Biographical Fiction
Dominus
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Starting in 165 AD, multiple generations of the legendary Pinarius family of sculptors lead us through 160 years of otherwise rather obscure Roman history. We ...Read Review
Her Hidden Genius
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In 1947, scientist Rosalind Franklin thinks she’s finally found her place at a laboratory in Paris where she learns the fine details of ...Read Review
The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post
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This is an absolutely terrific novel. If you want to know more about the 20th century, it’s all here, from the founding ...Read Review
Rizzio: Darkland Tales
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March 9th 1566, Edinburgh. Conspirators want to murder Mary Queen of Scots’ suspected lover during a tennis match, but her estranged husband, Darnley, says ...Read Review
Lotharingia: Charlemagne’s Heir
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AD 1062. During the High Middle Ages, Countess Matilde of Tuscany is one of the most powerful women in all of Christendom. A descendant ...Read Review
We Played With Fire
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
This YA novel is based on the intriguing true story of sisters Maggie and Kate Fox who convinced many people in mid-19th-century ...Read Review
The Magician
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Tóibín’s biographical novel of Thomas Mann begins in the Hanseatic port of Lübeck in 1891, where Thomas, overshadowed in his ...Read Review
Booth
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This is not a novel about John Wilkes Booth. In her author’s note at the beginning of the book, Fowler makes clear ...Read Review
Shackleton’s Endurance: An Antarctic Survival Story
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Most explorers’ fame rests on routes charted or new lands found—regardless of the human cost. Sir Ernest Shackleton, a towering figure of ...Read Review
Anne and Louis Forever Bound
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The conflicts and values of medieval France are background for a royal love story in Anne and Louis Forever Bound. The fourth volume ...Read Review
