Biographical Fiction
In a League of Her Own
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This fictionalized account fills in some gaps in the life of Effa Manley, a trailblazing woman who did extraordinary things in early 20th-century ...Read Review
The Vow
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The Vow is a fictionalized autobiography of Angelica Kauffman, a Neoclassical artist who carved out a successful career as a portraitist and history ...Read Review
The Instrumentalist
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In 1696, a Venetian sex worker deposits her newborn in a small hole in the wall of the Ospedale della Pietà, an orphanage where ...Read Review
The Decision
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The decision made in this novel may seem to be an innocuous, trivial one. But history and circumstance can make the most mundane ...Read Review
The Ogre’s Daughter
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The little-known life of Flor de Oro Trujillo Ledesma is told in this biographical novel. Flor lives a very sad and tragic life ...Read Review
Lady Flyer
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1927 Houghton, Michigan. Nancy Harkness broke all the rules as she snuck away from her private school and went flying, then barnstorming in the ...Read Review
Mademoiselle Eiffel
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Paris, late 1800s. The titular character is Claire, the oldest child of engineer and architect Gustave Eiffel. Her mother dies when she is ...Read Review
Battle Annie: The Queen of Hell’s Kitchen
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In 1890, during a strike against the New York Central Railroad, Annie Walsh, as head gopher of the Battle Row Ladies Social and Athletic ...Read Review
Peggy
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Many readers know the first and last chapters of Peggy Guggenheim’s life—that she was born into the wealthy Guggenheim family and ...Read Review
Seaborne
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With the recent interest in novels with strong female leads, Nuala O’Connor throws her literary expertise into the mix with a fresh ...Read Review
