biographical fiction

Barely able to walk and rendered mute by the cancer metastasizing in his throat, Ulysses S. Grant is scratching out words, hour after hour, day after day. Desperate to complete his memoirs before his death so his family might have some financial security and he some redemption, Grant journeys back in time.

Sibling rivalry continues between the daughters of King Henry VIII, Mary who holds the throne and Elizabeth who holds the people's hearts.

A fictionalized account of the life of young Elizabeth Tudor, who is taken in by King Henry VII's last wife, Katherine Parr, after the king's death, and finds herself pursued by Katherine's new husband, Tom Seymour, who believes courting the king's daughter will give him greater power.

Forced to attend a residential school, Irene Couchie struggles to remember who she is and the ways of her people, despite the abuse she endures.

In 1961 Cuba, with the threat of military service for children looming, twelve-year-old Cumba's parents send him to Miami, where he lives with a new family and misses his homeland.

When the death of Joan of Arc shows her the dangers faced by strong women, Jacquetta, a psychic descendant of a river goddess, studies alchemy and becomes the secret wife of Richard Woodville before returning to the court of Henry VI.

Sixteen-year-old Catholic Stefania Podg?rska has worked in the Diamant family's grocery store for four years, even falling in love with one of their sons, Izio; but when the Nazis came to Przemysl, Poland, the Jewish Diamants are forced into the ghetto but Izio's brother Max manages to escape, and Stefania embarks on a dangerous course--protecting thirteen Jews in her attic, caring for her younger sister, Helena, and keeping everything secret from the two Nazi officers who are living in her house.

Artist Frida Kahlo finds her own voice and style when her famous husband, Diego Rivera, is commissioned to paint a mural in San Francisco, California, in the 1930s and she finds herself exploring the city on her own.

Elizabeth Schuyler was accustomed to socializing with the elite, but Alexander Hamilton was like no one she'd ever met before. The two are quickly married, and she stands beside him through the war. But it is after the war, her true spirit shines through as she endures betrayal, scandal, tragedy, and heartbreak. Through it all, she stands beside her husband, even in death, she fiercely fights to preserve his legacy.

In England during the Black Death, a young Latin tutor falls in love with unusual woman named Agnes, and they get married. Soon, they move to Stratford-upon-Avon, and Agnes becomes a rock of stability for her playwright husband as his career in London takes off. But tragedy strikes when their young son Hamnet dies.