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Vendor: William J. Fitzpatrick
Lady Morgan: her career, literary and personal
Lady Morgan - her career, literary and personal is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1860. 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....- $36.50
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The Story of My Life: Or, the sunshine and shadow of seventy years
The Story of My Life - Or, the sunshine and shadow of seventy years 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...- $66.50
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Vendor: Adele Ohanzee Bijour
Be Careful What You Wish For: From the Memoirs of Adele Ohanzee Bijour and Her Struggle with Lupus
Be Careful What You Wish For is an impactful page-turner from the memoirs of Adele Bijour as she depicts her battle with life and lupus while still trying to make sure her family stays intact. She takes you on an emotional journey, giving you...- $19.99
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Vendor: Jacques Coosh
A Journey of Pride: From Mauritius to Melbourne
When his older brother asks him if he is gay, Jacques is first stunned by the question.Soon after he's come out, Jacques leaves behind the idyllic island of Mauritius, and embarks on a journey of self-discovery.First stop Paris, where he lives grandly for a...- $20.20
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Vendor: Jo Wanmer
Though the Bud Be Bruised
Can one little note, read at midnight, really trigger a chain of events that could shake the very foundation of Zara Heymer's life? Can she even grasp the horror of what has happened within her family? The shock of discovering that evil, cleverly disguised,...- $18.99
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Vendor: A. J. B. Johnston
Crossings, A Thomas Pichon Novel
Thomas Pichon seems forever at a crossroads, often choosing the path of least resistance, or the most tempting. In this, the third Thomas Pichon novel, his life remains more complicated than he wishes. He encounters highwaymen on a country road, succumbs to a tempting...- $19.95
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Vendor: Vernon L. Anley
A Carnival of Lies
The Gestapo arrested my father in Berlin in the summer of 1933. When he asked why, he was told, "We do not give reasons."Author: Vernon L. AnleyISBN-10: 1725264676ISBN-13: 9781725264670Publisher: Resource Publications (CA)Language: EnglishPublished: 04/29/2020Pages: 242Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.09lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d- $49.00
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Vendor: Willa Cather
A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays
Willa Cather, in full Wilella Sibert Cather, (born December 7, 1873, near Winchester, Virginia, U.S.--died April 24, 1947, New York City, New York), American novelist noted for her portrayals of the settlers and frontier life on the American plains.... Cather's first novel, Alexander's Bridge...- $31.95
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Vendor: Helen R. Davis
EVITA ... My Argentina
Published by CUSTOM BOOK PUBLICATIONS Classic Imprint EVITA ... My Argentina Evita Perón tells her own spectacular story. Tracing her life back to her humble beginnings, when she is abandoned by her father, Evita takes the reader on her journey to become an actress...- $19.95
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Vendor: Russell James
Stories I Can't Tell: An Illustrated Confessional
What secrets lurk in her battered trunk of theatrical souvenirs?We're on the eve of the Second World War but you're snug in a room with Maggie King as she prepares a celebrity memoir. From her theatrical trunk she'll show you sketches from her shows,...- $10.99
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Vendor: Tessa Wells
The Man Who Tried to Be Good: My Relationship with a Toxic Narcissist
WHAT IS IT ABOUT BAD RELATIONSHIPS? Truth is . . . they suck! In fact, they suck the life right out of you. Bad relationships are . . . simply put . . . bad. But as crappy as bad relationships can be, a...- $12.95
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Vendor: Jared Masters
Sunny Nightmare
How a homeless Hollywood director found the funk and got paid. From the urine-scented streets of Hollywood, to the bowels of New York City, and beyond!Author: Jared MastersISBN-10: 1072866757ISBN-13: 9781072866756Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/09/2019Pages: 258Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.58d- $15.25
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Vendor: F. Scott Andison
The Meghan O'Byrne Chronicle: Book Three - Ascension
After returning home to Sarchi in Costa Rica Meghan begins to fulfill her destiny but her amazing abilities and success quickly lead her into conflict with established interests there. Tension escalates when the truth about Meghan's past becomes known when she is betrayed by...- $14.99
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Vendor: Natalie Sidner
How to Destroy a Tech Startup in 3 Easy Steps
Insane ambition. Insane deadlines. Insane leadership. A software death march. A true story. It began with an ingenious idea: to use the software techniques known as Natural Language Processing to allow people to interact with databases by writing ordinary English sentences. This was a...- $12.99
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Vendor: George J. Hatcher
Mario 2: Coming of Age
In 1959, at ten years old, Mario and his Aunt Carmen make their way on the streets of East Los Angeles. His friends are murderers, dope peddlers, and hookers. He's no genius, and hates school with a passion. People think he's a con man,...- $30.99
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Vendor: Melanie Ifield
Listening to Echoes of her Self
The latest novel from Melanie Ifield reveals the transformational journey of one woman who sets out to change everything in her life upon the realisation that the 'script' she had been living was slowly draining the life out of her soul. There was nothing...- $19.99
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Vendor: Mahlon Blaine
Mahlon Blaine's Blooming Bally Bloody Book
An Amazon #1 ebook rank. A glass-eyed Jazz Age artist bounces between pre-talkies Hollywood and sinful New York City. Dealing with nudes and demons while in pursuit of the perfect model - who had killed herself.This historical novel takes a rollicking ride through one-eyed...- $14.99
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Vendor: Lee Kessler
A Child of Arthur
In 1980, depressed, disillusioned, and emotionally paralyzed by recent loss and betrayal, actress Grace Archer returns to a mountain village in Switzerland she once held dear.During a life-threatening event on that mountain, she is rescued by Klaus Urhaber--a mysterious man who seems to know...- $17.95
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Vendor: Jonathan Kravetz
The Man Who Ate His Book, The Best of Ducts.org
Essays, Fiction, Poetry, Memoirs, Humor and Art from the first 12 years of Ducts.org. Ducts.org, one of the first literary magazines on the web, was founded in 1999 and has since grown into a dependable and ambitious resource for readers looking for engaging and...- $25.00
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Vendor: Russ Heitz
The View from Here: The Short Fiction of Russ Heitz
Each of our lives is like a collection of short stories. Some of the stories are humorous, some sad, some tragic, some exciting, some painful. Some of the stories happened in the past, some are happening now, and some might happen in the future....- $12.99
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Vendor: Patricia Probert Gott
Cowgirl Country
"Cowgirl Country" is a contemporary novel based on a true story. A divorced, fortyish, business woman fulfills her lifelong dreams by working as a horse wrangler and trail guide at a duderanch in Wyoming. Her adventures take her from rodeos, endurance races, and pack...- $13.95
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Vendor: Z. Noreen Moore
This is Your Life: A Road to Healing
A young man's journey to manhood, through the various trials and tribulations of life; the women he loved the friends he made the dreams he dreamed. "This is Your Life" could be anyone's story. From birth to death life is a mystery, a series...- $10.99
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Vendor: Jeffery Hess
Home of the Brave: Stories in Uniform
Among these stories by writers, including Kurt Vonnegut, Tim O'Brien, Tobias Wolff, Chris Offutt, Benjamin Percy and many others, you'll find shipbuilders and sailors, pilots, wild dogs, battles-both physical and emotional, misunderstandings, fistfights, and the wounds of unrequited love. There are parades and hurricanes,...- $19.95
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Vendor: Pamelia Barratt
An Ostentation
This is a story about the Peacock family, a family as old as Chicago. Born in 1837, the city and family grew side by side, undergoing tremendous physical and cultural changes. The family's patriarch, Elijah Peacock, arrived at the tip of Lake Michigan the...- $14.95
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Vendor: Rick Birk
Finding Adam Empowering Susan
Adam Evans always felt he was a little different, although he never could put his finger on exactly why. One thing was for certain: struggling with the paralyzing anxiety disorder known as agoraphobia didn't help matters any. There had to be more to this...- $19.95
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Vendor: Sarah Lysaght
37 Downing Street - A Farnham Family Saga
37 Downing Street is the compelling story of life "above the shop" in a small English town. During a time of uncertainty and changing attitudes 37 Downing Street chronicles a family's history from the last years of Queen Victoria's reign to 1930s Britain. Edwin...- $19.99
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Vendor: Mohammad Reza Erfani
The Margaux Memory: A Persian Love Story
WHAT WOULD YOU BELIEVE? This is the sub-title of one extraordinary book. THE MARGAUX MEMORY charts a wonderful story that begins in Iran, moves swiftly to Oxford, then back to Iran in search of a family heirloom, then Paris and finally to Bordeaux and...- $14.68
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Vendor: Franco Minasian
Al Basha: Our Stories
Franco Minasian, seasoned attorney by day, part-time firefighter/paramedic by night. Avocation-his saxophones. Franco had tackled the Illinois bar over a sweltering summer. Lacking clout, Franco's New Hampshire work-ethic, seaworthy quick-thinking, and Boston/Chicago street-smarts builds his reputation with hardened Chicago prosecutors for whom he clerked...- $19.95
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Vendor: G. S. Willmott
Colour Blind: Bullets and Shells Don't Discriminate
"Colour Blind tells the story of two wars affecting Australia a hundred years ago: World War I that everyone knows about, and the lesser known one, the battles that past generations of Aboriginal Australians faced. Not the British Invasion, but the struggle more than...- $16.99
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Vendor: G. S. Willmott
Caught Between Two Worlds
A compelling story about the destiny of an Australian soldier in the Vietnam war. As a returned Vietnam veteran, it brought back many vivid memories of my time there. Beautifully written and well researched with thought to detail, captivating and difficult to put down,...- $16.99
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Vendor: James y. Hung MD
Sightless
Set amid the busy streets and competitive society of Hong Kong, Sightless is the story of James, who, at the age of fifteen, takes an interest in a blind boy at his high school. In 1960s Hong Kong, a blind person getting an education...- $14.95
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Vendor: Harald Lutz Bruckner
A Wanderer on the Earth
When Hektor's educational dreams are thwarted by familial attitudes in the aftermath of World War II, he pursues a career in retailing and merchandising. Purely by chance, he meets Werner von Unselm, a long-forgotten friend of his mother who immigrated to the United States...- $18.95
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Vendor: Ally McCormick
Her Road From War
Based on a true story. Caught up in the Fall of Singapore, Ruth Cole manages to flee on the last surviving Evacuee Ship. Her husband is not so lucky. Grieving and penniless, Ruth never imagines being labeled a Despicable Citizen. Her Road From War...- $9.99
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Vendor: Frank Gugino
Man of Salt: The Story of Marcus Livius Salinator and the Battle of the Metaurus In Hannibal's War With Rome
Marcus Livius, last year's war hero, is angry at the ungrateful Romans for convicting him on phony charges. Disgraced in exile, he vows never to return to Rome. Then tragedy strikes home after the disaster at Cannae. A grieving Marcus plunges into depression, blaming...- $21.56
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Vendor: Goeran B. Johansson
Johans Risqu? Escapades In South East Asia
Johan had come to that stage in life when the children moved out and he found the existence unbearable structured and dreary in his meager emotionally inhibited life in marriage. One day a letter arrived from the labor office about a job as a...- $29.81
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Vendor: Marguerite Yourcenar
Memoirs of Hadrian: Fsg 80th Anniversary Special Edition
Marguerite Yourcenar's genre-defining historical novel. First published to international acclaim in 1951, Memoirs of Hadrian is at once a brilliant character study, a reflection on the meaning of history, and a literary masterwork from one of France's most singular writers. Marguerite Yourcenar takes the...- $19.00
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Vendor: Rozsa Gaston
The Queen's Maid: Anne Boleyn in France
Author: Rozsa GastonISBN-10: 0854958010ISBN-13: 9780854958016Publisher: Sapere BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/13/2026Pages: 262Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.61lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.59d- $13.99
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Vendor: James Rahn
Full Moon Bop
Billy Mott, 15, narrates the events of his life during the winter of 1971 in a fading shore town. He's an orphan, being raised by a demanding aunt after his parents died in an accident years ago. Angry and bored, inclined to see his...- $18.00
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Vendor: Thomas O. Cist Esposito
Blue Miles: A Monastic Novel
This intriguing fictional memoir of Padre Samuel, a Cistercian monk, weaves together his tumultuous life story with reflections on his life in a monastic community. Monks have always been a gloriously strange lot, and the monastic vocation attracts people who are quirky, grumpy, often...- $18.95
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Vendor: Joanne Madden
The Roving Reporter: Spanning the Globe in the 1990s
The Roving Reporter is a sequel to Joanne Madden's second novel, The Missing Reporter. It chronicles the further adventures of Sandra McKay, a spirited journalist from Prince Edward Island. The novel takes place from 1990 to 1997, just before the Millennium and the digital...- $12.00
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Vendor: Michael Plotkowski
Bastard Soldier, Earnest Medic
Bastard Soldier, Earnest Medic is a raw, darkly funny, and unflinchingly honest memoir that follows Joe's unlikely transformation from a wayward teenager into a soldier and army physician assistant forged in the chaos of three deployments.What begins as a desperate courtroom gamble, spirals into...- $16.99
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The Cartographer of Dreams: A Novel of Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Secret Architecture of Empire
1801. Meriwether Lewis is drawn into Thomas Jefferson's grand vision of a perfectly ordered continent-one that exists more in theory than in stone. As science blurs into espionage and ambition eclipses mercy, Lewis is shaped, broken, and repurposed as the "eyes of the Republic."...- $10.95
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Vendor: Brad Kuich
The Homesteaders
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Canadian government advertised homesteading in the Canadian West as a means to a prosperous future. Free land? Who could resist? Never mind the land wasn't the government's to give away, homesteaders had strict and financially...- $33.99
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Vendor: Reshonda Tate
With Love from Harlem: A Novel of Hazel Scott
"Tate blends fact and fiction with elegance...A captivating, emotionally resonant portrait of a singular woman who refused to be diminished." -- LIBRARY JOURNAL "Tate has a rare gift for storytelling that strikes straight to the heart." -- SADEQA JOHNSON, New York Times bestselling author...- $45.95
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Vendor: Édouard Louis
History of Violence
A gripping autobiographical novel from literary sensation Édouard Louis, "both brave and ambitious in its determination never to let its reader, or its author, escape lightly the damaging realities it describes" (The Observer).On Christmas Eve 2012, in Paris, Édouard Louis was raped and almost...- $18.00
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Vendor: Zlatan Zivkovic
My Friend Lovro: English Edition
How to achieve dreams, how to reach heights in a world constrained by the shackles of social relationships? Can a poor peasant boy break free from the chains of custom armed only with gifted intellect and honesty? Or does every such attempt end up...- $12.50
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Vendor: Kenneth Wayne Virgil
Abijah and the American Revolution
Sixteen-year-old Abijah Virgil has always been content with his provincial life, concerning himself with little beyond the farmwork that keeps his family afloat. But when the first shots of the American Revolution are fired, he leaves the quiet fields of colonial New York to...- $9.95
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Vendor: Christine Obbo
The Inexorable Weeping
On a tropical island paradise in Africa, the natives were unaware of the incognito vacationer participating in their daily lives as they engaged in life giving and pleasurable activities. The stranger named knowledge garnered on local indulgencies and intolerances Indulrances. Unwittingly, the locals engaged...- $19.99
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Vendor: L. Muhlbach
Prince Eugene And His Times Book VI
Prince Eugene and His Times BOOK VI explores the complex interplay of political ambition, personal desires, and the struggles for power within the French court. The novel delves into the tension between love, betrayal, and revenge, as various characters, particularly the Countess of Soissons,...- $13.99
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Prince Eugene And His Times Book IV
Prince Eugene and His Times BOOK IV explores the complex interplay of political ambition, personal desires, and the struggles for power within the French court. The novel delves into the tension between love, betrayal, and revenge, as various characters, particularly the Countess of Soissons,...- $14.99
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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.

