Biographical Fiction
The Land at the End of the World
Dr. Antonio Lobo Antunes served in the Portuguese army from 1971-1973 as a medic in Angola’s war for independence. The…
Sutton
Pulitzer Prize winner Moehringer does not tell you a couple of things in his brief author’s note about the facts…
A Place Beyond Courage
Chadwick takes the reader back to the turmoil of 12th-century England in this novel. John FitzGilbert inherited his position as…
Renegade
The novel opens with a flashback to Armagh, Ireland, in 1135 with reference to the Staff of Malachy, an ancient…
Moments Captured
Nineteenth-century photographer Edward Muybridge, whose mentor was Civil War photographer Mathew Brady, set up a traveling studio in a Conestoga…
The Purple Shroud: A Novel of Empress Theodora
Ah, Justinian and Theodora! Two giants of history who stood astride an empire mostly Greek that still thought of itself…
The Secret Book of Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo’s (1907-1954) life is immortalized in her prismatic self-portraits. F.G. Haghenbeck embraces her often outlandish and spirited personality in The…
A Kingdom Divided
Although 16th-century primary sources on the second Moghul emperor, Humayun, are available—there is the loving account, Humayunnama, by his half-sister…
White Truffles in Winter
As his life draws to its close, the legendary Auguste Escoffier, whose recipes and system for running a kitchen form…
Mesmerized
Alissa Walser’s Mesmerized is set against the backdrop of Vienna in the late 1700s. It follows the story of the…
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