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Vendor: Henry David Thoreau
Walden
Walden (/ˈwɔːldən/; first published in 1854 as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is a book by American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment,...- $11.73
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Vendor: Ronald W. Hamilton
The Magnificent Marquise: The Story of Adrienne Noailles de la Fayette
In his third book about outstanding people that history has forgotten; Ronald W. Hamilton brings us the sensational story of Adrienne Noailles de La Fayette, the wife of the "hero of two worlds." - Marquis de La Fayette. As is his custom, Hamilton writes...- $12.99
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Vendor: Jay Michael Feldman
The Comic Book Bandit: Stories from a Life of Lies
The Comic Book Bandit is a bright, healthy, mischievous child named Jay. Mentored by his brilliant older brother, Ross, the bandit pulls off his first comic book heist at the age of four. As events unfold, he gradually finds himself to be alone out...- $14.95
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Vendor: J. J. War
The Autobiography of J.J. War
This is the autobiography of J.J. War that stops shortly after September 11, 2001. Throughout his life, he had been given the power to play God-first, as a young boy about to lose his father; then, after seeing the World Trade Towers on TV,...- $19.50
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Vendor: Rodaan Al Galidi
Two Blankets, Three Sheets
Based on the author's true story, this is the account of Iraqi refugee Samir, who spends nine years in an asylum center in the Netherlands. "Two Blankets, Three Sheets does for the beleaguered political asylum seeker stuck in legal limbo what Joseph Heller's Catch-22...- $16.99
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Vendor: Kirk Stewart
Living Suspended Lives (A Dark Journey)
This book leads up to the reunion of my wife and myself after an absence of twelve years and thirteen days. The photo provided documents our reunion that day. It had been a dark journey, and our lives had been lived in suspension the...- $15.95
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Vendor: Laurent Gaudé
Hear Our Defeats
A "propulsive" historical novel about the battles--won, lost, and ongoing--that define us, from a winner of the Goncourt Prize (Library Journal, starred review). Assem, a French intelligence officer, is tasked with tracking down a former member of the US Special Forces suspected of drug...- $17.00
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Vendor: Julie Himes
Mikhail and Margarita
An NPR Best Book of the Year: " A] brilliant novel of love, betrayal and censorship . . . Deeply suspenseful" (Margot Livesey, New York Times-bestselling author of Mercury). It is 1933 in Russia and Mikhail Bulgakov's enviable literary career is on the brink...- $18.00
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Vendor: Dario Fo
The Pope's Daughter: A Novel of Lucrezia Borgia
Lucrezia Borgia is one of the most vilified women in modern history. The daughter of a notorious pope, she was twice betrothed before the age of eleven and thrice married--one husband was forced to declare himself impotent and thereby unfit and another was murdered...- $17.00
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Vendor: Philippe Georget
Summertime, All the Cats Are Bored
The first Inspector Sebag mystery. "The plot is intricate and tense . . . A] fantastic French ticking-clock thriller" (Daily Mail). It's the middle of a long hot summer on the French Mediterranean shore and the town is teeming with tourists. Sebag and Molino,...- $17.00
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Vendor: Jean-Paul Clebert
Paris Vagabond
An NYRB Classics Original Jean-Paul Cl bert was a boy from a respectable middle-class family who ran away from school, joined the French Resistance, and never looked back. Making his way to Paris at the end of World War II, Cl bert took to...- $18.95
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Vendor: Peg Lamphier
Little by Little We Won: A Novel Based on the Life of Angela Bambace
Women marched for equal pay, the President of the United States advocated an anti-immigration policy, and the income gap between the rich and poor continued to grow. And it was just the beginning of the 20th century.As a girl growing up in Italian Harlem,...- $16.99
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Vendor: Raul Ahumada
I Am Karate: The legend of Itosu Ankō
A novel that reflects anecdotes and teachings that occurred throughout the existence of this legendary master of karate-do Shorin Ryu style. His life takes place towards the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. As it's entering into the...- $12.50
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Vendor: Else Lasker-Sch?er
My Heart: A Novel of Love
'I am wildly in love with someone, but I'll say no more about it. That way it could always be .. you.' Set around the Caf des Westens, the epicenter of early twentieth century Expressionist Berlin, Else Lasker-Sch ler chronicles the demise of her...- $15.00
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Vendor: William Somerset Maugham
Of Human Bondage (Autobiographical Novel): Boyhood and Youth, Education, Political Ideals, Political Career (the New York Governorship and the Preside
Of Human Bondage is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. It is generally agreed to be his masterpiece and to be strongly autobiographical in nature. The Modern Library ranked Of Human Bondage No. 66 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of...- $14.40
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Vendor: Stefan Zweig
Marie Antoinette. Bildnis eines mittleren Charakters: Die ebenso dramatische wie tragische Biographie von Marie Antoinette
Mit dieser Biografie ist es Stefan Zweig gelungen, ein aufschlussreiches Bild von Marie Antoinette zu entwerfen. Sie war weder die ehrenwerte K nigin, die sich um ihr Volk bem hte, noch die gewissenlose untreue Ehefrau, als welche sie vom Volk verschrien wurde. Am eindrucksvollsten...- $10.50
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Vendor: Tony Riches
MARY - Tudor Princess
Would you dare to defy King Henry VIII? Mary Tudor watches her elder brother become King of England and wonders what the future holds for her. Henry plans to use her marriage to build a powerful alliance against his enemies.... Will she risk his...- $12.99
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Vendor: Michael Kenneth Smith
The Postwoman
Based on the story of WWII Resistance fighter Andr馥 De Jongh, The Postwoman recounts the gripping story of one woman's courageous actions and sacrifices in the face of great peril.In 1940, Andr馥 "Dedee" de Jongh, a twenty-four-year-old Belgian nurse, is horrified by her country's...- $14.95
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Vendor: Weedon Grossmith
The Diary of a Nobody: Illustrated
The Diary of a Nobody is an English comic novel written by the brothers George and Weedon Grossmith, with illustrations by the latter. It originated as an intermittent serial in Punch magazine in 1888-89 and first appeared in book form, with extended text and...- $7.99
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Vendor: Norman Lock
Feast Day of the Cannibals
A bankrupt merchant encounters Herman Melville and is pursued through the depths of Gilded Age Manhattan by a brutal antagonistIn the sixth stand-alone book in The American Novels series, Shelby Ross, a merchant ruined by the depression of 1873-79, is hired as a New...- $16.99
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Vendor: Alan Lelchuk
Searching for Wallenberg
Yad Vashem, Jerusalem's memorial to the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis during World War II, also recognizes non-Jewish individuals who risked their lives to save the Jews from the Nazi executioners. One of the trees that line the memorial's "Avenue of the...- $16.95
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Vendor: Don Tassone
Drive
Nick Reynolds is a highly successful food company executive. He's also a bully, feared by his employees and estranged from his wife and children. After his latest blow-up at work, Nick's boss orders him to take the summer off and sort himself out. Angry...- $17.95
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Vendor: Aram Pachyan
Goodbye, Bird
For a twenty-eight-year-old young man who returned from the army several years ago but has yet to reacclimatize to ordinary life, every step, gesture, word, and vision is a revelation, which takes him back to the beginning, to a time when reality had lost...- $33.99
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Vendor: Linda Lappin
Katherine's Wish
In her new novel, Linda Lappin (author of THE ETRUSCAN) explores the final years in the life of short story writer and literary figure, Katherine Mansfield, focusing on her relationships with Ida Baker and John Middleton Murry against the backdrop of her ceaseless journeys...- $15.00
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Vendor: Gill Sims
Why Mummy's Sloshed: The Bigger the Kids, the Bigger the Drink
No.1 bestselling author Gill Sims is back with her eagerly awaited fourth and final Why Mummy novel.I just wanted them to stop wittering at me, eat vegetables without complaining, let me go to the loo in peace and learn to make a decent gin...- $15.99
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Vendor: Janet Sethre
Signs of Song: Guido d'Arezzo in the Spring of Western Music
Born around 1,000 years ago, most probably in Tuscany, Guido d'Arezzo is remembered as the father of modern musical notation.His musical contributions surpassed all former methods of writing music, which did not represent the exact notes to be sung or played. He developed a...- $16.50
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Vendor: Bethenny Frankel
Skinnydipping
Four-time New York Times bestselling author and talk show host Bethenny Frankel makes her fiction debut with the novel Skinnydipping: "A totally fun, dishy read. This is the kind of book that is perfect to pack in your beach bag" (HollywoAuthor: Bethenny FrankelISBN-10: 1451667388ISBN-13:...- $23.99
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Vendor: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The House of the Dead
First published in 1862 after Dostoyevsky's imprisonment in a Siberian labor camp, "The House of the Dead" is a collection of memoirs, related by themes, that portrays the horrific life of convicts. The author drew on his own experiences in prison to depict the...- $12.99
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Vendor: Lea Singer
The Piano Student
"Explosively passionate, this story of forbidden love and unmet potential is ... for anyone who's ever felt the ineffable power of music."--Aja Gabel, author of The EnsembleThe Piano Student is a novel about regret, secrecy, and music, involving an affair between one of the...- $16.95
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Vendor: Ricardo Piglia
The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: A Day in the Life
Sixty years in the making and the capstone of a monumental literary career, The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: A Day in the Life is the final volume of the autobiographical trilogy from the author who is considered Borges' heir and the vanguard of the...- $22.00
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Vendor: Niccolo Machiavelli
The Life of Castruccio Castracani
Author: Niccolo MachiavelliISBN-10: 1847498329ISBN-13: 9781847498328Publisher: Alma BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/23/2020Pages: 128Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 4.80h x 7.60w x 0.50d- $9.00
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Vendor: David Charles Hart
Sister B
The history of Mississippi prompts a young African American mother to leave that state and seek a better life out west. In 1939, while traveling by train from California to Oregon, she encounters a Japanese photographer whose photos are used to plan the destruction...- $34.99
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Vendor: Robert Duncan
Loudmouth
"Read this book immediately if you like truth, drugs, generation gaps, guitars, and lifelong quests for freedom and kicks." --Craig Finn, The Hold Steady Thomas Ransom, born to a severely dysfunctional southern family transplanted to New York City, is left to his own devices...- $15.00
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Vendor: George J. Hawkins
The Irish Goodbye
To folllow ........................................................................................................................................................................................Author: George J. HawkinsISBN-10: 0578594633ISBN-13: 9780578594637Publisher: Bay Company Books, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 10/22/2019Pages: 260Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.59d- $19.99
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Vendor: Brian Doyle
Adventures of John Carson in Several Quarters of the World
"An affectionate homage...a loving reconstruction of an era of storytelling now lost." --The New York Times" A] triumph...If a writer is going to put on Stevenson's voice, he'd better, as the poets say, 'bring it.' Reader, Doyle has brought it...Adventures is a tonic for...- $34.99
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Vendor: Chris Greenhalgh
Seducing Ingrid Bergman
THE TRUE STORY OF THE BEAUTIFUL CASABLANCA STAR, THE WORLD'S GREATEST WAR PHOTOGRAPHER, AND THE SECRET LOVE AFFAIR THAT WOULD CHANGE THEIR LIVES FOREVER. June 1945. When Ingrid Bergman walks into the lobby of the Ritz hotel in Paris, Capa is enchanted. From the...- $19.00
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Vendor: Kate Alcott
The Hollywood Daughter
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmaker and A Touch of Stardust, comes a Hollywood coming-of-age novel, in which Ingrid Bergman's affair with Roberto Rossellini forces her biggest fan to reconsider everything she was raised to believe In 1950, Ingrid Bergman,...- $16.95
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The Girls in the Picture
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Swans of Fifth Avenue and The Aviator's Wife, a "rich exploration of two Hollywood friends who shaped the movies" (USA Today)--screenwriter Frances Marion and superstar Mary Pickford "Full of Old Hollywood glamour and true details...- $17.00
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Vendor: Rich Disilvio
Tales of Titans: From Rome to the Renaissance, Vol. 1
By GOLD AWARD Winner Rich DiSilvio Tales of Titans Vol. I brings great historical figures to life with concise yet compelling essays, coupled with engaging narratives that enlighten readers to their miraculous deeds, and misdeeds, that have significantly shaped Western civilization. This handsomely illustrated...- $11.99
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Vendor: Neal H. Katz
Scandalous, The Victoria Woodhull Saga, Volume Two: Fame, Infamy, and Paradise Lost
Volume 2 of The Victoria Woodhull Saga brings Victorian America and the struggle of women to life. The facts amaze, audacity engages, lascivious adventures entertain, and the abuses of power render all of it Scandalous Set in and around New York City in the...- $29.95
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Outrageous: The Victoria Woodhull Saga, Volume 1: Rise to Riches
Historical fictionalized account of Victoria Woodhull's rise to presidential candidate and wealth, coming from poverty and abuse. What compels a woman and her youngest sister to overcome abject poverty and violent abuse to grow up to defy convention and obliterate every barrier to become...- $29.95
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Almost Invincible
"She is singularly bold, somewhat imperious, and active of mind. Her desire of knowledge is great, and her perseverance in everything else she undertakes, almost invincible." Mary Shelley began Frankenstein in 1814, when she was eighteen. By then, she had been living for two...- $16.99
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Harriet Tubman: A Woman Called Moses
SHE FOUGHT FOR FREEDOM AND WON...NOT ONLY FOR HERSELF...FOR HUNDREDS OF OTHERS The acclaimed historical novel based on the amazing life of Harriet Tubman, Abolitionist and Conductor on the Underground Railroad. As events build toward a stunning climax on the Underground Railroad, we are...- $14.95
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Up Fool's Hill and Almost Down
Born in a dogtrot house about a half mile off the dirt road, Joe is thrust into the teeth of the Great Depression. His southern home in Pickens County is nearly wiped away by economic ruin while Joe's father abandons the family and its...- $12.95
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Perilous Passage: The Nervous System and the Universe in Other Words
Perilous Passage is an account of Terry Wilson's lifetime apprenticeship under the master shamanic practitioner, Brion Gysin, the hidden master of the avant-garde, of whom William Burroughs said, "He is the only man I respect." The book focuses on events as they developed just...- $24.95
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Free Enterprise: A Novel of Mary Ellen Pleasant
In 1858, two black women meet at a restaurant and begin to plot a revolution. Mary Ellen Pleasant owns a string of hotels in San Francisco that secretly double as havens for runaway slaves. Her comrade, Annie, is a young Jamaican who has given...- $17.95
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Vendor: Jim H. Ainsworth
Rivers Flow
"Flow is the difference between the way things are and the way they ought to be." Jake does not understand the meaning of his grandfather Griffin's words. It is easier to believe that that this thing called flow is not real. Jake is the...- $19.95
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Vendor: Upton Sinclair
Boston - A Documentary Novel of the Sacco-Vanzetti Case
The protracted trial of Sacco and Vanzetti was the most controversial political event of the 1920s. Today, more than seventy years after their execution, the events surrounding the case of Sacco and Vanzetti are still the source of debate. Truly, it is the "case...- $49.95
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Vendor: Richard Probert
That Good Night
This isn't the story of an old man's death, but rather his decision to live. Condemned to spend his "Golden Years" cooped up in Sunset Nursing Home, 84-year-old Charlie Lambert simply refuses this ending for himself. With the help of an old buddy in...- $14.95
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Blood and Beauty: A Novel about the Borgias
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS The New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Italian Renaissance novels--The Birth of Venus, In the Company of the Courtesan, and Sacred Hearts--has an exceptional talent for breathing life into history....- $17.00
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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.

