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by Nancy Horan
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by Louis Bayard
Published Feb 2020
Read ReviewsFrom the prizewinning author of Mr. Timothy and The Pale Blue Eye comes Courting Mr. Lincoln, the page-turning and surprising story of a young Abraham Lincoln and the two people who loved him best: a sparky, marriageable Mary Todd and Lincoln's best friend, Joshua Speed.
by Amy Bloom
Published Oct 2018
Read ReviewsThe unexpected and forbidden affair between Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok unfolds in a triumph of historical fiction from the New York Times bestselling author of Away and Lucky Us.
by Christina Baker Kline
Published Jan 2018
Read ReviewsFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the smash hit Orphan Train, a stunning and atmospheric novel of friendship, passion, and art, inspired by Andrew Wyeth's mysterious and iconic painting Christina's World.
by Esther Freud
Published Oct 2015
Read ReviewsMr. Mac and Me is the story of an unlikely friendship, and a vivid portrait of one of the most brilliant and misunderstood artists of his generation.
by Nancy Horan
Published Sep 2014
Read ReviewsA much-anticipated second novel which tells the improbable love story of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson and his tempestuous American wife, Fanny.
by Naomi Wood
Published May 2014
Read ReviewsA riveting tale of passion, love, and heartbreak, Mrs. Hemingway reveals the explosive love triangles that wrecked each of Hemingway's marriages.
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
by Therese Anne Fowler
Published Mar 2014
Read ReviewsA dazzling novel that captures all of the romance, glamour, and tragedy of the first flapper, Zelda Fitzgerald.
by Melanie Benjamin
Published Nov 2013
Read ReviewsIn the spirit of Loving Frank and The Paris Wife, acclaimed novelist Melanie Benjamin pulls back the curtain on the marriage of one of America's most extraordinary couples: Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
by Paula McLain
Published Nov 2012
Read ReviewsA deeply evocative story of ambition and betrayal, The Paris Wife captures a remarkable period of time and a love affair between two unforgettable people: Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley.
by Ann Napolitano
Published Jun 2012
Read ReviewsHeartbreakingly beautiful and inescapably human, ordinary and extraordinary people chart their own courses in life. In the aftermath of one tragic afternoon, they are all forced to look at themselves and face up to the observation that the truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
by Melanie Benjamin
Published Jan 2011
Read ReviewsFew works of literature are as universally beloved as Alices Adventures in Wonderland. Now, in this historical novel, we meet the young girl whose bright spirit sent her on an unforgettable trip down the rabbit hole and the grown woman whose story is no less enthralling.
by Elizabeth Kostova
Published Nov 2010
Read ReviewsKostova's masterful new novel travels from American cities to the coast of Normandy, from the late 19th century to the late 20th, from young love to last love. The Swan Thieves is a story of obsession, history's losses, and the power of art to preserve human hope.
by Brian Hall
Published Apr 2009
Read ReviewsA fascinating and exquisitely written novel about the art and life of Robert Frost.
by Patricia O'Brien
Published Jan 2009
Read ReviewsWhen Henry Ward Beecher was put on trial for adultery in 1875 his trial not only split the country, it split apart his family, causing a particularly bitter rift between his sisters, Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Isabella Beecher Hooker, an ardent suffragist. Harriet remained loyal to Henry, while Isabella called publicly ...
by Pete Hamill
Published Jun 2008
Read ReviewsRecreating 1930s New York with the vibrancy and rich detail that are his trademarks, Pete Hamill weaves a story of honor, family, and one man's simple courage that no reader will soon forget.
by Marianne Wiggins
Published Jun 2008
Read ReviewsThe Shadow Catcher dramatically inhabits the space where past and present intersect, seamlessly interweaving narratives from two different eras: the first fraught passion between turn-of-the-twentieth-century icon Edward Curtis (1868-1952) and his muse-wife, Clara; and a twenty-first-century journey of redemption.
by Richard Rayner
Published Mar 2002
Read ReviewsA transforming journey into the heart of beauty and the peril of love, a romantic, lyrical epic that resurrects history with great authenticity and drama.
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