Biographical Fiction
Agustina de Aragón
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Agustina de Aragón tells the story of Agustina Saragossa, a real-life Spanish heroine of the Napoleonic Wars. Agustina, the daughter of a ...Read Review
Among the Beautiful Beasts
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Like many Floridians, I have long been a fan of Marjory Stoneman Douglas. I was fortunate enough to review a collection of her ...Read Review
Island Queen: A Novel
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It is a truth that should be universally acknowledged, that history is written by the winning side – and traditionally our history has been ...Read Review
Who Is Like Your People?
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Meyer’s novel is based on the life of a Norman who converted to Judaism in 1102 and took the name of Ovadya. Intelligent, ...Read Review
Nathan’s Song
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Nathan’s Song was inspired by the author’s grandfather, born in a Jewish shtetl in Russia in the late 1800s. Always singing ...Read Review
The Last Debutantes: A Novel
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When we first meet Valerie de Vere Cole, she is living the “poor little rich girl” lifestyle. The real-life daughter of disgraced society ...Read Review
Leonora in the Morning Light
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Set in France during WW2, Leonora in the Morning Light is a novel about Leonora Carrington and Max Ernst, two important figures in ...Read Review
A Most Clever Girl: A Novel of an American Spy
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It’s 1963, and the Cold War era. Catherine Gray believes Elizabeth Bentley has killed her mother. She shows up at Elizabeth’s home ...Read Review
The Second Mrs. Astor
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Madeleine Force was just seventeen in 1910 when she caught the eye of the famously rich, dashing John Jacob Astor, who was more than ...Read Review
M, King’s Bodyguard
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January 1901: Queen Victoria has died. Plans for her funeral are made by the court, the military, the police, and by assorted anarchists and ...Read Review