Biographical
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
$5.95 Add to cartA masterpiece of modern fiction, James Joyce’s semiautobiographical first novel follows Stephen Dedalus, a sensitive and creative youth who rebels against his family, his education, and his country by… [more below]
- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Joyce, James
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 06 2006
- ISBN10: 0451530152
- Language: English
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Falls the Shadow
$26.99 Add to cartSimon de Montfort was a man ahead of his time in the thirteenth century, a disinherited Frenchman who talked his way into an English earldom and marriage with a sister of the English king, Henry III.
- Series: Welsh Princes Trilogy #2
- Author: Penman, Sharon Kay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: August 19 2008
- ISBN10: 0312382464
- Language: English
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Trinity
$16.99 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author of Speak comes a kaleidoscopic novel about Robert Oppenheimer–father of the atomic bomb–as told by seven fictional characters
J. Robert Oppenheimer was a brilliant scientist
- Author: Hall, Louisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 27 2019
- ISBN10: 0062851977
- Language: English
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God’s Messenger: The Astounding Achievements of Mother Cabrini: A Novel Based on the Life of Mother Frances X. Cabrini
$15.99 Add to cartHer passion became her reality.
Children were her life, and God’s messenger Mother Frances X. Cabrini dedicated her entire life to caring for poor Italian immigrants who sought refuge in the slums of N
- Author: Gregory, Nicole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: February 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1947431021
- Language: English
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Crusoe’s Daughter
$16.00 Add to cartFrom the award-winning author of Old Filth. “[A] wonderfully old-fashioned novel . . . This post-Victorian charmer is an engrossing delight” (People).
In 1904, six-year-old Polly Flint is sent by her- Author: Gardam, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 24 2012
- ISBN10: 1609450698
- Language: English
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El Secreto de Su Mente
$22.95 Add to cartElla cambió el mundo de la ciencia. Tres hombres se llevaron el crédito
Rosalind Franklin es feliz en el laboratorio, ahà da rienda suelta a su imaginación y realiza los experimentos que, está seg
- Author: Benedict, Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 6073901402
- Language: Spanish
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The Golden Thread: A Novel about St. Ignatius Loyola
$16.95 Add to cartAs in his other popular novels, Louis de Wohl, with humility and deep religious conviction, takes us into the mind and heart of a saint, giving at the same time an enthralling picture of the era in wh… [more below]
- Author: de Wohl, Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 315
- Publish Date: January 28 2002
- ISBN10: 0898708133
- Language: English
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Nadirs
$16.95 Add to cartJuxtaposing reality and fantasy, nightmares and dark laughter, Nadirs is a collection of largely autobiographical stories based on Herta M?ler’s childhood in the Romanian countryside. The individual t… [more below]
- Series: European Women Writers
- Author: Muller, Herta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: September 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0803282540
- Language: English
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Mandelbrot the Magnificent
$12.99 Add to cartLiz Ziemska has fashioned a beautiful story about one famous survivor and the magic and mathematics he’s brought to the world. –Karen Joy Fowler
Mandelbrot the Magnificent is a stunning, magical pseud- Author: Ziemska, Liz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0765398052
- Language: English
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Reckoning
$40.00 Add to cart“Penman’s characters are so shrewdly imagined, so full of resonant human feeling that they seem to breathe on the page.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“Never forget, Llewelyn, that the world’s greatest fo- Series: Welsh Princes Trilogy #3
- Author: Penman, Sharon Kay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: April 14 2009
- ISBN10: 0312382472
- Language: English
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Season of the Gods
$18.00 Read moreA woman in wartime Hollywood and her dream of the perfect motion picture. Renie Lee has climbed the ladder in a man’s world to be head of the Story Department at Warner Bros. Studios. Renie is an idea… [more below]
- Author: Matzen, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 486
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1735273872
- Language: English
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The Minorcan Princess: A St. Augustine Story
$27.95 Add to cartThe Minorcan Princess tells the story of a family whose ancestors arrived in St. Augustine in 1777 and are working every day to provide seafood to those who cannot produce their own. It describes a cu… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Robert Phillip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1977251714
- Language: English
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Forever Young: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Adventure
$19.82 Add to cartAs Governia Jewell Rose read article after article and listened to news channels discussing the invisible enemy, she wondered what had happened to love, peace, and happiness. Was this the end of time … [more below]
- Author: Rose, Governia Jewell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: July 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1663253986
- Language: English
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Look Them In The Eyes
$20.99 Add to cartFollowing the birth of his daughter, Jackie, middle-aged Zach MacIver is determined to stop what he terms “intergenerational transmission of family dysfunction” from plaguing his family. Over the cour… [more below]
- Author: Mantin, Dennis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: October 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1039180647
- Language: English
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John Brown’s Women
$15.99 Add to cartAs the United States wrestles with its besetting sin-slavery-abolitionist John Brown is growing tired of talk. He takes actions that will propel the nation toward civil war and thrust three courageous
- Author: Higginbotham, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1737474905
- Language: English
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What’s Bred in the Bone
$19.99 Add to cartSecond in the Cornish Trilogy following The Rebel Angels. “An altogether remarkable creation, [Davies’] most accomplished novel to date.”–The New York Times
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Francis- Series: Cornish Trilogy #2
- Author: Davies, Robertson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 415
- Publish Date: June 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0795352611
- Language: English
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The Tsarina’s Daughter
$17.99 Add to cartEllen Alpsten’s stunning novel, The Tsarina’s Daughter, is the dramatic story of Elizabeth, daughter of Catherine I and Peter the Great, who ruled Russia during an extraordinary life marked by love, d
- Author: Alpsten, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1250214416
- Language: English
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The Last Great Road Bum
$18.00 Add to cartOne of the Los Angeles Times Top 10 California Books of 2020. One of Publishers Weekly‘s Top 10 Fiction Books from 2020. Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence and the Joyce Carol Oates priz
- Author: Tobar, Héctor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1250798698
- Language: English
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Little Boy
$17.00 Read moreFrom the famed publisher and poet, author of the million-copy-selling collection A Coney Island of the Mind, his literary last will and testament — part autobiography, part summing up, part Beat-infl… [more below]
- Author: Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0525565957
- Language: English
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The Dig: A Novel Based on True Events
$18.99 Add to cartTHE BASIS FOR THE NETFLIX FILM STARRING CAREY MULLIGAN, RALPH FIENNES, AND LILY JAMES
A literary adventure that tells the story of a priceless buried treasure discovered in England on the eve of Worl- Author: Preston, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 19 2016
- ISBN10: 1590517806
- Language: English
