Mrs. Post, the President and First Lady are here to see you. . . . So begins another average evening for Marjorie Merriweather Post. Presidents have come and gone, but she has hosted them all. Growing up in the modest farmlands of...
Biographical fiction
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Author:Pataki, AllisonSummary: - Author:Paul, GillSummary:
It's a 1920s version of Sex and the City, as Dorothy Parker--one of the wittiest women who ever wielded a pen--and her three friends navigate life, love, and careers in New York City. Perfect for fans of Fiona Davis, Beatriz...
- Author:Erickson, CarollySummary:
The courageous, spirited Mary Queen of Scots tells her own story--from her youth as a young girl married to the invalid young King of France to her short reign as Queen of Scotland and her tragic imprisonment by her ruthless, merciless...
- Author:Farge, Paul LaSummary:
From the award-winning author and New Yorker contributor, a riveting novel about secrets and scandals, psychiatry and pulp fiction, inspired by the lives of H.P. Lovecraft and his circle. Marina Willett, M.D., has a problem. Her husband...
- Author:Callahan, MichaelSummary:
Inspired by a true story, a young woman is swept up in the glamour and excitement of chasing the title of Miss America 1950-only to vanish the night she wins. Betty Jane Welch reluctantly enters the Miss Delaware contest to make her...
- Author:McCullough, ColleenSummary:
In this sequel to "Caesar: Let the Dice Fly", the Roman emperor travels to Egypt to gather allies and supplies - and fathers a son with Cleopatra. Meanwhile his enemies, including Brutus, plot to regain the lustre of the...
- Author:McLain, PaulaSummary:
Meeting through mutual friends in Chicago, Hadley is intrigued by brash "beautiful boy" Ernest Hemingway, and after a brief courtship and small wedding, they take off for Paris, where Hadley makes a convincing transformation...
- Author:Benedict, MarieSummary:
In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Pierpont Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture on the New York society scene and one of...
- Author:Bennett, ArnoldSummary:
The Pretty Lady is considered to be one of Bennett's most revealing and under-rated works. It is the story of a French prostitute, Christine, who has escaped from wartime Ostend, and set herself up in business in London. Though a...
- Author:Ewen, Pamela BinningsSummary:
This novel based on the real life of Coco Chanel reveals an unseen side to the celebrated icon as she trades fashion for espionage during World War II to protect her name, her business, and her legend.
- Author:Chee, AlexanderSummary:
When Lilliet Berne is finally offered an original role at the Paris Opera, she realizes with alarm that it's based on a hidden piece of her past. As she searches for clues, she recalls her life as an orphan who went to Europe and was...
- Author:Harper, Karen (Karen S.)Summary:
Katherine Ashley, the daughter of a poor country squire, happily secures an education and a place for herself in the Tudor court of Henry VIII. As a dying favor to the doomed Anne Boleyn, Kat becomes governess and surrogate-mother to...
- Author:Harper, KarenSummary:
1939. As the wife of the King George VI and the mother of the future queen, Elizabeth--"the queen mother"--shows a warm, smiling face to the world. But it's no surprise that Hitler himself calls her the "Most...
- Author:Gortner, C. W.Summary:
This historical novel follows young Isabella of Castile in her dramatic and turbulent ascent to power as she transforms from the defiant, passionate daughter of an exiled widow into the famed warrior-queen who irrevocably changed the...
- Author:Boggs, Johnny D.Summary:
Sam Houston is a living legend in 1861. Yet now, approaching seventy years of hard living, he finds everything he has fought for being torn asunder. Texas is joining the Confederacy, and Houston, a Unionist who has been cast out as...
- Author:Gregory, PhilippaSummary:
Gregory weaves the second installment of the Cousins' War trilogy that follows Lady Margaret Beaufort as she desperately tries to ensure her son Henry VII becomes the rightful heir to the throne.
- Author:Brooks, GeraldineSummary:
Page turner ... Brooks is a master at bringing the past alive ... in her skillful hands the issues of the past echo our own deepest concerns: love and loss, drama and tragedy, chaos and brutality."--Alice Hoffman, The Washington...
- Author:Groen, HendrikSummary:
Hendrik Groen may be old, but he is far from dead and isn't planning to be buried anytime soon. Instead, he sets out to write an exposé: a year in the life of his care home in Amsterdam.
- Author:Molnar, MartaSummary:
When Hollywood auctioneer Emsley Wilson finds her famous grandmother's diary while cleaning out her New York brownstone, the pages are full of surprises. The first surprise is, the diary isn't her grandmother's. It...
- Author:HAY, SheridanSummary:
At eighteen, Rosemary arrives in New York from Tasmania with little more than her love of books and an eagerness to explore the city she's read so much about. The moment she steps into the Arcade bookstore, she knows she has found...
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