biographical fiction

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.

A novelization of the motion picture "Amistad," a fact-based story of the 1839 mutiny on board a Spanish slave ship,which resulted in a trial before the Supreme Court during which former American president John Quincy Adams argued in favor of freedom for the slaves.

Thirteen-year-old Susy Clemens wants the world to know that her papa, Mark Twain, is more than just a humorist and sets out to write a comprehensive biography of the American icon.

Kristina Georgia Snow's life is turned upside-down, when she visits her absentee father, gets turned on to the drug "crank", becomes addicted, and is led down a desperate path that threatens her mind, soul, and her life.

A girl in Nunavut grows up in the 1970s, experiencing joy, friendship, the love of her parents, boredom, listlessness, and bullying, tedium, the raw power of ice and sky, the energy of the animal world, and the horrors of alcohol and violence--and above all the spirits that surround her in the world and draw her into something bigger than herself when she finally becomes pregnant.

A stray cat is rescued and brought to live with the Dalai Lama and upon observing the many visitors that pay their respects to the holy man, learns what it means to achieve peace and happiness in a materialistic world.

A fictionalized account of Mary Patten's efforts to control a ship of mutinous sailors in July, 1856.

Set in a graveyard over the course of one night, the story tells of Abraham Lincoln's son Willie who dies and finds himself in a strange purgatory called the bardo where a battle is waged for his soul.

All his life Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, son of Sacagawea and a French fur-trapper, has lived in two worlds: the Westernized world of his godfather, William Clark, and the frontier world beyond St. Louis--but he is troubled by the way Americans mistreat tribes like the Osage, Arikara, and Mandan, and as a man of mixed ancestry, he must ultimately choose which of the two heritages is more important to him.

In 1913 famed American dancer, Isadora Duncan, faces the horror of losing both her children in a terrible car accident. Adored by fans world-wide, Isadora faces the wild-fire-like spread of gossip surrounding her personal life as she grieves the loss of her beloved children and slowly spirals to the brink of madness.