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Vendor: Merrill Hatlen
The Bard and The Barman: An Account of Shakespeare's Lost Years
The Bard and the Barman is a marked departure from humdrum explanations for Shakespeare's "lost years". Scholars have looked too close to home, failing to see that the Bard was a Francophile at heart, as is evident in one of his early plays, Love's...- $14.99
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Vendor: Rachel Field
And Now Tomorrow
This early work by Rachel Field was originally published in 1942 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'And Now Tomorrow' is a best-selling novel that was adapted into a film in 1944. Rachel Lyman Field was an American...- $36.99
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Vendor: Anthony Tobias Mendelle
How I Killed My Grandmother: And Other Incredible Stories
Discovered in a suitcase after his death at 97, short stories by AnthonyTobias Mendelle written about people and events in his life.Spanning decades and locations from 1920s London East End, Walton on Thames, Little Venice, North Italy, The Old Bailey, to a nursing home...- $14.00
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Vendor: Mark Jr. Ivey
Ivey Charm
Come take an adventure with Mark Ivey--a preteen boy who's the new kid on the block, moving into a new house in Selma, North Carolina.See how his world turns upside down when he discovers that his deceased father left him the throne of Iveylantis--a...- $15.95
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Vendor: T. D. Krupp
Iron Hand: The Confession of Goetz von Berlichingen
-When his sword hand was struck off, his legend began- Based on the true life of the Baron Goetz von Berlichingen the Iron Hand, the most infamous Imperial knight of the Holy Roman Empire, who marauded through 16th-century Reformation Germany with a prosthetic iron...- $18.99
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Vendor: Kimber Adams
The Parentectomy A Memoir: A Perspective On Rising Above Parental Alienation
Author: Kimber AdamsISBN-10: 1441517987ISBN-13: 9781441517982Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/10/2009Pages: 280Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d- $22.99
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Vendor: Cynthia Pelman
Voices from the Sand
This is the story of a teacher's work in a preschool in South Africa, where millions of children still live in poverty, deprivation and violence. Dolores attempts to help her students to overcome educational disadvantages ensuing from generations of discrimination. She emerges as a...- $16.99
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Vendor: C. C. Chamberlane
The First Female Navy SEAL
Megan Hernandez, is the first female to complete all the SEAL testing and challenges and be awarded her Trident pin and Ka-Bar knife, formerly male-only symbols of achieving the highest calling in the Navy. The best of the best. A frogman like no other!...- $16.99
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Vendor: John Henry Dam
The End Of A Beginning
A parable concerning love and integrity, infidelity and death, soon afterward devastation the forerunner for a new life. Revolving to show a fable of heart-wrenching determination. Rudy, being a man of substance and loyalty. Compassion his poorest tribute.A story illustrating: For marriage, loyalty and...- $6.99
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Vendor: Lori Trapper Belcher
High School to Hell: Strap on Your Back-Pack Lock and Load Your Mind. Medic for Charlie Co. a Recon Unit 365 Day and a Wake Up in Hell (Vie
Highschool to HELL Part 1A true story by: Ron (Doc) Sorrento 365 days and a wake.This is High school to Hell which takes place in the Central Highlands Viet Nam. (70-71)one month after graduated from Kenmore west High School, I received my draft noticeI...- $12.99
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Vendor: Mary Gay Humphreys
Catherine Schuyler
Catherine Schuyler 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, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on...- $30.90
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Vendor: Jago Muir
A Glenby Harvest: "Little Cobby" and other sketches
Taking his cue from James Joyce's Dubliners, Jago Muir offers up twelve stories about people from his hometown, Glenby, Texas. An eclectic mixture, we are given touches of humor and mystery-a sloppy airplane landing, a midnight trip down a lonely dirt road seeking a...- $16.95
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Vendor: Ed Ifkovic
Soutine in Exile
In the summer of 1943, artist Chaim Soutine is living in the small French village of Champigny-sur-Veude with his lover, Marie-Berthe Aurenche. All of France is Nazi-occupied, curfews enforced, Jews rounded up and sent to camps, and the Gestapo has been hunting for the...- $14.95
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Vendor: James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
This semi-autobiography depicts the story of a young Irish boy, Stephen Dedalus and his intellectual and religious-philosophical awakening to his social, familial constraints and his entry into a broader world. Being the oldest son of an impoverished father and a highly devout Catholic mother,...- $20.99
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Vendor: George Grossmith
A Society Clown: Reminiscences
The reminiscences of George Grossmith who created the comic baritone parts in all the Gilbert and Sullivan operas from 1877 to 1888. "George Grossmith was most famous as the creator of nearly all of Gilbert & Sullivan's great clown roles... but he was also...- $14.00
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Vendor: William Fraser
The Sutherland Book: Volume 3
The Sutherland Book - Volume 3 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1892. 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...- $43.90
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Vendor: John Henry Dam
A Beginning After The End
Departing a tumultuous endeavor!Having an instance of perpetually attempting to lay to rest an unfair saga. Yet as circumstance allow he was not sure it may come to pass!John Henry Dam, a truck driver that is living a dream. You might say, I am...- $5.99
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Vendor: William Fraser
The Sutherland Book: Volume 2
The Sutherland Book - Volume 2 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1892. 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...- $43.90
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Vendor: Trish Doolan
Me & Five Guys
Me & Five Guys is a rough-and-tumble story, where love is messy, and the characters frequently work things out by wrestling or punching or smashing something to pieces. But ultimately, each family member knows that they are a part of this organic unit, for...- $17.99
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Vendor: William Fraser
The Sutherland Book: Volume 1
The Sutherland Book - Volume 1 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1892. 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...- $57.90
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Vendor: Van Garber
Under the Belly of a Snake
Based on actual events, Under the Belly of a Snake paints a panoramic portrait of 20th Century American life as experienced by 4 members of the Garber-Vartanian family: Araxie Momigonian, a 14 year old picture postcard bride escaping the horrors of the Armenian Genocide...- $19.99
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Vendor: Tim Blake Nelson
City of Blows
"A travelogue of purgatory. Brutal, but minutely rendered..." --Guillermo del Toro It's early 2020, and legendary producer Jacob Rosenthal is eager to make his next film, Coal, adapted from the bestselling novel by the celebrated writer Rex Patterson. The project--which takes on the controversial...- $30.00
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Vendor: Eliza Meteyard
The Life of Josiah Wedgwood: from his private correspondence and family papers in the possession of Joseph Mayer, F. Wedgwood, C. Darwin, Miss Wedg
The Life of Josiah Wedgwood - from his private correspondence and family papers in the possession of Joseph Mayer, F. Wedgwood, C. Darwin, Miss Wedgwood and other Original Sources, in Two Volumes - Vol. 2 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition...- $60.90
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Vendor: Greer Macallister
The Thirteenth Husband
From the acclaimed author of The Arctic FuryTearing through millions of dollars, four continents, and a hearty collection of husbands, real-life heiress Aimee Crocker blazed an unbelievable trail of public notoriety, private pain, and the kind of strong independent woman the 1880s had never...- $16.99
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Vendor: Robert Risch
The Paris Book: A Novel About Hemingway's Last Book
While at the Ritz Hotel in Paris in 1956, a beleaguered Hemingway-suffering from a host of maladies-discovers two trunks filled with notes and manuscripts left there thirty years ago. It is these reminisces that eventually result in the posthumous publication of A Moveable Feast....- $9.99
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Vendor: Ivory Keyes
Tuff Love: Deana's Biography
"Tuff Love, Deana's Biography" "A young girl is in a rush to become a grown woman, but when the time comes for her to take responsibility for her actions, she has a lot of growing up to do."Author: Ivory KeyesISBN-10: 884086606XISBN-13: 9798840866061Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage:...- $7.99
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Vendor: Marcel Rouff
The Passionate Epicure: La Vie et la Passion de Dodin-Bouffant, Gourmet
In the classic French novel The Passionate Epicure, Marcel Rouff introduces Dodin-Bouffant, a character based loosely on Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, an infamous bachelor and epicure dedicated to the high arts: the art of food and the art of love. This edition contains a Preface by...- $17.00
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Vendor: Jb Biggs
Child of Wrath
Spanning 30 years, Child of Wrath is the story of Jonah, initially a tough ten-year old survivor who wants nothing more than a real home where he can be a normal kid. Jonah's erratic and abusive father leads the family on an endless nomadic...- $17.99
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Vendor: Ioana Cristina Casapu
Heart Beats - A Memoir of The Millennial Generation on Social Media
Heart Beats is a deep X-ray of the Millennial Generation, a vivid depiction of the way Social Media has re-wired the way we think, feel, love, act and connect with each other in our relationships, friendships, daily lives and in our work. Written by...- $16.00
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Vendor: Magda Palmer
Paper Sparrow
Paper Sparrow is a historical novel inspired by real-life events, Australia 1943 to 1955. PEGGY is born to circumstances that deny her opportunities afforded to others. Before her thirteenth birthday, she has no choice but to work as a Nursing Aide in a home...- $34.99
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Vendor: Alison Leslie Gold
Clairvoyant: The Imagined Life of Lucia Joyce
A moving recreation of the tortured life of Lucia Joyce, the schizophrenic daughter of James Joyce, follows Lucia's struggle to survive despite the terrifying effects of this devastating mental illness.Author: Alison Leslie GoldISBN-10: 1938371119ISBN-13: 9781938371110Publisher: Tmi PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/16/2014Pages: 136Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.46lbsSize: 9.02h x...- $9.95
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Vendor: James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
2018 Reprint of 1922 Edition. First published in 1916, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is Joyce's first novel. It is a K nstlerroman, or Artist's Novel in a modernist style, as it traces the religious and intellectual awakening of young...- $5.95
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Vendor: Anthony Koranda
Broken Bottles
After growing up with an alcoholic mother and an intermittent stepfather, Alex pines for connection, even as he sabotages his life with substances, and substitutes one failed relationship for the next. Shuffling from troubled home to chaotic institution, he narrates his strange search through...- $16.99
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Vendor: Laini Giles
The Forgotten Flapper: A Novel of Olive Thomas
A presence lurks in New York City's New Amsterdam Theatre when the lights go down and the audience goes home. They say she's the ghost of Olive Thomas, one of the loveliest girls who ever lit up the Ziegfeld Follies and the silent screen....- $35.99
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Vendor: Laura Dowers
The Thomas Wolsey Trilogy: Books I-III, Master Wolsey, Power & Glory, Forsaken
The entire Thomas Wolsey trilogy in one edition!Master WolseyThe rise of England's most notorious priest, from his days as an Oxford scholar to his becoming Cardinal.Power & GloryThomas Wolsey is at the pinnacle of his career and has great ambitions for the economic and...- $28.99
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Vendor: Bradley Tyler Johnson
A Memoir of the Life and Public Service of Joseph E. Johnston: once the quartermaster general of the army of the United States, and a general in the a
A Memoir of the Life and Public Service of Joseph E. Johnston - once the quartermaster general of the army of the United States, and a general in the army of the Confederate States of America - Vol. 1 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint...- $65.90
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Vendor: Sara Jeannette Duncan
The Imperialist
The Imperialist by Sara Jeannette Duncan is a satirical novel that explores the impact of imperialism in Canada. Implying that even the most mundane of clerks could become 'imperialist', the book offers a hilarious insight into the attitudes of the British Empire towards the...- $27.95
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Vendor: Anonymous
Portrait and biographical album: Of Isabella county, Mich., containing portraits and biographical sketches of citizens also containing a complete hist
Portrait and biographical album - Of Isabella county, Mich., containing portraits and biographical sketches of citizens also containing a complete history of the county, from its earliest settlement to the present time is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1884. Hansebooks...- $52.90
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Vendor: Billy Lawrence
Highway Zero
Jack has moved on from his troubles in the old town, but now he stands at a crossroads with an uncertain vision of the future and an urge to leave behind everything he's ever known. Highway Zero is a road trip novel through the...- $15.95
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Vendor: Eliza Meteyard
The Life of Josiah Wedgwood: from his private correspondence and family papers in the possession of Joseph Mayer, F. Wedgwood, C. Darwin, Miss Wedg
The Life of Josiah Wedgwood - from his private correspondence and family papers in the possession of Joseph Mayer, F. Wedgwood, C. Darwin, Miss Wedgwood and other Original Sources, in Two Volumes - Vol. 1 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition...- $51.90
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Vendor: Richard S. Ward
Against the Flow: A Canuck in Vietnam
The infamous Arizona Territory was a place to be avoided like the plague. Like Go Noi Island, it was a free-fire zone that had seen lots of action. Yet right now, everything was deadly quiet. The usually melodic birds were muted. Not a breath...- $24.99
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Vendor: Carmen Laforet
Nada: Una Novela
Mientras vive con estrecheces en una casa misteriosa de la calle de Aribau, la joven Andrea conoce a un grupo de estudiantes ricos, que representan un contrapunto atractivo para la miseria de su vida cotidiana. Con sus nuevas experiencias, la inocente Andrea va averiguando...- $18.00
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Vendor: Gioia Diliberto
Coco at the Ritz
A riveting and prismatic novel of the eternally enigmatic Coco Chanel in the aftermath of World War II.Though her name is synonymous with elegance and chic, the iconic Coco Chanel had a complicated dark side, and in late August 1944, as World War II...- $39.00
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Vendor: Edmund Burke
The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke: Third Edition. Vol. IX
The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke - Third Edition. Vol. IX is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1869. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and...- $49.90
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Vendor: Fordon James
The Sound Post
New Orleans in the early 1990's, the country in a low grade recession, of a hot summer night, with a few dollars in his duffel and a second hand violin latched up in a blistered case, an "unlikely" James Buck steps off the bus...- $24.99
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Vendor: Charlotte Bronte
Villette
A reworking of "The Professor", the author's first novel, "Villette" is Charlotte Bronte's fourth and last novel which is loosely based upon her own experiences at a boarding school in Brussels. The work follows the life of Lucy Snowe, a quiet yet self-reliant young...- $16.99
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Vendor: Richard Bowes
Dust Devil on a Quiet Street
Dust Devil on a Quiet Street chronicles the remarkable life of Boston-born, New York City-reared author Richard Bowes. Bowes's childhood and adolescent brushes with dramatic spirits and hustlers, large and small, paved the way for his adult encounters with the remarkable, the numinous, the...- $18.00
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Vendor: Diane Richards
Ella
In the vein of The Paris Wife and The Personal Librarian comes this debut novel, a magnificent work of "biographical fiction" that reimagines the turbulent and triumphant early years of Ella Fitzgerald, arguably the greatest singer of the twentieth century.When fifteen-year-old Ella Fitzgerald's mother...- $28.00
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Vendor: Belén López Peiró
Why Did You Come Back Every Summer
A fractured account of family abuse, secrets, and the cost of pursuing the truth.In the most private spaces, the most intimate betrayals occur. Belén López Peiró places us squarely in the tenderest of times--young teenagehood, in a home about to be ruptured by sexual...- $16.95
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Vendor: Peter Long
Identity
It's 1850 and New South Wales, Australia is awash with gold. Bushrangers are in the press, their names on everyone's lips: Ben Hall, Frank Gardiner, John Peisley, Dan Morgan, Captain Thunderbolt. They roam free, uninhibited, spending big in the shanties. The girls love them,...- $19.99
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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.

