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Vendor: Mohsin Hamid
Moth Smoke
The debut novel from the internationally bestselling author of Exit West and The Reluctant Fundamentalist, both shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Moth Smoke, Mohsin Hamid's deftly conceived first novel, immediately marked him as an uncommonly gifted and ambitious young literary talent to watch...- $17.00
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Vendor: Herman Melville
Benito Cereno
"Melville was a born romancer. One cannot account for the success of his early romances by saying that in the Great South Sea he had found and worked a new field for romance, since evidently it was not his experience in the South Sea...- $5.99
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Vendor: Alan Cumming
Tommy's Tale: A Novel of Sex, Confusion, and Happy Endings
Tommy is twenty-nine, lives and loves in London, and has a morbid fear of the c word (commitment), the b word (boyfriend), and the f word (forgetting to call his drug dealer before the weekend). But when he begins to feel the urge to...- $16.99
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Vendor: Edmund White
Hotel de Dream: A New York Novel
In a damp, old Sussex castle, American literary phenomenon Stephen Crane lies on his deathbed, wasting away from tuberculosis at the age of twenty-eight. The world-famous author has retreated to England with his wife, Cora, in part to avoid gossip about her ignominious past...- $18.00
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Vendor: Frank English
Where to now Jack?: Volume Seven
Is reminiscence a sign of getting old? Jack's not too sure, although it's a cathartic process he very much enjoys indulging in with close friends and even closer family. Spending a lot of time with oldest friend Joyce Walker and her husband 'Stick' has...- $14.99
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Vendor: W. Schildt
Eastburn
Margaret, a six year old, exits a ship from England in Philadelphia as an orphan. She must repay her parents' indenture for their ocean crossing to the Eastburns, Quakers who own a 500 acre farm that feeds the population of Philadelphia. She enjoys a...- $19.95
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Vendor: Pat Silver-Lasky
John Law: Money to Burn. A Biographical Novel
This is the story of John Law, a pied piper who led rich and poor alike across the barriers of reason and plunged them into disaster. Was he a genius, wizard or charlatan? Was France victimized by a gigantic fraud perpetrated by a scheming...- $26.00
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Vendor: Bari Emam
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...- $12.00
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Vendor: Stella Benson
Living Alone
Living Alone (1919) is a novel by Stella Benson. Considered a pioneering work of fantasy fiction, Living Alone is a story of magic set in London during the First World War. Benson's meditative, diaristic prose guides the reader alongside her protagonist, a young woman...- $6.99
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Vendor: Rudolfo Anaya
The Sorrows of Young Alfonso: Volume 15
"The world is full of sorrow," Agapita whispered to Alfonso. Did she stamp those words into his destiny? The story of Alfonso, a Nuevo Mexicano, begins with his birth, when the curandera Agapita delivers these haunting words into his infant ear. What then unfolds...- $21.95
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Vendor: Meg Keneally
Fled
The outlaw who became a folk hero for her courage and her daring escape by sea: "An epic story of love and liberty" (Elizabeth Cobbs, bestselling author of The Tubman Command) Jenny Gwyn is a survivor. Faced with destitution after the death of her...- $17.99
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Vendor: Tony Riches
Owen - Book One of the Tudor Trilogy
Can a servant marry a queen? 1422: Owen Tudor, a Welsh servant, falls in love with the Queen of England.The beautiful Catherine of Valois, widow of the warrior king, Henry V, is lonely.... and her son, the future King Henry VI, shows signs of...- $12.99
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Vendor: Julián Fuks
Resistance
My brother is adopted, but I can't say and don't want to say that my brother is adopted. If I say this, if I speak these words that I have long taken care to silence, I reduce my brother to a single categorical condition,...- $15.95
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Vendor: Renato Cisneros
The Distance Between Us
'This is an impressive book. In writing it the author demonstrates great talent, as well as great courage.' --Mario Vargas LlosaIf I succeed in understanding who he was before I was born, perhaps I will be able to understand who I am now that...- $16.95
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Vendor: David Downing
Diary of a Dead Man on Leave
From bestselling author David Downing, master of historical espionage, comes a heart-wrenching depiction of Germany in the days leading up to World War II and the difficult choices of one man of conviction. In April 1938, a man calling himself Josef Hofmann arrives at...- $16.95
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Vendor: Joseph Mwantuali
Tell This to My Mother: A Novel Based on the True Story of Coco Ramazani, a War Rape Victim
Tell This to My Mother is the story of child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, of rape used as a weapon of war, and of the hope embodied by a tough young woman who refuses to go silently into the night. It...- $17.00
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Vendor: Gabriel Chevallier
Fear: A Novel of World War I
A NYRB Classics Original Winner of the Scott Moncrieff Prize for Translation A young soldier learns the true meaning of fear amidst the carnage of World War I in this literary masterpiece and "one of the most effective indictments of war ever written" (Wall...- $19.95
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Vendor: Margaret George
The Splendor Before the Dark: A Novel of the Emperor Nero
Nero's ascent to the throne was only the beginning....Now Margaret George, the author of The Confessions of Young Nero, weaves a web of politics and passion, as ancient Rome's most infamous emperor cements his place in history. With the beautiful and cunning Poppaea at...- $18.00
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Vendor: Jerome Charyn
The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson
Jerome Charyn, "one of the most important writers in American literature" (Michael Chabon), continues his exploration of American history through fiction with The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson, hailed by prize-winning literary historian Brenda Wineapple as a "breathtaking high-wire act of ventriloquism." Channeling the...- $14.95
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Vendor: Margaret George
Autobiography of Henry VIII
The Autobiography of Henry VIII is the magnificent historical novel that established Margaret George's career. Evocatively written in the first person as Henry VIII's private journals, the novel was the product of fifteen years of meticulous research and five handwritten drafts. Much has been...- $25.99
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Vendor: C. W. Gortner
Marlene
A lush, dramatic biographical novel of one of the most glamorous and alluring legends of Hollywood's golden age, Marlene Dietrich--from the gender-bending cabarets of Weimar Berlin to the lush film studios of Hollywood, a sweeping story of passion, glamour, ambition, art, and war from...- $17.99
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Vendor: Dmitry Merezhkovsky
Resurrection of the Gods
Resurrection of the Gods (1900) is a novel by Dmitriy Merezhkovsky. Having turned from his work in poetry to a new, spiritually charged interest in fiction, Merezhkovsky sought to develop his theory of the Third Testament, an apocalyptic vision of Christianity's fulfillment in twentieth...- $18.99
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Vendor: Jordan Castro
The Novelist
Brisk and shockingly witty, exuberantly scatological as well as deeply wise, The Novelist is a delight. Jordan Castro is a rare new talent: an author highly attuned to the traditions he is working within while also offering a refreshingly fun sendup of life beset...- $24.00
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Vendor: John Irving
Trying to Save Piggy Sneed
Now available again, "A rich, wonderful, and diverse look at the creative mind of one of America's most imaginative and passionate novelists" (Denver Post). Here is a treat for John Irving fans and new readers alike. Trying to Save Piggy Sneed contains a dozen...- $17.99
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Vendor: Norman Lock
Voices in the Dead House
Walt Whitman and Louisa May Alcott meet the horrors of the Civil War as they minister to its casualtiesAfter the Union Army's defeat at Fredericksburg in 1862, Walt Whitman and Louisa May Alcott converge on Washington to nurse the sick, wounded, and dying. Whitman...- $16.99
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Vendor: Marianne Monson
Her Quiet Revolution: A Novel of Martha Hughes Cannon: Frontier Doctor and First Female State Senator
An historically rich novel that brings to life the fascinating story of America's first female state senator, Martha Hughes Cannon, who was also a doctor, suffragist, and champion of public health in the frontier territory of Utah in the late 19th century. As a...- $24.99
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Vendor: J. R. Helton
Drugs
A modern homage to William S. Burrough's classic Junky, the new novel Drugs is the sparse, beautifully unassuming account of one man's life of drug use. As Robert Crumb, who illustrated the book jacket, says, "J. R. Helton really speaks to me--starkly honest, darkly...- $15.95
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Vendor: Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
The Professor and the Siren
An NYRB Classics Original In the last two years of his life, the Sicilian aristocrat Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa wrote not only the internationally celebrated novel The Leopard but also three shorter pieces of fiction, brought together here in a new translation. "The Professor...- $15.95
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Vendor: Tony Riches
Henry
Would you become King of England... If you had to win the crown by conquest? Henry Tudor's victory over King Richard III at Bosworth is only the beginning. Can he end the Wars of the Roses through marriage to the beautiful Princess Elizabeth -...- $12.99
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Vendor: Jordan Tannahill
Liminal
From award-winning playwright and filmmaker Jordan Tannahill comes a masterful and moving novel in the tradition of Ben Lerner's Leaving the Atocha Station and Sheila Heti's How Should a Person Be.At 11:04 a.m. on January 21st, 2017, Jordan opens the door to his mother's...- $18.95
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Vendor: Jean Plaidy
Madame Serpent: A Catherine De' Medici Novel
Back in print after more than twenty years and for the first time in eBook, Madame Serpent, the first novel in Jean Plaidy's classic Catherine de Medici trilogy, introduces readers to the young de Medici princess. Fourteen-year-old Catherine de' Medici arrives in Marseilles to...- $24.99
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Vendor: Willis George Emerson
The Smokey God: Or; A Voyage to the Inner World
Written in the style of a factual account, this extraordinary novel details the experiences of a Norwegian sailor named Olaf Jensen, who sails to the centre of the earth through an entrance located at the North Pole. On his deathbed, Olaf recounts the two...- $20.99
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Vendor: Babe Walker
White Girl Problems
Babe Walker, center of the universe, is a painstakingly manicured white girl with an expensive smoothie habit, a proclivity for Louboutins, a mysterious mother she's never met, and approximately 50 bajillion Twitter followers. But her "problems" have landed her in shopping rehab-that's what happens...- $21.99
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Vendor: Antonio Muz Molina
Like a Fading Shadow
A hypnotic novel intertwining the author's past with James Earl Ray's attempt to escape after shooting Martin Luther King Jr. The year is 1968 and James Earl Ray has just shot Martin Luther King Jr. For two months he evades authorities, driving to Canada,...- $18.00
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Vendor: William Klaber
Rebellion of Miss Lucy Ann Lobdell
At a time when women did not commonly travel unescorted, carry a rifle, sit down in bars, or have romantic liaisons with other women, Lucy Lobdell boldly set forth to earn men's wages. Lucy Lobdell did all of these things in a personal quest...- $22.99
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Vendor: Karl Ove Knausgaard
My Struggle, Book One
Almost ten years have passed since Karl Ove Knausgaard's father drank himself to death. Vulnerable and assailed by doubts, he is now embarking on a new novel. With an uncanny eye for detail, Knausgaard breaks down his own life story to its elementary particles,...- $27.00
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Vendor: Dmitry Merezhkovsky
Peter and Alexis
Peter and Alexis (1904) is a novel by Dmitriy Merezhkovsky. Having turned from his work in poetry to a new, spiritually charged interest in fiction, Merezhkovsky sought to develop his theory of the Third Testament, an apocalyptic vision of Christianity's fulfillment in twentieth century...- $21.99
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Vendor: Elise Hooper
Angels of the Pacific: A Novel of World War II
Absolutely riveting. A stay-up-all night read about two very different women who discover just how strong they can be--and just how much they'll dare--during the brutal Japanese occupation of the Philippines in World War II. This story of endurance and sisterhood will have you...- $46.99
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Vendor: Anonymous
The Amorous Intrigues and Adventures of Aaron Burr
The Amorous Intrigues and Adventures of Aaron Burr (1861) is an erotic biography of Aaron Burr. Published anonymously decades after Burr's death, the book incorporates some of the well-known facts and scandals of his political life--including his arrest for treason and murder of Alexander...- $6.99
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Vendor: Frederick Marryat
Mr. Midshipman Easy
Mr. Midshipman Easy (1836) is a novel by Frederick Marryat. Inspired by the author's experience as a captain in the Royal Navy, Mr. Midshipman Easy is a tale of bravery, foolishness, and the manifold reasons for men to take to the high seas. Frequently...- $15.99
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Vendor: Frederick Douglass
The Heroic Slave
The Heroic Slave (1852) is a novella by Frederick Douglass. Although he is more frequently recognized as prominent orator and autobiographer who spearheaded the American abolitionist movement, Douglass published one work of fiction in his lifetime. Inspired by the 1841 Creole case, in which...- $5.99
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Vendor: Theodore Dreiser
An American Tragedy
An American Tragedy (1925) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser. Written and rewritten over a number of years, An American Tragedy is a weighty epic with a cleareyed vision of the decay at the heart of industrialized society. Based on the murder of Grace...- $34.99
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Vendor: ノmile Zola
The Mysteries of Marseilles
The Mysteries of Marseilles (1895) is a novel by French author ノmile Zola. Originally serialized in Le Messager de Provence in 1867, The Mysteries of Marseilles was written at the very beginning of Zola's literary career. Intent on exploring taboo and the lives of...- $16.99
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Vendor: Gary Lee Miller
Finding Grace: In a World That Sometimes Seems Out of Control, We Are Each on Our Own Journey in Hope of Finding Grace
Finding Grace intersects the journeys of many characters that brings gales of laughter and tissue-filled tears, weaving its way to a heart-warming, satisfying conclusion.Author: Gary Lee MillerISBN-10: 1631956590ISBN-13: 9781631956591Publisher: Morgan James FictionLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/15/2022Pages: 282Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.64d- $17.95
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Vendor: Diana Stevan
Lilacs in the Dust Bowl
Based on a true story, Lilacs in the Dust Bowl is an inspirational family saga about love and heartache during the Great Depression. In 1929, when Lukia Mazurets, a widow and Ukrainian peasant farmer, immigrates to Canada with her four children, she has no...- $19.99
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Vendor: James Conroyd Martin
Too Soon the Night: A Novel of Empress Theodora
Palace eunuch and secretary Stephen records Empress Theodora's life as she navigates wars, political and religious crises, a citywide rebellion, and the first world plague pandemic, all in a male-dominated world. As the most powerful woman of the Byzantine Empire, one-time prostitute Theodora installs...- $29.99
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Vendor: David Hajdu
Adrianne Geffel: A Fiction
Adrianne Geffel was a genius. Praised as the "Geyser of Grand Street" and the "Queen of Bleak Chic," she was a one-of-a-kind artist, a pianist and composer with a rare neurological condition that enabled her to make music that was nothing less than pure,...- $15.95
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Vendor: Michael Lackey
Biofiction: An Introduction
Biofiction: An Introduction provides readers with the history, origins, evolution, and legitimization of biofiction, suggesting potential lines of inquiry, exploring criticisms of the literary form, and modeling the process of analyzing and interpreting individual texts. Written for undergraduate and graduate students, this volume combines...- $46.95
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Vendor: Sky Gilbert
I, Gloria Grahame
Shortlisted for the 2022 ReLit AwardA professor of English literature writes the autobiography of his fantasy alter-ego, wanton movie star Gloria Grahame, while his own sexual desires go frustrated.Denton Moulton -- a shy, effeminate male professor -- lives inside his head, where he is...- $18.99
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Mr Keynes' Revolution
The first novel about one of the twentieth century's most remarkable figures - John Maynard Keynes."Since the war, everything's changed. But how far can you push people? Until they rise up and throw the government down?"When the brilliant Maynard Keynes walks out on the...- $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.

