biographical fiction

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.

Fourteen-year-old Lucy Maud Montgomery wants to go to college and become a writer like her idol, Louisa May Alcott. However, the grandparents she lives with on Prince Edward Island don't agree with her plans. Maud goes out West to live with her father and his new family and attends high school--where she also finds love. But Maud's stepmother has a plan for Maud that threatens to destroy Maud's dreams for the future.

In 1900, out-of-work butcher Pat Crowe kidnaps and ransoms the teenage son of Omaha's wealthiest meatpacking tycoon. After receiving $25,000 in gold and releasing the boy, Crowe makes his way across America and beyond, bank-robbing, safe-cracking, burgling, and bond-jumping his way into the public eye. The manhunt that followed became the thrill of the nation.

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.

In 1917, Siegfried Sassoon, a combat officer and poet, writes a letter publicly disavowing the war. He is found to be "mentally unsound" and is sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital, where there is a psychiatrist renowned for curing such cases.

The novel reprises a true story - the strange, eventful, and tragic voyage of His Majesty's Ship Bounty in 1788-1789, which culminated in Fletcher Christian's mutiny against Captain Bligh.

Chronicles the life of Latin popstar Selena and her tragic death at a height of her career.

A fictionalized biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who grew up a painfully shy child, ridiculed by his overbearing father, but who became one of the most widely-read poets in the world.

Presents a Jack Kerouac-inspired picture book with rhyming text describing a bebopping, scat-singing jackrabbit who travels from New York City to San Francisco celebrating the landscape of America.

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.