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Vendor: Roland J. Beckerman
Seeking Justice: Courtroom Drama in a Medical Malpractice Setting
Roland J. Beckerman is a Southern man that grew up learning right from wrong in a healthy family environment. He had many successes in most of the things he attempted to do as a young man. As he continued to age, he became versed...- $21.95
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Vendor: Gloria Goldreich
The Bridal Chair
"In prose as painterly and evocative as Chagall's own dazzling brushstrokes, Gloria Goldreich finely evokes one of the most significant masters of modern art through the discerning eyes of [his] loyally protective daughter."--Cynthia Ozick, award-winning author of Foreign BodiesAn exquisite, haunting exploration of the...- $15.99
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Vendor: Joseph Andras
Tomorrow They Won't Dare to Murder Us
Lyrical and radical, a debut novel that created a sensation in France Winner of the Prix Goncourt for first novel, one of the most prestigious literary awards in France A young revolutionary plants a bomb in a factory on the outskirts of Algiers during...- $18.95
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Vendor: Laura Moriarty
The Chaperone
Soon to be a feature film from the creators of Downton Abbey starring Elizabeth McGovern, The Chaperone is a New York Times-bestselling novel about the woman who chaperoned an irreverent Louise Brooks to New York City in the 1920s and the summer that would...- $18.00
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Vendor: Louis de Wohl
The Living Wood: A Novel about Saint Helena and the Emperor Constantine
The renowned novelist De Wohl, with his usual crisp language and descriptive narrative, as well as irony and humor, presents the colorful and tumultuous times of the early Christian era in this story of intrigue, romance and power politics revolving around Helena, the devoted...- $19.95
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Vendor: Jim Carrey
Memoirs and Misinformation
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "None of this is real and all of it is true." --Jim Carrey Meet Jim Carrey. Sure, he's an insanely successful and beloved movie star drowning in wealth and privilege--but he's also lonely. Maybe past his prime. Maybe even...- $27.95
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Vendor: Kerri Maher
The Kennedy Debutante
"A riveting reimagining of a true tale of forbidden love."--People The captivating novel following the exploits of Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy, the forgotten and rebellious daughter of one of America's greatest political dynasties. London, 1938. The effervescent "It girl" of London society since her father...- $19.00
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Vendor: Sharon Kay Penman
Devil's Brood
A.D. 1172. Henry II's three eldest sons conspire against him and align themselves with his greatest enemy, King Louis of France, but it's Eleanor of Aquitaine's involvement in the plot to overthrow her husband that proves to be the harshest betrayal. As a royal...- $18.00
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Vendor: José Saramago
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
A wry, fictional account of the life of Christ by the Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, "Illuminated by ferocious wit, gentle passion, and poetry" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). For José Saramago, the life of Jesus Christ and the story of his...- $19.99
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Vendor: Sloan Wilson
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Universally acclaimed when first published in 1955, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit captured the mood of a generation. Its title -- like Catch-22 and Fahrenheit 451 -- has become a part of America's cultural vocabulary. Tom Rath doesn't want anything extraordinary out...- $21.99
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Vendor: Laurie Lico Albanese
Stolen Beauty
"A powerful and important tale of love and war, art and family...I was transported." --Allison Pataki, New York Times bestselling author "Albanese artfully weaves Adele's story with Maria's harrowing life under the Nazis, but it's hard to read Stolen Beauty without seeing ugly echoes...- $17.99
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Vendor: Stendhal
The Charterhouse of Parma
Headstrong and na?e, the young Italian aristocrat Fabrizio del Dongo is determined to defy the wrath of his right-wing father and go to war to fight for Napoleon. He stumbles on the Battle of Waterloo, ill-prepared, yet filled with enthusiasm for war and glory....- $13.00
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Vendor: Carlos Bulosan
America Is in the Heart
"First published in the United States of America by Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc. 1943."Author: Carlos BulosanISBN-10: 0143137239ISBN-13: 9780143137238Publisher: Penguin GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/10/2022Pages: 384Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 7.80h x 5.10w x 1.20d- $28.00
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Vendor: Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
Minutes of Glory: And Other Stories
A dazzling short story collection from the person Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie calls "one of the greatest writers of our time" Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, although renowned for his novels, memoirs, and plays, honed his craft as a short story writer. From "The Fig Tree, "...- $24.99
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Vendor: Georgie Blalock
The Other Windsor Girl: A Novel of Princess Margaret, Royal Rebel
Named One of the Best Books of the Week by the New York Post In a historical debut evoking the style of The Crown, the daughter of an impoverished noble is swept into the fame and notoriety of the royal family and Princess Margaret's...- $19.99
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Vendor: Robert N. Macomber
Word of Honor: A Peter Wake Novel
As part of the award-winning Honor Series of historical naval novels, Word of Honor is the personal memoir of protagonist Peter Wake, a veteran of espionage operations for the Office of Naval Intelligence who also has considerable sea and combat experience. At the beginning...- $33.95
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Vendor: Hazel Gaynor
When We Were Young & Brave
"Gaynor's story of courage and strength will make you believe in the heroic spirit in each of us." --Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were YoursThe New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home sets her...- $27.99
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Vendor: Curzio Malaparte
Diary of a Foreigner in Paris
Experience postwar Europe through the diary of a fascinating and witty twentieth-century writer and artist. Recording his travels in France and Switzerland, Curzio Malaparte encounters famous figures such as Cocteau and Camus and captures the fraught, restless spirit of Paris after the trauma of...- $17.95
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Vendor: Carrie Callaghan
A Light of Her Own
In Holland 1633, a woman's ambition has no place. Judith is a painter, dodging the law and whispers of murder to try to become the first woman admitted to the Haarlem painters guild. Maria is a Catholic in a country where the faith is...- $16.99
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Vendor: Camron Wright
The Orphan Keeper
Based on a remarkable true story Seven-year-old Chellamuthu's life--and his destiny--is forever changed when he is kidnapped from his village in Southern India and sold to the Lincoln Home for Homeless Children. His family is desperate to find him, and Chellamuthu anxiously tells the...- $24.99
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Vendor: Jane Gardam
Crusoe's Daughter
From the award-winning author of Old Filth. "[A] wonderfully old-fashioned novel . . . This post-Victorian charmer is an engrossing delight" (People). In 1904, six-year-old Polly Flint is sent by her sea captain father to live with her aunts in a house by the...- $16.00
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Vendor: Elizabeth Chadwick
A Place Beyond Courage
THE NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR!"The best writer of medieval fiction currently around."--Historical Novels ReviewSometimes Keeping Your Honor Means Breaking Your WordIn England, the Middle Ages are a time for ambitious men to prosper. Before he becomes the father of William...- $20.99
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Vendor: Jennifer Chiaverini
Enchantress of Numbers: A Novel of ADA Lovelace
"Cherished Reader, Should you come upon Enchantress of Numbers by Jennifer Chiaverini...consider yourself quite fortunate indeed....Chiaverini makes a convincing case that Ada Byron King is a woman worth celebrating."--USA Today The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker and Switchboard Soldiers illuminates...- $17.00
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Vendor: Martin Duberman
Luminous Traitor: The Just and Daring Life of Roger Casement, a Biographical Novel
"Martin Duberman is a national treasure." --Masha Gessen, The New Yorker Roger Casement was an internationally renowned figure at the beginning of the 20th century, famous for exposing the widespread atrocities against the indigenous people in King Leopold's Congo and his subsequent exposure--for which...- $32.95
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Vendor: Louisa Hall
Trinity
From the acclaimed author of Speak comes a kaleidoscopic novel about Robert Oppenheimer--father of the atomic bomb--as told by seven fictional charactersJ. Robert Oppenheimer was a brilliant scientist, a champion of liberal causes, and a complex and often contradictory character. He loyally protected his...- $16.99
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Vendor: Sally Cabot
Benjamin Franklin's Bastard
Benjamin Frankiln's Bastard by Sally Cabot is an absorbing and compelling work of literary historical fiction that brings to life a little-known chapter of the American Revolution -- the story of Benjamin Franklin and his bastard son, and the women who loved them both.William...- $14.99
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Vendor: Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe
First published in 1719, Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe" is a pioneering work of realist fiction and one of the most popular adventure novels ever written. When it first appeared it was widely believed to be a true account of actual events. While it is...- $11.99
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Vendor: Gabriele D'Annunzio
The Flame
The Flame (1900) is a novel by Gabriele D'Annunzio. Inspired by the author's interpretation of the work of Friedrich Nietzsche and Walter Pater, The Flame is a semi-autobiographical account of the end of D'Annunzio's relationship with famed actress Eleonora Dusa. Considered a central text...- $11.99
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Vendor: Annabel Abbs
Miss Eliza's English Kitchen: A Novel of Victorian Cookery and Friendship
Good Housekeeping Book Club Pick for November!A Country Living Best Book of Fall!In a novel perfect for fans of Hazel Gaynor's A Memory of Violets and upstairs-downstairs stories, Annabel Abbs, the award-winning author of The Joyce Girl, returns with the brilliant real-life story of...- $46.99
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Vendor: Marc Dipaolo
Fake Italian: An 83% true autobiography with pseudonyms and some tall tales
New York, 1987: In a city torn apart by racial tension, Damien Cavalieri is an adolescent without a tribe. His mother-who pines for the 1950s Brooklyn Italian community she grew up in-fears he lacks commitment to his heritage. Damien's fellow Staten Islanders agree, dubbing...- $25.00
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Vendor: Alex Pheby
Lucia
A GLOBE & MAIL RECOMMENDED SUMMER 2021 READ A writer possessed of unusual indeed, extraordinary powers... Read [Lucia] with your eyes wide open.--The Guardian She is about thirty-three, speaks French fluently. . .[she] is gay, sweet and ironic, but she has bursts of anger...- $16.95
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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...- $26.99
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Vendor: Peter Rock
The Night Swimmers
"Swimming at night, to compare its slipperiness to that of a dream would be to ignore the work of staying afloat, the mesmerism brought on by the rhythm, the repetition of the strokes." Beneath the surface of Lake Michigan there are vast systems: crosscutting...- $16.00
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Vendor: Mari Coates
The Pelton Papers
A richly imagined novel based on the life of artist Agnes Pelton, whose life tracks the early days of modernism in America. Born into a family ruined by scandal, Agnes becomes part of the lively New York art scene, finding early success in the...- $16.95
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Vendor: Guadalupe Nettel
The Body Where I Was Born
Author: Guadalupe NettelISBN-10: 1609807510ISBN-13: 9781609807511Publisher: Seven Stories PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/25/2017Pages: 176Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.50d- $16.95
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Vendor: Julian Barnes
Arthur & George
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST - From the bestselling author of The Sense of an Ending comes an "extraordinary ... first rate" novel (The New York Times Book Review) that follows the lives of two very different British men and explores the grand...- $16.00
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Vendor: Melanie Benjamin
Alice I Have Been
Part love story, part literary mystery, Melanie Benjamin's spellbinding historical novel leads readers on an unforgettable journey down the rabbit hole, to tell the story of a woman whose own life became the stuff of legend. Her name is Alice Liddell Hargreaves, but to...- $17.00
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Vendor: Alison Weir
A Dangerous Inheritance: A Novel of Tudor Rivals and the Secret of the Tower
Two women separated by time but linked by twin destinies investigate the mysterious, tragic fate of the young princes in the tower in this engrossing novel, "a juicy mix of romance, drama, and Tudor history" (Ladies' Home Journal). "Alison Weir's strong suit as a...- $18.00
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Vendor: J. G. Ballard
The Kindness of Women
Published in 1991, this semi-autobiographical novel is a daring masterpiece from "one of the most important and intelligent voices in contemporary fiction" (Susan Sontag). "Rueful the way Primo Levi's work was" (New York Times Book Review), the novel follows fifteen-year-old Jim Graham as he...- $15.95
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Vendor: Anne Easter Smith
Royal Mistress
From the author of A Rose for the Crown and Daughter of York comes another engrossing historical novel of the York family in the Wars of the Roses, telling the fascinating story of the rise and fall of the final and favorite mistress of...- $18.00
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Vendor: Janet Wertman
The Path to Somerset
First Place Winner, 2020 Chaucer Award for pre-1750s Historical Fiction "The novel's sweeping historic detail and bewitching blend of rivalries and romances will dazzle devotees of Tudor England" - Publishers WeeklyAfter the tragic romance of Jane the Quene, this second book in The Seymour...- $15.99
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Vendor: Donna Baier Stein
The Silver Baron's Wife
The Silver Baron's Wife traces the rags-to-riches-to-rags life of Colorado's Baby Doe Tabor (Lizzie). This fascinating heroine worked in the silver mines and had two scandalous marriages, one to a philandering opium addict and one to a Senator and silver baron worth $24 million...- $14.95
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Vendor: Sigrid Nunez
Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury
This "tender biography of a sickly marmoset that was adopted by Leonard Woolf and became a fixture of Bloomsbury society" (The New York Times) is an intimate portrait of the life and marriage of Leonard and Virginia Woolf from a National Book Award-winning author....- $15.95
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Victoria
NATIONAL BESTSELLER"Victoria is an absolutely captivating novel of youth, love, and the often painful transition from immaturity to adulthood. Daisy Goodwin breathes new life into Victoria's story, and does so with sensitivity, verve, and wit." - AMANDA FOREMAN Drawing on Queen Victoria's diaries, which...- $20.00
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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...- $18.95
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The Girl with the Leica: Based on the True Story of the Woman Behind the Name Robert Capa
WINNER The Strega Prize Gerda Taro was a German-Jewish war photographer, anti-fascist activist, artist and innovator who, together with her partner, the Hungarian Endre Friedmann, was one half of the alias Robert Capa, widely considered to be the twentieth century's greatest war and political...- $18.00
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Uprooted and Thriving: One Man's Journey From Afghanistan to Becoming a Canadian
If you knew where I come from and what I have been through, you would understand who I am. If we focus on the human connection, our lives will be enriched. If we understand the struggles of others, it might humble us and give...- $20.00
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A Calling for Charlie Barnes
From a National Book Award Finalist comes a novel about a modern American family and a man on a secret mission to uncover the world's hidden truths--until his two lives come crashing together.Someone is telling the story of the life of Charlie Barnes, and...- $40.00
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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...- $26.95
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Great Expectations: With Appreciations and Criticisms By G. K. Chesterton
The thirteenth and penultimate novel by Charles Dickens, "Great Expectations" chronicles the education of Pip, an orphan living in mid-nineteenth century London. Including such themes as wealth and poverty, love and rejection, and triumph over evil, this novel represents a classic example of Dickensian...- $36.99
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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.

