Biographical fiction
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East of Troost
$17.95 Read moreTroost is a real street. East of it is where you can buy a house if you’re Black. It’s also where our middle-aged white narrator grew up-and where she has just returned to reboot her life. How will sh… [more below]
- Author: Barker, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1647422299
- Language: English
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The Swan’s Nest
$29.00 Add to cartAn engrossing novel about the unlikely love affair between two great 19th-century poets: Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning
On a bleak January day in 1845, a poet who had been confined to her room- Author: McNeal, Laura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 12, 2024
- ISBN10: 1643753207
- Language: English
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The Dreamer
$12.99 Add to cartPura Belpré Award Winner
A tender, transcendent, and meticulously crafted novel from Newbery Honoree, Pam Muñoz Ryan, and three-time Caldecott Honoree, Peter SÃs!
From the time he is a young boy, Nef
- Author: Ryan, Pam Munoz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 1, 2012
- ISBN10: 0439269989
- Language: English
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Christmas Bells
$19.00 Read moreNew York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini celebrates Christmas, past and present, with a wondrous novel inspired by the classic poem “Christmas Bells,” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
I he- Author: Chiaverini, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 11 2016
- ISBN10: 1101984791
- Language: English
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Longhorns East
$14.95 Add to cartFrom nine-time Spur Award-winning Western author Johnny D. Boggs comes the incredible story of the biggest, longest, wildest cattle drive in America’s history–from the heart of Texas to New York City… [more below]
- Author: Boggs, Johnny D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 22, 2023
- ISBN10: 1496738306
- Language: English
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The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge
$18.00 Add to cartNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
A thrilling tale of betrayal and revenge set against the nineteenth-century American frontier, Michael Punke’s The Revenant is the astonishing st
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER- Author: Punke, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 1250101190
- Language: English
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The Personal Librarian: A GMA Book Club Pick (a Novel)
$28.00 Add to cartThe Instant New York Times Bestseller! A Good Morning America* Book Club Pick!
Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR! Named a Notable Book of the Year by the Washington Post! “Historical fiction at it- Author: Benedict, Marie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 29 2021
- ISBN10: 0593101537
- Language: English
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My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton
$19.99 Add to cartUSA Today Bestseller
“An edge-of my sear immersion into historical events…No study of Alexander Hamilton would be complete without reading this book.” –Karen White, New York Times bestselling author
- Author: Dray, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 006246616X
- Language: English
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Split Tooth
$18.00 Add to cartLonglisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize
Shortlisted for the 2019 Amazon First Novel Award
Shortlisted for the 2019 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize
Winner of the 2019 Indigenous Voices Award for Publis… [more below]- Author: Tagaq, Tanya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 014319805X
- Language: English
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The Friday Night Club: A Novel of Artist Hilma af Klint and Her Creative Circle
$17.00 Add to cartAn International Bestseller
While men have long been credited with producing the first abstract paintings, the true creator was actually a woman – Swedish artist Hilma af Klint, who was inspired by he- Author: Lundberg, Sofia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 16, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593200497
- Language: English
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The Swans of Fifth Avenue
$19.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The author of The Aviator’s Wife returns with a triumphant new novel about New York’s “Swans” of the 1950s–and the scandalous, headline-making, and enthralling friendship
- Author: Benjamin, Melanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 25, 2016
- ISBN10: 0345528700
- Language: English
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
$18.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling novel by the author of A Single Thread and At the Edge of the Orchard
Translated into thirty-nine languages and made into an Oscar-nominated film, starring Scarlett Johan
- Author: Chevalier, Tracy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 08 2001
- ISBN10: 0452282152
- Language: English
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich
$10.00 Add to cartTolstoy’s most famous novella is an intense and moving examination of death and the possibilities of redemption, here in a powerful translation by the award-winning Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhon
- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: October 02 2012
- ISBN10: 0307951332
- Language: English
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The Diamond Eye
$32.00 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
The bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history’s deadliest female sniper. Based on a true stor
- Author: Quinn, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 29, 2022
- ISBN10: 0062943510
- Language: English
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Beneath a Scarlet Sky
$27.95 Add to cartSoon to be a major television event from Pascal Pictures, starring Tom Holland.
Based on the true story of a forgotten hero, the USA Today and #1 Amazon Charts bestseller Beneath a Scarlet Sky is the t
- Author: Sullivan, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 460
- Publish Date: 1-May-18
- ISBN10: 1503902374
- Language: English
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Joan of Arc
$19.95 Add to cartVery few people know that Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) wrote a major work on Joan of Arc. Still fewer know that he considered it not only his most important but also his best work. He spent twelve year… [more below]
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 455
- Publish Date: October 04 1989
- ISBN10: 0898702682
- Language: English
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You, Me, and Ulysses S. Grant
$16.99 Add to cartTaking the accessible, pop history of Coe’s You Never Forget Your First and adding a healthy dose of nerdy, punk humor, You, Me, and Ulysses S. Grant is for both history and humor readers alike. This
- Author: Neely, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: January 23, 2024
- ISBN10: 1684429765
- Language: English
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Einstein’s Dreams
$17.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A modern classic explores the connections between science and art, the process of creativity, and ultimately the fragility of human existence.
“A magical, metaphysical realm …- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Lightman, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 09 2004
- ISBN10: 140007780X
- Language: English
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The Madwomen of Paris
$28.00 Read moreEDGAR AWARD FINALIST – “Epstein’s page-turning historical novel–an indictment of the medical establishment’s manipulation of women–remains eerily relevant and timely.”–Fiona Davis, New York Times b
- Author: Epstein, Jennifer Cody
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593158008
- Language: English
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Learned by Heart
$41.00 Add to cart“A wrenching love story” (Chris Bohjalian, The Washington Post) based on the true story of two girls who fall secretly, deeply, and dangerously in love at boarding school in 19th century York, from th
- Author: Donoghue, Emma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: 29-Aug-23
- ISBN10: 0316566012
- Language: English
