Biographical Fiction
Freud’s Sister
In 1938, Sigmund Freud is granted an exit visa from Vienna with certain individuals of his choice. His four elderly…
The Unfaithful Queen
Henry VIII’s fifth wife, Catherine Howard, tells her story in this whimsical reimagining, beginning with her early adolescence in the…
Come August, Come Freedom
Gabriel is born into slavery in Virginia during the American Revolution. He is raised on Prosser’s plantation and then sent…
The Potter’s Hand
In his capacious new novel, Wilson brings his combined skills as novelist and biographer to the life of the great…
For You, Madam Lenin
Kat Meads’ exquisite prose brings to life one of the most determined and enigmatic women in history in a story…
Rav Hisda’s Daughter
Rav Hisda’s Daughter provides a wealth of historical detail about Jewish life in Babylon and Israel in the 3rd century…
The Land at the End of the World
Dr. Antonio Lobo Antunes served in the Portuguese army from 1971-1973 as a medic in Angola’s war for independence. The…
A Place Beyond Courage
Chadwick takes the reader back to the turmoil of 12th-century England in this novel. John FitzGilbert inherited his position as…
Sutton
Pulitzer Prize winner Moehringer does not tell you a couple of things in his brief author’s note about the facts…
Moments Captured
Nineteenth-century photographer Edward Muybridge, whose mentor was Civil War photographer Mathew Brady, set up a traveling studio in a Conestoga…
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