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Vendor: Jule Selbo
Breaking Barriers: A Novel Based on the Life of Laura Bassi
They said, "No " She asked, "Why?" The answer was always the same: "Because you're a woman." She vowed to shatter each barrier they placed in her way.Inquisitive and precocious, Laura Bassi grew up on the Italian Peninsula in the 1700s, dreaming of studying...- $16.99
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The Man in the Pines
Legends are somewhat deceitful. Leaving no room for sequels. Books never written. Stories never told. Until now.It is the late 1800s, and Paul Cunningham is about to establish himself as one of the most iconic American folklore figures of all time by logging his...- $15.00
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Aseroë
"A singular novel." --Lydia Davis, author of Can't and Won't and Essays One"An exhilarating adventure " --Alberto Manguel, author of The Library at Night and Fabulous Monsters"Extraordinary. . . . Brings to mind the great mushroom scenes of the film Phantom Thread. How not...- $16.99
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Vendor: Gill Paul
Jackie and Maria: A Novel of Jackie Kennedy & Maria Callas
From the #1 bestselling author of The Secret Wife comes a story of love, passion, and tragedy as the lives of Jackie Kennedy and Maria Callas are intertwined--and they become the ultimate rivals, in love with the same man.The President's Wife; a Glamorous Superstar;...- $21.99
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Vendor: Richard Smallwood
Total Praise - the Autobiography of Richard Smallwood
Richard Smallwood is a legend in his own time. After over three decades as one of the most popular inspirational artists in the music business, with classic tunes such as "Total Praise", "Center of My Joy" and "I Love the Lord" to his credit,...- $24.95
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Vendor: Diana Wallis Taylor
Rahab, Woman of Jericho
Some biblical scholars maintain that Rahab, the woman who hid Joshua's two spies, was a harlot or prostitute. So how did she become one of the ancestors of Jesus Christ? Wouldn't the Father ensure a pure lineage for His Son? In this historical fiction,...- $15.99
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Vendor: Vicki Holmes
Three River Valleys Called Home: The Rhine, The Mohawk, and The St. Lawrence
Sometimes people leave their home with the hopes of finding something better. Sometimes they are forced out and chased away. Philip Eamer and his wife, Catrina, experience both in this true story of immigrants searching for a place to call home. The Eamer family's...- $36.99
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Vendor: Vicki Holmes
Three River Valleys Called Home: The Rhine, The Mohawk, and The St. Lawrence
Sometimes people leave their home with the hopes of finding something better. Sometimes they are forced out and chased away. Philip Eamer and his wife, Catrina, experience both in this true story of immigrants searching for a place to call home. The Eamer family's...- $48.99
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Vendor: Beth Leeds
Huguette's Last Wish: Huguette Clark at Bellosguardo
Huguette Marcelle Clark was America's richest little girl. She was born in Paris, France, in 1906 to one of the richest men in the world, William Andrew Clark (think Clark County, Nevada aka Las Vegas). Aside from building the Southern Pacific Railroad with his...- $5.38
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Vendor: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Last Queen: A Novel of Courage and Resistance
WINNER of the 2022 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKING WOMEN AWARD for BEST FICTION OF THE YEAR!LONGLISTED for 2022 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD!She rose from commoner to become the last reigning queen of India's Sikh Empire. In this dazzling novel, based on true-life events, bestselling author...- $51.99
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Vendor: Lesley Lowe
Autumn Gold: A Rendezvous With Cancer, Knowing Death is Not Final
Autumn Gold, inspired by true events, celebrates the indomitable courage and wisdom embodied by young biracial lawyer Vashti Warner while facing her impending death. At age thirty-four, Vashti radiates good health. An excellent litigator in a district attorney's office, she seeks to make a...- $18.95
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Vendor: Zuhura Yunus
Biubwa Amour Zahor Mwanamke Mwanamapinduzi
Biubwa Amour Zahor: Mwanamke Mwanamapinduzi ni kitabu cha kipekee kabisa katika historia ya ushiriki wa wanawake kwenye harakati za Waafrika kijitawala, siyo kwa Zanzibar tu, bali kwa Tanzania nzima na Afrika kwa ujumla. Ushiriki wa Biubwa katika Mapinduzi ya Zanzibar haukulenga kupata cheo wala...- $22.48
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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 Saga...- $25.99
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If only he'd told her
If only he'd told her is the story of Emma, who at the age of 32, loses her boyfriend to cancer. Their relationship before his death, though, was difficult, and Emma is left with one important unanswered question - did he really love her?...- $13.99
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Vendor: Marino Magliani
A Window to Zeewijk
Set between the Netherlands and the end of western Liguria, Marino Magliani traces a geography of the humane and the forlorn, of panoramas and yearning. "A Window to Zeewijk" is the story of a changing landscapes, of houses with lifespans shorter than that their...- $18.00
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Vendor: Marion Kummerow
Unyielding: A Moving Tale of the Lives of Two Rebel Fighters In WWII Germany
A pledge of love and hope paves the way for a tale of courage and resilience...After Wilhelm Quedlin takes Hilde Dremmer as his bride, his heart is content and filled with love but his life becomes much more complicated. As he's pulled deeper and...- $12.95
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Vendor: Leo Tolstoy
The Power of Darkness
The Power of Darkness (1886) is a play by Leo Tolstoy. Forbidden for decades in Tolstoy's native Russia, the five-act play was first staged in Paris, where it earned praise from some of France's leading critics. Noted for its brutal depiction of violence and...- $5.99
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Vendor: Stella Benson
This Is the End
This Is the End (1917) is a novel by Stella Benson. Based on the author's experience in the movement for women's suffrage, This Is the End is a story of identity and social class set in the London neighborhood of Hackney. As Jay attempts...- $7.99
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Vendor: Jennifer Dance
Gone But Still Here
As her recent memories fade, Mary lives increasingly in the past -- returning to the secrets of her turbulent interracial love story. Coming to terms with advancing dementia, Mary has no choice other than to move into her daughter's home. Her daughter, Kayla, caught...- $18.99
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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...- $17.29
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Vendor: Ford Madox Ford
The Fifth Queen: And How She Came to Court
The Fifth Queen: And How She Came to Court (1906) is a novel by Ford Madox Ford. The first installment of Ford's The Fifth Queen Trilogy is set during the reign of Henry VIII, a tumultuous time of political and religious oppression in a...- $10.99
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The Uncalled
The Uncalled (1898) is a novel by African American author Paul Laurence Dunbar. Published while Dunbar was at the height of his career as one of the nation's leading black poets, The Uncalled marked his debut as a novelist with a powerful vision of...- $7.99
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Vendor: Anna Enquist
The Homecoming
An internationally bestselling, award-winning novel peering deep into the passions, losses, and reveries of the wife of eighteenth-century explorer Captain James Cook.After twelve years of marriage to English explorer James Cook, Elizabeth has yet to spend an entire year with her husband. In their...- $14.95
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Vendor: Elizabeth Chadwick
To Defy a King
ROMANTIC NOVELIST'S ASSOCIATION'S HISTORICAL NOVEL OF THE YEAR"The best writer of medieval fiction currently around."--Historical Novels ReviewThe fifth book in bestselling author Elizabeth Chadwick's William Marshal series, To Defy is King is a riveting historical novel of family, loyalty and betrayal, featuring the daughter...- $22.99
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The Scarlet Lion
"Everyone who has raved about Elizabeth Chadwick as an author of historical novels is right."--Devourer of Books on The Greatest KnightIn another remarkable work of medieval fiction, Elizabeth Chadwick continues the tale of The Greatest Knight, and shares a story of power, chaos, and...- $22.99
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Vendor: Jean Plaidy
The Lady in the Tower
One of history's most complex and alluring women comes to life in this classic novel by the legendary Jean Plaidy. Young Anne Boleyn was not beautiful but she was irresistible, capturing the hearts of kings and commoners alike. Daughter of an ambitious country lord,...- $16.00
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Vendor: Daisy Goodwin
Victoria: A Novel of a Young Queen by the Creator/Writer of the Masterpiece Presentation on PBS
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...- $34.99
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Vendor: Upton Sinclair
Boston - A Documentary Novel of the Sacco-Vanzetti Case
The protracted trial of Sacco and Vanzetti was the most controversial political event of the 1920s. Today, more than seventy years after their execution, the events surrounding the case of Sacco and Vanzetti are still the source of debate. Truly, it is the case...- $29.95
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Vendor: Bahiyyih Nakhjavani
The Woman Who Read Too Much
Gossip was rife in the capital about the poetess of Qazvin. Some claimed she had been arrested for masterminding the murder of the grand Mullah, her uncle. Others echoed her words, and passed her poems from hand to hand. Everyone spoke of her beauty,...- $20.00
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Vendor: Ami McKay
Half Spent Was the Night: A Witches' Yuletide
Beloved author Ami McKay is back, bringing us a magical follow-up in the tradition of Victorian winter tales to her mesmerizing bestseller, The Witches of New York. During the nights between Christmas and New Year's, the witches of New York--Adelaide Thom, Eleanor St. Clair...- $15.00
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Vendor: Tim LaHaye
Mark's Story: The Gospel According to Peter
The thrilling new novel of the Jesus Chronicles from the authors of the multi-million bestselling Left Behind series. The phenomenal multi-million-selling Left Behind series has won legions of fans. Now Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins give us the second book in their bestselling Jesus...- $15.00
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Vendor: Linn Ullmann
Unquiet
A heartbreaking and darkly funny portrait of the intricacies of family life, Unquiet is an elegy of memory and loss, identity and art, growing up and growing old.Author: Linn UllmannISBN-10: 0393357651ISBN-13: 9780393357653Publisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/14/2020Pages: 416Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 8.20h x...- $15.95
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Vendor: Robert Hellenga
Philosophy Made Simple
An unforgettable novel about a man's search for meaning.Author: Robert HellengaISBN-10: 031601334XISBN-13: 9780316013345Publisher: Back Bay BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2007Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.24h x 5.50w x 0.85dReview Citation(s): New York Times 03/25/2007 pg. 24- $21.99
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Vendor: Irv Lampman
Deathwind of the Border
Historical novel based on the life and times of one of America's greatest frontiersmen responsible for opening up the Ohio River country, Lew Wetzel. He was known as "Deathwind of the Border" because of his dedication and ferocity in the pursuit of Native American...- $16.99
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Vendor: Christina Hesselholdt
Vivian
With Vivian, her second novel to be published in English, Christina Hesselholdt delves into the world of the enigmatic American photographer Vivian Maier (1926-2009), whose unique body of work only reached the public by chance. On the surface, Vivian Maier lived a quiet life,...- $17.95
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Vendor: David A. Goodman
The Autobiography of James T. Kirk
The Autobiography of James T. Kirk chronicles the greatest Starfleet captain's life (2233-2371), in his own words, complete with illustrations and exclusive art. It is the first officially produced in-universe biography of the legendary and iconic Star Trek character, Captain Kirk, as played by...- $15.95
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Vendor: Kelly O'Connor McNees
Undiscovered Country
In 1932, New York City, top reporter Lorena "Hick" Hickok starts each day with a front page byline--and finishes it swigging bourbon and planning her next big scoop. But an assignment to cover FDR's campaign--and write a feature on his wife, Eleanor--turns Hick's hard-won...- $15.95
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Vendor: Lore Segal
The Journal I Did Not Keep: New and Selected Writing
"For almost six decades Segal has quietly produced some of the best fiction and essays in American literature, as this generous sampler attests."--The New York Times "Segal is a monumental writer, one of the finest of her generation; this lovely collection is a fine...- $28.99
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Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me: The Best of Teffi
Early in her literary career Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya, born in St. Petersburg in 1872, adopted the pen-name of Teffi, and it is as Teffi that she is remembered. In prerevolutionary Russia she was a literary star, known for her humorous satirical pieces; in the 1920s...- $16.95
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Vendor: Bruce Duffy
The World as I Found It
This "wicked, melancholy, and . . . astonishing" novel reimagines the lives of three wildly different men adrift in the 20th century: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell, and G. E. Moore (Newsday). When Bruce Duffy's The World As I Found It was first published, critics...- $27.95
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Vendor: Marguerite Duras
The North China Lover
For fans of Duras's enduring bestseller The Lover, an evocative and intimate exploration of the drama and power of adolescence, in a remarkable blend of fiction and memoir Far more daring and truthful than any of her other novels, The North China Lover is...- $17.99
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Vendor: Lauren Lee Merewether
Salvation in the Sun: Book One
This future she knows for certain-the great sun city will be her undoing. Amidst a power struggle between Pharaoh and the priesthood of Amun, Queen Nefertiti helps the ill-prepared new Pharaoh, Amenhotep, enact his father's plan to regain power for the throne. But what...- $15.99
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The Lotus Born for the Young at Heart: A Fairy's Tale About Pema
Shortly after the Buddha passed into nirvana, a water fairy from the Lake of the Hidden Treasure witnesses the birth of an Indian hero, Padmasambhava, who is born in a giant lotus in the middle of her lake. He incarnates to help carry on...- $35.45
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Vendor: Maureen McNeil
Dear Red: The Lost Diary of Marilyn Monroe
It is 1962 and America's greatest sex symbol is ahead of her time. Within the pages of a secret diary she names Red, Marilyn Monroe scribbles her hopes, dreams, and fears, inspired by her aspiration to one day motivate a young person to become...- $12.99
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Mata Hari's Last Dance
From the international bestselling author of Rebel Queen and Nefertiti comes a captivating novel about the infamous Mata Hari, exotic dancer, adored courtesan, and, possibly, relentless spy.Paris, 1917. The notorious dancer Mata Hari sits in a cold cell awaiting freedom...or death. Alone and despondent,...- $17.00
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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)...- $15.99
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Vendor: Helena P. Schrader
Balian d'Ibelin: Knight of Jerusalem
Book I in the Award-Winning Jerusalem TrilogyB.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree, Historical Novel Society Editor's ChoiceHollywood made him a blacksmith; Arab chronicles said he was "like a king."He served a leper, but defied Richard the Lionheart.He was a warrior and a diplomat both.This is the first...- $20.95
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Girl with a Gun: An Annie Oakley Mystery
She's on the rise to fame and fortune, but her sudden notoriety comes with some deadly consequences.In the glittering arenas of the Wild West Show, Annie Oakley's marksmanship dazzles crowds and draws acclaim. With dreams of pulling her family's farm from the brink, the...- $14.99
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The Haunting of Sharon Rectory: Our Truth, Our Horror And Heartbreak
This 200-year-old Georgian Rectory is a sight to behold. But what secrets, spirits and ghosts lurk behind? When the Tully family purchased this magnificent building in the 1990s they had big restoration dreams. Little did they know their lives were about to change forever....- $10.99
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Sergeant Salinger
A shattering biographical novel of J.D. Salinger in combat"Charyn skillfully breathes life into historical icons." --New YorkerJ.D. Salinger, mysterious author of The Catcher in the Rye, is remembered today as a reclusive misanthrope. Jerome Charyn's Salinger is a young American WWII draftee assigned to...- $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.

