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Need help - Christmas present idea
We are buying some books for my in-laws (they're big readers) for Christmas and having them shipped to their house in Australia. We have two books for my FIL and I want to find something for my MIL.
She likes reading books based on history or people - interesting stories, but based on real events and people.
Can anyone recommend a good book or two? I thought about Barack Obama's book 'The Audacity of Hope' but wasn't sure if that was the way to go.
Any suggestions? She's a hard lady to shop for.
Re: Need help - Christmas present idea
Oooh, I can help
DH loves those kinds of books 
Here's a few he likes-
Obama's other book-Dreams of My Father. The Audacity of Hope is about his political ideas, but Dreams is about his childhood and it reads more like a novel. He's actually a very good writer.
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. It could be a little out there. It is about a vampire-but , it's based on real events and the man who really inspired the story of Dracula-a prince in Romania. So it's obvious got a fantasy element, but she bases it in a real time period and place.
The Plot Against America-it's a historical fiction that imagines what would have happened in the US and with WWII if Lindbergh had won the Presidency in 1940 instead of FDR.
I could name some others but DH tends to read nonfiction, and I don't know if that would be what you mean...a lot of it is US history.
I don't know if this is something you might be interested in but..
The Other Boleyn Girl was really good...based on Anne Boleyn and Mary Boleyn and King Henry the VIII.
I agree Candi...The Other Boleyn Girl was really good!!!
If you can't decide..maybe you could get her one good book...and a gift card. They could use them online to find the next book they would want to read??