Biographical fiction Books

Three stories about redemption, the burden of urban survival, and a man and a woman with secrets, and the truth is somewhere in between. What do you really know about your neighbor's professional life?

For fans of Marie Benedict, Lauren Willig, and Diana Gabaldon, comes a Gothic romance about the charming and ambitious glassmaker René Lalique, the mysterious Englishwoman he falls in love with and their haunting encounters. Fascinated by the occult,...

Before her amazing career on Broadway, Graciela Daniele was a young girl growing up in 1940s Buenos Aires in the shadow of the Perón regime. The Gardens of Anuncia is her coming-of-age story in the form of a gorgeous, tango-infused new musical written by...

Inspired by the author's real-life story, Chasing Air is a powerful reminder that the greatest adventures often come when you least expect them.Allison Blanchet has always lived at full throttle. From racing down small-town Georgia streets on her bicycle...

Embarking on a journey of self-discovery, one young woman learns what it really means to be a strong Black woman.Growing (in)Dependence: A Black Woman's Journey of Unlearning follows one woman's mission to balance independence with vulnerability as she...

Thirty-three years. Two Revolutions. One shared heart. Adrienne de Noailles is the humble second daughter from an illustrious Parisian noble family. Gilbert du Motier is the orphaned heir to the southern aristocratic la Fayette fortune. It's a secret...

"Susan Higginbotham has a gift for telling the tales of strong women who stepped out from the shadows into which society's strictures would have cast them in order to make their indelible marks on history. . . . Weaving together sumptuous prose and...

The story of my life might be interesting to some and might not be to others, but what ever the case may be, what it boils down too is, that I have always ask myself "How strong is love." One might say its only as strong as you wish it too be, or a...

Washington Duke is very young when he first realizes there is racial discrimination in the South. Living outside of Hillsboro, North Carolina, in the mid-1820s, he is one of ten children in a family that shares the wilderness with bears, rattlesnakes,...

As Rome reels under barbarian assaults, a young girl must step up…After the Emperor’s unexpected death, ambitious men eye the Eastern Roman throne occupied by seven-year-old Theodosius II. His older sister Princess Pulcheria faces a stark...

Rain on iron rooftops. A radio streaming the latest hit songs. It's the early 1950s. The baby boom. Valarie is a talkative, singing, slanging, pregnant daughter of the slums. Gilbert, her husband, is a well-spoken son of a landed family. They already...

At Face Value spins the tale of John White, a trusty Tory backbencher in Canada's post-Confederation Parliament who was unusually sympathetic to women and Indigenous communities. Hewing closely to the archival record, it nevertheless diverges on one...

This is a collection of stories from my long career as a mailman. From the big city streets of Chicago, I transferred to the small, river town city of Kachuda, Wisconsin. It was there I wanted to make my life, raise my family, and put down roots and...

The novel is interspersed with rambling reflections and philosophical musings that alternate between vile and inspired. Bob is a rejected man. He is rejected by his family, by his community and by a system of justice disgusted by his existence. Yet,...

It's the end of the eighties and despite all his musical shortcomings, pop singer Alekzandr - the Vinyl Tiger - has not only survived, but also finished at the top of the heap.After all the scandals and challenges that...

It's the early 1980's and Joe and Ellen are tired of the mundane day-to-day living. After years of hardship, medical constraints, and searching for the right boat, the Volante unexpectedly comes into their possession. With their daughter in tow,...

This book is a glimpse into the heart and soul of a woman who has risen from the ashes, a collection of memoirs in poetry form. The intensity and raw emotion will touch you like no other. Deborah describes love, loss, loneliness and finishing with...

"A compelling story that melds history and biography into the context of a passionate love affair, Our Lives Are the Rivers is a masterful piece of historical fiction." -- San Francisco ChronicleFrom critically acclaimed author Jaime Manrique comes a...

Main themes: love, woman as its object and its source, emigration as a cultural experience, the philosophy of spiritual ascent, compassion for the animals, for the world. (One of main characters of the novel is Stacey, the cat adapted by heroine who then...

The Ballad of Thomas Patrick Downing is a true story.Downing was born into post famine Ireland. Living in the famous and picturesque village of Adare, his life started well but then at the age of three years, turmoil came. His father, a constable in the...

It's the end of the Swinging Sixties, and four Higher Education graduates embark on a gap year world tour. Eager to experience foreign countries before settling into employment, they choose hitchhiking and local public transport to immerse themselves...

Marcus Livius, last year's war hero, is angry at the ungrateful Romans for convicting him on phony charges. Disgraced in exile, he vows never to return to Rome. Then tragedy strikes home after the disaster at Cannae. A grieving Marcus plunges into...

Long ago in the old Stone Age, a young hunter left his clan's camp in the mountains to hunt alone. While he was gone, a major earthquake hit the area. The frightened hunter headed back to ask his elders what had happened and what it meant, but when he...

This is the story of Seth, registered nurse, and his fight for an accurate mental health diagnosis. Read through Seth's life and determine for yourself what the cause of Seth's post-traumatic stress disorder is.

A hilariously satirical fictional satire on 'Oirishness' by the creator of Father Ted

Drugs, sex and rock and roll-that was the name of the game for hard rock musicians like the Blue Mask. Founded by singer Alix Lane and lead guitarist Joel Stark in 1985, they lived the anthem. A year later both the band and their drummer were dead. 1988...

37 Downing Street is the compelling story of life "above the shop" in a small English town. During a time of uncertainty and changing attitudes 37 Downing Street chronicles a family's history from the last years of Queen Victoria's reign to 1930s Britain...

"Flow is the difference between the way things are and the way they ought to be." Jake does not understand the meaning of his grandfather Griffin's words. It is easier to believe that that this thing called flow is not real. Jake is the only member of...

Pap worried Harry would be so very far from the farm if he made it to the finish line. He knew his number-three son was not cut out for the life he had chosen for himself. But Cleveland? The city was filled with sin and temptation.In 1914, Harry Kern...

Synopsis: Lance is a "coming of age during the sexual revolution" story. He was uniquely different from the millions of other baby boomers. How often do the stars align right? The DNA lottery presented a gift that kept on giving. The nurses in the...

The first sequel exposed Itchy Mae's family life, bullying, dealingwith molestation, and how her father had bipolar disorderwith Schizophrenic tendencies; furthermore, it took twelveyears to come back with sequel two. The second sequel is alsowritten in...

About the Book:The story of how a young Navy man ended up in Vietnam. It has humor & wit, excitement, danger, romance, and the evils of drug abuse. You will laugh and cry also. This is a story that should be told.About the Author:This 82-year-old...

Après 37 ans de vie commune, Patrick-Pierre Dhombres se souvient, dans cet ouvrage, de son épouse alors décédée. Il y dépeint une relation d'abord fusionnelle, puis houleuse et déchirée avec l'usure du temps. Bien plus, l'auteur nous partage ici le...

À trente ans, Julien a tout pour être heureux : une famille magnifique et un petit ami en qui il voue une confiance sans faille. Puis, du jour au lendemain, sans crier gare, cette bulle de bonheur éclate. Il connaît la trahison et ses réalités deviennent...

Markku opiskelee rakennusmestariksi. Hän rakentaa isänsä kanssa omakotitaloja. Eniten häntä kiinnosti hirsirakentaminen, jossa isä-Jussi on ammattilainen. He saavat rakennetavaksi lääkäriperhe Ruuskasille hirsitalon. Markun iltatyötä häiritsee arkkitehti...

This story, highly fabricated though is, is written around my childhood understanding of a significant, singular incident in the life of my paternal grandfather.Because of my grandfather's life in London, on the Canadian prairies and in Toronto, I am...

Mordecai Goldman is a man born of chaos.His life changes when Simmy, his little brother, comes home with a knife stuck in his shoulder.After turbulent years in a Christian high school in Poland and his military service, Mordecai finds himself manning a...

„Es war wie eine Wiedergeburt seines Geistes in ihm, er fühlte sich froher für seine Pflichten, glücklicher in seinem Stand als früher." Nach schwerer Krankheit kehrt der Priester Josef Öttinger zurück in seine Heimat, in der er freudig von seiner...

Dieser Roman erzählt die Geschichte eines Ossis, der nach dem Mauerfall beschließt, den neu gewonnenen Kapitalismus in der Sonne zu genießen. Nur mit einem Rucksack bepackt, einer Hinfahrkarte und 212,30 DM in der Tasche verlässt er Deutschland in...

Kurz vor Weihnachten 1947 kommt Heinrich Salomon als Zwölfjähriger mit Eltern und Bruder aus der Zivilgefangenschaft von Ostpreußen in die sowjetische Besatzungszone.Während es zwei seiner Geschwister bereits 1944 nach Westdeutschland verschlagen hat,...

Die Horizonte der Verlässlichkeit hatten sich verkürzt, zu turbulent war das Geschehen in Nachkriegszeiten des Wiederaufbaus.. Auch wo sich das Umfeld als prinzipiell nicht vorhersagbar präsentierte, musste Zukunft gestaltet werden. Dabei war schnelles...

Sie führten ein hartes Leben, die Menschen früher auf dem hohen Schwarzwald. Die anstrengende Feld- und Waldarbeit war in den Sommermonaten zu leisten, solange ihnen das Taglicht half, und es galt, die schneereichen und langen Winter immer wieder zu...

In Geschichten von Gott und der Welt, in der sich Persönliches und Soziales, Politisches und Zeitgeschichtliches verweben, zeichnen sich in diesen biografischen Notizen ein lebendiges Bild vom Landleben im Umbruch ab.