A fictionalized account of the McLean Gang, halfbreeds who terrorized the Canadian West in the 1870s. The novel traces their idealistic beginning--stealing cattle and guns with the intention of starting an Indian rebellion--to their...
Biographical fiction
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Author:Bowering, GeorgeSummary: - Author:Fatima, CatherineSummary:
In a kind of 'Catherine Millet meets Roland Barthes baring of life with hints of the work of Chris Kraus', Sludge Utopia by Catherine Fatima is an auto-fictional novel about sex, depression, family, shaky ethics, ideal forms of life,...
- Author:Labozzetta, MarisaSummary:
Born into Somali royalty and Saudi Arabian wealth, Fatma is given away in infancy and, at age 12, forced into an arranged marriage with a young Peace Corps worker. Prejudice and cultural demands lead to a number of painful promises that...
- Author:Austin, Lynn N.Summary:
Although his father had allowed widespread idolatry, King Hezekiah is restoring God's law to Judah. The temple is cleansed and proper offerings are made to Yahweh. The Assyrians, however, rule the adjoining lands and demand tribute from...
- Author:Butler, PaulSummary:
Stoker’s Shadow tells the story of the late Bram Stoker’s surviving family members in 1922 as they struggle to come to grips with the dark undercurrents in the novel Dracula. Florence, Bram’s widow, is shocked when a German...
- Author:Barbeau-Lavalette, AnaïsSummary:
Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette never knew her mother's mother. Curious to understand why her grandmother, Suzanne, a sometime painter and poet associated with Les Automatistes, a movement of dissident artists that included Paul-Émile...
- Author:Thomas, AudreySummary:
Caricatured by Charles Dickens in Little Dorrit as the cantankerous maid of Mr. and Mrs. Meagles, “Tattycoram” tells her own life story in this utterly compelling metafiction by the celebrated author of Isobel Gunn. Throughout her...
- Author:Missen, BrendaSummary:
Based on a true story, Tell Anna She’s Safe is the tale of two women, one missing, the other searching for her. Driving home alongside West Quebec’s Gatineau River one April afternoon, researcher Ellen McGinn spots a parked car...
- Author:Roitman, GinaSummary:
In Tell Me a Story, Tell Me the Truth, author Gina Roitman has captured her own experience as the daughter of Holocaust survivors in the character of Leah Smilovitz. An outsider, she belongs neither to her parents’ painful generation...
- Author:Scharer, WhitneySummary:
A sweeping debut novel set in Paris in the 1930's about the love story between Vogue model turned photographer Lee Miller and the artist Man Ray. Their romance unfolds against the backdrop of bohemian Paris, with nights spent at smoky...
- Author:Stone, IrvingSummary:
A novel of Michelangelo who was the creator of David, painter of the Sistine ceiling, and architect of the dome of St. Peter's.
- Author:Gortner, C. W.Summary:
This novel tells the story of Jennie Jerome Churchill, mother of Winston Churchill, a New York born heiress who always lived life on her own terms.
- Author:York, Sarah KathrynSummary:
A Montreal doctor investigates the cadaver of the famous Willow Bunch Giant, trying to solve the mystery of why the preserved body is shrinking. His own physical limitations add an urgency to his research, as his body too is failing; a...
- Author:Hansen, RonSummary:
Jesse James was a fabled outlaw, a charismatic, spiritual, larger-than-life bad man whose bloody exploits captured the imagination and admiration of a nation hungry for antiheroes. Robert Ford was a young upstart nobody torn between...
- Author:Hill, Grace LivingstonSummary:
- Author:Kidd, Sue MonkSummary:
"An extraordinary novel... a triumph of insight and storytelling."—Associated Press. "A true masterpiece."—Glennon Doyle, author of Untamed. An extraordinary story set in the first century about a woman who finds her voice and her...
- Author:Tokarczuk, OlgaSummary:
In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas-and a new unrest-begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what...
- Author:Estleman, Loren D.Summary:
Brutally efficient judge Isaac C. Parker is determined to rid Arkansas and the Indian Territory of all manner of criminals. But his quest for justice and liberal use of the gallows earn him just as many friends as enemies and take a...
- Author:Harbouri, PetrieSummary:
Three brothers, born on a Greek island, spread their wings and soar to impressive heights in their three professions.
- Author:Moriarty, LauraSummary:
Only a few years before becoming a famous actress and icon, fifteen-year-old Louise Brooks heads to New York to make it big, accompanied by a chaperone who is neither mother nor friend. Ultimately, the time they spend together changes...
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