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Vendor: Vic DiMartino
Escapes
Arturo DiMartino's Italy is in ruins at the end of WWI. Its politics splintered. Its economy tattered. Its social fabric shredded.Italians blame their weak leaders and demand their overthrow. Mussolini steps onto the political stage and his populist views and spirited charisma captivate the...- $17.95
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Vendor: Rodaan Al Galidi
The Leash and the Ball
After nine years in a Dutch asylum center, an Iraqi refugee tries to start a new life as a European citizen and discovers that to make friends in the western world, you need a dog. After nine years in a Dutch asylum center, Samir...- $18.99
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Vendor: Olea Nel
Andrew Murray: Destined to Win
A true story of battles, blessings, betrayal, and breakthrough Twenty-two year old Andrew Murray has just completed his first year of ministry to over 20 000 Boers beyond the borders of the Cape. With new-found confidence, he soon finds himself acting in a statesman-like...- $20.00
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Vendor: Kathy Ann Myers
Florence
Author: Kathy Ann MyersISBN-10: 1640281266ISBN-13: 9781640281264Publisher: Christian FaithLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/11/2019Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52d- $22.95
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Vendor: Herman Melville
Redburn: His First Voyage
Redburn: His First Voyage is the fourth book by the American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1849. The book is semi-autobiographical and recounts the adventures of a refined youth among coarse and brutal sailors and the seedier areas of Liverpool. Melville...- $33.95
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Vendor: Brooks Eason
Redemption: The Two Lives of Harry Brooks
Redemption: The Two Lives of Harry Brooks is based on a true story about a man who rose from prison to the pulpit.Author: Brooks EasonISBN-10: 1631957481ISBN-13: 9781631957482Publisher: Morgan James FictionLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/28/2022Pages: 278Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.91lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d- $18.95
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Vendor: Jonathan Shaw
Homeward Bound
Jonathan Shaw's latest literary assault, Homeward Bound, is the 2nd installment in the popular outlaw author's outrageous, critically acclaimed Scab Vendor: Confessions of a Tattoo Artist memoir series - a surreal ongoing multi-generational roller coaster ride through the underbelly of modern culture.Author: Jonathan ShawISBN-10:...- $36.99
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Vendor: Vickie Lee White
On Fear's Edge
It is in the Eastern part of Tennessee this story begins, in the small town of Johnson City, located one hundred miles northeast of Knoxville-a lovely city nestled in among lush green mountains. The year is 1954, population 23,000. Johnson City is a town...- $23.95
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Vendor: Douglas Quinn
Toni Stone
A biographic Historical fiction novel about the first woman to play professional baseball in the Negro Leagues. In this book the author fills in the cracks and explores Toni Stone's conversations, interactions and relationships with her family, the ball players, managers and owners with...- $15.95
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Vendor: Scott M. Crisci
Surviving Las Vegas: The Story of a Man Who Beat the Odds with his Mind and Body
Scott Crisci's life goes full circle as he battles a crapshoot of medical maladies and rises from a busboy to a high-stakes dealer.Author: Scott M. Crisci, ScottISBN-10: 1662469624ISBN-13: 9781662469626Publisher: Page PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2022Pages: 124Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.42lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.29d- $19.95
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Vendor: Edward W. Isaacs
Two Boys from Hitchins: A Memoir of Adversity, Adventure, and Achievement
Two Boys from Hitchins: A Historical Fiction captures the life and times of rural Carter County.Edward and Paul Isaacs, born at the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in the bustling depot village known as Hitchins, Kentucky, at the close of the Depression period. Times...- $32.95
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Vendor: Patricia Diehl
A Most Uncivil War: Lissie's Story
Lissie feels sure the War Between the States will doom her courtship with Lew Reber. She discovers that this War is just the beginning of the battles she will face. Follow Lissie as she travels, experiencing adventures everywhere she goes, some not altogether pleasant....- $13.99
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Vendor: David R. Slavitt
Alice at 80
A novel about the Alice of Alice in Wonderland, who received an honorary degree from Columbia University as a stand-in for Lewis Carroll.Author: David R. SlavittISBN-10: 1654187550ISBN-13: 9781654187552Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/07/2020Pages: 226Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.51d- $8.95
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Vendor: William Bisbing
Bloodied for the Cause: One Man's Personal History of Auto Union Politics Since 1969
The book reveals the inner workings of a large union taken from newspaper and union officials accounts.The story involves several union officers, how they related to each other in their rise in union power, and how they shared and honed their respective skills over...- $26.95
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Vendor: William Bisbing
Bloodied for the Cause: One Man's Personal History of Auto Union Politics Since 1969
The book reveals the inner workings of a large union taken from newspaper and union officials accounts.The story involves several union officers, how they related to each other in their rise in union power, and how they shared and honed their respective skills over...- $16.95
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Vendor: Sara Jane Patton
The Land of Marzi Pan
Marzi Pan's love of the water began even before her birth. Her mother swam the cool waters of a northern Wisconsin lake with Marzi floating within her. Marzi was born in the water of that same lake. Indeed, some say Marzi may be a...- $13.95
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Vendor: Anna Sewell
Black Beauty
The story of this novel is narrated in the first person as an autobiographical memoir told by the titular horse named Black Beauty-beginning with his carefree days as a colt on an English farm with his mother, to his difficult life pulling cabs in...- $10.20
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Vendor: David a. Glazer
Empty Suit: Views of Life in Corporate America from a Middle-Aged, Middle Manager from Middle America
This novel tells the story of an over educated but otherwise unassuming man - Andy Greene - following his life in corporate America, from his upbringing in New York City through his days in college and beyond and into the politics and questionable policies...- $19.95
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Vendor: Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War
"The Red Badge of Courage" is a war novel by American author Stephen Crane. Taking place during the American Civil War, the story is about a young private of the Union Army, Henry Fleming, who flees from the field of battle. Overcome with shame,...- $9.20
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Vendor: Robert Oster
Dagnabbit!: A man's life is a labyrinth of convoluted pathways
Nathan Cane, is the original owner of O'Boyle's Chop House, the oldest restaurant in New York City. A magazine interview of his life on the day it's being torn down sets in motion a recounting of his colorful life; A life as a restauranteur,...- $10.75
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Vendor: Al Martin Napoletano
The Beginning of --30--: A Rodeo Man in a Magic World, a novel based on a true story
It's not often that a leprechaun finds himself at the Salinas Rodeo In this fantastic adventure, Fluffernutter O'Lanigan arrives there with his adopted charge, Eric Coster. The leprechaun has followed Eric ever since he was a student at Christ's Hospital School. Eric's own father...- $20.00
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Vendor: Henry David Thoreau
Walden
In 1854, Thoreau published the book by which he will always be best known, Walden, or Life in the Woods. It is by far the deepest, richest, and most closely jointed of his books. It shows Thoreau at his best, and contains all that...- $7.99
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Vendor: Laxman Bhole
Life of a Gandhian: Karmayogi Dadasaheb Chaudhari
Life of a Gandhian: Karmayogi Dadasaheb Chaudhari is a biographical-cum-political novel. It depicts a distinguished police inspector resigning from service in 1930 after a tortuous self-struggle coupled with meditation on Gandhian thinking followed by commitment to its lifelong practice. He started an ashram at...- $14.43
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Vendor: Paul Smith
Shiraz: A Novel/Biography of the Life, Poetry and Times of Hafiz, the Immortal Persian Poet.
SHIRAZ A Novel/Biography of the Life, Poetry and Times of Hafiz, the Immortal Persian Poet. BOOK TWO: THE MIDDLE YEARS by Paul Smith This long, historical three volume novel/biography covers Hafiz's life from the age of eight in 1328 when his father dies and...- $30.00
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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...- $10.24
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Vendor: Stephen J. Wilmer
Military School? Me?
It is the 1960s as a sixth grader begins a series of choices that will dictate the course of his life forever. As his grades drop and he becomes a disciplinary challenge, Steve's parents eventually make the agonizing decision to send him away to...- $34.99
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Vendor: Stephen J. Wilmer
Military School? Me?
It is the 1960s as a sixth grader begins a series of choices that will dictate the course of his life forever. As his grades drop and he becomes a disciplinary challenge, Steve's parents eventually make the agonizing decision to send him away to...- $20.99
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Vendor: Gary Lee Martinson
Allerton and Axtell: The Rush
It is 1879--four years after a great fire ravages Independence, Iowa--when a well-dressed creamery businessman shows up in the small town, looking for a horse to buy. When Charles W. Williams meets young orphaned horse groom, Gilbert Fenny, the two find a kinship in...- $28.99
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Vendor: Edward Shafik
Mina Ramses: Part One: The Beginning
Mina Ramses is an ongoing saga of a Christian Egyptian Family exodus seeking its own promised land. It may not be the land of milk and honey but definitely the universe center of burgers and hot dogs.Author: Edward ShafikISBN-10: 109316560XISBN-13: 9781093165609Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished:...- $17.99
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Vendor: Mukund Jere
Swami Chidananda: an eternal story
This is a free, not verbatim, translation of the original novel 'Putra Amṛtācā' (Son of the Nectar) written by Sau. Rajalaxmi Deshpande of Pune, an ardent devotee of Swamiji. It was meant to be a biography of Swami Chidanandaji written in the style of...- $16.97
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Vendor: Jui Bhattacharyya
Benoy Badal Dinesh
Revolutionary movements across India were not isolated incidents. The biplobi groups from Delhi, Lahore, UP, Maharashtra and Bengal were in close touch with one another, and often coordinated their operations. Benoy, Badal, and Dinesh, the heroes of famous 'Battle of Verandah', picked up from...- $8.99
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Vendor: Dick Derksen
Whom You Will Serve
The Derksen family finds itself as refugees in the town of Altona, just outside Hamburg, North Germany, after the Catholic army has announced its intention to level the village of Wuestenfelde, where the Mennonites have received refuge for nearly one hundred years. The Thirty-Years...- $35.99
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Vendor: Peter Hermann Wise
A Matter of Doubt - the novel of Claude Bernard
A MATTER OF DOUBT (P Wise) Description and Back Cover text An extraordinary man: unlucky in love, inventive, inquisitive and gifted with words. This is the remarkable story of Claude Bernard, 19th century France's most illustrious medical scientist - told in the form of...- $20.00
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Vendor: Jim Wise
Catfish
Everyone who loved "Jaws" will love "Catfish" even more It's a little more down home, in fact, a way down home story. It has suspense, humor, great likeable characters and action, action, action Our story is told from boyhood to manhood in a Tennessee...- $14.99
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Vendor: Chelsea Wakelyn
What Remains of Elsie Jane
"A poignant, laugh-out-loud funny, weird, and heartbreaking window into being bereft and being in love... a striking reminder that there can be beauty in devastation." -- EMILY AUSTIN, author of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be DeadA heartbreaking and darkly funny portrait of...- $19.99
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Vendor: M. G. Crisci
This Little Piggy: A Disturbing Tale About Wall Street's Lunatic Fringe
Sandra Martini thought she had it all, a storybook marriage, two loving children, a meaningful career in healthcare, and lots of corporate expense account goodies. But, all hell broke loose when husband Victor met Franklin Ryman, a wealthy, "tarnished" member of Wall Street's dark-side...- $19.95
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Vendor: Jeremiah Semien
Jerry and the New Generation: The Final Show
This is the last show, that the New Generation had done. So, they went out, in a bang.Author: Jeremiah SemienISBN-10: 1448625386ISBN-13: 9781448625383Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/28/2009Pages: 140Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.99w x 0.30d- $25.99
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Vendor: Vonn Perry
Desperate Destiny: A Memoir of the Miraculous Series
"What an awe-inspiring work of art which will motivate you to succeed. Desperate Destiny will peak your interest and encourage you to reach toward your own destiny. If you dare to believe, read Desperate Destiny and expect great things " -Darlene Strother, BNN TV...- $10.95
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Vendor: Kit Wilson
Falls City
August 6, 1966. Braniff Airlines Flight 250 and the events leading up to that fateful night. Brings to life the incredible true journey of two Braniff Airlines flight attendants.Their story sweeps readers into a conflicted period when the Vietnam war raged - in stark...- $13.99
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Vendor: Rue L. Cromwell
You'll Like Linton
It is 1928 when Hanno Buchwald is born in the only hospital in Linton, Indiana. As he grows up on an isolated one-hundred-acre farm far from gravel roads and playmates, Hanno helps care for his ailing grandfather, works in the fields and kitchen, and...- $29.95
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Vendor: Jim Farrell
Brooklyn Boy
It is 1945 in Long Beach, New York, when three-year-old Brian Farley receives the scare of a lifetime. As little Brian bounces on his father's stomach in a second-floor bedroom of their summer house, his father suddenly loses his grip, sending Brian out through...- $25.95
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Vendor: Osra Malayeri
O-R-O
O (Also known as Rosa or Osra) is as American as they come now. As an Iranian child, she ran away to live on the streets rather than accept an arranged marriage to a Sheik. Her journey to the United States was a dream...- $8.13
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Vendor: Nicholas Bilotti
Nick's Story: You Can Get Here from There
Nick's Story is a bittersweet retelling of family love, personal struggle and deceit, as well as unfortunate and unexpected betrayals in trust. The events take place in a tumultuous nine-year period in the author's life, culminating in a remarkable ending.Author: Nicholas BilottiISBN-10: 1480833592ISBN-13: 9781480833593Publisher:...- $43.95
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Vendor: Christopher Horne
Shattered Dreams at Rainbow's End: A Novel about Inheritance and Infidelity
Drawn from real life, Shattered Dreams at Rainbow's End is the story of a World War II hero, Donald, a foot soldier, who returns from combat, meets the Depression-born Mary, and marries her. They have two children, baby boomers Danny and Deborah, and then...- $14.95
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Vendor: Richard a. Jurgensen
Land of Pō
Although I was in total darkness, I closed my eyes so I could listen more intently. Maybe something had followed me from the courtyard or picked up my scent along the way. I only heard my rapid pulse banging in my ears with each...- $21.95
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Vendor: John Buchan
John Burnet of Barns
John Buchan's first full-length work of fiction. John Burnet and Captain Gilbert Burne are two young nobleman, one the heir to the house of Barns the last in a long line of Border reivers the other a dashing, ruthless soldier. Their lifelong rivalry leads...- $28.99
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Vendor: W. Somerset Maugham
Of Human Bondage
Listed 44 of the best novels ever written. Of Human Bondage, published in 1915, is considered to be W. Somerset Maugham's best work. Many believe the novel to be one of the world's literary masterpieces. The story follows Phillip Carey from early childhood through...- $24.25
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Vendor: Yael Pardess
Daughter of the Kibbutz
Raised on a kibbutz in Israel, Maya Kidron suffers from the constraints of its rigid ideology. At the age of twenty-one she leaves for the United States to start a new life away from the kibbutz. When an invitation to her mother's birthday arrives...- $14.98
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Vendor: Shelly Rybak-Pearson
The Bus to Jerusalem: For Love Is as Strong as Death
The Bus to Jerusalem is a mystical love fantasy, combining fact and fiction following the Kabbalistic concept of the "Twin Souls." It is based on a true incident and carries a universal message of hope. In an attempt to explain the strange events surrounding...- $19.99
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Angelica Blue
Angelica was abandoned as an infant and suffered horrible emotional and sexual abuse by a foster father. Her life hung on the brink of disaster as she entered early adulthood and a time of excessive alcohol abuse and promiscuity. Miraculously, she discovered a path...- $12.95
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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.

