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These are fictionalized biographies...A person's life story based partly on fact and enhanced by the author's imagination.
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The Paris Wife: A Novel
Paula McLain - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "A beautiful portrait of being in Paris in the glittering 1920s - as a wife and as one's own woman." - Entertainment Weekly A deeply evocative story of ambition and betrayal, The Paris Wife captures the love affair between... |
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz: A Novel
Heather Morris - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 International Bestseller This beautiful, illuminating tale of hope and courage is based on interviews that were conducted with Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov... |
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The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post: A Novel
Allison Pataki - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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Mrs. Post, the President and First Lady are here to see you. . . . So begins another average evening for Marjorie Merriweather Post. Presidents have come and gone, but she has hosted them all. Growing up in the modest farmlands of Battle Creek, Michigan, Marjorie was inspired by a few simple... |
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Loving Frank: A Novel
Nancy Horan - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current.So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright. Four years earlier, in 1903, Mamah and her husband,... |
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Lady Clementine: A Novel
Marie Benedict - Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Hardcover
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New from Marie Benedict, the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Woman in the Room! An incredible novel that focuses on one of the people who had the most influence during World War I and World War II: Clementine Churchill. |
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A Long Petal of the Sea
Isabel Allende
Format: Book
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In the late 1930s, civil war grips Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the mountains to the French border. Among them is Roser, a pregnant young widow, who finds her life... |
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The Mad Girls of New York: A Nellie Bly Novel
Maya Rodale - Berkley
Format: Paperback
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An exciting novel based on the fearless reporter Nellie Bly, who would stop at nothing to expose injustices against women in early 19th century New York, even at the risk of her own life and freedom.In 1887 New York City, Nellie Bly has ambitions beyond writing for the ladies pages, but all the editors... |
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The Lady of the Rivers: A Novel
Philippa Gregory - Touchstone
Format: Hardcover
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When the death of Joan of Arc shows her the dangers faced by strong women, Jacquetta, a psychic descendant of a river goddess, studies alchemy and becomes the secret wife of Richard Woodville before returning to the court of Henry VI. |
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The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world, The House on Mango Street is the remarkable story of Esperanza Cordero. Told in a series of vignettes - sometimes... |
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The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan
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Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's "saying" the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope,... |
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Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel
Jeannette Walls - Scribner; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Jeannette Walls's memoir The Glass Castle was "nothing short of spectacular" (Entertainment Weekly) . Now, in Half Broke Horses, she brings us the story of her grandmother, told in a first-person voice that is authentic, irresistible, and triumphant. "Those old cows... |
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The Christie Affair: A Novel
Nina de Gramont - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Every story has its secrets.Every mystery has its motives."A long time ago, in another country, I nearly killed a woman. It's a particular feeling, the urge to murder. It takes over your body so completely, it's like a divine force, grabbing hold of your will, your limbs, your... |
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Booth
Karen Joy Fowler - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Book
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From the Man Booker finalist and bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic and intimate novel about the family behind one of the most infamous figures in American history: John Wilkes Booth.
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