Melanie Benjamin
The Aviator’s Wife
Editors' choice
Anne Morrow leads a charmed, privileged life, and all her dreams seem to come true when she marries America’s aviator…
The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb
Mercy Lavinia Warren Bump – better known to the Victorian world as Mrs. General Tom Thumb – stood only thirty-two…
Alice I Have Been
This literary novel, set in the early 20th century with flashbacks to the mid-19th century, is the fictionalized life story…
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