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Vendor: Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War
LARGE PRINT EDITION. A LARGE PRINT EDITION includes text at a size much larger than a typical paperback. The biggest difference in a LARGE PRINT BOOK is the size of the text, which is much larger than a standard print edition. This larger text...- $16.91
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Vendor: Honore De Balzac
The Lily of the Valley
Reproduction of the original: The Lily of the Valley by Honore de BalzacAuthor: Honore De BalzacISBN-10: 3734083834ISBN-13: 9783734083839Publisher: Outlook VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/25/2019Pages: 214Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.07lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d- $56.90
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Vendor: William Salter
Memoirs of Joseph W. Pickett: missionary superintendent in southern Iowa and in the Rocky mountains for the American home missionary society
Memoirs of Joseph W. Pickett - missionary superintendent in southern Iowa and in the Rocky mountains for the American home missionary society is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1880. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such...- $24.50
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Vendor: Michael Deeb
Investigating the Kennedy Assassination: Did Sirhan Really Kill Senator Robert Kennedy? Volume 3
Uncover the hidden truths behind the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. Senator Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in the early hours of June 5, 1968, just after winning the California Democratic Party primary. Sirhan B. Sirhan was arrested at the scene and later convicted...- $19.99
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Vendor: Robert Moss
The Interpreter: A Story of Two Worlds
A visionary journey into the crucible in which America was born, a tale of love and war and of a master shaman who folds time to seek the key to the survival of his people.A vivid narrative of the clash of cultures on the...- $23.95
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Vendor: Zoey Dean
Privileged (Media tie-in)
Recent Yale graduate Megan Smith comes to Manhattan with big plans for a career in journalism and even bigger student loan debt: $75,000. When she flails at her trashy tabloid job, she's given an escape hatch: tutor seventeen-year-old identical twins Rose and Sage Baker--yes,...- $21.99
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Vendor: Gill Sims
Why Mummy Drinks on Holiday
No.1 bestselling author Gill Sims is back with her eagerly awaited sixth Why Mummy novel. When family life gives you lemons, trade them for grapes! Mummy Ellen is on a well-earned sabbatical from work, and she has A Vision. She is going to cherish...- $18.99
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Vendor: Charles Kingsley
Hypatia: Or New Foes With An Old Face
Hypatia: Or New Foes With An Old Face This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we...- $19.00
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Vendor: Amanda Flower
Not They Who Soar
Summer 1904. Katharine and her best friend, Margaret Goodwin Meacham, are thrilled to attend the St. Louis Exposition for the centennial celebration of the Louisiana Purchase. Not only is it a grand event, it's also the first time the young women have traveled together...- $45.99
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Vendor: Jenifer Kay Hood
Young Vincent
Young Vincent offers a sweeping and intimate exploration of the life and loves of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, tracing her journey from a latchkey child to a defiant Vassar graduate and literary icon. In this compelling work, Hood masterfully blends fact with imagination...- $32.95
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Vendor: Charlie Ryan
Lion On A Leash: The Journey Of "French" Alderson, West Virginia's African Lion
Based on the incredible true story of a lion cub born in captivity and the circus cavalcade that captivated a nation.In this remarkable novel based on a true story, journey back to just before the turn of the nineteenth century, when the circus held...- $19.99
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Vendor: April Carlson Depuy
Natalie's Flight from Russia: A young girl's remarkable journey; 1900's
Amidst the turmoil of post-revolutionary Russia, young Natalie dreams of freedom. Forced to flee her homeland, she embarks on a perilous journey filled with danger, resilience, and the pursuit of a new life. Facing betrayal, love, and the haunting memories of war, Natalie must...- $12.99
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Vendor: Judy A. Benson
The Book of Todd
Thomas K. Clark and Judy Benson were married for 38 years when Tom died in 2022, just five months after being diagnosed with a very aggressive form a cancer. In his last days, he asked Judy to finish a novella he had been working...- $20.00
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Vendor: Becky Baumert
Bubs And The Baron: A Novel Based on a True Story
"Bubs And The Baron" is a novel based on a true story, which takes place in 1938 in a small Arizona community. It is a coming-of-age book about three teenage boys and their summer camp adventures. A mysterious German baron and his family rent...- $17.99
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Vendor: Scott B. Lancelot
John Cena Story: A Journey Through The Rise of A Wrestling Icon
Step into the world of John Cena, one of the most iconic figures in sports entertainment. Known for his larger-than-life persona in WWE, Cena has captivated millions as both a professional wrestler and a Hollywood action star. But his story goes far beyond the...- $15.99
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Vendor: Carole Towriss
Deep Calling Deep
Praetorian Prefect Sextus Burrus has spent his life fighting for the glory of Rome, but that glory has lost its shine. As both his health and his career crumble, he is drawn toward the seemingly inexhaustible peace of one of his Jewish prisoners, the...- $9.99
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Vendor: Arabella Aristo
Naughty Girl
No husband. No money. A great bottom. With no money coming in, Arabella Aristo feared being thrown onto the streets. When her husband lost his job, Arabella decided she would become the bread winner. A visit to a pub showed her how to use...- $19.99
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Vendor: Thomas de Quincey
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (Collector's Edition) (Laminated Hardback with Jacket)
Collector's Edition Laminated Hardback with Jacket A mind caught between brilliance and ruin unravels in a world shaped by opium's intoxicating grip. What begins as a cure for pain soon transforms into a seductive escape, leading the narrator through visions of dreamlike beauty and...- $39.99
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Vendor: James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Collector's Edition) (Laminated Hardback with Jacket)
Collector's Edition Laminated Hardback with Jacket From the moment he first understands the power of words, a restless young boy begins to see the world differently-its beauty, its rules, and its quiet rebellions. As he grows, he is torn between the rigid expectations of...- $39.99
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Vendor: Brian C. Johnson
Free Indeed
Born into slavery and raised as "Negro Richard," Richard finds Christ and converts to Christianity. After purchasing his freedom from his slave master, Richard devotes his life to preaching the Word. Now free and having adopted the surname Allen, Richard founded the African Methodist...- $28.99
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Vendor: Vivian McCullough
Pawnee Prisoner: The Story of Jane Gotcher Crawford
Pawnee Prisoner, The Story of Jane Gotcher Crawford is a tale of survival set in the 1830s and based on the true story of the daughter of Texas pioneer James "Jim" Gotcher who carved a narrow road through Austin's Little Colony, and widow of...- $15.95
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Vendor: Joan Koster
Prairie Cinderella: Vinnie Ream and the Gilded Age
SHE IS GOING TO BE THE GREATEST SCULPTRESS Of THE GILDED AGESpirited Vinnie Ream might have been driven from her prairie home to the political hotbed of Washington City by the outbreak of the Civil War. But despite her plainspoken ways and western twang,...- $13.99
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Vendor: Sioux Dallas
Sharon
Sharon Donnelly is so nice and naïve, she's unbelievable. After her abusive husband is killed, she moves from Texas to Florida to attend USF and to work with her sister on her horses for handicapped riders. She can't understand why she's having so many...- $18.95
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Vendor: Saad E. Abbas
The Adventures of Ali BinAar
This is the story of Ali BinAar, a Hero who has been forgotten in the annals of time for more than 200 years, only for a few people who remembered his great achievements, his story would have been lost forever. Ali was a young...- $14.99
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Vendor: Frank English
Hit the Road Jack: Volume Three
A chance meeting in a cemetery in his home town throws Jack into a turmoil, as he tries to come to terms with his ailing marriage to Lee. Emotions and feelings that he thought he had buried, are thrust to the surface again, as...- $11.99
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Vendor: Oleg Pavlov
Asystole
From the first pages it becomes apparent that Asystole is a novel about love of life in its purest, instinctive and intimate form. It's also a novel about human faith in its existence and a desire to experience this love. Author Oleg Pavlov places...- $35.99
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Vendor: Ben Osemeke
Anthems for a Father
Anthems for a Father is a biographical fiction based on the life of the father and the author, laced with insightful humour, jokes and traditional African proverbs. It is about the reflection of a son on the teachings and influence of a father following...- $16.00
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Vendor: Janet Wertman
Nothing Proved
Danger lined her path, but destiny led her to glory... Elizabeth Tudor learned resilience young. Declared illegitimate after the execution of her mother Anne Boleyn, she bore her precarious position with unshakable grace. But upon the death of her father, King Henry VIII, the...- $25.99
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Vendor: Janet Wertman
Nothing Proved
Danger lined her path, but destiny led her to glory... Elizabeth Tudor learned resilience young. Declared illegitimate after the execution of her mother Anne Boleyn, she bore her precarious position with unshakable grace. But upon the death of her father, King Henry VIII, the...- $15.99
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Vendor: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The House of the Dead
The House of the Dead is a semi-autobiographical novel published in 1860-2 in the journal Vremya by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, which portrays the life of convicts in a Siberian prison camp. The novel has also been published under the titles Memoirs from the...- $14.95
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Vendor: Henry Adams
The Education of Henry Adams
The Education of Henry Adams is the Pulitzer Prize winning autobiography of Henry Adams. The Education is much more a record of Adams's introspection than of his deeds. It is an extended meditation on the social, technological, political, and intellectual changes that occurred over...- $11.99
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Vendor: Dennis Washington
Stripes & Pipes: The Diary Of An Ex-Crackhead
The account of Dennis Washington's twelve-year, Navy career, as seen though his own eyes, is perhaps one of the most shocking and entertaining exposes of our time, concerning the lives of young, en-listed, military men. Smoking marijuana in front of Navy Officers without reprimand!...- $13.99
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Vendor: Tom Hazuka
Visible Human
Winner, 2025 Blue Light Book AwardTom Hazuka has co-edited the short story anthologies Flash Fiction, Sudden Flash Youth, You Have Time for This and A Celestial Omnibus, and published the novels The Road to the Island, In the City of the Disappeared, and Last...- $20.00
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Vendor: Jens Peter Jacobsen
Niels Lyhne
Niels Lyhne is a novel by the Danish author Jens Peter Jacobsen, first published in 1880. The book follows the life of Niels Lyhne, a young man who grows up in rural Denmark in the mid-19th century. Niels is a sensitive and introspective individual...- $24.95
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Vendor: Carole Hopson
A Pair of Wings
An airline captain crafts a riveting, adventurous novel inspired by the remarkable true life of pioneer aviatrix Bessie Coleman, a Black woman who learned to fly at the dawn of aviation and found freedom in the air A few years after the Wright brothers'...- $18.99
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Vendor: Magdalena Vanderkooy
A Life Cut Short
". . . a compelling tale of a very large family coming from the Netherlands to Canada. It is also a heartbreaking tale of a young woman's struggle with her health and the impact her illness has on her family. It's hard to put...- $29.99
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Vendor: Deborah Hyland
For the Moment: An Anthology of Poems Straight From the Heart
This book is a glimpse into the heart and soul of a woman who has risen from the ashes, a collection of memoirs in poetry form. The intensity and raw emotion will touch you like no other. Deborah describes love, loss, loneliness and finishing...- $19.00
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Vendor: Ana?s Barbeau-Lavalette
When Water Became Blue
Annie Ernaux meets Annie Dillard in this sultry story of a woman's obsession with a painter -- and a river. A woman is on an artists' retreat on an island in the St. Lawrence Seaway, taking time away from her partner and her daughter...- $18.95
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Vendor: Jenifer Kay Hood
Young Vincent
Young Vincent offers a sweeping and intimate exploration of the life and loves of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, tracing her journey from a latchkey child to a defiant Vassar graduate and literary icon. In this compelling work, Hood masterfully blends fact with imagination...- $47.95
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Vendor: W. Michael Farmer
The Apache Kid: Army Apache Scout
From Army Scout to Outlaw, from Hero to Legend.He survived the embers of the fires and murders at the Camp Grant Massacre of Apaches. Young Has-kay-bay-nay-ntayl ("brave and tall and will come to a mysterious end"), a child known by many names but later...- $32.99
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Vendor: Marlo Faulkner
The Second Mrs. London: Charmian Kittredge Shares Her Life with Jack London
San Francisco, Spring of 1900: Charmian Kittredge is an ambitious woman of twenty-nine, single, and unafraid to challenge the conventions of polite society. Her life will be forever changed when she accompanies her literary editor aunt to a luncheon to meet a young writer,...- $34.95
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Vendor: Brunilda Milan
Going Home: One Woman's Journey of Remembrance, Self-Discovery, and the Calling of God.
Going Home deals with Zena's inner conflicts of getting old, feeling useless, and looking pessimistically with her life. Soon she will retire and wants to experience a lifetime trip down memory lane, but with a special twist. What will make this trip an unforgettable...- $16.49
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Vendor: Ali Anthony Bell
From the Rockies to The Windy City
Adult Auto-biographical FictionA young white American boy, the son of a preacher, experiences an enormous culture shock when his family moves from the Blackfeet Native American Reservation at the foot of the Rocky Mountains to join a religious sect in the inner-city Black ghetto...- $9.99
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Vendor: Ivani Greppi
Cast Out: Chronicles of a Familiar Spirit
How does a familiar spirit-a demonic entity-an evil imp-gain entrance into a family line and remain there for centuries? How does such a dark power transfer from one generation to the next-refusing to yield its turf? What compromises reinforce its control? What rituals does...- $21.95
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Vendor: Gerald Murnane
Landscape with Landscape
Landscape with Landscape was Gerald Murnane's fourth book, after The Plains, and his first collection of short fiction. When it was first published, thirty years ago, it was cruelly reviewed. "I feel sorry for my fourth-eldest, which of all my book-children was the most...- $19.95
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Vendor: Devon Jersild
Luminous Bodies: A Novel of Marie Curie
The name Marie Curie conjures up X-ray cars and electrometers, black-and-white photos of a researcher in a lab (often beside her husband, Pierre Curie), and the Nobel Prizes. But what about the woman, the daughter, wife, mother, friend, and lover?Based on years of meticulous...- $22.95
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Vendor: Lynda Lahman
The Story: Of Love, Loss, and Memories
What are the stories you hold that define you? What if - instead of helping you in life - they are holding you back and keeping you from connecting with those you love?In 'The Story: of Love, Loss, and Memories, ' Shelly must answer...- $10.05
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Vendor: Beverly Park Williams
Separate and Parallel: The Tale of Two Sisters
Beverly Park Williams traces back three generations of strong, smart women, revealing a surprising mystery hiding in her family tree. It was the roaring twenties in Cincinnati, Ohio, and women were quickly opening new doors for themselves and seizing every opportunity for advancement. Here,...- $14.99
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Vendor: Iain Gow
The Priest Who Limped: A Tale of Grace
The journeys of life have left Rev Jack McQuarrie with a metaphorical limp.Now in his autumn days, he tells of his sorrows and joys, his failures and successes, the tenderness and tensions of family life, and a quest to remain true to his calling...- $15.99
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Vendor: Colette
The Vagabond
Author: Colette, Frances Egan, Helen SouthworthISBN-10: 0198881584ISBN-13: 9780198881582Publisher: Oxford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/11/2025Pages: 224Format: Paperback- $8.99
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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.