Biographical
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Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea
$18.99 Add to cartINSPIRED BY A TRUE STORY FROM THE CHILDHOOD OF VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS
A beautiful, empowering picture book about two sisters who work with their community to effect change, inspired by a true st
- Author: Harris, Meena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0062937405
- Language: English
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Blonde
$19.99 Add to cartThe National Book Award finalist and national bestseller exploring the life and legend of Marilyn Monroe
Now a Netflix Film starring Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale and Julianne Nicholson
In
- Author: Oates, Joyce Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: April 14, 2020
- ISBN10: 0062968459
- Language: English
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Journey to the Bottomless Pit: The Story of Stephen Bishop & Mammoth Cave
$12.99 Add to cart“A fascinating story.” –LeVar Burton
The thrilling adventures of a slave who became known worldwide for his explorations of Mammoth Cave.
If you toured Mammoth Cave in Kentucky in the year 1838, you- Author: Mitchell, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 19, 2019
- ISBN10: 1504057708
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Santa Claus: A Revised Edition of the Christmas Classic
$11.95 Add to cartIt all started when Jeff Guinn was assigned to write a piece full of little-known facts about Christmas for his paper, The Fort Worth Star-Telegram. A few months later, he received a call from a gent… [more below]
- Series: Santa Chronicles
- Author: Guinn, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 1, 2006
- ISBN10: 158542448X
- Language: English
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Crossing the Tracks
$18.95 Add to cartWhile dramatic history unfolds from Greensboro to Selma to Memphis, one man makes his own stand for justice and inclusion.
> WINNER: Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, Fall 2023 – Best Fiction – Social
- Author: Hill, Drew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: July 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 9798890250230
- Language: English
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Catherine’s Mercy
$17.99 Read moreIn 1824, Catherine, a Catholic spinster of 44, unexpectantly inherits millions. However, she doesn’t use it to climb the social ladder or snare a husband; she uses it to fulfill a lifelong dream of bu… [more below]
- Author: Evelina, Nicole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 827207506
- Language: English
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The Unstoppable Eliza Haycraft
$19.99 Add to cartLonglisted, Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book 2023
“Beautifully written, compulsively readable… ” So says Indie Reader of The Unstoppable Eliza Haycraft – the riveting novel about a legendary woman in an
- Author: Dempsey, Diana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: July 7, 2023
- ISBN10: 0990696472
- Language: English
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James Baldwin: Early Novels & Stories (Loa #97): Go Tell It on the Mountain / Giovanni’s Room / Another Country / Going to Meet the Man
$45.00 Add to cartHere, in a Library of America volume edited by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, is the fiction that established James Baldwin’s reputation as a writer who fused unblinking realism and rare verbal eloquen
- Series: Library of America James Baldwin Edition #2
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 992
- Publish Date: February 01, 1998
- ISBN10: 1883011515
- Language: English
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Sleepless Nights
$15.95 Read moreIn Sleepless Nights a woman looks back on her life–the parade of people, the shifting background of place–and assembles a scrapbook of memories, reflections, portraits, letters, wishes, and dreams. … [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Hardwick, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 31 2001
- ISBN10: 0940322722
- Language: English
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My Real Name Is Hanna
$16.95 Read more1941, Hitler’s army crosses into Soviet-ruled Ukraine in a secret mission titled “Operation Barbarossa. A young Jewish girl, Hanna Slivka is fourteen when German soldiers arrive in her small village o
- Author: Masih, Tara Lynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 18, 2018
- ISBN10: 1942134517
- Language: English
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Robinson Crusoe
$7.95 Add to cartDaniel Defoe’s enthralling story-telling and imaginatively detailed descriptions have ensured that his fiction masquerading as fact remains one of the most famous stories in English literature. On one… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Defoe, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199553971
- Language: English
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Hot Water Music
$17.99 Add to cartWith his characteristic raw and minimalist style, Charles Bukowski takes us on a walk through his side of town in Hot Water Music. He gives us little vignettes of depravity and lasciviousness, bite si
- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 31, 2002
- ISBN10: 0876855966
- Language: English
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Kafka and the Doll
$19.99 Add to cartBased on a true story about Franz Kafka
Inspired by a true story, Kafka and the Doll recounts a remarkable gesture of kindness from one of the world’s most bewildering and iconic writers. In the fall- Author: Theule, Larissa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: March 9, 2021
- ISBN10: 0593116321
- Language: English
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Mary Wears What She Wants
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the award-winning creator of My Dad Used to Be So Cool and Tough Guys Have Feelings Too comes a charming picture book inspired by the true story of Mary Edwards Walker, a trailblazing 19th-centur
- Author: Negley, Keith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: January 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0062846795
- Language: English
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The Last Laird of Sapelo
$21.95 Add to cartThe Last Laird of Sapelo is based on the tragic story of Randolph Spalding, the youngest son of Georgia’s most well-known antebellum-era coastal planter and influential political figure, Thomas Spaldi
- Author: Brown, T. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: August 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 9798888240427
- Language: English
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The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo
$20.00 Add to cartIrving Stone’s classic biographical novel of Michelangelo–the #1 New York Times bestseller in which both the artist and the man are brought to vivid, captivating life.
His time–the turbulent Renais- Author: Stone, Irving
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: September 07 2004
- ISBN10: 0451213238
- Language: English
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Sister Stardust
$18.99 Add to cart*NATIONAL BESTSELLER*
A PARADE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR
A NEW YORK POST BEST BOOK OF THE WEEKIn her first novel inspired by a true story, Jane Green re-imagines the life of troubled icon Talith… [more below]
- Author: Green, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 2, 2023
- ISBN10: 1335449582
- Language: English
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Lunch Every Day
$18.99 Add to cartEvery day Jimmy takes ‘Skinny Kid’s’ lunch at school. No way will he be caught dead standing in that FREE LUNCH line. Even when he’s called into the principal’s office, Jimmy just shrugs. “Yeah. Whate… [more below]
- Author: Otoshi, Kathryn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: October 19, 2021
- ISBN10: 1734348208
- Language: English
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Yellow Star
$9.99 Read more“In 1945 the war ended. The Germans surrendered, and the ghetto was liberated. Out of over a quarter of a million people, about 800 walked out of the ghetto. Of those who survived, only twelve were ch
- Author: Roy, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 227
- Publish Date: June 3, 2014
- ISBN10: 0761463100
- Language: English
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Marmee
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the author of Caroline, a revealing retelling of Louisa May Alcott’s beloved Little Women, from the perspective of Margaret “Marmee” March, about the larger real-world challenges behind the cozy
- Author: Miller, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 006304188X
- Language: English
