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Vendor: Ulysses Grant
Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant: Volume II
Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant - Volume II 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....- $63.90
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Vendor: Richard Skorupski
The Frank Stanbauer Story
Ninety-seven year young, Frank takes you on a pleasant journey through the time of our fathers and grandfathers. Laugh and cry with him as he tells his tale.At ninety-seven, Frank Stanbauer is the oldest person in Helen, South Dakota. Frank has lived a full...- $19.95
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From That Flame: A Novelized Account of the Life, Death, and Legacy of Ahmed Shah Massoud
FROM THAT FLAME follows journalist Michelle Garrett as she interviews the legendary Commander Ahmed Shah Massoud - the "Lion of Panjshir" - in Afghanistan's rugged Hindu Kush Mountains. Without warning, an attack by Taliban and al-Qaeda troops propels Michelle into a wartime adventure with...- $19.95
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Vendor: Vigdis Hjorth
Repetition
Prize-winning novel by one of the foremost writers of her generation, explores the horror and beauty of being sixteen-years-old. In a Norwegian November, when it is dark at waking and dark at sleeping, a novelist in her sixties sits next to a teenaged girl...- $19.95
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Vendor: Amy Terrill
No Secrets Among Sisters
Once at the top of her field, investigative reporter Amelia Collins has been struggling with the loss of her father. When her story exposing political corruption at the highest level is shelved, her temper erupts, putting her career in jeopardy at a moment when...- $35.99
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Vendor: Amy Terrill
No Secrets Among Sisters
Once at the top of her field, investigative reporter Amelia Collins has been struggling with the loss of her father. When her story exposing political corruption at the highest level is shelved, her temper erupts, putting her career in jeopardy at a moment when...- $21.99
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Vendor: Shelley Noble
The Sisters of Book Row
A thrilling and timely historical novel of books, banning, and the women who helped save New York's famed Book Row, from bestselling author Shelley Noble.1915: Manhattan's Book Row, an eclectic jumble of forty bookshops along Fourth Avenue, is the mecca for rare book buyers...- $30.00
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Vendor: Reshonda Tate
With Love from Harlem: A Novel of Hazel Scott
Author: Reshonda TateISBN-10: 0063421186ISBN-13: 9780063421189Publisher: William Morrow & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/27/2026Pages: 416Format: Paperback- $19.99
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Vendor: Amanda McCabe
Secretary to the Socialite
In the glittering world of mid-century America, Millicent Rogers is a woman ahead of her time-Standard Oil heiress, fashion icon, patron of the arts, wife, mother, lover to men like Ian Fleming and Clark Gable. Her beauty and intelligence captivate the world. But behind...- $19.99
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Vendor: James Bridgwater
Blind Justice
Mark Wilson suffered such abuse and trauma as a child he was psychologically damaged and developed problems including split personalities and psychosomatic blindness. Now he has a guide dog called Willow and a dark secret. Blind Justice is a transvestite vigilante seeking revenge on...- $12.99
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Vendor: Penny Haw
The Woman and Her Stars
Author: Penny HawISBN-10: 1728295483ISBN-13: 9781728295480Publisher: Sourcebooks LandmarkLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/03/2026Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.25h x 5.50w x 1.50d- $17.99
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Vendor: Doug Draper
Mad Dad, Fun Dad: Finding Hope That Things Will Get Better
From an early age, Ben Baker knows that "when dad is mad, someone is going to get hurt." He sees it when his father bashes his mother in the head with a shotgun and experiences it through frequent beatings with brooms, rakes or whatever...- $14.99
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Vendor: Luis Martinez
Loser
You will not want to put this book down, every chapter has its twist and turn's. LOSER recounts the struggles against a rebellious attitude, life on the streets and difficult relationships with friends, family and women. This memoir recounts the author's personal viewpoint toward...- $13.49
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Vendor: Zane Grey
Betty Zane
Zane Grey's debut novel, which he self-published in 1905, "Betty Zane" is the first book in Grey's "Frontier Trilogy" and tells the true biographical story of Elizabeth "Betty" Zane, a hero of the American Revolutionary War and direct ancestor of the author. While under...- $11.99
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Vendor: Benjamin Markovits
Quiet Adjustment
In his Byron trilogy, Benjamin Markovits lovingly reinvents the nineteenth-century novel, true to its perfect prose, penetrating insight, and simmering passions. Inspired by the actual biography of Lord Byron the greatest literary figure and most notorious sex symbol of his age Markovits re-imagines Byron...- $24.95
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Vendor: Phillip Margulies
Belle Cora
In the home where Arabella Godwin was raised it is forbidden to speak her name, and her picture is turned to the wall. But in the turbulent America of the 1850s, everyone knows her as "Belle Cora," madam of San Francisco's finest bordello. Judges...- $25.00
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Vendor: Saara El-Arifi
Cleopatra
Cleopatra tells her own story in this evocative and sensuous historical epic from the bestselling and award-winning author of Faebound and The Final Strife. This stunning edition includes designed endpapers and a custom case stamp. YOU KNOW MY NAME, BUT YOU DO NOT KNOW...- $30.00
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Vendor: Tove Jansson
The Summer Book (Movie Tie-In Edition)
Now a major motion picture starring Glenn Close and directed by Charlie McDowell In The Summer Book Tove Jansson distills the essence of the summer--its sunlight and storms--into twenty-two crystalline vignettes. This brief novel tells the story of Sophia, a six-year-old girl awakening to...- $15.95
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Vendor: Steven P. Lansky
Shoes
Lansky's singular, marvelously absurd, graphic, hybrid novella, Shoes has cutting-edge detailed, prose modeled on recanted reality. It moves like the doorway god Janus, who, upon the threshold, looks both outwards, and to the interior. Two faces, toggle facets of moments, the third eye drawn...- $15.00
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Vendor: Gordon Gordey
His Name Was Henry
This paperback book contains the English and Ukrainian versions of the story.Ця книга у м'якій обкладинці містить англійську та українську версії оповідання.---When Gordon Gordey was eight-years-old, his carefree farm boy childhood was about to be snatched away. His dad badly injured his back in...- $7.99
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Vendor: Daniel Carlson
The Life and Death of My Best Friend, Davy Crockett
This book chronicles the extraordinary life, adventures, and death of David Crockett as recounted and described by his lifelong friend. This true account details David's remarkable journey from his humble origins in Tennessee, where he was sold into child slavery, his term of service...- $11.99
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Vendor: Mary Irvine
A Greek Love Affair
After a failed marriage, Carys has become increasingly discontent with her life. She decides to do what she's always dreamed of, and moves to Greece.Taking a year's leave of absence from her job, she heads to Athens, where she hopes her self-esteem and confidence...- $13.49
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Vendor: Thomas Leland
The History of the Life and Reign of Philip: King of Macedon, the Father of Alexander
The History of the Life and Reign of Philip - King of Macedon, the Father of Alexander is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1775. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel...- $38.90
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Vendor: Theodore H. Lehman
Defying Odds
Eli Wiesel, Primo Levi and others have written notably about the horrors of the Holocaust, the loss of life, and the personal costs of cruelty. Ted Lehman adds a uniquely intimate, autobiographical view of that experience with day-by-day accounts of his life. His descriptions...- $18.95
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Vendor: Diane Jane Ball
The Austens of Bath
This is the second in a series of three novels telling the true stories of Jane Austen and her family. The Austens of Bath covers the period from 1801 to 1809.Few of Jane's letters survive from this time when she lived in Bath and...- $16.99
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Vendor: Leora Skolkin-Smith
Stealing Faith
Allegra Gordon knew there was much she could learn from Faith Hale. From the moment she met the esteemed writer and feminist icon on the campus of New York's Abigail Stone College, Allegra understood that Faith would be a force in her life, one...- $16.95
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Vendor: Harold Nightingale
Poems of Love and Whimsy
Harold has written a collection of poems, thought streams, and lyric prose, and published them in the hope that his grandchildren or great-grandchildren will read them and thereby gain some insights. Publishing these poems is also a wonderful way to celebrate his life. He...- $12.00
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Vendor: Virginia Woolf
Orlando
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'Orlando had become a woman - there is no denying it. But in every other respect, Orlando remained precisely as he had been. The change of sex, though it altered their future, did...- $7.99
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Vendor: Betty Burton
Josephine and Harriet
Two women, two lives, two very different fates. Josephine is one of the very few female journalists in Victorian England - not a job for a respectable young woman. Her chosen path is far from easy but she's determined and courageous. Harriet is content...- $11.06
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Vendor: James Patterson
The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe: A True Crime Thriller
"Electrifying... A spellbinding new account of the star's final days by the world's greatest thriller writer." -- Daily Mail With unparalleled ambition, instinctual physicality, keen business intelligence, and a remarkable sense of humor, Marilyn Monroe achieved sensational celebrity. Yet, she insisted, "I never really...- $34.00
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The Ruins in Which We Bleed: Inspired by the Most Heartbreaking Holocaust True Story Ever Uncovered
Author: Steve N. LeeISBN-10: 1914292367ISBN-13: 9781914292361Publisher: Blue ZooLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/23/2025Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.76d- $16.99
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Vendor: Mariska Tan
Under the Rambutan Trees: Stories of a Karo Family
For many years, Isabel carried the guilt of believing she had caused the death of her charismatic, loving grandfather. But was that really the truth? Under the Rambutan Trees is a semi-autobiographical collection of interconnected stories that revisit the author's childhood in Medan, in...- $14.99
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Vendor: Tea Gudek Snajdar
Following Van Gogh
"More than anything, he wanted to paint people"1880s: Aspiring artist, Vincent van Gogh, struggles with the Dutch winds along the coastal town of Scheveningen, trying to paint against all odds. Vincent's ensuing quest to learn and grow sees him travelling across three countries in...- $24.99
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Vendor: M. T. Philipps
The Joys of Isolation: Thoughts on a Good Life
Encounter the beauty of solitude in The Joys of Isolation, M. T. Philipps's exploration of the meaning found in life's quiet moments. With spiritual insight and poetic reflection, this is the perfect read for those seeking personal growth.In his new novel, written in the...- $23.99
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Vendor: Daniel Poppick
The Copywriter
A portrait of the poet as an office worker, plumbing the depths of the spiritual gulf between art and work. It's the summer of 2017 and D__, a poet working by day as a copywriter at a retail start-up, can't dispel a creeping sense...- $26.00
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Vendor: Imogen Edwards-Jones
The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe: A True-Crime Thriller
With unparalleled ambition, instinctual physicality, keen business intelligence, and a remarkable sense of humor, Marilyn Monroe achieved sensational celebrity. Yet, she insisted, "I never really felt like a star. Not really, not in my heart."In the months before her death, Marilyn polishes the script...- $45.95
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Vendor: George E. Foster
Se-quo-yah - The American Cadmus and Modern Moses: a complete biography of the greatest of redmen, around whose wonderful life has been woven the mann
Se-quo-yah - The American Cadmus and Modern Moses - a complete biography of the greatest of redmen, around whose wonderful life has been woven the manners, customs and beliefs of the early Cherokees is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1885....- $30.90
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Vendor: Delcy Voisine
ABOUT ANDRE et al.
One man, two centuries, in America's last continental frontier. Adapting to a new language during the early years of the family featured in this novel proved to be more difficult for adults than for their children who had the benefit of formal in-class schooling....- $10.95
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Vendor: Imre Kertész
The Union Jack
"It was...unnecessary for me to fret about who the murderer was: Everybody was." A haunting, never-before-translated, autobiographical novella by the 2002 Nobel Prize winner. An unnamed narrator recounts a simple anecdote, his sighting of the Union Jack--the British Flag--during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956,...- $13.00
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Vendor: Catherine Poulain
Woman at Sea
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE SCOTT MONCRIEFF PRIZE 2019****NOMINATED FOR THE MÉDICIS PRIZE 2018** 'A tale of travel and adventure, the story of a body utterly surrendered to pain and joy. It is mind-blowing, a delight.' Le Monde Lili is a runaway. She's left behind her...- $26.95
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Vendor: James M. Thompson
Abandoned
This is the story of a couple abandoning a baby. It is told through the mother's eyes in first person. Why did they do it? It was the end of the depression, and times were still hard, but why abandon their son: ? This...- $15.00
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Vendor: Beck Feiner
Got Legends Alphabet
From the Cleganebowl and the Red Wedding to the Battle of the Blackwater and the Long Night, Games of Thrones Legends Alphabet presents the most powerful characters behind the biggest events the realm has ever seen. Take a trip to Westeros to meet them...- $19.95
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The Untold
"[A] page turner...Jessie, the heroine of this tale set in 1920s Australia, sets her own compass...The chase will leave you breathless."--Good Housekeeping It is 1921. In a mountain-locked valley, amid squalls of driving rain, Jessie is on the run. Born wild and brave, by...- $22.00
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Vendor: Ann Napolitano
A Good Hard Look
In Flannery O'Connor's hometown of Milledgeville, Georgia, reckless relationships lead to a tragedy that forever alters the town and the author herself, in this biographical novel.Author: Ann NapolitanoISBN-10: 0143121154ISBN-13: 9780143121152Publisher: Penguin Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/26/2012Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.90d- $22.00
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Vendor: Paul Burch
Meridian Rising
Known for "Blue Yodel (T for Texas)," "Waiting for a Train," and "In the Jailhouse Now," Jimmie Rodgers's impact on American music is incalculable. Paul Burch's bio-fictional tale of the short and poignant life of the "Father of Country Music" includes an imagined first-person...- $28.95
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Growing (in)Dependence: A Black Woman's Journey of Unlearning
Embarking on a journey of self-discovery, one young woman learns what it really means to be a strong Black woman.Growing (in)Dependence: A Black Woman's Journey of Unlearning follows one woman's mission to balance independence with vulnerability as she manages the expectations of family, society,...- $14.99
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Growing (in)Dependence: A Black Woman's Journey of Unlearning
Embarking on a journey of self-discovery, one young woman learns what it really means to be a strong Black woman.Growing (in)Dependence: A Black Woman's Journey of Unlearning follows one woman's mission to balance independence with vulnerability as she manages the expectations of family, society,...- $22.99
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Vendor: David Farrell Krell
This Dagger, My Heart
Historical fiction centered around the life and tragic death of the German Romantic poet and philosopher Karoline von Günderrode.In 1806, when she was only twenty-six, Karoline von Günderrode plunged a dagger through her heart. She was a gifted poet and philosopher, a member of...- $19.95
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Vendor: Juana Martin
Moses Maimonides: Bridging Faith and Reason: From Córdoba to Cairo: A Journey Through Faith, Exile, and Rational Thought
Moses Maimonides, bekannt als der Rambam, zählt zu den einflussreichsten Denkern des Mittelalters. Doch wer war der Mann hinter den bahnbrechenden Werken, die bis heute Philosophie, Medizin und jüdisches Recht prägen? In "Moses Maimonides: Bridging Faith and Reason" zeichnet Juana Martin das faszinierende Leben...- $16.99
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Vendor: George Ticknor Curtis
Life of James Buchanan: Vol. 2
Life of James Buchanan - Vol. 2 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1883. 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...- $65.90
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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.