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Vendor: Olive Schreiner
Dreams
Author: Olive SchreinerISBN-10: 1554815649ISBN-13: 9781554815647Publisher: Broadview Press IncLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/22/2020Pages: 204Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.60d- $21.75
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Vendor: Olive Schreiner
Dreams
Dreams is a collection of beautifully written short stories based on author's dreams and life on a farm in South Africa. In Dreams depicts Olive Schreiner her fascinating looks on the world. Olive Schreiner (1855 -1920) was a South African author, anti-war campaigner and...- $5.30
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Vendor: James L. May
The Body Outside the Kremlin
Solovetsky occupies the island site of a former monastery in the White Sea. Here, hundreds of miles from civilization, and with a skeleton crew of secret-policemen in charge, some prisoners are consigned to all kinds of forced labor and others sit at comfortable desks...- $17.50
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Vendor: Hiroshi Nakamura
Treadmill
Treadmill is a truly unique and historically significant novel and the only book written about life in the Japanese-American internment camps during World War II written at the time by an internee. Hiroshi Nakamura, along with his family, spent the war years in Salinas...- $21.95
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Vendor: Janet Wertman
The Boy King
One of Open Letters Review's Ten Best Historical Novels of 2020; First Place Winner, 2021 Chaucer Award for pre-1750s historical fiction"Highly recommend both as a standalone and series read. Wertman's work is among the best Tudor fiction on the market" - Historical Fiction ReaderHis...- $25.99
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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...- $41.99
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Vendor: C. W. Gortner
The American Adventuress
"No one writes bright, bold, bad, and beautiful women of history like C.W. Gortner, and he outdoes himself with his latest heroine: Jennie Jerome, American heiress, royal mistress, and mother of Winston Churchill. The American Adventuress shines on every page with Jennie's irrepressible thirst...- $16.99
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Vendor: Jonathan Bazzi
Fever
A multi-award winning Italian debut, from a bold new voice in contemporary queer literature. Jonathan is 31 years old, living in Milan with his boyfriend of three years and their two Devon Rex cats when, on a day like any other, he gets a...- $17.00
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Vendor: John Henry Dam
A Beginning After the End: Book 2
HEART wrenching! You will laugh, more than once and more likely than not you will tear up or just plain cry before the end. Extreme, but shows by example that giving up to out of control problems was not and will not be an...- $7.99
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Vendor: Jack London
Martin Eden
"[Jack London was] a great gobbler-up of the world, physically and intellectually, the kind of writer who went to a place and wrote his dreams into it, the kind of writer who found an Idea and spun his psyche around it."--E.L. DoctorowMartin Eden (1909)...- $25.99
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Vendor: Alex Pineschi
Peshmerga: FACING DEATH - The First Hand account of the italian volunteer that fought ISIS
PESHMERGA, this is how the Kurds call their valiant soldiers who for decades have sacrificed themselves in the name of freedom. Those who come face to face with death to defend someone else. From this the term, PESH (front) and MERGA (death). Alex Pineschi...- $15.00
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Vendor: Simone de Beauvoir
Inseparable: A Never-Before-Published Novel
A never-before-published novel by the iconic Simone de Beauvoir of an intense and vivid girlhood friendship From the moment Sylvie and Andr馥 meet in their Parisian day school, they see in each other an accomplice with whom to confront the mysteries of girlhood. For...- $29.99
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Vendor: Darren P. McKeeman
America's Last Emperor: A Tale of Old San Francisco
Joshua Abraham Norton is an immigrant with a secret. He comes to San Francisco during the 1849 Gold Rush to set himself up in business but finds himself swept up in dramatic events unfolding all around him with little to no way of controlling...- $11.99
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Vendor: Sandra Wagner-Wright
Saxon Heroines: A Northumbrian Novel
Seventh century England is a hodgepodge of warring Anglo-Saxon states filled with shifting alliances and treacherous grabs for royal power. Kings rise and fall, depending on Woden's Luck. Northumbria, the damp kingdom north of the River Humber, is a state riven with rivalries and...- $15.99
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Vendor: Albert Memmi
The Pillar of Salt
Originally published in 1955, The Pillar of Salt the semi-autobiographical novel about a young boy growing up in French colonized Tunisia. To gain access to privileged French society, he must reject his many identities - Jew, Arab, and African. But, on the eve of...- $26.00
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Vendor: Sabina Murray
Valiant Gentlemen
A New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2016; A New York Times Editors' Choice; a Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of 2016; a Washington Independent Review of Books Top 25 Books of 2016 "A novel as vigorous, audacious and unpredictable as Casement himself...- $18.00
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Vendor: Tracy Borman
The Devil's Slave
At the end of The King's Witch, the first book in Tracy Borman's Stuart-era trilogy, Frances Gorges was pregnant with the child of her dead lover, Thomas Wintour, executed for his role as a conspirator in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Now, in The...- $18.00
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Vendor: Judith Farr
I Never Came to You in White: A Novel about Emily Dickinson
In 1847 Edward Dickinson's daughter Emily was seventeen, a student at Mary Lyon's female seminary (now Mount Holyoke College) in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Thrilled by the challenges of her education, yet repressed by the school atmosphere, she began writing letters home and to the...- $21.95
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Vendor: Liz Ziemska
Mandelbrot the Magnificent
Liz Ziemska has fashioned a beautiful story about one famous survivor and the magic and mathematics he's brought to the world. --Karen Joy FowlerMandelbrot the Magnificent is a stunning, magical pseudo-biography of Benoit Mandelbrot as he flees into deep mathematics to escape the rise...- $10.99
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Vendor: Paulo Coelho
Hippie
The worldwide bestseller by the author of The Alchemist takes us on a journey back in time, from South America to Holland to Nepal, drawing on the rich experiences of his own life to relive the dreams of a generation that longs for peace....- $25.95
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Vendor: Dorothy Dunnett
Race of Scorpions: Book Three of the House of Niccolo
With the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett presents The House of Niccol series. The time is the 15th century, when intrepid merchants became the new knighthood of Europe. Among them, none is bolder...- $17.95
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Vendor: Caryl Phillips
A View of the Empire at Sunset
Award-winning author Caryl Phillips presents a biographical novel of the life of Jean Rhys, the author of Wide Sargasso Sea, which she wrote as a prequel to Charlotte Bront 's Jane Eyre. Caryl Phillips's A View of the Empire at Sunset is the sweeping...- $18.00
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Vendor: Alison Weir
The Lady Elizabeth
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A masterful novel exploring the early life of young Elizabeth Tudor, who would become England's most intriguing and powerful queen, from acclaimed historian Alison Weir "Engrossing . . . Weir marries conjecture with what is known about the life of Elizabeth...- $18.00
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Vendor: James Patterson
Miracle at St. Andrews
In this inspiring novel, one ordinary man makes the pilgrimage to the mythical greens of St. Andrews--the birthplace of golf--on a search for greatness. If golf novels had a leaderboard, Miracle at St. Andrews would be at the top. Though nobody has ever identified...- $23.99
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Vendor: Zachary Lazar
Sway
Three dramatic and emblematic stories intertwine in Zachary Lazar's extraordinary novel, Sway -- the early days of the Rolling Stones, including the romantic triangle of Brian Jones, Anita Pallenberg, and Keith Richards; the life of avant-garde filmmaker Kenneth Anger; and the community of Charles...- $21.99
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Vendor: Duncan a. Bruce
The Great Scot: A Novel of Robert the Bruce, Scotland's Legendary Warrior King
Robert the Bruce was Scotland's greatest King ever. The Bruce, as he was known, was crowned King of Scots in 1306, a time when the ancient kingdom of Scotland was under harsh and illegal English occupation. As soon as King Robert began his reign,...- $23.99
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Vendor: Robin Oliveira
I Always Loved You
A story of Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas, from the New York Times bestselling author of My Name Is Mary Sutter Robin Oliveira's latest novel, Winter Sisters, will be available in February from Viking The young Mary Cassatt never thought moving to Paris after...- $17.00
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Vendor: Fausto Brizzi
100 Days of Happiness
"Funny, moving. . . I defy anyone to finish this story without tears in their eyes." --Graeme Simsion, bestselling author of The Rosie ProjectWhat would you do if you knew you only had 100 days left to live? For Lucio Battistini, it's a chance...- $16.00
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Vendor: Jeanne Blanchet
Darkheart: A Novel of Judas Iscariot
Darkheart: A Novel of Judas Iscariot focuses on the life of Judas and his relationship with Jesus from his early youth until his suicide the morning of Jesus's crucifixion. It additionally probes Judas's psychological development and the chain of events leading him to commit...- $24.95
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Vendor: Luigi Fontanella
The God of New York
New York, 1910. Pasquale D'Angelo, a sixteen-year-old native of Abruzzo, arrives at Ellis Island together with his father and a group of their companions in search of a better life. The shock of the New World is brutal, one of the worst experienced by...- $20.00
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Vendor: Nick Marsh
Once Bitten: The adventures and misadventures of a young veterinary surgeon
When Alan Reece qualified as a veterinary surgeon at the dawn of the new millennium, he had a plan: save the world, one animal at a time.Of course, no plan survives contact with the enemy, and Alan soon discovers he has far more enemies...- $9.99
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Vendor: Murry Taylor
More or Less Crazy
Return to the summer of '73 and adventure through Alaska as a Smokejumper. In an odyssey of movement and beauty we move back and forth across Alaska, jumping fires from Kodiak Island to the shadows of Denali, and in the winds of Isabel Pass....- $19.99
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Vendor: Shirley Noe Swiesz
A Great Heart: The Story of Mary Breckenridge, Her Midwives/Nurses and the People They Served
Survival was their dearest hope...these mountain people. Their children were their greatest asset...but they died one by one, long before they reached the age of six, many times at birth along with their mother. When a mother died in childbirth the family was usually...- $21.95
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Vendor: Virginia Woolf
Orlando - A Biography
Orlando is generally considered Woolf's most accessible and influential novels. Concerning the 300 year life of a man born during the reign of Elizabeth I and his quest to write a great poem, having love affairs as both man and women against the backdrop...- $21.99
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Vendor: Kate Pullinger
Mistress of Nothing
The American debut of an award-winning novel about a lady's maid's awakening as she journeys from the confines of Victorian England to the uncharted far reaches of Egypt's Nile Valley. When Lady Duff Gordon, paragon of London society, departs for the hot, dry climate...- $17.99
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Vendor: James Nulick
Valencia
A man checks into a hotel in a Mediterranean city on the banks of the Turia. He is far from home. He holds few possessions. Enough clothing for a week, money for drink. A few essential paperbacks, a cigar box of old photographs. He...- $14.00
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Vendor: Julius Kane
The Strange Fruits of Sarah Bartman
A na ve, young woman from a small village on the outskirts of South Africa, is lured away from home by an unscrupulous Doctor. Dunlap becomes obsessed with the girls unusual body structure and is intent on possessing her. His intentions become nefarious after...- $8.00
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Vendor: Karl Ove Knausgaard
My Struggle, Book Four
At eighteen years, old Karl Ove moves to a tiny fisherman's village in the far north of the arctic circle to work as a school teacher. No interest in the job itself, his intention is to save up enough money to travel while finding...- $27.00
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Vendor: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Aus meinem Leben. Dichtung und Wahrheit: Autobiographie
Aus meinem Leben. Dichtung und Wahrheit ist eine zwischen 1808 und 1831 entstandene Autobiographie, in der Johann Wolfgang von Goethe seine Erlebnisse aus den Jahren 1749 bis 1775 liebevoll darstellt. Diese mannigfaltig vorschreitende Lebensgeschichte ist einer der gro en deutschen Romane - ein Hausbuch.Author:...- $13.50
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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 Hamilton Affair) Jenny Gwyn is a survivor. Faced with destitution after the death of her...- $24.99
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Vendor: Diana Forbes
Mistress Suffragette
A young woman without prospects at a ball in Gilded Age Newport, Rhode Island is a target for a certain kind of "suitor." At the Memorial Day Ball during the Panic of 1893, impoverished but feisty Penelope Stanton draws the unwanted advances of a...- $20.50
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Vendor: Will Eaves
Murmur
Wall Street Journal "Distinctive Novel of the Year" selection" Murmur will] grip your mind in the very first pages, break your heart halfway through, and in the end, strangely, unexpectedly, restore your faith in human beings and their endless capacity for resilience." --Wellcome Book...- $16.99
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Vendor: George Grossmith
The Diary of a Nobody
With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. The Diary of a Nobody is so unassuming a work that even its author, George Grossmith, seemed unaware that he had produced a masterpiece. For more than...- $7.99
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Vendor: C. R. Hurst
Jane Digby's Diary: A Rebel Heart
"As the depth of truth of one's life can only be penned upon the pages of a diary, Jane Digby leads us through her passionate life . . . A wonderful piece of historical fiction that will delight your senses as well as your...- $9.99
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Jane Digby's Diary: To Begin, Begin
"As the depth of truth of one's life can only be penned upon the pages of a diary, Jane Digby leads us through her passionate life . . . A wonderful piece of historical fiction that will delight your senses as well as your...- $9.99
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Vendor: Detra Enman
55 Years on Campus
55 Years On Campus is a career memoir of a poor, skinny, bucktoothed, shy, loner, C-student and underprivileged white girl, who shares her nonpolitically correct journey and evolved into an outgoing six-figured career woman. Based on a true story of her many careers on...- $12.95
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Vendor: Christine Otten
The Last Poets
Even readers unfamiliar with the Last Poets' historic significance as building blocks of the hip-hop and rap movement, will instantly find this novel a compelling read. The Last Poets were self-proclaimed prophets of "hope and change." The band was formed in 1968 against an...- $17.99
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Vendor: Christian P. Potholm
Tall Tales from the Tall Pines
As a Maine Guide for 20 years and a hunter and fisherman since childhood, Christian Potholm knows the woods and waters of Maine from the coast to the North Woods. He brings it all to life with these humorous tales, astonishing and intriguing characters,...- $15.95
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Vendor: Jean Echenoz
Ravel
"A tiny miracle of a biographical novel" inspired by the life of the brilliant French composer (Booklist). Shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award This beguiling and original evocation of the last ten years in the life of a musical genius opens in...- $14.95
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Vendor: Marion Kummerow
Unwavering: Based on a True Story of Love and Resistance
From inspiration to heartache, hope is fleeting asfreedom becomes a distant memory...Wilhelm Quedlin's plan to change the tide of the war is thwarted when he is arrested. And, making matters worse, with the arrest of his wife, Hilde, the fate of their children is...- $12.95
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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.

