Biographical Fiction
A Carol for Mrs. Dickens
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Biographical FictionInspirational Romance
As the Christmas of 1851 approaches, Catherine “Kate” Dickens is not in the holiday spirit—not an easy position to be in at any ...Read Review
Soaring with the Sugarbird Lady: The Robin Miller Story
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
In the 1940s, Robin Miller learns about aircraft and rides in many planes while growing up in Australia. She loves flying with her ...Read Review
The Passions of Johann Gutenberg: The Man Who Changed History
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In 15th-century Germany, Johann Gutenberg dreams of creating the first moveable type printing press. But his path isn’t easy. He faces financial ...Read Review
A Sea of Lemon Trees: The Corrido of Roberto Alvarez
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Roberto is the youngest of four children, the only one born in the United States. To his Mexican immigrant family in 1930, he is ...Read Review
The Cassatt Sisters: A Novel of Love and Art
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Mary Cassatt, the American Impressionist artist, is a figure well worth getting to know. Born in 1844, Mary spent much of her adult life ...Read Review
Balkan Rhapsody
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I originally took this book for review out a sense of duty to my late Bulgarian grandfather, but I was quickly drawn in ...Read Review
The Hidden Mirror of La Porete
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Marguerite Porete has walked a dark path and came out with a new understanding of the Far-Near One. She writes and shares her ...Read Review
The War Within Me (Queens of Navarre)
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The French Wars of Religion (1562-98) are an endlessly fascinating period, not the least because the actions of female rulers were so instrumental ...Read Review
Orphans of the Living
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A debut novelist presents a fictionalized account of her mother’s brutally difficult and often heartbreaking upbringing as the youngest child in a ...Read Review
Elsa’s Chessboard
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
In 1906 Vienna, Austria, six-year-old Elsa watches her brothers play chess. She soon learns to play, too, and thinks of chess every day. On ...Read Review
