Biographical fiction

  • Ninth Building

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    Ninth Building is a fascinating collection of vignettes drawn from Zou Jingzhi’s experience
    growing up during the Cultural Revolution, first as a boy in Beijing and then as a teenager exiled
    to the coun… [more below]

    • Author: Jingzhi, Zou
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: April 11 2023
    • ISBN10: 1948830752
    • Language: English
  • Digging for Words: José Alberto Gutiérrez and the Library He Built

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    A gorgeous and inspiring picture book based on the life of Jos? Alberto Guti?rrez, a garbage collector in Bogot?, Colombia who started a library with a single discarded book found on his route.

    In the

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    • Author: Kunkel, Angela Burke
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 40
    • Publish Date: September 08 2020
    • ISBN10: 1984892630
    • Language: English
  • A Boy Named Isamu: A Story of Isamu Noguchi

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    Awarded an Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Picture Book Honor, this stunning picture book brings to life the imagination of Japanese American artist, Isamu Noguchi.

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    • Author: Yang, James
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 40
    • Publish Date: June 15 2021
    • ISBN10: 0593203445
    • Language: English
  • The Boleyn Inheritance

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    From “the queen of royal fiction” (USA TODAY) comes this New York Times bestseller featuring three very different women whose fates are each bound by a bloody curse: the legacy of the Boleyn family.

    A

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    • Series: Plantagenet and Tudor Novels
    • Author: Gregory, Philippa
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 544
    • Publish Date: August 07 2007
    • ISBN10: 074327251X
    • Language: English
  • The Book of Longings

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    “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

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    • Author: Kidd, Sue Monk
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 432
    • Publish Date: April 21 2020
    • ISBN10: 052542976X
    • Language: English
  • Flush: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition

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    This 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

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    • Series: Harvest Book; Hb 348
    • Author: Woolf, Virginia
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 204
    • Publish Date: September 27 2011
    • ISBN10: 0156319527
    • Language: English
  • Josephine Baker’s Last Dance

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    From 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.

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    • Author: Jones, Sherry
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: December 04 2018
    • ISBN10: 1501102443
    • Language: English
  • The Tattooist of Auschwitz

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    #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

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    • Author: Morris, Heather
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: September 04 2018
    • ISBN10: 0062860941
    • Language: English
  • Last Words from Montmartre

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    An 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

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  • New Moon Rising: Second Novel in the St. Simons Trilogy

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    Second 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

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    • Series: St. Simons Trilogy #2
    • Author: Price, Eugenia
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: May 29 2012
    • ISBN10: 1596528443
    • Language: English
  • Loving Frank

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    NEW 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
  • Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

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    THE 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

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    • Author: Fowler, Therese Anne
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: March 04 2014
    • ISBN10: 1250028663
    • Language: English
  • The First Man in Rome

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    With 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

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    • Series: Masters of Rome #1
    • Author: McCullough, Colleen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 1152
    • Publish Date: March 24 2023
    • ISBN10: 0061582417
    • Language: English
  • Force of Nature: A Novel of Rachel Carson

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    A 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

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    • Author: Burg, Ann E.
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: March 05 2024
    • ISBN10: 1338883380
    • Language: English
  • Beneath the Bending Skies

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    Mollie 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
  • Coming Through Slaughter

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    Bringing 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
  • Your Presence Is Mandatory

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    A 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

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    • Author: Vasilyuk, Sasha
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: April 23 2024
    • ISBN10: 1639731539
    • Language: English
  • Great Lion of God: A Novel About Saint Paul

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    New 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

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    • Author: Caldwell, Taylor
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 654
    • Publish Date: September 26 2017
    • ISBN10: 1504047788
    • Language: English
  • Fast Girls: A Novel of the 1936 Women’s Olympic Team

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    ONE 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

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    • Author: Hooper, Elise
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 512
    • Publish Date: July 07 2020
    • ISBN10: 0062937995
    • Language: English
  • Hamnet

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    NATIONAL 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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