Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Selected as an Amazon.ca Best Book. October 1970. Two kidnappings. One dead. A crisis unlike anything the country had ever seen — here is the story behind history . . . Thirty years after the...
Biographical fiction
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Author:Grady, Wayne, Hamelin, LouisSummary: - Author:Henry, Patti CallahanSummary:
Megs Devonshire is brilliant with numbers and equations, on a scholarship at Oxford, and dreams of solving the greatest mysteries of physics. The younger brother she loves with all her heart doesn't have long to live. When George...
- Author:Crane, DedeSummary:
In One Madder Woman, Dede Crane vividly recreates the life of Berthe Morisot, the sole female member of the renowned group of artists known as the Impressionists. Inspired by true events, One Madder Woman charts her complicated...
- Author:Keeney, PatriciaSummary:
One Man Dancing is based on the true story of a young Ugandan actor-dancer growing into artistic maturity during the murderous regime of dictator Idi Amin. It follows Charles from his youth in Uganda’s colonial villages, and...
- Author:Winter, Kathleen, Voillot, SophieSummary:
Un homme erre dans les rues de Montréal. Selon l’état civil, il s’appelle Jimmy Blanchard, mais il s’exprime dans le plus pur anglais du XVIIIe siècle. Lui-même affirme qu’il n’est nul autre que le général James Wolfe, vainqueur de la...
- Author:Birch, CarolSummary:
London had the best freaks, always had. The Egyptian Hall, the Promenade of Wonders, the Siamese twins, pinheads, midgets, cannibals, giants, living skeletons, the fat, the hairy, the legless, the armless, the noseless, London had seen...
- Author:Drewe, RobertSummary:
Ned Kelly is the most wanted man in Australia. When the authorities bring in an army of police to catch him, Ned plans an extraordinary showdown at the Inn at Glenrowan. It is an event which will cement his status as the legendary...
- Author:Papp, Susan M.Summary:
In this story of love and loss, Tibor Schroeder, a Christian and reservist in the Hungarian forces allied with Nazi Germany, and Hedy Weisz, a young Jewish woman meet and fall in love during the Second World War - a time when romantic...
- Author:Fortier, DominiqueSummary:
A whimsical and misanthropic imagining of Emily Dickinson's life. Paper Towns is a novelized account of Emily Dickinson's life, focusing on her childhood, the homes she lived in throughout her life, her family relationships,...
- Author:Jeffrey ArcherSummary:
"This is the story of a man who loved two women, and one of them killed him. Some people have dreams that are so outrageous that if they were to achieve them, their place in history would be guaranteed. Francis Drake, Robert Scott...
- Author:Min, AncheeSummary:
Arriving in late 19th-century China with her missionary parents, Pearl Buck is soon fascinated by her new home and strikes up a friendship with a young Chinese girl named Willow. The two become inseparable even as civil war, failed...
- Author:Farnol, JefferySummary:
Peregrine Vereker, in the eyes of his aunt Julia, who brought him up to the mature age of nineteen, was a polished young gentleman, an incipient artist and poet. In the opinion of his two uncles he was an ignorant mollycoddle, a...
- Author:Lambert, ShaenaSummary:
Inspired by Petra Kelly, the original Green Party leader and political activist who fought for the planet in 1980s Germany, Shaena Lambert brings us a captivating new novel about a woman who changed history and transformed environmental...
- Author:Pheby, AlexSummary:
Alex Pheby's 'Playthings' is a visceral and darkly comic portrait of severe mental illness based on the true story of nineteenth-century German judge and patient of Freud, Daniel Paul Schreber. While deftly exploring the ideas of...
- Author:Wren, JacobSummary:
Polyamorous Love Song, a novel of intertwined narratives concerning the relationship between artists and the world. Shot through with unexpected moments of sex and violence, readers will become acquainted with a world that is at once...
- Author:Damioli, CarolSummary:
One Italian Renaissance painter created stunning portraits of warmth and sensitivity, caught Michelangelo’s favourable attention, served the most powerful monarch of the time, and achieved international renown. But that artist fell into...
- Author:Fisher, CarrieSummary:
A novel which centers on a "movie brat" (much like the author herself) and her problems with drugs, the Hollywood scene, and men.
- Author:Demos, JohnSummary:
In this riveting historical fiction narrative, National Book Award Finalist John Demos shares the story of a young Puritan girl and her life-changing experience with the Mohawk people. Inspired by Demos's award-winning novel The...
- Author:Baron, AlexanderSummary:
A novel based on the conflict between Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, and the Roman Emperor, Aurelianus, in the third century A.D.
From Kirkus Review, September 27, 1956: "Some speculative digging into the past turns up the contest...
- Author:Card, Orson ScottSummary:
Volume 3 in the "Women of Genesis" series tells the story of Leah, oldest daughter of Laban, and Rachel, the privileged beauty of the family whom Leah sees as spoiled. They and two other women vie for the attention of handsome and...
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