Biographical Fiction
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
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
