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Vendor: Camron Wright
The Orphan Keeper
Based on a remarkable true story Seven-year-old Chellamuthu's life--and his destiny--is forever changed when he is kidnapped from his village in Southern India and sold to the Lincoln Home for Homeless Children. His family is desperate to find him, and Chellamuthu anxiously tells the...- $39.99
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My Townie Heart
Laura DiStefano is torn between dreams of a new counter-cultural life and the undertow of a dysfunctional family. Laura DiStefano has flunked out of the University of Massachusetts just as the counterculture reaches its peak in the 1970s. Reluctantly, Laura returns to live back...- $21.00
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The Life of a Fundraiser: Making A Difference
Straight from the real-world exploits of a high-level fundraiser comes this barely fictionalized account of the world of philanthropy, a world populated by the well-heeled and well-connected. The Life of a Fundraiser is the story of Max Dorgan, a successful fundraiser for a large...- $14.95
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Motherhood
From the author of How Should a Person Be? ("one of the most talked-about books of the year"--Time Magazine) and the New York Times Bestseller Women in Clothes comes a daring audiobook about whether to have children. In Motherhood, Sheila Heti asks what is...- $32.99
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The Second Mother
Widowed at nineteen and determined to secure a future for her young daughter, Margaret Peppers enters training as an Episcopal deaconess, placing her child in the care of her husband's family while she prepares for service in a world on the brink of upheaval.Margaret's...- $19.99
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Hanna: One Woman's Quest for Vengeance and Enlightenment
Hannah: one woman's quest for vengeance and enlightenment, is a historical novel that explores survival, trauma, and the moral ambiguity that is born out of violence. It is a complex tale blending folklore and fact, set in a world defined by fear, faith, and...- $29.99
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Vendor: Lisa Groen
The Cassatt Sisters: A Novel of Love and Art
"Replete with emotional interactions that bring the sisters and their world to life, The Cassatt Sisters is hard to put down, intensely revealing, and a work of art itself." -Midwest Book ReviewIn 1877, the Paris art scene is very competitive for men but nearly...- $24.95
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The Blood of the Baroness: Micaëla de Pontalba - Shot, Betrayed, and Unbreakable
The Blood of the Baroness mines the world of the bizarre, tapestried Baroness of Pontalba. A woman grown fierce from fighting terror outside and inside the family--and the proud, tortured, exotic men who betrayed her. The authors, sixth- and seventh-generation New Orleanians, bring you...- $23.99
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Vendor: Sheila Killian
Something Bigger
Birmingham, Alabama, 1921: after the Great War, the city of coal and steel is a crucible of money and power. Fortunes are there to be won or lost, with race and class used as means to that end. Father Jimmy Coyle swims passionately against...- $20.95
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Vendor: Eric Stang
The Iron Road: A Historical Novella of Immigrants, Railroads, and the American West
At the turn of the twentieth century, the American West was being built one bridge at a time.Armondo Matteucci arrives from Italy searching for opportunity, but quickly learns that survival on the railroad requires more than strength. High above rivers and mountain gulches, crews...- $12.99
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Vendor: Amanda Schiavo
Fire and Faith: A Novel of Queen Mary I
"Fire and Faith is the powerful and intimate story of the Queen, the wife, and the woman behind the unfair myth of Bloody Mary. Amanda Schiavo's story is a must read for Tudor fans everywhere." -Clemmie Bennett, author of The Apple and The Tree...- $20.95
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Vendor: Philip Roth
Zuckerman Unbound
"Zuckerman Unbound is masterful, sure in every touch, as clear and economical of line as a crystal vase." --New York Times Book ReviewNow in his mid-thirties, Nathan Zuckerman, a would-be recluse despite his newfound fame as a bestselling author, ventures onto the streets of...- $19.99
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Vendor: Philip Roth
The Ghost Writer
FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE AND THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD"Further evidence that Roth can do practically anything with fiction. His narrative power--the ability to delight the reader simultaneously with the telling and the tale--is superb." --The Washington PostThe Ghost Writer introduces Nathan Zuckerman in...- $18.99
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Vendor: Oliver V. Ledene
Shift Change
"When you get to the end of something, isn't it only natural to look back to the beginning?"Three years after leaving Sunrise behind, Vern receives a jarring phone call, knocking loose old memories that he'd carefully tucked away. While sifting through this time in...- $17.50
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Vendor: Amit Chaudhuri
Château Rouge
A meditative and fragmentary novel about a writer invited to a residency in Paris, where he sublets an apartment in the Château Rouge area--an experience that eventually leads him to a newly expansive attitude toward the city. I was beginning to feel it would...- $16.95
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Vendor: Edwin Ritts
Guardians of the Muse
Mitchell Jenkins is an ambitious museum director who will do anything to increase his status in life, including leaving literal and figurative victims in his wake. Both his methods and his morals are questionable at best.Ted Martin is the director of a small art...- $18.99
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Vendor: Ryan Forsythe
Dick Cheney Saves Paris: a personal and political madcap sci-fi meta- anti- novel
With insight, humor, and a bit of "I don't know what," Ryan Forsythe turns the modern political satire on its head in this alternative history exploring why Dick Cheney did the things he's done. We first meet a young Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney in...- $12.99
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Vendor: Consuelo Parra
Melusine
Summer 1128Matilda, once Empress of the Holy Roman Empire, daughter and heir to the King of England, has been married for the sake of politics to Geoffrey, heir to the Count of Anjou; an untested, untitled boy. Through hard years of marriage, Matilda seeks...- $14.99
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Vendor: Anthony II Batts
Deuce: A Second Chance at Life
Deuce: a second chance at life is a literary representation of growth. Oftentimes an environment has the ability to build or break a person's future. The unlikely event of a life changing accident expresses how the main character battles childhood depression, issues of self-confidence...- $11.99
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Vendor: Nanine Case
In Search of the Cannibal King
It all began when Nanine laid eyes on an old newspaper article titled Yankee Cannibal King... Nanine's quest to learn the true story that inspired the fantastical article led her on a global adventure, eventually landing her on the Marquesas Islands. On her journey,...- $12.99
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Vendor: Cyril Fox
The Unfairest Cape
When Gina hangs herself in Warder Steenkamp's coal shed on Robben Island just a week after she was released from Valkenburg Asylum, Dr Moon has no hesitation recorded her end as 'Death by Suicide.' So begins the fictional biography of Constable James Fox. James's...- $9.99
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Vendor: Andy N
Death
'Death' Andy N's second full-length novel is as much a sequel to his first novel 'Birth' (described as a charming come-of-age novel) as facing the end of something else altogether.Having navigated the tumultuous waters of youth and found his voice as a writer after...- $8.99
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Vendor: Arnold Bennett
Buried Alive
"Buried Alive" tells the story of Priam Farll, a talented artist who gains recognition for his remarkable skill in portrait painting. He is celebrated and admired in the art world, and his works are highly sought after. However, despite his artistic success, Farll is...- $34.00
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Vendor: Theodore Dreiser
Twelve Men
In any group of men I have ever known, speaking from the point of view of character and not that of physical appearance, Peter would stand out as deliciously and irrefutably different. In the great waste of American intellectual dreariness he was an oasis,...- $34.00
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Vendor: Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe
"And I add this part here, to hint to whoever shall read it, that whenever they come to a true Sense of things, they will find Deliverance from Sin a much greater Blessing than Deliverance from Affliction." ― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe Robinson Crusoe...- $18.99
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Vendor: Henry David Thoreau
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
I heartily accept the motto, -"That government is best which governs least;" and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe-"That government is best which governs not at...- $11.99
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Vendor: A. K. a. Dadhi
An Intimate Dance of a pair of hands
This book is a glimpse of the mystery and beauty of life with all the nuances of romance, love prayer, fantasy, tragedy, philosophy, spirituality, memory and imagination. It is a book in which you may find yourself too. It is a Mirror that reflects...- $10.25
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Vendor: Jui Andhare
Little Setu And The Forbidden Forest Of Ula
Setu and Anila stopped just short of the first forest, Sukaan ? which was the only way to the dark woods of Ula. Anila's legs trembled as they stood there looking at the enormity of the dark woods. ñIf this is Sukaan, how frightening...- $6.25
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Vendor: Stanley Weyman
From The Memoirs Of A Minister Of France
"From the Memoirs of a Minister of France" by Stanley Weyman is a captivating historical novel that offers readers an intriguing glimpse into the world of politics, intrigue, and power during the 17th century in France. Told through the perspective of a minister of...- $17.99
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Vendor: Herman Melville
Pierre; or The Ambiguities
Pierre; or The Ambiguities, a classical book, has been considered essential throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and...- $29.24
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Vendor: William Makepeace Thackeray
Catherine: A Story
A fresh gaze on a familiar world: Catherine speaks to us across the ages with a wit that stings and a heart that endures. William Makepeace Thackeray's Catherine: A Story gathers intimate portraits from nineteenth century fiction into a cohesive, sparkling short story collection....- $22.37
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Vendor: Murat Tuncel
The Third Death
This is the story of the life of a Hungarian man living through the most turbulent years of the twentieth century. Born the youngest of three brothers and one sister Galgoczy, was denied a normal childhood by the chaos of the first world war....- $39.00
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Vendor: Annette Oppenlander
So Close to Heaven
A harrowing tale of a single woman's fight to preserve her beloved abbey, a tale of courage and perserverance - based on a true story.South Tirol, Sabiona Abbey, 1796: Magdalena, a Benedictine nun, lives with her fellow sisters at Sabiona Abbey, a secluded monastery...- $14.99
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Vendor: Alice N. York
Game - Faint Signals
GAME-Faint Signals: Delicate Career-Novel with Smart Solar Ideas Alex leads a thoroughly contented life. In Sandro she has found the right man, and the new job in the solar energy industry seems tailor-made for her. Driven and experienced, she takes on the management position:...- $22.95
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Vendor: Ford Madox Ford
The Fifth Queen and how she came to court
Reproduction of the original: The Fifth Queen and how she came to court by Ford Madox FordAuthor: Ford Madox FordISBN-10: 3752322152ISBN-13: 9783752322156Publisher: Outlook VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/18/2020Pages: 198Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.45d- $47.90
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Vendor: David Garrick
The Life of Mr. James Quin: comedian, with the History of the Stage From His Commencing Actor to His Retreat to Bath
The Life of Mr. James Quin - comedian, with the History of the Stage From His Commencing Actor to His Retreat to Bath is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1766. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas...- $22.90
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Vendor: Edward Bean Underhill
Alfred Saker, Missionary to Africa: A biography
Alfred Saker, Missionary to Africa - A biography is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1884. 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....- $28.50
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Vendor: Ethelbert Dudley Warfield
Joseph Cabell Breckinridge, Junior: Ensign in the United States Navy
Joseph Cabell Breckinridge, Junior - Ensign in the United States Navy 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,...- $22.90
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Vendor: Elbridge Streeter Brooks
The true story of George Washington: Called the Father of his Country
The true story of George Washington - Called the Father of his Country is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1895. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and...- $28.50
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Vendor: Thomas Bulfinch
The boy Inventor: A Memoir of Matthew Edwards
The boy Inventor - A Memoir of Matthew Edwards 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...- $22.90
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The Boy Inventor: A memoir of Matthew Edwards, mathematical-instrument maker
The Boy Inventor - A memoir of Matthew Edwards, mathematical-instrument maker 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,...- $22.90
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Vendor: Ann Rutledge
Ann Rutledge: heart story of the early Lincoln
Ann Rutledge - heart story of the early Lincoln is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1890. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other...- $22.90
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Vendor: Arthur O'Shaughnessy
Arthur O'Shaughnessy, his Life and his Work: With Selections from his Poems
Arthur O'Shaughnessy, his Life and his Work - With Selections from his Poems is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1894. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and...- $22.90
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The Words of Wellington: Collected from his Dispatches, Letters, and Speeches, with Anecdotes, etc.
The Words of Wellington - Collected from his Dispatches, Letters, and Speeches, with Anecdotes, etc. 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,...- $28.50
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The words of Wellington: Collected from his despatches, letters, and speeches
The words of Wellington - Collected from his despatches, letters, and speeches 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 nutrition,...- $28.50
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Arthur O'Shaughnessy: His Life and His Work With Selections From His Poems
Arthur O'Shaughnessy - His Life and His Work With Selections From His Poems is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1894. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and...- $22.90
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John Henry Newman: The Founder of Modern Anglicanism and a Cardinal of the Roman Church
John Henry Newman - The Founder of Modern Anglicanism and a Cardinal of the Roman Church is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1890. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and...- $22.90
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Vendor: Albert Barry
Life of Blessed Margaret Mary Alacoque of the Sacred Heart
Life of Blessed Margaret Mary Alacoque of the Sacred Heart 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...- $28.50
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The True Story of Kaspar Hause
The True Story of Kaspar Hause is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1893. 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...- $22.90
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Life of Soeur Marie, the workwoman of Liege
Life of Soeur Marie, the workwoman of Liege is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1870. 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....- $28.50
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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.

