Biographical Fiction
La Luministe
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Berthe Morisot meets Édouard Manet at age 17, while she and her sister are copying master works in the Louvre. This begins and an ...Read Review
Love That Moves the Sun: Vittoria Colonna and Michelangelo Buonarroti
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A Renaissance woman, wife, mother, poet, diplomat, spiritual reformist, and lover – all labels for Vittoria Colonna that omit the essence of this unique ...Read Review
Dear George, Dear Mary: A Novel of George Washington’s First Love
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I couldn’t wait to begin the story of the ill-starred romance between the young, striving George Washington and Mary Philipse, a New ...Read Review
Jane Evans
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In 1850s Wales, orphaned Jane Evans’ life is hard, looking after five brothers and the farm animals. Her consolations are her Bible and ...Read Review
Anna of Kleve, Queen of Secrets: Six Tudor Queens 4
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Anna of Kleve (or Anne of Cleves as she is known to most English readers) is the least known of Henry VIII’s ...Read Review
The Damascus Road: A Novel of Saint Paul
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After receiving a divine vision on the road to Damascus, Paul devotes his life to proclaiming the news of Jesus. Often accompanied by ...Read Review
Song of Songs: A Novel of the Queen of Sheba
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Approximately 1300s BC: Makeda is a daughter of Saba’s chieftain and his slave wife. When her older half-sister Bilkis is lost after ...Read Review
Realm
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Realm by Alexandrea Weis is a historical tale about Roxana, the daughter of a Bactrian chieftain, who captures the heart of the Greek ...Read Review
Lady Franklin of Russell Square
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Set in the mid-19th century, this historical novel takes the form of detailed letters by Lady Franklin to her then-missing husband, arctic ...Read Review
Bakhita: A Novel of the Saint of Sudan
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This profoundly painful, beautifully written, and deeply moving fictional biography of Africa’s first canonized Catholic saint plunges the reader into the bottomless ...Read Review
