Biographical Fiction
The Cassatt Sisters: A Novel of Love and Art
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Mary Cassatt, the American Impressionist artist, is a figure well worth getting to know. Born in 1844, Mary spent much of her adult life ...Read Review
Balkan Rhapsody
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I originally took this book for review out a sense of duty to my late Bulgarian grandfather, but I was quickly drawn in ...Read Review
The Hidden Mirror of La Porete
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Marguerite Porete has walked a dark path and came out with a new understanding of the Far-Near One. She writes and shares her ...Read Review
Orphans of the Living
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A debut novelist presents a fictionalized account of her mother’s brutally difficult and often heartbreaking upbringing as the youngest child in a ...Read Review
The War Within Me (Queens of Navarre)
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The French Wars of Religion (1562-98) are an endlessly fascinating period, not the least because the actions of female rulers were so instrumental ...Read Review
Elsa’s Chessboard
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
In 1906 Vienna, Austria, six-year-old Elsa watches her brothers play chess. She soon learns to play, too, and thinks of chess every day. On ...Read Review
The Elopement
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With Gill Hornby’s The Elopement, readers may indulge in a third “Austen family” story. By nature, it embodies the fairy tale: part ...Read Review
The Two Roberts
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The Two Roberts follows the lives of artists Bobby MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun. It begins in September 1933 at Bobby and Robert’s first ...Read Review
The Austens
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In 1802, aspiring novelist Jane Austen, lured by the prospect of financial security and a settled home in the country, accepts a proposal from ...Read Review
Lord Guan
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Guan Yu is a 2nd-century Chinese historical figure and folk hero who is still worshipped in his own country. A gifted fighter born ...Read Review
