biographical fiction

When Mark Twain and Sir Henry Morton Stanley meet as journalist in the American West, the two connect over their passion for writing and shared contempt for slavery. From searching for Stanley's adoptive father in Cuba to consulting with mediums after the death of Twain's daughter, their friendship enriches and enlivens two historical icons.

In the fifteenth century, an Indian boy named Jahan brings the sultan of Istanbul a white elephant named Chota as a gift. Jahan becomes Chota's trainer, but quickly proves his aptitude for architecture and is taken as apprentice to Mimar Sinan. Together with Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and other laborers, Jahan begins working on some of the most beautiful buildings of the Ottoman empire--but in the process makes enemies and is caught up in schemes of intrigue and secrecy.

"George Sand was a 19th century French novelist known not only for her novels but even more for her scandalous behavior. After leaving her estranged husband, Sand moved to Paris where she wrote, wore men's clothing, smoked cigars, and had love affairs with famous men and an actress named Marie. In an era of incredible artistic talent, Sand was the most famous female writer of her time. Her lovers and friends included Frederic Chopin, Gustave Flaubert, Franz Liszt, Eugene Delacroix, Victor Hugo, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and more. In a major departure, Elizabeth Berg has created a gorgeous novel about the life of George Sand, written in luminous prose, with exquisite insight into the heart and mind of a woman who was considered the most passionate and gifted genius of her time"--.

A fictional account of the life of nineteenth-century social reformer Dorothea Dix.

"Imagines an alternate 1826 London, where Ada Lovelace (the world's first computer programmer) and Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein) meet as girls and form a secret detective agency. Their first case involves a stolen heirloom, a false confession, and an array of fishy suspects"--Provided by publisher.

A fictionalized account of the sixteen months a newspaper heiress spent underground with two members of the Symbionese Liberation Army.

William Shakespeare has been haunted by the ghost of the late Christopher Marlowe and wants nothing to do with him, until William's son disappears and Willaim calls in some favors from his ghostly companion.

Offers a fictionalized account of Napoleon Bonaparte's last exile, in 1815, on the island of St. Helena in the Atlantic.

Ariel Bradley is Washington's boy spy who pretends to be a country bumpkin (a "Johnny Raw"). He 'stumbles' into General Howe's camp "looking for the mill" his father has sent him in search of. In reality, he is assessing the strength and numbers of the British and their Hessian (German) allies.