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Vendor: Justin John Scheck
Memoirs Of A Bread Man
It's Christmas time in Madison, Wisconsin. It is the early stages of the Iraq War, which has conjured up memories for a Bread Man raised by a Vietnam Vet.If that weren't enough to bring back these unwanted memories, his boss at the Bread Depot...- $27.99
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Vendor: D. P. Rosano
Vivaldi's Girls
Antonio Vivaldi's music has mesmerized audiences for three hundred years.A less known story than his musical genius was the impressive figure that he was in Venetian society; the young, red-haired prodigy could make women swoon with the sweeping grandeur of his violin performances -...- $27.29
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Vendor: Sherwood Anderson
Marching Men
Marching Men (1917) is a novel by Sherwood Anderson. Both fictional and autobiographical, Anderson's second novel is a coming of age story that explores the individual and collective identities shaping American life. Although he is known today for his story collection Winesburg, Ohio, a...- $10.99
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Vendor: Justin John Scheck
Memoirs Of A Bread Man
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Vendor: William Esper
Short Stories
A grandfather's memory brings back some of the fantastic events that happened to him and his friends during his childhood, growing up on a farm. And yes, some of his friends were animals who could talk! Author: William EsperISBN-10: 1636301975ISBN-13: 9781636301976Publisher: Covenant BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished:...- $11.95
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Vendor: Justin John Scheck
Memoirs Of A Bread Man
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Vendor: Ronan Matthew
Ruby's Dream: The Story of a Boy's Life
Ruby's Dream tells the story of a Caribbean boy's life as he struggles to reconcile the untimely death of his mother and the abandonment by his alcoholic father. Yearning to change his life, he realizes that an education is the single most important factor...- $14.95
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Vendor: George Pellew
John Jay: American Statesmen
John Jay - American Statesmen is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1894. 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...- $41.90
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Vendor: Sarah Orne Jewett
The Country of the Pointed Firs
The Country of the Pointed Firs is an 1896 book by American writer Sarah Orne Jewett. It is considered by some literary critics to be her finest work. The Country of the Pointed Firs was serialized in the January, March, July, and September 1896...- $14.95
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Vendor: J. P. Reedman
I, Richard Plantagenet, the Prequel, Part Three: Crown in Exile
October 1470. King Edward IV is forced into exile when Warwick the Kingmaker decides to unmake the king he helped put on the throne and reinstall old, sickly Henry VI as a puppet. He flees over the sea to Burgundy; with him, is his...- $10.25
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Murder of an Uncommon Man
An unexpected call from Riverton, Manitoba in 2007 forced Janet Berg to confront the life and death of her father, Daniel. He was found shot dead in a field with a shotgun and the forty-year-old scientist needed to explain why. From her home in...- $7.98
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Vendor: Charlotte Philby
Edith and Kim
One of 'the heirs to John le Carré' The Times 'A tremendous achievement' WILLIAM BOYD'Behold the new Golden Age of Spy Kings' Sunday TimesTo betray, you must first belong...In June 1934, Kim Philby met his Soviet handler, the spy Arnold Deutsch. The woman who...- $17.99
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Vendor: Arthur D. Bright
King David: Favored, Fallible, Forgiven (Just Like Us)
The story of David is familiar to many; however, to experiencea walk with David gives a different perspective. Often whenScripture is read, it is read as an observer or spectator ratherthan a participator in the life of the biblical character. Moreover, there is the...- $11.99
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Vendor: Amy Maroney
The Queen's Scribe
A broken promise. A bitter conflict. And a woman's elusive chance to love or die. 1458. Young Frenchwoman Estelle de Montavon sails to Cyprus imagining a bright future as tutor to a princess. Instead, she is betrayed by those she loves most-and forced into...- $15.99
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Vendor: Henry Ball
Sister of Sorrows: Lost in the Wilds of Southern Louisiana
A Tumultuous and Remarkable Journey Through Life, Love, and Lost in the Wilds of Southern LouisianaWhen Frank Hayden learns he has a long-lost sister, doors open to the past and a slew of buried memories in the swamplands of Southern Louisiana. The story contains...- $25.95
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Vendor: Mark Twain
A Tramp Abroad
"A Tramp Abroad" is a 1880 travel book by Mark Twain that chronicles his travels in central and southern Europe. The fourth of six such travel books written by Twain, it follows Twain and his close friend Joseph Twichel as they attempt to walk...- $23.99
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Vendor: Diana Stevan
Paper Roses on Stony Mountain
An Inspirational Family Saga, that started with the Award-Winning Sunflowers Under Fire, continues to resonate with readers worldwide.Wars, typhus, drought and family losses could not stop Lukia Mazurec. Will her children's indifference finally break her spirit?With the Great Depression ending and Hitler's armies marching...- $25.95
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Vendor: Odessa C
Your Not So Average Teenage Girls Diary
The tale of your not too average teenage girls crazy life.Author: Odessa CISBN-10: 8554902807ISBN-13: 9798554902802Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/28/2020Pages: 80Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.17d- $8.99
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Vendor: Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe
"And I add this part here, to hint to whoever shall read it, that whenever they come to a true Sense of things, they will find Deliverance from Sin a much greater Blessing than Deliverance from Affliction." ― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe Robinson Crusoe...- $34.99
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Vendor: Ana Adam
The Kisses of Thanatos: Caught between dogma and drugs
When your devoutly religious parents choose who you marry, your husband makes all your decisions for you, and your life is accompanied by constant, excruciating pain, then your chances of becoming addicted to drugs are high. This is what happens to Ana, the daughter...- $22.50
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Vendor: Paolo Bettoni
I Am NYC: How Two Mad Man Live the Big Apple
Living in this city means savoring the essence of being. You breathe the air of the whole world. In New York I only see people. I don't see nationality, color, ideology, or anything else. I only see and breathe man in his most primitive...- $9.95
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Vendor: Yolanda Ropschitz-Bentham
Ferramonti: Salvation behind the barbed wire
Author: Yolanda Ropschitz-Bentham, David Henryk RopschitzISBN-10: 3949197125ISBN-13: 9783949197123Publisher: Texianer VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2020Pages: 556Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.54lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.24d- $29.99
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Vendor: W. Somerset Maugham
The Moon and Sixpence
2023 Reprint of the 1919 Edition. Based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin, this book relates the life of a Paris stockbroker who abandons his home, family, and business to live as an artist in Tahiti. Charles Strickland is a staid banker,...- $6.75
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Vendor: Stefano Ceccherini
6 Australians. Youth memories and passion for the rock band of Michael Hutchence
"6 Australians" recounts the magical bond that formed between a teenager from a village in southern Tuscany and the Australian band INXS, led by the charismatic and beloved Michael Hutchence. It is a journey of just over ten years (from 1986 to 1997) into...- $17.90
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Vendor: Wayne Kyle Spitzer
X-Ray Rider and 7 Other Dark Rites of Passage
Jonesing for a drive-in theater and a hotrod El Camino?It's the dawn of the 1970s and everything is changing. The war in Vietnam is winding down. So is the Apollo Space Program. The tiny northwestern city of Spokane is about to host a World's...- $17.99
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Vendor: Geoffrey C. Parks
The Crazy Years
In this second book of the trilogy about the life and adventures of Chip, we find our protagonist drawn into the wild sixties lifestyle of Waikiki, replete with hippies, prostitutes, and tourists dressed in matching Hawaiian prints. But Chip never loses a gnawing feeling...- $15.00
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Vendor: Edgar Rice Burroughs
At the Earth's Core Illustrated
At the Earth's Core is a 1914 fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first in his series about the fictional "hollow earth" land of Pellucidar. It first appeared as a four-part serial in All-Story Weekly from April 4-25, 1914. It was...- $15.00
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Vendor: Alex Stein
Variations in the Key of K
A book of provocative ideas, about art and artists, Variations In The Key of K is an artfully constructed collection of stories. Franz Kafka, Pablo Picasso, and William Blake are among the many artist lives reconceived here. A book of cautionary histories, on one...- $16.00
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Vendor: Angela Rhodes-Parker
Blind Visions from Heaven: Based on a true story
Blind Visions from Heaven is Katherine Rhodes's breakout novel. Written under her sister's name, as she helped guide Katherine with her writings, Blind Visions is a based on a true story and promises its readers will get at least one severe case of the...- $29.95
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Vendor: Kathleen Ambro
Wealth, Sorrow, Redemption: The Adventurous Life of a Countess
WEALTH, SORROW, REDEMPTION is a biographical novel about a young girl born into wealth, married into royalty who soon finds her fairytale life spinning out of control. With the onset of the Roaring 20's in London, she is seduced by the thrill of fast...- $19.95
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Vendor: King Virgil Cheek
I See A New America: It Ain't The One I Used To Know
This is the story of Royal Finley, born into the tumultuous segregated south, a time that genuinely shaped and molded a person beyond today's norms.These times were of light and dark, as all before, whomever it laid its weight on. However, at this particular...- $22.95
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Vendor: Kathleen Morris
The Lily of the West
Winner of the 2019 Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award The Lily of the West, winner of the 2019 Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award for Best First Western Novel is the story of Mary Katherine Haroney, known as the notorious "Big Nose Kate." In the American West...- $16.95
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Vendor: Brenda Murphy
Becoming Carlotta: A Biographical Novel
For the twenty years of her acting career, Carlotta Monterey was counted among the most beautiful women in America. Beginning life in 1888 as Hazel Tharsing, the daughter of a California fruit farmer, she grew up determined to matter in the world. At seventeen,...- $14.95
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Vendor: Larch Gallagher
Nest of Ashes
October 1537At a time of most supreme triumph, the moment of her greatest glory, security and power, a Queen of England lies dying. Through dreams of fever and fantasy, Jane Seymour, third and most beloved wife of King Henry VIII remembers her childhood, the...- $15.99
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Vendor: Roy R. Luna
Lord of Reason
"Fiction demands verisimilitude; reality forces no such exigencies." So states the author of this curious amalgam of history and imagination that asks you to believe that a nineteen-year-old peasant from Savoy can travel to Paris in 1778 and become not just the boy toy...- $19.99
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Vendor: Suzy Henderson
The Beauty Shop: A WWII Novel
England, 1942. After three years of WWII, Britain is showing the scars. But in this darkest of days, three lives intertwine, changing their destinies and those of many more. Dr Archibald McIndoe, a New Zealand plastic surgeon with unorthodox methods, is on a mission...- $15.99
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Vendor: Betty Baruch
This Is My Beloved: The story of Emilia Baeyertz, Jewish Christian Lady Evangelist
Jewish Christian Lady Evangelist. Combinations of these words can cause a fuss. A little over a century ago, even more so. Back then, crowds of thousands of women and men, of all classes, in cities, towns and villages across Australia, New Zealand, North America...- $19.00
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Vendor: Father Puis a. Spiritus Sancto
The Life of St. Paul of the cross: Founder of the congregation of discalced clerks of the Holy Cross and passion of Our Lord
The Life of St. Paul of the cross: - Founder of the congregation of discalced clerks of the Holy Cross and passion of Our Lord is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1886. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different...- $45.90
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Vendor: Jan Sikes
The Convict and the Rose
In the sequel to Flowers and Stone, Luke and Darlina find their love severely tested as they struggle to overcome enormous odds. When Texas veteran musician, Luke Stone, finds himself behind bars with a seventy-five year sentence, he is filled with hate, anger and...- $14.95
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Vendor: Sophek Tounn
God In The Storm
In 1975 a minority party of extremists - the Khmer Rouge - took power in Cambodia. What followed was the systematic purge and mass murder of 2.5 million Cambodians in what later became known as The Killing Fields. One large family decided to fight...- $34.95
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Dragon Lady
"a sweeping historical epic that was hard to put down" "this remarkable tale of trial, growth, loss, and triumph is one that will live in the heart and mind long after its final page" "intense and utterly gripping" Prostitution required the violation of my...- $15.99
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The life of Christopher Columbus
The life of Christopher Columbus is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1875. 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...- $37.50
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Carp Fishing on Valium
Garden gnomes mysteriously vanish from suburban lawns... a momentous force enters a 13-year-old boy from the third rail of a train line and gives him powers that he uses to harass a local fishwife... Mick Jagger is killed when a bus runs over him...- $18.95
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The Yellow Joss: Introduced by Tony Grey
With authenticity that sometimes surprises the reader, Idriess introduces us to Aboriginals from Northern Australia, Papuan head-hunters, and Islanders around the Great Barrier Reef, all still in the colonial phase of European contact. Chinese gold diggers appear too, well before the rise of China....- $16.99
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Getting Lucky: New and Selected Stories, 1982-2012
-Kennedy's...characters are full, alive, and each story is rich and deep. He writes with wisdom, and it is perhaps this wisdom that turns some of his stories of great sorrow into something triumphant.- - Andre Dubus -Thomas E. Kennedy's . . . stories pulse...- $15.95
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Cracked Surface
Cracked Surface is the sequel to Surface Tension and continues exploring my personal struggle with the desire to lead a "normal" life through the eyes of David Mathew. In Surface Tension, David is sixteen years old, represents the USA, and wins the gold medal...- $24.95
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Kembali - Return of the Mystic
This is the story of a young boy born to a wealthy family in Singapore, who remembers that he had a previous life as a Japanese Officer killed by Burmese villagers with his own sword during the Second World War. Inducted to mysticism by...- $13.00
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At the Service of Mankind: A small insight or overview into the life of Alfred Kleinschw舐zer
The author of this short biography is Alfred Kleinschw rzer. Born in Rosenheim in 1960, grown up in a social hotspot, he created and achieved a lot in his life. In 1978 he left the business school and in 1979 he went to the...- $24.95
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Moss on Stone: an historical novella
Moss on Stone was inspired by the diary of the young Susannah Norwood Torrey (1826-1908), told from her perspective in an afterlife. She speaks to us who live in a very different time, but not so different in experience. All times are times of...- $14.99
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Charbonneau: Man of Two Dreams
"Beautiful. Blevins brings it all alive." - The Los Angeles Times This is the enthralling story of an authentic adventurer, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau. He lived his dream in clashing cultures-that of Native American vitality and that of high European society. He mastered both worlds,...- $13.95
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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.