Biographical Fiction
Dawson’s Fall
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Frank Dawson, a man of integrity in all he does, comes to America from England. He fights on the side of the Confederates ...Read Review
God’s Children
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Kate Marsden (1859-1931) was born in England and nursed in the Crimean War and New Zealand and learned about the impossibility of curing ...Read Review
Swan Song
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As it explores the motives behind author Truman Capote’s decision to write a roman à clef betraying the secrets of his longtime confidantes, ...Read Review
Hall of Mirrors: Virginia Hall: America’s Greatest Spy of WWII
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One of WWII’s most successful spies was a Baltimore native in her 30s. Her age and gender made the profession unlikely, not ...Read Review
Shadowplay
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At an essential level, this novel deals with the Irish writer Bram Stoker, and his relationships with the actress Ellen Terry, and Henry ...Read Review
The Last Collection: A Novel of Elsa Schiaparelli and Coco Chanel
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In 1938 Paris, a city on the brink of war, Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli wage their own battle in the atelier and on ...Read Review
Abe & Ann
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New Salem, Illinois owes its existence to the Sangamon River, and the dam that helps run the mill is crucial to its modest ...Read Review
The Doubtful Diaries of Wicked Mistress Yale (The Yale Trilogy)
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1672, Madras, India. At the East India Company’s Fort St. George docks, Company recruits disembark from ferryboats. The Governor’s Second-of-Council, Joseph Hynmers, ...Read Review
The Blue Period
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Pablo Picasso meets the troubled writer, poet, and painter Carles Casagemas in Barcelona in 1899, in Els Gats, the watering hole and gathering place ...Read Review
The Amazing Mr. Franklin: Or the Boy Who Read Everything
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Frustrated with life as his brother’s apprentice, seventeen-year-old Ben Franklin makes plans to flee Boston. First, he has to obtain the funds, ...Read Review
