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Vendor: Deedee Reynolds
The Man Behind the Mask: The Story of a Lone Texas Ranger
Author: Deedee ReynoldsISBN-10: 1499055854ISBN-13: 9781499055856Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/23/2014Pages: 78Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d- $24.99
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Vendor: Monalisa Covington
Love Is a Desire That Becomes an Appetite
Author: Monalisa CovingtonISBN-10: 1499051077ISBN-13: 9781499051070Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/17/2014Pages: 102Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.24d- $15.99
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Vendor: Paul Richards
The 4th Kind: The Abduction of a 15 year old boy in 1965 by Aliens of a Different Kind.
It was the summer of 1965, and Bud was freshly fifteen years old when he experienced a dreadful adventure few people have imagined. The instant he told my family and friends, he ran into a wall of disbelief. Today, a half century later, he...- $12.95
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Vendor: J. R. Sellazzo
The Message
Based on true events, The Message is a story of coping with the challenges of life. The story details the tragedies and events of JR's life, which include the death of his best friend at age 21, the girl who shattered his heart, and...- $10.95
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Vendor: Kerstin Trimble
Hello Able Five
Albert Torreele graduated from the Ecole Royale Militaire in Brussels just in time to lead an ill-fated platoon straight into the German onslaught of 10 May 1940. A single shot that should have left him crippled sent him on a grueling odyssey via Dunkirk...- $16.98
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Vendor: Stephen T. Watts
Lemhi Overhang: Adventures of an Idaho Private Eye
Caught on horseback in a raging mountain thunderstorm, Steve Watts found shelter, a comfortable spot to rest and began contemplating the latter stages of his remarkable career. A retired cop and state investigator, with stints in the Army and as a fisherman in Alaska,...- $17.95
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Vendor: Margaret Skea
Katharina: Fortitude
Shortlisted for the BookBrunch Prize 2020While this book can be read as a standalone, it is also the powerful conclusion to her story, begun in Katharina: Deliverance. 'We are none of us perfect, and a streak of stubbornness is what is needed in dealing...- $14.99
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Vendor: John Herrick
Beautiful Mess
A fallen star. Four Los Angeles misfits. And the Marilyn Monroe you only thought you knew. Del Corwyn is an aging relic. An actor who advanced from errand boy to Academy Award nominee, Del kept company with the elite of Hollywood's golden era and...- $15.95
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Vendor: Bud Hanks
First Kill: The Story of Outlaw O.C. Hanks
This Faction (fact and fiction) on Orlando Camilla(o) Hanks, aka: Charley Jones; Charley Kincade; Deaf Charley evolved from a Hanks reunion in the 1990s--the first since the Civil War--and an article by a cousin. It intrigued me that we had a semi-infamous outlaw in...- $12.99
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Vendor: Margaret Porter
A Pledge of Better Times
A sweeping tale of ambition, treachery, and passion incorporating historical figures and events. For generations Lady Diana de Vere's family loyally served England's crown. But after King Charles II's untimely death, her father firmly opposes James II's tyranny. Charles Beauclerk, Duke of St. Albans-the...- $16.95
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Vendor: Ted Morrissey
An Untimely Frost
In the novel An Untimely Frost, or The Authoress, set in 1830s London, American author Jefferson Wheelwright seeks out the reclusive English novelist Margaret T. Haeley, creator of Dunkelraum's monster and widow of the poet Stephen Haeley. The story is inspired by Washington Irving's...- $17.95
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Vendor: Ann Bell
The Sister of Mary Dyer: The High Price of Freedom
A fascinating blend of little known history and compelling fiction. Convicted by the Puritans in 1660 for being a Quaker, Mary Dyer courageously faced the gallows on the Boston Commons. Often misunderstood by her husband and six children, she turned her back on those...- $27.00
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Vendor: Charles Belim
Shoeshine Boy
The "Shoeshine Boy" saga chronicles events in the life of a young kid growing up in Boston, Massachusetts. At age ten he's given an opportunity to shine shoes in a shine parlor deep within the "Mob" controlled section of Boston's notorious 'North End'. Unbeknownst...- $14.99
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Vendor: Diane Stegman
Grill! the Misadventures of an RV Park Fast-Fry Cook
Denise, a middle-aged idealist, cashes her last $400 paycheck and drives south with her two Chihuahuas in search of a summer job that will renew her weary spirit. As she drives through a national park in Northern California, Denise stumbles upon a job as...- $18.95
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Vendor: Marcy Heidish
A Dangerous Woman: Mother Jones, an Unsung American Heroine
A DANGEROUS WOMAN: Mother Jones, An Unsung American Heroine. The Amazing Story of A Self-Proclaimed Hell Raiser. Another brilliant novel about a woman achiever, over-comer and heroine - whose charge was "Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living,"Author: Marcy HeidishISBN-10:...- $14.95
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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...- $24.99
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Vendor: James Joyce
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
First published in 1993. The seminal invention for James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was the narrative essay A Portrait of the Artist'. This reprinting also includes an introduction of its origin to publication in 1914 as a serialised...- $46.95
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Vendor: Lily Tuck
The Double Life of Liliane
"Mixing family lore, historical events, and photographs, this autobiographical novel creates a portrait of the writer as a young woman...enlivening."--New Yorker "A mosaic of storytelling that is both poetic and absorbing."-- NPR.com With The Double Life of Liliane National Book Award winner Lily Tuck...- $16.00
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Vendor: Heidi Thomas
Cowgirl Dreams
From her ranch home in Montana in the 1920s, Nettie Brady dreamed of joining the rodeo circuit and becoming a star. Defying her mother's wishes and trading her skirts for trousers--and riding the range with her brothers and taking on the occasional half-ton steer...- $16.95
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Vendor: James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Author: James JoyceISBN-10: 0756972655ISBN-13: 9780756972653Publisher: Turtleback BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2006Pages: 256Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 6.50h x 4.00w x 0.90dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 8.7Point Value: 16Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 70600 / Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man- $17.20
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Vendor: Michael Blass
No Little Choices
Quinn O'Connell led a remarkable life, yet she lacked celebrity or notoriety. Born in 1939, she was part of a generation that exemplified a tenacity of spirit and grit that contrasts sharply with today's culture. By the time she was thirteen years old, she...- $12.99
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Vendor: Renoir
He Was BEEB When I Knew Him
Brandon Bowmore is a suburban Australian intellectual. Just ask him. He'd like to think in another place and time he'd have been Lord Byron, but alas it's not another time: it's Brisbane in the 1970s and 80s.His best friend Paddy recounts episodes of Bowmore's...- $25.00
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Vendor: Robert Mickey Maughon
Elvis Returns: Elvis is Alive II
Elvis Presley is ALIVE in the hearts of millions of his fans all around the world. In ELVIS RETURNS (Elvis Is Alive II), Dr. Robert St. John discovers that Elvis never really "left the building," and is actually very much ALIVE in the Australian...- $15.24
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Vendor: Jared McVay
The Legend of Joe, Willy, and Red
"The legend of Joe, Willy & Red," a story of the outrageous thirties - august of 1933 in fact, and the unlikely friendship of three men who choose the hobo trail rather than face the consequences of crimes the were accused of, but did...- $14.99
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Vendor: Norah Vincent
Adeline: A Novel of Virginia Woolf
"Daring . . . Vincent's psychological approach is intriguing." -- USA Today "Vincent is a sensitive recorder of a mind's movements as it shifts in and out of inspiration, and as it fights before submitting to despair." -- New York Times Book Review With...- $16.99
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Vendor: Alexandra B?hler
Zero Hours on the Boulevard: Tales of Independence and Belonging
Kelinu waits for his telegram from the Queen of England. He has a few years to go but he'll wait. His niece thinks he's a fool. He was in the service of the Queen only a year, all those years ago. Times have changed....- $12.99
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Vendor: Stacia Raymond
At Last: A Novel Based on the Life of Harry Warren
The golden age of the Hollywood musical celebrated through the life of unsung hit-maker Harry Warren.Eliciting a swell of nostalgia, Harry Warren's jaunty melodies lift our spirits as much today as they did for Depression-era moviegoers. Navigating a business already known for its glamour,...- $16.99
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Vendor: Rilla Askew
Prize for the Fire
Lincolnshire, 1537. Amid England's religious turmoil, fifteen-year-old Anne Askew is forced to take her dead sister's place in an arranged marriage. The witty, well-educated gentleman's daughter is determined to free herself from her abusive husband, harsh in-laws, and the cruel strictures of her married...- $26.95
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Vendor: Gill Sims
The Saturday Night Sauvignon Sisterhood
It's time for a w(h)ine"God, she's funny" - Jilly Cooper'Oh, for f*ck's sake' muttered Claire under her breath, as she opened the fridge to see what she could find for a no effort dinner. The children continued to fight behind her. They regarded any...- $16.99
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Vendor: Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor
Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor (1869) is a novel by Richard Doddridge Blackmore. Praised by some of Victian England's leading authors, including Robert Louis Stevenson, George Gissing, and Thomas Hardy, Lorna Doone was published anonymously and sold poorly in its first edition. Republished...- $35.99
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Vendor: W. Somerset Maugham
The Moon and Sixpence
The Moon and Sixpence (1919) is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. Inspired by the life of French painter Paul Gauguin, Maugham set out to capture the disconnect between an artist's desire to create and their obligations to their loved ones and society. Praised...- $20.99
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Vendor: Courtney Denelle
It's Not Nothing
Rosemary Candwell's past has exploded into her present. Down-and-out and deteriorating, she drifts from anonymous beds and bars in Providence, to a homeless shelter hidden among the hedge-rowed avenues of Newport, and through the revolving door of service jobs and quick-fix psychiatric care, always...- $15.95
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Vendor: J. Fremont
Magician of Light
For fans of Marie Benedict, Lauren Willig, and Diana Gabaldon, comes a Gothic romance about the charming and ambitious glassmaker René Lalique, the mysterious Englishwoman he falls in love with and their haunting encounters. Fascinated by the occult, René feels stifled, apprenticed to a...- $16.95
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Vendor: Ivan Capovski
The Sorrow of Miles Franklin beneath Mount Kajmakcalan
In the latter years of World War I, renowned Australian writer Miles Franklin travels to the Macedonian Front, joining as a nurse at the Scottish Women's Hospital near Mt. Kajmakcalan. Soldiers from many nations surge across a Macedonia that has been partitioned, absorbed by...- $22.00
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Vendor: Consuelo Parra
Child of Water
Winter, 1110, England On a beach, standing in the snow, a girl of eight winters waits for a ship that will take her from her homeland of England, from her family, to her husband. That girl is Matilda, daughter of Henry I, King of...- $16.99
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Vendor: Mary Hastings Fox
The Last Skipjack
Mary Fox's The Last Skipjack brings to life a time not unlike our own, a time when ways of life were changing and those affected were "circling the wagons," trying to protect themselves from those changes. Specifically, in the 1960s in Cambridge, Maryland, small...- $21.95
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Vendor: Marianna Burgess Embe
Stiya: A Carlisle Indian Girl at Home
Stiya - A Carlisle Indian Girl at Home is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1891. 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....- $21.50
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Vendor: Sandra Hochman
Loving Robert Lowell
Turner Publishing proudly presents the first of three new literary works by Sandra Hochman, author of Walking Papers.When asked in 1976 by a reporter from People Magazine if her first two novels were autobiographical, Sandra Hochman replied, "My real life is much more fabulous...- $16.99
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Vendor: Louise Maude
The Death of Ivan Ilych (annotated)
The Death of Ivan Ilyich, first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his religious conversion of the late 1870s. The novella tells the story of the death of a high-court...- $5.75
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Vendor: Dmitry Merezhkovsky
Resurrection of the Gods
Resurrection of the Gods (1900) is a novel by Dmitriy Merezhkovsky. Having turned from his work in poetry to a new, spiritually charged interest in fiction, Merezhkovsky sought to develop his theory of the Third Testament, an apocalyptic vision of Christianity's fulfillment in twentieth...- $28.99
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Peter and Alexis
Peter and Alexis (1904) is a novel by Dmitriy Merezhkovsky. Having turned from his work in poetry to a new, spiritually charged interest in fiction, Merezhkovsky sought to develop his theory of the Third Testament, an apocalyptic vision of Christianity's fulfillment in twentieth century...- $31.99
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The Death of the Gods
The Death of the Gods (1895) is a novel by Dmitriy Merezhkovsky. Having turned from his work in poetry to a new, spiritually charged interest in fiction, Merezhkovsky sought to develop his theory of the Third Testament, an apocalyptic vision of Christianity's fulfillment in...- $23.99
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Vendor: Thomas T. Thomas
Adventures of a Countryside Boy
A village boy in South India goes through school and college nurturing an intense desire to become a doctor.Born the son of a priest in God's Own Country, he does not abandon his dream while going through a student life that takes him to...- $14.99
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Vendor: Mariah Fredericks
The Lindbergh Nanny
Mariah Fredericks's The Lindbergh Nanny is powerful, propulsive novel about America's most notorious kidnapping through the eyes of the woman who found herself at the heart of this deadly crime. "A masterful blending of fact and fiction that is as compelling as it is...- $29.00
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Vendor: Leo Tolstoy
Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth
In this trilogy of autobiographical novels Leo Tolstoy's first published works are gathered together. An instant success, one which would launch Tolstoy's distinguished career, "Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth", was first published from 1852 to 1856. In these works the early life of Nikolai, the...- $14.99
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Vendor: Andrew Joseph Blasco
Kill Kitchener
In 1899, Fritz Duquesne, an aristocratic South African, is sent to England for his formal education. During his time there, tensions rise between the British and his homeland as the age of African colonialism peaks. A boiling point is reached between Fritz and his...- $28.00
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Vendor: J. P. Reedman
I, Richard Plantagenet: The Prequel, Part One: The Road from Fotheringhay
Before there was a King called Richard III, there was a boy, Richard of the House of York, youngest living child of his large, royal-blooded family.A small, thin, nervous boy who witnesses the terror of the sack of Ludlow and is taken prisoner in...- $11.24
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Vendor: Pure Slush
The Tyranny of Bacon Pure Slush Vol. 18
Bacon, bacon everywhere 90 writers take on the good and bad of bacon in poetry and prose ...Author: Pure SlushISBN-10: 1922427020ISBN-13: 9781922427021Publisher: Pure Slush Books / Bequem PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/08/2019Pages: 244Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d- $17.25
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The Princess Nun: Mary, Daughter of Edward I
Sent into a convent at the age of six, Mary daughter of Edward I, decides to make the best of a bad situation. It soon becomes obvious she is never going to make a good nun Never forgetting that she is a princess by...- $9.24
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Vendor: William Whitelock
The Life and Times of John Jay: Secretary of Foreign Affairs Under the Confederation and First Chief...
The Life and Times of John Jay - Secretary of Foreign Affairs Under the Confederation and First Chief... 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,...- $37.50
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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.

