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Vendor: W. Somerset Maugham
Of Human Bondage
The day broke gray and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house...- $10.49
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Vendor: Libbie Hawker
Sovereign of Stars: The She-King: Book 3
"Remember the Mistress of the West, the Sovereign of Stars. If she asks any gift of you, you must not deny her, God's Wife." Hatshepsut has fulfilled her destiny and taken the Pharaoh's throne. But she knows her position is precarious. In all Egypt's...- $14.00
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Vendor: Pierre Guyotat
Coma
A poetic exploration of trauma and renewal from the last avant-garde visionary of the twentieth century.Long ago, in childhood, when Summer reverberates and feels and throbs all over, it begins to circumscribe my body along with my self, and my body gives it shape...- $17.95
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Vendor: Jane Kirkpatrick
A Flickering Light
Returning to her Midwest roots, award-winning author Jane Kirkpatrick draws a page from her grandmother's photo album to capture the interplay between shadow and light, temptation and faith that marks a woman's pursuit of her dreams. She took exquisite photographs, but her heart was...- $18.00
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A Tendering in the Storm
A Story of Tender Truths About a Woman's Desperate Efforts to Shelter Her Family Determined to raise her children on her own terms, Emma suddenly finds herself alone and pregnant with her third child, struggling to keep her family secure in the remote coastal...- $16.00
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Vendor: Donald R. Wilson
35 Temptitle for Title Removal
Twenty-three-year-old Elizabeth Sprague has recently graduated from her botany studies at Wellesley College and now wants to leave her secure life with her parents in Boston to go to the Florida Everglades to study the plants there--something that in 1893 no woman has ever...- $16.95
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Y: Oppenheimer, Horseman of Los Alamos
J. Robert Oppenheimer: reluctant father of the atomic bomb, enthusiastic lover of books, devoted husband and philanderer. Engaging with the books he voraciously read, and especially the Bhagavad Gita, his moral compass, this lyrical novel takes us through his story, from his tumultuous youth...- $17.95
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Vendor: Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette
Suzanne
SHORTLISTED FOR CBC CANADA READS 2019WINNER OF THE BEST TRANSLATED BOOK AWARDEighty-five years of art and history through the eyes of a woman who fled her family - as re-imagined by her granddaughter.Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette never knew her mother's mother. Curious to understand why her...- $17.95
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Vendor: Rae Spoon
First Spring Grass Fire
Transgender indie electronica singer-songwriter Rae Spoon has six albums to their credit, including 2012's I Can't Keep All of Our Secrets. This first book by Rae (who uses "they" as a pronoun) is a candid, powerful story about a young person growing up queer...- $14.95
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Vendor: Adele Poynter
Dancing in a Jar
Based on a true story, Dancing in a Jar elaborates on the real-life love affair of a young couple who leave New York City to live in the outport community of St. Lawrence, Newfoundland, during the Great Depression when the husband, Don Poynter, accepts...- $19.95
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Vendor: Marietta J. Tanner
Driving in Second
Still recovering from a devastating breakup with the man she loved, a young African American woman decides to drive from New York City to Mexico with three female friends. In 1954, during the height of Jim Crow, the decision is both brave and potentially...- $20.00
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Vendor: Nicole Sarrocco
Lit by Lightning: An Occasionally True Account of One Girl's Dust-ups with Ghosts, Electricity, and Granny's Ashes
From North Carolina comes the electrifying new voice of Nicole Sarrocco, whose debut novel Lit by Lightning--first in the Occasionally Trueseries--is an intensely personal and strangely universal tale of finding grace in chaos, creating meaning from nonsense, and for heaven's sake not making too...- $16.00
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Vendor: Mark Arnold
Monster: The Story of a Young Mary Shelley (Life of Mary Shelley, Author of the Frankenstein Book)
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, The Book That Changed the WorldMonster: Publishing to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and a movie starring Elle Fanning as Mary Shelley, Monster is a brilliant fictionalized biography akin to The Other Boleyn Girl.Frankenstein:...- $18.95
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Vendor: Jono Comiskey
Dying to Live: Based on a True Story
An inmate finds himself in an impossible predicament after a life-changing encounter in prison, his survival tied to three seemingly unconnected people on the outside. Unseen forces work to destroy them before they can discover their destiny. Divided families, destroyed careers, sexual abuse, drugs,...- $19.99
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Vendor: Martin Kraidin
Broken Contract
When a college all American named Martin Kraidin saw a high school honey named Lynn Konick walk across the campus it was not just love at first sight it a was future so bright, so envied, it was set in the astrological stars. Marty...- $24.95
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Vendor: Ricardo Piglia
The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: The Happy Years
The second installment of Argentine literary giant Ricardo Piglia's acclaimed bibliophilic trilogy follows his alter ego, Emilio Renzi, as his literary career begins to take off in the tumultuous years 1968-1975--running a magazine, working as a publisher, and encountering the literary stars among whom...- $21.99
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Vendor: Abdulwahid Lu'lu'a
Mount Qāf: A Biographical Novel On the Andalusian Mystic Muḥyiddīn ibn Al-͑Arabi
The biographical novel Mount Qāf is based on histories of medieval Andalus. Muḥyiddīn ibn Al-͑Arabi was a contemporary of Avempace and Averrhoes, and was a pupil of the latter. He witnessed a number of battles between Andalusian Arabs and Spanish Christian kingdoms. From early...- $21.50
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Vendor: Martin Walser
A Man in Love
For readers of Colm Toibin's The Master and Michael Cunningham's The Hours, a witty, moving, tender novel of impossible love and the mysterious ways of art. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is so famous his servant auctions off snippets of his hair and children and...- $25.99
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Vendor: Natalie David-Weill
Jewish Mothers Never Die
The mothers of some of the most illustrious Jewish men in recent history--Albert Einstein, Marcel Proust, Sigmund Freud, Woody Allen, the Marx Brothers--are chatting in heaven. The subject: their respective sons--and their undying love for their mothers. Each one, as before in life, engages...- $16.99
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Vendor: Max McCoy
A Breed Apart
A Novel of Wild Bill HickokAces and eights-everyone knows the tale of the Dead Man's Hand. Wild Bill Hickok was a giant in a vast land, a celebrity in the days of dime novels and the telegraph. Few men in the Old West could...- $14.95
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Vendor: Suzanne Morris
Aftermath
Springing from the London School explosion in rural New London, Texas, Aftermath begins more than forty years later, when the narrator recalls the dreadful day she lost her mother and many of her schoolmates. As she weighs both the joys and the sorrows of...- $20.00
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Vendor: Michael Maloni
Defenseman: A Hockey Player's Story
"This isn't a story about putting the puck in the net, although that is part of it, but of understanding your brothers on the ice and your brother in real life. But when your brother in real life has a mental illness, it brings...- $19.50
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Vendor: Anthony Hope
The Heart of Princess Osra
"Anthony Hope was born Feb. 9, 1863, in London. His father was the headmaster of the St. Johns Foundation School for the Sons of Poor Clergy. He was educated at Marlborough School and Baliol College, Oxford, obtaining an M.A. with honors in 1885. He...- $29.95
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The Heart of Princess Osra
"Anthony Hope was born Feb. 9, 1863, in London. His father was the headmaster of the St. Johns Foundation School for the Sons of Poor Clergy. He was educated at Marlborough School and Baliol College, Oxford, obtaining an M.A. with honors in 1885. He...- $22.95
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Vendor: Frank Stevens
The Diary of Lillie Langtry: And Other Remembrances
She was acknowledged as the most beautiful woman in the world but she wanted more than accolades from artists and photographers. She soon became the mistress of Edward Albert, prince of Wales and future king of England, then turned her talents to acting, her...- $9.99
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Vendor: Connie Lounsbury
Fatal Flaws: Based on a True Story
Award-winning author Connie Lounsbury expertly weaves nonfiction and fiction together in a story that will have the reader weeping in both sorrow and joy. When Irene's husband abandons her and their children in the early 1920s she tries, in various ways, to earn an...- $15.95
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Vendor: Flora Thompson
Candleford Green
Flora Thompson's semi-autobiographical Lark Rise to Candleford trilogy is known and loved the world over for its gentle depiction of rural life in Oxfordshire in the late 19th century, a way of life that was soon to vanish forever as mechanisation took over farming....- $16.99
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Over to Candleford
Flora Thompson's semi-autobiographical Lark Rise to Candleford trilogy is known and loved the world over for its gentle depiction of rural life in Oxfordshire in the late 19th century, a way of life that was soon to vanish forever as mechanisation took over farming....- $16.99
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Vendor: Mohamed Choukri
Streetwise
"Choukri is a powerful teller of stories. His telling of oppression is vivid and remarkable."--Morning Star The story of Mohamed Choukri's life is continued in the sequel to For Bread Alone. In his early twenties, Choukri takes the momentous decision to learn to read...- $14.95
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Vendor: Ndala Mamadou
From Pain to Fame: A Congo Boy Story
From Pain to Fame: A Congo Boy Story The social unit formed by a family living together or a place one lives permanently especially as a member of a family or household according to both the Merriam-Webster and the Oxford Dictionary is something I...- $29.99
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Vendor: Charles Laborde
Affinity: A Play of Frank Lloyd Wright and Taliesin
Affinity tells of the early years of the career of celebrated architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, including the beginnings of his growth to fame, his first marriage, his trials as he became a famous designer of homes, and the dissolution of his marriage after beginning...- $8.00
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Denazifying Leni: The incredible Leni Riefenstahlエs story in Nazi Germany
After the World War II, the Committee of Denazification of the Allies tried to determine the degree of responsibility of every German in the Nazi crimes as part of the campaign of democratization carried out in post-war Germany. This dramatic fiction recreates the trial...- $8.90
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Vendor: Tony Riches
Brandon - Tudor Knight
Everyone has secrets... But will Charles Brandon's cost him everything? He's fallen in love with King Henry VIII's sister, Mary Tudor, the beautiful widowed Queen of France. Will he dare to marry her without the king's consent? Handsome and charismatic, Brandon is a champion...- $12.99
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Vendor: Kareem Jabbar
Call of the Spirit: The Confession of Nat Turner: One Man Stage Play
The Call of the Spirit is a one man stage play based on the life and confession of Nat Turner. This one man stage play explores the events of the Slave Revolt of 1831 and how Nat Turner came to the conclusion that he...- $12.99
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Vendor: Lola Lafon
The Little Communist Who Never Smiled
An award-winning novel powerfully re-imagines a childhood in the spotlight of history, politics, and destiny. Montreal 1976. A fourteen-year-old girl steps out onto the floor of the Montreal Forum and into history. Twenty seconds on uneven bars is all it takes for Nadia Comaneci,...- $18.95
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Vendor: Guadalupe Nettel
The Body Where I Was Born
The first novel to appear in English by one of the most talked-about and critically acclaimed writers of new Mexican fiction. From a psychoanalyst's couch, the narrator looks back on her bizarre childhood--in which she was born with an abnormality in her eye into...- $22.95
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Vendor: Johan Harstad
Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion?
A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Title of 2011 In Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion?, readers follow a man who wishes not to be followed, a man who, after a series of personal and professional disasters, finds himself lying on...- $17.95
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Vendor: J駻e Ferrari
The Principle
"A novelist whose concern with how we should live and what we can believe puts him in the tradition of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus" (The Scotsman). Overpopulation, nuclear war, fascism, contemporary capitalism, and climate crisis all play roles in this epistolary novel in...- $16.00
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Vendor: Patrizia Rinaldi
Three, Imperfect Number
A blind woman leads her Naples police colleagues through the darkness in this distinctive crime thriller. A report has landed on Commissario Martusciello's desk. The lifeless body of the singer Jerry Vialdi--aka Gennaro Mangiavento--has been found at the Naples football stadium; another corpse, this...- $15.00
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Vendor: Stav Sherez
A Dark Redemption
Book One in the Carrigan and Miller series. " A] masterly thriller . . . with a] complicated and compelling detective duo" (The New Yorker). Jack Carrigan, a promising young musician, is on a post-graduation holiday in Africa with two friends. Driving at night,...- $17.00
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Vendor: Deepak Chopra
Muhammad: A Story of the Last Prophet
Born into the factious world of war-torn Arabia, Muhammad experienced a life that is a gripping and inspiring story of one man's tireless fight for unity and peace. In a world in which greed and injustice ruled, Muhammad created change by affecting hearts and...- $29.95
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Newton and Polly: A Novel of Amazing Grace
Uncover the true love story behind the famous hymn that stirs the hearts and ignites the faith of millions around the globe. Amazing grace How sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now am found... Now remembered...- $15.99
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Vendor: Chun Sue
Beijing Doll
Banned in China for its candid exploration of a young girl's sexual awakening yet widely acclaimed as being "the first novel of 'tough youth' in China" (Beijing Today), Beijing Doll cuts a daring path through China's rock-and-roll subculture. This cutting edge novel -- drawn...- $22.00
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Vendor: Simon Leys
The Death of Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte escapes exile just before death in this quirky alternate history novel that reimagines the life of the great French emperor. "This comic tale of Napoleon's imaginary yet all-too-human tribulations poses serious questions about the relationship of truth, history and imagination." --The Wall...- $14.00
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Conversations with Beethoven
Inspired by the famous composer's notebooks, this biographical novel offers "a perfect portrait of an irascible genius" and "revelatory fossils of the last year of Beethoven's anguished life" (Edmund White) Deaf as he was, Beethoven had to be addressed in writing, and he was...- $16.95
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The Mirador: Dreamed Memories of Irene Nemirovsky by Her Daughter
A New York Review Books Original Separated from her mother--the famed author of Suite Française--during World War II, Irène Némirovsky's daughter offers a "nuanced, eloquent portrait of a complicated woman" in a series of memoirs that reimagine her mother's life (The Washington Post)Élisabeth Gille...- $14.95
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Light in the Shadows
The discovery of a lost Caravaggio painting yields centuries of deadly secrets in this pulse-pounding novel of historical intrigue and modern-day suspense...In seventeenth-century Rome, an arrogant and reckless artist named Caravaggio drinks and brawls his way through his violent, insatiable life, all while painting...- $14.95
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Samuel Butler - Erewhon: "Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises"
Samuel Butler was born on 4th December 1835 at the village rectory in Langar, Nottinghamshire.His relationship with his parents, especially his father, was largely antagonistic. His education began at home and included frequent beatings, as was all too common at the time.Under his parents'...- $10.24
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Vendor: Daniel Defoe
The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
A sequel to Daniel Defoe's legendary Robinson Crusoe story of his adventures and survival on a remote tropical island. In this volume we follow Crusoe's return to his island, his voyages to Brazil, Southeast Asia, China, Madagascar, Siberia, and his adventures with the local...- $25.00
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Elisabeth: Excerpts from the diary of a Mennonite girl in the Gran Chaco
Elizabeth-a girl in the Gran Chaco-tells about her life in a diary. Having been born in Russia, she tells about the founding and the building of her village in the Chaco of Paraguay, with all the inherent difficulties in a wilderness settlement and growing...- $18.95
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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.

