Obscure People and Different Perspectives
Explore unique viewpoints with 'Obscure People and Different Perspectives'—a curated list of books offering rare insights and hidden narratives from lesser-known voices.
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Cleopatra's Heir
by Gillian Bradshaw
Caesar and Cleopatra--together they could have forged an empire the likes of which had never been seen before. Tragically, it was not meant to be …
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Arthur & George
by Julian Barnes
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • From the bestselling author of The Sense of an Ending comes an “extraordinary … first rate” novel (The …
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The Rising Shore
by Deborah Homsher
This novel tells the story of the Lost Colony through the voices of two pioneering women who sail from London to the wild American shore …
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The Emancipator's Wife
by Barbara Hambly
As a girl growing up in Kentucky, she lived a sheltered, privileged life filled with picnics and plantation balls. Vivacious, impulsive, and intoxicated by politics, …
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Mozart's Wife
by Juliet Waldron
Based on original sources, including family letters and scholarly biographies this is a biographical novel about Constanze, Moazrt's wife.
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Inamorata
by Joseph Gangemi
Inspired by Scientific American's 1922 offer of a five thousand dollar prize for concrete evidence of "conclusive psychic manifestations," Martin Finch, a Harvard graduate student, …
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The Confession of Piers Gaveston
by Brandy Purdy
The history books tell us that Piers Gaveston was many things: arrogant, ambitious, avaricious, flamboyant, extravagant, reckless, brave, and daring, indiscreet, handsome, witty, vivacious, vain, …
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The Tsar's Dwarf
by Peter Fogtdal
Soerine, a deformed female dwarf from Denmark, is given as a gift to Tsar Peter the Great, who is smitten by her freakishness and intellect. …