biographical fiction

Maria, the young, spirited daughter of Rasputin, spends her father's final days trying to unlock the mystery of her father's involvement in the disappearance of the Russian Royal Family.

Facing her 100th birthday Roseanne McNulty has decided to record her past from inside a mental hospital, and while the facility is scheduled to close, Dr. Grene takes an interest in Roseanne to determine if she is capable of reentering society, but when a document -- written by a local priest -- surfaces, it offers a history different from the one Roseanne offers.

A novel which imagines the life of Rue, the last female descendent of Scotland's most royal line who is forced into marriage with her husband's murderer, the warlord Macbeth, who is depending on his wife's royal blood to help him become king--a goal toward which she is willing to put all her resources.

In this fifth volume of the fictional biography of Siddhartha, Gautama Buddha, Prince Siddhartha undergoes hardship and ordeals in his search for enlightenment.

An historical fiction about the life of Queen Victoria, the daughter of a prince who grew up in genteel poverty; and at the age of eighteen, was crowned Queen of England, a position she held for sixty-four years.

Relates the story of the life of Joan of Arc, as seen through the eyes of the fictional narrator Sieur Louis de Conte, Joan's childhood friend and secretary.

Provides a fictionalized account of Jemmy Button, a native boy from Tierra del Fuego who was brought to London to be educated and then returned home to his island.

Teenager Bandi Guttmann, a Hungarian Jew, is forced to move with his family into a "star house" as the Nazis' grip on his country grows tighter. Based on a true story.

Recounts the tale of Laura Secord's journey to tell the British about an American plot to conquer them during the war between Great Britain and the United States in the early nineteenth century.

When Emily Dickinson's house is being restored in 1916, a worker discovers her secret diary, which he keeps to himself until now.