Biographical Fiction
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
The Two Roberts
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The Two Roberts follows the lives of artists Bobby MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun. It begins in September 1933 at Bobby and Robert’s first ...Read Review
The Austens
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In 1802, aspiring novelist Jane Austen, lured by the prospect of financial security and a settled home in the country, accepts a proposal from ...Read Review
Lord Guan
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Guan Yu is a 2nd-century Chinese historical figure and folk hero who is still worshipped in his own country. A gifted fighter born ...Read Review
Sonora
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There’s something kind of fascinating about the idea that people used to ride horses off high towers and into pools of water ...Read Review
Till Taught by Pain
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William Stewart Halsted (1852-1922) pioneered life-saving surgical procedures and invented the use of local pain blockers in surgery. Author Coventry, a medical doctor, ...Read Review
Glorious Ruins
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Paris, 1920s. Benefitting from an aristocratic and artistic family background, and marrying powerful and wealthy men, Russian émigré Misia Sert becomes internationally known ...Read Review
The President’s Wife
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On September 2, 1939, Eleanor Roosevelt is woken from a sound sleep by a telephone call from President Franklin D. Roosevelt, announcing that the Nazis ...Read Review
World Between Worlds
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The spiritual and temporal story of Caterina, a mystic in the Tuscan city of Siena in the late 14th century, who was later ...Read Review
Portrait of an Unseen Woman: A Novel of Annie Shaw
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Widowed during the American Civil War when her gallant young husband, Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, led a heroic regiment of Black troops to ...Read Review
