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Vendor: Onoto Watanna
Me: A Book of Rememberance: A Book of Rememebrance
Born into a family of sixteen children, Nora Ascouth is used to fighting to be heard. From a young age, Nora becomes determined to have a writing career, and travels around the world looking for the best place to work. From Canada, she moves...- $20.99
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Sweet Island Side of Me
Sweet Island Side of Me is a novel published in 2021 by American/Antiguan writer Lisset Bird-Pickens. It tracks the experience of visiting the island of Antigua through a little girl's eyes as she learns about her Antiguan history. This little girl is guided through...- $25.99
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Vendor: Harry Duffin
Chicago May
Sixteen-year-old peasant girl, May Sharpe, steals from her abusive father, and flees Ireland, to chase her dream of a new life in America. Arriving penniless and friendless in 1919's America, May has to choose between honest poverty, or crime. Beautiful May is charmed by...- $13.49
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Vendor: Sherwood Anderson
Windy McPherson's Son
Windy McPherson's Son (1916) is a novel by Sherwood Anderson. Both fictional and autobiographical, Anderson's debut novel is a coming of age story that explores themes of unhappiness and infidelity while illustrating the frustrations of the son of an abusive father. Although he is...- $12.99
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Vendor: Peg a. Lamphier
What a Woman Can Do: A Novel Based on the Life of Artemisia Gentileschi
Weary of hearing what a woman couldn't do, she had no choice but to show them what she could. Four centuries later, the world finally noticed. Though she was "just a girl," Artemisia Gentileschi's father recognized and nurtured his daughter's raw talent and escorted...- $16.99
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Goodbye to Ribbons: Based on a true story, a powerful and thought-provoking novel, set deep in rural Britain after the close of WWII
Goodbye to Ribbons is a historical biography that follows the incredible story of a remarkable woman growing up in rural Britain in the 1950s. Rosie only wants one thing-her mother's love. But for reasons she is yet to discover, her popular, bolshy, and brash...- $15.99
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Vendor: Jerome K. Jerome
Paul Kelver
Paul Kelver, a fictional character, recounts an eventful life loosely based on author Jerome K. Jerome's personal and professional exploits prior to becoming a writer. It's an intriguing look at an unconventional path that led to a promising literary career. In Paul Kelver: A...- $16.99
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Niels Lyhne
As one of the most important authors of the Danish language, Jens Peter Jacobsen body of work is small, including just two novels, seven short stories, and a volume of poetry. Considered his masterpiece, "Niels Lyhne" was first published in 1880 and was instantly...- $9.99
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Vendor: Vasyl Shevchuk
Precursor: A Novel about Ukrainian Philosopher Hryhoriy Skovoroda
A philosopher obstinately searching for truth in the 1700s, badgered by the church for speaking out on human rights and the hypocrisy of the ruling elite, Skovoroda was forced to live an unsettled life.Hryhoriy Skovoroda (1722-1794), dubbed a "wandering" philosopher, was one of the...- $24.99
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Vendor: Ray Wright
Summer Has Ended
Taking its title from the Old Testament prophet Jeremiah ("The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved," KJV), Ray Wright's novel renders a slice of hardscrabble life on a rented South Texas farm in the mid-1940s. Jeremy, adolescent son...- $12.95
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Vendor: Thomas Mann
Death in Venice
Mann's original intention was to write about "passion as confusion and degradation" after having been fascinated by the true story of Goethe's love for 18-year-old Baroness Ulrike von Levetzow, which had led Goethe to write his "Marienbad Elegy". The May 1911 death of composer...- $17.95
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Vendor: Katherine A. Sherbrooke
Leaving Coy's Hill
** A Massachusetts Book Award "Fiction Honor" ** An unforgettable story about the triumphs and travails of a woman unwilling to play by the rules, based on the remarkable life of pioneering feminist and abolitionist Lucy Stone. Born on a farm in 1818, Lucy...- $15.95
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Vendor: Amanda Barratt
My Dearest Dietrich
Discover the true love story of the world-famous theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer . . . and the incredible woman who changed his life Maria von Wedemeyer knows the realities of war. Her beloved father and brother have both been killed on the battlefield. The last...- $17.99
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Vendor: Gail Wickstrom
Paulie Maki: Misadventures of an Alcoholic Engineer
When Pauli Maki is born into a loving family, no one ever anticipates that one day he will become a hopeless alcoholic. Expected to go far in life, he has a healthy, normal childhood in a small town that includes his good friends, Rotten...- $28.99
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Vendor: David Andrus
Galaxy's End
Galaxy Press is an "old era" printing shop. It continues to use hot metal typesetting and letter press printing in the last year of the twentieth century, while everywhere else computer technology has revolutionized the graphic arts industry. The company is owned by Simon...- $14.99
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Vendor: Kate Fuglei
The Embrace of Hope: A Novel Based on the Life of Frank Capra
"Friend, you are a divine mingle-mangle of guts and stardust. So hang in there! If doors opened for me, they can open for anyone."-Frank CapraCrossing the Atlantic Ocean was going to be the biggest adventure of Frank Capra's life, but the five-year-old Sicilian boy's...- $16.99
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Vendor: William Burdett
The Life and Exploits of Three-Finger'd Jack
The Life and Exploits of Three-Finger'd Jack (1801) is a book by William Burdett. Inspired by tales of legendary slave-turned-rebel Jack Mansong, as well as by a popular pantomime based on Jack's life, Burdett published his book to popular acclaim in England. In late...- $5.99
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Vendor: Michelle Moran
Cleopatra's Daughter
From the internationally bestselling author of Nefertiti comes the tumultuous story of Antony and Celopatra's daughter, Selene. The marriage of Marc Antony and Cleopatra is one of the greatest love stories of all time, a tale of unbridled passion with earth-shaking political consequences. When...- $17.00
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Vendor: Rita Charbonnier
Mozart's Sister
The fascinating life of Wolfgang's older sister, Nannerl--whose talent may have equaled her brother's Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia Mozart, affectionately called Nannerl by her family, could play the piano with an otherworldly skill from the time she was a child. At the tender age...- $19.00
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Vendor: Ki Longfellow
The Secret Magdalene
Raised like sisters, Mariamne and Salome are indulged with riches, position, and learning-a rare thing for females in Jerusalem. But Mariamne has a further gift: an illness has left her with visions; she has the power of prophecy. It is her prophesying that drives...- $19.00
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The Autobiography of Joseph Stalin
In a spellbinding novel that combines the suspense of a thriller and the accuracy of a work of history, the psychology of a monster is fully revealed, every atom of his madness explored, every twist of his homicidal logic followed to its logical conclusion....- $19.99
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Vendor: Xinran
Sky Burial
From A to Z, the Penguin Drop Caps series collects 26 unique hardcovers--featuring cover art by Jessica Hische It all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and hardcover editions, each with a type...- $30.00
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Vendor: Margaret George
Elizabeth I: The Novel
The New York Times bestseller from Margaret George--a captivating novel about history's most enthralling queen, the legendary Elizabeth I. England's greatest monarch has baffled and intrigued the world for centuries. But what was the Virgin Queen really like? Lettice Knollys--Elizabeth's flame-haired, look-alike coussin--thinks she...- $20.00
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Vendor: Elena Poniatowska
Here's to You, Jesusa!
A remarkable novel that uniquely melds journalism with fiction, by Elena Poniatowska, the recipient of the prestigious 2013 Cervantes PrizeJesusa is a tough, fiery character based on a real working-class Mexican woman whose life spanned some of the seminal events of early twentieth-century Mexican...- $22.00
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Vendor: J. B. Remensnyder
Services at the Unveiling of the Memorial Window Erected in Honor of Henry Melchior M?lenberg
Services at the Unveiling of the Memorial Window Erected in Honor of Henry Melchior M?lenberg 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,...- $16.90
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Vendor: Afroz Martino
Five Pebbles in a Pond
It is a story of sacrifice and love. Five exceptional women originating from diverse backgrounds meet each other at university and strike an everlasting friendship. Despite their differences in language and heritage, they become one in spirit. They name their sisterhood 'SAKTE', each letter...- $16.99
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Vendor: Thomas F. Gill
History of the Gill Family
History of the Gill Family is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1893. 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 a publisher...- $22.90
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Vendor: W. E. B. Du Bois
The Gift of Black Folk
The Gift of Black Folk (1924) is a book of essays by W. E. B. Du Bois. Written while the author was using his role at The Crisis, the official magazine of the NAACP, to publish emerging Black artists of the Harlem Renaissance, The...- $14.99
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Vendor: Jack Whyte
Forest Laird
The Forest Laird is the tale of William Wallace, the great hero of the Scottish Wars of Independence. Jack Whyte has pulled back the curtain of history and has given us a riveting story of Wallace's struggles against the tyranny of the English. In...- $22.99
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Vendor: Thomas Wolfson
The Blackfish Inheritance
Based on the life of author Thomas Wolfson, The Blackfish Inheritance is a sweeping bildungsroman about a man attempting to escape from the outsize influence of his father and come into his own. Leon's travails begin with a privileged upbringing in New York City's...- $14.95
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Vendor: James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly...- $11.00
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Vendor: Marcel Proust
Swann's Way
From the French novelist, essayist, critic, and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century: the first volume of his monumental masterpiece, one of the most sensitive renderings of childhood in fiction and a brilliant meditation on the recreation of the past through...- $15.95
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Vendor: Sam Shepard
Spy of the First Person
The final work from the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, actor, and musician, drawn from his transformative last days In searing, beautiful prose, Sam Shepard's extraordinary narrative leaps off the page with its immediacy and power. It tells in a brilliant braid of voices the story...- $14.00
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Vendor: Tim LaHaye
Matthew's Story
The fourth installment in the Jesus Chronicles, from the bestselling author of the Left Behind series. This story in the Jesus Chronicles depicts the life of the most unlikely of apostles-a sinner turned saint-and his time with the Lord. With Matthew, readers walk alongside...- $15.00
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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 an American masterpiece-and yet the novel familiar to so many readers is not, in fact, the story Crane wrote. That story is the one printed here, as Henry Binder has recovered it, as fully as possible, from the...- $19.95
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Vendor: Katie Roiphe
Still She Haunts Me: A Novel of Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was a shy Oxford mathematician, reverend, and pioneering photographer. Under the pen name Lewis Carroll he wrote two stunning classics that liberated children's literature from the constraints of Victorian moralism. But the exact nature of his relationship with Alice Liddell, daughter...- $15.00
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Vendor: A. S. Byatt
The Biographer's Tale
From the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession comes an ingenious novel about love and literary sleuthing: a dazzling fiction woven out of one man's search for certainty. "Elegant ... witty ... intelligent." --The Washington PostHere is the story of Phineas G. Nanson, a disenchanted...- $16.00
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Vendor: Leslie Dunn
Rudolf Virchow: Four Lives in One
Virchow was a tiny man, the son a farmer and grew to international fame and altered medicine forever. This historical fiction is based on the true life of Rudolf Virchow, M.D. 1821-1902 whose titles include, "Pope of Medicine," and "Father of Pathology" based on...- $11.99
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Vendor: Nazim Hikmet
Life's Good, Brother
Hikmet's final book--an autobiographical novel about a man who is imprisoned for being a Communist, his friends, and the women he loved. Considered to be a major work in his oeuvre. This is the first publication in English translation.Author: Nazim HikmetISBN-10: 0892554185ISBN-13: 9780892554188Publisher: Persea...- $17.95
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Vendor: Rudolfo Anaya
The Sorrows of Young Alfonso, 15
"The world is full of sorrow," Agapita whispered to Alfonso. Did she stamp those words into his destiny? The story of Alfonso, a Nuevo Mexicano, begins with his birth, when the curandera Agapita delivers these haunting words into his infant ear. What then unfolds...- $29.95
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Vendor: Lisa Rinna
Starlit
New York Times bestselling author and television star Lisa Rinna delivers a "dishy" (Huffington Post) and deliciously revealing novel, a titillating Hollywood drama packed with sexy secrets and juicy scandal. In this town, you're either it or you're out. Glamorous parties, paparazzi, red carpets--Tally...- $20.99
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Vendor: Taylor Bell
Dirty Rush
In this shockingly true-to-life novel written by an all-star team of Internet phenoms from the Total Frat Move generation, you'll get the first true glimpse of "real" sorority life in all its f**ked up glory. Dirty Rush by Taylor Bell is what happens when...- $17.99
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Vendor: Kimberly L. Craft
Elizabeth Bathory: A Memoire: As Told by Her Court Master, Benedict Deseö
Accused of having murdered hundreds of her servants, Countess Elizabeth B thory was walled alive in her castle until she died. Years later, desperate to know the truth behind his infamous mother's crimes, young Count Paul seeks out the only man still alive who...- $9.95
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Secrets of the Tudor Court: The Pleasure Palace
Basing her gripping tale on the life of the real Jane Popyncourt, gifted author Kate Emerson brings the Tudor monarchs, their family, and their courtiers to brilliant life in this vibrant novel. Beautiful. Seductive. Innocent. Jane Popyncourt wAuthor: Kate EmersonISBN-10: 1416583203ISBN-13: 9781416583202Publisher: Pocket BooksLanguage:...- $24.99
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The Tudor Rose
"A magnificent portrait of a great queen."--The Boston HeraldFans of Phillipa Gregory, Kate Morton, and Marie Benedict will love this compelling story of Elizabeth of York, the first Tudor Queen, who united a kingdom in turmoil and laid the foundation for England's most famous...- $18.99
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Isadora
Using the scaffolding of Isadora Duncan's life and the stuff of her spirit, Amelia Gray's breakout novel delivers an incredibly imaginative portrait of the artist, resulting in "a stunning meditation on art and grief by one of America's most exciting young authors" (NPR). As...- $18.00
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A Clearing in the Wild
The first book in the Change and Cherish trilogy from the CBA bestseller and WILLA Literary Award Winner, Jane Kirkpatrick. Young Emma Wagner chafes at the constraints of Bethel colony, an 1850s religious community in Missouri that is determined to remain untainted by the...- $15.99
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Hold Tight the Thread
BASED ON A TRUE STORY In a land occupied by foreign powers and torn by confusion and conflict, a mother seeks to weave her family and her past into a fabric that will not tear.Their Lives Were Woven by Wars and Wilderness Places, and...- $17.99
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We're The North Stand
This is the true story of how the Chelsea North Stand firm began with just four people back in 1969, and evolved into the Chelsea Headhunters; in the late 1970's; becoming the most notorious Football Firm in Britain. It's written in novel form to...- $14.25
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The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Set on a tropical island where Robinson Crusoe found himself after a terrible storm at sea, we follow his life and adventures far away from civilization. A novel which has inspired countless imitations and adaptations, remains one of the most original and inspiring stories...- $25.00
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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.

