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Vendor: Robinson Thornton
St. Ambrose: His Life, Times, and Teaching
St. Ambrose - His Life, Times, and Teaching is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1879. 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....- $28.90
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Vendor: David Cole
History of Rockland County, New York: With Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men
History of Rockland County, New York - With Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men 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...- $22.90
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Vendor: Abraham James Fretz
A Brief History of John Valentine Kratz: And a Complete Genealogical Family Register
A Brief History of John Valentine Kratz - And a Complete Genealogical Family Register is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1892. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking...- $36.90
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Vendor: Chantal Thomas
The Exchange of Princesses
Set in the French and Spanish courts of the eighteenth century, this novel is based on a true story about the fate of two young princesses caught in the intrigues and secrets of the moment Philippe d'Orl ans, the regent of France, has a...- $18.95
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Vendor: Elias Loomis
The Descendants of Joseph Loomis: Vol. 2
The Descendants of Joseph Loomis - Vol. 2 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1880. 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....- $50.50
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Vendor: Elias Loomis
The Descendants of Joseph Loomis: Vol. 1
The Descendants of Joseph Loomis - Vol. 1 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1880. 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: Zane Grey
Betty Zane
Inspired by the life and adventures of his own great-great grandmother, 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...- $17.99
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Vendor: Jd Arnold
Rawhide Jake: Westward Ho!
Embark on an unforgettable journey through the uncharted terrain of the Wild West with Westward Ho, the enthralling conclusion to the Rawhide Jake Trilogy. Meet Jake, a former Texas stock detective turned blacksmith, whose longing for a tranquil existence is shattered by the relentless...- $31.99
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Vendor: Lauren Belfer
And After the Fire
National Jewish Book Award Winner The New York Times-bestselling author of A Fierce Radiance and City of Light returns with a new powerful and passionate novel--inspired by historical events--about two women, one European and one American, and the mysterious choral masterpiece by Johann Sebastian...- $26.99
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Vendor: Elvira Lindo
Open Heart
Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award This intimate family novel that follows the rise and fall of a great love is also a moving tribute to the generation that struggled to survive in Spain after the Civil War. In Open Heart, Elvira Lindo tells...- $18.99
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Vendor: Lewis Kenneth Ritter
Turbulence: Dispatches from the Student Protest Movement, Rutgers 1970
Welcome to Rutgers University, 1970. This New Jersey college campus, like others across the country, is a microcosm of the turbulent times that would transform America forever. This book centers on a group of students who must confront their personal, academic, and social challenges...- $15.99
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Vendor: Roger Pulvers
The Dream of Lafcadio Hearn: a novel, with an introduction (The Life of Lafcadio Hearn)
This fascinating fictional account of the life and times of Lafcadio Hearn probes the question: "What was the nature of this man, born wanderer, informant of the fiendish details of Japanese lore... a man who chose to live his life 'in defiance of the...- $17.99
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Vendor: Melissa Addey
The Forbidden City Series
Chosen for imperial service, some concubines rise to power. Others fall to madness.18th century China. All girls aged thirteen to sixteen must attend the Imperial Daughters' Draft, so that the Emperor can have the first choice of every woman in his empire as a...- $28.99
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Vendor: Derek Wilson
The Cromwell Enigma: A Tudor Mystery
July 1540. The courts of Europe are stunned to hear that Henry VIII has executed his all-powerful minister, Thomas Cromwell. Poet and classicist Nicholas Bourbon is sent from the cultured court of Queen Marguerite of Navarre to investigate. Thrust into a turbulent world of...- $16.99
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Vendor: Gill James
Clara's Story: A Holocaust Biography
Clara will not be daunted. Her life will not end when her beloved husband dies too young. She will become a second mother to the young children who live away from home in order to visit a rather special school. When life becomes desperate...- $15.75
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Vendor: Edward J. Delaney
The Acrobat
AN OPRAH DAILY BEST NOVEL BASED ON A TRUE STORY"Delaney['s] splendidfictional biography of Cary Grant . . . perfectly befits the glamour and fakeryof his subject." -Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Everyone wants to be Cary Grant," mused the world's most famous leading man. Even I...- $17.95
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Vendor: Melissa L. Bryant
Living Behind the Mask
It's time you begin shifting into the thoughts and beliefs that will propel you into the person god needs you to be. I can promise that if you truly want to make the changes you will be able to do it with god. If...- $12.00
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Vendor: Leya Delray
Where Daffodils Bloom: Based on the True Story of a WWII War Bride
The International Bestseller! Based on an unforgettable true story of faith, forgiveness, and the kind of love that lasts a lifetime. Over 45,000 copies sold!In a tiny town on the coast of Lancashire, Lily Brown is trying to hold her world together.With England in...- $17.99
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Vendor: Jonathan Coe
Mr. Wilder and Me
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE"Outstanding."--Alex Harvey, Los Angeles Review of Books"Captivating...A delight."--Malcolm Forbes, Washington Examiner"A really warm and wonderful and fun and happy book."--NPR's All Sides with Ann Fischer"Beautifully written and filled with compassion, humor and an abundance of knowledge about old Hollywood,...- $16.95
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Vendor: Celeste Le
Luck Is Just The Beginning
Originally published by Floricanto Press, Luck Is Just the Beginning earned the Mariposa award for Best First Book in the 2016 International Latino Book Awards, First Place in the 2018 Latino Books into Movies Awards (bio-epic), and Finalist in the 2016 International Book Awards.Praise...- $15.95
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Vendor: Doug Hebert
Grenade: Hub City, Lafayette: Hub City, Lafayette
Ruston Delahoussaye has always known the devastating impact of a job loss, having witnessed both his father and grandfather pass away after being let go from their long-held positions. So when Ruston loses his own job of twenty-one years as a shipping clerk at...- $11.99
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Vendor: Rabindranath Tagore
My Reminiscences
'My Reminiscences' one of the most valuable work by Tagore, is composed with satire, vision and more than a little self-mockery, which gives a unique and reliable insight into the life of this great literary genius. It is an account of the first twenty-seven...- $9.95
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Vendor: John Isaac Jones
Thanks, PG!: Memoirs of a Tabloid Reporter
Thanks, PG : Memoirs of a Tabloid Reporter recounts the life and adventures of reporter Billy Don Johnson during his 20 years (1975-1995) working for the fictional tabloid The National Insider.After his dreams of becoming a crusading journalist with daily newspapers are dashed, Billy...- $17.99
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Vendor: Laura Moriarty
The Chaperone
"The New York Times" bestseller and the "USA Today" #1 Hot Fiction Pick for the summer, "The Chaperone "is a captivating novel about the woman who chaperoned an irreverent Louise Brooks to New York City in 1922 and the summer that would change them...- $17.99
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Vendor: Frances S. Howe
14,000 Miles: A Carriage And Two Women
""14,000 Miles: A Carriage And Two Women"" is a memoir written by Frances S. Howe. The book is about the author's journey with her friend, Mabel, in a horse-drawn carriage across the United States in the early 1900s. The journey took them through 14,000...- $30.95
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Vendor: Amanda Flower
To Slip the Bonds of Earth: A Riveting Mystery Based on a True History
While not as famous as her older siblings Wilbur and Orville, the celebrated inventors of flight, Katharine Wright is equally inventive - especially when it comes to solving crimes - in USA Today bestselling author Amanda Flower's radiant new historical mystery series inspired by...- $27.00
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Vendor: Simon Mawer
Ancestry
The New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Room brings a slice of his own family history to life through extensive research and rich storytelling.Beginning with his great-great-grandfather Abraham Block, acclaimed novelist Simon Mawer sifts through evidence like an archaeologist, piecing together the...- $41.95
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Vendor: Joy Callaway
What the Mountains Remember
"Joy Calloway weaves a dramatic, heartfelt story of self- discovery and a hard-won love against the stunning backdrop the 'Eighth Wonder of the World.'" --Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times bestselling author of Time is a River At this wondrous resort, secrets can easily...- $18.99
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Vendor: Jane Avrich
The Winter Without Milk: Stories
Jane Avrich explores the perils of desire in these fifteen brilliant stories. Here are characters irresistibly attracted to excess -- material, emotional, spiritual -- who must in the end choose between a life of self-indulgence and a life of self-control. The results are both...- $16.99
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Vendor: Steven M. Best
When It All Comes Around: A Novel Based on a True Ukrainian-German-American Love Story
This novel is based on the story of the author's brother and sister-in-law, who emigrated from the Ukrainian/Romanian border area, during World War II. In this tale of survival during wartime. Nick Hrab had just begun milking his family cow one morning when the...- $22.95
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Vendor: Les Carroll
This Troubled Ground
The war in Afghanistan impacted Americans in profound ways, yet only a small percentage of Americans know what it's like to be there, fight there, come home from there, and then live the rest of their lives wondering if their service made a difference.This...- $16.95
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Vendor: Gioia Diliberto
Coco at the Ritz
A riveting and prismatic novel of the eternally enigmatic Coco Chanel in the aftermath of World War II. Though her name is synonymous with elegance and chic, the iconic Coco Chanel had a complicated dark side, and in late August 1944, as World War...- $16.95
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Vendor: Romney Vane
William E. Gladstone: Statesman and patriot, four times prime minister of England
William E. Gladstone - Statesman and patriot, four times prime minister of England 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...- $34.90
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Vendor: Bob Kearney
Mr. In-Between
He's been Mr. In-Between from birth, the middle child in a family of five siblings. His father is a practical steel-mill worker, his mother a free spirit who considers dullness the only true sin. Loving both, trying to please both, leaves him torn between...- $14.00
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Vendor: Robert LaFond
Sitting on a Headstone
Sitting On a Headstone is an incomplete autobiography, bringing out the life, and near death, of a young man making choices that will, unknowingly, change his life forever. Wanting to fulfill a desire to honor a family heritage of service to his country he...- $12.99
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Vendor: Garth Nielsen
Ravens When They Cry
This collection of ten short stories is authored by Garth Nielsen, a writer and an artist, who has spent most of his life living in the deserts and the empty places of the southwest - First, a child in New Mexico; Then, as an...- $14.99
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Vendor: H虧an Friedel
Tokyo Stories
At a very young age I came across a simple meditation technic focusing on the flame of a candle. It made me realize that I was not that anguished youth that lived my everyday life. I had caught a glimpse of a different future...- $18.99
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Vendor: Lynn Cullen
The Woman with the Cure
She gave up everything -- and changed the world. A riveting novel based on the true story of the woman who stopped a pandemic, from the bestselling author of Mrs. Poe. In 1940s and '50s America, polio is as dreaded as the atomic bomb....- $34.99
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Vendor: Sahara Bowser
Josephine Baker: Coming of Age in Philadelphia
When 15-year-old Josephine Wells came to Philadelphia with the Bob Russell Troupe on the T.O.B.A. circuit, the engagement at the Standard Theatre was only to be for two weeks. Josephine would end up staying in Philly for a year.The hit musical Shuffle Along debuted...- $10.00
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Vendor: Diana Dempsey
The Unstoppable Eliza Haycraft
"Beautifully written, compulsively readable... " So says Indie Reader of The Unstoppable Eliza Haycraft - the riveting novel about a legendary woman in antebellum Missouri who allowed neither men nor society's conventions to keep her from cutting her own remarkable path. The year is...- $32.99
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Elon Musk (Almost) Saves the World
The world's richest man faces the galaxy's deadliest threat! Everyone's favourite billionaire makes his pulse-pounding debut in this rip-roaring sci-fi adventure, from the bestselling author of The Secret Diary of Boris Johnson Aged 131/4. When an ALIEN ARMADA menaces our planet, Earth's governments and...- $21.99
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Vendor: Kris Farmen
Signals
It is 1865, and the Russian America Company has kept Ivan Lukin busy working as a boat captain and dog teamster on the treeless Bering Sea coast at Fort St. Michael. His wife has left him, and with the return of his teenage daughter...- $16.99
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The Deli Diaries
Fresh out of art school with a pile of debt and a broken heart, Della moves into her parents' basement in suburban Nebraska and lands a "temporary" job as a deli clerk. Struggling to smile under the small talk of corporate commands, she contends...- $19.95
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Vendor: James Robertson
The Barons Reid-Robertson of Straloch: With appendix from other sources
The Barons Reid-Robertson of Straloch - With appendix from other sources 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, medicine,...- $16.90
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Vendor: Michael Monteith
Little Things Mean a Lot
The truly unique story of 'pretty' Kitty Kallen, including her rise from humble origins to most popular U.S. singer, is revealed in flashback amid news of her untimely death.Grand Prize - Nevada International Film FestivalBest Screenplay - New Renaissance Film Festival (UK)Best Feature Screenplay...- $9.99
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Vendor: Alexander Lyman Holley
Memorial of Alexander Lyman Holley, C. E., LL. D.
Memorial of Alexander Lyman Holley, C. E., LL. D. 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...- $28.90
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Vendor: Mason Locke Weems
The Life of George Washington: With curious anecdotes, equally honourable to himself, and exemplary to his young countrymen: embellished with six eng
The Life of George Washington - With curious anecdotes, equally honourable to himself, and exemplary to his young countrymen: embellished with six engravings is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1874. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas...- $28.90
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Vendor: Sherrie Smith
Watching Jordan Fly
There is no sorrow greater than the sorrow of losing a child; yet no greater comfort than the comfort found in knowing that same child now dwells in the presence of a Holy God. I know this firsthand. My son, Jordan was killed in...- $13.49
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Vendor: Frankie Mae Richards
La Huera: A Story of Love, Faith and Hope
Evelyn's life changed the moment Henry walked into the restaurant. The splash of salsa on her greased stained apron could not distract him from her beauty. Unfortunately Evelyn was engaged to Afton. They dated four years and marriage seemed the next step. The wedding...- $15.00
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Vendor: Kris Farmen
Meridian
New ways to make a fortune and settle old scores. A lie will travel around the world before the truth reaches your next-door neighbor. So says Ivan Lukin's boss at Fort St. Michael on the Bering Sea. But the rumors have proven true; the...- $16.99
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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.

