Biographical Fiction
The Oystercatcher of Southwark
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This novel extends from 1897 to contemporary Philadelphia, and it is based on Colahan’s great-great-grandmother’s Italian Catholic immigrant family. In 1897, the first ...Read Review
The Nazi Housewife of Queens, New York
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Written by first-time novelist Stacy Kean, this chilling tale is not for the timorous. This thoroughly researched book is based on the story ...Read Review
Before 13th: A Graphic Novel
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This graphic novel is structured as a long dialogue between Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, and a handful of side characters. Douglass and ...Read Review
Hardit Singh Malik: World War One Flying Ace (Voices)
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
A new title in the Voices series which aims to bring attention to authentic, unsung stories. This is the eighth in the series ...Read Review
Anny in Love
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As the grown, unmarried daughters of acclaimed novelist William Makepeace Thackeray, Anny and her sister, Minny, live a contented existence with their father, ...Read Review
The Royal Rebel (Jeanette of Kent duology)
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Elizabeth Chadwick’s website describes her as standing ‘at the pinnacle of historical fiction’ and, judging from her latest novel, it is hard ...Read Review
Isola
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Marguerite de La Rocque de Roberval, a young girl in 1530s France, has inherited the vast wealth of her father – a château, ...Read Review
The Girl of Many Crowns
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Judith is the eldest daughter of King Charles of Francia, grandson of Charlemagne. Her role in life is to marry a king with ...Read Review
Let’s Call Her Barbie
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Can an 11 ½” doll have a “coming of age”? In this case, maybe, because that’s what Rosen’s ambitious novel feels like. In ...Read Review
Rebel Empress: A Novel of Imperial Rome (Theodosian Women)
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This novel tells the dramatic story of Athenais, wife of Theodosius, Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire in Constantinople in the 5th century ...Read Review
