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Vendor: Timothy L. Radle
The Life of Olaf Waniglia: Body Whisperer
Experience the intrigue of one man's extraordinary life. The Life of Olaf Waniglia takes you on a journey through Olaf's experiences, both good and bad. "Why is Olaf's life worth reading about?" you ask. Well that is simple, dear Reader: Olaf has some uncanny...- $20.00
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Vendor: D. H. Lawrence
Lady Chatterley's Lover
2018 Reprint of 1928 Edition. Lyric and sensual, D.H. Lawrence's last novel is one of the major works of fiction of the twentieth century. Filled with scenes of intimate beauty, explores the emotions of a lonely woman trapped in a sterile marriage and her...- $6.50
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Vendor: Ninsavang Pravisay
Haven to Heaven: A Journey from Laos to America
**Royal Palm Literary Award Bronze Winner 2019** In the wake of the Communist takeover of Laos, Kim Champa leads her family on a daring escape in search of a better life. Using excerpts from her daughter Kasi's diary, Kim tells the riveting story of...- $14.71
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Vendor: James Frey
Katerina
From the New York Times bestselling author of A Million Little Pieces and Bright Shiny Morning comes Katerina, James Frey's highly anticipated new novel set in 1992 Paris and contemporary Los Angeles. A kiss, a touch. A smile and a beating heart. Love and...- $16.00
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Vendor: Kathleen McKenna Hewtson
The Unauthorized Autobiography of Diana, Princess of Wales
The plan was simple: to kill Diana - as Diana herself had predicted six months before - in a car crash. Should she merely end up being injured, then it was imperative that she should die in the immediate aftermath of the accident, whatever...- $15.99
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Vendor: Shiela Marie Alejandro
Tafari: The Special Child
After four long years of drought, the rain finally fell on a stormy night in Ethiopia. On that special night, while lightning flashed and thunder clapped, Ras Makonnen and Wayzaro Yashimabet's tenth child was born. At his baptism he was given a secret name....- $10.00
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Vendor: Jonathan Brown
A Boxing Trainer's Journey: A Novel Based on the Life of Angelo Dundee
To train the greatest, he had to be the greatest.On the streets of South Philly, Angelo Dundee learned what it took to survive--a sense of purpose, a clear head, and sometimes . . . a powerful right uppercut. Boxing was the family business and...- $15.99
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Vendor: Patric Verrone
Ride Into the Sun: A Novel Based on the Life of Scipio Africanus
The heroic story of a teenager who took on one of the world's greatest generals.For his entire life, the Roman Empire had been at war. And now the shrewd African general Hannibal had implausibly navigated his herd of elephants over the Alps, leaving thousands...- $15.99
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Vendor: Rosanne Welch
America's Forgotten Founding Father: A Novel Based on the Life of Filippo Mazzei
His loyalty lasted a lifetime...Surgeon, merchant, vintner, and writer Filippo Mazzei influenced American business, politics, and philosophy. Befriending Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, Mazzei was a strong liaison for others in Europe. Mazzei was Jefferson's inspiration for the most famous line in the Declaration...- $15.99
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Vendor: Michael Amos Cody
Gabriel's Songbook
Moving between the landscapes of fictional Runion, North Carolina, and Nashville's Music Row, Gabriel's Songbook follows a songwriter and singer through his search for fame and belonging. As he juggles ambition, love, and occasional despair, he finds that his dream of success and his...- $17.95
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Vendor: Jung Young Moon
Seven Samurai Swept Away in a River
In his inimitable, recursive, meditative style that reads like a comedic zen koan but contains universes, Seven Samurai Swept Away in a River recounts Korean cult writer's Jung Young Moon's time spent at an artist's and writers residency in small-town Texas. In an attempt...- $14.95
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Vendor: Cameron MacKenzie
The Beginning of His Excellent and Eventful Career
"I am not the revolution...I am the instrument of another hand." So does Francisco "Pancho" Villa begin the tale of his rise from thief to warlord to the revolutionary leader of northern Mexico. By turns a confession and an act of seduction, The Beginning...- $21.95
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Vendor: Ulf Peter Hallberg
European Trash: Fourteen Ways to Remember a Father
Winner of the 2010 Gerard Bonnier Prize.One of the year's most stimulating reading experiences.--Michel Ekman, Svenska DagbladetUlf Peter Hallberg writes beautifully about both love and trash.--Amelie Björck, Göteborgs-PostenCombining fact and fiction, photographs and quotes, European Trash is a humorous, moving, and elegiac novel that...- $16.00
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Vendor: Matt Fullerty
The Knight of New Orleans, the Pride and the Sorrow of Paul Morphy
1837. Paul Morphy was born into a wealthy Creole family in the French Quarter of New Orleans and became infamous for his fast and positional chess game. At twenty-one he was knighted world champion after defeating the great European masters-the English and Germans-in New...- $13.95
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Vendor: Jane Alison
Nine Island
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2016 "Nine Island is a crackling incantation, brittle and brilliant and hot and sad and full of sideways humor that devastates and illuminates all at once." --Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies Nine Island is an intimate...- $16.95
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Vendor: Austin Ratner
The Jump Artist
Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature"A remarkable work . . . [that] documents a triumph of the human spirit over tremendous adversity."--Harper's"This elegantly-written tribute makes as beautiful a use of the darkness and light of one man's life as a Halsman photograph of a...- $14.95
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Vendor: Kurt Landefeld
Jack's Memoirs: Off the Road, a Novel
If Jack Kerouac had lived, what would he have done and written? Kurt Landefeld opens this door for us in this fine fictional memoir. / �Kurt Landefeld has brought Jack Kerouac back to life in an new, imagined road-journey. In the sustained force of...- $19.95
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Vendor: Andrew Kaufman
Small Claims
Shortlisted for the 2018 ReLit AwardIn this new novel by ReLit award-winning, Leacock-nominated writer Andrew Kaufman, the narrator eschews the usual avenues of mid-life crisis-sportscars, mistresses-and instead seeks meaning in the least likely of places: small claims court. There, he struggles to understand what's...- $19.95
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Vendor: Laura Elizabeth Woollett
The Love of a Bad Man
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION An electrifying short story collection about the wives, lovers, and mistresses of history's most notorious men. A schoolgirl catches the eye of the future leader of Nazi Germany. An aspiring playwright writes to a...- $14.95
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Vendor: Dusan Sarotar
Billiards at the Hotel Dobray
In the northern Slovenian city of Murska Sobota stands the renowned Hotel Dobray, once the gathering place of townspeople of all nationalities and social strata who lived in this typical Pannonian panorama on the fringe of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Due to its historical and...- $15.00
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Vendor: Elizabeth St John
Written in their Stars: The Lydiard Chronicles 1649-1664
London, 1649. Horrified eyewitnesses to King Charles's bloody execution, Royalists Nan Wilmot and Frances Apsley plot to return the king's exiled son to England's throne, while their radical cousin Luce, the wife of king-killer John Hutchinson, rejoices in the new republic's triumph. Nan exploits...- $15.99
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Vendor: Peter Guralnick
Nighthawk Blues
Peter Guralnick--in this, his only novel to date--draws on his rich storytelling skills and his intimate knowledge of music to create an an unforgettable character, and to give us an "engrossing, evocative" (Washington Post) look at the blues life. The Screamin' Nighthawk is a...- $19.99
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Vendor: Sophie McLean
The Elegance of Simplicity
This is the story of an encounter between two women: one in search of answers, the other having already completed her spiritual journey. Gu a is the profound, whimsical character who tells us the story of her passage into consciousness, from pre-birth to enlightenment....- $20.00
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Vendor: Martin Turnbull
Chasing Salomé: A Novel of 1920s Hollywood
Hollywood, 1920 Alla Nazimova has reached the pinnacle of success. She is the highest-paid actress in town, with a luxurious estate, the respect of her peers, adoration of her fans, and a series of lovers that has included the first wife of her protégé,...- $15.95
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Vendor: J. D. Rittenhouse
Rittenhouse: The Saga of an American Family, Volume 2
The Revolutionary War was about to begin, and tensions ran high with all involved. David Rittenhouse was convinced to relocate to Philadelphia by Thomas Barton, and Dr. William Smith, Provost of the College of Philadelphia, to help promote his orrery. Philadelphia did not prove...- $29.99
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Vendor: Tom Ball
Backstraw
A fictional memoir. Except when it isn't. From a cell in Bridgeton Prison, Timothy DiAngelo looks back upon a curious life. From a '50s Texas boyhood to a '60s Santa Monica youth; from years of overland world travel to mysterious disappearances and deaths; from...- $17.95
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Vendor: Margaret Skea
Katharina: Deliverance
'It is very shameful that children, especially defenceless young girls, are pushed into the nunneries. Shame on the unmerciful parents who treat their own so cruelly.' Martin Luther Germany 1505 Following the death of her mother and her father's remarriage, five-year-old Katharina is placed...- $13.99
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Vendor: John Rosengren
A Clean Heart: A Novel (Alcoholism, Dysfunctional Family, Recovery, Redemption, 12-Steps)
A Novel of Redemption from Addiction and a Broken Family"A Clean Heart picks at the knot of addiction and recovery insistently and with a wholesomeness intriguingly at odds with its subject. I enjoyed this book." -Thomas Beller, author of The Sleep-Over ArtistCarter Kirchner struggles...- $18.95
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Vendor: Nicole Gregory
Defying Danger: A Novel Based on the Life of Father Matteo Ricci
The Forbidden City--home to the opium-addicted Ming Dynasty emperor and protected by thousands of ruthless eunuchs--no European had ever been inside. Would a simple Jesuit priest be the first?Armed with a homemade clock, a wealth of patience, and an uncompromising drive to share his...- $15.99
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Vendor: Jack London
Martin Eden
Martin Eden is a novel by American author Jack London, about a proletarian young autodidact struggling to become a writer. It was first serialized in the Pacific Monthly magazine from September 1908 to September 1909, and subsequently published in book form by Macmillan in...- $33.95
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Vendor: C. R. Hurst
Jane Digby's Diary: Following an Eastern Star
"As the depth of truth of one's life can only be penned upon the pages of a diary, Jane Digby leads us through her passionate life . . . A wonderful piece of historical fiction that will delight your senses as well as your...- $9.99
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Vendor: G. S. Willmott
1000 Yard Stare: Stories About PTSD Throughout the Ages
PTSD has been documented throughout history since man first began clubbing each other with rocks. Our understanding of this debilitation has only increased or become more visible in our digital age. In the past it was seen as a source of shame and embarrassment,...- $16.99
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Vendor: Michael Martone
The Complete Writings of Art Smith, the Bird Boy of Fort Wayne, Edited by Michael Martone
Fictitious biographical snippets that celebrate the sky-written words of early aviation and the life of the man behind them.Author: Michael MartoneISBN-10: 195077421XISBN-13: 9781950774210Publisher: BOA EditionsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/13/2020Pages: 224Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.90w x 0.90dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 08/31/2020- $17.00
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Vendor: Hilary Mantel
The Mirror & the Light
"If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?"England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors....- $35.99
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Vendor: Larry Craig
Lost in Vietnam: AWOL in Southeast Asia
Saigon was an incredibly exciting destination in 1967. This book will let you in on some of the secrets that kept the generals coming back for more. More fine French cuisine. More fine French wine at low PX prices(I should know since I bought...- $11.99
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Vendor: Anthony R. Wildman
The Diplomat of Florence
Florence, 1498. The long rule of the Medici is over and a new regime has emerged from the turbulence, a genuine republic of the people. But Florence is weak and threatened by a new warlord who is rampaging across central Italy-Cesare Borgia. Niccol Machiavelli...- $19.99
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Vendor: Jon Arensen
Chasing the Rain
Chasing the Rain follows the life of a man named Lado. He was born in Sudan approximately 1920. He grew up living the traditional life of his Murle people - herding the goats, planting sorghum and hunting antelope with a spear. But Lado was...- $13.99
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Vendor: Harimohan Pillai
Hall Days: Oye Fresher
In one's life there are many a twilight between the one in the beginning and the end. As I see the twilight in the end appearing nearer, I sit back and wonder about the twilight that have gone by... like the early childhood, first...- $7.22
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Vendor: Pamela Binnings Ewen
The Queen of Paris: A Novel of Coco Chanel
Legendary fashion designer Coco Chanel is revered for her sophisticated style--the iconic little black dress--and famed for her intoxicating perfume Chanel No. 5. Yet behind the public persona is a complicated woman of intrigue, shadowed by mysterious rumors. The Queen of Paris, the new...- $39.95
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Vendor: Faith L. Justice
Twilight Empress: A Novel of Imperial rome
She lives a life of ambition, power, and intrigue she didn't seek, but can't refuse. Daughter of Rome, Placidia expects to do her duty to God and country, marry appropriately, and raise imperial heirs. But in AD 410, the city of Rome falls to...- $21.00
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Vendor: Virginia Woolf
Orlando
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'Orlando had become a woman - there is no denying it. But in every other respect, Orlando remained precisely as he had been. The change of sex, though it altered their future, did...- $16.99
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Vendor: Herman Melville
Pierre (Or, the Ambiguities)
Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (1852) is a novel by American writer Herman Melville. Published the year after Moby-Dick--a critical and commercial failure--Pierre: or, The Ambiguities is a psychological novel in the tradition of Gothic fiction. Melville struggled to find a publisher who would pay...- $17.99
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Vendor: Charles Dickens
Great Expectations (Annotated)
Read one of the greatest classics of all time.The definitive edition. Features an extended biography of the life and experiences of Charles Dickens Large Print editions available in hardback and paperback Pip, a young and bright orphan boy, is attacked by an escaped convict...- $29.95
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Human Resources
An example of how not to behave in business and a tutorial on inappropriate human resources duties inside a corporation. When personnel departments converted to human resources departments they became in many cases a filter for corporate entities to uncover unhappy employees.Author: Veney MartinISBN-10:...- $19.99
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Paris Bride: A Modernist Life
In July 1905, in Paris, a young Anglo-French woman called Marie Wheeler became the bride of a Swiss migr , Johannes Schad. Immediately after the wedding, Marie and Johannes moved to London. And there they lived for nineteen years. In 1924, however, something happened...- $24.00
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Headhunters of the Coral Sea
The story of the capture of the two Lamars (reincarnated natives), as the white boys were called, is one that has been handed down in legend among the Torres Strait islanders. After Idriess, years later, learned in civilised society the other part of the...- $16.99
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Spike and Friends
Spike and Friends was inspired by true stories following three life-long friends from childhood through adulthood. Two of them, as lawyers, try fascinating court cases while the third friend becomes a military hero. The three work together, assist each another, and become heroic in...- $27.50
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Vendor: Friedrich Schleiermacher
The Life of Schleiermacher: as unfolded in his Autobiography and Letters; with a Portrait; translated from the German, in Two Volumes - Vol. 2
The Life of Schleiermacher - as unfolded in his Autobiography and Letters; with a Portrait; translated from the German, in Two Volumes - Vol. 2 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1890. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different...- $35.90
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The Unlikely Occultist
Discover the fascinating life of Alice Bailey: a long-forgotten occultist widely regarded as the Mother Of The New Age.Back in 1931, Alice is preparing to give a speech at a Swiss summer school. Soon after, she is put on Hitler's blacklist. What Alice doesn't...- $22.49
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The Unlikely Occultist
Discover the fascinating life of Alice Bailey: a long-forgotten occultist widely regarded as the Mother Of The New Age.Back in 1931, Alice is preparing to give a speech at a Swiss summer school. Soon after, she is put on Hitler's blacklist. What Alice doesn't...- $18.89
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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.

