Biographical fiction
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The President’s Wife
$27.99HardcoverRead more“A vivid portrait of a woman whose remarkable role and achievements in history have largely been relegated to the shadows… A fascinating read!” –Kristina McMorris, New York Times bestselling author
- Author: Wood, Tracey Enerson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1728257840
- Language: English
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By: Colum McCann
Apeirogon: A Novel
$19.00PaperbackAdd to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – An epic novel rooted in the unlikely real-life friendship between two fathers–one Palestinian, one Israeli, both connected by grief and working together for peace–from th
- Author: McCann, Colum
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 02, 2021
- ISBN10: 0812981936
- Language: English
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By: Shelley Noble
The Tiffany Girls
$19.99PaperbackAdd to cartNew York Times bestselling author Shelley Noble wows with a gripping historical novel about the real-life “Tiffany Girls,” a fascinating and largely unknown group of women artists behind Tiffany’s mos
- Author: Noble, Shelley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 09, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063252449
- Language: English
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By: Joshua Cohen
The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family
$17.95PaperbackAdd to cart
2021 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2021 A WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2021 A KIRKUS BEST FICTION BOOK OF 2021 “
WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION- Author: Cohen, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: June 22, 2021
- ISBN10: 1681376075
- Language: English
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By: Maggie O'Farrell
The Marriage Portrait
$28.00HardcoverAdd to cartWOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION FINALIST – REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK – NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER – The author of award-winning Hamnet brings the world of Renaissance Italy to jewel-bright life in this unforge… [more below]
- Author: O’Farrell, Maggie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 059332062X
- Language: English
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By: Bryce, Denny S.
The Other Princess: A Novel of Queen Victoria’s Goddaughter
$19.99PaperbackAdd to cartA stunning portrait of an African princess raised in Queen Victoria’s court and adapting to life in Victorian England–based on the real-life story of a recently rediscovered historical figure, Sarah
- Author: Bryce, Denny S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0063144123
- Language: English
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By: Bayly, Jaime
Genios, Los
$22.95PaperbackRead moreTwo literary geniuses coexist in the Barcelona of the sixties. Just a few meters separate their apartments, they see each other almost daily. They write about each other, share friendships, party nigh… [more below]
- Author: Bayly, Jaime
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 15 2023
- ISBN10: 8419392243
- Language: Spanish
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By: Hudspeth, E. B.
The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black
$24.99HardcoverAdd to cart“Disturbingly lovely . . . The Resurrectionist is itself a cabinet of curiosities, stitching history and mythology and sideshow into an altogether different creature. Deliciously macabre and beautiful… [more below]
- Author: Hudspeth, E. B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 21, 2013
- ISBN10: 1594746168
- Language: English
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By: Heather B. Moore
Under the Java Moon: A Novel of World War II
$26.99HardcoverRead moreBased on a true story, this gripping WWII novel captures the resilience, hope, and courage of a Dutch family who is separated during the war when the Japanese occupy the Dutch East Indies.
Java Island- Author: Moore, Heather B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1639931538
- Language: English
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By: Natasha Boyd
The Indigo Girl
$19.99PaperbackAdd 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 28 2018
- ISBN10: 1538552922
- Language: English
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By: Marie Benedict
The First Ladies
$30.00PaperbackAdd to cartThe Instant New York Times Bestseller!
A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune–an unlikely friendship that chang- Author: Benedict, Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: June 27, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593743784
- Language: English
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By: Robert Plunket
My Search for Warren Harding
$18.95PaperbackAdd to cartWhen My Search for Warren Harding, Robert Plunket’s glittering story of literary sleuthing and deceit, first appeared in 1983, it garnered immediate and far-reaching acclaim. Frank Conroy at the Washi… [more below]
- Author: Plunket, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 081123469X
- Language: English
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Coleman Hill
$28.00HardcoverRead moreLonglisted for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction – Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize – Shortlisted for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Debut Author
A Washington Post Note- Author: Foote, Kim Coleman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1638931143
- Language: English
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By: Jon Clinch
The General and Julia
$0.00HardcoverRead moreUlysses S. Grant reflects on the crucial moments of his life as a husband, a father, a general, and a president while writing his memoirs and reckoning with his complicated legacy in this epic and int
- Author: Clinch, Jon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1668009781
- Language: English
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By: Mark Sullivan
The Last Green Valley
$15.95PaperbackAdd to cart“Mark Sullivan has done it again The Last Green Valley is a compelling and inspiring story of heroism and courage in the dark days at the end of World War II.” –Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bes
- Author: Sullivan, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 458
- Publish Date: May 04, 2021
- ISBN10: 1503958744
- Language: English
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By: Abe, Shana
An American Beauty: A Novel of the Gilded Age Inspired by the True Story of Arabella Huntington Who Became the Richest Woman in the Countr
$18.95PaperbackAdd to cart“Abé is an exquisite storyteller.” –Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Magnolia Palace
The New York Times bestselling author of The Second Mrs. Astor returns with a spellbinding- Author: Abe, Shana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1496739426
- Language: English
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The Wharton Plot
$28.00HardcoverRead moreMariah Fredericks’ mesmerizing novel, The Wharton Plot, follows renowned novelist Edith Wharton in the twilight years of the Gilded Age in New York as she tracks a killer.
New York City, 1911. Edith Wh- Author: Fredericks, Mariah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1250827426
- Language: English
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By: Thompson, Sidney
The Forsaken and the Dead: The Bass Reeves Trilogy, Book Three
$19.95PaperbackAdd to cartBooks 1 & 2 of the Bass Reeves Trilogy adapted for the Paramount+ miniseries Lawmen: Bass Reeves
All heroes have fatal flaws and a moment of defin
2023 Foreword INDIES Finalist in Historical Fiction- Series: The Bass Reeves Trilogy
- Author: Thompson, Sidney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: October 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 1496220323
- Language: English
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By: Gratz, Alan
Prisoner B-3087
$18.99HardcoverAdd to cartFrom Alan Gratz, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Refugee, comes this wrenching novel about one boy’s struggle to survive ten concentration camps during the Holocaust. Based on the inspiri… [more below]
- Author: Gratz, Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 01, 2013
- ISBN10: 054545901X
- Language: English
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By: Babitz, Eve
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
$17.95PaperbackAdd to cartNo one burned hotter than Eve Babitz. Possessing skin that radiated “its own kind of moral laws,” spectacular teeth, and a figure that was the stuff of legend, she seduced seemingly everyone who was a… [more below]
- Author: Babitz, Eve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: August 30 2016
- ISBN10: 1681370085
- Language: English














