Offers a fictionalized account of the life and times of early twentieth-century photographer Edward Curtis and his wife Clara, interweaving their experiences with those of twenty-first-century writer Marianne Wiggins.

Presents a fictionalized study based upon the many biographical materials and family accounts of nineteenth-century novelist Henry James and examines his life of loneliness, despair, and failed relationships.

A fictionalized biographical account of the Brontë family and their relationship with the idealistic clergyman William Weightman who captured the hearts of all three sisters, especially Emily.

Geoffrey Braithwaite, nursing an infatuation with the long-dead author Flaubert, becomes obsessed with learning which of two stuffed parrots--both exhibited in museums as having served as inspiration for Flaubert while he was writing his novel "Un coeur simple"--is the one that really sat on the author's desk.

A seven-year old Jesus recounts his journey from Egypt to his birthplace in Nazareth, as the various aspects of his spiritual life are slowly revealed to him.

A fictional chronicle of the life of a young Henry David Thoreau in which he accidentally sets fire to three hundred acres of the Concord woods and inadvertently influences the lives of three different local citizens.

Blends fact and fiction in a historical novel about the love affair between Mamah Borthwick Cheney and architect Frank Wright, who was commissioned by Mamah and her husband Edwin in 1903 to design a new home for them.

In the aftermath of the Civil War, John Bell Hood, a general from the Confederate army who was responsible for the deaths of thousands, tries to begin life anew in New Orleans with a loving wife, Anna Marie, but an outbreak of yellow fever could destroy everything he has worked for.

Tzu Hsi, known as Orchid, enters China's Forbidden City at the age of seventeen to serve as a concubine for the Emperor, and when she bears the monarch a son, she is elevated to the rank of Empress, where she struggles to maintain her position and the right to raise her own child.

Syms Covington has never been happy staying in one place so he travels around the world, encountering great danger and meeting wonderful people, including Charles Darwin, who teaches him about evolution and the joy of life.