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Vendor: Jon Nelson
The Weight of Conversation: Dialogues Across Time
Two chairs. Two legends. One conversation history never gave them. Dialogue-driven literary fiction: big questions in human voices. History is usually taught as dates, headlines, and turning points. The Weight of Conversation brings the people back-twenty-five imagined sit-downs where nothing is rehearsed and nobody...- $21.99
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Vendor: Amy Licence
His True Wife: Is it all over for Catherine of Aragon...?
Queens rise and fall at the Tudor court of Henry VIII! For fans of Philippa Gregory, Elizabeth Chadwick, Carol McGrath and Anne O'Brien. Are the Marwoods falling out of favour...? May 1529 Queen Catherine of Aragon is awaiting the start of the Legatine Court,...- $13.99
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Vendor: Alison Weir
The Cardinal: A Novel of Love and Power
In this "immersive tale of Tudor intrigue" (Publishers Weekly), the New York Times bestselling author of The Last White Rose explores the rise of Thomas Wolsey, who was Henry VIII's chief adviser--until the king accused him of treason. "Henry VIII's beloved cardinal leaps from...- $22.00
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Vendor: R. Ghrist
I Am Joey: Based on the Incredible True Story of a Young Woman in War-Torn Manila
"Valor doesn't belong only to the strong."In 1941, Manila, Philippines was the hidden gem of the Far East and set to become an independent sovereignty in a few short years. On December 8, 1941, immediately following the Pearl Harbor attack 5,200 miles away in...- $18.95
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Vendor: Marsha Spink
Cruising with Strangers
After her travel partner is sidelined Marlene embarks on a cruise of the Hawaiian Islands, alone. An anxious, introverted widow, she has reservations about the solo trip but meets a number of interesting shipmates and soon finds herself embroiled in the lives of some,...- $16.99
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Vendor: Carson Markland
Men Like Us
A stunning look into the Kennedy clan's ascent to national prominence in the 1950s--told through the perspective of the enigmatic Bobby Kennedy. Bobby Kennedy was never meant to matter. The seventh of nine children, he's long been overlooked by his father, Joseph P. Kennedy,...- $31.00
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Vendor: Franz Rothe
A Mixture of Memories And Dreams
A smart schoolmate invited each of our final class members to write about themselves. Using some short essays I enjoyed writing, I had gathered some material for such a booklet. Further sources are my music for flute and piano I have recorded together with...- $8.99
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Vendor: Mick Benderoth
Flix: Clips from a Filmmaker's Odyssey
Flix features a series of short, semi-autobiographical stories based on Mick Benderoth's life in, out, and around the movie business. With names and a few details changed to protect the innocent, Mick tells it like it is filled with the agony and ecstasy of...- $14.99
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Vendor: Amanda Flower
To Slip the Bonds of Earth
The Agatha Award-winning mystery inspired by the Wright Brothers' real-life sister! While not as famous as her older siblings Wilbur and Orville, the celebrated inventors of flight, Katharine Wright is equally inventive--especially when it comes to solving crimes--in this radiant historical mystery by USA...- $45.99
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Vendor: Hallam Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson: Vol. 1: A Memoir by his Son
Alfred Lord Tennyson - Vol. 1: A Memoir by his Son is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1897. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine,...- $51.50
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Vendor: Anonymous
Holland Memorial: Sketch of the life of George Holland, the veteran comedian, with dramatic reminiscences, anecdotes, &c.
Holland Memorial - Sketch of the life of George Holland, the veteran comedian, with dramatic reminiscences, anecdotes, &c. is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1871. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science,...- $22.90
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Vendor: Joseph Devey
The Life of Joseph Locke, Civil Engineer
The Life of Joseph Locke, Civil Engineer is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1862. 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...- $37.50
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Vendor: Jane Austen
A Memoir of Jane Austen
A Memoir of Jane Austen is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1886. 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...- $38.50
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Vendor: Jessica Renay Sims
Finding Home
John Oscar Chambless, sixteen, never dreamed that a typical evening's walk home would lead him to become a murderer forcing him to leave his home in Monroe County, Georgia. With the Ku Klux Klan hunting him down, he hopped a train and took up...- $9.99
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Vendor: Tenecia N. Brown
Her Imprint: Lessons in love, relationships and womanhood as taught by my Mother
In Her Imprint: Lessons in love, relationships and womanhood as taught by my Mother, Tenecia Nicole writes about the joys, the pains, the lessons and the loss of her Mother. It's a true story, as told from Tenecia's point of view. After her Mother...- $12.99
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Vendor: Harper H. Jameson
No Hatred or Bitterness
The exhilarating WWI spy thriller about the woman who inspired the world by refusing to choose sides. English Nurse, Edith Cavell, was committed to doing one thing in life - heal the sick, regardless of who they were or where they came from. Even...- $18.95
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Vendor: Tom Bradley
My Hands Were Clean
Read about Tom Bradley's teenage gig performing grotesquely on the harp at a geothermal spa, deep in the savage Utah desert.The place is run by a coven of polygamist Kali-worshipping tantric orgiasts who sell fake Crowley memorabilia to rock star Jimmy Page.Author: Tom BradleyISBN-10:...- $13.00
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Vendor: Monica Lee
Truth, Dare, Double Dare, Promise or Repeat: On Finding the Meaning of "Like" in 1982
In a world before social networks made it a routine act performed with a click, "like" is a state of mystery and meaning among teenagers navigating the halls of Wadena Senior High School. Fifteen-year-old Monica is sure she would be happy if only she...- $12.49
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Vendor: Malena Crockett
Fool Me Once
Melody Joy, an ordinary Mormon wife in an ordinary Mormon marriage, is doing her best to juggle the responsibilities of being a wife and mother while attending law school and trying to build a career that will let her serve others while providing for...- $12.82
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Vendor: Dorry Kordahi
Win Big Risk Small: An Entrepreneur's Formula
Win Big Risk Small, EVER DREAMED HOW YOU COULD DO THAT?Make your fortune but start out with nothing? Just read WIN BIG RISK SMALL and you will see how it is done.With no higher education, no family fortune and armed only with a burning...- $16.00
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Vendor: Michael Cantwell
Soul Directive
Caeles Novo continues his journey of seeking broken souls that he started in "Soul Intentions". Caeles is now the leader of his disciples and must discover the mystery as to why so few soul stealers remain on earth. He learns the high cost of...- $13.95
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Vendor: Suko Nagatani
The Moon Home: When a Psychotherapist is the Patient
A woman is eager to find her place in the world, to be free, to be herself, and to be loved again. After she fails school, society, and marriage in her own country, she moves to the U.S. She becomes a therapist and also...- $11.95
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Vendor: Elizabeth Cooper
My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard
A poignant exploration of love, morality, and redemption, The Treasure of Heaven follows the journey of David Helmsley, a wealthy man who abandons his fortune to live among the poor and discover the true meaning of life. As he forms genuine connections and confronts...- $14.95
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Vendor: C. T. Field
Secrets in the Weave: A Tapestry of Elusive Happiness and Hope
A journey through love and loss, revealing the struggles of healing from trauma, addiction, and illness. This memoir captures the resilience of the human spirit, offering hope and inspiration for those facing life's toughest challenges and unexpected late-in-life romance.Secrets in the Weave chronicles a...- $13.99
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Vendor: Jon Nelson
The Weight of Conversation: Dialogues Across Time
Two chairs. Two legends. One conversation history never gave them. Dialogue-driven literary fiction: big questions in human voices. History is usually taught as dates, headlines, and turning points. The Weight of Conversation brings the people back-twenty-five imagined sit-downs where nothing is rehearsed and nobody...- $34.99
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Vendor: Jane Goodrich
The House at Lobster Cove
George Nixon Black spent a lifetime hiding in plain sight. In an art-filled townhouse on Boston's Beacon Hill and in the architectural masterpiece Kragsyde, his house at Lobster Cove, he lived in obscurity, harboring a secret of violence and a secret of love.If Black...- $29.95
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Vendor: Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe's Storm: Richard Sharpe and the Invasion of Southern France, 1813
A gripping novel featuring the legendary Richard Sharpe from Bernard Cornwell, the internationally bestselling master of historical fiction widely recognized as "the most prolific and successful historical novelist in the world today" (Wall Street Journal).The year is 1813. France is a battlefield, and winter...- $19.99
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Vendor: Gaëlle Bélem
The Rarest Fruit
NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2025・BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - Washington Independent Review of Books"A gorgeous novel."--New York Times"A revealing, history-infused novel that spills its tale with the eager breathlessness, wry commentary, and frank truths of a close friend...Bélem...transforms little-known history into...- $18.95
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Vendor: Joe Looby
The Tenth Station: A WWI Novel of Love, Courage, and the Rock of the Marne
This is the story of the man who taught them how to fight.Before he commanded the 10th Mountain Division in World War II, he was a lone rider on the banks of the Marne.Bastille Day-1918. When a midnight barrage along the Marne River severs...- $19.99
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Vendor: Edward Hoagland
In the Country of the Blind
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE Sixty years after the publication of his first novel, Cat Man, Edward Hogland is publishing his twenty-fifth book at the age of eighty-three. This capstone novel, set in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, introduces Press, a stockbroker going blind. Press...- $45.95
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Vendor: Edward Hoagland
In the Country of the Blind
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE Sixty years after the publication of his first novel, Cat Man, Edward Hogland is publishing his twenty-fifth book at the age of eighty-three. This capstone novel, set in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, introduces Press, a stockbroker going blind. Press...- $39.99
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Vendor: Raymond Wemmlinger
The Queen's Children: The start of the Stuart reign in England
An ambitious queen influences English rule! For fans of Philippa Gregory, Elizabeth Chadwick, Carol McGrath and Anne O'Brien. The Stuart royal family is already under threat... England, 1605 Anne of Denmark, Queen of England, gives birth to her daughter Mary, her first child since...- $12.99
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Vendor: James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Chiltern creates the most beautiful editions of the World's finest literature. Your favourite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before; the tactile layers, fine details and beautiful colours of these remarkable covers make these titles feel extra special and will...- $21.99
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Vendor: Flora Beach Burlingame
Path of Progress: One Man's Fight for Women's Rights
It's the late 1800s, and John Ogilvie Stevenson, pastor of the Congregational Church in Waterloo, Iowa, believes women are equal to men intellectually, and superior to men morally and spiritually. During a sermon on temperance, wherein he advocates laws to shut down the saloons,...- $15.99
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Vendor: Leo Tolstoy
Childhood
Leo Tolstoy, Tolstoy also spelled Tolstoi, Russian in full Lev Nikolayevich, Graf (count) Tolstoy, (born August 28 [September 9, New Style], 1828, Yasnaya Polyana, Tula province, Russian Empire--died November 7 [November 20], 1910, Astapovo, Ryazan province), Russian author, a master of realistic fiction and...- $12.95
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Vendor: Monique La'lerae Davis
Behind Every Smile
When it comes to an individual some can be define as a statistics while others are made to stand out backing up the definition of unique. statistics says I should have died, statistics says i was supposed to suffer from down syndrome. Statistics says...- $13.99
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Vendor: Potterhouse Publishing
You're Moving Where?
The life story of a country music singer from birth to present day, singing through the Army, Australia, and the United States.Author: Potterhouse Publishing,Theodore PotterISBN-10: 0979956730ISBN-13: 9780979956737Publisher: Theodore PotterLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/07/2012Pages: 204Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.43d- $19.95
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Vendor: Beverly Vann Woods
Life, Vision, Purpose: A Collective Perspective From Five Visionary Authors
In this biographical collective, five visionary authors share there up close and personal perspectives on life, vision and purpose, through the lens of their very own life experiences. Sometimes sharing your story is a movement in and of itself, and also the very step...- $19.99
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Vendor: M. F. Hamlin
Skinny Dipping at Low Tide (Special Edition): A Saga of Squeezed Shorts, Shattered Dreams, and Embarrassing Riches
Now in a special edition hardcover with enhanced design! A Confederacy of Dunces meets Liar's Poker in this rollicking roman à clef from inside PwnShop's "bored" room as the embattled company hobbles through an extraordinary short squeeze. Why do good things happen to bad...- $30.00
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Vendor: D. L. Norris
Voyagers: Homeland to Heartland
Voyagers: Homeland to Heartland is a sweeping, multi-generational saga inspired by true family history, tracing a Norwegian immigrant family's journey from the rugged valleys of Norway to the windswept prairies of Nebraska. Rooted in the author's own heritage, the story follows Kittil and Marte...- $46.95
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Vendor: Laurel Corona
Aloha Wanderwell Takes the Wheel
In the 1920s and 1930s, Aloha Wanderwell drove Model Ts across five continents, winning fame as the most traveled woman in the world. Sixteen-year-old Idris Hall ran away from her boarding achool in 1924, changed her name, and joined the daring around-the-world expedition of...- $20.00
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Vendor: Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence
"I can't love you unless I give you up."- Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence A timeless classic, and winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton's brilliant reflection on love, sacrifice, and the enduring battle between personal freedom...- $19.95
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Vendor: W. K. Carter
Peacock Alley: Tales from the Waldorf & the Astoria
PEACOCK ALLEYTales from the Waldorf & the Astoriaby W. K. CarterNew York, 1890s.Behind the gilded doors of the Waldorf and the Astoria, an empire is quietly taking shape.In Peacock Alley-the celebrated corridor where society's elite parade in silk and scandal-bankers, heiresses, bellmen, chambermaids, and...- $14.99
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Vendor: Lara Pawson
Spent Light
"Domestic objects lead to intimate memories and troubled histories in this glorious, genre-bending book." --The Guardian An unnamed woman contemplates the toaster she's inherited from a neighbor. A homely, useful sort of object, hardly worthy of a sonnet or still-life. And yet, thinking of...- $18.00
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Vendor: G. Lawrence
The Last Queen: Book One of The Chronicles of Cleopatra
Egypt, 58 BCE Descendant of Alexander the Great and daughter of the reigning Pharaoh, the Ptolemy Princess Cleopatra grows up in a palace full of wonders, delights, and dangers. As her father takes flight from Egypt as his throne is usurped, Cleopatra and her...- $17.99
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Vendor: Christophe Boltanski
The Safe House
In Paris's exclusive Saint-Germain neighborhood is a mansion. In that mansion lives a family. Deep in that mansion. The Bolts are that family, and they have secrets. The Safe House tells their story. When the Nazis came, Étienne Boltanski divorced his wife and walked...- $16.00
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Vendor: Theodore Roosevelt
Gouverneur Morris
Gouverneur Morris is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1899. 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 we focus on...- $38.50
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Vendor: Laurel Valvano Fischbach
Dancing With COVID
My brain woke up after the painkillers left my bloodstream. All I could hear inside my head was... "Write the book." I didn't understand, and soon, painkillers were needed once again. When I rid myself of them a second time, the words turned into...- $12.99
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Vendor: Jack Freestone
Bali Fungus
The first book of The Great Escape series, based upon the author's experiences traveling and surfing after he quit law in New Zealand, and his relationship with a beautiful photographer. "So there we sat in the plush restaurant, served by friendly waiters all dressed...- $24.95
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Vendor: Joseph Conrad
Notes on Life and Letters
Reproduction of the original: Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph ConradAuthor: Joseph ConradISBN-10: 3734020441ISBN-13: 9783734020445Publisher: Outlook VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/20/2018Pages: 166Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.38d- $34.90
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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.

