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Vendor: Denise Shaw
The Woman Who Stole My Life
Can murder ever really be justified?What if the opportunity arose for you to get rid of your husband's mistress? Would you take it?Denise was tested beyond her limit and was incarcerated for a crime that she was only too delighted to commit.She has no...- $12.99
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Strong Vincent: A Call to Glory
Many people have heard about Joshua Chamberlain's famous bayonet charge at Gettysburg; few know about the unsung hero who put him there.The Civil War broke out in 1861, just as Strong Vincent was beginning his career as a Harvard-educated lawyer and preparing to marry...- $23.95
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Vendor: Paul Colt
Lunger: The Doc Holliday Story
Author: Paul ColtISBN-10: 1420516051ISBN-13: 9781420516050Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/11/2024Pages: 406Format: PaperbackLarge Print- $27.99
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Vendor: Dan Denton
The Dead and the Desperate
Step into a world of grit and survival in The Dead & The Desperate by Dan Denton. This poignant novel takes you on a raw and unflinching journey through the life of its main character, who becomes an accidental father while grappling with untreated...- $25.00
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Vendor: Jules Larimore
Find Me in the Stars: a Cevenoles Sagas novel
"Larimore's ability to engulf a reader into a tale... is brilliantly done."5-star Highly Recommended Award of Excellence Historical Fiction Company Separated by miles, connected by the stars, two healers forge their destinies in a quest for a brighter tomorrow during Louis XIV's oppressive rule.Inspired...- $16.99
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Alternate Endings: Genevieve Arquette's story
The story you're about to read is an interview style biography about a fictional character named Genevieve Arquette, a best-selling author of over a dozen novels. She has entertained America for decades now and she's finally back to do it again. Though she has...- $13.00
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Vendor: Penny Haw
Follow Me to Africa
Historical fiction inspired by the story of Mary Leakey, who carved her own path to become one of the world's most distinguished paleoanthropologists.It's 1983 and seventeen-year-old Grace Clark has just lost her mother when she begrudgingly accompanies her estranged father to an archeological dig...- $17.99
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Vendor: Gill Paul
Scandalous Women: A Novel of Jackie Collins and Jacqueline Susann
Mad Men meets the world of publishing in international bestselling author Gill Paul's new novel about Jackie Collins and Jacqueline Susann, two dynamic, groundbreaking writers renowned for their scandalous and controversial novels, and the beleaguered young editorial assistant who introduces them.1966, NYC: Jacqueline Susann's...- $49.99
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Vendor: Catherine Bardon
The Ogre's Daughter
The turbulent life story of Flor de Oro Trujillo, the eldest child of one of the world's most brutal dictators. Flor de Oro was born in 1915 in San Cristóbal, Dominican Repulic. Her father rose from small-time gangster to dictator and ruthlessly ruled the...- $28.00
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Vendor: Marshall Saunders
Beautiful Joe
"Beautiful Joe" by Marshall Saunders is a touching and enduring tale of resilience, compassion, and the transformative electricity of affection. The novel is narrated via Joe, a canine who has suffered cruelty at the arms of his owner but finds redemption and a new...- $17.99
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Vendor: H. Rider Haggard
King Solomon's Mines (Annotated)
In the sun-drenched tapestry of literary adventure, few works resonate with the vibrancy and allure as H. Rider Haggard's magnum opus, "King Solomon's Mines." Crafted with the precision of a master storyteller, this seminal novel beckons readers into a world where the uncharted heart...- $19.95
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Vendor: Nancy Moser
Washington's Lady: A Novel of Martha Washington and the Birth of a Nation
Known for moving first-person novels of Nannerl Mozart, Jane Austen, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Nancy Moser now brings to life the loves and trials of the first First Lady of the United States. When a dapper, young George Washington comes into her life, Martha...- $26.99
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Vendor: Jack Kerouac
Visions of Gerard
The first book in Kerouac's Duluoz Legend, a novella detailing the writer's early life as refracted through the prism of the untimely loss of his brotherUnique among Jack Kerouac's novels, Visions of Gerard captures the scenes and sensations of earliest childhood, the first four...- $29.95
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Vendor: Matthew Di Paoli
Holliday
Holliday follows the infamous 1880s gambler, dentist, and gunslinger, Doc Holliday. From the outset, Doc has been diagnosed with tuberculosis and is told to head to dryer climates and imbibe to prolong his life. He has also heard of a spring located somewhere along...- $24.95
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Vendor: Aggrey Bulamu
Effort for Comfort: A Little Girl's Journey
Eff ort for Comfort is a story about a 15-year-old girl in deep rural Uganda, East Africa, who is married off early, and endures many forms of harassment. Later, with the help of fellow young women, she works her way to transform livelihoods in...- $29.50
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Vendor: Thomas Carlyle
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, And The Heroic In History
Thomas Carlyle published a series of lectures titled "On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History" in 1841. Carlyle contends that heroes are crucial to human advancement and are in charge of influencing history. He characterizes a hero as having a "great spirit" and...- $13.99
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Vendor: Jonathan Dunne
Hide the Elephant
Forcefully-retired zoo-keeper Mick Munroe is hiding two BIG things: Alzheimer's and a 42 year-old Indian elephant called Sinbad.Mick and his elephant become overnight on-the-run, anti-hero legends when Mick, an old rebel with a cause, takes matters into his own hands. The Alzheimer's brings Mick...- $8.99
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Vendor: Stephane Baillon
Imhotep and the scepter of the gods: Discovery, facts, the evidence
-2600 years BC, at the dawn of civilization, a man called Imhotep erected a pyramid in the desert, at Saqqara, for his pharaoh. Everyone knows that, BUT what few people know is that, recently, studies have been carried out on the chemical composition of...- $5.90
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Vendor: Francis H. Hastings
Family Record of Dr. Seth Hastings, Senior: of Clinton, Oneida County, New York
Family Record of Dr. Seth Hastings, Senior - of Clinton, Oneida County, New York 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...- $27.90
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Vendor: Douglas MacKinnon
Tales of Apartment Living
Entertaining tales of the human experience, While living and working multi-unit buildings. Whether it is apartment buildings or condos, and the crazy stuff that goes on unnoticed behind closed doors, (and sometimes in the halls). All of the stories are made up, though most...- $13.99
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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: 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: 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: 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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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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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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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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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.

