Biographical Fiction
Deviation
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Deviation is a 1979 Italian autobiographical novel now translated in English. Luce D’Eramo comes from a privileged, fascist Italian family. In 1944 at the ...Read Review
Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen
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Based on a little-known piece of history, this book tells the story of Cathy Williams, the only woman to ever serve with the ...Read Review
Tomi: Tomi Reichental’s Holocaust Story
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Tomi is a thoughtful re-telling of Tomi Reichental’s real-life story of how he survived the horrors of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, to ...Read Review
Frieda: A Novel of the Real Lady Chatterley
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In her first novel, The Joyce Girl, Annabel Abbs explored life in the shadows of literary fame. In her second, we are again ...Read Review
The Song of Hild
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Originally published in Denmark in 1991, this is the life of the Deiran princess Hild and her many changes of fortune until she becomes ...Read Review
Prithviraj Chauhan: The Emperor Of Hearts
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In 1166, a son named Prithviraj Chauhan is born to Karpuradevi and Someshvara. Soon after, Someshvara accedes to rule a powerful aryavarta kingdom from ...Read Review
The Lost Pages
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Famous for his disregard of Kafka’s last request to burn his papers, Max Brod published The Trial, The Castle and Amerika—works ...Read Review
What’s Left of the Night
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This biographical novel takes place during a trip to Paris in the young life of Constantine Cavafy, the Greek poet credited as C. ...Read Review
Born to the Badge (Wyatt Earp: An American Odyssey)
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The Kansas years forged Wyatt Earp’s career as a lawman, though it took a while for the idea to overcome his daydreams ...Read Review
All the Answers
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Graphic novelist Michael Kupperman’s memoir explores his relationship with his distant, secretive father. Never one to discuss the past, when his father ...Read Review
