Biographical Fiction
Rocket Man: The Mercury Adventure of John Glenn
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
In 1961, the Soviet Union was winning the Space Race; having sent a man into orbit before the US had even sent a man ...Read Review
Memoirs of a Traitor
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Presented as a found document, Memoirs of a Traitor is the story of William Stanley, knight, younger brother of Lord Thomas Stanley. These ...Read Review
The Devil’s Slave (Frances Gorges Historical Trilogy)
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In 17th-century England, misogyny, lust, and religious bigotry drive most of King James I/VI’s decisions, according to Tracy Borman, who continues ...Read Review
Elizabeth of Bohemia: A Novel about Elizabeth Stuart, the Winter Queen
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Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of James I of England, narrates her own story in Elias’s wide-ranging novel. Her life encompasses many seismic events, ...Read Review
Gold Digger: The Remarkable Baby Doe Tabor
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Rebecca Rosenberg, author of The Secret Life of Mrs. London, offers up a fascinating insight into another American woman of substance with Gold ...Read Review
Ada
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Born in 1869 in a grimy English coal mining town and orphaned at age 12, Ada Delroy was taken in by theatre performers. That real-life ...Read Review
Commodus (The Damned Emperors)
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My all-time favourite kind of historical novel is the kind where I learn about a real person I know very little about, and ...Read Review
Stars in His Eyes
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In 1949, twenty-one-year-old Ceferino Carrión flees Barcelona to escape Franco’s violent regime and evade mandatory military service. He stows away on a ...Read Review
Girl Under a Red Moon: Growing Up During China’s Cultural Revolution
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
The author narrates this novel-like memoir depicting how, when he was a child, he and his conscientious older sister Sisi were forced to ...Read Review
A Man in Love
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In the summer of 1823, while on a promenade in Marienbad, Johannes Wolfgang von Goethe, then 73, literary, scientific, and cultural lion, confidant of kings, ...Read Review