Biographical Fiction
Finding Dorothy
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It’s hard to imagine a more essentially American life than Maud Gage Baum’s. The wife of the author of the beloved ...Read Review
What Girls Are Good For: A Novel of Nellie Bly
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Frustrated by the lack of opportunities available to a young woman of her modest standing, Elizabeth Cochrane is outraged when the Pittsburg Dispatch ...Read Review
I, Claudia: A Novel of the Ancient World
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I, Claudia is the story of Claudia Procula and her husband, the infamous Lucius Pontius Pilate. For Claudia, Lucius is her one true ...Read Review
Love That Moves the Sun: Vittoria Colonna and Michelangelo Buonarroti
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A Renaissance woman, wife, mother, poet, diplomat, spiritual reformist, and lover – all labels for Vittoria Colonna that omit the essence of this unique ...Read Review
La Luministe
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Berthe Morisot meets Édouard Manet at age 17, while she and her sister are copying master works in the Louvre. This begins and an ...Read Review
Dear George, Dear Mary: A Novel of George Washington’s First Love
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I couldn’t wait to begin the story of the ill-starred romance between the young, striving George Washington and Mary Philipse, a New ...Read Review
Jane Evans
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In 1850s Wales, orphaned Jane Evans’ life is hard, looking after five brothers and the farm animals. Her consolations are her Bible and ...Read Review
Anna of Kleve, Queen of Secrets: Six Tudor Queens 4
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Anna of Kleve (or Anne of Cleves as she is known to most English readers) is the least known of Henry VIII’s ...Read Review
The Damascus Road: A Novel of Saint Paul
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After receiving a divine vision on the road to Damascus, Paul devotes his life to proclaiming the news of Jesus. Often accompanied by ...Read Review
Song of Songs: A Novel of the Queen of Sheba
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Approximately 1300s BC: Makeda is a daughter of Saba’s chieftain and his slave wife. When her older half-sister Bilkis is lost after ...Read Review
