Biographical Fiction
The Lost Journals of Sacajewea
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The story of Sacajewea is a legend that looms large in the history of the United States. But there is very little actually ...Read Review
The Stockwell Letters
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In 1854, the abolitionist movement in the United States had a cause célèbre: Anthony Burns. Having escaped enslavement in Virginia, Burns was ...Read Review
To Die Beautiful (US) / The Girl with the Red Hair (UK)
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This poignant and powerful novel is based on the true story of Hannie (Jannetje) Schaft (1920-1945). A somewhat shy and reserved University of ...Read Review
Golddigger: The Legendary Nellie Cashman
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When Nellie Cashman is five years old, she, her mother, and sister flee the great famine in Ireland to come to Boston. There ...Read Review
The Brightest Star: A Historical Novel Based on the True Story of Anna May Wong
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Anna May Wong was the first Chinese American actress to become an international star, making movies in Hollywood, Berlin, Paris and London. Her ...Read Review
The House of Lincoln
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Nancy Horan, best-selling author of Loving Frank, offers a captivatingly sweeping historical novel centered on Abraham Lincoln, 19th-century Springfield, Illinois, and early American ...Read Review
Veil of Doubt
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Biographical FictionMystery/Crime
On March 24, 1872, the child Maud Lloyd dies, gasping for air. Days later the girl’s mother, Emily, is arrested and charged with not ...Read Review
Madame Pommery (Champagne Widows Novels)
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In spite of opening on a dark note, here we move crisply into more vivacious territory, passing through a multiplicity of contrasts to ...Read Review
The Ice Harp (The American Novels)
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A reader would have to be a dedicated fan of Ralph Waldo Emerson to appreciate this novel. It is 1879, Concord, Massachusetts. Lock’s ...Read Review
Little Sure Shot
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young AdultWestern
This is a fictional account of the extraordinary early life of Annie Oakley, told in the first person: the story of a little ...Read Review
