Presents a fictionalized account of the friendship between Mary Todd Lincoln and her dressmaker Elizabeth Keckley, a former slave.
Biographical fiction
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Author:Chiaverini, JenniferSummary: - 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.
- Author:Grady, Wayne, Hamelin, LouisSummary:
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...
- Author:Storey, StephanieSummary:
In her brilliant debut, Storey brings early 16th-century Florence alive, entering with extraordinary empathy into the minds and souls of two Renaissance masters, creating a stunning art history thriller. From 1501 to 1505, Leonardo da...
- Author:Livaneli, ZülfüSummary:
A literary tour-de-force, this vivid account of an infamous Ottoman sultan’s life in exile is also a powerful indictment of the hypocrisies of the West, from the internationally bestselling author of Disquiet. Abdülhamid II ruled the...
- 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...
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