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Vendor: F. J. Goldsmid
James Outram: A Biography - Volume II
James Outram - A Biography - Volume II 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....- $44.90
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Vendor: Subhash Jaireth
To Silence
Don't be deceived by this tardis of a book, its three small monologues contain multitudes. Through the gently detailed lives of its subjects whole civilisations emerge: the fifteenth-century India of the dying and illiterate poet, Kabir; the Stalinist Russia of Chekhov's younger sister, Maria;...- $16.99
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Vendor: George Sand
This Woman, This Man: Elle Et Lui
George Sand's fictionalised account of her notorious affair with the poet Alfred de Musset caused a sensation on its publication two years after his death, in 1859. It also prompted a volley of claim and counter-claim: two more novels rapidly appeared in the following...- $13.99
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Vendor: Jeff Gomez
Vicious
In the fall of 1970, Lou Reed walked away from rock and roll. He left the Velvet Underground, and New York City, returning to Long Island. He moved in with his parents and got a job as a typist at his father's accounting firm....- $18.00
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Vendor: Thane Lawrie
The Buddhist CEO
Hamish's chance encounter with a Buddhist monk has a profound effect on his life. He dreams of becoming a monk one day, but he loves his family deeply, and at work his compassionate leadership unexpectedly makes him CEO of a struggling nonprofit. Over the...- $25.95
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Vendor: Thane Lawrie
The Buddhist CEO
Hamish's chance encounter with a Buddhist monk has a profound effect on his life. He dreams of becoming a monk one day, but he loves his family deeply, and at work his compassionate leadership unexpectedly makes him CEO of a struggling nonprofit. Over the...- $17.95
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Vendor: Marie Benedict
The First Ladies
The Instant New York Times Bestseller! A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune--an unlikely friendship that changed the world, from the New York Times bestselling authors of the Good Morning America Book Club...- $28.00
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Vendor: Richard Stratton
Defending Alice: A Novel of Love and Race in the Roaring Twenties
"Gripping courtroom drama and social commentary . . . the story flows well . . . [the author is] masterful in building suspense."--Kirkus ReviewsSet in 1920s New York, an addictively readable, thoroughly entertaining historical novel involving sex and secrets, race and redemption, and power...- $20.99
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Vendor: Cheryl P. Weiner
Three Assassinations: One Family's Tragedy
Three Assassinations: One Family's Tragedy, by Cheryl P. Weiner, is a riveting page-turner that transports the reader through a maze of crime, destruction, murder, and devastation. Weiner's saga reveals a family's disastrous relationship with Tsar Nicholas II, Al Capone's gang, and Bobby Kennedy's killer,...- $24.95
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Vendor: Bradley Candie
Sisters: A Promise Kept
"Sisters: A Promise Kept" is inspired by the lives of three sisters- Gertrude, Shirley, and Sarah- and their shared experiences, battles, and TRIUMPHS in the face of being diagnosed with Breast Cancer. It takes place during the late 80's in the small town of...- $16.99
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Vendor: Tina Hogan Grant
The Tammy Mellows Omnibus Collection
All 3 full-length novels of the award-winning trilogy with over 880 pages of page-turning reading in one book. RECKLESS BEGINNINGS - BOOK 1 - She Wanted The American Dream And Got A Nightmare.Tammy clings on to hope to win back her life. How will...- $32.99
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Vendor: James Runcie
The Great Passion
From acclaimed bestselling author James Runcie, a meditation on grief and music, told through the story of Bach's writing of the St. Matthew Passion. In 1727, Stefan Silbermann is a grief-stricken thirteen-year-old, struggling with the death of his mother and his removal to a...- $18.00
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Vendor: Jane Green
Sister Stardust
*NATIONAL BESTSELLER*A PARADE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEARA NEW YORK POST BEST BOOK OF THE WEEKIn her first novel inspired by a true story, Jane Green re-imagines the life of troubled icon Talitha Getty in this transporting story from a forgotten chapter of...- $18.99
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Vendor: Bruce Wagner
Roar: American Master, the Oral Biography of Roger Orr
A new novel by Hollywood's "master of satire." The myth of an epic, public life--its triumphs and tragedies--is a particularly American obsession. ROAR is a metafictional exploration of such a life and attendant fame of an extraordinary, and completely made up, man. Born in...- $26.99
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Vendor: Norman Lock
The Ice Harp
Ralph Waldo Emerson battles dementia while debating whether to intercede in a Black soldier's unjust arrestIn 1879, toward the end of his life, the Sage of Concord has lost his words. Beset by aphasia and grief, Ralph Waldo Emerson is scarcely recognizable as America's...- $17.99
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Vendor: Kimberly Olson Fakih
Little Miseries: This Is Not a Story about My Childhood. a Novel.
Set in Iowa and Minnesota in the 60s and 70s, Little Miseries is a Midwestern Gothic where sometimes the misery is just that--little--and sometimes it is epic and yawning, capable of swallowing every childhood memory. There are the miseries the Castles will talk about--old...- $27.00
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Vendor: Norman G. Gautreau
The Light from the Dark Side of the Moon
A remembrance of love in a time of war. 92-year-old Henry Budge defies most of his family by escaping a rehab hospital to make his way to France for the ceremonies of the 70th observance of D-Day. Before he dies, he hopes to at...- $18.95
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Vendor: Maryann Landers
Alaskan Calibration
I'D FOUND THE STABILITY OF PEACETHEN MY FAITH WAS CHALLENGED BY THE ENMITY OF CHANGEI met Roy at fourteen and with the toss of a coin that summer night, I dialed in the love of my life. We wasted years until we found the...- $9.99
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Vendor: Judit Martin
Seventeen Stories
"As a young child I felt that I had been born into the wrong family, in the wrong country, and even in the wrong century. Finally, in my twenties, I set out in search of a place where I could feel at home. That...- $16.00
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Vendor: Henry Ball
Sister of Sorrows: Lost in the Wilds of Southern Louisiana
A Tumultuous and Remarkable Journey Through Life, Love, and Lost in the Wilds of Southern LouisianaWhen Frank Hayden learns he has a long-lost sister, doors open to the past and a slew of buried memories in the swamplands of Southern Louisiana. The story contains...- $18.95
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Vendor: Randy Willis
Three Winds Blowing: 2021 Revised and Expanded Edition
The son of a white man and Cherokee slave, Joseph Willis, gains his freedom and swims the mighty Mississippi on a mule. Driven by three winds: * a wind of freedom driving him from North Carolina* a mighty rushing wind compelling him across the...- $25.00
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Vendor: Henry David Thoreau
Walden
Walden (/ˈwɔːldən/; first published in 1854 as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is a book by American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment,...- $18.24
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Vendor: Ken Evans
Freud in Rome
Freud saw each of his visits to Rome as a means of experimenting, in his private life with his several selves and his personal relationships, his sexual proclivities, his private obsessions and his literary interests to such a point, that he eventually came to...- $14.35
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Vendor: Esq Anthony S. Petruccelli
Ali Muhami and the Forty IEDs
Ali Muhami, the American attorney, the trusted infidel, invited to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to manage the security of the oil pipeline and the industrial city, was bestowed with the highest government security clearances for which he was blackmailed by Colonel Abdullah leading...- $13.99
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Vendor: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe
Rare edition with unique illustrations and elegant classic cream paper. Harriet Beecher Stowe was an author and social activist best known for her popular anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. Includes vintage illustrationAuthor: Harriet Beecher StoweISBN-10: 1725985632ISBN-13: 9781725985636Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/22/2018Pages: 342Format:...- $17.99
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Vendor: Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Douglass
Former slave, impassioned abolitionist, brilliant writer, newspaper editor and eloquent orator whose speeches fired the abolitionist cause, Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) led an astounding life. Physical abuse, deprivation and tragedy plagued his early years, yet through sheer force of character he was able to overcome...- $10.99
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Vendor: Lázaro Droznes
Maria Bonaparte. The Frigid Princess: History of the relationship between Sigmund Freud and Maria Bonaparte, niece granddaughter of Napoleon, who appr
History of the relationship between Sigmund Freud and Maria Bonaparte, niece granddaughter of Napoleon, who approached the creator of psychoanalysis to cure her anorgasmia. In the year 1925 Maria Bonaparte, a direct descendant of Napoleon and immensely rich, asked the help of Sigmund Freud...- $9.95
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Vendor: Iris Brodbeck Macek
Wings Over Luckenbach: The Story of Jacob Brodbeck and His 1865 Air Ship
Based on the real-life events of Jacob Brodbeck, WINGS OVER LUCKENBACH, takes the reader on a journey of Brodbeck's life-long quest to construct and fly an air ship in 1865. As he confronts the obstacles of human flight, he is aided by his loyal...- $20.00
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Vendor: Jeri L. Duke
Friends of Freedom: Stories of the Underground Railroad
Friends of Freedom, is a historical fiction novel about two women, a Quaker and a southern slave, the book is set immediately prior to and during the U.S. Civil War. Both women work tirelessly to help free slaves using the Underground Railroad. These two...- $14.00
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Vendor: Mark Twain
Is Shakespeare Dead?
Mark Twain has deserted the camp of the Shakespearites, and if he has not exactly committed himself to the cause of the Baconians, he comes very close to it. "Is Shakespeare Dead?" is a semi-serious consideration of the old controversy, and Ignatius Donnelly would...- $12.00
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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...- $26.95
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Vendor: Nancy Panko
Guiding Missal: Fifty Years. Three Generations of Military Men. One Spirited Prayer Book.
If this little book could only talk Guiding Missal is based on a true story about a lively prayerbook that accompanies three military men as they live through momentous events in our nation's history. In 1942, George Panko is drafted into the U.S. Army...- $18.99
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Vendor: Jonathan Coe
Mr. Wilder and Me
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICEFROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE ROTTERS' CLUB AND MIDDLE ENGLANDIn the heady summer of 1977, a na?e young woman called Calista sets out from Athens to venture into the wider world. On a Greek island that has been...- $27.00
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Vendor: Charles C. Fletcher
Little Sam Mountain
There were many boys like John Dowdy who lived in the mountains and hollows of Western North Carolina. Little Sam Mountain was one of those hollows. This is the story of John Dowdy and his experiences during the Great Depression and World War II.Author:...- $19.95
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Vendor: Tim McHugh
Ivan!: A Pound Dog's View on Life, Love, and Leashes
A story of hope, love and purpose for anyone who has ever loved a rescue dog. With wry wit, deep insight, and vivid anecdotes, Tim McHugh gives voice to the family pet and delves into the place where the canine and human hearts become...- $23.95
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Vendor: Hubert Kennedy
Sex and Math in Harvard Yard: The Memoirs of James Mills Peirce: A Fictional Biography
James Mills Peirce (1834-1906) was a respected--and secretly gay--mathematics professor at Harvard University. This imaginative biography recreates college life at Harvard in the late nineteenth century and gives a realistic portrait of the life of an intellectual coming to terms with his homosexuality. The...- $13.00
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Vendor: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Gambler
Full text.In this short novel, the hero Alexei Ivanovich, in his devotion to the roulette table, believes in the truth of chance. And, through that belief, he is revealed to believe in nothing. He is a lost soul who loses all: love, status, wealth,...- $9.99
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Vendor: Virginia Woolf
Orlando - A Biography
Orlando is generally considered Woolf's most accessible and influential novels. Concerning the 300 year life of a man born during the reign of Elizabeth I and his quest to write a great poem, having love affairs as both man and women against the backdrop...- $30.99
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Vendor: Jack London
The Mutiny of the Elsinore
First published in 1914, "The Mutiny of the Elsinore" is a novel by American writer Jack London that centres around the death of a ship's captain and the ensuing conflict that arises as a result of a split in leadership and loyalty. The story...- $24.99
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Vendor: Anna Lloyd
Dianna
Set in the 1940's during World War II, this is the story of a woman who strikes off on her path, and the man that falls in love with her.Author: Anna LloydISBN-10: 1523881402ISBN-13: 9781523881406Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/04/2016Pages: 50Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.23lbsSize: 9.00h...- $12.99
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Vendor: Randy Willis
Louisiana Wind: a novel of Louisiana
The best men I've known have been cowmen. There's a code they live by-it's their way of life. It starts with an abiding reverence for the Good Lord. They're taught to honor and respect their parents and to share both blanket and bread.Their words...- $25.00
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Vendor: N. F. Perry
Memoirs of a fugitive on Mount Athos
Mount Athos, the ancient land of monasteries in Greece, is sacred to Orthodox believers. But the breathtakingly beautiful "Holy Mountain" has a darker side, which Father Nectarios reveals in his account of a lifetime spent in this unique remnant of Byzantium. Fleeing from creditors...- $11.95
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Vendor: Ken Hadinoto
Gracie Rising: The Scars Beneath: An Autobiography
Follow the inspirational story of a woman who overcame adversity from a young age, as she recounts her challenges with adoption, abuse, depression, sexual assault and much more through her tattoos. Her tattoos are the scars of her battles, and her symbols of strength.Author:...- $20.00
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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...- $13.55
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Vendor: Charles Warren Stoddard
For the Pleasure of His Company: An Affair of the Misty City
For the Pleasure of His Company: An Affair of the Misty City (1903) is a novel by Charles Warren Stoddard. Published toward the end of Stoddard's career as a poet and travel writer whose friends included Mark Twain and Ambrose Bierce, For the Pleasure...- $14.99
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Vendor: Theodore Dreiser
An American Tragedy
An American Tragedy (1925) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser. Written and rewritten over a number of years, An American Tragedy is a weighty epic with a cleareyed vision of the decay at the heart of industrialized society. Based on the murder of Grace...- $36.99
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The Uncalled
The Uncalled (1898) is a novel by African American author Paul Laurence Dunbar. Published while Dunbar was at the height of his career as one of the nation's leading black poets, The Uncalled marked his debut as a novelist with a powerful vision of...- $12.99
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Vendor: Gaston LeRoux
The Adventures of Joseph Rouletabille
The Adventures of Joseph Rouletabille (2021) is a trilogy of novels by French writer Gaston Leroux. Originally a journalist, Leroux turned to fiction after reading the works of Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar Allan Poe. This collection compiles the first three novels in his...- $39.99
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Vendor: D. H. Lawrence
The Kangaroo
Australian journalist Robert Darroch - in several articles in the late 1970s, and a 1981 book entitled D.H. Lawrence in Australia - claimed that Lawrence based Kangaroo on real people and events he witnessed in Australia. The extent to which this is true remains...- $20.30
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Vendor: Anne Bronte
Agnes Grey
All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut. Whether this be the case with my history...- $6.99
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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.

