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Author:Ruth P. Watson
A Right Worthy Woman
In the vein of The Engineer's Wife and Carolina Built, an inspiring novel based on the remarkable true story of Virginia's Black Wall Street and the indomitable Maggie Lena Walker, the daughter of a formerly enslaved woman who became the first Black woman to...- $33.99
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Author:Kathleen Grissom
Crow Mary
The New York Times bestselling author of the "touching" (The Boston Globe) book club classics The Kitchen House and the "emotionally rewarding" (Booklist) Glory Over Everything returns with a sweeping saga inspired by the true story of Crow Mary--an indigenous woman torn between two...- $37.99
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Author:Daisy Goodwin
Diva
New York Times bestselling author Daisy Goodwin returns with a story of the scandalous love affair between the most celebrated opera singer of all time and one of the richest men in the world. In the glittering and ruthlessly competitive world of opera, Maria...- $29.00
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Author:Frances Noble
The Situe Stories
The Situe, or Arab grandmother, moves in and out of this collection of eleven short stories, forming an irresistible drama of an extended Arab family in twentieth-century America. Frances Khirallah Noble's deft and accomplished tales draw her experiences and the stories told by grandmothers,...- $14.95
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Author:Doug McIntyre
Frank's Shadow
We leave shadows, not footprints. Newlywed Danny McKenna's honeymoon ends abruptly when he learns his father has died, uncannily, on the same day as his hero, Frank Sinatra. Returning home to his knotty Irish American family, Danny is confronted with a painful truth--while he...- $23.95
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Author:Michael Chabon
Mysteries of Pittsburgh
The enthralling debut from bestselling novelist Michael Chabon is a penetrating narrative of complex friendships, father-son conflicts, and the awakening of a young man's sexual identity. Chabon masterfully renders the funny, tender, and captivating first-person narrative of Art Bechstein, whose confusion and heartache echo...- $16.99
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Author:Jimmy Buffett
Tales from Margaritaville: Short Stories from Jimmy Buffett
New York Times BestsellerThe dazzling short story collection by music legend Jimmy Buffett inspired by his real life. "Good natured tales of free-spirited characters . . . In fact, Buffett's lighthearted endorsement of adventure is so persuasive that, upon finishing the book, many readers...- $17.99
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Author:Mary Calvi
Dear George, Dear Mary: A Novel of George Washington's First Love
Author: Mary CalviISBN-10: 1250289866ISBN-13: 9781250289865Publisher: St. Martin's GriffinLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/19/2019Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.09lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.76d- $24.00
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Author:Michelle Gable
The Summer I Met Jack
"[The Summer I Met Jack] offers an alternate Kennedy family history that will leave readers wondering whether America knew the real JFK at all." --Kirkus Reviews A New York Times bestselling author imagines the affair between John F. Kennedy and Alicia Corning Clark--and the...- $19.99
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Author:Ace Atkins
Infamous
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Quinn Colson series comes a fast, funny, violent noir novel based on the crimes of George "Machine Gun" Kelly. In July 1933, a gangster staged the kidnapping-for-ransom of an Oklahoma oilman. He would live to...- $22.00
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Author:Livi Michael
Succession
1445. King Henry VI is married by proxy to Margaret of Anjou. French, beautiful and unpopular, her marriage causes a national uproar. At the same time, the infant Margaret Beaufort is made a great heiress and suddenly becomes the most important commodity in the...- $36.99
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Author:Tamatha Cain
Only Oona
Eugene O'Neill's only daughter.Café Society's only shining star.Charlie Chaplin's only true love. Abandoned by her father as a young child and left to her own devices as a teenager in Manhattan, Oona O'Neill made her own luck. Days spent at an Upper East Side...- $31.99
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Author:Lily Dunn
A Wild and Precious Life: A Recovery Anthology
Featuring a foreword by Will Self. We all experience recovery at some point in our lives, whether from addiction, physical illness, mental health issues, or loss. Many of us heal, and we may discover ways to live with our changed selves, to reclaim a...- $15.95
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Author:Robert Loewen
The Lioness of Leiden
How do you fight the Nazis right under their noses? With cunning and courage. When the Germans invade the Netherlands, Leiden University student Hetty's boyfriend goes missing. But she has little time to grieve when she volunteers as a courier for the Dutch resistance,...- $28.95
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Author:Valeria Parrella
Almarina
'One of the most beautiful books published in recent years: an intense, poignant story' Caterina Bonvicini Can a prison free those who enter? Nisida, moored like a boat in the Mediterranean, is a small island nestled between Capri and Bagnoli, off the coast of...- $17.99
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Author:Am駘ie Nothomb
First Blood
WINNER OF THE 2021 RENAUDOT PRIZEWINNER OF THE 2022 STREGA EUROPEAN PRIZEA WORLD LITERATURE TODAY NOTABLE BOOK 2023A moving fictionalized account of Nothomb's own father, who died of Covid related symptoms in early 2020, this is the acclaimed author's most personal and heartfelt novel.The...- $18.00
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Author:Jeff Shaara
The Old Lion: A Novel of Theodore Roosevelt
In one of his most accomplished, compelling novels yet, acclaimed New York Times bestseller Jeff Shaara accomplishes what only the finest historical fiction can do - he brings to life one of the most consequential figures in U.S. history - Theodore Roosevelt - peeling...- $30.00
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Author:Sophie Haydock
The Flames
Set in the bold, Bohemian art world of early 20th-century Vienna, award-winning author Sophie Haydock's The Flames is the electrifying untold story of the four muses of controversial painter Egon Schiele. Vienna at the dawn of the 20th century is an opulent, extravagant city...- $28.00
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Author:Sarah Taylor
Beautiful Dreamer
"This is an interesting biography of the great songwriter Stephen Foster...The reader will learn much about Foster's life, family, and times in which he was living. Through stories from his Uncle Struthers, we learn about the Revolutionary War and the songs that were played...- $14.99
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Author:Maria Rybakova
Gnedich
Maria Rybakova's Gnedich captures the reader's attention in its first stanzas with a striking allusion to Homeric Greece: "The rage that killed so many/the wretched rage of Achilles/who knew that he would perish/ that he would perish young." This is a novel-in-verse about the...- $30.99
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Author:Deb Stratas
Diana, A Spencer Forever
How did a fashion icon transform into a beloved humanitarian on the world stage? How was the Princess of Wales able to successfully navigate a complex marital situation to her advantage? Was she or wasn't she in love that final summer? Diana, A Spencer...- $17.99
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Author:Joanna Hickson
The Tudor Crown
'An intriguing tale, told with confidence' The Times'A great tale... the golden thread that led to the crown of England' Conn IgguldenShe'll betray her king to crown her sonWhen Edward of York takes back the English crown, the Wars of the Roses scatter the...- $14.99
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Author:Charles Bukowski
Hot Water Music
With his characteristic raw and minimalist style, Charles Bukowski takes us on a walk through his side of town in Hot Water Music. He gives us little vignettes of depravity and lasciviousness, bite sized pieces of what is both beautiful and grotesque.The stories in...- $17.99
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Author:Sena Jeter Naslund
Abundance, a Novel of Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette was a child of fourteen when her mother, the Empress of Austria, arranged for her to leave her family and her country to become the wife of the fifteen-year-old Dauphin, the future King of France. Coming of age in the most public...- $16.99
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Author:Karl Ove Knausgaard
My Struggle: Book 2
"[Book 2] sears the reader because Knausgaard is a passionate idealist [who] wants to fight the conformity and homogeneity of modern bourgeois existence." --James Wood, The New YorkerIn the second installment of Karl Ove Knausgaard's monumental six-volume masterpiece, the character Karl Ove Knausgaard moves...- $20.00
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Author:Natalia Ginzburg
The City and the House
A sophisticated new package for Natalia Ginzburg's classic fiction This powerful novel is set against the background of Italy from 1939 to 1944, from the anxious months before the country entered the war, through the war years, to the Allied victory with its trailing...- $14.99
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Author:Sharon Kay Penman
Falls the Shadow
Simon de Montfort was a man ahead of his time in the thirteenth century, a disinherited Frenchman who talked his way into an English earldom and marriage with a sister of the English king, Henry III. A charismatic, obstinate leader, Simon soon lost patience...- $26.99
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Author:Sharon Kay Penman
Reckoning
"Penman's characters are so shrewdly imagined, so full of resonant human feeling that they seem to breathe on the page." --San Francisco Chronicle "Never forget, Llewelyn, that the world's greatest fool is a Welshman who trusts an English king." His father's words haunt Llewelyn...- $27.99
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Author:Amy Belding Brown
Mr. Emerson's Wife
In this novel about Ralph Waldo Emerson's wife, Lidian, Amy Belding Brown examines the emotional landscape of love and marriage. Living in the shadow of one of the most famous men of her time, Lidian becomes deeply disappointed by marriage, but consigned to public...- $19.99
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Author:Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Little House Books Vol. 1 (Loa #229): Little House in the Big Woods / Farmer Boy / Little House on the Prairie / On the Bank
Originally published from 1932 to 1943, Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books are classics of children's literature, beloved by millions. But readers who last enjoyed them as children may be astonished at the quiet poetry of Wilder's prose and the force and poignancy of...- $37.50
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Author:Morgan Llywelyn
Lion of Ireland
Morgan Llywelyn's New York Times bestselling historical classic of the greatest Irish king King. Warrior. Lover. Brian Boru was stronger, braver, and wiser than all other men--the greatest king Ireland has ever known. Out of the mists of the country's most violent age, he...- $20.99
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Author:Anna Kavan
Julia and the Bazooka
Anna Kavan now stands alongside Virginia Woolf as one of Britain's great 20th-century modernists. In this posthumous collection of Kavan's short stories, some of the author's most compelling writing is revealed, inspired in great part by her personal experiences--especially her nearly lifelong addiction to...- $15.95
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Author:Dawn Powell
Dawn Powell Novels, 1944-1962: My Home is Far Away, the Locusts Have No King, the Wicked Pavilion, the Golden Spur
American literature has known few writers capable of the comic lan and full-bodied portraiture that abound in the novels of Dawn Powell. Yet for decades after her death, Powell's work was out of print, cherished by a small band of admirers. Only recently has...- $35.00
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Author:Mark Adkin
The Sharpe Companion: The Early Years
Named "the direct heir to Patrick O'Brian" by The Economist, Bernard Cornwell is the undisputed master of historical battle fi ction, and for more than twenty years, his Richard Sharpe series has thrilled millions of readers worldwide on both the page and on television.Now...- $16.99
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Author:Ray Manzarek
The Poet in Exile
Is the lead singer of America's most notorious rock and roll band really buried in Paris? Years after the Poet's apparent death, his longtime musical collaborator and friend Roy receives the first of several mysterious postcards bearing cryptic verse, signed only "J." Trusting his...- $19.99
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Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky
Where the Bird Sings Best
The magnum opus from Alejandro Jodorowsky--director of The Holy Mountain, star of Jodorowsky's Dune, spiritual guru behind Psychomagic and The Way of Tarot, innovator behind classic comics The Incal and Metabarons, and legend of Latin American literature. There has never been an artist like...- $19.99
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Author:Kathy O'Shaughnessy
In Love with George Eliot
A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR What every lover of George Eliot's work wants: a new novel made from her life and mind Marian Evans is a scandalous figure, living in sin with a married man, George Henry Lewes. She has shocked polite society....- $17.00
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Author:Hg Wells
The Last Books of H.G. Wells: The Happy Turning & Mind at the End of Its Tether
These lost works of Wells, written near his death, deal with the apocalypse and the afterlife.Author: Hg Wells, Rudy Rucker, Colin WilsonISBN-10: 0976684314ISBN-13: 9780976684312Publisher: Monkfish Book PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2006Pages: 64Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.34lbsSize: 9.04h x 6.08w x 0.22d- $15.00
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Author:E. L. Doctorow
Homer & Langley
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, THE KANSAS CITY STAR, AND BOOKLIST Homer and Langley Collyer are brothers--the one blind and deeply intuitive, the other damaged into madness, or...- $17.00
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Author:Jeanne Kalogridis
I, Mona Lisa
"My name is Lisa di Antonio Gherardini Giocondo, though to acquaintances, I am known simply as Madonna Lisa. My story begins not with my birth but a murder, committed the year before I was born..." Florence, April 1478: The handsome Giuliano de' Medici is...- $25.99
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Author:Ralph Peters
Cain at Gettysburg
Winner of the American Library Association's W. Y. Boyd Award for Excellence in Military Fiction Two mighty armies blunder toward each other, one led by confident, beloved Robert E. Lee and the other by dour George Meade. They'll meet in a Pennsylvania crossroads town...- $20.99
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Author:Sanjay Gupta
Monday Mornings
Every time surgeons operate, they're betting their skills are better than the brain tumor, the faulty heart valve, the fractured femur. Sometimes, they're wrong. At Chelsea General, surgeons answer for bad outcomes at the Morbidity and Mortality conference, known as M & M. This...- $14.99
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Author:Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Little House Books Vol. 2 (Loa #230): By the Shores of Silver Lake / The Long Winter / Little Town on the Prairie / These Ha
Originally published from 1932 to 1943, Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books are classics of children's literature, beloved by millions. But readers who last enjoyed them as children may be astonished at the quiet poetry of Wilder's prose and the force and poignancy of...- $37.50
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Author:Martin Amis
Yellow Dog
A brilliant, painful, dazzling, and funny as hell novel about a family man who is attacked in a garden and suddenly becomes an anti-husband and anti-father, from "one of the greatest novelists of his generation" (TIME) "Amis is a stone-solid genius...a dazzling star of...- $17.00
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Author:Alan Derwi
Nightmare: The Incredible Story of Britain's Most Prolific Football Hooligan
The story of Jackson Frane, aka the Nightmare. A football hooligan who caused chaos and mayhem wherever he went. Author: Alan DerwiISBN-10: 8519086713ISBN-13: 9798519086714Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/21/2021Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.57d- $10.60
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Author:Elena Dimov
Gnedich
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Author:John Galt
The Annals of the Parish
The Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred and sixty, was remarkable for three things in the parish of Dalmailing.-First and foremost, there was my placing; then the coming of Mrs Malcolm with her five children to settle among us; and next, my marriage upon...- $6.99
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Author:Joseph O'Connor
Ghost Light
"This involving novel puts you inside the mind of Molly Allgood, an elderly actress wandering around the brilliantly evoked 1950s London of crumbling lodging houses and uncleared bombsites. Contrasting with the down-at-heel circumstances to which she is reduced are memories, rendered with sensuous freshness...- $19.00
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Author:Isaac Babel
The Lonely Years: 1925-1939: Unpublished Stories and Correspondence
Isaac Babel was a Jewish writer in the former Soviet Union who rose to fame in the 1920s for books such as Red Cavalry and Odessa Stories. But as Stalin's regime grew increasingly paranoid and repressive, Babel found it difficult to write or publish....- $15.95
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Author:Stephen Shender
Once There Was Fire: A Novel of Old Hawaii
A work of fiction informed by history, Once There Was Fire is the story of Kamehameha the Great, who rose from inauspicious beginnings on the Big Island of Hawai'i in the mid-1700s to conquer the entire archipelago by 1810. The founder of the Kingdom...- $23.00
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Biographical Fiction Books
Biographical fiction books are a unique genre that combines elements of biography and literature. They provide readers with a fascinating blend of historical fact and imaginative storytelling, offering a fresh perspective on the lives of real people throughout history. These books breathe life into the past, allowing readers to immerse themselves in the experiences, emotions, and challenges of prominent individuals.
One key characteristic of biographical fiction is its commitment to historical accuracy. Authors undertake meticulous research to ensure that the facts, events, and cultural nuances of the era are faithfully represented in the story. This makes biographical fiction a valuable source for both history enthusiasts and casual readers seeking an engaging narrative rooted in reality. However, unlike traditional biographies that often rely heavily on documented evidence, biographical fiction allows authors to speculate, imagine, and creatively fill in the gaps in a subject's life. This literary license enables them to delve deeper into a character's thoughts, emotions, and motivations, adding an extra layer of depth and intimacy to the storytelling.
Biographical fiction also provides authors with an opportunity to bring lesser-known figures or those with untold stories to the forefront. By shedding light on these often marginalized characters, these books enhance our understanding of history and challenge conventional narratives. In recent years, biographical fiction has gained popularity and garnered critical acclaim as readers increasingly seek narratives that combine the authenticity of biography with the narrative power of fiction. This genre not only bridges the gap between fact and fiction but also serves as a means of connecting readers with the lives, experiences, and struggles of individuals who have shaped our world.
Popular Books
One such popular book is "The Paris Wife" by Paula McLain. Set in the vibrant backdrop of 1920s Paris, the novel chronicles the turbulent relationship between Ernest Hemingway and his first wife, Hadley Richardson. McLain's exquisite storytelling brings to life the bohemian atmosphere of the Lost Generation, while delving into the complexities of love, ambition, and the sacrifices made in the pursuit of artistic success.
Another book that has garnered widespread acclaim is "The Invention of Wings" by Sue Monk Kidd. Inspired by the lives of real-life abolitionist and women's rights advocate Sarah Grimké, and her slave-handmaid Hetty/Handful, the novel explores themes of freedom, sisterhood, and the resilience of the human spirit. Kidd's masterful writing seamlessly blends historical facts with fictional elements, making for a powerful and thought-provoking read.
These are just a few examples of the popular books that make up the vast and diverse landscape of biographical fiction. Through these captivating tales, readers are given the opportunity to connect with the lives of extraordinary individuals, gaining a deeper understanding of their struggles, motivations, and lasting impact on history.