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While not as famous as her older siblings Wilbur and Orville, the celebrated inventors of flight, Katharine Wright is equally inventive – especially when ...

Before she mastered the art of French cooking in midlife, Julia Child found herself working in the secrets trade in Asia during World War II, a journey that...

Written Under A Pen Name By The Algerian Author Mohammed Moulessehoul, A Fictionalized Version Of History Describes The Final Hours Of The Life Of President...

Did photography replace an absence in her life or expose the truth of her heart’s emptiness?While growing in confidence as a photographer, eighteen-year-...

Meet the brilliant writer, fiercely independent mother, and passionate woman who captured the heart of C.S. Lewis and inspired the books that still enchant ...

What Would You Do If You Lost Everything--your Job, Your Home, And The Love Of Your Life--all At The Same Time? When It Happens To Seattle Ad Executive Alan...

In sun-drenched Sicily, among the decadent Italian aristocracy of the late 1950s, Giuseppe Tomasi, the last prince of Lampedusa, struggles to complete the n...

The Novel, Titled Little Boy, Fuses Elements Of Autobiography, Literary Criticism, Poetry And Philosophy, In A Headlong, Often Stream-of-consciousness Style...

"An appealing and inventive novel…original and cathartic."―Dana Kennedy, New York Times On February 16, 1944, Anne Frank recorded in her diary that Pet...

Em, c'est le fil qui relie les ouvriers des plantations de caoutchouc et les femmes des salons de manucure aux orphelins de l'opération Babylift, qui a év...

A Collection Of Short Autobiographical Stories Explore The Trials Of A Boy Vying For His Mother's Attention As She Searches For Love, Struggling For Control...

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 ...

A True-life Novel About Lily Casey Smith (the Author's Grandmother) Who At Age Six Helped Her Father Break Horses, At Age Fifteen Left Home To Teach In A Fr...

“Gerstenblatt's distinctive tale, a triumph in storytelling, celebrates the courage and tenacity of women.” —Booklist, starred review\Set against Nant...

The Autobiography of Henry VIII is the magnificent historical novel that established Margaret George's career. Evocatively written in the first person as H...

One Queen, One Empress, and the Crown the Would Define Them Both Matilda, daughter of Henry I, knows that there are those who will not accept her as Engla...

Bestselling Author And Acclaimed Historian Alison Weir Takes On What No Fiction Writer Has Done Before: Creating A Dramatic Six-book Series In Which Each No...

Highschool To Hell! Part 1a True Story By: Ron (doc) Sorrento 365 Days And A Wake.this Is High School To Hell Which Takes Place In The Central Highlands Vie...

1992 HARPER PERENNIAL SOFTCOVERCategories: Literature & Fiction Historical FictionBiographical

Marian has a problem. A willing member of the consumer society in which she lives, she suddenly finds herself identifying with the things being consumed. S...

A daring, funny, and poignant novel about the desire and duty to procreate, by one of our most brilliant and original writersMotherhood treats one of the m...

The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's only novel. Renowned for its intensity and outstandingly vivid prose, it broke existing boundaries between fiction and reali...

A bestseller in Italy, a beautiful, heartbreaking novel based on the true story of an Afghan boy's journey in search of safety.One night before putting him ...

An Autobiographical Novel About Growing Up Gay In A Working-class Town In Picardy. Every Morning In The Bathroom I Would Repeat The Same Phrase To Myself Ov...

La extraordinaria historia de la mujer que escribió en la sombra algunas de las obras más importantes del siglo XX. -Por la autora de Mujeres que compran ...

One of Hasty Booklist's Most Anticipated Historical Fiction Novels!USA Today bestselling author Eliza Knight brings together a brilliant dual-narrative stor...

A Cloth Bag Containing Six Copies Of The Title, That May Also Include A Folder.Categories: Literature & Fiction Historical Fiction 20th CenturyWorld War...

National Bestseller Victoriais An Absolutely Captivating Novel Of Youth, Love, And The Often Painful Transition From Immaturity To Adulthood. Daisy Goodwin ...

Ariel Lawhon, A Rising Star In Historical Suspense, Unravels The Extraordinary Twists And Turns In Anna Anderson's Fifty-year Battle To Be Recognized As Ana...

From one of the most distinguished writers of modern Italy” (New York Review of Books), a classic novel of society in the midst of a war.This powerful no...

In the international bestseller Prisoner of Tehran, Marina Nemat chronicled her arrest, torture, and two-year imprisonment in Iran’s notorious Evin priso...

Sometimes Keeping Your Honor Means Breaking Your Word The early twelfth century is a time for ambitious men to prosper. John FitzGilbert is a man of honor...

Selected as the 2008 CBC Canada Reads Winner! "A dazzling display of fictional footwork… The author has not written just another hockey novel; he has tu...

“The Power of One has everything: suspense, the exotic, violence; mysticism, psychology and magic; schoolboy adventures, drama.”–The New York Times “Unaba...

A Cloth Bag Containing Six Copies Of The Title, That May Also Include A Folder.Categories: Literature & Fiction Historical Fiction 20th CenturyWorld War...

Beloved author Ami McKay is back, bringing us a magical follow-up in the tradition of Victorian winter tales to her mesmerizing bestseller, The Witches of ...

The Norton Critical Edition of this influential Harlem Renaissance novel includes related materials available in no other edition. Known only as the “Ex-...