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Vendor: Jeffrey Archer
Paths of Glory
Japanese edition of Paths of Glory. Fictionalized story of George Mallory, the great explorer of Mt. Everest and perhaps the first man to ever reach the summit, only to disappear, his body discovered on its slopes in 1999. Part 1 of 2 In Japanese....- $20.99
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Life & Times of Michael K
From author of Waiting for the Barbarians and Nobel Prize winner J.M. Coetzee. J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. In a South Africa turned by war, Michael K. sets...- $16.00
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The Voice of a People: Speeches from Black America
The Voice of a People: Speeches from Black America is a collection of speeches from some of the leading African American intellectuals, artists, activists, and organizers of the past three centuries. While many of their names―such as Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du...- $13.99
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The First Actress: A Novel of Sarah Bernhardt
"This novel about Sarah Bernhardt, the iconic French actress, is both a riveting portrait of the artist as a passionate young woman and a luscious historical novel full of period detail."--Melanie Benjamin, New York Times bestselling author of Mistress of the Ritz and The...- $17.00
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Tooth of the Covenant
Nathaniel Hawthorne pens a new tale to exact revenge on his ancestor, a notorious judge of the Salem witch trials Best known for his novel The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne was burdened by familial shame, which began with his great-great-grandfather John Hathorne, the infamously...- $16.99
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The Forgotten Flapper: A Novel of Olive Thomas
A presence lurks in New York City's New Amsterdam Theatre when the lights go down and the audience goes home. They say she's the ghost of OLIVE THOMAS, one of the loveliest girls who ever lit up the Ziegfeld Follies and the silent screen....- $21.99
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In the Sea There Are Crocodiles: Based on the True Story of Enaiatollah Akbari
What would you do if, when you were ten, you were left to fend for yourself, and, in order to survive, you had to undertake a harrowing journey all the way from Afghanistan to Italy? In early 2002, Enaiatollah Akbari's village fell prey to...- $16.95
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The Women
A "riveting" (Wall Street Journal) portrait of architect Frank Lloyd Wright and the women in his life - 2017 marks the 150th anniversary of Wright's birth Having brought to life eccentric cereal king John Harvey Kellogg in The Road to Wellville and sex researcher...- $18.00
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Vendor: Joe Siple
Charlie Fightmaster and the Search for Perfect Harmony
From USA Today bestselling author Joe Siple (The Five Wishes of Mr. Murray McBride) comes another of his distinctly authentic tales of redemption and love.When Charlie Fightmaster gets the call-up to the Major Leagues, all of his dreams are about to come true. But...- $17.95
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The Atlas of Reds and Blues
This Washington Post Best Book of the Year grapples with the complexities of the second-generation American experience, what it means to be a woman of color in the workplace, and a sister, a wife, and a mother to daughters in today's America. When a...- $25.00
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The Painted Girls
A heartrending, gripping novel about two sisters in Belle poque Paris and the young woman forever immortalized as muse for Edgar Degas' Little Dancer Aged Fourteen. 1878 Paris. Following their father's sudden death, the van Goethem sisters find their lives upended. Without his wages,...- $22.00
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The Conqueror: A Novel of William the Conqueror, the Bastard Son Who Overpowered a Kingdom and the Woman Who Melted His Heart
The true story of the bastard son who made himself a king and the woman who melted his heart.The stirring history of William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy, who invaded England and became the King. His victory, concluded at the Battle of Hastings in...- $19.99
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Voyage of Malice
Persecuted for their beliefs, one family must travel the globe for a place to call home...Geneva, 1688. Jeanne is barely scraping by on meager earnings from weaving. She dreams of her previous life as a wealthy merchant's wife before Louis XIV's soldiers ran her...- $19.99
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Vendor: Richard Ford
The Lay of the Land: Bascombe Trilogy (3)
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST - The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Independence Day and The Sportswriter brings back the unforgettable Frank Bascombe in this astonishing meditation on modern-day America. A sportswriter and a real estate agent, husband and father--Frank Bascombe...- $16.95
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Vendor: Stephanie Thornton
Daughter of the Gods: A Novel of Ancient Egypt
Egypt, 1400s BC. The pharaoh's pampered second daughter, lively, intelligent Hatshepsut, delights in racing her chariot through the marketplace and testing her archery skills in the Nile's marshlands. But the death of her elder sister, Neferubity, in a gruesome accident arising from Hatshepsut's games...- $22.00
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Vendor: Barbara Quick
Vivaldi's Virgins
Abandoned as an infant, fourteen-year-old Anna Maria dal Violin is one of the elite musicians living in the foundling home where the "Red Priest," Antonio Vivaldi, is maestro and composer. Fiercely determined to find out where she came from, Anna Maria embarks on a...- $16.99
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Radek
A first-ever English translation which reveals the inner voice of a brilliant Bolshevik politician during the first global revolution Through this dramatic history by Stefan Heym, we become intimate with the story of the maverick and internationalist Karl Radek, known as the editor of...- $28.00
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Vendor: Kent Carroll
I, John Kennedy Toole
A rich new novel that explores the true story of A Confederacy Of Dunces and the remarkable life of its author, John Kennedy Toole. I, John Kennedy Toole is the novelized true story of the funny, tragic, riveting narrative behind the making of an...- $14.95
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Vendor: Flora Harding
The People's Princess
Step behind the palace doors in this gripping historical novel that is a must read for fans of The Crown and Princess Diana!Buckingham Palace, 1981Her engagement to Prince Charles is a dream come true for Lady Diana Spencer but marrying the heir to the...- $16.99
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Vendor: Jillian Cantor
Half Life
The USA Today bestselling author of In Another Time reimagines the pioneering, passionate life of Marie Curie using a parallel structure to create two alternative timelines, one that mirrors her real life, one that explores the consequences for Marie and for science if she'd...- $21.99
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Vendor: Ron Hansen
Desperadoes
At age 65, Emmett Dalton, the sole survivor of the infamous Dalton gang makes a living by selling his outrageous adventure stories to Hollywood. Desperadoes details his memories of the murders, bootlegging and thievery he and his posse committed. The grit and excitement of...- $15.99
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Stay Gone Days
After a childhood in Mississippi marred by a horrific family scandal, teenage sisters Ella and Caroline Cole escape their hometown, losing all connection to each other. While Ella finds stable domesticity in Boston, Caroline travels the world, from California to Poland, fleeing regrets and...- $17.95
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Vendor: Hilary Mantel
The Mirror & the Light
The brilliant #1 New York Times bestseller Named a best book of 2020 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, The Guardian, and many more With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began...- $19.99
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Vendor: Karen Vorbeck Williams
My Enemy's Tears: The Witch of Northampton
She was real. She was rich and beautiful. She was tried as a witch in 1675--and survived. Based on the lives of Mary Bliss Parsons and Sarah Lyman Bridgeman, My Enemy's Tears: The Witch of Northampton, takes us back to life in the Puritan...- $18.95
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Vendor: Vladimir Nabokov
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is a perversely magical literary detective story -- subtle, intricate, leading to a tantalizing climax -- about the mysterious life of a famous writer. Many people knew things about Sebastian Knight as a distinguished novelist, but probably fewer...- $22.00
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Vendor: Erika Robuck
Hemingway's Girl
From the bestselling author of The House of Hawthorne comes a historical fiction novel that gives life to the women behind novelist Ernest Hemingway in a "robust, tender story of love, grief, and survival on Key West in the 1930s."* In Depression-era Key West,...- $16.00
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Vendor: Paula McLain
The Paris Wife
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A deeply evocative novel of ambition and betrayal that captures the love affair between two unforgettable people, Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley--from the author of Love and Ruin and When the Stars Go Dark "A beautiful portrait of...- $28.00
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Lionheart
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "The great Crusader king Richard the Lionheart comes alive in all his complex splendor in this masterpiece of medieval tapestry."--Margaret George A.D. 1189. After the death of his father, Henry II, and the early demise of two of his brothers,...- $17.00
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Vendor: Sarah Miller
Caroline: Little House, Revisited
USA Today Bestseller!One of Refinery29's Best Reads of SeptemberIn this novel authorized by the Little House Heritage Trust, Sarah Miller vividly recreates the beauty, hardship, and joys of the frontier in a dazzling work of historical fiction, a captivating story that illuminates one courageous,...- $19.99
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The Other Alcott
A People Magazine and POPSUGAR pick " May's] adventures illuminate the world of intrepid female artists in the late 1800s ...] The Other Alcott comes alive in its development of the relationship between Louisa and May." --The New York Times Elise Hooper's debut novel...- $15.99
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The Lip Reader
★★★★★ "A beautifully touching story of a tenacious woman!" - Reader Review___"It's not what you get in life, it's what you give back that truly defines you."Set in Iran during the 1960s and 1970s, and later in Los Angeles, California, Zhila Shirazi tells her...- $22.99
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Wings of Silk
After surviving a childhood under the oppressive rule of Chairman Mao's "Cultural Revolution," a young, courageous teenager abandons her life in China for the freedom of the unknown in America. Arriving at the New York City doorstep of family members she's never met, Ying-Ying...- $24.99
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Baltimore Catechism: A Year of Confirmation
When readers first met John as a young boy in the book Baltimore Catechism: Clean Slate, he had just begun attending Catholic school and spent much of his time trying to discern exactly what the nuns were teaching him and what it really meant...- $14.99
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Vendor: Camille Laurens
Girl
From the acclaimed author of Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, a deeply personal and insightful account of being a girl, woman, and mother in a world that sees the feminine as less than. Born in 1959 to a middle-class family, Laurence Barraqué grows up with...- $16.99
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Vendor: Pamela Binnings Ewen
The Queen of Paris: A Novel of Coco Chanel
Legendary fashion designer Coco Chanel is revered for her sophisticated style--the iconic little black dress--and famed for her intoxicating perfume Chanel No. 5. Yet behind the public persona is a complicated woman of intrigue, shadowed by mysterious rumors. The Queen of Paris, the new...- $37.99
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Vendor: Stephanie Barron
That Churchill Woman
The Paris Wife meets PBS's Victoria in this enthralling novel of the life and loves of one of history's most remarkable women: Winston Churchill's scandalous American mother, Jennie Jerome. Wealthy, privileged, and fiercely independent New Yorker Jennie Jerome took Victorian England by storm when...- $17.00
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Vendor: Karl Ove Knausgaard
My Struggle, Book Three
A family of four--mother, father and two boys--move to the South Coast of Norway to a new house on a newly developed site. It is the early 1970s and the family's trajectory, upwardly mobile: the future seems limitless. In painstaking, sometimes self-lacerating detail, Knausgaard...- $27.00
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Vendor: Jackson Taylor
The Blue Orchard
On the eve of the Great Depression, Verna Krone, the child of Irish immigrants, must leave the eighth grade and begin working as a maid to help support her family. Her employer takes inappropriate liberties, and as Verna matures, it seems as if each...- $18.99
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Vendor: Imre Kert駸z
Fatelessness
At the age of 14 Georg Koves is plucked from his home in a Jewish section of Budapest and without any particular malice, placed on a train to Auschwitz. He does not understand the reason for his fate. He doesn't particularly think of himself...- $17.00
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Vendor: Rainer Maria Rilke
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
This is the definitive, widely acclaimed translation of the major prose work of one of our century's greatest poets -- "a masterpiece like no other" (Elizabeth Hardwick) -- Rilke's only novel, extraordinary for its structural uniqueness and purity of language. First published in 1910,...- $22.00
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Becoming Madame Mao
In a sweeping, erotically charged story that moves gracefully from the intimately personal to the great stage of world history, Anchee Min renders a powerful tale of passion, betrayal, and survival and creates a finely nuanced and always ambiguous portrait of one of the...- $19.99
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The Tale of Cuckoo Brow Wood
Miss Potter's new hometown of Holly How is having its share of troubles, and three children, favorites of Beatrix, are counting on the help of the fairies of Cuckoo Brow Wood. Now, with her signature tact, Beatrix must work with her friends-human and animal-to...- $7.99
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Frangipani
In Tahiti, it's a well-known fact that women are wisest, mothers know best, and Materena Mahi knows best of all -- or so everyone except for her own daughter thinks. Soon enough, mother and daughter are engaged in a tug-of-war that tests the bonds...- $21.99
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Voss
Join J. M. Coetzee and Thomas Keneally in rediscovering Nobel Laureate Patrick White In 1973, Australian writer Patrick White was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature. Set in nineteenth-century...- $20.00
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Life's Journey
Penelope, aged 9, and her family emigrate from the UK to Australia. This book covers her journey onboard the ship and her family's friendship with a Greek family. This friendship continues in Australia throughout their life's journey.The book includes the life effects of being...- $18.00
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Over Seas of Memory
Based loosely on the author's life, this novel recounts the narrator's journey following the footsteps of his Mauritius-born grandfather, Maxime, who abruptly boarded a boat bound for Madagascar in 1922 and never returned. Micha? Ferrier tells a tale of discovery as well as the...- $19.95
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The Summer Queen: A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine
Scandal, politics, sex, triumphs, and tragedies abound in The Summer Queen, the first novel in this stunning trilogy, by New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth ChadwickYoung Eleanor has everything to look forward to as the heiress to the wealthy Aquitaine. But when her beloved...- $23.99
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A masterpiece of modern fiction, James Joyce's semiautobiographical first novel follows Stephen Dedalus, a sensitive and creative youth who rebels against his family, his education, and his country by committing himself to the artist's life. "I will not serve," vows Dedalus, "that in which...- $5.95
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What Is Written on the Tongue
For readers of Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See and Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, a transportive historical novel about finding morality in the throes of war and colonization Released from Nazi forced labor as World War II ends, 20-year-old Sam...- $19.95
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Merle Haggard, Bonnie Owens, & Me
Fuzzy Owen and Merle Haggard worked together for over 50 years, yet they never had a contract. Fuzzy was Merle's steel guitar player, recording engineer, producer, promoter, booking agent, accountant, bus driver, mechanic and always Merle's friend. Fuzzy, of course, did not write "Mama...- $15.00
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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.

