Biographical Fiction
The Original
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Enigmatic film star Katharine Hepburn was a figure of fascination in her own time: tall, patrician, redheaded, and androgynous, she played fierce, outspoken ...Read Review
Cherry Blossom Suite
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Matilde di Canossa ruled during a period marked by persistent warfare, political intrigue, and repeated excommunications by the Church. In the final years ...Read Review
Sparks Fly Up: The Lost Story of Margaret Fuller
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In 1849, friends of writer Margaret Fuller are surprised and worried—surprised to find out that the woman who insisted she would never marry ...Read Review
I Am Joey
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This novel starts when Josefina Veluya Guerrero’s life falls apart. Opening in 1941, the story introduces Joey after she has been lifted from ...Read Review
The Disciple: A Wagnerian Tale of the Gilded Age
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Hungarian conductor Anton Seidl is leading the New York Metropolitan Opera and introducing American audiences to the works of Richard Wagner in the ...Read Review
When They Came Home
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Based on the lives of the author’s grandparents, this novella depicts the life of Milton Fieth, a 21-year-old farm boy from Missouri ...Read Review
The Windsor Affair
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The British royal family is rarely out of the headlines, and Melanie Benjamin tackles one of its most serious crises in this story ...Read Review
The Queen’s Game
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It is 1564. Lady Mary Grey, hunchbacked and mousy, serves as a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth I. Though a royal cousin, she lives under ...Read Review
Footeprint
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Eunice Newton Foote had a genetic and familial predisposition for science, being a relative of Sir. Isaac Newton himself. But the cultural beliefs ...Read Review
Mrs. Benedict Arnold
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One of the most consequential and impassioned love stories of the American Revolution—and its tragic denouement—flutters off the page in Emma ...Read Review
