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Vendor: Wayne G. Hammond
The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion
In The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion internationally acclaimed scholars Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull examine Tolkien's masterpiece chapter by chapter, offering expert insights into its evolution, structure, and meaning. They discuss in close detail important literary and historical influences on...- $35.00
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Vendor: James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Joyce's semi-autobiographical chronicle of Stephen Dedalus' passage from university student to "independent" artist is at once a richly detailed, amusing, and moving coming-of-age story, a tour de force of style and technique, and a profound examination of the Irish psyche and society.Author: James JoyceISBN-10:...- $6.00
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Vendor: Stephanie Dray
Lily of the Nile
The extraordinary daughter of Cleopatra and Mark Antony seeks to reclaim her birthright in the first novel of an epic historical fiction trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of America's First Daughter. From the first breath of her life, young Princess Selene...- $22.00
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Vendor: Karen Harper
The Queen's Secret: A Novel of England's World War II Queen
If you love Jennifer Robson or The Crown you will love New York Times bestselling author Karen Harper's novel about Elizabeth, The Queen Mother. 1939. As the wife of the King George VI and the mother of the future queen, Elizabeth--"the queen mother"--shows a...- $21.99
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Vendor: Sandy Schachter
An Unforgotten Heart
Growing up, my mother told me stories of her childhood. As a young girl, I understood the narrative, but as I grew older, I realized that what I knew of my mother's past was incomplete, with only bits and pieces that made her life...- $21.95
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Vendor: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The House of the Dead
The House of the Dead is a semi-autobiographical novel published in 1860-2 in the journal Vremya by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, which portrays the life of convicts in a Siberian prison camp. The novel has also been published under the titles Memoirs from the...- $29.95
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Vendor: Johanna Wittenberg
The Falcon Queen
Ninth-century Norway, the island of Trom y. sa has won back her father's kingdom, but can she hold it? The evil shapeshifter Hrolf lurks in the hinterlands, plotting revenge. The powerful Danes threaten from across the Skagerrak Sea, demanding marriage in exchange for peace,...- $13.99
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Vendor: Janet Wertman
The Boy King
One of Open Letters Review's Ten Best Historical Novels of 2020; First Place Winner, 2021 Chaucer Award for pre-1750s historical fiction"Highly recommend both as a standalone and series read. Wertman's work is among the best Tudor fiction on the market" - Historical Fiction Reader...- $15.99
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Vendor: Christopher Castellani
Leading Men
An expansive yet intimate story of desire, artistic ambition, and fidelity, set in the glamorous literary and film circles of 1950s Italy In July of 1953, at a glittering party thrown by Truman Capote in Portofino, Italy, Tennessee Williams and his longtime lover Frank...- $17.00
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Vendor: Clare McHugh
A Most English Princess: A Novel of Queen Victoria's Daughter
"In this sweeping, immersive novel, Clare McHugh draws readers into the mesmerizing world of the eldest daughter of Queen Victoria - Princess Vicky - as she emerges into a powerful force in her own right and ascends to become the first German Empress." --Marie...- $16.99
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Vendor: Fiona Alison Duncan
Exquisite Mariposa
In the aftermath of a reality TV deal gone wrong, Fiona Alison Duncan asks the question, Can you rewrite your life? The answer, her debut novel Exquisite Mariposa, follows a cast of housemates as they navigate questions of art making and economies, breakups and...- $16.95
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Vendor: C. Northcote Parkinson
The Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower: A Biography of C.S. Forester's Famous Naval Hero
Many know of Horatio Hornblower's exploits during the Napoleonic Wars through the novels of C.S. Forester, but how many know the true Hornblower - the man who rose from midshipman to admiral of the British Fleet? Using Hornblower family papers discovered in the 1970s,...- $22.95
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Vendor: Lindsay Jayne Ashford
The Woman on the Orient Express
Hoping to make a clean break from a fractured marriage, Agatha Christie boards the Orient Express in disguise. But unlike her famous detective Hercule Poirot, she can't neatly unravel the mysteries she encounters on this fateful journey.Agatha isn't the only passenger on board with...- $14.95
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Vendor: Tara Mondou
Little Girl in the Mirror: Cathy's Story
Ever since she could remember, little Cathy Barron loved living with her grandparents on Cape Breton Island, and every summer she looked forward to the day her mother would step off the train from Ontario in her fancy outfit and her red lipstick to...- $18.99
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Vendor: James Joyce
Stephen Hero
It was originally rejected on grounds of indecency--so the story goes-- by twenty publishers, whereupon Joyce threw the manuscript in the fire, but Mrs. Joyce rescued several unburnt portions. Although Joyce later entirely rewrote his novel of a young Irishman's rebellion against church, country...- $17.95
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Vendor: Peter Matthiessen
Killing Mister Watson
Now in paperback, Killing Mister Watson is the bestselling novel proclaimed by critics throughout the country as Peter Matthiessen's masterpiece. Drawn from fragments of historical fact, it brilliantly depicts the fortunes of Edgar J. Watson, a real-life entrpreneur and outlaw who appeared in the...- $17.00
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Vendor: Eva Stachniak
The Winter Palace: A Novel of Catherine the Great
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal - The Washington Post From award-winning author Eva Stachniak comes this passionate novel that illuminates, as only fiction can, the early life of one of history's boldest women. The Winter...- $17.00
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Vendor: Wallace Stegner
Joe Hill: A Biographical Novel
Wallace Stegner's remarkable portrait of Joe Hill, the man and the legend: from his entrance into the Industrial Workers of the World union, the most militant organization in the history of American labor, to his trial, imprisonment, and final martyrdom. Blending fact with fiction,...- $20.00
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Vendor: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The House of the Dead
Accused of political subversion as a young man, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was sentenced to four years of hard labor at a Siberian prison camp -- a horrifying experience from which he developed this astounding semi-autobiographical memoir of a man condemned to ten years of servitude...- $11.00
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Vendor: Karl Ove Knausgaard
Spring
"Spring features Knausgaard unbound, writing for the first time without a gimmick or the crutch of extravagant experimentation...Fall in love with the world, he enjoins, stay sensitive to it, stay in it." -The New York Times"Poignant and beautiful...Even if you think you won't like...- $20.00
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Vendor: Kate Kelsen
The Wilted Rose
As a teenager, Sarah Ross excels academically and athletically. She loves horse riding and competing in school sports, but her involvement in these activities is limited by her family's strict religious beliefs. As a young woman in the 1950s, Sarah's aspirations of becoming a...- $20.00
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Vendor: Herbert J. Stern
Wolf
In the Great Tradition of Herman Wouk, Author of Winds of War and War and Remembrance, Wolf is a Thoroughly Researched Historical Novel about a Man who is Not Yet a Monster . . . but Will Soon Become the Ultimate One: Adolf Hitler....- $19.99
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Vendor: Ariel Dorfman
Cautivos
This short novel is about confinement, both of the mind and of the body, and therefore also about liberation.Set in the last years of the 16th century, Cautivos is a meditation on writing, writers, and creativity. Then as now, Islam and Christianity were at...- $18.00
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Vendor: Kazuo Ishiguro
An Artist of the Floating World
The Man Booker Prize-shortlisted novel by 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature winner, Kazuo Ishiguro From A to Z, the Penguin Drop Caps series collects 26 unique hardcovers--featuring cover art by Jessica Hische It all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop...- $26.00
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Vendor: Joshua Ferris
A Calling for Charlie Barnes
Named a best book of the year by NPR, Vogue, and the New York Times Book Review, the hilarious and profound new novel from National Book Award finalist Joshua Ferris is "a fine American novel about family, love, and a decent but flawed man...- $17.99
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Vendor: Marshall Saunders
Beautiful Joe
Saunders' most famous novel Beautiful Joe, tells the true story of dog that has had a difficult puppyhood with many obstacles including a cruel owner. It is told from the dog's point of view. When the book was published, both the book and its...- $29.95
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Vendor: Marguerite Duras
The Lover, Wartime Notebooks, Practicalities: Introduction by Rachel Kushner
A hardcover omnibus edition of the French writer's most famous novel--the basis for the film Memoir of War--alongside her fascinating wartime writings and a collection of intimate autobiographical essays. Marguerite Duras was one of the leading intellectuals and novelists of postwar France, but her...- $30.00
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Vendor: Sarah-Jane Stratford
Radio Girls
The Great War is over, and change is in the air, in this novel that brings to life the exciting days of early British radio...and one woman who finds her voice while working alongside the brilliant women and men of the BBC. London, 1926....- $16.00
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Vendor: Brad Watson
Miss Jane
Since his award-winning debut collection of stories, Last Days of the Dog-Men, Brad Watson has been expanding the literary traditions of the South in work as melancholy, witty, strange, and lovely as any in America. Drawing on the true story of his great-aunt, he...- $15.95
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Vendor: Kathleen Vellenga
Tides of the Kennebec
Strangers in Our Midst introduced us to the friendship formed between Elizabeth and Attitash in 1620, and across the first years of Plimoth Plantation; In the Midst of Bounty showed a growing colony in tension with itself as well as the Indigenous people of...- $16.95
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Vendor: Mandy Goodwin
I Played the Smart Pig
Audrey has a lot on her mind.In some ways, she's just like any other West Coast kid growing up in the late 1960s, preoccupied with riding bikes, the new restaurant with the golden arches, and the most effective way to set up a slip...- $11.99
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Vendor: Julián Fuks
Occupation
"This is one beautiful book."--Mia CoutoKnown and celebrated in Brazil and abroad for his novel Resistance, Julián Fuks returns to his auto-fictional alter ego Sebastián in a narrative alternating between the writer's conversations with refugees occupying a building in downtown São Paulo, his father's...- $15.95
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Vendor: John Cribb
Old Abe
Finalist for the 2020 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards "This is the best book about Abraham Lincoln I've ever read." - William J. Bennett, former US Secretary of Education and author of The Book of Virtues Old Abe, the sweeping historical novel...- $28.00
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Vendor: Marie Benedict
Lady Clementine
Author: Marie BenedictISBN-10: 1432872788ISBN-13: 9781432872786Publisher: Large Print PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/19/2020Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.20dLarge Print- $17.99
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Vendor: Walter Pater
Marius the Epicurean: His Sensations and Ideas - Both Volumes of the Philosophic Novel, Complete
Walter Pater's coming-of-age novel is presented whole in this edition, that readers may witness the change in Marius's philosophical and spiritual views.Marius is a young man living in Rome in the 2nd century AD, a time when the classical traditions of philosophy were in...- $13.98
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Vendor: Ron Hansen
The Kid
"A marvelous journey into both history and imagination...A perfectly compelling and fast-paced story" (San Francisco Chronicle) from Ron Hansen about an iconic American criminal of the old West: legendary outlaw, Billy the Kid. Born Henry McCarty, Billy the Kid was a diminutive, charming, blond-haired...- $18.00
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Vendor: Anya Seton
My Theodosia
"Anya Seton's portraits of Aaron and Theodosia Burr alike are vivid and credible . . . The narrative is well sustained, and provides as background an entertaining account of the manners, the ways of living and traveling and entertaining followed during the early years...- $17.99
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Vendor: Eric Jorgensen
Only in LA: A Year in the Life of a Hollywood Trainer: A Short Novel Based on True Events
Only in LA showcases the true meaning of Hollywood excesses through the eyes of a personal trainer. Our hero, Devon, a good-looking, fitness expert whose heart has been recently shattered, goes on a tumultuous journey which includes a murder mystery, a major accident, loss...- $15.99
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Vendor: Susan Vreeland
The Passion of Artemisia
"Susan Vreeland set a high standard with Girl in Hyacinth Blue.... The Passion of Artemisia is even better.... Vreeland's unsentimental prose turns the factual Artemisia into a fictional heroine you won't soon forget." --People A true-to-life novel of one of the few female post-Renaissance...- $17.00
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Vendor: Mary Doria Russell
Epitaph: A Novel of the O.K. Corral
Mary Doria Russell, the bestselling, award-winning author of The Sparrow, returns with Epitaph. An American Iliad, this richly detailed and meticulously researched historical novel continues the story she began in Doc, following Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday to Tombstone, Arizona, and to the gunfight...- $16.99
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Vendor: Nooshie Motaref
Bird of Passage
Bird of Passage is a fascinating account of a woman, Mitra, born in Iran who moves through the world looking for love, spiritual healing, and an understanding of what has happened to her homeland. Due to the well-constructed plot arc, Mitra will feel like...- $14.95
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Vendor: Constance Bierkan
In Spite of It All
In Spite of It All spans the parallel stories of two women: New Yorker, Claire Fitzgerald, who has yet to realize her strengths, and Frenchwoman Madeleine de Beaulieu, whose impetuousness will lead her astray. It's 1945 and the war in Europe is winding down....- $25.95
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Vendor: Brook Allen
Antonius: Soldier of Fate
The Antonius Trilogy's riveting conclusion... Antonius: Soldier of FateMarcus Antonius has it all-power, prestige, a heroic military reputation, and the love of Queen Cleopatra. But as master of Rome's Eastern provinces and kingdoms, he must maintain peace, and in so doing, he sacrifices his...- $21.95
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Vendor: Renata Adler
Pitch Dark
A strange, thrilling novel about desperate love, paranoia, and heartbreak by one of America's most singular writers. "What's new. What else. What next. What's happened here." Pitch Dark is a book about love. Kate Ennis is poised at a critical moment in an affair...- $16.95
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Vendor: Frederick Exley
A Fan's Notes
Rejacketed, the first volume in Fred Exley's autobiographical trilogy is reissued to coincide with the publication of the third new volume, Last Notes From Home.Author: Frederick ExleyISBN-10: 0679720766ISBN-13: 9780679720768Publisher: VintageLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/12/1988Pages: 400Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.06h x 5.18w x 0.73d- $17.00
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The Citadel
"Cronin's distinguished achievement....No one could have written as fine, honest, and moving a study of a young doctor as The Citadel without possessing great literary taste and skill." --The Atlantic MonthlyA groundbreaking novel of its time and a National Book Award winner.The Citadel follows...- $21.99
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The Minorcan Princess: A St. Augustine Story
The Minorcan Princess tells the story of a family whose ancestors arrived in St. Augustine in 1777 and are working every day to provide seafood to those who cannot produce their own. It describes a culture struggling to survive in today's world. It is...- $23.95
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Carolina Built
A vivid and moving novel based on the incredible life of real estate magnate Josephine N. Leary--a previously untold story of passion, perseverance, and building a legacy after emancipation in North Carolina.Josephine N. Leary is determined to build a life of her own and...- $39.99
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The Rebel Nun
Marj Charlier's The Rebel Nun is based on the true story of Clotild, the daughter of a sixth-century king and his concubine, who leads a rebellion of nuns against the rising misogyny and patriarchy of the medieval church.At that time, women are afforded few...- $19.99
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Vendor: Hermann Hesse
Knulp: Three Tales from the Life of Knulp
Knulp is the eternal drifter, a true drop-out of an earlier time. Originally published in Germany in 1915, Knulp was Hermann Hesse's most popular book in the years before he published Demian. During the 1950's, the book was influential on Jack Kerouac author of...- $9.50
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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.

