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Vendor: Robert B. Parker
Love and Glory
Boone Adams: He was so smart he wrote half the English papers for the freshman class, when he wasn't getting drunk at night and waking up hung over in the morning. To him life was full of promise . . . just the ones...- $9.99
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Vendor: Kelly O'Connor McNees
The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott
A richly imagined, remarkably written story of the woman who created Little Women--and how love changed her in ways she never expected. Countless readers have fallen in love with Little Women. But how could the author--who never had a romance--write so convincingly of love...- $15.00
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Vendor: Sandra Worth
The King's Daughter
In this groundbreaking novel, award-winning author Sandra Worth vibrantly brings to life the people's Queen, "Elizabeth the Good." Seventeen-year-old Elizabeth of York trusts that her beloved father's dying wish has left England in the hands of a just and deserving ruler. But upon the...- $18.00
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Vendor: Mark Beauregard
The Whale: A Love Story
"A passionate love story and a gripping portrait of an artist wrestling with himself on the cusp of his greatest achievement." -- Madeline Miller, author of The Song of Achilles A rich and captivating novel set amid the witty, high-spirited literary society of 1850s...- $16.00
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Vendor: Linn Ullmann
Unquiet
He is a renowned Swedish filmmaker and has a plan for everything. She is his daughter, the youngest of nine children. Every summer, since she was a little girl, she visits him at his beloved stony house surrounded by woods, poppies, and the Baltic...- $25.95
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Vendor: Dorothy Dunnett
King Hereafter
Back in print by popular demand--"A stunning revelation of the historical Macbeth, harsh and brutal and eloquent." --Washington Post Book World. With the same meticulous scholarship and narrative legerdemain she brought to her hugely popular Lymond Chronicles, our foremost historical novelist travels further into...- $20.00
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Vendor: Juliet Grey
Days of Splendor, Days of Sorrow: A Novel of Marie Antoinette
A captivating novel of rich spectacle and royal scandal, Days of Splendor, Days of Sorrow spans fifteen years in the fateful reign of Marie Antoinette, France's most legendary and notorious queen. Paris, 1774. At the tender age of eighteen, Marie Antoinette ascends to the...- $19.00
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Vendor: Mark Childress
Tender
East Tupelo was a sprinkling of poor houses at the scratched-out back edge of Mississippi--and the birthplace of a boy who would become the greatest rock legend of his time. In Tender, novelist Mark Childress has redefined the American epic. He takes us on...- $27.00
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Vendor: Carey Roberts
Tidewater Dynasty: A Biographical Novel of the Lees of Stratford Hall
From Tom Lee to Robert E. Lee, who made the fateful decision to turn from the nation he loved to defend the state he loved more, the Lees of Virginia dominated both their local and our national landscape.Author: Carey Roberts, Rebecca SeelyISBN-10: 0156903369ISBN-13: 9780156903363Publisher:...- $18.99
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Vendor: G?ter Grass
Too Far Afield
From the Nobel Prize-winning author of My Century and The Tin Drum, a novel of broad historical proportions set in Berlin during the years of German reunification. Two old men roam through Berlin observing life in the former German Democratic Republic after the fall...- $36.95
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Vendor: Stephen O'Connor
Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings
"Dazzling. . . The most revolutionary reimagining of Jefferson's life ever." -Ron Charles, Washington Post Winner of the Crook's Corner Book Prize Longlisted for the 2016 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize A debut novel about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, in whose story...- $18.00
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Vendor: Elliott Holt
You Are One of Them: A Novel about Secrets, Betrayal, and the Friend Who Got Away
"A hugely absorbing first novel from a writer with a fluid, vivid style and a rare knack for balancing the pleasure of entertainment with the deeper gratification of insight. More, please."--Maggie Shipstead, The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) "A story about Russia,...- $17.00
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Vendor: Liza Klaussmann
Villa America
A dazzling novel set in the French Riviera based on the real-life inspirations for F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is The Night. When Sara Wiborg and Gerald Murphy met and married, they set forth to create a beautiful world together-one that they couldn't find within...- $15.99
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Vendor: Irene Sabatini
The Boy Next Door
In Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, there is a tragedy in the house next door to Lindiwe Bishop -- her neighbor has been burned alive. The victim's stepson, Ian McKenzie, is the prime suspect but is soon released. Lindiwe can't hide her fascination with this young, boisterous...- $40.00
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Vendor: Herman Wouk
A Hole in Texas
With this rollicking novel hailed equally for its satiric bite, its lightly borne scientific savvy, and its tender compassion for foible-prone humanity, one of America's preeminent storytellers returns to fiction. Guy Carpenter is a regular guy, a family man, an obscure NASA scientist, when...- $21.99
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Vendor: Heather Hunter
Insatiable
From one of the top names in the adult entertainment industry comes a scorchingly hot tale inspired by Heather Hunter's own emergence into the porn world. In a rare glimpse at the real life of a porn star, Heather Hunter shares a fictional account...- $22.99
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Vendor: Annabel Lyon
The Golden Mean
Keenly intelligent and brilliantly rendered, The Golden Mean is a bold reimagining of one of history's most intriguing relationships--that between the legendary philosopher Aristotle and his most famous pupil, Alexander the Great. Aristotle is initially reluctant to set aside his own ambitions in order...- $22.00
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Vendor: Susan Fraser King
Lady Macbeth
From towering crags to misted moors and formidable fortresses, Lady Macbeth transports readers to the heart of eleventh-century Scotland, painting a bold, vivid portrait of a woman much maligned by history. Lady Gruadh--Rue--is the last female descendant of Scotland's most royal line. Married to...- $16.00
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Vendor: Madison Smartt Bell
Devil's Dream
A powerful new novel about Nathan Bedford Forrest, the most reviled, celebrated, and legendary of Civil War generals. With the same eloquence, dramatic energy, and grasp of history that marked his award-winning fictional trilogy of the Haitian Revolution, Madison Smartt Bell now turns his...- $15.95
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Vendor: Rosalind Miles
The Lady of the Sea: The Third of the Tristan and Isolde Novels
The final thrilling chapter in the Tristan and Isolde trilogy Isolde, heir to the throne of the queens, is now a sovereign in her own right. With the glories of the throne comes the responsibility of a queen, and Isolde knows she must return...- $19.00
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Vendor: Pierre Michon
Rimbaud the Son
A radiant work of fiction that illuminates the life and art of Rimbaud in a way that no biography could Rimbaud the Son, widely celebrated upon its publication in France, investigates the life of a writer, the writing life, and the art of life-writing....- $15.00
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Vendor: Penelope Lively
Making It Up
Look out for Penelope Lively's new book, The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories. Hailed by critics as a benchmark in a career full of award-winning achievements, Making It Up is Penelope Lively's answer to the oft-asked question, "How much of what you write...- $14.00
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Vendor: T. C. Boyle
The Inner Circle
Fresh on the heels of his New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-nominated novel, Drop City, T.C. Boyle has spun an even more dazzling tale that will delight both his longtime devotees and a legion of new fans. Boyle's tenth novel, The Inner...- $22.00
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Vendor: Hazel Gaynor
The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
From The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home comes a historical novel inspired by true events, and the extraordinary female lighthouse keepers of the past two hundred years."They call me a heroine, but I am not deserving of such...- $19.99
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Vendor: Shelley Wood
The Quintland Sisters
"A historical novel that will enthrall you... I was utterly captivated..." -- Joanna Goodman, author of The Home for Unwanted GirlsAN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERFor fans of Sold on a Monday or The Home for Unwanted Girls, Shelley Wood's novel tells the story of the Dionne...- $15.99
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Vendor: Evan Hunter
Lizzie
Lizzie Borden, America's most celebrated murderer, comes to vivid life in this riveting and chilling book by acclaimed author Evan Hunter as the portrait of a notorious woman unfolds with shocking clarity.Lizzie Borden took an axAnd gave her mother forty whacks.When she saw what...- $15.99
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Vendor: Alison Anderson
The Summer Guest: A Novel of Chekhov
What if Anton Chekhov, undisputed master of the short story, actually wrote a novel--and the manuscript still existed? This tantalizing possibility drives The Summer Guest, a spellbinding narrative that draws together, across two centuries, the lives of three women through the discovery of a...- $15.99
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Vendor: Alix Christie
Gutenberg's Apprentice
"A finely atmospheric debut...Christie's novel is a worthy tribute to the technological revolution it reimagines, as well as a haunting elegy to the culture of print...One thinks of Donna Tartt's obsessive accounts of furniture decoration in The Goldfinch or even Philip Roth's lovingly twisted...- $17.99
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Vendor: Mary Doria Russell
Epitaph: A Novel of the O.K. Corral
Mary Doria Russell, the bestselling, award-winning author of The Sparrow, returns with Epitaph. An American Iliad, this richly detailed and meticulously researched historical novel continues the story she began in Doc, following Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday to Tombstone, Arizona, and to the gunfight...- $27.99
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Vendor: Duncan Jepson
All the Flowers in Shanghai
"Duncan Jepson magically inhabits the life of a young Chinese woman in 1930s Shanghai....I thoroughly enjoyed this book."--Janice Y. K. Lee, New York Times bestselling author of The Piano Teacher"Breathtaking....A great work that will move its readers."--Hong Ying, international bestselling author of Daughter of...- $14.99
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Vendor: Peter Esterhazy
Not Art
"One of the most interesting and original writers of our time."--Mario Vargas Llosa Winner of 2004 Peace Prize--Germany's most prestigious literary honor--Peter Esterhazy, author of the acclaimed Celestial Harmonies, offers us Not Art, a uniquely brilliant novelized exploration of his mother's life. Following through...- $18.00
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Vendor: Peter Wild
Noise: Fiction Inspired by Sonic Youth
For more than twenty-five years, the antimelodic "noise" of Sonic Youth has assaulted us, exhilarated us, inspired us. Why?Katherine Dunn says it's because they operate in the foggy world between the real and the surreal. Mary Gaitskill says that Sonic Youth caught her, years...- $14.99
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Vendor: Lily Tuck
The News from Paraguay
"Brimming with rich descriptions of a beautiful country....The News From Paraguay evolves from a quirky, elegant tale of an unconventional love affair into a sweeping epic." -- Fort Worth Star-TelegramLily Tuck's impressive novel offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of 19th century Paraguay, a largely untouched...- $16.99
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Vendor: Lisa St Aubin de Teran
Swallowing Stones
Lisa St Aubin de Ter n's Swallowing Stones is a fictionalized account of the extraordinary life of one Oswaldo Barreto Miliani, code-named Otto -- adviser to Castro, confidant of Salvador Allende, and sharp thorn in the sides of both the CIA and the KGB....- $18.00
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Vendor: Stanley J. St Clair
The Black Widow of Hazel Green
The Black Widow of Hazel Green is a dark tale set in the pre-Civil War South based on an amazing true story. It will make you angry, make you laugh and make you cry.Born in Coastal Maryland, Elizabeth Dale Gibbons Flanagan Jeffries High Brown...- $18.20
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Vendor: Nicole Gregory
Desert Missionary: A Novel Based on the Life of Father Eusebio Kino
Through a great and terrible wilderness, with serpents, scorpions, and thirsty ground, he sowed peace and sustenance and left an enduring mark on the New World.A celebrated teacher of mathematics and astronomy, Eusebio Kino's future promised to be comfortable and secure. Jesuit elders urged...- $16.99
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Vendor: Cynthia Cooper
No Person Above the Law: A Novel Based on the Life of Judge John J. Sirica
The country faced a Constitutional crisis during Watergate. He stood firm for the rule of law.As the chief judge of the federal court in Washington D.C. in 1972, John J. Sirica took on the trial of burglars arrested while planting electronic bugs in the...- $15.99
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Vendor: Maurizio Marmorstein
The Making of a Prince: A Novel Based on the Life of Niccolò Machiavelli
Born into a modest family in fifteenth century Florence, Niccol Machiavelli became ambassador of the Florentine Republic at the early age of twenty-nine. After fourteen years of service, he was falsely accused of conspiracy, thrown into prison, tortured, and subsequently forced to abandon his...- $15.99
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Vendor: Libbie Hawker
The Crook and Flail
Book Two of The She-King seriesThe son of the god must take her rightful place on Egypt's throne. Hatshepsut longs for power, but she is constrained by her commitment to maat - the sacred order of righteousness, the way things must be. Her mother...- $18.00
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Vendor: Justin Chin
Burden of Ashes
The 20th anniversary edition of a groundbreaking Asian-American queer classic by celebrated author Justin Chin Floating somewhere between fiction and memoir, Burden of Ashes is a beautiful and brutal series of short stories in which childhood, homeland, and lovers both real and imagined succumb...- $16.95
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Vendor: Alison Weir
The Last White Rose: A Novel of Elizabeth of York
New York Times bestselling author Alison Weir explores the turbulent life of Henry VIII's mother, Elizabeth, the first queen of the Tudor dynasty, in this "superbly readable and engaging" (Historical Novels Society) novel. Elizabeth of York is the oldest daughter of King Edward IV....- $18.99
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Vendor: Thusitha L. Perera
To Help Just One: Stories to Comfort Stories of Hope Stories to Heal
How does one find the path from barely surviving to thriving?Make yourself a cup of tea and gently enter a world where Tegan, Jonathan, and Lawrence navigate the ups and downs of their mental health. The paths of childhood friends, work colleagues, and exercise...- $24.95
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To Help Just One: Stories to Comfort Stories of Hope Stories to Heal
How does one find the path from barely surviving to thriving?Make yourself a cup of tea and gently enter a world where Tegan, Jonathan, and Lawrence navigate the ups and downs of their mental health. The paths of childhood friends, work colleagues, and exercise...- $16.95
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Vendor: Lev Levanda
An Amateur Performance: (Reminiscences of a Student in the 1850s)
Russia's best Jewish writer in the nineteenth-century, Lev Levanda (1835-1888), is still barely known in the English-speaking world. Here for the first time is one of his major novels in his entirety, An Amateur Performance (Reminiscences of a Student in the 1850s), translated with...- $24.95
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Vendor: Brian Spielbauer
The Legacy of Faith: New Beginnings
The Legacy of Faith: New Beginnings is the continuation of the first book of the series, The Legacy of Faith: The Journey, which covered the journey of the Tschohl and Rohner families, George Spielbauer and Mary Pankraz, from Europe to the Guttenberg Iowa area...- $19.99
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The Conqueror's Wife
A novel from the acclaimed author of The Tiger Queens, for readers looking for "strong and determined female protagonists" (Historical Novel Society) and "a sprawling historical saga" (Renee Rosen)... We are the women who loved Alexander the Great. We were lovers and murderers, innocents...- $16.00
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Memoirs of the Sansons: from private notes and documents, 1688-1847 - Vol. 1
Memoirs of the Sansons - from private notes and documents, 1688-1847 - Vol. 1 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1876. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking...- $36.50
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I Am Enough: A Journey of Self-Love and Self-Acceptance
It is not how you fall but how you stand up on your feet afterwards. For her 21st, Kate had an extravagant party which was planned for months in advance. Kate told her dad she was never going to get married, convincing him to...- $17.99
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Defending Alice: A Novel of Love and Race in the Roaring Twenties
Gripping courtroom drama and social commentary . . . the story flows well . . . [the author is] masterful in building suspense.--Kirkus ReviewsSet in 1920s New York, an addictively readable, thoroughly entertaining historical novel involving sex and secrets, race and redemption, and power...- $57.99
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An Orphan's Song: An utterly unputdownable, heart-warming and emotional historical novel
England, 1951. A tear-jerking and uplifting story about children orphaned by war, the grieving young woman who cares for them, and their journey together to healing. When Clara Newton's American pilot fiancé died during the war, she thought she might never heal. But now...- $11.99
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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.

