biographical fiction

Nineteen-year-old Sarah masquerades as a man during the Civil War, serving as a nurse on the battlefield and a spy for the Union Army, escaping from the Confederates, and falling in love with one of her fellow soldiers. Based on the life of Sarah Emma Edmonds.

Tells the story of the uncoventional affair between Fanny Van de Grift, who ran away with her children to escape her philandering husband, and Robert Louis Stevenson, who was trying to escape the pressures from his family to become a lawyer.

"The young Mary Cassatt never thought moving to Paris after the Civil War to be an artist was going to be easy, but when, after a decade of work, her submission to the Paris Salon is rejected, Mary's fierce determination wavers"--Provided by publisher.

Dr. John Henry Holliday, having become a professional gambler after moving from Atlanta to the Texas frontier, agrees to travel to Dodge City, Kansas, with Hungarian prostitute M?ria Katarina Harony, where he opens a dental office, meets part-time policeman Wyatt Earp, and becomes involved in the investigation into the murder of a boy named Johnnie Sanders.

Fictionalizes the life of Emily Dickinson, portraying the American poet as a student at Mount Holyoke in 1848, before she succumbed to a reclusive existence at her family's home in Amherst, Massachusetts.

A historical novel that traces the life of German theologian and Nazi resister Dietrich Bonhoeffer during the Second World War, recounting his participation in a plot to assassinate Hitler, his liaison with a Jewish woman, and his imprisonment.

A fictionalized account of the life of twelfth-century French queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, covering her childhood, years as consort and wife to the pious King Louis VII of France, relationship with Henry of Anjou, rivalries, children, and more.

Offers a fictionalized account of the life of Mehrunnisa, a sixteenth-century empress of India whose love helped shape the course of the Mughal empire in the seventeenth century.

Offers a fictionalized account of the life of Mary Stuart, who, at six days old, became Queen of Scotland, and spent her childhood in France before returning to her birth country to claim her right to the throne.

Two boys grow into manhood as a new empire takes shape around the city of Rome, and as the pair are trained in the art of combat, they find themselves caught between two rival generals who are driving the empire to the brink of civil war.