Biographical Fiction

The Queen’s Fortune: A Novel of Desiree, Napoleon, and the Dynasty That Outlasted the Empire

By Allison Pataki - Published 2020

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Biographical Fiction

The world-shaking romance of Napoleon Bonaparte and Josephine de Beauharnais is well known to readers of historical fiction, but Pataki takes a fresh ...Read Review

Indiscretions Along Virtue Avenue: The Life of Sadie Orchard

By Harper Courtland - Published 2019

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Biographical FictionWestern

In Kansas City in 1876, a fellow prostitute falsely accuses seventeen-year-old Sadie Orchard of stealing a necklace from the madam of their house. Later, ...Read Review

Lady of the Seven Suns: A Novel of the Woman Saint Francis Called Brother

By Tinney Sue Heath - Published 2019

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Biographical Fiction

St. Francis of Assisi, famous for his devotion to poverty and his sermon to the birds, remains a figure of enduring interest, as ...Read Review

Picasso’s Revenge

By Ray Foulk and Caroline Foulk - Published 2019

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Biographical Fiction

This fact-based novel graphically explores the complex story of the creation and then the eventual establishment of Pablo Picasso’s iconic painting “Les ...Read Review

Medici ~ Ascendancy (Masters of Florence)

By Matteo Strukul - Published 2019

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Biographical FictionSaga

Florence, 1429. Giovanni de Medici is dying. His sons Cosimo and Lorenzo gather with the rest of the family at his bedside. The fate ...Read Review

This Son of York

By Anne Easter Smith - Published 2019

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Biographical Fiction

Murderer. Usurper. Hunchback. Richard III is one of the most vilified monarchs in historical memory. Fourth in line for the York English throne, ...Read Review

Never Pleasing to the World: A Man and His Slaves

By Peggy Patterson Garland - Published 2019

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Biographical Fiction

Spanning the years 1731 to 1804, this debut novel tells the story of Robert Carter III, a Virginian who deserves to be better known. Born ...Read Review

Eleanor’s Daughter: A Novel of Marie de Champagne

By June Hall McCash - Published 2018

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Biographical Fiction

McCash brings her scholarship to life with this vivid reimagining of the life of Marie, Countess of Champagne, a patroness of the arts ...Read Review

The Irish Princess

By Elizabeth Chadwick - Published 2019

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Biographical Fiction

The author brings medieval Ireland alive with her trademark mix of engaging characters, high politics, and romance. As the daughter of an Irish ...Read Review

Paris, 7 A.M.

By Liza Wieland - Published 2019

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Biographical FictionLiterary

Fiction steps in where a diary feared to tread. 1937, a year famously absent from the journals of Elizabeth Bishop—celebrated American poet and ...Read Review