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Abe: a novel

By Richard Slotkin

A biographical novel depicting an intimate portrait of Abraham Lincoln.

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

By Seth Grahame–Smith

“Grahame-Smith inserts a grandiose and gratuitous struggle with vampires into Abraham Lincoln’s life. Lincoln learns at an early age that his mother was killed by a supernatural predator. This provokes his bloody but curiously undocumented lifelong vendetta against vampires and their slave-owning allies (From Publishers Weekly).”

 

Became the movie: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

Alice I Have Been

By Melanie Benjamin
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Octogenarian Alice, who as a child inspired Lewis Carroll’s famous Wonderland character, looks back on a life marked by an implacable mother, her halcyon days in Oxford and the sons who went off to war.

All the Stars in the Heavens

By Adriana Trigiani

Reimagines the career of actress Loretta Young, tracing the decades she shared with her assistant Alda, a former nun, as they face successes, scandals, and obstacles that threatened their bond.

America's First Daughter

By Stephanie Dray

A carefully researched tale based on thousands of original sources imagines the experiences of third American President's daughter Patsy, who while accompanying her father to Paris struggles with his past affair with a slave and falls in love with his protégé against a backdrop of a growing revolution.

American Wife

By Curtis Sittenfeld
Recommended By Amy B., Children's Librarian

When her husband is elected president of the United States, Alice Blackwell finds her new life as first lady increasingly tumultuous as she recalls her early life, her courtship and marriage, and the crisis that nearly destroyed their relationship and reflects on the privileges and difficulties of her position as her private beliefs conflict with her public responsibilities.

Anne Boleyn: A King’s Obsession

By Alison Weir
Series Six Tudor Queens
Recommended By Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian

Henry VIII risks his marriage and the political strategies of Cardinal Wolsey in his obsession with Anne Boleyn, who does not welcome the king's advances and loathes the cardinal for breaking her betrothal to Harry Percy.

Another Side of Paradise

By Sally Koslow

Reimagines the affair between F. Scott Fitzgerald and his longtime lover, gossip columnist Sheilah Graham, detailing how she helped revitalize Fitzgerald's career in the years before his tragic death.

Arthur & George

By Julian Barnes

Chronicles the lives of two boys - one who is forgotten by history, and one who becomes the creator of the world's most famous detective - as they pursue their separate destinies until they meet in a remarkable alliance.

Autobiography of Henry VIII

By Margaret George

The life and times of English monarch Henry VIII are revealed in a fictitious autobiographical memoir that is interspersed with the irreverent commentary of his court jester and confidant, Will Somers.

Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

By Ernest J. Gaines

An elderly woman recalls her struggle against bigotry and racial injustice from her childhood during the Civil War to her participation in the twentieth-century civil rights demonstrations.

Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb

By Melanie Benjamin

Never growing beyond two feet and eight inches, Mercy Lavinia "Vinnie" Bump spent much of her life in seclusion. However, when she impressed legendary showman P.T. Barnum, she suddenly became the world's most unlikely celebrity. In this fictional autobiography, Vinnie recounts her life, her travels with Barnum, and her wedding to co-worker and fellow tiny superstar, General Tom Thumb.

Aviator's Wife

By Melanie Benjamin
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian
With Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, November 26, 2013. 1:30 PM.

A story inspired by the marriage between Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh traces the romance between a handsome young aviator and a shy ambassador's daughter whose relationship is marked by wild international acclaim.

Bachelor Girl

By Kim Van Alkemade
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Jazz Age millionaire Jacob Ruppert, the owner of the New York Yankees, takes his personal secretary and a young actress under his wing and oversees their growing love for each other before triggering dark rumors with his decision to leave the young woman the bulk of his fortune.

Belle Cora

By Phillip Margulies

A sweeping historical tale based on the life and times of the daughter of a New York merchant and notorious madam-turned revered San Francisco dowager finds the orphaned Belle suffering at the hands of a rival cousin before working as a prostitute and transforming herself repeatedly to win the love and life she desires.

Beneath a Marble Sky

By John Shors

This "passionate, lush, and dramatic" novel reveals the story behind the building of the Taj Mahal and the destruction of a royal family.

Beneath a Scarlet Sky

By Mark Sullivan
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

A teenage boy in 1940s Italy becomes part of an underground railroad that helps Jews escape through the Alps but is forced by his parents to enlist as a German soldier for his own protection, where he becomes a spy for the Allies.

Bookseller’s Secret

By Michelle Gable
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Desperate for money, struggling young author Nancy Mitford takes a job managing the Heywood Hill bookshop, where she meets a mysterious French officer who insists she has a compelling story to tell.

Booth

By Karen Joy Fowler
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Jenn Jordan, Library Aide

Describes the multiple scandals, family triumphs and disasters that took their toll on the 10 children of celebrated Shakespearean actor Junius Booth as the North and the South reached a boiling point and the Civil War broke out.

Bridal Chair

By Gloria Goldreich
Recommended By Susan L., Library Page

Artist Marc Chagall's family is targeted in Nazi-occupied Paris, and when his daughter, Ida, falls in love, Chagall angrily paints an empty wedding chair leaving Ida to either forge her own path or save Marc from his enemies and himself.

Bring Up the Bodies

By Hilary Mantel
Series Wolf Hall Trilogy
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

“Depicts the downfall of Anne Boleyn at the hands of Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell as Anne and her powerful family fight back while she is on trial for adultery and treason (From the Publisher).”

Calebs Crossing

By Geraldine Brooks

Forging a deep friendship with a Wampanoag chieftain's son on the Great Harbor settlement where her minister father is working to convert the tribe, Bethia follows his subsequent ivy league education and efforts to bridge cultures among the colonial elite.

Calf

By Andrea Kleine

Presents a fictionalized version of real events in which John Hinckley Jr. becomes obsessed with a young actress before his assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan and a young girl deals with the murder of her best friend, who is killed in her sleep by her socialite mother.

Carnegie’s Maid

By Marie Benedict

An impoverished Irish immigrant in the industrial 1860s takes a job as a lady's maid in the home of prominent businessman Andrew Carnegie, with whom she falls in love before going missing, triggering Carnegie's search for answers and the establishment of his enduring legacy.

Chaperone

By Laura Moriarty
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Accompanying a future famous actress from her Wichita home to New York, chaperone Cora Carlisle shares a life-changing five-week period with her ambitious teenage charge during which she discovers the promise of the twentieth century and her own purpose in life.

Churchill: Walking with Destiny

By Andrew Roberts

Draws on extensive new materials, from private letters to transcripts of war cabinet meetings, to present a portrait of the iconic war leader that discusses Churchill's motivations and unwavering faith in the British Empire.

Circling the Sun

By Paula McLain

Raised by her father and the Kipsigis tribe in 1920s Kenya, Beryl endures painful losses before entering a passionate love triangle and discovering her unconventional true calling.

Clara and Mr. Tiffany

By Susan Vreeland

Hoping to honor his father and the family business with innovative glass designs, Louis Comfort Tiffany launches the iconic Tiffany lamp as designed by women's division head Clara Driscoll, who struggles with the mass production of her creations.

Code Name Hélène

By Ariel Lawhon
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian, Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

A novel based on the life of spy Nancy Wake follows a woman who kills a Nazi and becomes one of the most decorated women in World War II.

Confessions of Nat Turner

By William Styron

Through the mind of a slave, Willie Styron has re-created a catastrophic event, and dramatized the intermingled miseries, frustrations - and hopes - which caused this extraordinary black man to rise up out of the early mists of our history and strike down those who held his people in bondage.

Conspirata

By Robert Harris
Series Cicero Trilogy
Recommended By Barney Levantino, Reference Librarian

“A second installment in the trilogy that began with Imperium finds powerful and brilliant politician Cicero struggling with the high human cost of agendas gone terribly wrong (From the Publisher).”

Crossing the Horizon

By Laurie Notaro

In 1927, three women, including the daughter of an earl, a former cigar girl-turned-society darling, and a beauty pageant contestant, all vie to be the first woman to fly across the Atlantic.

Down and Out in Paris and London

By George Orwell

This unusual fictional account, in good part autobiographical, narrates without self-pity and often with humor the adventures of a penniless British writer among the down-and-out of two great cities. In the tales of both cities we learn some sobering Orwellian truths about poverty and society.

Dream Lover

By Elizabeth Berg

A tale based on the controversial life of mid-nineteenth-century French novelist George Sand follows her separation from her husband and vibrant life in Paris, where she wore men's clothing and shared love affairs and friendships with famous intimates.

Emancipator's Wife

By Barbara Hambly

A touching portrait of Mary Todd, a brilliant but troubled young woman in Kentucky, when she meets Abraham Lincoln in 1839.

Emily's House

By Amy Belding Brown
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Accepting a temporary position with the Dickinson family in Amherst in 1869, Maggie Maher forms a life-changing friendship with the brilliant Miss Emily in the new novel from the author of Flight of the Sparrow.

Enchanted Islands

By Allison Amend
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

A lonely spinster who works as a secretary for the Office of Naval Intelligence is sent on a secret mission to the Galapagos Islands with a much younger intelligence officer.

Family

By Mario Puzo

The story opens with Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia manipulating papal elections in 1492 to become the new Pope Alexander. Determined to establish a family dynasty, he begins ruthlessly eliminating rivals and marrying his children into alliances with the offspring of noble families of France and Spain.

Fan fiction : a mem-noir inspired by true events

By Brent Spiner
Recommended By Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian

A serio-comic, semi-autobiographical thriller from the actor best known for portraying the android Lieutenant Commander Data on Star Trek: The Next Generation describes the bizarre relationship between a celebrity and one of his obsessed fans.

Farewell Symphony

By Edmund White

A fictional account of one man’s struggle to succeed as a writer and to discover what it means to be gay offers a journey of remembrance that ranges from the 1960s to the present.

Fear

By Gabriel Chevallier

After being wounded in the trenches of World War I, Jean Dartemont recovers but is sent back to the front lines, as he describes the horrors and futility of war.

Genghis: Birth of an Empire

By Conn Iggulden
Series Genghis Trilogy

Chronicles the rise to power of Genghis Khan, one of the world's most powerful and fearsome rulers, from his tragic beginnings, to the murder of his father, to his legendary exploits as a feared warrior who conquered much of the known world.

Genghis: Lords of the Bow

By Conn Iggulden
Series Conqueror
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

“After defeating the last of the Mongol tribes, Genghis, with his formidable army, sets his sights toward the Chin, whom he has long vowed to conquer. He has become a fearsome force who, with his ruthlessness and cunning need to vanquish, will lead his army to unfathomable victories (School Library Journal).”

Girl in Hyacinth Blue

By Susan Vreeland

Eight linked stories tracing the history of a painting by the 17th century Dutch artist, Vermeer. In one, he paints his daughter to pay off debts, a second story describes the loss of the ownership papers, and a third takes place on the eve of its theft by the Nazis.

Girl in White Gloves: A Novel of Grace Kelly

By Kerri Maher
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

A vivid reimagining of the life of Princess Grace of Monaco follows the experiences of an Oscar-nominated actress who falls unexpectedly in love with a prince before overwhelming loneliness prompts her search for a greater purpose.

God Knows

By Joseph Heller

This deeply moving novel is the story of David – yes, King David – but as you’ve never seen him before, you already know David as the legendary warrior king of Israel, husband of Bathsheba, and father of Solomon; now meet David as he really was: the cocky Jewish kid, the plagiarized poet, and the Jewish father.