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Author:Tim Blake Nelson
City of Blows
"A travelogue of purgatory. Brutal, but minutely rendered..." --Guillermo del Toro It's early 2020, and legendary producer Jacob Rosenthal is eager to make his next film, Coal, adapted from the bestselling novel by the celebrated writer Rex Patterson. The project--which takes on the controversial...- $18.95
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Author:Izumi Suzuki
Set My Heart on Fire
The long-awaited publication of Izumi Suzuki's debut novel A young woman named Izumi, details her turbulent twenties in thirteen disarmingly candid vignettes, set in the underground bar and club scene of 1970s Tokyo. Seamlessly delivering ennui alongside snark, and tragedy nose-to-nose with apathy, Set...- $19.95
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Author:Bonnie Suchman
Stumbling Stones
"Alice knew that Selma sometimes felt judged by their mother and didn't always like it when Alice was praised and Selma was not. Alice glanced over at her sister, but Selma was smiling at Alice. In what Alice understood might be Selma's last act...- $21.95
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Author:Brian B. Kelly
Communist Number One, Vol. III: Leningrad Music Man
Communist Number One, Volume III, The Life & Times of Joel Barr, Leningrad Music Man begins following the end of Communist Number One, Volume III, The Life & Times of Joel Barr, Leningrad Music Man begins following the end of Communist Number One, Volume...- $19.95
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Author:Geri Rhodes
Tales from La Perla: A Misspent Hippie Youth
Tales from La Perla: A Misspent Hippie Youth chronicles Ralph's time as a freak in south central and southwest New Mexico during the 1970s before he dropped back in. The years in fictionalized La Perla and Edge City show humor and commitment to the...- $12.00
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Author:Charles Dickens
Clown Grimaldi
Aus dem Buch: "Grimaldi wurde empfindlich und wollte sich entfernen, als der Unbekannte ihm die Frage stellte, ob er ihn wirklich nicht wiedererkenne, und sein Hemd auf der Brust auseinander klappte. Da erkannte Grimaldi an einer dort sichtbaren Narbe seinen seit Jahren verschollenen Bruder....- $7.40
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Author:Richard Allen
The Life, Experience, And Gospel Labors of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen
The Life, Experience, And Gospel Labors of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen 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,...- $16.50
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Author:Jerome K. Jerome
Paul Kelver
Paul Kelver by Jerome K. Jerome Jerome K Jerome was born in 1859. He was an English humorist best known for his travelogue Three Men in a Boat. Jerome's childhood in London was one of poverty. His first job was collecting coal along the...- $8.49
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Author:Fiona Kidman
The Infinite Air
From the writer who 'couldn't produce a poor paragraph if she tried' [New Zealand Herald], The Infinite Air tells the story of the rise and fall of 'the Garbo of the skies'.'A gripping historical read' Woman's OwnJean Batten became an international icon in 1930s....- $15.95
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Author:Paul Levine
Coney Eyes
From "Some Doo Wops And Those Rama Langa Ding Dongs" It was the 50s. Doo Wops fell from the sky, and we didn't even notice that they lit our path, yet made no sense, but instead, merely soothed the painful edges and left us...- $16.99
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Author:Pedro Almodar
The Last Dream
Making his English language debut, the iconoclastic, two-time Academy award-winning writer and director reveals his singular mind as never before in this collection of twelve remarkable stories spanning memoir, comedy, autofiction, parody, pastiche, and gothic fiction.With this debut collection, film legend Pedro Almodar delivers...- $26.00
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Author:Tom Malmquist
In Every Moment We Are Still Alive
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK of 2018 * Amazon Book of the Month ✳︎ Indies Introduce 2018 ✳︎ INDIES NEXT 2018 Selection "In Every Moment We Are Still Alive is a tremendous feat of emotional and artistic discipline. ... a triumph."-- New York...- $25.99
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Author:Gail Tsukiyama
The Brightest Star: A Historical Novel Based on the True Story of Anna May Wong
Author: Gail TsukiyamaISBN-10: 0063213761ISBN-13: 9780063213760Publisher: HarperviaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/02/2024Pages: 352Format: Paperback- $18.99
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Author:Tony Whieldon
Love and Deadly Nightshade: and Other Stories from Life
Twenty three stories, each one a window in time, each one vividly and humorously depicting an episode in one man's journey through eight decades.Tony Whieldon is an ordinary person who has led an extraordinary life. After completing an engineering apprenticeship with Rolls Royce Cars...- $18.99
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Author:Kathleen Ersillia Anderson
Ersillia: Love & Loss
The story of Assad and Frances Hajjar is a love story for the ages; he the son of a poor Lebanese furniture-maker turned priest, and she the daughter of a wealthy Italian sea merchant. It's a tale of unwavering devotion that spans nearly a...- $10.95
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Author:Jerome Dowd
Life of Braxton Craven: Volume 1
Life of Braxton Craven - Volume 1 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896. 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. As...- $29.90
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Author:Philip John Taylor
Jimmy Stewart Goes to Hollywood: A Play Based on the Life of James Stewart
Never in a thousand years would Jimmy Stewart have considered being an actor...that is until he met the lovely actress Margaret Sullavan. She inspired a new direction for his wonderful life. As the subject of one of the great, unfulfilled love stories in Hollywood...- $12.00
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Author:Scott Auch
Ferguson's Tractor-biography: And Selected Ruminations
Part I is a coming of age allegory about an old Ferguson tractor destined for the scrap heap until rescued, restored, and put to redemptive use by a naive buyer and a canny mechanic. In Part II, Ferguson emerges as a wise advice columnist...- $12.25
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Author:L. E. Taylor
Elgan and Grace: A Twentieth-Century Saga
In the twilight of his life, a son examines fragments of his family's moral trek through the played-out century. Historically authentic settings and mores rekindle the past: backwoods Kentucky... a booming young Detroit... anti-German hostility during The Great War... whiskey-running and speakeasies... twists of...- $33.99
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Author:Art Johnson
Marilyn, My Marilyn
It's the summer of '62, and twenty-five-year-old journalist Rory Long receives a phone call at quitting time: it's Marilyn Monroe. She wants to personally compliment him on a review he wrote of the new collected works of poet Carl Sandburg. She then enlists the...- $13.95
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Author:Sunny Mera
All in Her Head: A Novel
A woman's shocking experience of orgasmic labor starts her down the path into a delusional condition in which she struggles to separate the real from the unreal.Author: Sunny MeraISBN-10: 1631528181ISBN-13: 9781631528187Publisher: She Writes PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/10/2015Pages: 184Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60d- $16.95
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Author:H. Maree
Divine Protection
Author: H. MareeISBN-10: 1514484811ISBN-13: 9781514484814Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/15/2016Pages: 52Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.12d- $15.99
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Author:MS Betty
"Ain't That Bout'a B*tch"
Ms. Betty's book, "Ain't That 'Bout'a B*tch", is entertaining and genuine. It is a great reminder how much fun relationships can be, albeit sometimes at our own expense. Betty's own zany behavior, in the midst of train-wreck relationships, contributes to the chaos as she...- $19.99
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Author:Laini Giles
The It Girl and Me: A Novel of Clara Bow
Daisy DeVoe has left her abusive husband, her father has been pinched for bootlegging, and she's embarrassed by her rural Kentucky roots. But on the plus side, she's climbing the ladder in the salon of Paramount Pictures, styling hair for actress Clara Bow. Clara...- $35.99
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Author:Paul W. Tipton
Strange New Cowboys: My Vietnam Stories
More than fifty years in the making, Paul Tipton's Strange New Cowboys: My Vietnam Stories conveys the experiences of the young American men sent to fight the confusing and controversial war in Southeast Asia. Using a unique approach to fiction, mixing poetry and short...- $20.00
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Author:Lionel Bennett
Pathfinder: His priority of getting to WW2 became bringing everyone home
In the spring of 1940, on a path barely lit by a thin, crescent moon, a schoolteacher with a hard-held dream sets out on a sixteen-mile trek through Ontario bush. Arriving in time to catch the midnight train, he settles in for the ride...- $29.99
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Author:Alison Weir
The Passionate Tudor: A Novel of Queen Mary I
The New York Times bestselling author of the Six Tudor Queens series explores the dramatic and poignant life of King Henry VIII's daughter--infamously known as Bloody Mary--who ruled England for five violent years.Born from young King Henry's first marriage, his elder daughter, Princess Mary,...- $57.99
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Author:Matt Drinkhahn
The Eternal Optimist: It's Never Too Late
Patrick thought he had all the answers. He had the perfect plan to achieve everything he ever wanted...then real life challenges set in. How might one "stick to the plan" when everything around them keeps changing?This is a story of learning how to face...- $24.95
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Author:Peter Behrens
The Law of Dreams: The Law of Dreams: A Novel
Driven from the only home he has known during Ireland's Great Hunger of 1847, Fergus O'Brien makes the harrowing journey from County Clare to America, traveling with bold girls, pearl boys, navvies, and highwaymen. Along the way, Fergus meets his three passionate loves-Phoebe, Luke,...- $17.00
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Author:John Cowper Powys
Wolf Solent
Author: John Cowper PowysISBN-10: 0375703071ISBN-13: 9780375703072Publisher: Knopf Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/24/1998Pages: 640Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.75lbsSize: 8.37h x 5.59w x 1.53dReview Citation(s): New York Times 01/10/1999 pg. 24New York Times 06/06/1999 pg. 52Library Journal 02/01/1999- $19.00
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Author:John D. Jr. Parfait
Mudman: Tale of a Texas Swamp
Embark on a riveting literary journey with Mudman: A Tale of a Texas Swamp, a uniquely captivating narrative that defies conventional storytelling. In the midst of a tranquil yet mysterious swamp, a young boy encounters an ancient creature whose profound teachings become the guiding...- $14.99
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Author:Jd Arnold
Rawhide Jake: Westward Ho!
Celebrity. Husband. Father. In the cutthroat world of cattle rustlers and gunslingers, a lawman has to be quick, cold, and ruthless or he's a dead man... and Jonas V. Brighton is now a man with something to live for. Longing for a tranquil existence...- $14.99
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Author:Jean Plaidy
The Three Crowns: The Story of William and Mary
When an empire is at stake, one woman stands between the past and the future In post-Restoration England, King Charles II has fathered numerous bastards, but not a single legitimate heir. Because of this, his brother, James, Duke of York, is heir-presumptive to the...- $19.00
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Author:Tracey Enerson Wood
Katharine, the Wright Sister
She helped her brothers soar... but was the flight worth the fall? It all started with two boys and a bicycle shop. Wilbur and Orville Wright, both unsuited to college and disinclined to leave home, jumped on the popular new fad of bicycle riding...- $27.99
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Author:Samuel Butler
Erewhon: Over the Range
Erewhon or Over the Range by Samuel Butler. Erewhon: or, Over the Range is a novel by Samuel Butler which was first published anonymously in 1872. The title is also the name of a country, supposedly discovered by the protagonist. The first part of...- $8.95
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Author:Rob Walters
Margaret Thatcher and Dorothy Hodgkin: Political Chemistry
Reviews: It's good, very good Peter Ashby FRSA, Consultant.I read the first few chapters of Margaret and Dorothy in Conversation last night and enjoyed it - on a number of levels: the well-told and absorbing story of a developing relationship; the lesser-known biographical details...- $5.99
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Author:Alain Elkann
A Single Day
"In the pages of Alain Elkann's latest novel, perhaps the most important book in his literary journey, the author takes on the challenge that is extreme brevity. Everything happens in one day because-as the author sees it-the dimensions of a story don't depend on...- $16.00
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Author:Elizabeth Carlson
Lily's Journey
Lily, a beautiful five-year-old, leaned over the fire to poke at the wood. A spark flew up and landed on the collar of her high-necked velvet dress. She brushed at the spark, but it had caught the lace and was burning her neck. Another...- $14.95
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Author:Anne Montgomery
Your Forgotten Sons
Bud Richardville is inducted into the Army as the United States prepares to enter World War II in 1943.A chance comment has Bud assigned to the Graves Registration Service, where his unit is tasked with locating, identifying, and burying the dead. Bud ships out,...- $17.99
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Author:Glenn Greenstein
And Then Came Life: True Life Story About God's Redeeming Power
David was always different from his brothers. Born and raised in the midst of South Florida's music scene, he was labeled a sissy and mocked by neighborhood boys. Introduced to Miami's gay nightlife, drugs, and reckless sexual escapades, he wonders if this is where...- $28.95
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Author:Christian Jacq
War of the Crowns: A Novel of Ancient Egypt
Christian Jacq, author of the international sensations Ramses and The Stone of Light, continues his epic Queen of Freedom trilogy as the fiercely determined Queen Ahhotep struggles to save her people -- and reclaim her own legacy. The barbaric Hyksos have taken possession of...- $14.00
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Author:Michael J. O'Connor
Dead Broke in the Yonder Void
When musician Matty DeYoung is kicked of his new girlfriend's apartment for pissing into a box fan and spraying her bedroom in a drunken sleepwalk, he finds himself unhoused, unskilled, and wandering the crumbling streets of late 2000s San Francisco. Lost in his rapid...- $13.95
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Author:Gill Paul
Scandalous Women: A Novel of Jackie Collins and Jacqueline Susann
Mad Men meets the world of publishing in international bestselling author Gill Paul's new novel about Jackie Collins and Jacqueline Susann, two dynamic, groundbreaking writers renowned for their scandalous and controversial novels, and the beleaguered young editorial assistant who introduces them.1966, NYC: Jacqueline Susann's...- $18.99
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Author:E. Keysha L. Stewart-Conard
The Morning After: How I Survived Sexual & Spiritual Abuse
My Morning After? Well, it never really was anything good about it. I mean there was a morning, but it was the morning after sexual abuse filled with the stench of an act an eight year old mind could not comprehend. Left with feeling...- $17.00
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Author:Bernadette Rule
The Arithmetic of Color
The Arithmetic of Color is the biography of Tom Johnson, a man of mixed race who lived from 1871 to 1929. Based on a true story meticulously researched, it is written as a novel because of its dramatic character. Johnson's life is at the...- $24.95
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Author:Michael Alan Shapiro
Inner Lights
Paul Gebhart returned from a one year tour of duty in Vietnam with an un-diagnosed case of post-traumatic stress disorder. His solution was to self-medicate but that decision turned out to be disastrous for his marriage. His wife of ten years will no longer...- $19.95
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Author:David P. Puckett II
Per Usual, James Roy: Based on a True Story
As the youngest of eight children, born in the Appalachian Mountains during the great depression, the challenges that faced James Roy Moody were almost overwhelming. Often his mother, Corey, struggled to keep the family together and provide encouragement and hope in the most dismal...- $19.99
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Author:Yuri Herrera
Season of the Swamp
A major new novel set in nineteenth-century New Orleans by the author of Signs Preceding the End of the World New Orleans, 1853. A young exile named Benito Ju疵ez disembarks at a fetid port city at the edge of a swamp. Years later, he...- $26.00
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Author:Shirley Curtis
The Horse of Her Own
Deanna wants a horse and has been working and saving for years so that she can get just the right horse. The family is going to the Iowa State Fair and Deanna is going to go through the horse barns to find just the...- $7.99
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Author:Patricia Ploss
Another's Child
1961 brought the promise of a family to couple Tom and Dot Cornell. Until one day, several days past her due date, Dot nearly collapsed to the floor in excruciating pain.Knowing something was horrifically wrong, Dorothy made her way to the couch and laid...- $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.