Biographical Fiction
Sonora
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There’s something kind of fascinating about the idea that people used to ride horses off high towers and into pools of water ...Read Review
Till Taught by Pain
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William Stewart Halsted (1852-1922) pioneered life-saving surgical procedures and invented the use of local pain blockers in surgery. Author Coventry, a medical doctor, ...Read Review
Glorious Ruins
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Paris, 1920s. Benefitting from an aristocratic and artistic family background, and marrying powerful and wealthy men, Russian émigré Misia Sert becomes internationally known ...Read Review
The President’s Wife
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On September 2, 1939, Eleanor Roosevelt is woken from a sound sleep by a telephone call from President Franklin D. Roosevelt, announcing that the Nazis ...Read Review
World Between Worlds
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The spiritual and temporal story of Caterina, a mystic in the Tuscan city of Siena in the late 14th century, who was later ...Read Review
Portrait of an Unseen Woman: A Novel of Annie Shaw
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Widowed during the American Civil War when her gallant young husband, Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, led a heroic regiment of Black troops to ...Read Review
Fonseca
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Booker Prize-winning author Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000) published her first novel at age 60. Before fame and a decent income, Penelope, her alcoholic husband, and ...Read Review
Inês: Queens of Portugal Trilogy
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History tells us that Inês de Castro (1325-1355) was probably a lady-in-waiting to Constance of Castile, who married Prince Pedro of Portugal (...Read Review
Far Side of Revenge: Prince Brian Boru, Future King of Ireland
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The epic tale begins in 976 CE when Mac Liag, the scribe and poet for King Mahon, dreads he could be branded as a ...Read Review
Escape of the Grand Duchess
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Escape of the Grand Duchess covers the years 1900 to 1920 in the life of the Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna, daughter of Tsar Alexander III ...Read Review
