Biographical Fiction
The Only Son
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The passing mention of an older brother in Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Confessions sent author Stéphane Audeguy in search of the rest of ...Read Review
The Tsarina’s Daughter
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Erickson calls this retelling of the fall of the Romanov family an “historical entertainment”—more like alternative history in many respects, while remaining ...Read Review
Dalliance
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In May of 1848, while visiting relatives and friends in New York City, Mary Turner has a very strange dream. Encased inside a seal ...Read Review
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
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In World War II Seattle, Henry Lee, the son of Chinese immigrants, faces a changing world. On one side are his parents, who, ...Read Review
Serendipity
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Serendipity is an intergenerational coming-of-age story set in the present day. The main heroine is Carrie Manning who has just lost her mother, ...Read Review
Winnie and Wolf
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The title refers to Winifred Wagner, the English wife of Richard Wagner’s son Siegfried, and Wolf, the self-chosen nickname of Adolf Hitler. ...Read Review
Strange Music
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Biographical FictionMystery/Crime
England and Jamaica, 1837 to 1840. There are three narrators: the young poet Elizabeth Barrett, before she married Robert Browning, and two former female slaves ...Read Review
I Have Seen the Fire
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This was, for me, an odd book. It is a novel inspired by the life of a pioneer woman known to readers previously ...Read Review
Museum of Human Beings
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We first meet Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau in 1805 as he bounces along on his mother Sacagawea’s back, seeing the world with her eyes as ...Read Review
Booth’s Sister
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On April 15, 1865, Asia Booth Clarke wakes to find her Philadelphia home swarming with soldiers and her beloved brother John Wilkes Booth the subject ...Read Review
