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Vendor: Ted Todd
A Doubtful Inheritance: a novel in the form of an autobiofiction
"A Doubtful Inheritance" This novel was part of the work for a PhD in literature/writing at Swinburne University 2014 About the book: The book is a novel but written as an 'autobiofiction'. The main character is a child of the Holocaust's and his story...- $12.90
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Vendor: Ann Swinfen
This Rough Ocean
It is December, 1648, and England faces one of the greatest crises in its history. Bands of renegade soldiers and broken men roam the countryside, looting, burning and raping. In Parliament, former allies are torn apart after six years of bloody conflict. Will there...- $18.99
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Vendor: Anna Lee Huber
Sisters of Fortune: A Riveting Historical Novel of the Titanic Based on True History
Readers of The Second Mrs. Astor by Shana Abé will be captivated as the USA Today bestselling author expertly weaves real historical figures and events into this vivid, surprising, emotionally powerful novel about longing for independence and love--and the moments that irrevocably change even...- $17.95
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Vendor: T. M. Brown
The Last Laird of Sapelo
The Last Laird of Sapelo is based on the tragic story of Randolph Spalding, the youngest son of Georgia's most well-known antebellum-era coastal planter and influential political figure, Thomas Spalding. Following his father's death in 1851, Randolph parlays his father's fame and gifted landholdings...- $29.95
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Vendor: James W. Jennings
Wings of Red
An inventive and stylish debut written by a Black educator, Wings of Red is a clear-eyed, funny, imperfect, and observant work of autofiction that grapples with the absurdity of the New York City educational system as a substitute teacher--that, in the end, reads as...- $16.95
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Vendor: Mary Wakefield Buxton
The Private War of William Styron
Returning to his childhood home in Virginia for the funeral of his stepmother, Elizabeth Buxton Styron, acclaimed writer William Styron finds himself plunged into boyhood reminiscence. He is "Billy" again, fourteen and heartbroken, with a mother recently passed from cancer and a grieving father...- $28.95
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Vendor: Vickie Edwards Smith
The Checkerboard Game of Life
Each of us is given a gift-the gift of life. At times, some may wish they could exchange their gift for a different version. Since that's not possible, we have to deal with what we are given. We have to learn how to play...- $12.95
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Vendor: Mohini
Arranged Marriages: In India
This is a story of two young hearts, who fall in love with each other. But how they met, where they met and ultimately what happened, is the story of "arranged marriages..."Author: MohiniISBN-10: 1482847965ISBN-13: 9781482847963Publisher: Partridge IndiaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/07/2015Pages: 94Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.24lbsSize: 8.00h x...- $5.99
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Vendor: George Lewis Prentiss
The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss
The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1882. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As...- $56.50
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Vendor: Laura Dowers
The Queen's Rebel: Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex
1588. The Spanish Armada has been defeated, but Elizabeth Tudor is grief-stricken.The Earl of Leicester has died and Elizabeth feels entirely alone. But at her court there is a young man who will chase her nightmares away and, she hopes, will be her adoring...- $16.99
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Vendor: Angela C. Robinson
Chabelo Full Story: From Child Star to National Treasure, The Incredible Journey of Chabelo.
I am proud to present the captivating and inspiring story of one of Mexico's most beloved and iconic television personalities, Chabelo. Through meticulous research and interviews with those closest to him, I have crafted a detailed and intimate portrait of his life, from his...- $5.45
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Vendor: Aharon Appelfeld
The Man Who Never Stopped Sleeping
A young holocaust survivor tries to create a new life in the newly established state of Israel. Erwin doesn't remember much about his journey across Europe when the war ended because he spent most of it asleep, carried by other survivors as they emerged...- $17.00
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Vendor: Elizabeth Loupas
The Second Duchess
A rich, compelling historical novel-and a mystery of royal intrigue. In a city-state known for magnificence, where love affairs and conspiracies play out amidst brilliant painters, poets and musicians, the powerful and ambitious Alfonso d'Este, duke of Ferrara, takes a new bride. Half of...- $22.00
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Vendor: Owen Martell
Intermission
Captivating and hypnotic English-language debut from a Welsh novelist, deftly imagining the lost months of a jazz giant and the noir feel of 1960s New York music sceneNew York, June 1961: the Bill Evans Trio, featuring 25 year old Scott LaFaro on bass, play...- $18.95
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Vendor: Jeannette Walls
Hang the Moon
"A rollicking tale." --The Washington Post *"Propulsive." --Associated Press * "Wild, smart, energetic." --Los Angeles Times * "Brilliant and effervescent." --NPR From the #1 bestselling author of The Glass Castle, the instant New York Times bestseller a "rip-roaring, action-packed" (The New York Times) novel...- $18.00
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Vendor: Kathleen Grissom
Crow Mary
The New York Times bestselling author of the book club classics The Kitchen House and Glory Over Everything returns with a sweeping and "richly detailed story of a woman caught between two cultures" (Sandra Dallas, New York Times bestselling author) inspired by the real...- $18.99
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Vendor: Emily Franklin
The Lioness of Boston
BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER "Brings Isabella Stewart Gardner fully, intimately alive--irrepressible and avid for life. In this richly compelling novel, Emily Franklin beautifully conjures this extraordinary woman and her world."--Claire Messud, author of The Emperor's Children A deeply evocative portrayal of the life of Isabella...- $28.95
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Vendor: Jeannette Walls
Hang the Moon
From Jeannette Walls, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle, comes a riveting new novel about an indomitable young woman in Virginia during Prohibition. Most folk thought Sallie Kincaid was a nobody who'd amount to nothing. Sallie had other plans....- $38.99
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Vendor: Marie Benedict
Her Hidden Genius
"Brings to life Franklin's grit and spirit...an important contribution to the historical record." --The Washington PostThe new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Mystery of Mrs. Christie!She changed the world with her discovery. Three men took the credit.Rosalind Franklin has...- $16.99
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Vendor: Olga Tokarczuk
The Books of Jacob
A NEW YORKER "ESSENTIAL READ" "Just as awe-inspiring as the Nobel judges claimed." - The Washington Post "Olga Tokarczuk is one of our greatest living fiction writers. . . This could well be a decade-defining book akin to Bola's 2666." -AV Club "Sophisticated and...- $20.00
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Vendor: Gigi Griffis
The Empress
"Sumptuous . . . Nothing in this story disappoints." --Publishers Weekly"A fresh, fast-paced take on a legendary woman." --Evie Dunmore, USA Today bestselling author of Bringing Down the DukeAs seen on Netflix, The Empress is a captivating, vivid, and remarkably modern tale about falling...- $17.00
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Vendor: Mike Triggs
You Can't Make This $#!+ Up!: Retail: Politics like you've never seen it before!
This can't be happening! Mike Triggs had spent most of his life in politics, primarily working for the Republican Party. In fact, he was considered a political golden boy until his career is forever tarnished. While managing a governor's re-election campaign, a right-wing opposing...- $17.49
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Vendor: L. J. Woolfe
Train
Train tells the story of an American teenage girl coming of age living in Antwerp, Belgium with her family during the 1970s. This whimsical autobiographical fiction takes you on a journey of self-discovery and celebrates how the bewitching power of nostalgia can touch a...- $14.99
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Vendor: Charles Frazier
Varina
Sooner or later, history asks, which side were you on?In his powerful new novel, Charles Frazier returns to the time and place of Cold Mountain, vividly bringing to life the chaos and devastation of the Civil WarHer marriage prospects limited, teenage Varina Howell agrees...- $16.99
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Vendor: Amy K. Sorrells
Miracle at the Sideshow: An Astounding Novel of the First Infant Incubators
A deadly fire. A sensational sideshow. And a baby fighting for its life. Sophie Rosenfeld dreams of a resplendent life in America after escaping the pogroms in Eastern Europe, only to lose her family in the horrific Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. Besides Sophie, the lone...- $14.99
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Vendor: Sandra Simonds
Assia
A novel from award-winning poet Sandra Simonds.With the lyric beauty of the poet she is, Sandra Simonds gives us a fresh portrait of Assia Wevill, a woman previously conceived mostly as a consort, a homewrecker, or a femme fatale. Simonds' novel refuses to be...- $18.00
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Vendor: Sandy Steinman
Eighteen
"Eighteen, by Sandy Steinman, is authentic, penetrative, and wise. Here is an amalgam of fiction and memoir, of tradition and culture rendered with a diamond cutter's precision and art. Here are small stories that have much to impart: so honestly, so engagingly - here...- $20.00
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Vendor: Kathleen Grissom
Crow Mary
The author of the book-club classics The Kitchen House and Glory Over Everything returns with a sweeping saga inspired by the true story of Crow Mary--an indigenous woman torn between two worlds in nineteenth-century North America.In 1872, sixteen-year-old Goes First, a Crow Native woman,...- $44.99
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Vendor: Mariah Fredericks
The Lindbergh Nanny
"When the most famous toddler in America, Charles Lindbergh, Jr., is kidnapped from his family home in New Jersey in 1932, the case makes international headlines. Already celebrated for his flight across the Atlantic, his father, Charles, Sr., is the country's golden boy, with...- $34.99
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Vendor: Rob Ewan
The Strange Separation of Jacob and Rob
What happens when a bright future is interrupted?As a young man coming of age in Kingston, Ontario, Rob absorbs knowledge with a passion. His love for learning takes him all over the world, from his school's computer club, to a summer math camp in...- $15.00
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Vendor: Zadie Smith
The Fraud
The New York Times bestseller - One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year - One of NPR's Best Books of the Year - Named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly and BookPage - One of Oprah...- $31.00
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Vendor: Hazel Gaynor
The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
From The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home comes a historical novel inspired by true events, and the extraordinary female lighthouse keepers of the past two hundred years."They call me a heroine, but I am not deserving of such...- $16.99
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Vendor: Roxana Trabulsi
Of Mud and Honey
As the reign of imperialism gives way to Communist control in Aden, Yemen, a young Parsi family finds themselves trapped as political prisoners. Their strength, love, and faith are pushed to the limits overnight as they take on the fight of their lives.November 1967....- $27.99
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Vendor: Diana Dempsey
The Unstoppable Eliza Haycraft
Longlisted, Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book 2023"Beautifully written, compulsively readable... " So says Indie Reader of The Unstoppable Eliza Haycraft - the riveting novel about a legendary woman in antebellum Missouri who allowed neither men nor society's conventions to keep her from cutting her...- $19.99
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Vendor: Arnold William Porter
I Slept for Ten Years in Henry James' Death Bed
I Slept for Ten Years in Henry James' Death Bed blends memoir, fiction and biography to tell a story about William James' daughter, Mary Margaret, and her marriage to San Francisco artist Bruce Porter, about of their son Deuze and his marriage to Bird,...- $7.38
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Vendor: Oksana Vasyakina
Wound
Finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction For fans of Maggie Nelson and Eileen Myles, the lyrical and deeply moving story of a young queer woman's journey across Russia to inter her mother's ashes and to understand her sexuality, femininity, and grief From...- $27.00
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Vendor: Michael January
Secret Memoirs of Mary Shelley: Frankenstein Diaries - The Romantics
The real love story of Frankenstein! In 1814, 16-year-old Mary Godwin fell in love with the 22-year-old married poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and in spite of the condemnation of their families and society, ran away to Paris, taking Mary's 15-year-old step-sister Claire with them,...- $18.99
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Vendor: Tanis Rideout
The Sea Between Two Shores
From the bestselling author of Above All Things and inspired by real events, this powerful novel follows two families brought together to reckon with what it means to make amends--for historic wrongs and the wrongs we commit against the ones we love. For readers...- $16.00
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Vendor: John Graves
Mr. Sparkles & His Ham
Mr. Sparkles is a real cat, and this is the story of how he came to live with his real-life family. He came to us as a thin, scared cat that hid under our barn and has turned into a purring, lovey housecat that...- $12.99
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Vendor: Anya Seton
Katherine
"An inspiration and the benchmark by which I judge historical novels."--Alison Weir"Exhilarating, exuberant, and rich," Katherine is an epic novel of a love affair that changed history--that of Katherine Swynford and John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, the ancestors of most of the British...- $22.99
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Vendor: Tarek Nakhla
The Fallen Leaf
When Amir got the call that his uncle was having health troubles, he did not quite understand the role that he was supposed to assume. His uncle had been living by himself and had kept his personal life private for many years. Amir gradually...- $12.95
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Vendor: Chris Lombardi
blue: season
A literary mystery, set in the 1990s: How did Molly, a promising musician and graduate student, end up in a Baltimore psychiatric hospital calling herself Lucia? Readers unravel the clues as hospital scenes alternate with Molly's journals. A story about memory, trauma, and Lucia...- $22.95
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Vendor: Barbara Mujica
Miss del Rio: A Novel of Dolores del Rio, the First Major Latina Star in Hollywood
Author: Barbara MujicaISBN-10: 8885787428ISBN-13: 9798885787420Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/05/2023Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.65lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.20dLarge Print- $34.99
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Vendor: Emilio Iodice
The Extraordinary Leadership of Eleanor Roosevelt: Why It Matters Today
Few had a greater impact on their generation than Eleanor Roosevelt. She was what she professed to be: a person not afraid of criticism, willing to take responsability and lead by example.Her life was filled with moments of sacrifice, pain, courage, astuteness, kindness, empathy,...- $15.00
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Vendor: Pip Williams
The Dictionary of Lost Words
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK - "Delightful . . . [a] captivating and slyly subversive fictional paean to the real women whose work on the Oxford English Dictionary went largely unheralded."--The New York Times Book Review "A marvelous fiction about...- $27.99
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Vendor: Justine Gilbert
Daisy Chain
WINNER PAGETURNER AWARD BEST BOOK TO SCREENPLAYLONGLISTED BEST BOOK HISTORICAL FICTION COMPANY'Daisy Chain was well researched and informative and I could hear the voice of Daisy as I was reading it.' Eimear Lawlor, author of Dublin's Girl'A revelation. Justine Gilbert is a master storyteller....- $16.99
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1000 Coils of Fear
"A multilayered and rhythmic debut novel about her life as a Black German woman living in Berlin and New York during the chaos of the 2016 U.S. presidential election from playwright Olivia Wenzel. A young woman attends a play about the fall of the...- $32.99
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Vendor: Kalb Kinu
The Infinity Code
A name that is written can only exist in a book. I have many names that you have read about throughout your religions and history but this is about one that you don't know yet. I gave it to myself to become something new......- $26.99
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Vendor: Giuliano Da Empoli
The Wizard of the Kremlin
A Best Book of the Year by Financial Times and Bloomberg Filled with real political insight and intrigue, this thrilling novel explores the nature of power through the inner workings of Putin's regime. Known as the "Wizard of the Kremlin," the enigmatic Vadim Baranov...- $16.99
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Vendor: Olivia Hawker
The Fire and the Ore
1857. Three women -- once strangers -- come together in unpredictable Utah Territory. Hopeful, desperate, and willful, they'll allow nothing on Earth or in Heaven to stand in their way.Author: Olivia HawkerISBN-10: 1638087121ISBN-13: 9781638087120Publisher: Platinum Spotlight SeriesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2023Pages: 500Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.45lbsSize: 8.00h...- $39.95
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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.

