Biographical Fiction
Stitches in Air
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This beautifully imagined (if slow to unfold) tale concerns the life of Anna Maria Pertl, wife of the minor Austrian composer Leopold Mozart, ...Read Review
The History Of Sir Henry
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Sir Henry Morland, the infamous scoundrel, has reserved all of his affection for his orphaned niece, Lady Frances Pleckham, whom he has not ...Read Review
Cut To The Heart
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The author of the Fremont Jones mysteries has written a suspenseful historical novel about Clara Barton, the Union Army nurse who eventually became ...Read Review
God’s Fool
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Chang and Eng were the original Siamese twins. Born conjoined in Siam in 1811, they went on to become a household word. God’s ...Read Review
The Incantation Of Frida K.
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This is a fictional autobiography of Frida Kahlo, the Surrealist painter who died at 46 in 1954. While on her deathbed, Frida recalls the major ...Read Review
Will’s War
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In 1917, at the height of anti-German sentiment in America, the German-American families of Seguin, Texas, are finding themselves the victims of prejudice, persecution, ...Read Review
The Sweet By And By
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The skillful intertwining of two stories of women living 150 years apart takes the reader’s mind through the trickery and unexplained happenings of ...Read Review
Pharaoh
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The name Kleopatra (Greek spelling) conjures up a multitude of images in our mind’s eye, and Karen Essex’s two excellent novels (...Read Review
Mary, Called Magdalene
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Those looking for New Testament sexuality will be disappointed in this book, as it follows the tradition of the Eastern Church, which recognizes ...Read Review
The Twentieth Wife
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In Mughal India, even the most powerful emperor always had one deadly enemy: his own son. In the late 1500s, the great Akbar ...Read Review