Biographical Fiction
The Last Queen
This is the story of Juana “the Mad” of Castile, daughter to Isabel and Fernando and sister to Catherine of…
Plain Jane: A Novel of Jane Seymour
Young Jane Seymour is stunned when she overhears her parents discussing her future: as they consider Jane too plain to…
A Clearing in the Wild
The people of Bethel, Missouri, seek to follow God’s word by living both in the world of the 1850s and…
Hunt Down Harry Tracy
This is a story based on the life of Harry Severns, aka Harry Tracy, a notorious outlaw who lived…
The Taos Truth Game
Ganz, retired chairman of the MFA program at the University of Montana, resurrects the forgotten writer Myron Brinig and…
Come Sundown
Come Sundown is an intriguing tale about an Englishman, Honore Greenwood, who found his way to America and to the…
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
This entertaining novella reads like a short story, in that it focuses on one incident and how that incident affects…
The Mercury Visions of Louis DaGuerre
Louis Daguerre, artist and inventor, is being poisoned, a victim of toxic chemicals used in the imaging process that…
Young Bloods
This is the first in a quartet of novels about Wellington and Napoleon, covering the years 1769-1795. Arthur Wesley…
Abundance
Editors' choice
The author of the bestselling Ahab’s Wife, Sena Jeter Naslund takes on a true historical figure this time, in…
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