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Vendor: Sara Stridsberg
Valerie: Or, the Faculty of Dreams: A Novel
A fever dream of a novel--strangely funny, entirely unconventional--Valerie conjures the life, mind, and art of American firebrand Valerie Solanas In April 1988, Valerie Solanas--the writer, radical feminist, author of the SCUM Manifesto and would-be assassin of Andy Warhol--was discovered dead at fifty-two in...- $18.00
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Vendor: Nancy Judd Minor
Malheur August
Malheur August opens with a map of Malheur County, OR and its Malheur River. "Malheur" means "bad time," we're told--and Nancy Minor plays with that notion skillfully. Set in 1971 with substantial flashback to the 1940s, her novel becomes an utterly convincing portrait of...- $16.95
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Vendor: Henry Green
Living
A timeless work of social satire, set in the 1920s and considered one of the most insightful Modernist depictions of England's working class Living is a book about life in a factory town and the operations of a factory, from the workers on the...- $14.00
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Vendor: Shashi Tharoor
The Great Indian Novel
"A wickedly funny satire, sparing no one, not even Mahatma Gandhi . . . Just thinking about it makes me want to go back and reread it."--Fareed Zakaria, New York Times Book Review In this award-winning novel, Shashi Tharoor has masterfully recast the two-thousand-year-old...- $19.99
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Vendor: Kim Won-Il
The House with a Sunken Courtyard
An occasionally terrifying and always vivid portrayal of what it was like to live as a refugee immediately after the end of the Korean War.Author: Kim Won-IlISBN-10: 1564789136ISBN-13: 9781564789136Publisher: Dalkey Archive PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/16/2013Pages: 229Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.70d- $15.00
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Vendor: Elizabeth Chadwick
The Winter Crown: A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine
Leaving France behind to become Queen of England, Eleanor of Aquitaine has a new cast of enemies--including her own husband, in the next book by New York Times bestselling author, Elizabeth ChadwickEver since her marriage to Louis VII of France was annulled, Eleanor has...- $22.99
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Vendor: Francisco Goldman
Say Her Name
In 2005, celebrated novelist Francisco Goldman married a beautiful young writer named Aura Estrada in a romantic Mexican hacienda. The month before their second anniversary, during a long-awaited holiday, Aura broke her neck while body surfing. Francisco, blamed for Aura's death by her family...- $15.00
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Vendor: Sarah-Jane Stratford
Red Letter Days
When two brave women flee from the Communist Red Scare, they soon discover that no future is free from the past.Amid the glitz and glamour of 1950s New York, Phoebe Adler pursues her dream of screenwriting. A dream that turns into a living nightmare...- $17.00
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Vendor: Alison Weir
Captive Queen: A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine
Nearing her thirtieth birthday, Eleanor of Aquitaine has spent the past dozen frustrating years as wife to the pious King Louis VII of France. But when Henry of Anjou, the young and dynamic future king of England, arrives at the French court, he and...- $17.00
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Vendor: Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe
- Marketing activity is focused on visibility in-store and online- Pre-publication mailings to special interest media, national and regional magazines, - Major focus on gift, travel, tourist sector- Mailings and promotion to Museums and galleries and local exhibitions. Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE...- $12.99
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Vendor: Louis de Wohl
The Restless Flame: A Novel about St. Augustine
This is a stirring novel which deals reverently but realistically with the fascinating life and era of St. Augustine, one of the most remarkable men of all time.In his vigorous and inimitable style, Louis de Wohl tells the story of St. Augustine's transformation from...- $18.95
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Set All Afire: A Novel of St. Francis Xavier
Saint Francis Xavier's life is, in itself, a dramatic story. With humility and deep religious conviction, the famous Catholic novelist Louis de Wohl takes us into the mind and heart of this great missionary and saint who went by order of St. Ignatius of...- $17.95
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Vendor: Mark Dunn
IBID
Only Mark Dunn, author of the acclaimed Ella Minnow Pea, would attempt to write a novel entirely in footnotes-and succeed so triumphantly. Ibid is the off-the-wall fictional biography of Jonathan Blashette, a three-legged circus performer and deodorant entrepreneur. Dunn, a character in his own...- $15.99
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Vendor: Leo Tolstoy
Childhood, Boyhood, Youth
A new, definitive translation of Tolstoy's early autobiographical trilogyLeo Tolstoy began his trilogy, Childhood; Boyhood; Youth, in his early twenties. Although he would in his old age famously dismiss it as an 'awkward mixture of fact and fiction', generations of readers have not agreed,...- $17.00
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Vendor: Kerri Maher
The Paris Bookseller
Author: Kerri MaherISBN-10: 1432896865ISBN-13: 9781432896867Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/25/2022Pages: 485Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.00dLarge Print- $33.99
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Vendor: Clarence Major
The Lurking Place
What happens when the drive to succeed professionally collides with ambitions of the heart? In The Lurking Place, James Eric Lowell, a young Black poet, strives to advance his career and extend his whirlwind romance with his white lover, Sophia. Set in New York...- $16.95
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Vendor: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Little Boy
From the famed publisher and poet, author of the million-copy-selling collection A Coney Island of the Mind, his literary last will and testament -- part autobiography, part summing up, part Beat-inflected torrent of language and feeling, and all magical. "A volcanic explosion of personal...- $17.00
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Vendor: Una McCormack
The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway
The captain who went further than any had before tells her lifestory for the first time in her own words; perfect for fans of the upcoming Star Trek: Prodigy Kathryn Janeway reveals her career in Starfleet, from her first command to her epic journey...- $24.99
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Vendor: Camron Wright
The Rent Collector
Survival for Ki Lim and Sang Ly is a daily battle at Stung Meanchey, the largest municipal waste dump in all of Cambodia. They make their living scavenging recyclables from the trash. Life would be hard enough without the worry for their chronically ill...- $22.99
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Vendor: Louis de Wohl
The Golden Thread: A Novel about St. Ignatius Loyola
As in his other popular novels, Louis de Wohl, with humility and deep religious conviction, takes us into the mind and heart of a saint, giving at the same time an enthralling picture of the era in which he lived.Here is a skillful weaving...- $16.95
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Vendor: Jennifer Cody Epstein
The Painter from Shanghai
Down the muddy waters of the Yangtze River, through the raucous glamour of prewar Shanghai and the bohemian splendor of 1920s Paris, and back to a China teetering on the brink of revolution: this is the epic story of Pan Yuliang, one of the...- $28.95
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Vendor: Evelyn Waugh
Helena
Evelyn Waugh's personal favorite of his novels and "a superlatively well done book" (Chicago Tribune) set in the age of Emperor Constantine. Helena is the intelligent, horse-mad daughter of a British chieftain who is thrown into marriage with the man who will one day...- $18.99
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Vendor: Dan Simmons
Drood
On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London with his secret mistress, 53-year-old Charles Dickens -- at the height of his powers and popularity, the most famous and successful novelist in the world and perhaps in the history of the world --...- $19.99
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Vendor: Margaret George
Mary, Called Magdalene
The New York Times bestselling author of The Splendor Before the Dark reveals the untold story of Mary Magdalene--a disciple of Jesus Christ and the most mysterious woman in the Bible.Was Mary Magdalene a prostitute, a female divinity figure, a church leader, or all...- $19.95
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Vendor: Geraldine Marshall
Nauvoo: Beyond Adieu: Have You Heard the Call?
We live in a world of division, strife, and inequality. What is it about human nature that creates this? And what does it take to rise above it? The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been on a quest to create Zion...- $19.95
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Vendor: Pamela Hamilton
Lady Be Good: The Life and Times of Dorothy Hale
Kirkus Starred Review - A Kirkus Best Indie Book of the Year - BookLife by Publishers Weekly Editor's Pick - IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award - Two National Indie Excellence Awards - Two Royal Dragonfly Book Awards - Readers' Favorite International Book Award - American...- $29.95
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Vendor: Carrie Fisher
The Best Awful
This sequel to the bestselling Postcards from the Edge contains Carrie's Fisher's trademark intelligence and wit that brought Postcards to the Hollywood movie screen. When we left Suzanne Vale at the end of Carrie Fisher's bestselling Postcards from the Edge, she had survived drug...- $16.00
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Vendor: Phyllis Cole-Dai
Beneath the Same Stars: A Novel of the 1862 U.S.-Dakota War
"Perhaps every woman will lie for the man she lies with."-Sarah WakefieldAugust 18, 1862. On the Sioux reservation in southwestern Minnesota, Indians desperate for food and freedom rise up against whites in the region. Sarah Wakefield, the wife of a physician, is taken captive...- $14.95
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Vendor: Margaret George
The Memoirs of Cleopatra
Bestselling novelist Margaret George brings to life the glittering kingdom of Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile, in this lush, sweeping, and richly detailed saga, the basis for the Cleopatra TV mini-series. Told in Cleopatra's own voice, The Memoirs of Cleopatra is a mesmerizing tale...- $28.00
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Vendor: Francine Prose
Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932
A richly imagined and stunningly inventive literary masterpiece of love, art, and betrayal, exploring the genesis of evil, the unforeseen consequences of love, and the ultimate unreliability of storytelling itself.Paris in the 1920s shimmers with excitement, dissipation, and freedom. It is a place of...- $16.99
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Vendor: Tom Millar
Inner Universe
What you find interesting is not perfection."Would you have come if you'd known that it would change your life forever?"Tom is in his mid-30's and hates yoga. He expresses his spiritual interest instead by having rational, analytical discussions. A friend manages persuading him to...- $14.99
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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...- $16.95
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Vendor: Elisabeth Gifford
The Good Doctor of Warsaw
Set in the ghettos of wartime Warsaw, this is a sweeping, poignant, and heartbreaking novel inspired by the true story of one doctor who was determined to protect two hundred Jewish orphans from extermination. Deeply in love and about to marry, students Misha and...- $25.95
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Vendor: Paul Wolfe
The Lost Diary of M
An engrossing debut novel that cannily reimagines the extraordinary life and mysterious death of bohemian Georgetown socialite Mary Pinchot Meyer-- secret lover of JFK, ex-wife of a CIA chief, sexual adventurer, LSD explorer and early feminist living by her own rules.She was a longtime...- $19.99
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Vendor: Mario Escobar
Children of the Stars
From international bestselling author Mario Escobar comes a story of escape, sacrifice, and hope amid the perils of the Second World War. August 1942. Jacob and Moses Stein, two young Jewish brothers, are staying with their aunt in Paris amid the Nazi occupation. The...- $16.99
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Vendor: Maria Gainza
Optic Nerve
"In this delightful autofiction―the first book by Gainza, an Argentine art critic, to appear in English―a woman delivers pithy assessments of world-class painters along with glimpses of her life, braiding the two into an illuminating whole." ―The New York Times Book Review, Notable Book...- $16.95
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Vendor: Allison Pataki
Sisi: Empress on Her Own
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A sweeping historical novel that tells the dramatic story of Sisi, the empress of Austria-Hungary who fought for her family, her people, and her empire in a changing world"Irresistible--completely impossible to put down . . . Allison Pataki reimagines...- $18.00
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Vendor: Anthony Burgess
Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love-Life
A magnificent, bawdy telling of Shakespeare's love life, following young Will's maturation into sex and writing. A playful romp, it is at the same time a serious look at the forces that midwife art, the effects of time and place, and the ordinariness that...- $25.95
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Vendor: Cari Lynn
Madam: A Novel of New Orleans
When vice had a legal home and jazz was being born--the captivating story of an infamous true-life madam New Orleans, 1900. Mary Deubler makes a meager living as an "alley whore." That all changes when bible-thumping Alderman Sidney Story forces the creation of a...- $22.00
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Vendor: Brook Allen
Antonius: Second in Command
After proving himself as a formidable cavalry commander, Marcus Antonius finally earns a position at his kinsman Julius Caesar's side. However, Caesar is an exacting general, demanding complete allegiance from his staff, even when his decisions put him at odds with the Senate. Marcus's...- $21.95
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Vendor: Vladimir Nabokov
The Gift
Considered by many to be the greatest Russian novel of the twentieth century. - An interweaving of the effects of life and memory, tradition and heritage, upon art, the book tells of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, an impoverished poet seeking fame in the phantasmic world of...- $16.00
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Meet Me in Monaco: A Novel of Grace Kelly's Royal Wedding
"A fragrant French bonbon of a book: love, glamour, perfume, and paparazzi all circling around the wedding of the century..."--Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of THE ALICE NETWORK and THE HUNTRESS.Named one of InStyle's best books to put in your totebag for...- $16.99
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The Hawthorne Inheritance
Author Nathaniel Hawthorne's sister Louisa drowns in 1852. But was it really an accident?In 1830, Nathaniel Hawthorne's cousin John Stephens Dike flees Massachusetts and his abusive stepmother Priscilla and settles in Ohio, where he expands his uncle's successful Grocery Emporium and marries his beloved...- $19.95
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Roundabout of Death
"Potent ... intimate, humorous and compelling ... One of the best Syrian novelists of his generation and one of the most exciting writers to emerge from the region since the Arab Spring."--The Times Literary SupplementSet in Aleppo in 2012, when everyday life was metronomically...- $16.95
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The Secret Wife of Aaron Burr: A Riveting Untold Story of the American Revolution
Inspired by a woman and events forgotten by history, bestselling author Susan Holloway Scott weaves together carefully researched fact and fiction to tell the story of Mary Emmons, and the place she held in the life-and the heart-of the notorious Aaron Burr. He was...- $16.95
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Vendor: Doris Lessing
African Stories
Long considered Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing's best collection of short stories, African Stories--a central book in the work of a truly beloved writer--is now back in print. This beautiful collection is an homage to her twenty-five years spent in Africa and a brilliant...- $20.00
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Vendor: Sharon Kay Penman
Time and Chance
In When Christ and His Saints Slept, acclaimed historical novelist Sharon Kay Penman portrayed all the deceit, danger, and drama of Henry II's ascension to the throne. Now, in Time and Chance, she continues the ever-more-captivating tale. It was medieval England's immortal marriage--Eleanor of...- $17.00
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The Stone Diaries: Pulitzer Prize Winner (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
In celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of its original publication, Carol Shields's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is now available in a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition One of the most successful and acclaimed novels of our time, this fictionalized autobiography of Daisy Goodwill Flett is a...- $18.00
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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...- $16.99
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Learning to See: A Novel of Dorothea Lange, the Woman Who Revealed the Real America
If you liked Sold on a Monday and Beautiful Exiles, you'll love this novel about strong-willed trailblazing photographer, Dorothea Lange, whose fame grew during World War II and the Great Depression. "Hooper excels at humanizing giants....seamlessly weaving together the time, places and people in...- $15.99
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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.

