Biographical fiction
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The Paris Wife
$28.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A deeply evocative novel of ambition and betrayal that captures the love affair between two unforgettable people, Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley–from the author of L… [more below]
- Author: McLain, Paula
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 22 2011
- ISBN10: 0345521307
- Language: English
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Romola
$19.00 Read more- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Eliot, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: January 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0140434704
- Language: English
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The Loser
$17.00 Add to cartThomas Bernhard was one of the most original writers of the twentieth century. His formal innovation ranks with Beckett and Kafka, his outrageously cantankerous voice recalls Dostoevsky, but his gift … [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Bernhard, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 17 2006
- ISBN10: 1400077540
- Language: English
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Katherine
$22.99 Add to cart“An inspiration and the benchmark by which I judge historical novels.”–Alison Weir
“Exhilarating, exuberant, and rich,” Katherine is an epic novel of a love affair that changed history–that of Kather
- Author: Seton, Anya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0544222881
- Language: English
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Jackie and Maria: A Novel of Jackie Kennedy & Maria Callas
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the #1 bestselling author of The Secret Wife comes a story of love, passion, and tragedy as the lives of Jackie Kennedy and Maria Callas are intertwined–and they become the ultimate rivals, in l
- Author: Paul, Gill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0062952498
- Language: English
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The Paper Daughters of Chinatown
$15.99 Read moreBased on true events, The Paper Daughters of Chinatown is a powerful story about a largely unknown chapter in history and the women who emerged as heroes.
In the late nineteenth century, San Francisc- Author: Moore, Heather B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 162972937X
- Language: English
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Euphoria
$28.00 Read moreA luminous portrayal of a brilliant mind who is at once at battle with herself and with the constraints that society has placed on her.
A woman’s life, erupting with brilliance and promise, is fissured
- Author: Cullhed, Elin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1838855963
- Language: English
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The Secrets of Mary Bowser
$19.99 Add to cartBased on the remarkable true story of a freed African American slave who returned to Virginia at the onset of the Civil War to spy on the Confederates.
Author Lois Leveen combines fascinating facts an
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Leveen, Lois
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 15 2012
- ISBN10: 0062107909
- Language: English
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Burr
$19.00 Add to cartFor readers who can’t get enough of the hit Broadway musical Hamilton, Gore Vidal’s stunning novel about Aaron Burr, the man who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel–and who served as a successful, if… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Vidal, Gore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 15 2000
- ISBN10: 0375708731
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb
$20.00 Add to cartFor anyone who loves the historical novels of Sara Gruen, Geraldine Brooks, and E. L. Doctorow, a barnstorming tale of an irrepressible, brawling, bawdy era and the remarkable woman who had the courag… [more below]
- Series: Random House Reader’s Circle
- Author: Benjamin, Melanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0385344163
- Language: English
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Unshaken
$15.99 Read moreBook 3 in the 5-book biblical historical fiction series by the New York Times bestselling author of Redeeming Love and A Voice in the Wind.
She gave up everything, expecting nothing, and God honored he… [more below]
- Series: Lineage of Grace #3
- Author: Rivers, Francine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0842335978
- Language: English
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Ninth Witness
$15.99 Read moreRiots and revolts spread across Judea. Twelve-year-old Yeshua is in Jerusalem–“about his Father’s business” in the Temple–as his panic-stricken parents search for him amidst the chaos. Readers will … [more below]
- Series: A. D. Chronicles #9
- Author: Thoene, Bodie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0842375325
- Language: English
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The Murder of Harriet Monckton
$16.95 Read moreThe Murder of Harriet Monckton is based on an unsolved true crime. On 7th November 1843, 23 year-old Harriet Monckton is found murdered in the privy behind the dissenting chapel she regularly attended… [more below]
- Author: Haynes, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 191240804X
- Language: English
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A Most Clever Girl: A Novel of an American Spy
$17.00 Read moreA thrilling novel of love, loyalty, and espionage, based on the incredible true story of Elizabeth Bentley, a Cold War double agent spying for the Russians and the United States, from USA Today bestse… [more below]
- Author: Thornton, Stephanie Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0593198409
- Language: English
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Pura’s Cuentos: How Pura Belpré Reshaped Libraries with Her Stories
$18.99 Read moreA lyrical, vibrant picture book tribute to the amazing life and legacy of Pura Belpré, a lauded storyteller, librarian, and pioneer of bilingual storytimes
Pura’s abuela always has a cuento to share- Author: Pimentel, Annette Bay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1419749412
- Language: English
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The Great Passion
$28.00 Read moreFrom acclaimed bestselling author James Runcie, a meditation on grief and music, told through the story of Bach’s writing of the St. Matthew Passion.
In 1727, Stefan Silbermann is a grief-stricken thi- Author: Runcie, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1635570670
- Language: English
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The Last Grand Duchess: A Novel of Olga Romanov, Imperial Russia, and Revolution
$16.99 Read more“Powerful and haunting . . . an intimate and unforgettable tale that transports the reader to the heart of Imperial Russia.” –Chanel Cleeton, New York Times bestselling author of The Most Beautiful G… [more below]
- Author: Turnbull, Bryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0778311708
- Language: English
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Abundance, a Novel of Marie Antoinette
$16.99 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
