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Vendor: Jennifer Ashley
Eloise and the Queen: A Novel of Elizabeth I
I, Eloise Rousell, grew up with Elizabeth, the queen. My aunt, Kat Ashley, was her governess, and Elizabeth and I transitioned together from girlhood to womanhood. My talent for needlework keeps me by Elizabeth's side, creating exquisite gowns as she moves from discarded daughter...- $14.99
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Vendor: Carson Markland
Men Like Us
If all happy families are alike, the Kennedys of Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, are the exception. Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. governs his silver-spoon sons and daughters, all nine of them, with the same firm hand that earned him a fortune, an ambassadorship, and enough clout...- $29.00
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Vendor: Kimberly Garber
Scratched Vinyl: Louie's Story
In Scratched Vinyl: Louie's Story, a hauntingly honest and moving novel, Louie looks back on the fractured memories of his youth in the turbulent 1960s. Born into a dysfunctional family of seven and shadowed by an alcoholic father, Louie's early years were shaped by...- $27.99
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Scratched Vinyl: Louie's Story
In Scratched Vinyl: Louie's Story, a hauntingly honest and moving novel, Louie looks back on the fractured memories of his youth in the turbulent 1960s. Born into a dysfunctional family of seven and shadowed by an alcoholic father, Louie's early years were shaped by...- $15.99
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Vendor: Monty McGinnis
Operation Varsity: The Reluctant Volunteer
March 24, 1945. The largest single-day airborne assault in history is about to begin.Lieutenant Bill "Mac" McCallister expects to pilot his twin engine C-47 troop transport carrying paratroops across the Rhine River into Germany. Instead, last-minute orders put him in the co-pilot seat of...- $12.99
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Vendor: Reshonda Tate
With Love from Harlem: A Novel of Hazel Scott
From The Queen of Sugar Hill author ReShonda Tate--a new novel inspired by beloved Harlem jazz performer Hazel Scott and the equal parts exhilarating and tumultuous relationship that changed the course of her life.Harlem, 1943. At just twenty-three, Hazel Scott is a woman on...- $49.99
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Vendor: Charlie Porter
Nova Scotia House
Johnny Grant faces stark life decisions. Seeking answers, he looks back to his relationship with Jerry Field. When they met, nearly thirty years ago, Johnny was nineteen, Jerry was forty-five. They fell in love and made a life on their own terms in Jerry's...- $35.95
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Vendor: Hussein Barghouthi
The Third Bank of the Jordan River
A dreamlike novel from Palestine that traces a restless soul's journey through landscapes of memory, longing, alienation, and exile. In this profound and evocative novel, acclaimed Palestinian author Hussein Barghouthi invites readers on an extraordinary, youthful journey through a landscape of memory, longing, alienation,...- $21.00
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Vendor: Bertrand
Bertrand
Based on the true story of one man's rise through the cracks in the American empire.Mark Bertrand was a Navy fighter pilot turned aerospace engineer-brilliant, disciplined, loyal to the flag and the work until the system betrayed him.When a multi-million-dollar invention he designed is...- $24.99
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Vendor: Anne Berest
Gabriele
A May 2025 Indie Next List Great Read "Gabriële is a revealing, heartrending biographical novel about a complicated woman whose imprint on art history is undeniable."--Foreword Reviews The story of a passionate love affair that triggered a revolution. An atmospheric, exuberant novel from the best-selling...- $19.95
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Vendor: Colette
The Pure and the Impure
Lyrical, allusive, sometimes obscure, yet precise, The Pure and the Impure has elicited equal parts consternation and praise since its publication nearly 100 years ago. Through strikingly vivid and evocative portraits, many of them of her friends and lovers, Colette explores varieties of sexual...- $29.99
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Vendor: Keith Waldrop
Light While There Is Light: An American History
A moving, poetic memoir about a family on the fringes of religion and society, this unforgettable story about a mother's destructive search daliance with Christian fundamentalism pulls the curtain back on the darker side of American religious experience. This brilliant fictional memoir of an...- $16.95
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Vendor: Ailsa Ross
Hovel
In this debut novel, a young woman in the Rocky Mountains, separated from the ancestral rhythms of her home in Scotland, turns to ancient rituals to find solace and connection. With shades of Olga Tokarczuk, Ali Smith, and Rachel Cusk, Hovel is a book...- $26.00
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Vendor: Myrtle Henry Sodhi
We've Been Here Before
For readers of Homegoing and Frying Plantain, a stirring intergenerational saga stretching from the Caribbean to Canada where womanhood and mothering demands what the body wants to forget.Woven together with folklore and memory, We've Been Here Before begins with the childhood stories of Lise-Rose,...- $19.99
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Vendor: Patty McWilliams
Belly Buttons: Lifelines from My Brother
Patty has spent much of her childhood seeing to her older brother Tommy, a hemophiliac who's often confined to bed. When Patty is eleven and Tommy nineteen, he asks her to make a secret pact with him, one that will strike a blow against...- $14.95
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Vendor: Azzouz Tahtah
Dinosaur Kingdom: For kids who really love dinosaurs
Miscellaneous information about dinosaurs opening new horizons for your son and doubling his ambitions for a bright futureYour son will become smarter with our booksAuthor: Azzouz TahtahISBN-13: 9798655868120Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/21/2020Pages: 32Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.14lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.08d- $10.00
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Vendor: James Anthony Froude
Life and Letters of Erasmus
Life and Letters of Erasmus is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1894. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher...- $41.90
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Vendor: Robert L. Ducasse
Louis XVIII and Post-Napoleonic France: From the Shadow of the Guillotine to the Rebirth of the French Monarchy
Exiled, overshadowed by revolutionary fervor, and navigating the volatile aftermath of Napoleon's empire, Louis XVIII's journey to reclaim the French throne is one of resilience, diplomacy, and transformation. This compelling narrative delves into the life of a monarch who rose above the chaos of...- $26.99
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Vendor: Mike Reidy
The Perils of Paul: And Other Short Stories
The Perils of Paul is a whimsical trip through the everyday life of our hero. His trials and tribulations will remind the reader that life has its moments. There are five other stories, written to immerse the reader in the human drama found in...- $13.95
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Vendor: Andrew O'Keeffe
The Boss
Got a spirit-crushing boss?Well so does Lauren Johnson - five of them.Based on true stories of bosses' political maneuverings and workers under siege, The Boss tells Lauren's story - a talented but naive professional struggling under a self-serving, insensitive boss who undermines her at...- $34.99
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Vendor: Mudrooroo
Balga Boy Jackson
'... a boy born long ago in 1938 who was named Balga or Black Boy. He had an Aboriginal mother and an African-American father who bequeathed to him the spiky mop of hair which gave him his name. So it is said. Now read...- $24.99
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Vendor: Carol Lynn Jones Msw
Dancing On The Ledge: Based On A True Story
In 1966, Jesse runs from the abuses of her childhood and lands in Hollywood at the height of the drug-fueled, sexual, social revolution. Having no marketable skills, in desperation she steps into the unknown world of topless dancing. This is her journey. It follows...- $24.99
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Vendor: David C. Lavoie
The Inheritance
Mary Dudley, a young Vermont woman with newborn twins, is abandoned by her husband and brother when they become Gold Rush adventurers. While the men experience the exotic American colony in Panama and the gold fields of California, she is left to the mercy...- $14.95
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Vendor: Alex Struik
Agnes Grey
Agnes Grey is the debut novel of English author Anne Brontë, first published in December 1847, and republished in a second edition in 1850. The novel follows Agnes Grey, a governess, as she works in several families. Anne's sister Charlotte Brontë suggested the novel...- $12.99
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Vendor: Mary Jane Fitch Peltier
Spirits of the Mighty Oaks
This is a book about Cajuns on the Gulf Coast of Louisiana's marshes and bayous. Armade ous a half Indian half white privateer and his wife Sara Fina Delande captured by pirates at the end of 1850. Their abandoned son Alphe Peltier endured abuse...- $9.50
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Vendor: Judy Alter
The Gilded Cage: A Novel of Chicago
Born to society and a life of privilege, Bertha Honoré married Potter Palmer, a wealthy entrepreneur who called her Cissy. Neither dreamed the direction the other's life would take. He built the Palmer House Hotel, still famed today, and became one of the major...- $14.99
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Vendor: Dave Di Vito
The Nineties: Vinyl Tiger 2nd Edition
It's the end of the eighties and despite all his musical shortcomings, pop singer Alekzandr - the Vinyl Tiger - has not only survived, but also finished at the top of the heap.After all the scandals and challenges that plagued him during his first...- $15.99
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Vendor: Anne Bronte
Agnes Grey
In an effort to save her family from poverty, a young woman takes employment as a governess and discovers the great difficulties, instability, and even abuse that accompany her new position in Victorian society. Based on Brontë's own experiences as a governess, Agnes Grey...- $9.54
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Vendor: Jeff Hopkins
The Twisted Ladder: The Story of Kit Ganderton and Dougie Bourgore
Two young men, Kit Ganderton and Dougie Bourgore, born over one hundred and seven years apart, face the vicissitudes of life without knowing what connects them. Claris Feutrill tries to establish the relationship using DNA traces and genealogy research. Warwick Faulkner strives to get...- $35.00
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Vendor: Patricia S. Gibbons
Life's Journey
Penelope, aged 9, and her family emigrate from the UK to Australia. This book covers her journey onboard the ship and her family's friendship with a Greek family. This friendship continues in Australia throughout their life's journey.The book includes the life effects of being...- $13.00
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Vendor: Katayoun Zarrinkoub
The Pot of Jasmine
At 17 Anahita leaves her war-torn country to take refuge in Canada, where she can feel, taste, touch, and smell freedom with every fibre of her being. Throughout many years of working hard trying to achieve her dream of becoming a prominent physicist, she...- $19.99
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Vendor: Jim Fergus
May Dodd
Author: Jim FergusISBN-13: 9798349686894Publisher: Little French's Media LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/07/2025Pages: 278Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.11lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.76d- $23.99
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Vendor: Edwin Ritts
Guardians of the Muse
Author: Edwin RittsISBN-13: 9798986441313Publisher: RittsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/22/2022Pages: 586Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.05lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.25d- $29.99
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Vendor: Maria Moore
The Silenced Path
Author: Maria MooreISBN-10: 1038351944ISBN-13: 9781038351944Publisher: FriesenPressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/08/2025Pages: 204Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d- $32.99
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Vendor: Henry James
A Landscape Painter
Henry James' A Landscape Painter is a fictional story that explores themes of love, isolation, and artistic pursuit. It follows a wealthy young painter who rents a room in the house of an elderly widower and his daughter. As the story progresses, the painter...- $13.99
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Vendor: P. C. (Phineas Camp) Headley
The Patriot Boy: Or, the Life and Career of Major-General Ormsby M. Mitchell
The Patriot Boy - Or, the Life and Career of Major-General Ormsby M. Mitchell is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1866. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking...- $34.90
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Vendor: Jon Doust
To the Highlands
It is 1968 and all around the world people are marching, protesting, and fighting for freedom. Jack Muir arrives in Papua New Guinea a failure, a virgin, and a reluctant employee of the Colonial Bank of Australia. Life in the islands is raw, sensuous,...- $22.99
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Vendor: Loretta Engel
The Gypsy Curse: A Legacy Novel
Forbidden love breeds generations of pain! Inspired by true events of family lore, a novel laced with Gypsy traditions, love and intrigue is born. Natasha, a simple country girl, falls for the exotic love of the Gypsy, Mario. While this love was strong, the...- $31.95
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Vendor: Jonathan Galassi
Muse
In these pages, Jonathan Galassi--the longtime publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux--gives us an extraordinarily sensitive, satirically sharp novel set in the world of books that he knows so well. At the center is Paul Dukach, editor-in-chief and heir apparent at Purcell & Stern,...- $16.00
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Vendor: Kayla Danoli
House of Secrets
Sophie Sinclair is surprised to inherit Aunt Lillian's considerable estate, but the bequest brings with it something equally surprising, but somewhat less pleasant. A threatened challenge to her right to the inheritance brings with it a raft of questions regarding those behind the threat....- $18.99
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Vendor: Doug Owen
My Turn in Time
Author: Doug OwenISBN-10: 1977281486ISBN-13: 9781977281487Publisher: Outskirts PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/16/2025Pages: 148Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.46lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.34d- $17.95
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Vendor: Brianne Baker
Edmonia: A Novel of a Boundary-Breaking American Sculptress
Author: Brianne BakerISBN-10: 1496754875ISBN-13: 9781496754875Publisher: Dafina BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/28/2026Pages: 336Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.25lbs- $28.00
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Vendor: Alison Weir
The Boleyn Secret
The New York Times bestselling author of the Six Tudor Queens series explores the dramatic, mysterious life of Catherine Carey, niece of Anne Boleyn, in this surprising novel that delves into one of the deepest secrets of Henry VIII's court. At twelve years old,...- $32.00
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Vendor: Jennifer Ashley
Eloise and the Queen
Author: Jennifer AshleyISBN-10: 196640137XISBN-13: 9781966401377Publisher: Ja / AG PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/25/2025Pages: 336Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.36lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d- $24.99
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Vendor: James Joyce
Large Print - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Grand Type Collector's Edition - Matte Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Author: James JoyceISBN-10: 1834122473ISBN-13: 9781834122472Publisher: Grand Type ClassicsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/25/2025Pages: 528Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.92lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.31dLarge Print- $54.99
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Vendor: Barracuda Guarisco
Noah Fang Quicksilver
Noah Fang Quicksilver is a prolific queer poet.Noah Fang Quicksilver is a host of a weekly open mic.Noah Fang Quicksilver is an avid pool player.But most importantly...Noah Fang Quicksilver is a bloodsucker. He is trying to determine what's worse-fading away into obscurity, or getting...- $14.99
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Vendor: Paul Colt
Vaquero Padre
The Epic Life of Eusebio Francisco KinoIn the heart of the 17th century, a young Jesuit's brush with death sparked a vow that would change the course of history.When eighteen-year-old Eusebio Francisco Kino recovered from a grave illness, he credited his healing to Saint...- $16.99
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Vendor: Alice Brown
Mercy Warren: Women of Colonial and Revolutionary Times
Mercy Warren - Women of Colonial and Revolutionary Times is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other...- $37.90
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Vendor: Jon Doust
Return Ticket
It s 1972. When hot-headed, impetuous Jack Muir gets off the ship in Durban, he fails to get back on. Instead, he sails into misadventure, fleeing the stifling town of Genoralup to try to lose himself in South Africa. But the past has a...- $22.99
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Vendor: Marcos Aguinis
Against the Inquisition
"[A] stirring song of freedom." --Nobel Prize laureate Mario Vargas LlosaFrom a renowned prize-winning Argentinian author comes a historical novel based on the true story of one man's faith, spirit, and resistance during the Spanish Inquisition in Latin America.Born in sixteenth-century Argentina, Francisco Maldonado...- $14.95
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Biographical Fiction Books
Biographical fiction books are a unique genre that combines elements of biography and literature. They provide readers with a fascinating blend of historical fact and imaginative storytelling, offering a fresh perspective on the lives of real people throughout history. These books breathe life into the past, allowing readers to immerse themselves in the experiences, emotions, and challenges of prominent individuals.
One key characteristic of biographical fiction is its commitment to historical accuracy. Authors undertake meticulous research to ensure that the facts, events, and cultural nuances of the era are faithfully represented in the story. This makes biographical fiction a valuable source for both history enthusiasts and casual readers seeking an engaging narrative rooted in reality. However, unlike traditional biographies that often rely heavily on documented evidence, biographical fiction allows authors to speculate, imagine, and creatively fill in the gaps in a subject's life. This literary license enables them to delve deeper into a character's thoughts, emotions, and motivations, adding an extra layer of depth and intimacy to the storytelling.
Biographical fiction also provides authors with an opportunity to bring lesser-known figures or those with untold stories to the forefront. By shedding light on these often marginalized characters, these books enhance our understanding of history and challenge conventional narratives. In recent years, biographical fiction has gained popularity and garnered critical acclaim as readers increasingly seek narratives that combine the authenticity of biography with the narrative power of fiction. This genre not only bridges the gap between fact and fiction but also serves as a means of connecting readers with the lives, experiences, and struggles of individuals who have shaped our world.
Popular Books
One such popular book is "The Paris Wife" by Paula McLain. Set in the vibrant backdrop of 1920s Paris, the novel chronicles the turbulent relationship between Ernest Hemingway and his first wife, Hadley Richardson. McLain's exquisite storytelling brings to life the bohemian atmosphere of the Lost Generation, while delving into the complexities of love, ambition, and the sacrifices made in the pursuit of artistic success.
Another book that has garnered widespread acclaim is "The Invention of Wings" by Sue Monk Kidd. Inspired by the lives of real-life abolitionist and women's rights advocate Sarah Grimké, and her slave-handmaid Hetty/Handful, the novel explores themes of freedom, sisterhood, and the resilience of the human spirit. Kidd's masterful writing seamlessly blends historical facts with fictional elements, making for a powerful and thought-provoking read.
These are just a few examples of the popular books that make up the vast and diverse landscape of biographical fiction. Through these captivating tales, readers are given the opportunity to connect with the lives of extraordinary individuals, gaining a deeper understanding of their struggles, motivations, and lasting impact on history.

