Biographical Fiction
Bad Bad Girl
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As she details in the beginning of her fictionalized memoir, the author, Gish Jen, was constantly scapegoated by her mother, Agnes, who was ...Read Review
Sinners
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Any internet inquiry into Beatrice Cenci will tell you she was repeatedly raped by her father. Whether true or not, Sinners edges around ...Read Review
The Marchesa
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On an unspecified day in the present, Isabella D’Este waits in the shadows of the Mantua Reading Room for her newest scholar ...Read Review
Love, Sex & Frankenstein
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In 1816, Mary Shelley famously visited Lake Geneva with Percy Bysshe Shelley, their baby William, Mary’s stepsister Claire, Lord Byron, and Lord Byron’...Read Review
I Am Cleopatra
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This reimagining of Cleopatra’s life begins in her youth and ends with the aftermath of Julius Caesar’s death. From childhood, Cleopatra ...Read Review
The Sky Was My Blanket
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young AdultLiterary
In 1930, at the age of fifteen and a half, Yehiel Szulewicz leaves home in search of adventure and a life other than the ...Read Review
Seabird
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
In the late 1800s in Java, girls of noble birth are allowed outside their homes only until they are eleven. At age twelve, ...Read Review
Rules of the Heart
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Based on her 17-year love story, Harriet (Spencer) Ponsonby, sister to Georgiana (Spencer) Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, relates her experience in her own ...Read Review
The Man in the Stone Cottage
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Many fictional imaginings and retellings of the Brontë siblings’ lives have been published, attesting to readers’ endless fascination with them. The Man in ...Read Review
I Am You
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Historical fiction detailing the poorly documented life of women artists is in vogue now, and this novel presents a rich and sensual narrative ...Read Review
