Biographical Fiction
Her Lost Words: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley
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While Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley each stand alone for their contributions to feminism and fiction respectively, there’s something about their being ...Read Review
An American Beauty
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An American Beauty is a rags-to-riches story based on the life of Arabella Yarrington Huntington, a Gilded Age beauty who was one of ...Read Review
Nothing Left to Fear from Hell: Darkland Tales
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Warner is known for his literary and comic novels, all in modern settings. His contribution to Polygon’s Darkland Tales series is a ...Read Review
April’s Breeze
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In April 1775, a young doctor, Samuel Prescott from Concord, Massachusetts, finds himself unexpectedly drawn into an alarm being spread and becomes a key ...Read Review
Mummy Darlings: A Glorious Guinness Girls Novel
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The second in the Glorious Guinness Girls series finds Aileen, Maureen and Oonagh greeting the new decade of the 1930s in various locations (...Read Review
Marvelous
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Before the much-loved tale of Beauty and the Beast came the actual life of Petrus Gonsalvus, who was brought from the Canary Islands ...Read Review
The Rail Splitter
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Abraham Lincoln’s father is worried that his 17-year-old son is heading down the wrong path, fooling around with more education than he ...Read Review
Ethel’s Song: Ethel Rosenberg’s Life in Poems
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
The political morass of the Rosenberg story—the arrest and trial of Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg and her husband, Julius, on charges of treason ...Read Review
One Last Shot
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young AdultLiterary
The “last shot” of Kip Wilson’s title refers not to a gun but to a camera—though in this context a gun ...Read Review
Bright Shadow
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The setting is England, circa 1480-1520, and the titular “Bright Shadow” is Katherine Plantagenet – daughter, sister, aunt of kings – one of the daughters ...Read Review






