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Biographical Fiction

The Sweet By And By

By Jeanne Mackin - Published 2001

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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

Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper

By Harriet Scott Chessman - Published 2001

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Biographical Fiction

This jewel of a novel centers on five paintings Mary Cassatt made of her older sister Lydia between 1878 and 1881. Lydia was Mary’...Read Review

Turn the Stars Upside Down

By Terry C. Johnston - Published 2001

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Biographical Fiction Western

In May 1877, Crazy Horse, the mythic warrior and leader of the Lakota Indians, leads his people into Camp Robinson, Nebraska Territory to surrender. ...Read Review

A Bloodline of Kings

By Thomas Sundell - Published 2002

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Biographical Fiction Saga

It is unusual – and daunting – to take on a novel from a small press that arrives complete with glowing commentary from novelists such ...Read Review

Bound for Canaan

By Darius Aidan Gray - By Margaret Blair Young - Published 2002

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Biographical Fiction Inspirational

This meticulously researched novel is the second in a series chronicling the lives and spiritual struggles of two black Mormon pioneers, Elijah Abel ...Read Review

He Stands Alone

By Randy Lee Eickhoff - Published 2002

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Biographical Fiction Short Stories

Eickhoff’s Ulster Cycle series is an excellent way for anyone to enjoy the legendary saga of the Irish warrior-hero, Cuchulainn. He Stands ...Read Review

The Long Journey Home

By Don Coldsmith - Published 2001

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Adventure Biographical Fiction

Little Bull is a Lakota Sioux forced to assimilate into early twentieth century American culture. Though this novel is only a fictional account ...Read Review

Lion of Ireland

By Morgan Llewelyn - Published 2002

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Adventure Biographical Fiction Military

Brian of Boruma was the son of one chieftain and the brother of another, but he was perhaps greater than them both. The ...Read Review

The Silent Woman

By Susan Dodd - Published 2001

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Biographical Fiction

In the summer of 1914, the love affair between Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka and Alma Mahler, the widow of composer Gustav Mahler, is unraveling. ...Read Review

The Book of Eleanor

By Pamela Kaufman - Published 2002

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Biographical Fiction

The twelfth century was chock full of monumental historical figures: Henry II, Richard the Lionheart, Louis VII, Bernard of Clairvaux. In my mind, ...Read Review