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...
Biographical fiction
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Author:Min, AncheeSummary: - 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...
- Author:Jacq, ChristianSummary:
The new Pharaoh, Ramses, aspires to greatness of a magnitude undreamed of by mortal men. But to thwart his dreams, a gaggle of fiends, including a sorcerer, invaders, and his own brother, awaits him.
- Author:Leslie, DorisSummary:
Sophia Dorothea is the unhappy young wife of Prince George of Hanover. When she falls in love with a Swedish adventurer, her downfall is inevitable .
- Author:Kinsella, WarrenSummary:
How a group of Portland, Maine, punks defeated a murderous gang of neo-Nazis. The X Gang is a group of punks led by the scarred, silent, and mostly unreadable Christopher X. His best friend, Kurt Blank, is a hulking and talented punk...
- Author:Lefevre, EdwinSummary:
First published in 1923, this fictional biography of Jesse Livermore, one of the greatest market speculators ever, is widely regarded as one of best investment books of all time. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator is the resource that...
- Author:Ryan, Pam MuñozSummary:
Charlotte Parkhurst was raised in an orphanage for boys, which suited her just fine. She didn't like playing with dolls, she could hold her own in a fight, and she loved to work in the stable. Charlotte had a special way with horses and...
- Author:Haley, AlexSummary:
Roots begins with a birth in an African village in 1750 and ends two centuries later at a funeral in Arkansas. And in that time span, an unforgettable cast of men, women, and children come to life, many of them based on the people from...
- Author:Estleman, Loren D.Summary:
Judge Roy Bean is an infamous arbiter of Old West justice. For years, he writes admiring letters to British stage actress Lillie Langtry, and she occasionally responds. But just as they are about to meet face-to-face, fate intervenes...
- Author:Keneally, ThomasSummary:
Recreates the remarkable activities and courage of Oskar Schindler, a Catholic German industrialist who gambled everything to save as many Jews as possible from the Nazi death camps.
- Author:Wiebe, Catherine M.A.Summary:
People cannot readily be categorized, nor some books. Second Rising is one of them. In her publishing debut, Canadian fiction writer Catherine Wiebe is as refreshing as she is startling with this fictional memoir of birthing and memory...
- Author:O'Connor, JosephSummary:
From Irish PEN award-winning author Joseph O'Connor, Shadowplay explores the characters whose loves and lives inspired Dracula. 1878. The Lyceum Theatre, London. Three extraordinary people begin their life together. Henry Irving,...
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