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Vendor: Devi S. Laskar
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...- $16.95
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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...- $21.99
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Vendor: Agnes Smedley
Daughter of Earth
This gritty, sweeping novel follows a burgeoning political activist in the early twentieth century: a "precious, priceless book" (Alice Walker). "We owe our world to women like Agnes Smedley, who worked without peace or resolution toward a future they could not see." --Paola Mendoza...- $17.95
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Vendor: Carmela Cattuti
Between the Cracks: One Woman's Journey from Sicily to America
Join Angela Lanza as she experiences the tumultuous world of early 20th century Sicily and New York. Orphaned by the earthquake and powerful eruption of Mt. Etna in 1908, Angela is raised in the strict confines of an Italian convent. Through various twists of...- $16.95
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Vendor: Jennifer Chiaverini
Mrs. Lincolns Rival
The "New York Times" bestselling author of "Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker" Jennifer Chiaverini's astute and lively novel of the politics of state--set against the backdrop of Civil War Era Washington Beautiful, intelligent, regal, and entrancing, young Kate Chase Sprague stepped into the role of establishing...- $18.99
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Vendor: Barbara Comyns
Our Spoons Came from Woolworths
"I told Helen my story and she went home and cried." So begins Our Spoons Came from Woolworths. But Barbara Comyns's beguiling novel is far from tragic, despite the harrowing ordeals its heroine endures. Sophia is twenty-one and na ve when she marries fellow...- $18.95
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Vendor: Charles Arthur
A Haiti Anthology Libete
Haiti's dramatic history, pressing social problems, and rich culture make it one of the most fascinating nations in the Americas. This book aims to reflect some of Haiti's extraordinary diversity through the best of writing. While many journalistic accounts are rapidly overtaken by events,...- $28.95
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Vendor: Elizabeth Chadwick
The Autumn Throne
The Son She Loved. The Betrayal She Faced. The Legend She Became. The stunning conclusion to the Eleanor of Aquitaine trilogy by New York Times bestselling author, Elizabeth Chadwick.Imprisoned by her husband. Separated from her children. If King Henry II thought these things would...- $22.99
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Vendor: Karl Ove Knausgaard
My Struggle, Book Six
The final installment in the long awaited, internationally celebrated My Struggle series. The full scope and achievement of Knausgaard's monumental work is evident in this final installment of his My Struggle series. Grappling directly with the consequences of Knausgaard's transgressive blurring of public and...- $33.00
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Vendor: Philip Roth
The Professor of Desire
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral--"a thoughtful...elegant" (The New York Times Book Review) and often hilarous novel about the dilemma of pleasure: where we seek it; why we flee it; and how we struggle to make a truce between dignity and desire....- $20.00
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Vendor: Newt Gingrich
Valley Forge
A riveting, personal look at one of our country's first heroes in the second captivating novel of the George Washington series by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen, the New York Times bestselling authors of To Try Men's Souls It's the winter of 1777,...- $21.99
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Vendor: Therese Anne Fowler
Z
THE INSPIRATION FOR THE TELEVISION DRAMA Z: THE BEGINNING OF EVERYTHING With brilliant insight and imagination, Therese Anne Fowler's New York Times bestseller Z brings us Zelda's irresistible story as she herself might have told it. I wish I could tell everyone who thinks...- $39.99
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Vendor: David Shapiro
Supremacist
A loosely autobiographical novel inspired by an obsession for the global fashion phenomenon and brand, Supreme. David travels with his friend Camilla from New York to Japan and England to visit every Supreme store location on the globe. Supremacist is equal parts travel diary...- $15.00
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Vendor: Carmen Laforet
nada
Renowned as Spain's The Catcher in the Rye, a passionate coming-of-age novel that follows a rebellious young woman as she uncovers her family's secrets in chaotic, polarized post-Civil War Barcelona "A work of genius that recalls] Sartre and Camus, but it is fresher and...- $18.00
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Vendor: Jean Plaidy
In the Shadow of the Crown
As Henry VIII's only child, the future seemed golden for Princess Mary. She was the daughter of Henry's first queen, Katharine of Aragon, and was heir presumptive to the throne of England. Red-haired like her father, she was also intelligent and deeply religious like...- $18.00
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Vendor: V. S. Naipaul
The Enigma of Arrival
The Nobel Prize-winning author distills his wide experience of countries and peoples into a moving account of the rites of passage endured by all people and all communities undergoing change or decay. - "Naipaul's finest work." --Chicago Tribune"A subtly incisive self-reckoning." --The Washington Post...- $20.00
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Vendor: Margaret George
Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles
Margaret George's exhaustively researched novel skillfully weaves both historical fact and plausible fiction in bringing the story of Mary Queen of Scots to life. She was a child crowned a queen....A sinner hailed as a saint....A lover denounced as a whore...A woman murdered for...- $32.00
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Vendor: Mulk Raj Anand
Untouchable
Mulk Raj Anand's extraordinarily powerful story of an Untouchable in India's caste system, with a new introduction by Ramachandra Guha, author of GandhiBakha is a proud and attractive young man, yet none the less he is an Untouchable - an outcast in India's caste...- $16.00
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Vendor: Doris Lessing
The Four Gated City (Harperperennial)
"I read the Children of Violence novels and began to understand how a person could write about the problems of the world in a compelling and beautiful way, and it seemed to me that was the most important thing I could ever do." --...- $20.00
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Vendor: Dick Derksen
Whom You Will Serve
The Derksen family finds itself as refugees in the town of Altona, just outside Hamburg, North Germany, after the Catholic army has announced its intention to level the village of Wuestenfelde, where the Mennonites have received refuge for nearly one hundred years. The Thirty-Years...- $19.99
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Vendor: Godfrey Joseph Pereira
Four and Twenty Blackbirds the Insane Life of an English Smuggler in Bombay
DescriptionMidnight, 15 August 1947. As India's tryst with destiny reverberated acrossthe world, Charlie Strongbow, born in Bombay, a renegade Englishman, mercenary, philosopher and schizophrenic, began his own bizarre journey.While nascent India floundered and struggled, Charlie, along with anEnglish goon called Thommo, a devious accountant...- $30.00
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Vendor: E. M. Delafield
The Provincial Lady Series;Diary of a Provincial Lady, The Provincial Lady Goes Further, The Provincial Lady in America & The Provincial Lady in Warti
Take a step back in time to the 1930s in this semi-autobiographical series that chronicles the daily life of an upper-class lady. Presented as diary entries, this delightful volume delves into English countryside life and a provincial lady's many mishaps. In the depths of...- $28.99
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Vendor: Barrie Doyle
Musick for the King: A Historical Novel
Staring debtor's prison in the eye, George Frederik Handel is depressed and suffering from various illnesses. Faced with crushing verbal, intellectual, financial, and even physical opposition, he can go no longer. Adding to his woes, he's a pawn in the vicious political and cultural...- $16.99
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Vendor: Charles Warren Stoddard
For the Pleasure of His Company: An Affair of the Misty City
For the Pleasure of His Company: An Affair of the Misty City (1903) is a novel by Charles Warren Stoddard. Published toward the end of Stoddard's career as a poet and travel writer whose friends included Mark Twain and Ambrose Bierce, For the Pleasure...- $9.99
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Vendor: Brian Spielbauer
The Legacy of Faith
The Legacy of Faith: The Journey is a story about the travels of four families from central Europe in the mid-nineteenth century to Guttenberg, Iowa. During this time, millions of German immigrants came to America due to the oppressive government, repeated wars, and yearly...- $14.99
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Vendor: Wendy J. Dunn
Falling Pomegranate Seeds: The Duty of Daughters: Katherine of Aragon Story, Book 1
FINALIST IN THE 2020 CHAUCER AWARD for pre-1750s Historical Fiction (Winner decided on June 5th, 2021) Do Beatriz Galindo. Respected scholar. Tutor to royalty. Friend and advisor to Queen Isabel of Castile.Beatriz is an uneasy witness to the Holy War of Queen Isabel and...- $34.00
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Vendor: Ellen Alpsten
Tsarina
"Makes Game of Thrones look like a nursery rhyme." --Daisy Goodwin, New York Times bestselling author of The Fortune Hunter Before there was Catherine the Great, there was Catherine Alexeyevna: the first woman to rule Russia in her own right. Ellen Alpsten's rich, sweeping...- $18.99
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Vendor: James Forsher
The Love Me Tender Years Diary
Trude Forsher was hired to be Elvis Presley's private secretary in August, 1956. She kept a diary of her experiences over the next five years, documenting the day - to - day experiences inside the Presley organizationAuthor: James Forsher, Trude ForsherISBN-10: 1419634704ISBN-13: 9781419634703Publisher: Booksurge...- $19.99
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Vendor: Brenda O'Bannion
By and By, I Reckon
In 1923 East Texas, young Leola leaves her loving family for a teaching job in a backwoods community miles from home. She knows there will be challenges, but doesn't anticipate a bitter, unkind co-teacher, a parent who wishes to harm her-or the man from...- $34.99
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Vendor: Anjali Mahaldar
At the Feet of Maharishi: My Time with the Master
What is the inner makeup of a person who feels the urgent need to serve his spiritual master? When Hans Vater met Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in person, he soon was so attracted to his charisma that he did everything he could to follow him...- $10.95
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Vendor: Denise Giardina
Emily's Ghost: A Novel of the Bronte Sisters
Giardina pens a lustrous, beautifully written reimagining of the Bront family and, in particular, Emily Bront's passionate engagement with life.Author: Denise GiardinaISBN-10: 0393338487ISBN-13: 9780393338485Publisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/05/2010Pages: 346Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 8.32h x 6.20w x 0.87d- $24.95
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Vendor: Margaret Farrell Kirby
Becoming Nora
Becoming Nora explores how unexamined pasts and repressed emotions can simmer beneath a seemingly ordinary and happy marriage.Until the day her husband shattered her world with the news that he was unhappy and wanted a separation, Nora Stanton had been sure her life was...- $24.95
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Vendor: Ruth Ann Ellinger
The Broken Spear: Reformation Rising
The fires of rebellion and freedom burn brightly in sixteenth-century Scotland.The Carmichael Clan-the men of The Broken Spear-lead an uprising against the Roman Catholic Church in a quest to reveal the truth of God's Word to all, thanks to William Tyndale's translation of the...- $15.99
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Vendor: Walter Kappacher
Palace of Flies
One of those rare biographical novels that bring a whole world to life in a way that lingers in memory.--Jay Parini, author of Borges and MeThis absorbing, sensitive novel portrays a famed author in a moment of crisis: an aging Hugo von Hofmannsthal returns...- $16.95
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Vendor: John Maddux
Little Eagle: Awaken and Sleep
This is a mystical novel about one man's journey to find himself as he travels with the famous Canadian-Ojibwe artist, Norval Morrisseau. As Morrisseau's secretary and traveling companion, the main character, Gilbert Pet駭 (a.k.a., Little Eagle) takes a spiritual journey of awakening throughout parts...- $14.99
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Vendor: Veronica Schwarz
Ride The Wind, Choose The Fire: The Story Of Joan Of Arc
Come on a whirlwind ride across time and place with one of the most recognizable figures of Western history - Joan of Arc.We all know of her, but few know the details of her life. Travel back in time with The Maid, in a...- $34.29
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Vendor: Isobel Blackthorn
The Unlikely Occultist
Discover the fascinating life of Alice Bailey: a long-forgotten occultist widely regarded as the Mother Of The New Age.Back in 1931, Alice is preparing to give a speech at a Swiss summer school. Soon after, she is put on Hitler's blacklist. What Alice doesn't...- $33.39
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Vendor: Ian Drawie
Harry the Dog: The Story of a Football Hooligan Legend, and Millwall's F-Troop Top Boy
Harry the Dog was the leader of Millwall's notorious F-Troop during the 1970's, and the most feared football hooligan of his generation. He was also at the forefront of many of the fist fights, pitch battles and gang warfare that broke out between rival...- $10.05
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Vendor: Margaret George
The Confessions of Young Nero
The New York Times bestselling and legendary author of Helen of Troy and Elizabeth I now turns her gaze on Emperor Nero, one of the most notorious and misunderstood figures in history. Built on the backs of those who fell before it, Julius Caesar's...- $18.00
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Vendor: Thomas McGuane
Something to Be Desired
A funny, rueful, and beautifully rendered portrait of American manhood on the rocks from the highly acclaimed author of Cloudbursts and Ninety-two in the Shade In life Lucien Taylor has made several mistakes, but the two most grievous are as follows: leaving his wife...- $14.00
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Vendor: Anthony Burgess
Napoleon Symphony
A grand and affectionate tragicomic symphony to Napoleon Bonaparte that teases and reweaves Napoleon's life into a pattern borrowed--in liberty, equality, and fraternity--from Beethoven's Third "Eroica" Symphony, in this rich, exciting, bawdy, and funny novel Anthony Burgess has pulled out all the stops for...- $14.95
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Vendor: Mark Slouka
Brewster
The year is 1968. The world is changing, and sixteen-year-old Jon Mosher is determined to change with it. Racked by guilt over his older brother's childhood death and stuck in the dead-end town of Brewster, New York, he turns his rage into victories running...- $14.95
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Vendor: Norberto Fuentes
Autobiography of Fidel Castro
An audacious biography of the ex-president of Cuba told in Castro's own outrageous, bombastic voice. Prize-winning author and journalist Norberto Fuentes was once a revolutionary: a writer with privileged access to Fidel Castro's inner circle during some the most challenging years of the revolution....- $35.00
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The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb
For anyone who loves the historical novels of Sara Gruen, Geraldine Brooks, and E. L. Doctorow, a barnstorming tale of an irrepressible, brawling, bawdy era and the remarkable woman who had the courage to match the unique spirit of America's Gilded Age. She was...- $17.00
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The Dream Lover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY USA TODAY - Elizabeth Berg has written a lush historical novel based on the sensuous Parisian life of the nineteenth-century writer George Sand--which is perfect for readers of...- $17.00
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Vendor: Nicole Mary Kelby
The Pink Suit
"Inspired by the true story behind Jackie Kennedy's iconic outfit, Kelby has stitched a compelling tale of politics, fashion and history." -- People On November 22, 1963, Jacqueline Kennedy accompanied her husband to Dallas dressed in a pink Chanel-style suit. Much of her wardrobe,...- $21.99
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Vendor: Dave King
The Ha-Ha
Howard Kapostash has not spoken in thirty years. The small repertory of gestures and simple sounds that he uses to communicate lead most people to assume he is disturbed. No one understands that Howard is still the same man he was before his tragic...- $21.99
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Vendor: Mordecai Richler
Barney's Version
Barney Panofsky--Canadian expat, wily lover of women, writer, television producer, raconteur--is finally putting pen to paper so he can rebut the charges about him made in his rival's autobiography. Whether it's ranting about his bohemian misadventures during the 1950's in Paris, his tumultuous three...- $16.95
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The Atomic City Girls
"The Atomic City Girls is a fascinating and compelling novel about a little-known piece of WWII history."--Maggie Leffler, international bestselling author of The Secrets of FlightIn the bestselling tradition of Hidden Figures and The Wives of Los Alamos, comes this riveting novel of the...- $21.99
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Terrible Virtue
In the spirit of The Paris Wife and Loving Frank, the provocative and compelling story of one of the most fascinating and influential figures of the twentieth century: Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood--an indomitable woman who, more than any other, and at...- $16.99
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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.

