biographical fiction

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The lost diary of M

a novel
Presents an imagined diary of Mary Pinchot Meyer, infamously the lover of JFK, who lived a Bohemian life in Georgetown until she was assassinated herself one year after the president. The fictional version Meyer records her life, from being the ex-wife of a CIA chief to experimenting with mind expansion via LSD with Timothy Leary, with touchstones of being a socialite, painter, and free spirit in Washington, DC, even in the midst of the Cold War.

Kahn

empire of silver : a novel of the Kahn empire
2010
Chagetai, heir to the late Genghis Khan, violently challenges his brother, Ogedai, when Ogedai, about to be proclaimed the new Khan, delays the coronation ceremony for the building of the majestic city of Karakorum.

The flea

the amazing story of Leo Messi
"The captivating story of soccer legend Lionel Messi, from his first touch at age five in the streets of Rosario, Argentina, to his first goal on the Camp Nou pitch in Barcelona, Spain. The Flea tells the amazing story of a boy who was born to play the beautiful game and destined to become the world's greatest soccer player."--Back cover.

The red queen

2011
Although widowed in her early teens, Margaret Beaufort, the child-bride of Edmund Tudor, uses her determination of character and wily plotting to infiltrate the house of York under the guise of loyal friend and servant, undermine the support for Richard III, and ultimately ensure that her only son, Henry Tudor, triumphs as King of England.

Finding Providence

the story of Roger Williams
After being forced to leave the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Roger Williams travels south and, with the help of the Narragansett Indians, founds Providence, Rhode Island.
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The widow of the south

Presents an historical fiction based upon the true story of Carrie McGavock, who spent the years following the Civil War caring for the graves of over fifteen hundred soldiers from the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee, who were buried on designated ground in her back yard.

Girl with a pearl earring

Imagines the young woman in Johannes Vermeer's mysterious painting "The Girl With a Pearl Earring" as a sixteen-year-old Dutch girl named Griet who sparks the interest of the artist when she becomes a maid in his turbulent household.

[More than anything else

2009
Nine-year-old Booker works with his father and brother at the saltworks but dreams of the day when he will be able to read.

The aviator's wife

a novel
A fictional account of the relationship between famed pilot Charles Lindberg and his wife, Anne.
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Ninth witness

Nine-year-old Jude and his younger sister Kerah are ordered by their dying father to go to Jerusalem while Zachariah, Elisheba, and Yochanan wonder if heavenly signs foretell justice for the Jews and Rabbi Mazzar travels with three students to Jerusalem for Passover and sees signs of hope in Yeshua, who studies both people and the Torah.
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