Showing results for "J" in Biographical Fiction

"Je souhaite que l'auditeur ressente dans les variations de ma voix toutes les émotions qu'il ne pourrait trouver en ne lisant que le livre. Cette émotion-là est difficile à jouer. Je n'ai pas joué, j'ai fermé les yeux et j'ai entendu les échos de cette enfance..."

The girl who led the English against the French in the One Hundred Years War, who hears voices of the saints and God himself, discovers she will burn at the stake, not for leading the French Armies against her English captors, not for heresy against the church, but for cross-dressing. Despised by Bishop Cauchon, he lays out a legal case against Joan which is full of lies but no one goes against him. Most look forward to watching whom they believe is the devil woman burn at the stake. A guard she has befriended lays out an escape plan to free her but fate intervenes.

Navigating the ins and outs of an absent father and a traumatized mother, and marked by choices made around religious zealots, drug addicted family, and growing up with his gay siblings in suburbia. We discover that as we grow, we become collectors of memories, keeping the ones that matter and throwing out the ones that don’t. Our choices rely heavily on how we interpret our past, and what meaning that we give to those memories.

The story of two Civil War soldiers who fight on opposite sides but somehow come together in an unexpected bur profound way. Based on a true story of the author's own ancestors, it is a story of how their families united despite the odds.

Tales from the Land of No Mondays is more than a story; it’s a fantastic voyage, a mostly fictional story about a man’s journey from the drudgery of a corporate career to finally living the dream of doing what he loved: singing and telling stories in paradise. To the casual listener, it is a fun listen with some occasionally quirky, rhyming story lines. To his fans, Tales is a wonderful ride through the stories, the songs, and the lyrics of Jim Morris.

She had the fiery feminism of Mae West, the blonde sex appeal of Jean Harlow, and the athletics of men like Yakima Canutt and Eddie Parker combined. Known as "The Horsewoman of Hollywood's Backlot", she was Alivia Chambers, a pioneer stuntwoman during the Golden Age of Motion Pictures. Introduced in previously published works, this fictional icon of Hollywood's classic era comes alive once again in these new sensational stories of her moments in the film industry from the 1930s, '40s, and early '50s.

This is four years of blood, sweat, and toil. An illustrator from Germany and I did 100 percent of all the writing. It is just the beginning for me. Thank you for your support.