Biographical Fiction
Adélaïde: Painter of the Revolution
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Janell Strube’s debut novel, Adélaïde: Painter of the Revolution, introduces readers to Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, a young Parisian woman ...Read Review
Love & Other Monsters
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In this luminous and transportive tale, Emily Franklin imagines the “summer” of 1816 at Lake Geneva, Switzerland, where a circle of famous young writers ...Read Review
A Founding Mother
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Abigail Adams, astonishing “President’s Lady,” tells her story just in time for America’s 250th anniversary. Abigail forges her place as a ...Read Review
A Harlem Wedding
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My favorite historical fiction is the kind that breathes life into a revered figure from the past by telling the story of someone ...Read Review
The Daffodil Days
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This is an extraordinary novel. Extraordinary in its form: the story runs backwards. Extraordinary in its content: a meticulously researched fictional biography covering ...Read Review
Lady of Lincoln (The Nicola de la Haye Series)
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Lady of Lincoln centers on minor noblewoman Nicola de la Haye, the female constable of Lincoln Castle in 12th century England. Under the ...Read Review
Cast Away: or, the Surprising Adventures of Alexander Selkirk
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Francesca de Tores’ follow up to Saltblood, which retold the story of pirate Mary Read, continues to retell tales of real people during ...Read Review
Five Weeks in the Country
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In 1857, Hans Christian Andersen shows up at Charles Dickens’s country home in Kent, having received an impulsive, soon to be regretful, invitation ...Read Review
Looking at the Sky
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Seven-year-old Izaak never knew his father, who died in World War I, and when his mother dies of tuberculosis in 1922, the boy’s ...Read Review
Katy: The Woman Who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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In 1762, Mary Katharine “Katy” Goddard and her widowed mother, Sarah, leave their beloved home in New London, Connecticut, for Providence, Rhode Island, at ...Read Review
