Biographical Fiction
The Ladies Hall
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Biographical FictionInspirational
The title refers to the women’s residence at Oberlin College, one of the earliest colleges to admit women and African Americans. Three ...Read Review
The Very Secretive and Passionate Stella Miles Franklin
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Reading a brief summary of the tumultuous life of the Australian writer Stella Miles Franklin makes one wonder how she felt when living ...Read Review
Patriot of the Lowcountry: Eliza Wilkinson and the Fall of Charleston
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Patriot of the Lowcountry is a first-person historical novel relating the experiences of an actual South Carolina widow during the American War of ...Read Review
The House of Boleyn
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Oceans of ink have been spilt about Anne Boleyn. She has even recently appeared in a hit Broadway musical. It hardly seems possible ...Read Review
What the Fog Conceals
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What the Fog Conceals is inspired by the true story of the clearance of Audley’s Town in County Down, Ireland. By 1859, Harriet, ...Read Review
Triple Threat: The Story of a 1920s Broadway Star
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Set in the glittering jazz-age world of 1920s New York City, Triple Threat chronicles the true-life career of Elizabeth Hines in her dazzling ...Read Review
Edmonia
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Mary Edmonia Lewis (1844-1907) was a neoclassical sculptor of Black-Indigenous parentage who gained international renown in the late 19th century yet fell into ...Read Review
First Daughter
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President Grover Cleveland is two years into his second, famously non-consecutive term. He’s put the scandal that dogged his first election—an ...Read Review
Armaveni
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
This autobiographical story, written in graphic novel format, begins with the author in a public high school just outside San Francisco in present ...Read Review
The Woman Who Had Everything
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1967, the Summer of Love, Taylor and Burton are in Rome on the set of Boom!. The eponymous woman is Elizabeth Taylor, but a ...Read Review
