Biographical fiction
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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
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East of Troost
$17.95 Add to cartTroost 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 Add to cartNew 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
$30.00 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
