Biographical fiction
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The Book of Longings
$30.00 Add to cart“An extraordinary novel . . . a triumph of insight and storytelling.” –Associated Press
“A true masterpiece.” –Glennon Doyle, author of Untamed An extraordinary story set in the first century about- Author: Kidd, Sue Monk
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 21 2020
- ISBN10: 052542976X
- Language: English
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Flush: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition
$20.00 Add to cartThis story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s cocker spaniel, Flush, enchants right from the opening pages. Although Flush has adventures of his own with bullying dogs, horrid maids, and robbers, he also
- Series: Harvest Book; Hb 348
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: September 27 2011
- ISBN10: 0156319527
- Language: English
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Josephine Baker’s Last Dance
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the author of The Jewel of Medina, a moving and insightful novel based on the life of legendary performer and activist Josephine Baker, perfect for fans of The Paris Wife and Hidden Figures.
Disc- Author: Jones, Sherry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1501102443
- Language: English
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz
$27.99 Add to cart#1 New York Times Bestseller and #1 International Bestseller
Soon to be a Peacock Original Series
This beautiful, illuminating tale of hope and courage is based on interviews that were conducted with H
- Author: Morris, Heather
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0062860941
- Language: English
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Last Words from Montmartre
$16.95 Add to cartAn NYRB Classics Original
When the pioneering Taiwanese novelist Qiu Miaojin committed suicide in 1995 at age twenty-six, she left behind her unpublished masterpiece, Last Words from Montmartre. Unfol- Series: New York Review Books (Paperback)
- Author: Miaojin, Qiu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 1590177258
- Language: English
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New Moon Rising: Second Novel in the St. Simons Trilogy
$21.99 Add to cartSecond Novel in the St. Simons Trilogy.
A rich and riveting tale of love, hardship, and the journey for happiness in the war-torn South.
In New Moon Rising, Eugenia Price gives us a story of faith and- Series: St. Simons Trilogy #2
- Author: Price, Eugenia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 29 2012
- ISBN10: 1596528443
- Language: English
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Loving Frank
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From the author of The House of Lincoln, an “enthralling” novel that brings “the buried truths of the ill-starred relationship of Mamah Borthwick Cheney and Frank Lloyd Wri… [more below]
- Author: Horan, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 08 2008
- ISBN10: 0345495004
- Language: English
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Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
$19.00 Add to cartTHE 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- Author: Fowler, Therese Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 04 2014
- ISBN10: 1250028663
- Language: English
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The First Man in Rome
$19.99 Add to cartWith extraordinary narrative power, New York Times bestselling author Colleen McCullough sweeps the reader into a whirlpool of pageantry and passion, bringing to vivid life the most glorious epoch in
- Series: Masters of Rome #1
- Author: McCullough, Colleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1152
- Publish Date: March 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0061582417
- Language: English
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Force of Nature: A Novel of Rachel Carson
$19.99 Add to cartA beautiful and hopeful story of how a young impassioned naturalist grows up to change the world. For everyone who cares about our fragile planet.
“An absolute joy to read.” –Book Riot
“Gracefully writ
- Author: Burg, Ann E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1338883380
- Language: English
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Beneath the Bending Skies
$23.75 Add to cartMollie Sheehan has spent much of her life striving to be a dutiful daughter and honor her father’s wishes, even when doing so has led to one heartbreak after another. After all, what options does she … [more below]
- Author: Kirkpatrick, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0800736125
- Language: English
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Coming Through Slaughter
$16.00 Add to cartBringing to life the fabulous, colorful panorama of New Orleans in the first flush of the jazz era, this book tells the story of Buddy Bolden, the first of the great trumpet players–some say the orig… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Ondaatje, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 19 1996
- ISBN10: 0679767851
- Language: English
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Your Presence Is Mandatory
$28.99 Add to cartA riveting debut novel, based on real events, about a World War II veteran with a secret that could land him in the Gulag, and his family who are forced to live in the shadow of all he has not told th
- Author: Vasilyuk, Sasha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1639731539
- Language: English
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Great Lion of God: A Novel About Saint Paul
$28.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller: A “beautifully written” and “truly outstanding” novel based on the life of Paul the Apostle (The Cincinnati Enquirer).
Born a veritable great lion of God to a devout Jewish- Author: Caldwell, Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 654
- Publish Date: September 26 2017
- ISBN10: 1504047788
- Language: English
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Fast Girls: A Novel of the 1936 Women’s Olympic Team
$19.99 Add to cartONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF THE SUMMER BY POPSUGAR, FROLIC, PARADE, TRAVEL & LEISURE, SHE KNOWS, and SHE READS
NAMED A REAL SIMPLE BEST BOOK OF 2020 (SO FAR).
“Fast Girls is a compelling, th
- Author: Hooper, Elise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0062937995
- Language: English
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Hamnet
$32.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER – NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The bestselling author of The Marriage Portrait delivers a luminous portrait of a marriage, a family ravaged by grief, and a boy… [more below]
- Author: O’Farrell, Maggie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 21 2020
- ISBN10: 0525657606
- Language: English
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The Master
$18.99 Add to cart“Colm T?b?’s beautiful, subtle illumination of Henry James’s inner life” (The New York Times) captures the loneliness and hope of a master of psychological subtlety whose forays into intimacy inevitab… [more below]
- Author: Toibin, Colm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: May 03 2005
- ISBN10: 0743250419
- Language: English
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Sublunar
$15.95 Add to cartA great mind and a formidable personality, Brahe is also the world’s most illustrious noseless man of his time. Told by Brahe and his assistants–a filthy cast of characters–Sublunar is both novel an… [more below]
- Author: Voetmann, Harald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0811229785
- Language: English
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Los Cuentos de Pura Belpr? / Pura’s Cuentos: How Pura Belpr? Reshaped Libraries with Her Stories
$18.95 Read moreUn tributo a la vida y al legado extraordinario de Pura Belpr?, una aclamada narradora puertorrique?a, bibliotecaria y pionera de los cuentos biling?es.
La abuela de Pura siempre tiene una historia qu- Author: Pimentel, Annette Bay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 9798890980366
- Language: Spanish
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I, Claudius: From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54
$19.00 Add to cartThe emperor Claudius tells of his life during the reigns of Augustus, Tiberius, and Caligula and the events that led to his rise to power in a classic novel reconstructing ancient Rome.
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Graves, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 468
- Publish Date: October 23 1989
- ISBN10: 067972477X
- Language: English
