Biographical Fiction
Cleopatra & Julius
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Cleopatra is best-known for her relationship with Mark Antony because that love affair has taken centre-stage in representations such as Shakespeare’s play ...Read Review
Costanza
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She has gazed out at viewers for nearly four centuries: eyes wide, lips parted, hair unkempt, expression determined and sensual. The marble portrait ...Read Review
Try Before You Trust: To All Gentlewomen and Other Maids in Love
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London in the early autumn of 1567, and Isabella Whitney, aged 18, arrives at the substantial London home of the widowed Lady Bramwell. As a ...Read Review
Billy the Kid: The War for Lincoln County
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Ryan Coleman’s innovative look at Henry McCarty aka Henry Antrim aka William Bonney aka Billy the Kid, centers on Billy’s part ...Read Review
The Secret War of Julia Child
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Before Julia Child was Julia Child, she was Julia McWilliams, who served in the OSS (predecessor of the CIA) in the Far East ...Read Review
When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
The Frank family were German, but after Kristallnacht they fled to Amsterdam to escape the growing persecution of Jews in Germany. They believed ...Read Review
The Woman Who Went Over Niagara Falls in a Barrel (UK) / Queen of the Mist (US/CAN)
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This novel retells the true story of Annie Edson Taylor who, as a sixty-three-year-old debut ’stunter’, went over Niagara Falls in a pickle ...Read Review
Ida, in Love and in Trouble
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
With lyrical writing, Veronica Chambers illuminates a decade of the exciting life of Ida B. Wells. In 1880s Memphis, Tennessee, Ida belongs to ...Read Review
Margaret: The Rose of Goodwood
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In 1917, eighteen-year-old Margaret Wilson reports to work at Tallahassee’s Surprise Department Store, expecting nothing out of the ordinary. But when the pretty ...Read Review
Some Hidden Thunder
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Bristol, 1876: Anne, the daughter of the dying Chartist John Frost (1784-1877), writes her father’s biography. His was an extraordinary life as well ...Read Review
