Biographical Fiction
Hamnet
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This is the passionate love story of a glove-maker’s son and Agnes, a wise-woman. It is the tale of an absentee father, ...Read Review
The Wright Sister: A Novel
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“Sometimes, I think I was born in the wrong body,” Katharine Wright muses in Patty Dann’s (Mermaids) new novel. Indeed, Katharine— “with ...Read Review
Valhalla
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Born in 1867, cousin of Queen Victoria, and known within royal circles as “May,” Princess Mary of Teck was one of the crop of ...Read Review
West of the Alleghenies: A Story of Survival During the Revolutionary War
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Pennington has written an exciting novel about the adventures of an ancestor, Fergus Moorhead, a pioneer settler in western Pennsylvania between 1766 and 1778. Fergus ...Read Review
Hamilton’s Choice
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On the Fourth of July of 1801 in New York City, young Philip Hamilton, hearing a speaker insult his father, Alexander, aches for a ...Read Review
Dawn Empress: A Novel of Imperial Rome (The Theodosian Women)
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In 404 AD in Constantinople’s imperial palace, Emperor Arcadius of the Eastern Roman Empire pulls his five-year-old daughter, Pulcheria, into her dead mother’...Read Review
The Empress: A Novel
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Wanting to establish Mexico as a part of France, in 1863 Napoleon appoints Archduke Maximilian of Austria as emperor. Maximilian and his wife, Charlotte, ...Read Review
Old Abe
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Set in the early 1860s, Old Abe chronicles the ascendency of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency of the United States of America, through ...Read Review
The Mystery of Love
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In this strikingly original and ambitious book, Andrew Meehan gives us an account of the marriage of Constance and Oscar Wilde seen through ...Read Review
The Giant: A Novel of Michelangelo’s David
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Laura Morelli’s novel transports readers to early 16th-century Florence. The Italian Renaissance is in full swing, and the cathedral has sponsored a ...Read Review