Biographical
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The Bootlegger’s Daughter
$16.99 Read moreIn Prohibition-era Los Angeles, two women on opposite sides of the law must take control of their lives, make their marks, and try to survive. Even if it means crossing the line.
It’s 1927. Letty Hart’
- Author: Nettmann, Nadine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 317
- Publish Date: May 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1662515588
- Language: English
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Our Spoons Came from Woolworths
$18.95 Add to cart“I told Helen my story and she went home and cried.” So begins Our Spoons Came from Woolworths. But Barbara Comyns’s beguiling novel is far from tragic, despite the harrowing ordeals its heroine endur
- Author: Comyns, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1590178963
- Language: English
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Faraway the Southern Sky
$17.95 Add to cart“Joseph Andras writes with the swiftness of lightning.”
A biographical historical fiction retelling of Ho Chi Minh’s immigration and radical life in underg
-Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of The Sympathizer- Series: Verso Fiction
- Author: Andras, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1804291714
- Language: English
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Saintly Creatures: 14 Tales of Animals and Their Holy Companions
$24.95 Add to cartDiscover the exciting tales of God’s creatures and the holy men and women they encountered! You’ll read about an enormous dog who protected a French priest from an ambush, a tiger who shared his cave … [more below]
- Author: Sargeant, Alexi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: September 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1685789897
- Language: English
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The Mango Tree (La Mata de Mango): A Picture Book
$18.99 Read moreFrom internationally renowned, award-winning artist Edel Rodriguez comes The Mango Tree, an enchanting wordless picture book and a moving, fantastical take on his childhood experience as an immigrant.… [more below]
- Author: Rodriguez, Edel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1419745867
- Language: English
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Hang the Moon
$22.99 Add to cart“
From the #1 bestselling author of The Glass Castle, the instant New York Times bestseller a “rip-roaring, action-packed” (The New York Times) novel about an indomitable young woman in prohibition
- Author: Walls, Jeannette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 663
- Publish Date: March 21 2024
- ISBN10: 9798885798136
- Language: English
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The Trial of Mrs. Rhinelander
$17.95 Read moreInspired by a real-life scandal that was shocking even for the tumultuous Roaring Twenties, this captivating novel tells the story of a pioneering Black journalist, a secret interracial marriage among… [more below]
- Author: Bryce, Denny S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1496737873
- Language: English
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Maria: A Novel of Maria von Trapp
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – Maria von Trapp. You know the name and the iconic songs, but do you know her real story? This dramatic novel, based on the woman glamorized in The Sound of Music, brings Maria t… [more below]
- Author: Moran, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0593499484
- Language: English
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Mamie Tape Fights to Go to School: Based on a True Story
$19.99 Add to cartA CBC 2025 NOTABLE SOCIAL STUDIES TRADE BOOK FOR YOUNG PEOPLE SELECTION- Meet Mamie Tape, 8-year-old Chinese American changemaker who fought for the right to go to school in San Francisco in the 1880s… [more below]
- Author: Huahn, Traci
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0593644026
- Language: English
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Oriana: A Novel: A Novel of Oriana Fallaci
$27.99 Add to cartWhen a Hollywood producer comes to Oriana at the end of her life to propose a movie, the story unfolds of her gutsy career rise as a journalist, her tragic love, and her greatest regret.
Oriana Fallac
- Author: Rubis, Anastasia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 355
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1953002366
- Language: English
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All the Glimmering Stars
$16.99 Add to cartInspired by a true story, two teens kidnapped by an African warlord find salvation through love in a powerful and healing historical novel from the #1 bestselling author of Beneath a Scarlet Sky and T
- Author: Sullivan, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1542038111
- Language: English
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The First Ladies
$19.00 Add 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: 416
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0593440293
- Language: English
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All the Glimmering Stars
$28.99 Add to cartInspired by a true story, two teens kidnapped by an African warlord find salvation through love in a powerful and healing historical novel from the #1 bestselling author of Beneath a Scarlet Sky and T
- Author: Sullivan, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 154203812X
- Language: English
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The Passionate Tudor: A Novel of Queen Mary I
$30.00 Read moreThe New York Times bestselling author of the Six Tudor Queens series explores the dramatic and poignant life of King Henry VIII’s daughter–infamously known as Bloody Mary–who ruled England for five … [more below]
- Author: Weir, Alison
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 0593355105
- Language: English
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Des?enme Un Buen Viaje: Memorias de Una Despedida / Wish Me a Good Journey
$18.95 Add to cartMe lo dijo sin pre?mbulos, pero no me tom? por sorpresa.
A principios de 2022, mi padre, Carlos Alberto Montaner, me encomend? la misi?n m?s dif?cil y dolorosa de mi vida: Te pido que me ayudes a mori
- Author: Montaner, Gina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 6073916507
- Language: Spanish
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Silver Echoes
$19.99 Add to cart“A twisty, atmospheric story about the damage inflicted by childhood trauma and its manifestations later. Immersed in Silver’s world as she performs daring high-wire feats, trains tigers, and debuts a
- Author: Rosenberg, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1732969965
- Language: English
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A Dangerous Inheritance: A Novel of Tudor Rivals and the Secret of the Tower
$25.00 Add to cartTwo women separated by time investigate the mysterious, tragic fate of the young princes in the tower in this engrossing novel, “a juicy mix of romance, drama, and Tudor history” (Ladies’ Home Journal… [more below]
- Author: Weir, Alison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: November 05 2013
- ISBN10: 0345511905
- Language: English
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Jackie
$19.00 Add to cartIn this mesmerizing novel about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, acclaimed author Dawn Tripp has crafted an intimate story of love and power, family and tragedy, loss and reinvention.
“A brilliant, beautif… [more below]- Author: Tripp, Dawn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 081298708X
- Language: English
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In the Field a Novel
$17.00 Add to cartIn 1923, having persuaded her resistant mother to send her to college, Kate Croft falls in love with science. Painfully rebuffed by a girl she longs for, and in flight from her own confusing sexuality… [more below]
- Author: Pastan, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1953002129
- Language: English
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Diva
$19.00 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author Daisy Goodwin returns with a story of the scandalous love affair between the most celebrated opera singer of all time and one of the richest men in the world.
In the- Author: Goodwin, Daisy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 125083399X
- Language: English
