Biographical Fiction
What Is Left of the Night: A World War II Novel
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The story of André Trocmé, pastor of a small village in southeastern France during the Second World War, is well known. He and ...Read Review
Generalissima (The Henrietta of France Trilogy, Book Two)
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Generalissima is the second volume in Vidal’s trilogy on Queen Henrietta Maria, wife of King Charles I of England and sister to ...Read Review
The Wandering Queen: A Novel of Dido
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The story of Queen Dido, legendary founder of the city of Carthage, is retold in surprising and inspiring ways in Claire Heywood’s ...Read Review
Trudy’s Awakening
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The title character of this fictional biography is Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, a wealthy Georgia belle and post-Civil War activist who supported the ...Read Review
The Last Witch
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C. J. Cooke’s The Last Witch takes readers to late medieval Austria amid one of the era’s witch hunts, the Innsbruck ...Read Review
On a Sundown Sea: A Novel of Madame Tingley and the Origins of Lomaland
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On a Sundown Sea is the story of one of the early figures of the Theosophical Society in America, Katherine Tingley (1847-1929), and ...Read Review
Bad Bad Girl
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As she details in the beginning of her fictionalized memoir, the author, Gish Jen, was constantly scapegoated by her mother, Agnes, who was ...Read Review
Sinners
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Any internet inquiry into Beatrice Cenci will tell you she was repeatedly raped by her father. Whether true or not, Sinners edges around ...Read Review
The Marchesa
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On an unspecified day in the present, Isabella D’Este waits in the shadows of the Mantua Reading Room for her newest scholar ...Read Review
Love, Sex & Frankenstein
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In 1816, Mary Shelley famously visited Lake Geneva with Percy Bysshe Shelley, their baby William, Mary’s stepsister Claire, Lord Byron, and Lord Byron’...Read Review
