Nancy Goldstone

The Maid and the Queen: The Secret History of Joan of Arc

by Nancy Goldstone

The author of Four Queens offers a mesmerizing account of two extraordinary heroines who risked everything for France

Joan of Arc, the brave peasant girl who heard the voices of angels and helped restore...

Used and Rare

by Lawrence Goldstone & Nancy Goldstone

Journey into the world of book collecting with the Goldstones-rediscover the joy of reading, laugh, and fall in love with books all over again.

The idea that books had stories associated with them that had nothing...

The Lady Queen

by Nancy Goldstone

On March 15, 1348, Joanna I, the queen of Naples, stood trial for her life before the Pope and his court in Avignon. She was 20, and accused of murdering her cousin and husband, Hungarian prince Andrew. That...

Out of the Flames: The Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy, and One of the Rarest Books in the World

by Lawrence Goldstone & Nancy Goldstone

Michael Servetus is one of those hidden figureheads of history who is remembered not for his name, but for the revolutionary deeds that stand in his place. Both a scientist and a freethinking theologian, Servetus...

Deconstructing Penguins: Parents, Kids, and the Bond of Reading

by Nancy Goldstone & Lawrence Goldstone

“Books are like puzzles,” write Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone. “The author’s ideas are hidden, and it is up to all of us to figure them out.” In this indispensable reading companion, the Goldstones–noted...

Four Queens: The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe

by Nancy Goldstone

For fans of Alison Weir and Antonia Fraser,acclaimed author Nancy Goldstone’s thrilling history of the royal daughters who succeeded in ruling—and shaping—thirteenth-century Europe

Set against the backdrop...

The Friar and the Cipher: Roger Bacon and the Unsolved Mystery of the Most Unusual Manuscript in the World

by Lawrence Goldstone & Nancy Goldstone

A compulsively readable account of the most mysterious manuscript in the world, one that has stumped the world’s greatest scholars and codebreakers.

The Voynich Manuscript, a mysterious tome discovered in 1912...