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Vendor: Lucy Maud Montgomery
Jane of Lantern Hill
Jane of Lantern HillLucy Maud Montgomery Jane of Lantern Hillis a novel byCanadianauthorL. M. Montgomery. The book was adapted into a 1990 telefilm, Lantern Hill, by Sullivan Films, the producer of the highly popularAnne of Green Gablestelevision miniseries and the television seriesRoad to Avonlea.Montgomery...- $19.98
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Vendor: Rudolf A. Haunschmied
Life Hanging on a Spider Web: From Auschwitz-Zasole to Gusen II
With his very personal memoirs, Karl Littner - a Jewish boy from Auschwitz-Zasole - gives insight into Jewish life and anti-Semitism in his hometown Oswiecim - Oshpitzin - Auschwitz, Poland before the Second World War. Along with his odyssey, he gives details about some...- $41.50
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Vendor: Ursula Dorn
I was a Wolf Kid from Königsberg
Der biographische Roman von Ursula Dorn "Ich war ein Wolfskind aus K nigsberg" beschreibt die Erlebnisse des Kindes in K nigsberg, dem heutigen Kaliningrad (Russland), w hrend der Endphase des Zweiten Weltkrieges und die Hungersnot der Nachkriegeszeit.Author: Ursula DornISBN-10: 3749429200ISBN-13: 9783749429202Publisher: Books on DemandLanguage:...- $16.50
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Vendor: Bethany Veney
The narrative of Bethany Veney, a slave woman
The narrative of Bethany Veney, a slave woman is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1889. 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....- $16.90
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Vendor: Reuben Beecher Hughes
Genealogy of a Branch of the Beecher Family
Genealogy of a Branch of the Beecher Family is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1898. 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....- $22.90
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Vendor: Michelle Riklan
davefromqueens
This book is a legacy story to David's struggles throughout life. He overcame many obstacles, but could never fully dodge being targeted by others for being himself. His passion to make a difference in the world was marred by his awkwardness. Those who knew...- $7.99
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Vendor: G. S. Willmott
The Other Side of the Trench: The Spirit of War
This story deserves to be told. Garry Willmott creates graphic and quite horrifying insights into unseen and 'unsung' aspects of World War 1, where so many Australian, Canadian, British, New Zealander, American and French soldiers were slaughtered and still, today, lie uninterred in forgotten...- $19.99
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Vendor: Ken Parejko
Across the Waters of Time: Pliny Remembered
Author, naturalist, cavalry officer, friend of the emperor Vespasian and admiral of the Roman fleet Pliny the Elder remembers his life from childhood to his death in the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, a full life lived at the center of seminal times. Struggling to...- $20.95
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Vendor: Robert McLiam Wilson
Ripley Bogle
Ripley Bogle, one of the most memorable Irish characters since Leopold Bloom roamed Dublin, is a self-proclaimed bum, an excoriating and expectorating Irish expatriate from Belfast, and a Cambridge dropout. Penniless but unbowed, he wanders the streets of London, treating the reader to the...- $14.95
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Vendor: Hassan Najmi
Gertrude
As Hassan Najmi's acclaimed novel begins, our unnamed narrator befriends an elderly man, Muhammad, who, as a young man, worked as a tour guide in the city of Tangier. Muhammad tells the narrator about his most famous clients, the renowned Gertrude Stein and her...- $16.99
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Vendor: J. P. Reedman
I, Richard Plantagenet: Loyaulte Me Lie
Author: J. P. ReedmanISBN-10: 1532972741ISBN-13: 9781532972744Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/27/2016Pages: 340Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.71d- $13.50
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Vendor: Josef Ferri
Tripping Across 1969
Daniel Cottone had a magnificent and tumultuous year in 1969. There was the contentious, ongoing struggle for civil rights for minorities erupting across America and the continuation of an excruciating, unpopular war in Vietnam. The forces obstructing the civil rights effort and supporting the...- $20.99
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Vendor: Kenneth Jackson
Founding Father of the Twenty-First Century: The Presidential Memoir of Henderson West, Forty-Fifth President of the United States of America
How does a highly successful business man who doesn't like anything about the American political system become president of the United Sates against his better judgement? In this alternate future history, Henderson Francis West, the forty-fifth president of the United States, looks back upon...- $14.99
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Memoirs of a Black Man
Those are the memoirs of a Black African physician. He tells the story of his life. A story of fight and sacrifice. A story of a life he spent being discriminated against. A story of a man's journey to find faith and redeem himself....- $10.00
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Vendor: J. P. Reedman
I, Richard Plantagenet: Tante le Desiree
I, Richard Plantagenet. Part 1, Tante le Desiree. Barnet 1471. He is eighteen. He is wounded...He is the King's brother, Richard of Gloucester. He soon finds out not all battles are fought on the battlefield...not in the House of York.He must deal with fractious...- $17.99
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Vendor: Misael Armendariz
Simon Palomar
Armed with a lively imagination and a zany sense of humor, Simon faces a humble and harsh childhood with courage and determination. A true story of a boy born in El Paso, Texas, of cruelty and kindness, a home and neighborhood unlike any other....- $7.95
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Vendor: Amy Grant
Confessions of a Sex Addict
Confessions of a Sex Addict is a tell-all book written for Amy Grant, a mid-west girl of the 1990's who wanted to tell her story.Author: Amy GrantISBN-10: 148239345XISBN-13: 9781482393453Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/08/2013Pages: 116Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.28d- $7.99
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Vendor: Lee Olson
The Inmates: Stories based on Long Lost Memoirs from Alcatraz
What really took place in Alcatraz prison during the 1940's? Was the "Battle for Alcatraz" an escape attempt or an uprising? The truth is in this book. The first-hand accounts of the inmate's stories in this book have never before been told. These are...- $16.95
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Vendor: Alexander Geiger
Prime Directive: An Epic Novel of the Rise of Alexander the Great
A split-second decision saves the life of a young boy - and changes the course of history ... Ptolemaios was supposed to keep his head down and stay out of trouble. Instead, his rash intervention strands him in ancient Macedonia, where he is quickly...- $15.95
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Vendor: Jacob Wasserman
Caspar Hauser: The Enigma of a Century
This novel is considered by most European critics the finest and most important of Wassermann's novels. It now makes its first appearance in English. Caspar Hauser, that strange figure which puzzled Europe in the years from 1823, when he first appeared, to 1833, when...- $28.95
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Vendor: C. W. Gortner
The Vatican Princess: A Novel of Lucrezia Borgia
For fans of Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir, bestselling author C. W. Gortner effortlessly weaves history and drama in this captivating novel about one of the world's most notorious families. Glamorous and predatory, the Borgias fascinated and terrorized fifteenth-century Renaissance Italy, and Lucrezia Borgia,...- $19.00
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Vendor: Rosalind Laker
The Golden Tulip
Francesca's father is a well-known painter in the bustling port city of Amsterdam; he is also a gambler. Though their household is in economic chaos, thankfully the lessons she learned in his studio have prepared her to study with Johannes Vermeer, the master of...- $20.00
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Vendor: Andrea Chapin
The Tutor
A bold and captivating novel about love, passion, and ambition that imagines the muse of William Shakespeare and the tumultuous year they spend together. The year is 1590, and Queen Elizabeth's Spanish Armada victory has done nothing to quell her brutal persecution of the...- $22.00
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Vendor: Vickie Versace Mullins
The World Through Dexter's Eyes: The Foibles of a Too Big, Deaf Dalmatian and the Power of Love
Dexter comes into the world with many problems, and he turns his family's life upside down. Outside and lonely, he pulls the siding off the house, destroys the back door, chews up the cable wires and wood patio furniture. Inside, he does more of...- $15.99
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Vendor: Eliza Knight
The Queen's Faithful Companion: A Novel of Queen Elizabeth II and Her Beloved Corgi, Susan
From USA Today bestselling author Eliza Knight comes an endearing and vivid novel told from the unique multinarrative viewpoints of a young Queen Elizabeth; Hanna Penwyck, the fictionalized Keeper of the Queen's dogs; and Susan, the Queen's Corgi, whose love and loyalty were boundless.A...- $41.99
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Vendor: Eliza Knight
The Queen's Faithful Companion: A Novel of Queen Elizabeth II and Her Beloved Corgi, Susan
From USA Today bestselling author Eliza Knight comes an endearing and vivid novel told from the unique multinarrative viewpoints of a young Queen Elizabeth; Hanna Penwyck, the fictionalized Keeper of the Queen's dogs; and Susan, the Queen's Corgi, whose love and loyalty were boundless.A...- $46.99
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Vendor: Robert Graves
Wife to Mr. Milton
With impressive literary power, the acclaimed historical novelist and critic Robert Graves tells the story of the tragic and eventful life of Marie Powell, who, at the age of sixteen, was pushed into marrying the man who was England's greatest epic poet--and knew it--John...- $18.95
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Vendor: Randy Willis
Carolinas Wind: 2021 Revised and Expanded Edition
The son of a white man and a Cherokee, Joseph Willis must live as a slave on his own property. His struggle for freedom is complicated by a love forbidden by society and his newfound spiritual faith. With a faith molded by tragedy, Joseph...- $25.00
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Vendor: Anni Reed
The Scroll: Book One of The Word Unfurled Trilogy
John the Baptist and his mother, Elisabeth, are radicals. In The Scroll we witness their bold ideas loosening the hard-packed soil of futile traditions. While John challenges the lack of preparation for Messiah, his mother tackles women not being allowed reading the sacred Scrolls....- $15.99
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Vendor: Cornelia Eliza Hood Whipple
A genealogy of Richard Hood: who came from Lynn, in England, and settled at Lynn, in Massachusetts
A genealogy of Richard Hood: - who came from Lynn, in England, and settled at Lynn, in Massachusetts 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,...- $16.50
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Vendor: J. C. Wright
Autobiography of Rev. A.B. Wright,: of the Holston conference, M.E. Church
Autobiography of Rev. A.B. Wright, - of the Holston conference, M.E. Church 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,...- $44.50
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Vendor: L. Edward Toole
Memoirs of a Tyrant
The world around you crumbles to the ground. Your wife, child and now civilization has left you alone. So how do you start everything over again? You were smart enough to be able to survive and as you emerge into a sun-baked arena to...- $21.00
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Vendor: Randy Willis
Destiny
Destiny is a sweeping family saga that spans four centuries. It is the story of two great nations and Randy Willis's ancestor's struggle from tyranny-religious and political. A powerful epic with love stories, battles, testimonies, drama, politics, history, and even humor. Inspired by true...- $35.00
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Vendor: Peter Kreeft
An Ocean Full of Angels: The Autobiography of 'Isa Ben Adam
"On the connections between Jesus Christ, Muhammad, dead Vikings, sassy Black feminists, Dutch Calvinist seminarians, large mother substitues, armless nature mystics, Caribbean rubber dancers, three popes in one year, Cortez, Romeo and Juliet, the wandering Jew, the sea serpent, Our Lady of Guadalupe, the...- $37.50
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Vendor: Bruce Duffy
Disaster Was My God: A Novel of the Outlaw Life of Arthur Rimbaud
Arthur Rimbaud burst onto the literary scene in 1871 with a startling new voice, transforming himself from an anonymous country boy into the sensation of Paris. His explosive life included a passionate affair with the older (and married) poet Paul Verlaine, and a prosperous...- $21.00
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Vendor: Alison Weir
Katheryn Howard, the Scandalous Queen
Bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir tells the tragic story of Henry VIII's fifth wife, a nineteen-year-old beauty with a hidden past, in this fifth novel in the sweeping Six Tudor Queens series. "A vivid re-creation of a Tudor tragedy."--Kirkus Reviews In the...- $20.00
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Vendor: Alison Weir
Jane Seymour, the Haunted Queen
"A sumptuous historical novel anchored by its excellent depiction of Jane Seymour, Henry the VIII's third queen . . . This is a must for all fans of Tudor fiction and history."--Publishers Weekly Ever since she was a child, Jane has longed for a...- $20.00
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Vendor: Ezra Harker Shaw
The Aziola's Cry: A Novel of the Shelleys
Love, tragedy, and the pursuit of literary greatness intertwine in a tumultuous journey that defies societal norms and tests the resilience of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and Percy Bysshe Shelley.In the year 1814, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, a gifted teenager born into a family of literary...- $33.95
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The Aziola's Cry: A Novel of the Shelleys
Love, tragedy, and the pursuit of literary greatness intertwine in a tumultuous journey that defies societal norms and tests the resilience of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and Percy Bysshe Shelley.In the year 1814, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, a gifted teenager born into a family of literary...- $19.95
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Vendor: Anna Godbersen
The Blonde
At the height of the Cold War, Marilyn Monroe was the most infamous woman in the world. But what if she was also a secret Soviet spy? In 1947, a young, unknown Norma Jeane Baker meets a mysterious man in Los Angeles who transforms...- $16.00
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Vendor: Andrea Landy
The Wrong Grief
Alice Buchner is an exceptionally smart girl and a brilliant student, but an introverted and awkward kid. At thirteen, Alice witnesses the brutal murder of her cherished older sister Marisa by a loved one. Alice is the only eyewitness to the murder, but the...- $38.95
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Vendor: Zülfü Livaneli
On the Back of the Tiger
A literary tour-de-force, this vivid account of an infamous Ottoman sultan's life in exile is also a powerful indictment of the hypocrisies of the West, from the internationally bestselling author of Disquiet. Abdülhamid II ruled the Ottoman Empire for thirty-three years, from 1876 to...- $17.99
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Vendor: Honoré de Balzac
The Lily in the Valley
A new translation of one of Balzac's finest novels, this tale of misguided passion centers on a young aristocrat who falls into a cloaked, coded entanglement with an older countess--a relationship that is upended when he becomes involved with a new lover. A story...- $17.95
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Vendor: Pearl Long Time Squirrel
Sacred Bird: Naatoyipi'kssi
Sacred Bird lives a fulfilled and happy life among the Blood Tribe as a mother of three, wife to a loving husband, and caretaker of her Elders. One spring day, as Sacred Bird works to complete her chores with her young daughter's help, the...- $31.99
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Vendor: David A. Jacinto
Out of the Darkness
Out of the Darkness is based on the true story of a nineteenth-century child coal miner rising out of the ashes of poverty and tragedy to change the world. It's the story of greed, love, sacrifice, faith, and the courage to push aside fear...- $31.95
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Vendor: Manju Kapur
Brothers
The story of Tapti Gaina is intimately linked with the lives of two men, her husband and his brother. Exploring caste, student politics, the freedom struggle and the Emergency, Brothers traces the history of the Gaina family, beginning with their village origins across the...- $15.95
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Vendor: R. C. Gupta
Life on the streets: My journey
A man's distrubed journey in life. Sometimes life takes its own course.we have to be prepared for the worst and the best. This is one of the story that explains how you have given pain and nature gives the strength to endure it. This...- $5.38
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Vendor: Abdiya Wesab
Mara Hatun: Large Print, Volume II
Mara Hatun enters the world scene a Serbian princess of Byzantine descent. War forces complex solutions that include the mysterious key which surfaces in the tents of Tamurlane. What will it unlock in Constantinople? Mara lived from 1416-1487. This carefully researched historical fiction deciphers...- $22.00
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Vendor: Abdiya Wesab
Mara Hatun: Large Print
Mara Hatun enters the world scene a Serbian princess of Byzantine descent. War forces complex solutions that include the mysterious key which surfaces in the tents of Tamurlane. What will it unlock in Constantinople? Mara lived from 1416-1487. This carefully researched historical fiction deciphers...- $18.00
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Vendor: John Gilmary Shea
The Life of Pope Pius IX.: And the Great Events in the History of the Church During his Pontificate
The Life of Pope Pius IX. - And the Great Events in the History of the Church During his Pontificate is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1877. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research...- $44.50
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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.