Biographical fiction
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Carnegie’s Maid
$33.00 Read moreThe USA Today Bestseller
From the author of The Other Einstein comes the mesmerizing tale of what kind of woman could have inspired an American dynasty. Clara Kelley is not who they think she is. She’- Author: Benedict, Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 469
- Publish Date: April 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1432861239
- Language: English
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Leo Africanus
$25.43 Add to cartAn imaginary autobiography of the famous geographer, adventurer, and scholar Hasan al-Wazzan. He wrote the first trilingual dictionary and Description of Africa.
- Author: Maalouf, Amin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: March 25 1998
- ISBN10: 1561310220
- Language: English
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The Indigo Girl
$28.99 Add to cartThe year is 1739. Eliza Lucas is sixteen years old when her father leaves her in charge of their family’s three plantations in rural South Carolina and then proceeds to bleed the estates dry in pursui
- Author: Boyd, Natasha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1455137111
- Language: English
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The White Queen
$19.99 Add to cartThe inspiration for the critically acclaimed Starz miniseries The White Queen, #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory brings to life the extraordinary story of Elizabeth Woodville, a wo
- Series: Plantagenet and Tudor Novels
- Author: Gregory, Philippa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 06, 2010
- ISBN10: 1416563695
- Language: English
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Blonde
$19.99 Add to cartThe National Book Award finalist and national bestseller exploring the life and legend of Marilyn Monroe
Now a Netflix Film starring Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale and Julianne Nicholson
In
- Author: Oates, Joyce Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: April 14, 2020
- ISBN10: 0062968459
- Language: English
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Schindler’s List
$20.00 Add to cartIn remembrance of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and the Nazi concentration camps, this award-winning, bestselling work of Holocaust fiction, inspiration for the classic film and … [more below]
- Author: Keneally, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1982151048
- Language: English
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The Darkest Dark
$18.99 Add to cartInspired by the childhood of real-life astronaut Chris Hadfield and brought to life by Terry and Eric Fan’s lush, evocative illustrations, The Darkest Dark will encourage readers to dream the impossib… [more below]
- Author: Hadfield, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 13 2016
- ISBN10: 0316394726
- Language: English
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The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo
$20.00 Add to cartIrving Stone’s classic biographical novel of Michelangelo–the #1 New York Times bestseller in which both the artist and the man are brought to vivid, captivating life.
His time–the turbulent Renais- Author: Stone, Irving
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: September 07 2004
- ISBN10: 0451213238
- Language: English
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Explosion in a Cathedral
$18.00 Add to cart“If Carpentier is ever to get a new reading in English, it should be now. . . . West’s translations . . . reintroduce English-language readers to this giant of Latin American fiction.” –Natasha Wimme… [more below]
- Author: Carpentier, Alejo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0143133888
- Language: English
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One Last Shot: Based on a True Story of Wartime Heroism: The Story of Wartime Photographer Gerda Taro
$18.99 Read more“This is not just a story of the violence of fascism, but of the burning joy of freedom, and the exhilaration of shaping, with sweat and blood, a better world.”**
From critically acclaimed author Kip W
- Author: Wilson, Kip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 006325168X
- Language: English
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X: A Novel
$10.99 Add to cartA 2016 Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book
Malcolm
Cowritten by Malcolm X’s daughter, this riveting and revealing novel follows the formative years of the man whose words and actions shook the world.- Author: Shabazz, Ilyasah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 02 2016
- ISBN10: 0763690929
- Language: English
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Mrs Van Gogh
$19.99 Add to cart“As intricate and absorbing as a Van Gogh painting…MRS VAN GOGH will stay with me for a long time.” New York Times bestseller Hazel Gaynor
“All the characters jump off the page…what we have here i
- Author: Cauchi, Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 5, 2023
- ISBN10: 0008641536
- Language: English
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Born Driven
$15.99 Add to cartBased on the true story of the first African American NASCAR champion Wendell Scott, Born Driven is an uplifting tale celebrating the power of persistence and big dreams.
Like many other boys, Wendel- Author: Moore Jr, Saxton
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: November 28, 2023
- ISBN10: 1637152469
- Language: English
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The Paris Wife
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A deeply evocative novel of ambition and betrayal that captures the love affair between two unforgettable people, Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley–from the author of L… [more below]
- Series: Random House Reader’s Circle
- Author: McLain, Paula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0345521315
- Language: English
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The Stockwell Letters
$17.95 Read moreSet in the 1850s, The Stockwell Letters is based on the true story of a high-profile runaway slave and the bold women who dared to help him, even when it meant defying their husbands, male abolitionis… [more below]
- Author: Friedland, Jacqueline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1684632145
- Language: English
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The African Samurai
$17.99 Add to cartSet in late 16th-century Africa, India, Portugal, and Japan, The African Samurai is a powerful historical novel based on the true story of Yasuke, Japan’s first foreign-born samurai and the only samur… [more below]
- Author: Shreve, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 1, 2023
- ISBN10: 1668002868
- Language: English
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Wound
$27.00 Read moreFinalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction
For fans of Maggie Nelson and Eileen Myles, the lyrical and deeply moving story of a young queer woman’s journey across Russia to inter her mothe- Author: Vasyakina, Oksana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 1646221443
- Language: English
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The Women of the Copper Country
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling and award-winning author of The Sparrow comes “historical fiction that feels uncomfortably relevant today” (Kirkus Reviews) about “America’s Joan of Arc”–the courageous woman who… [more below]
- Author: Russell, Mary Doria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1982109599
- Language: English
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The Invention of Wings
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees and the forthcoming novel The Book of Longings, a novel about two unforgettable American women.
Writing at the height of her narrative and imagin- Author: Kidd, Sue Monk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 05 2015
- ISBN10: 0143121707
- Language: English
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The Woman with a Purple Heart
$16.99 Add to cart“Historical fiction at its finest!” –Amanda Skenandore, author of The Second Life of Mirielle West and The Nurse’s Secret
Based on the real life of Lieutenant Annie Fox, Chief Nurse of Hickam Hospital
- Author: Hanks, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 1728265118
- Language: English
