012 +
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  • Swim with manatees.
  • Visit New Zealand.
  • Learn how to swing dance.
  • Watch all of AFI's top 100 movies.
  • See the northern/southern lights (or both!).
  • Visit Liverpool.
  • Visit Normandy.
  • Visit a concentration camp.
  • See an opera.
  • Affix a love padlock to a bridge.
  • Visit St. Petersburg, Russia.
  • Swim with pigs.
  • Cross Abbey Road.
  • Go to Disney World with Jim.
  • Visit Victoria Falls.
dec 28 2010 ∞
jan 17 2018 +
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  • Blue-domed Church in Santorini
  • St Basil Cathedral in Moscow
  • The Statue of Liberty in New York
  • Machu Picchu in Peru
  • The Taj Mahal in Agra, India
  • The Eiffel Tower in Paris
  • The Great Sphynx at Giza
  • The Chinese Wall in China
  • Uluru in the Northern Territory
  • The Little Mermaid in Copenhagen
  • Windmills at Kinderdijk, Netherlands
  • Agia Sofia in Istanbul, Turkey
  • Acropolis of Athens
  • Mount Fuji in Japan
  • Stonehenge in the English county of Wiltshire
  • Big Ben in London
  • Neuschwanstein in Bavaria
  • Mount Eden crater in New Zealand
  • Loch Ness in Scotland
  • Easter Island in the Polynesian Triangle
dec 15 2011 ∞
jan 8 2018 +
  • What happened to the Princes in the Tower?
  • Did Albert truly love Victoria?
  • Did Henry VII love Elizabeth of York?
  • Who killed JFK?
jun 11 2014 ∞
jun 11 2014 +