Biographical fiction
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Abundance, a Novel of Marie Antoinette
$20.99 Read moreMarie Antoinette was a child of fourteen when her mother, the Empress of Austria, arranged for her to leave her family and her country to become the wife of the fifteen-year-old Dauphin, the future Ki
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Naslund, Sena Jeter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: May 22 2007
- ISBN10: 0060825405
- Language: English
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The Persian Boy
$17.95 Add to cart“It takes skill to depict, as Miss Renault has done, this half-man, half Courtesan who is so deeply in love with the warrior.”-The Atlantic Monthly
The Persian Boy traces the last years of Alexander’s … [more below]- Series: Alexander Trilogy #2
- Author: Renault, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 12 1988
- ISBN10: 0394751019
- Language: English
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The Forty Elephants
$27.99 Read morePeaky Blinders meets Ocean’s 8 in The Forty Elephants, an epic novel set in Roaring Twenties London, based on the real-life, all-female gang of the same name who specialized in crime as high art, targ
- Author: Bledsoe, Erin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 299
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1665019891
- Language: English
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Bird Cottage
$14.95 Read moreA novel based on the true story of a remarkable woman, her lifelong relationship with birds and the joy she drew from it
Len Howard was forty years old when she decided to leave her London life and lo- Author: Meijer, Eva
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1782273956
- Language: English
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Estaba Preparado Para Todo Menos Para Ti / I Was Prepared for Everything But You
$20.95 Read moreLo importante en esta vida no lo enseñan, pero cuando lo aprendes, no lo olvidas.
Siempre he creÃdo que las palabras son necesarias para sanarte. En este libro he intentado depositar toda mi experie- Author: Espinosa, Albert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 8425360501
- Language: Spanish
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In Praise of Disobedience: Clare of Assisi, a Novel
$25.95 Read moreAn author receives a mysterious e-mail begging her to tell the story of Clare of Assisi, the thirteenth-century Italian saint. At first annoyed by the request, the author begins to research Saint Clar… [more below]
- Series: Other Voices of Italy
- Author: Maraini, Dacia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: January 13 2023
- ISBN10: 197883392X
- Language: English
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Alice I Have Been
$22.00 Add to cartPart love story, part literary mystery, Melanie Benjamin’s spellbinding historical novel leads readers on an unforgettable journey down the rabbit hole, to tell the story of a woman whose own life bec… [more below]
- Series: Random House Reader’s Circle
- Author: Benjamin, Melanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 21 2010
- ISBN10: 0385344147
- Language: English
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The Child from the Sea
$19.95 Add to cartAgainst the pomp and pageantry of turbulent seventeenth century England, Elizabeth Goudge weaves the poignant tale of Lucy Walter, the proud and beautiful secret wife of Charles II. From her early chi… [more below]
- Author: Goudge, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 616
- Publish Date: January 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1619707535
- Language: English
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Choose Your Own Adventure Spies: Mata Hari
$7.99 Read moreChoose Your Own Adventure SPIES: Mata Hari by Katherine Factor takes YOU around the world and back in time. 9-12 year old readers will enact the early life of an actual historic spy, Margaretha Zelle,… [more below]
- Series: Choose Your Own Adventure
- Author: Factor, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 01 2019
- ISBN10: 193713332X
- Language: English
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A Name of Her Own
$18.00 Add to cartBased on the life of Marie Dorion, the first mother to cross the Rocky Mountains and remain in the Northwest, A Name of Her Own is the fictionalized adventure account of a real woman’s fight to settle… [more below]
- Series: Tender Ties Historical
- Author: Kirkpatrick, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 20 2002
- ISBN10: 1578564999
- Language: English
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Sister Stardust
$26.99 Read more*NATIONAL BESTSELLER*
A PARADE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR
A NEW YORK POST BEST BOOK OF THE WEEKIn her first novel inspired by a true story, Jane Green re-imagines the life of troubled icon Talith… [more below]
- Author: Green, Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1335425780
- Language: English
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Emergency
$23.00 Read moreFor readers of Rachel Cusk and Jenny Odell, a lyrical work of autofiction that explores the dissolution of boundaries between the self and our earth as we head towards ecological catastrophe.
“Emergen- Author: Hildyard, Daisy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1662601476
- Language: English
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Claudius the God: And His Wife Messalina
$19.00 Add to cart- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Graves, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 533
- Publish Date: October 23 1989
- ISBN10: 0679725733
- Language: English
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Seventh Day
$15.99 Read moreAs Yeshua continues his ministry and is challenged by the religious leaders, his beloved friend El’azar falls ill in Bethany and when Yeshua finally arrives, it is too late…or is it?
- Series: A. D. Chronicles #7
- Author: Thoene, Bodie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 01 2008
- ISBN10: 842375260
- Language: English
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Enchantress of Numbers: A Novel of ADA Lovelace
$17.00 Read more“Cherished Reader, Should you come upon Enchantress of Numbers by Jennifer Chiaverini…consider yourself quite fortunate indeed….Chiaverini makes a convincing case that Ada Byron King is a woman wo… [more below]
- Author: Chiaverini, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1101985216
- Language: English
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Wittgenstein’s Nephew: A Friendship
$15.00 Read moreIt is 1967. In separate wings of a Viennese hospital, two men lie bedridden. The narrator, named Thomas Bernhard, is stricken with a lung ailment; his friend Paul, nephew of the celebrated philosopher… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Bernhard, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 13 2009
- ISBN10: 1400077567
- Language: English
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Emily’s House
$17.00 Read moreShe was Emily Dickinson’s maid, her confidante, her betrayer… and the savior of her legacy.
An evocative new novel about Emily Dickinson’s longtime maid, Irish immigrant Margaret Maher, whose bon… [more below]- Author: Brown, Amy Belding
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 0593199634
- Language: English
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Last Crusader: A Novel about Don Juan of Austria
$21.95 Add to cartDon Juan of Austria, one of history s most triumphant and inspiring heroes, is reborn in this opulent novel by Louis de Wohl.
Because of the circumstances of his birth, this last son of Emperor Charles
- Author: de Wohl, Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 497
- Publish Date: February 13 2010
- ISBN10: 1586174142
- Language: English
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The Falcon of Sparta
$25.95 Read moreBased on one of history’s most epic stories of adventure, The Falcon of Sparta masterfully depicts the ferocity, heroism, and savage bloodshed of the ancient world.
Conn Iggulden, the New York Times b- Author: Iggulden, Conn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1643130560
- Language: English
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The Land Beyond the Sea
$20.00 Read moreFrom the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Sharon Kay Penman comes the story of the reign of King Baldwin IV and the Kingdom of Jerusalem’s defense against Saladin’s famous army. … [more below]
- Author: Penman, Sharon Kay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0593187687
- Language: English
