Biographical Fiction
Shell Song: Based on a True Family Story
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Grandfather lived in Hawaii and loved to play music and sort the shells he and his children found at the beach. But when ...Read Review
The Last Assignment: A Novel of Dickey Chapelle
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Dickey Chappelle (1919-1965) was America’s first female professional war photographer. This fictionalized account honors her life, devoted to showing the brutal human ...Read Review
Undefeated
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Basson has created a fine novel around the shadowy 1720s historical figure Elizabeth Wilkinson-Stokes, set in the rookeries of London. She is a ...Read Review
The Unravelling of Mary Reddish
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Mary Reddish was the daughter of a poor working-class family living in the village of Woodborough, just outside Nottingham. To supplement her family’...Read Review
Clara and the Man With Books in his Window
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
In this picture book based on the life of the author’s mother, the daughter of a laundrywoman delivers clothes to the biggest ...Read Review
Giant
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
A story of friendship across the class divide, the importance of creativity and an insight into the early life of novelist C. S. ...Read Review
Rome
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Ben Kane’s writing career has ranged over a number of historical periods and figures: Hannibal, Spartacus, Napoleon, Richard the Lionheart. In his ...Read Review
Maria La Divina
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This fictionalized biography of opera diva Maria Callas (1923-1977) follows her life beginning with her difficult childhood in Astoria, New York. Her mother, ...Read Review
Lizzie
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Biographical FictionMystery/Crime
August 4, 1892, began like any ordinary day for businessman Andrew Borden, but culminated in two brutal murders which rocked the town of Fall River, ...Read Review
The Wanderer and the Way (Cuthbert’s People)
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Set mainly in ninth-century Spain, the subject of this book is a man named Theodemir, a historical bishop who helped found the pilgrimage ...Read Review
