An exciting contemporary Russian writer explores terra incognita: the still-living margins of history. With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters,...
Biographical fiction
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Author:Stepanova, MariaSummary: - Author:Haich, ElisabethSummary:
An autobiography that connects the twentieth century European life of internationally beloved teacher Elisabeth Haich and her lucid memories of initiation into the hidden mystical teachings of the priesthood in ancient Egypt. It reveals...
- Author:Calvino, ItaloSummary:
In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo-Tartar emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming soon. Marco Polo diverts the emperor with tales of the cities he has seen in his...
- Author:Courtenay, BryceSummary:
Born and raised in a poor, working-class family in Toronto, Jack Spayd is the son of an unhappy marriage. But when he is given a harmonica as a young boy, he discovers a talent for music that will change his life forever. After being...
- Author:Estleman, Loren D.Summary:
Spanish alchemist Franciso de la Zaragoza--more than a hundred years old and known as a wise man and healer--and Sheriff Pat Garrett, the man who killed Billy the Kid, meet. The men share their stories, evoking the wonder of the Old...
- Author:Hébert, Anne, Richler, NoahSummary:
A classic of Canadian literature by the great Quebecoise writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Quebec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the life of Elisabeth d'Aulnieres: her...
- Author:Seton, AnyaSummary:
The story of the love affair between the Duke of Lancaster and the innocent, convent-bred girl which changed English history in the 14th century.
- Author:Weir, AlisonSummary:
Bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir takes on what no fiction writer has done before: creating a dramatic six-book series in which each novel covers one of English King Henry VIII's wives. In this captivating opening...
- Author:Weir, AlisonSummary:
Bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir tells the tragic story of Henry VIII's fifth wife, a nineteen-year-old beauty with a hidden past, in this fifth novel in the sweeping Six Tudor Queens series. In the spring of 1540...
- Author:Matthiessen, PeterSummary:
Drawn from fragments of historical fact, Matthiessen's masterpiece depicts the fortunes and misfortunes of Edgar J. Watson, a real-life entrepreneur and outlaw who appeared in the lawless Florida Everglades around the turn of the...
- Author:Kathryn WilliamsSummary:
Dès l'instant où Céline Dion se présente à l'âge de 12 ans devant René Angélil, la vie de l'un comme de l'autre est bouleversée à jamais. Elle, soulevée par l'ambition de devenir une grande chanteuse...
- Author:Major, KevinSummary:
In the small hours of October 14, 1942, a German U-boat sank the passenger ferry SS Caribou in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Of the 237 people on board, 136 perished, including 49 civilians. In Land Beyond the Sea, bestselling author Kevin...
- Author:Robitaille, PatriceSummary:
San Martín (Mexique), décembre 2010. L’explosion gigantesque d’un pipeline secoue toute la ville et une marée de pétrole en feu se déverse dans les rues, emportant tout sur son passage. Les responsables de ce désastre : des...
- Author:Feraoun, MouloudSummary:
Dans ce roman, Mouloud Feraoun raconte sa propre enfance, au sein de son village et de sa famille en Kabylie, ainsi que son itinéraire atypique dʹenfant destiné à devenir berger et qui, au lieu de cela a eu lʹimmense opportunité de...
- Author:Slimani, LeïlaSummary:
En 1944, Mathilde, une jeune Alsacienne, s'éprend d'Amine Belhaj, un Marocain combattant dans l'armée française. Après la Libération, le couple s'installe au Maroc à Meknès, ville de garnison et de colons....
- Author:Michie, DavidSummary:
Dans le dernier livre de la série sur le chat du dalaï-lama, les lecteurs s'évadent dans le monde enchanteur et exotique du monastère du dalaï-lama dans l'Himalaya. Le chat de Sa Sainteté (CDSS) a une mission : celle de...
- Author:Monénembo, TiernoSummary:
Le Terroriste noir est une fiction construite autour de la véritable histoire, aussi méconnue qu’extraordinaire, d’Addi Bâ, jeune Guinéen né vers 1916, adopté en France à l’âge de treize ans et affecté dans le 12e régiment des...
- Author:Donoghue, EmmaSummary:
A heartbreakingly gorgeous novel based on the true story of two girls who fall secretly, deeply and dangerously in love at boarding school in nineteenth century York, from the bestselling author of Room and The Wonder Finalist for the...
- Author:Hooper, EliseSummary:
Learning to See is a gripping account of the Dorothea Lange, the woman behind the camera who risked everything for art, activism, and love. . In 1918, a fearless twenty-two-year old arrives in bohemian San Francisco from the Northeast,...
- Author:Corriveau, HuguesSummary:
Ce roman, proche du roman policier ou d'enquête, est inspiré du meurtre du petit James Bulger, âgé de deux ans et demi, le 12 février 1993 à Liverpool. Il avait été kidnappé dans un centre commercial par Robert Thompson et...
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