During World War II, Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker, organized a rescue network of fellow social workers to save 2,500 Jewish children from certain death in the Warsaw ghetto. Incredibly, after the war her heroism, like...
Biographical fiction
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Author:Mayer, H. JackSummary: - Author:Saunders, GeorgeSummary:
The long-awaited first novel from the author of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable cast of supporting characters, living and dead, historical...
- Author:Matthiessen, PeterSummary:
Murder suspect E.J. Watson is gunned down by an enraged mob, each claiming self-defense. Over four decades later, his son returns to the Florida Everglades in order to discover the truth.
- Author:Powell, Patricia HrubySummary:
From acclaimed author Patricia Hruby Powell comes the story of a landmark civil rights case, told in spare and gorgeous verse. In 1955, in Caroline County, Virginia, amidst segregation and prejudice, injustice and cruelty, two teenagers...
- Author:Scurati, AntonioSummary:
Antonio Scurati tells the story of fascism from within the mind of its founder, the man known to his followers as Il Duce. Steeped in historical detail and interspersed with period documents and sources, this novel explores the...
- Author:Evelina, NicoleSummary:
Forty-eight years before women were granted the right to vote, one woman dared to run for President of the United States, yet her name has been virtually written out of the history books.Rising from the shame of an abusive childhood,...
- Author:Iggulden, ConnSummary:
A master of historical fiction, New York Times bestselling author Conn Iggulden 'makes real those grand characters who live in the collective memory' (Kirkus Reviews). In this follow-up to Stormbird, Henry VI has been struck down by...
- Author:Plamondon, ÉricSummary:
Writer Richard Brautigan was a counter-cultural icon of the 1960s. In Mayonnaise, the second novel of Éric Plamondon's 1984 Trilogy, narrator Gabriel Rivages pieces together Brautigan's life starting in Oregon, where he was...
- Author:Abbs, AnnabelSummary:
In 1835, London is awash with new ingredients, but no one knows how to use them. Eliza Acton hires young Ann Kirby to help her write a cookbook. They break class boundaries while creating new ways of writing recipes.
- Author:Harper, KarenSummary:
A young widow and candlemaker, Varina Westcott, agrees to travel to Wales to investigate the suspicious death of the newly married Prince Arthur as a secret request of Queen Elizabeth of York, the wife of Henry VII. But with each clue,...
- Author:ROBERTS, Ann VictoriaSummary:
One long hot summer in the 1880s, Bram Stoker escaped to Whitby from the pressures of theatre life in London. These months are unaccounted for in the life of the future author of Dracula, and round them Ann Roberts has woven a...
- Author:Law, JaniceSummary:
Artist Francis Bacon gets tangled up in murder while visiting the English countryside in the final mystery of this Lambda Award-winning series. Francis Bacon awakes in a four-poster bed with a punishing hangover and a naked footman...
- Author:Chiaverini, JenniferSummary:
Presents a fictionalized account of the friendship between Mary Todd Lincoln and her dressmaker Elizabeth Keckley, a former slave.
- Author:Freedman, BenedictSummary:
Katherine Mary O'Fallon was 16 when she went from Boston to a ranch in Canada. Soon she met Mike Flanningan of the Canadian Mounted Police and they went to live in the far north. Their story is a romance and they experience happiness,...
- Author:Khalil, DanahSummary:
Danah's eating disorder has a personality – it's a demon she calls Ed, the voice in her head that undermines her self-esteem and her perception of the world. How can she explain that even when she tries to develop healthier eating...
- Author:Jin, HaSummary:
During the 1937 attack on Nanjing, American missionary and women's college dean Minnie Vautrin decides to remain at her school during a violent Japanese attack that renders the school a refugee center for ten thousand women and children...
- Author:Bass, RickSummary:
Maxine, Bonnie, and Jim Ed Brown are a family act with a hit record sitting atop 1959's country music charts. The world at their feet, lives of success seem to spread out before them like an unending highway. But celebrity has its price...
- Author:Thornell, KristelSummary:
Winner, Dobbie Literary Award, FAW Barbara Ramsden Award, Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Novelist Award, and The Australian/Vogel Literary Award. Night Street is the passionate story of a young painter, Clarice Beckett, who defies...
- Author:Barnes, JulianSummary:
A compact masterpiece dedicated to the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich: Julian Barnes's first novel since his best-selling, Man Booker Prize-winning The Sense of an Ending. In 1936, Shostakovich, just thirty, fears for his...
- Author:Leslie, DorisSummary:
The life and times of the Countess of Blessington and the well known men who were her lovers, in the early 19th Century.
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