{"title":"Biographical Fiction","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"323\" data-end=\"714\"\u003eDiscover stories inspired by real lives with our collection of \u003cstrong data-start=\"386\" data-end=\"416\"\u003ebiographical fiction books\u003c\/strong\u003e at Used Book Depot. These titles blend fact and imagination, reimagining the experiences of historical figures, artists, leaders, and unsung heroes through compelling narratives. Biographical fiction brings the past to life with emotional depth, creating an engaging way to connect with history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"716\" data-end=\"1105\"\u003eOur affordable pre loved books are updated regularly, offering a wide selection of moving stories without stretching your budget. Shop online worldwide and explore novels that combine authenticity with creativity. Whether you’re a history enthusiast, literature lover, or casual reader, our biographical fiction collection offers powerful perspectives through unforgettable storytelling.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"courting-mr-lincoln-a-novel","title":"Courting Mr. Lincoln: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eA page-turning novel about the brilliant, melancholic future president and the two people who knew him best: his handsome and charming confidant (and roommate), Joshua Speed, and the spirited young debutante Mary Todd.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA Washington Post Bestseller\u003cbr\u003e\nA May Indie Next Pick\u003cbr\u003e\nAn Apple Books Best of the Month for April\u003cbr\u003e\nA People Magazine Best Book of the Week\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Exquisite.” —People\u003cbr\u003e\n“A triumph of a novel.” —Bookreporter.com\u003cbr\u003e\n“Rich, fascinating, and romantic.” —Newsday\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Mary Todd meets Abraham Lincoln in Springfield in the winter of 1840, he is on no one’s short list to be president. A country lawyer living above a dry goods shop, he is lacking both money and manners, and his gift for oratory surprises those who meet him. Mary, a quick, self-possessed debutante with an interest in debates and elections, at first finds him an enigma. “I can only hope,” she tells his roommate, the handsome, charming Joshua Speed, “that his waters being so very still, they also run deep.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt’s not long, though, before she sees the Lincoln that Speed knows: an amiable, profound man who, despite his awkwardness, has a gentle wit to match his genius, and who respects her keen political mind. But as her relationship with Lincoln deepens, she must confront his inseparable friendship with Speed, who has taught his roommate how to dance, dress, and navigate the polite society of Springfield.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTold in the alternating voices of Mary Todd and Joshua Speed, and inspired by historical events, Courting Mr. Lincoln creates a sympathetic and complex portrait of Mary unlike any that has come before; a moving portrayal of the deep and very real connection between the two men; and most of all, an evocation of the unformed man who would grow into one of the nation’s most beloved presidents. Louis Bayard, a master storyteller, delivers here a page-turning tale of love, longing, and forbidden possibilities., ISBN13: 9781616208479 ISBN10: 1616208473 Material Type: hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46111691931811,"sku":"A_STR_H0000FY3","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/91YWToCyhCL.jpg?v=1754635441"},{"product_id":"a-year-in-the-merde","title":"A Year in the Merde","description":"\u003cp\u003eBased on Stephen Clarke's own experiences and with names changed to \"avoid embarrassment, possible legal action, and to prevent the author's legs being broken by someone in a Yves Saint Laurent suit,\" A Year in the Merde provides perfect entertainment for Francophiles and Francophobes alike., ISBN13: 9781582346175 ISBN10: 1582346178 Material Type: paperback\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46111759859875,"sku":"AZ_STR_H0000CD8","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/71KEJ20A30L.jpg?v=1754639287"},{"product_id":"older-but-wilder-more-notes-from-the-pasture","title":"Older but Wilder: More Notes from the Pasture","description":"\u003cp\u003eTells in journal format more stories of Hattie McNair's experiences and adventures in a South Carolina retirement community, ISBN13: 9781561451821 ISBN10: 1561451827 Material Type: hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46111877922979,"sku":"NC-STR_UBD_H0000PU7","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/61GDzO5sLDL.jpg?v=1754642578"},{"product_id":"that-churchill-woman-a-novel","title":"That Churchill Woman: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Paris Wife meets PBS’s Victoria in this enthralling novel of the life and loves of one of history’s most remarkable women: Winston Churchill’s scandalous American mother, Jennie Jerome.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWealthy, privileged, and fiercely independent New Yorker Jennie Jerome took Victorian England by storm when she landed on its shores. As Lady Randolph Churchill, she gave birth to a man who defined the twentieth century: her son Winston. But Jennie—reared in the luxury of Gilded Age Newport and the Paris of the Second Empire—lived an outrageously modern life all her own, filled with controversy, passion, tragedy, and triumph.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen the nineteen-year-old beauty agrees to marry the son of a duke she has known only three days, she’s instantly swept up in a whirlwind of British politics and the breathless social climbing of the Marlborough House Set, the reckless men who surround Bertie, Prince of Wales. Raised to think for herself and careless of English society rules, the new Lady Randolph Churchill quickly becomes a London sensation: adored by some, despised by others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eArtistically gifted and politically shrewd, she shapes her husband’s rise in Parliament and her young son’s difficult passage through boyhood. But as the family’s influence soars, scandals explode and tragedy befalls the Churchills. Jennie is inescapably drawn to the brilliant and seductive Count Charles Kinsky—diplomat, skilled horse-racer, deeply passionate lover. Their affair only intensifies as Randolph Churchill’s sanity frays, and Jennie—a woman whose every move on the public stage is judged—must walk a tightrope between duty and desire. Forced to decide where her heart truly belongs, Jennie risks everything—even her son—and disrupts lives, including her own, on both sides of the Atlantic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBreathing new life into Jennie’s legacy and the glittering world over which she reigned, That Churchill Woman paints a portrait of the difficult—and sometimes impossible—balance among love, freedom, and obligation, while capturing the spirit of an unforgettable woman, one who altered the course of history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePraise for That Churchill Woman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“The perfect confection of a novel . . . We’re introduced to Jennie in all of her passion and keen intelligence and beauty. While she is surrounded by a cast of late-Victorian celebrities, including Bertie, Prince of Wales, it’s always Jennie who shines and takes the center stage she was born to.”—Melanie Benjamin, New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator’s Wife and The Swans of Fifth Avenue, ISBN13: 9781524799588 ISBN10: 1524799580 Material Type: paperback\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46111903318179,"sku":"B2.35.5 F_06-12-25_H0000JNY","price":14.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/81-xgd3AzWL.jpg?v=1754644068"},{"product_id":"the-white-princessdeckle-edge-the-plantagenet-and-tudor-novels","title":"The White Princess(Deckle Edge) (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels)","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom “queen of royal fiction” (USA TODAY) Philippa Gregory comes this instant New York Times bestseller that tells the story of the remarkable Elizabeth of York, daughter of the White Queen, and mother to the House of Tudor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Henry Tudor picks up the crown of England from the mud of Bosworth field, he knows he must marry the princess of the enemy house—Elizabeth of York—to unify a country divided by war for nearly two decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut his bride is still in love with his slain enemy, Richard III—and her mother and half of England dream of a missing heir, sent into the unknown by the White Queen. While the new monarchy can win power, it cannot win hearts in an England that plots for the triumphant return of the House of York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHenry’s greatest fear is that somewhere a prince is waiting to invade and reclaim the throne. When a young man who would be king leads his army and invades England, Elizabeth has to choose between the new husband she is coming to love and the boy who claims to be her beloved lost brother: the rose of York come home at last., ISBN13: 9781451626094 ISBN10: 1451626096 Material Type: hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46112110346403,"sku":"FK-3STR_UBD_H0000OFR","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/812TmwJetoL.jpg?v=1754645759"},{"product_id":"half-broke-horses-a-true-life-novel","title":"Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eJeannette Walls's The Glass Castle was \"nothing short of spectacular\" (Entertainment Weekly). Now she brings us the story of her grandmother -- told in a voice so authentic and compelling that the book is destined to become an instant classic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did.\" So begins the story of Lily Casey Smith, in Jeannette Walls's magnificent, true-life novel based on her no-nonsense, resourceful, hard working, and spectacularly compelling grandmother. By age six, Lily was helping her father break horses. At fifteen, she left home to teach in a frontier town -- riding five hundred miles on her pony, all alone, to get to her job. She learned to drive a car (\"I loved cars even more than I loved horses. They didn't need to be fed if they weren't working, and they didn't leave big piles of manure all over the place\") and fly a plane, and, with her husband, ran a vast ranch in Arizona. She raised two children, one of whom is Jeannette's memorable mother, Rosemary Smith Walls, unforgettably portrayed in The Glass Castle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLily survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy. She bristled at prejudice of all kinds -- against women, Native Americans, and anyone else who didn't fit the mold. Half Broke Horses is Laura Ingalls Wilder for adults, as riveting and dramatic as Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa or Beryl Markham's West with the Night. It will transfix readers everywhere., ISBN13: 9781416586289 ISBN10: 1416586288 Material Type: hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46112219267235,"sku":"A-STR_05-17-25_H0000FE8","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/61Pot9ett9L.jpg?v=1754647853"},{"product_id":"clara-and-mr-tiffany-a-novel","title":"Clara and Mr. Tiffany: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eAgainst the unforgettable backdrop of New York near the turn of the twentieth century, from the Gilded Age world of formal balls and opera to the immigrant poverty of the Lower East Side, bestselling author Susan Vreeland again breathes life into a work of art in this extraordinary novel, which brings a woman once lost in the shadows into vivid color.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt’s 1893, and at the Chicago World’s Fair, Louis Comfort Tiffany makes his debut with a luminous exhibition of innovative stained-glass windows, which he hopes will honor his family business and earn him a place on the international artistic stage. But behind the scenes in his New York studio is the freethinking Clara Driscoll, head of his women’s division. Publicly unrecognized by Tiffany, Clara conceives of and designs nearly all of the iconic leaded-glass lamps for which he is long remembered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eClara struggles with her desire for artistic recognition and the seemingly insurmountable challenges that she faces as a professional woman, which ultimately force her to protest against the company she has worked so hard to cultivate. She also yearns for love and companionship, and is devoted in different ways to five men, including Tiffany, who enforces to a strict policy: he does not hire married women, and any who do marry while under his employ must resign immediately. Eventually, like many women, Clara must decide what makes her happiest—the professional world of her hands or the personal world of her heart., ISBN13: 9781400068166 ISBN10: 1400068169 Material Type: hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46112239943843,"sku":"A_06-04-25_H0000GWY","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/519gcrKjcuL.jpg?v=1754649276"},{"product_id":"the-fortune-hunter-a-novel","title":"The Fortune Hunter: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eEmpress Elizabeth of Austria, known as Sisi, is the Princess Diana of nineteenth-century Europe. Famously beautiful, as captured in a portrait with diamond stars in her hair, she is unfulfilled in her marriage to the older Emperor Franz Joseph. Sisi has spent years evading the stifling formality of royal life on her private train or yacht or, whenever she can, on the back of a horse.\u003cbr\u003e\nCaptain Bay Middleton is dashing, young, and the finest horseman in England. He is also impoverished, with no hope of buying the horse needed to win the Grand National―until he meets Charlotte Baird. A clever, plainspoken heiress whose money gives her a choice among suitors, Charlotte falls in love with Bay, the first man to really notice her, for his vulnerability as well as his glamour. When Sisi joins the legendary hunt organized by Earl Spencer in England, Bay is asked to guide her on the treacherous course. Their shared passion for riding leads to an infatuation that jeopardizes the growing bond between Bay and Charlotte, and threatens all of their futures.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Fortune Hunter, a brilliant new novel by Daisy Goodwin, is a lush, irresistible story of the public lives and private longings of grand historical figures., ISBN13: 9781250043894 ISBN10: 1250043891 Material Type: hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46112289521827,"sku":"B2.35.2 F_06-12-25_H0000JL8","price":19.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/81MqDje0aWL.jpg?v=1754650527"},{"product_id":"my-struggle-book-2-my-struggle-2","title":"My Struggle: Book 2 (My Struggle, 2)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"[Book 2] sears the reader because Knausgaard is a passionate idealist [who] wants to fight the conformity and homogeneity of modern bourgeois existence.\" ―James Wood, The New Yorker\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the second installment of Karl Ove Knausgaard's monumental six-volume masterpiece, the character Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to Stockholm, where, having left his wife, he leads a solitary existence. He strikes up a deep friendship with another exiled Norwegian, a Nietzschean intellectual and boxing fanatic named Geir. He also tracks down Linda, whom he met at a writers' workshop a few years earlier and who fascinated him deeply.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMy Struggle: Book 2 is at heart a love story―the story of Karl Ove falling in love with his second wife. But the novel also tells other stories: of becoming a father, of the turbulence of family life, of outrageously unsuccessful attempts at a family vacation, of the emotional strain of birthday parties for children, and of the daily frustrations, rhythms, and distractions of city life keeping him from (and filling) his novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a brilliant work that emphatically delivers on the unlikely promise that many hundreds of pages later readers will be left breathlessly demanding more., ISBN13: 9780374534158 ISBN10: 0374534152 Material Type: paperback\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46124665831587,"sku":"TN_STR_UBD_H0000XPW","price":11.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/71V1BZeFxLL.jpg?v=1754818041"},{"product_id":"a-str_ubd_h0000szs","title":"What's Bred in the Bone (Cornish Trilogy)","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrancis Cornish was always good at keeping secrets. From the well-hidden family secret of his childhood to his mysterious encounters with a small-town embalmer, an expert art restorer, a Bavarian countess, and various masters of espionage, the events in Francis’s life were not always what they seemed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this wonderfully ingenious portrait of an art expert and collector of international renown, Robertson Davies has created a spellbinding tale of artistic triumph and heroic deceit. In this second book of the Cornish Trilogy, Davies spins a tale told in stylish, elegant prose, endowed with lavish portions of his wit and wisdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"A deliciously readable story...An altogether remarkable creation, his most accomplished novel to date.\" -- The New York Times, ISBN13: 9780140097115 ISBN10: 0140097112 Material Type: paperback\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46124706660515,"sku":"A-STR_UBD_H0000SZS","price":21.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/611CZD7b_qL_7b01efd8-bd8d-4c2d-8544-786249b8ba7b.jpg?v=1754819982"},{"product_id":"p-36-6-ic_str_h00007b9","title":"Postcards from the Edge","description":"\u003cp\u003eSuzanne, a patient in a drug rehabilitation clinic, strives to gain control of her life in a look at the dangers--and delights--of all addictions, ISBN13: 9780671624415 ISBN10: 0671624415 Material Type: hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46124745031843,"sku":"P.36.6 IC_STR_H00007B9","price":33.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/81Co9D-yduL.jpg?v=1754822268"},{"product_id":"a-str_ubd_h0000mq5","title":"Mrs. Lincoln's Rival","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker and Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule, Jennifer Chiaverini, reveals the famous First Lady’s very public social and political contest with Kate Chase Sprague, memorialized as “one of the most remarkable women ever known to Washington society.” (Providence Journal)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKate Chase Sprague was born in 1840 in Cincinnati, Ohio, the second daughter to the second wife of a devout but ambitious lawyer. Her father, Salmon P. Chase, rose to prominence in the antebellum years and was appointed secretary of the treasury in Abraham Lincoln’s cabinet, while aspiring to even greater heights.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBeautiful, intelligent, regal, and entrancing, young Kate Chase stepped into the role of establishing her thrice-widowed father in Washington society and as a future presidential candidate. Her efforts were successful enough that The Washington Star declared her “the most brilliant woman of her day. None outshone her.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNone, that is, but Mary Todd Lincoln. Though Mrs. Lincoln and her young rival held much in common—political acumen, love of country, and a resolute determination to help the men they loved achieve greatness—they could never be friends, for the success of one could come only at the expense of the other. When Kate Chase married William Sprague, the wealthy young governor of Rhode Island, it was widely regarded as the pinnacle of Washington society weddings. President Lincoln was in attendance. The First Lady was not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJennifer Chiaverini excels at chronicling the lives of extraordinary yet littleknown women through historical fiction. What she did for Elizabeth Keckley in Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker and for Elizabeth Van Lew in The Spymistress she does for Kate Chase Sprague in Mrs. Lincoln’s Rival., ISBN13: 9780525954286 ISBN10: 0525954287 Material Type: hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46124830785699,"sku":"A-STR_UBD_H0000MQ5","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/91FZmCJX5NL.jpg?v=1754826923"},{"product_id":"the-walk-a-novel-walk-series-1","title":"The Walk: A Novel (Walk Series, 1)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"My name is Alan Christoffersen. You don’t know me. ‘Just another book in the library,’ my father would say. ‘Unopened and unread.’ You have no idea how far I’ve come or what I’ve lost. More important, you have no idea what I’ve found.\" —Prologue\u003cbr\u003e\nWhat 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 Christoffersen, he’s tempted by his darkest thoughts. A bottle of pills in his hand and nothing left to live for, he plans to end his misery. Instead, he decides to take a walk. But not any ordinary walk. Taking with him only the barest of essentials, Al leaves behind all that he’s known and heads for the farthest point on his map: Key West, Florida. The people he encounters along the way, and the lessons they share with him, will save his life—and inspire yours.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRichard Paul Evans’s extraordinary New York Times bestsellers have made him one of the world’s most beloved storytellers. A life-changing journey, both physical and spiritual, The Walk is the first of an unforgettable series of books about one man’s search for hope., ISBN13: 9781439187319 ISBN10: 1439187312 Material Type: hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46124920471715,"sku":"TN_STR_H0000BIQ","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/815R540UlLL.jpg?v=1754831800"},{"product_id":"a-kings-ransom","title":"A King's Ransom","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the New York Times-bestselling author of Lionheart comes the dramatic sequel, telling of the last dangerous years of Richard, Couer de Lion’s life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis long-anticipated sequel to the national bestseller Lionheart is a vivid and heart-wrenching story of the last event-filled years in the life of Richard, Coeur de Lion. Taken captive by the Holy Roman Emperor while en route home—in violation of the papal decree protecting all crusaders—he was to spend fifteen months imprisoned, much of it in the notorious fortress at Trefils, from which few men ever left alive, while Eleanor of Aquitaine moved heaven and earth to raise the exorbitant ransom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor the five years remaining to him, betrayals, intrigues, wars, and illness were ever present. So were his infidelities, perhaps a pattern set by his father’s faithlessness to Eleanor. But the courage, compassion, and intelligence of this warrior king became the stuff of legend, and A King’s Ransom brings the man and his world fully and powerfully alive., ISBN13: 9780399159220 ISBN10: 0399159223 Material Type: hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46124944949411,"sku":"A_05-30-25_H0000G8A","price":10.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/91QUBuPpYlL.jpg?v=1754833188"},{"product_id":"sister-age-1","title":"Sister Age","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn these fifteen remarkable stories, M.F.K. Fisher, one of the most admired writers of our time, embraces the coming of old age. With a saint to guide us, she writes, perhaps we can accept in a loving way \"the inevitable visits of a possibly nagging harpy like Sister Age\" But in the stories, it is the human strength in the unavoidable encounter with the end of life that Fisher dramatizes so powerfully. Other themes—the importance of witnessing death, the marvelous resilience of the old, the passing of vanity—are all explored with insight, sympathy and, often, a sly wit., ISBN13: 9780394723853 ISBN10: 0394723856 Material Type: paperback\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46124969754787,"sku":"06-05-25_H0000HFF","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/613vd3N8QWL.jpg?v=1754834588"},{"product_id":"the-autobiography-of-mrs-tom-thumb-a-novel-random-house-readers-circle","title":"The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb: A Novel (Random House Reader's Circle)","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor anyone who loves the historical novels of Sara Gruen, Geraldine Brooks, and E. L. Doctorow, a barnstorming tale of an irrepressible, brawling, bawdy era and the remarkable woman who had the courage to match the unique spirit of America’s Gilded Age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShe was only two feet, eight inches tall, but more than a century later, her legend reaches out to us. As a child, Mercy Lavinia “Vinnie” Warren Bump was encouraged to live a life hidden away from the public. Instead, she reached out to the immortal impresario P. T. Barnum, married the tiny superstar General Tom Thumb in the wedding of the century, and became the world’s most unexpected celebrity. Vinnie’s wedding captivated the nation, preempted coverage of the Civil War, and even ushered her into the White House. But her fame also endangered the person she prized most: her similarly sized sister, Minnie, a gentle soul unable to escape the glare of Vinnie’s spotlight. A barnstorming novel of the Gilded Age, The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb is the irresistible epic of a heroine who conquered the country with a heart as big as her dreams—and whose story will surely win over yours.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLook for special features inside. Join the Circle for author chats and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBONUS: This edition contains a timeline, an interview with Melanie Benjamin, and an excerpt from Melanie Benjamin's Alice I Have Been., ISBN13: 9780385344166 ISBN10: 0385344163 Material Type: paperback\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46126315405475,"sku":"AD.1.7 F_06-19-25_ART_H0000BFU","price":10.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/91u-xJ14JqL.jpg?v=1754885441"},{"product_id":"history-of-violence-a-novel","title":"History of Violence: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eHistory of Violence is international bestselling French author Edouard Louis’s autobiographical novel about surviving a shocking sexual assault and coping with the post-traumatic stress disorder of its aftermath.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn Christmas Eve 2012, in Paris, the novelist Édouard Louis was raped and almost murdered by a man he had just met. This act of violence left Louis shattered; its aftermath made him a stranger to himself and sent him back to the village, the family, and the past he had sworn to leave behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA bestseller in France, History of Violence is a short nonfiction novel in the tradition of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, but with the victim as its subject. Moving seamlessly and hypnotically between past and present, between Louis’s voice and the voice of an imagined narrator, History of Violence has the exactness of a police report and the searching, unflinching curiosity of memoir at its best. It records not only the casual racism and homophobia of French society but also their subtle effects on lovers, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives. It represents a great step forward for a young writer whose acuity, skill, and depth are unmatched by any novelist of his generation, in French or English., ISBN13: 9780374170592 ISBN10: 0374170592 Material Type: hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46126375600291,"sku":"A_STR_H0000LPG","price":10.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/910Hlw6jYKL.jpg?v=1754887625"},{"product_id":"the-dream-lover-a-novel","title":"The Dream Lover: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY USA TODAY • Elizabeth Berg has written a lush historical novel based on the sensuous Parisian life of the nineteenth-century writer George Sand—which is perfect for readers of Nancy Horan and Elizabeth Gilbert.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt the beginning of this powerful novel, we meet Aurore Dupin as she is leaving her estranged husband, a loveless marriage, and her family’s estate in the French countryside to start a new life in Paris. There, she gives herself a new name—George Sand—and pursues her dream of becoming a writer, embracing an unconventional and even scandalous lifestyle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eParis in the nineteenth century comes vividly alive, illuminated by the story of the loves, passions, and fierce struggles of a woman who defied the confines of society. Sand’s many lovers and friends include Frédéric Chopin, Gustave Flaubert, Franz Liszt, Eugène Delacroix, Victor Hugo, Marie Dorval, and Alfred de Musset. As Sand welcomes fame and friendship, she fights to overcome heartbreak and prejudice, failure and loss. Though considered the most gifted genius of her time, she works to reconcile the pain of her childhood, of disturbing relationships with her mother and daughter, and of her intimacies with women and men. Will the life she longs for always be just out of reach—a dream?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBrilliantly written in luminous prose, and with remarkable insights into the heart and mind of a literary force, The Dream Lover tells the unforgettable story of a courageous, irresistible woman.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePraise for The Dream Lover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Exquisitely captivating . . . Sand’s story is so timely and modern in an era when gender and sexual roles are upended daily.”—USA Today\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Fantastic . . . a provocative and dazzling portrait . . . Berg tells a terrific story, while simultaneously exploring sexuality, art, and the difficult personal choices women artists in particular made—then and now—in order to succeed. . . . The book, imagistic and perfectly paced, full of dialogue that clips along, is a reader’s dream.”—The Boston Globe\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Absorbing . . . an armchair traveler’s delight . . . Berg rolls out the wonders of nineteenth-century Paris in cinematic bursts that capture its light, its street life, its people and sounds. . . . The result is an illuminating portrait of a magnificent woman whose story is enriched by the delicate brush strokes of Berg’s colorful imagination.”—Chicago Tribune\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“There is authority and confidence in the storytelling that makes the pages fly.”—The New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Berg weaves an enchanting novel about the real life of George Sand.”—Us Weekly\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Lavishly described . . . Berg uses her own skill as a writer to graphically present the reader with a clear picture of a brilliant, yet flawed woman.”—Fredericksburg Free Lance–Star\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“[A] beautiful, imaginative re-creation . . . Berg’s years-long immersion in the writings of and about Sand has resulted in a remarkable channeling of Sand’s voice.”—Library Journal (starred review)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Berg offers vivid, sensual detail and a sensitive portrayal of the yearning and vulnerability behind Sand’s bold persona.”—Publishers Weekly\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“A thoroughly pleasant escape . . . [Sand is] intoxicating, beautiful, gifted, desirous, unconventional and heartbroken.”—Kirkus Reviews, ISBN13: 9780345533807 ISBN10: 0345533801 Material Type: paperback\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46126382383267,"sku":"TN_STR_H0000AV6","price":11.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/81wdfsrM8cL.jpg?v=1754887967"},{"product_id":"the-aviators-wife-a-novel","title":"The Aviator's Wife: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the spirit of Loving Frank and The Paris Wife, acclaimed novelist Melanie Benjamin pulls back the curtain on the marriage of one of America’s most extraordinary couples: Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“The history [is] exhilarating. . . . The Aviator’s Wife soars.”—USA Today\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor much of her life, Anne Morrow, the shy daughter of the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, has stood in the shadows of those around her, including her millionaire father and vibrant older sister, who often steals the spotlight. Then Anne, a college senior with hidden literary aspirations, travels to Mexico City to spend Christmas with her family. There she meets Colonel Charles Lindbergh, fresh off his celebrated 1927 solo flight across the Atlantic. Enthralled by Charles’s assurance and fame, Anne is certain the aviator has scarcely noticed her. But she is wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCharles sees in Anne a kindred spirit, a fellow adventurer, and her world will be changed forever. The two marry in a headline-making wedding. Hounded by adoring crowds and hunted by an insatiable press, Charles shields himself and his new bride from prying eyes, leaving Anne to feel her life falling back into the shadows. In the years that follow, despite her own major achievements—she becomes the first licensed female glider pilot in the United States—Anne is viewed merely as the aviator’s wife. The fairy-tale life she once longed for will bring heartbreak and hardships, ultimately pushing her to reconcile her need for love and her desire for independence, and to embrace, at last, life’s infinite possibilities for change and happiness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on the rich history of the twentieth century—from the late twenties to the mid-sixties—and featuring cameos from such notable characters as Joseph Kennedy and Amelia Earhart, The Aviator’s Wife is a vividly imagined novel of a complicated marriage—revealing both its dizzying highs and its devastating lows. With stunning power and grace, Melanie Benjamin provides new insight into what made this remarkable relationship endure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePraise for The Aviator’s Wife\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Remarkable . . . The Aviator’s Wife succeeds [in] putting the reader inside Anne Lindbergh’s life with her famous husband.”—The Denver Post\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Anne Morrow Lindbergh narrates the story of the Lindberghs’ troubled marriage in all its triumph and tragedy.”—USA Today\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“[This novel] will fascinate history buffs and surprise those who know of her only as ‘the aviator’s wife.’ ”—People\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“It’s hard to quit reading this intimate historical fiction.”—The Dallas Morning News\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Fictional biography at its finest.”—Booklist (starred review)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Utterly unforgettable.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“An intimate examination of the life and emotional mettle of Anne Morrow.”—The Washington Post\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“A story of both triumph and pain that will take your breath away.”—Kate Alcott, author of The Dressmaker, ISBN13: 9780345528674 ISBN10: 0345528670 Material Type: hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46126382842019,"sku":"STR_H0000C46","price":11.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/61dquoedyyL.jpg?v=1754887993"},{"product_id":"miracle-at-st-andrews-a-novel-travis-mckinley","title":"Miracle at St. Andrews: A Novel (Travis McKinley)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this inspiring novel, one ordinary man makes the pilgrimage to the mythical greens of St. Andrews—the birthplace of golf—on a search for greatness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf golf novels had a leaderboard, Miracle at St. Andrews would be at the top.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThough nobody has ever identified a single secret—no universally accepted truth—to the sport, every real player searches for one. Travis McKinley is one such seeker. A former professional golfer who feels like he's an amateur at the rest of life, he makes a pilgrimage to the mythical greens at St. Andrews. On the course where golf was born, every link, hole, fairway—even the gorse—feels like sacred ground. Ground that can help an ordinary player, an ordinary man, achieve a higher plane., ISBN13: 9780316519106 ISBN10: 0316519103 Material Type: hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46126438940835,"sku":"A_06-17-25_H0000LCT","price":14.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/41fsi9oBf0L.jpg?v=1754889174"},{"product_id":"the-illuminator","title":"The Illuminator","description":"\u003cp\u003eA glowing first novel that brings us \"historical fiction in the grand epic manner, beautifully felt and written\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is England, in the fourteenth century -- a time of plague, political unrest and the earliest stirrings of the Reformation. The printing press had yet to be invented, and books were rare and costly, painstakingly lettered by hand and illuminated with exquisite paintings. Finn is a master illuminator who works not only for the Church but also, in secret, for John Wycliffe of Oxford, who professes the radical idea that the Bible should be translated into English for everyone to read. Finn has another secret as well, one that leads him into danger when he meets Lady Kathryn of Blackingham Manor, a widow struggling to protect her inheritance from the depredations of Church and Crown alike. Finn's alliance with Lady Kathryn will take us to the heart of what Barbara Tuchman once called \"the calamitous fourteenth century.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRichly detailed and irresistibly compelling, Brenda Rickman Vantrease's The Illuminator is a glorious story of love, art, religion, and treachery at an extraordinary turning point in history., ISBN13: 9780312331924 ISBN10: 0312331924 Material Type: paperback\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46126481834147,"sku":"S_05-15-25_H0000EDZ","price":11.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/81LVUKKEc6L.jpg?v=1754890764"},{"product_id":"mary-queen-of-scotland-and-the-isles-a-novel","title":"Mary Queen of Scotland and The Isles: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eMargaret George's exhaustively researched novel skillfully weaves both historical fact and plausible fiction in bringing the story of Mary Queen of Scots to life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShe was a child crowned a queen....\u003cbr\u003e\nA sinner hailed as a saint....\u003cbr\u003e\nA lover denounced as a whore...\u003cbr\u003e\nA woman murdered for her dreams...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMargaret George's Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles brings to life the fascinating story of Mary, who became the Queen of Scots when she was only six days old. Raised in the glittering French court, returning to Scotland to rule as a Catholic monarch over a newly Protestant country, and executed like a criminal in Queen Elizabeth's England, Queen Mary lived a life like no other, and Margaret George weaves the facts into a stunning work of historical fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"With a seamless use of original letters, diaries, and poems: a popular, readable, inordinately moving tribute to a remarkable queen.\" -- Kirkus Reviews, ISBN13: 9780312155858 ISBN10: 0312155859 Material Type: paperback\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46126493139107,"sku":"TN-STR_UBD_H0000N90","price":10.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/81F1xhl8RjL.jpg?v=1754891067"},{"product_id":"calebs-crossing-a-novel","title":"Caleb's Crossing: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eA bestselling tale of passion and belief, magic and adventure from the author of The Secret Chord and of March, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBethia Mayfield is a restless and curious young woman growing up in Martha's Vineyard in the 1660s amid a small band of pioneering English Puritans. At age twelve, she meets Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a secret bond that draws each into the alien world of the other. Bethia's father is a Calvinist minister who seeks to convert the native Wampanoag, and Caleb becomes a prize in the contest between old ways and new, eventually becoming the first Native American graduate of Harvard College. Inspired by a true story and narrated by the irresistible Bethia, Caleb’s Crossing brilliantly captures the triumphs and turmoil of two brave, openhearted spirits who risk everything in a search for knowledge at a time of superstition and ignorance., ISBN13: 9780143121077 ISBN10: 0143121073 Material Type: paperback\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46126618116259,"sku":"05-31-25_H0000GK2","price":23.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/81_hUzNN6_L.jpg?v=1754896253"},{"product_id":"the-women-a-novel","title":"The Women: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “riveting” (The Wall Street Journal) and “wonderfully entertaining” (The Boston Globe) account of Frank Lloyd Wright’s life, told through the experiences of the four women who loved him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Boyle handles the big themes—Wright the genius battling an uncomprehending, philistine world and Wright the man loving and loathing his women—with extraordinary brio.”—San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIs it easy to live with a genius?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrank Lloyd Wright’s life was one long, howling struggle against the bonds of convention, whether aesthetic, social, moral, or romantic. He never did what was expected, and he never let anything get in the way of his larger-than-life appetites and visions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWright’s triumphs and defeats were always tied to the women he loved: Olgivanna Milanoff, an imperious Montenegrin beauty who was a student of the Russian mystic Gurdjieff and was known by Wright’s apprentices as “the Dragon Lady”; Maude Miriam Noel, a passionate Southern belle with a mean temper and a fondness for morphine; the spirited Mamah Borthwick Cheney, tragically murdered at Wright’s Wisconsin estate, Taliesin, in 1914; and his young first wife, Kitty Tobin, with whom he had six children.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eT.C. Boyle deftly captures these very different women and, in doing so, creates a sexy, gripping drama about marriage, the bargains men and women make, and the privileges and pitfalls of genius and fame., ISBN13: 9780143116479 ISBN10: 0143116479 Material Type: paperback\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46126618935459,"sku":"06-04-25_H0000HBS","price":23.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/71M_q_xS0oL.jpg?v=1754896296"},{"product_id":"whats-bred-in-the-bone-cornish-trilogy","title":"What's Bred in the Bone (Cornish Trilogy)","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrancis Cornish was always good at keeping secrets. From the well-hidden family secret of his childhood to his mysterious encounters with a small-town embalmer, an expert art restorer, a Bavarian countess, and various masters of espionage, the events in Francis’s life were not always what they seemed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this wonderfully ingenious portrait of an art expert and collector of international renown, Robertson Davies has created a spellbinding tale of artistic triumph and heroic deceit. In this second book of the Cornish Trilogy, Davies spins a tale told in stylish, elegant prose, endowed with lavish portions of his wit and wisdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"A deliciously readable story...An altogether remarkable creation, his most accomplished novel to date.\" -- The New York Times, ISBN13: 9780140097115 ISBN10: 0140097112 Material Type: paperback\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46126634238115,"sku":"A.31.2 F_04-30-25_ART_H00007PB","price":21.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/611CZD7b_qL.jpg?v=1754896736"}],"url":"https:\/\/usedbookdepot.com\/collections\/biographical-fiction.oembed","provider":"Used Book Depot","version":"1.0","type":"link"}