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Vendor: Joseph Henry Shorthouse
Sir Percival: A story of the past and of the present
Sir Percival - A story of the past and of the present is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1887. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition,...- $37.50
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Vendor: Debra Ann Pawlak
Soldier, Spy, Heroine: A Novel Based on a True Story of the Civil War
The Story of the Woman Who Fooled the Yankees and Rebels Alike. As a child, Sarah Emma Edmonds dreamed of faraway places and adventure, often picturing herself as a man. When her abusive father traded her hand in marriage for a few head of...- $24.99
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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...- $14.95
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Vendor: Assaf Eliyahu
Am I Dead Or Alive?
The question that most humans ask is, what happens when you die? Well, this book is a first-hand experience of surviving death. Waking up from a month-long coma. This book takes you on a trip of surviving death, and what happens along the way....- $34.99
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Vendor: Christine Angot
Incest
A daring novel that made Christine Angot one of the most controversial figures in contemporary France recounts the narrator's incestuous relationship with her father. Tess Lewis's forceful translation brings into English this audacious novel of taboo. The narrator is falling out from a torrential...- $16.00
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Vendor: Andrea Penna
Sea Wind
Giudo and Giuseppe are two brothers with a mutual passion for adventure and discovering the world, which will prise them far apart. Maria is a strong-willed and determined girl. Giancarlo has a great talent for drawing. Love, adventure and sickness against the backdrop of...- $23.99
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Vendor: Garret D. III Onderdonk
Lance's Follies
Synopsis: Lance is a "coming of age during the sexual revolution" story. He was uniquely different from the millions of other baby boomers. How often do the stars align right? The DNA lottery presented a gift that kept on giving. The nurses in the...- $17.99
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Vendor: Gypsy Angel
Angel of Words
No information about the author available this time.Author: Gypsy AngelISBN-10: 1796054585ISBN-13: 9781796054583Publisher: Xlibris UsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/24/2024Pages: 322Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.38lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d- $47.99
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Vendor: Rafael Tejada
Life and Its Times
In the depths of memory, two siblings find the courage to confront their pasts and the events that have shaped them. "Life and Its Times" is a poignant, vivid tale of love, loss, and redemption. Through their conversations, they relive key moments in their...- $19.99
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Vendor: Hugh Lupton
The Ballad of John Clare
'The first novel from, the renowned storyteller Hugh Lupton opens with a scene that could be straight out of Thomas Hardy... A helpless observer of the damage that enclosure is doing to his beloved landscape and the people who live there, a young man...- $13.99
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Vendor: Eric Lane
Dante Alighieri's Publishing Company
The entry in Dante Alighieri's diary for April 22nd 1980 reads: What do publishers do, who do not do their own repping, distribution, publicity and writing? I can't help wondering? For instance, if it is a bit quiet on the sales and distribution front,...- $13.99
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Vendor: Baljit Ghuman
Grandfather's Mulberry Tree
Deeply humane, a short yet powerful narration of history and imagination through the prism of one life story. Captivating and cathartic story follows an adolescent Sikh boy's journey through the turbulent Punjab of 1980's, and his unconscious attempt to heal from the personal trauma....- $18.53
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Vendor: William H. Shawcross
A Brief of a Lineage of the Very Ancient Family and Surname of Shallcross: or Shawcross, of that Manor, in the High Peak, Co. Derby
A Brief of a Lineage of the Very Ancient Family and Surname of Shallcross - or Shawcross, of that Manor, in the High Peak, Co. Derby is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on...- $16.50
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Vendor: Zane Grey
Betty Zane
Inspired by the life and adventures of his own great-great aunt, Betty Zane was Zane Grey's first novel and launched his career as a master writer of rousing frontier and Western adventures.Betty Zane is the story of the events culminating in the last battle...- $26.95
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Vendor: Juni Lee Park
Kim Jong Un: The Little Rocket Man
Who is Kim Jong-Un? Learn More About the Life of a Supreme Leader of North Korea!Read this Book to Understand Why is Kim Jong-Un Also Known as the Little Rocket Man!Would you like to learn more about the life of a supreme leader of...- $11.14
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Vendor: William Le Queux
The Minister of Evil: The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia
This novel is a fictional account of Rasputin's life based on facts - that is facts according to Le Queux. It is a well-written eye-witness account of a fascinating era in the Russian/Germanic history.Author: William Le QueuxISBN-10: 154273794XISBN-13: 9781542737944Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished:...- $12.20
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Vendor: Jeanne Mackin
The Beautiful American
Author: Jeanne MackinISBN-10: 0451465822ISBN-13: 9780451465825Publisher: Penguin Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/03/2014Pages: 384Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.00dReview Citation(s): Romantic Times 06/01/2014 pg. 40 - Excellent- $22.00
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Vendor: Alma H. Bond
Jackie O on the Couch: Inside the Mind and Life of Jackie Kennedy Onassis
"Jackie O: On the Couch is the story of Jackie Kennedy Onassis as she might have written it.This is not just another biography. For the first time, Jackie O: On the Couch highlights Jackie's life from her own perspective, as imagined by author Dr....- $21.99
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Vendor: Andr? Goodman
MayBe i'M iLL: The Shadow in the Empty Chair
Retired Pro Athlete Battles Mental Health Disorders, Seeks Purpose: A Journey from Sports Stardom to Therapeutic Healing and Self-Discovery.In MayBe i'M iLL, we examine the life of a former professional athlete, a man who once reveled in the glory of sports stardom, now grappling...- $16.99
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Vendor: Andr? Goodman
MayBe i'M iLL: The Shadow in the Empty Chair
Retired Pro Athlete Battles Mental Health Disorders, Seeks Purpose: A Journey from Sports Stardom to Therapeutic Healing and Self-Discovery.In MayBe i'M iLL, we examine the life of a former professional athlete, a man who once reveled in the glory of sports stardom, now grappling...- $21.99
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Vendor: Garret D. III Onderdonk
Lance's Follies
Synopsis: Lance is a "coming of age during the sexual revolution" story. He was uniquely different from the millions of other baby boomers. How often do the stars align right? The DNA lottery presented a gift that kept on giving. The nurses in the...- $9.99
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Vendor: W. Michael Farmer
Proud Outcast: Days of War, Days of Peace
Defying betrayal and hardship, Chato fights to save his family and his people's rightful place in the West.As the Apache Wars roar toward their conclusion in the summer of 1886, renowned Apache army scout and leader Chato joins a delegation of scouts to Washington,...- $31.99
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Vendor: Tracey Enerson Wood
Katharine, the Wright Sister
She helped her brothers soar... but was the flight worth the fall? It all started with two boys and a bicycle shop. Wilbur and Orville Wright, both unsuited to college and disinclined to leave home, jumped on the popular new fad of bicycle riding...- $17.99
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Vendor: D. Thomas Gochenour
Memoirs of a Born Adventurer
At the end of his illustrious career as an international adventurer and soldier of fortune, Lord Higford decided he needed to write his memoirs. But he decided he needed to address both his personal life and his adventures abroad, describe in detail his love...- $25.95
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Vendor: Esther Kinsky
Seeing Further
In this autobiographical novel by a leading German author and translator, the narrator attempts to revive a run-down Hungarian movie theater--an unpromising endeavor that soon leads into a consideration of the building's history and an homage to the power of the cinema, imperiled as...- $16.95
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Vendor: Sara Caul
My Mountain Top Experience with God
It was Black Friday. We went to Tysons mall early that morning to do our Christmas shopping. We? I had traveled to Maryland to be with my husband's family for their annual Thanksgiving celebration. His mother, father, all his brothers and sisters and their...- $16.95
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Vendor: Apurva Tandon
The 10 meter Jump
The 10 Meter Jump - an honest and candid account of the journey of a young, reasonably high profiled, impulsive but extremely confident army colonel, who decided to charter the course of his own life and took the dreaded plunge of early retirement.The book...- $6.00
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Vendor: Guy de Maupassant
Notre Coeur - A Woman's Pastime: Psychological Novel
The novel tells the story of a woman without a heart, frigid and probably a lesbian. The hero, facing this fascinating and awesome being, takes another mistress, who can hardly satisfy him. He is devastated by this passionate love, violent, melancholic and cruel. This...- $6.30
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Vendor: Kathleen McKenna Hewtson
No Greater Crown: 1914 - 1917
1914, and the intense shadows of an unexpectedly fiery summer that is burning up the whole of Europe are hiding beneath them the darker shadows of the "war to end all wars." And these shadows, in turn, are concealing the darkest shadows of them...- $15.99
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Vendor: Kathleen McKenna Hewtson
Pride of Eagles
After the near-catastrophic events of the Russo-Japanese War and the 1905 Revolution, the years 1907-13 passed relatively peacefully in Russia as Chief Minister Stolypin steered the country away from war and civil disruption, and toward industrialization and economic prosperity.However, in Tsarskoe Selo, the closeted...- $15.99
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Vendor: Manouchehr Pajoohesh
Bitter Immigration
Author: Manouchehr PajooheshISBN-10: 1514467828ISBN-13: 9781514467824Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/20/2016Pages: 204Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.47d- $19.99
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Vendor: Kapindi Kroma
Bruno: Memoirs of a Chimpanzee
On 23rd April, 2006 several chimpanzees broke out of Tacugama, a chimpanzee sanctuary in Sierra Leone. Most returned on their own within a few days but one alpha male named Bruno never did. This prompted the author to ask 'Why?' Bruno: Memoirs of a...- $15.00
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Vendor: Nicholas Tanek
Your Kinky Friends
A Tribute to the New Jersey - New York Kink Community. Devastated by the death of his love, Lynn, Nicholas turned to the community they had become part of: the kink community. He reconnected with some old friends, and through them, met some new...- $14.95
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Vendor: Jean Plaidy
Queen of This Realm
In this "memoir" by Elizabeth I, legendary historical novelist Jean Plaidy reveals the Virgin Queen as she truly was: the bewildered, motherless child of an all-powerful father; a captive in the Tower of London; a shrewd politician; a lover of the arts; and eventually,...- $19.00
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Vendor: Drew Hill
It Came Even To Me
Author: Drew HillISBN-13: 9798890250254Publisher: Evolved PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/20/2024Pages: 296Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.67d- $19.95
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Vendor: Lisa M. Foster
Backwords: The Story of Elizabeth Timothy
Author: Lisa M. FosterISBN-10: 1963569717ISBN-13: 9781963569711Publisher: Warren Publishing, IncLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/23/2024Pages: 274Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.23lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d- $32.95
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Vendor: Lisa M. Foster
Backwords: The Story of Elizabeth Timothy
Author: Lisa M. FosterISBN-10: 1963569725ISBN-13: 9781963569728Publisher: Warren Publishing, IncLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/23/2024Pages: 274Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.62d- $19.95
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Vendor: Kristena Prater
Tessa: Eyes on the World
Author: Kristena Prater, Salodius ByrdISBN-10: 1958711705ISBN-13: 9781958711705Publisher: Bright Communications LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/12/2024Pages: 304Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.27lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d- $30.00
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Vendor: Cliff Wilkerson
A Bird in Flight
Author: Cliff WilkersonISBN-10: 1734160047ISBN-13: 9781734160048Publisher: Douglas C, . WilkersonLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/28/2024Pages: 440Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.41lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.98d- $22.99
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Vendor: Alexia Saint Claire
Jehanne d'Arc - The Maiden
Jehanne d'Arc's journey began as a ten-year-old girl living in Domremy, France with her family. Like many families, they endured the Hundred Year War ravaging across their kingdom. Her life suddenly changes when she meets an angelic being in the forest and is told...- $20.95
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Vendor: Timothy J. Shaffer
From Knoxdale to Shannondale: The Story of Mary Elizabeth Siverling
Freddy and Mary Siverling had four children. After having three boys, Mary prayed for their next child to be a girl. When the fourth boy was born, she was convinced God was punishing her for being selfish and not being a good mother. They...- $23.95
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Vendor: Jeanne Mackin
A Lady of Good Family
Author: Jeanne MackinISBN-10: 0451465830ISBN-13: 9780451465832Publisher: Penguin Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/02/2015Pages: 368Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.80dReview Citation(s): Romantic Times 06/01/2015 pg. 40 - ExcellentNew York Times Book Review 07/05/2015 pg. 18- $22.00
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Vendor: Elizabeth Hutchison Bernard
The Seaforth Heiress: Lady of the Last Prophecy: A Novel
"A pleasantly engaging read for historical fiction fans. This poignant, highly dramatic family saga paints a detailed period portrait of the era's British upper-class luxurious lifestyle and is nicely peppered with appearances from luminaries of the day." -Kirkus ReviewsA century-old curse shadows the woman...- $22.95
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Vendor: Ulysses Grant
Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant: Volume I
Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant - Volume I is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1885. 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....- $57.90
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Vendor: J?n Rozner
Seven Days to the Funeral
A dissident's deeply personal and unflinching view of Soviet oppression in Czechoslovakia in the wake of the 1968 invasion. Seven Days to the Funeral is the fictionalized memoir of Ján Rozner, a leading Slovak journalist, critic, dramaturg, and translator. Rozner and his wife Zora...- $23.00
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Vendor: Siimply Unique Homeschooling
City of the Seven Hills
This short history of Rome is part of a four book set, intended for middle school readers that introduces the major points of world history. Like most Roman histories written for younger students it focuses primarily on the Kingdom and Republican eras, and conveys...- $14.99
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Aluca: The Tenor's Wife
In this autobiography, Aluca relives the adventures of a vibrant and exciting life. She delicately describes her childhood paradise in the Cozia Mountains with her beloved father, his suffering during her adolescence and ultimately his extreme poverty followed by her time spent in Bucharest...- $19.90
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Vendor: Kamlesh Thakur
A Middle Class Dream: Coast to Coast
"In the pouring rain, while her husband is out of town, a woman gives birth to her second child: Krish. Raised in a typical Indian family in Mumbai and later in Chennai, Krish deals with the struggles typical to many. His caste determines much...- $19.99
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Vendor: R. a. Daly
The CCC
In the midst of these covers lies a natural hesitant of validity, inviting you to decide the authors claim that a desperate Human Being is capable of crossing the barrier into impossible, while exposing the visual surrounding truth of the last six decades of...- $12.95
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Vendor: Douglas Bond
The Thunder: A Novel on John Knox
John Knox, the Thundering Scot, lives a life of adventure and danger. Here is the surprising story of a man unflinching in his stand for the gospel, even in the face of assassins and death.Author: Douglas BondISBN-10: 1596382147ISBN-13: 9781596382145Publisher: P & R PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished:...- $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.