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Vendor: Susan Higginbotham
The First Lady and the Rebel
From celebrated author Susan Higginbotham comes an incredible book about Abraham Lincoln's First Lady and, on the other side of the Civil War, her sister.A Union's First LadyAs the Civil War cracks the country in two, Mary Lincoln stands beside her husband praying for...- $15.99
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Vendor: Lee Lowry
If You Needed Me
When Jenny Longworth offers aid and comfort to David Perry, a long-ago college sweetheart who recently lost his French wife, Sandrine, to cancer, their old passion is revived, creating a gauntlet of social and moral conflicts. Against cautionary counsel, Jenny disrupts her life in...- $18.95
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Vendor: Jackie Carroll
My 'Lil Story
When Jackie Yvonne is born, she has no idea that she is the only thing keeping her parents sane. A recent tragedy has changed their family forever. As they settle into a new beginning in El Dorado, Arkansas, and focus on caring for little...- $33.99
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Vendor: Adrian C. Dawson
Escanaba: "Honor Thy Neighbor"
Thelma Atkins and her four children have moved several times around the City of Chicago and finally, she thought a move she made two years ago would have been their last. The fear of moving again has surfaced back up. Living not too far,...- $16.95
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Vendor: James G. Tauber
Chasing Butterflies
Set in rural America in the 1950's, Chasing Butterflies revisits the author's childhood days in his attempt to recapture its joy and charm. A small band of boys share adventures, some comical and some poignant, displaying the innocence, fearlessness, and mischievous living-in-the-moment spirit that...- $22.95
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Vendor: Richard Mancuso
The Good Don
In 1929, as the Great Depression hit and millions of Americans lost their jobs, Sal Mancuso dropped out of high school to support his family in Manhattan's Lower East Side. His business savvy and determination led to the growth of a shadowy business that...- $15.95
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Vendor: Meghan Daum
The Quality of Life Report
Meghan Daum's unforgettable debut novel brings her sharp wit and courageous social commentary to the story of Lucinda Trout, a New York television reporter in search of greener pastures. Moving to the slower-paced, friendly, and vastly more affordable Midwestern town of Prairie City, Lucinda...- $15.95
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Vendor: Dana Gynther
The Woman in the Photograph
Set in the romantic glow of 1920s Paris, a captivating novel of New York socialite and model Lee Miller, whose glamorous looks and joie de vivre caught the eye of Man Ray, one of the twentieth century's defining photographers. 1929, Montparnasse. Model and woman...- $21.99
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Vendor: Jan Alan Henderson
Crypt 39: Coroner's Case 45426 George Reeves
A mystery that can never be solved is truly a mystery. This is the case of TV's Superman, George Reeves. Found dead in his Benedict Canyon home in 1959, stories have circulated for decades on what took down the Man of Steel. George Reeves,...- $14.98
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Vendor: Herman Melville
Typee & Omoo: Adventures In the South Pacific
Typee is the first book by the famous American writer Herman Melville. First published in 1846, the book is today considered a classic in travel literature and adventure. The story is based on real experiences by the author as a prisoner in 1842 on...- $22.99
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The Autobiography of Mary Magdelene
When Mary Magdelene is born into a Jewish family in a small town on the western bank of the Sea of Galilee, no one has any idea of the impact she will have on biblical history for thousands of years to come. As she...- $13.99
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Vendor: Kathleen McKenna Hewtson
The Empress of Tears
As the 'Funeral Bride, ' Alexandra of Hesse-Darmstadt marries Tsar Nicholas II only a week after the premature death of his father, Tsar Alexander III.Already dismissed out of hand by the court, Alexandra has to further contend with the continuing ambition of her mother-in-law,...- $15.99
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Vendor: Beverly Adam
Two Lovers: The Love Story of Carole Lombard and Russ Columbo
Two Lovers is the true love story between legendary Hollywood film actress Carole Lombard, and the famous singer known as "The Valentino of the Radio," Russ Columbo. Recently divorced from her first husband, William Powell (The Thin Man), Carole attends a performance at The...- $11.24
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Vendor: Anonymous
The Enlightenment of Juan Bautista Chapa
A fictional biography of Juan Bautista Chapa, an Italian emigrant who arrived in Nuevo Le n, Mexico, who emerged as one of the defining early figures of Northeastern Mexico and Southeast Texas. As the chronicler of the first written history for this remote outpost...- $19.95
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Vendor: Carlos Camacho
Goodbye Charlie
A white room.A small recorder.A man about to die, another about to live.Charlie, a charismatic psychologist turned rock star, awaits his public execution with unnerving calmness. He tells his provocative story to reluctant author, Alistair, who has been commissioned to write an adverse account...- $10.98
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Vendor: H. Bencraft Joly
Dream of the Red Chamber
Dream of the Red Chamber, also known as "The Story of the Stone", is one of the greatest novels of Chinese literature. the book begins with the tale of Bao-yu, a gentle young boy who prefers girls to Confucian studies, and his two cousins:...- $19.80
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Vendor: Vito Lasala
B-36 Cold War Shield: Navigator's Journal
This book tells the story of a B-36 crew, flying countless training missions while carrying full-sized 8,500-pound mock nuclear weapons in their bomb bays. B-36 crews trained for the one flight when they would be ordered to drop combat nuclear bombs on the USSR....- $16.95
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Vendor: Nina Pennacchi
Lemonade
As a young woman in Victorian England, Anna Champion knows all too well the social mores that value prettiness over sense, and etiquette over honesty. But when she stands up to the boorishness of dashing Christopher Davenport at a summertime ball, Anna unwittingly attracts...- $14.95
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Vendor: Thelma Adams
The Last Woman Standing
Two decades after the Civil War, Josephine Marcus, the teenage daughter of Jewish immigrants, is lured west with the promise of marriage to Johnny Behan, one of Arizona's famous lawmen. She leaves her San Francisco home to join Behan in Tombstone, Arizona, a magnet...- $14.95
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Vendor: Kai Kiriyama
My Life Beyond the Grave: The Untold Story of Vlad Dracula: A Famous Monsters Memoir
"I have lived a life worth speaking about, and have seen things that would leave a modern man weeping in fear. I have outlived my entire family and have lived to see a time that one could not think possible. I have traveled the...- $12.99
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Vendor: Jean Echenoz
Lightning
Drawn from the life of Nikola Tesla, one of the greatest inventors of his time, Lightning is a captivating tale of one man's curious fascination with the marvels of science. Hailed by the Washington Post as "the most distinctive voice of his generation," Echenoz...- $19.95
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Vendor: Wes D. Gehring
I, Red Skelton: Exit Laughing... Or, a Man, His Movies, and Sometimes His Monkeys
"I find myself always being drawn into Wes' comedic research and storytelling by its insights into the history, politics and sociology of the period explored. In that context, his gift is not only that of a researcher but also a "decoder" of what leads...- $16.95
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Vendor: Veronique Olmi
Bakhita: A Novel of the Saint of Sudan
Inspired by the true story of a former slave who became a saint, this poignant novel explores how a human being can survive the obliteration of her identity, and how kindness and generosity can be born out of profound trauma. She recalls little of...- $27.99
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Vendor: David Donachie
Tested by Fate
A compelling read and a probing expostion of the working of the British navy in the late 18th century.-Edward ClineAuthor: David DonachieISBN-10: 1590130421ISBN-13: 9781590130421Publisher: McBooks PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2004Pages: 405Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.18lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.80w x 1.18d- $22.95
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Vendor: David Donachie
On a Making Tide
This book is the first volume of an epic dual autobiographical novels of England's greatest hero and his legendary mistress.Author: David DonachieISBN-10: 1590130413ISBN-13: 9781590130414Publisher: McBooks PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2003Pages: 416Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.18lbsSize: 8.48h x 6.14w x 1.20d- $23.95
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Vendor: Jane Kirkpatrick
An Absence So Great
Did photography replace an absence in her life or expose the truth of her heart's emptiness? While growing in confidence as a photographer, eighteen-year-old Jessie Ann Gaebele's personal life is at a crossroads. Hoping she's put an unfortunate romantic longing behind her as "water...- $16.00
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Vendor: Jane Kirkpatrick
A Mending at the Edge
"Of all the things I left in Willapa, hope is what I missed the most."So begins this story of one woman's restoration from personal grief to the meaning of community. Based on the life of German-American Emma Wagner Giesy, the only woman sent to...- $15.99
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Vendor: Jane Kirkpatrick
A Name of Her Own
Based on the life of Marie Dorion, the first mother to cross the Rocky Mountains and remain in the Northwest, A Name of Her Own is the fictionalized adventure account of a real woman's fight to settle in a new landscape, survive in a...- $16.00
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Vendor: Derek Beaulieu
Nights on Prose Mountain: The Fiction of Bpnichol
Nights on Prose Mountain gathers all of beloved writer bpNichol's published fiction. Originally appearing between 1968 and 1983, and representing almost the entire arc of Nichol's writing career, Nights on Prose Mountain is by turns heartbreaking, playful, and evocative. While Nichol's poetry is widely...- $19.95
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The First Selfie: The Autobiography of Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia
Picture the scene: The White Army, loyal to the Tsar of Russia, is moving in on Ekaterinburg, where the Tsar and his family are being held under house arrest. The central Bolshevik Government in St. Petersburg does not know whether to execute the Imperial...- $18.99
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Vendor: Luis Martinez
Loser
You will not want to put this book down, every chapter has its twist and turn's. LOSER recounts the struggles against a rebellious attitude, life on the streets and difficult relationships with friends, family and women. This memoir recounts the author's personal viewpoint toward...- $21.99
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Vendor: Tehesia N. Maultsby
Looking for the Man, I Thought I Married
This book is inspired by actual events or a true story about a woman who was swept off her feet by a man she thought was her prince charming and she was looking to spend the rest of her life with. Nevertheless, the man...- $24.99
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Vendor: Barry Smith
Asmodeus A Vampire Son of Isis
I have had so many names; Asmodeus, Asmodai, Hashmodai, Hercules, Incubus, Casanova, The Demon Of Lust just to mention a few. I have feasted with heads of state such as Nero, Napoleon, Mary Tutor, Martin Luther, Abraham Lincoln, Adolf Hitler and many more. Queens...- $17.00
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Vendor: J. P. Reedman
My Fair Lady: A Story of Eleanor of Provence, Henry III's Lost Queen
Eleanor of Provence, child bride, loving wife, loving mother of Edward Longshanks.Eleanor, hated queen, despised for her spendthrift ways, pelted by the mob.Eleanor, foe of the unnerving, unsettling warrior Simon de Montfort and his barons, who threaten her husband's reign...and lifeEleanor, taking vows in...- $10.25
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Vendor: Ivo Andric
Omer Pasha Latas: Marshal to the Sultan
A sweeping epic by Nobel Prize-winner Ivo Andric about power, identity, and Islam set in 19th-century Ottoman Bosnia and Istanbul. Omer Pasha Latas is set in nineteenth-century Sarajevo, where Muslims and Christians live in uneasy proximity while entertaining a common resentment of faraway Ottoman...- $19.95
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Vendor: David Mamet
The Diary of a Porn Star by Priscilla Wriston-Ranger: As Told to David Mamet with an Afterword by Mr. Mamet
What if a porn star held the key to impeaching the President of the United States? This is her story. "My frank and loving reminiscence of a life in the hermetic world of Adult Film." A lifetime of success in the world of Adult...- $27.00
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Vendor: Ramin Ganeshram
The General's Cook
** Library Journal's Editor's Pick ** Philadelphia 1793. Hercules, President George Washington's chef, is a fixture on the Philadelphia scene. He is famous for both his culinary prowess and for ruling his kitchen like a commanding general. He has his run of the city...- $24.99
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Cauliflower
"Maddening, funny, playful and beautiful...Barker has once again invigorated an old form -- the historical biographical novel -- through electric wit and sheer bedazzlement."--The Washington PostTo the world, he is Sri Ramakrishna--godly avatar, esteemed spiritual master, beloved guru. To Rani Rashmoni, she of low...- $35.00
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Vendor: Su Wei
The Invisible Valley
Lu Beiping is one of 20 million young adults the Chinese government uproots and sends far from their homes for agricultural re-education. And Lu is bored and exhausted. While he pines for romance, instead he's caught up in a forbidden religious tradition and married...- $16.00
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Vendor: Allen Drury
Return to Thebes: Sequel to A God Against the Gods
The spectacular conclusion to the Egyptian epic begun in A God Against the Gods. After his brother's assassination, a new pharaoh must take the throne and battle the corrupt and violent priesthood.His name is TUTANKHAMUN.Pulitzer Prize winning author Allen Drury paints a vivid, dramatic...- $22.99
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Vendor: Christopher Nicholson
Winter
" This] beautifully restrained novel, a meditation on aging, marriage and loss, fictionalizes a well-known period in Thomas Hardy's life" (The New York Times). A November morning in the 1920s finds an elderly man walking the grounds of his Dorchester home, pondering his past...- $17.00
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Vendor: Antoinette Smith
Daddy's Favorite Pop
Tonae was a little girl just trying to be a little girl until she began having the most unusual relationship any child could have with her daddy. She tried to understand her daddy, but he was too complicated and already set in his ways....- $14.95
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A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
"Although we've gotten used to second-generation actors equaling or surpassing the accomplishments of their parents, the same hasn't happened with second-generation novelist. Nonetheless there are a few . . . and added to their small number ought to be Kaylie Jones." --New York Times...- $22.95
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Vendor: Jacques de Lacretelle
Silbermann
The story of a Parisian school boy belonging to a Protestant bourgeois family, who, though fascinated by the intelligence and ardor of a Jewish schoolmate, bows to the prejudices of his milieu, and betrays his chosen friend.Author: Jacques de Lacretelle, Victor Brombert, Jaques de...- $14.00
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Vendor: Tahar Ben Jelloun
About My Mother
Morocco's greatest living author.--The Guardian UKA writer of social and moral acuteness.--Los Angeles Times A writer of much originality.--The Chicago Tribune Lalla Fatma believes she is in Fez in 1944--where she grew up--not in Tangier in 2000, where the story begins.Guided by her fragmented...- $16.95
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The Lady from Tel Aviv
Shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2010.Will take you to the height of reading pleasure.--Elias KhouryWalid Dahman is going home. Returning to Gaza after nearly four decades in exile, he looks forward to reconnecting with the people and places he once left...- $14.95
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Strange Cases and Wild Tales
Strange Cases and Wild Tales presents real case histories and true stories related to the law practice and experiences of a creative Florida attorney reaching out over sixty years. There's more than meets the eye.In these sparkling memoirs, Florida attorney Lewis Ress uncorks a...- $12.99
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Vendor: Neil Hunter
Thunderbird
This story takes us back to the 1990s where our hero Tex is starting university and making new friends. Like most teenagers he doesn't know what life holds in store for him. Tex is having a hard time distinguishing life between his past and...- $20.69
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Vendor: Randy Willis
Destiny
Destiny is a sweeping family saga that spans four centuries. It is the story of two great nations and Randy Willis's ancestor's struggle from tyranny-religious and political. A powerful epic with love stories, battles, testimonies, drama, politics, history, and even humor. Inspired by true...- $35.00
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Vendor: Gates Whiteley
William: The Man, The Myth & The Mafia
Though he chafes under her yoke, William has spent more than half his life at home, devoted to helping his mother run their small wine and spirits shop in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England. His estranged father offers a means of escape and an entree...- $12.99
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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.

