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Vendor: R. S. Danker
To Conquer a Mountain
The author was born in N.Y.C, He lived and was educated in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania at private schools, including military academies and Columbia University. Before the age of 10, he had traveled throughout most of Europe with his father and grandfather....- $19.95
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Vendor: Jillian Cantor
Half Life
The USA Today bestselling author of In Another Time reimagines the pioneering, passionate life of Marie Curie using a parallel structure to create two alternative timelines, one that mirrors her real life, one that explores the consequences for Marie and for science if she'd...- $27.99
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Vendor: Andrew Dunkley
All I See Is Mud
Try for a moment to imagine what it must have been like to face the horrors of the trenches during WWI, the mud, the blood, the rats, the lice and the constant fear of death. Now try to imagine being there at the age...- $17.99
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Vendor: Anthony Delano
Dateline: Rome
American wire service correspondent SHELBY STONE is posted to mid-20th century Rome, the Dolce Vita era. Intrigue and scandal surge between Cinecitt and the Vatican, the Deep South of Calabria and the glittering Via Veneto. He is taken in hand by an oversized and...- $14.99
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Vendor: Jane Stevenson
The Winter Queen
An immensely moving account of a strange and magical interracial love affair, The Winter Queen illuminates the Netherlands of the seventeenth century. Amid the dark ambiance of the time, the exiled Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia and Pelagius, a West African prince and former slave,...- $17.99
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Vendor: Sunshinegoldenchild
Watering your Crown: A story about breaking and rising up stronger again, one about self-reflection and growth
Sunshinegoldenchild examines the alchemy between brain, heart and soul by sharing her journey from depression to the desire of honest self-love. She seeks to highlight the nuances of growing up as a young woman of color in a predominantly white society while putting our...- $25.99
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Vendor: Jean Plaidy
Katharine of Aragon
For the first time in paperback--all three of Jean Plaidy's Katharine of Aragon novels in one volume. Legendary historical novelist Jean Plaidy begins her tales of Henry VIII's queens with the story of his first wife, the Spanish princess Katharine of Aragon. As a...- $20.00
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42 Years in Paradise
Jeff Dorrell has spent 40+ years in Florida working, fishing, hunting, scuba diving, and simply enjoying year-round living and adventure. Treasure is here if you look for it long enough and dream of it even longer, but be careful of what you wish for....- $12.95
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Vendor: Linda Metcalf
Julia: Mistress of Longwood
Go back in time to the 19th-century Deep South when America hurtled slowly to a fiery eruption. Learn how a privileged naive girl born into an aristocratic slave-holding family evolves into a woman of courage, determination, and resilience while overcoming unspeakable trials and prejudices....- $18.99
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Vendor: Eva-Lynn Jagoe
Take Her, She's Yours
We say, you belong to me, or I belong to you. But is it possible to be possessed by others? And can we ever possess ourselves? In this raw and intimate account, Eva-Lynn Jagoe merges memoir with critical theory as she recounts the unraveling...- $21.00
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Vendor: Toria Newman
The Chrysalis
Robbie feels as though life is passing her by without any way to change it. Being confined to a wheelchair due to Spastic Cerebral Palsy, and having a speech impediment as a result, she feels unworthy, and overlooked. A tragic accident occurs, and Robbie...- $24.99
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Vendor: Christoph Werner
Castle by the River: The Life and Death of Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Painter and Master Builder
Always the canvas recoils when he tries to apply the brush. How can hope be made apparent if he doesn't succeed in putting the white dove into the painting? Brentano's smile was so friendly when he, Schinkel, had made a sketch in his notebook...- $10.99
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Vendor: Elizabeth Loupas
The Red Lily Crown: A Novel of Medici Florence
Elizabeth Loupas returns with her most ambitious historical novel yet, a story of intrigue, passion, and murder in the Medici Court... April, 1574, Florence, Italy. Grand Duke Cosimo de' Medici lies dying. The city is paralyzed with dread, for the next man to wear...- $22.00
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Vendor: Design Betibup
No More Time to Dance
July 1540After eight months as a maid of court, Catherine Howard has become Queen. Separated from past friends and surrounded by people who resent her rise to the throne, the sole close companion she has left is Jane Boleyn, the infamous Lady Rochford. And...- $18.99
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Vendor: Hans Keilson
Life Goes On
Published when the author was just twenty-three, Life Goes On was Hans Keilson's literary debut, an extraordinary autobiographical novel that paints a dark yet illuminating portrait of Germany between the world wars. It is the story of Herr Seldersen--a Jewish store owner modeled on...- $18.00
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Vendor: Jae Hodges
The Rose and the Whip
Lidia Wardell walked naked through the Newbury meeting house. She was prosecuted, and publicly whipped for this crime.This event is common historical knowledge. The Rose and the Whip is set in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in May 1663, but tells the entire story of...- $16.99
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Vendor: Elena Mauli Shapiro
13, Rue Th駻鑚e
American academic Trevor Stratton discovers a box full of artifacts from World War I as he settles into his new office in Paris. The pictures, letters, and objects in the box relate to the life of Louise Brunet, a feisty, charming Frenchwoman who lived...- $21.99
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Vendor: Randy Stephenson
The Last Wagon Ride
In this moving and historically accurate tale, author Randy Stephenson weaves the story of his grandfather Albert Stephenson's life and those of his family. Spanning the late nineteenth century and into the twentieth, through World War I and finally the great flu pandemic of...- $14.99
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Vendor: Ginger L. Pedersen
The Blessed Isle: and its Happy Families
Byrd Spilman Dewey, Florida's Pioneer author, captured the adventures of the Blessed Isle cat and dog families in her whimsical 1907 book The Blessed Isle and its Happy Families. The many memorable cats and dogs at Ben Trovato, the Dewey's lakeside estate in West...- $9.95
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Vendor: Jean Plaidy
Loyal in Love: Henrietta Maria, Wife of Charles I
The daughter of Henry IV of France, Princess Henrietta Maria, becomes a pawn in a political strategy to stabilize relations between two countries when her father marries her to Charles I of England. Sent abroad, she finds herself living in a Protestant country that...- $19.00
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Vendor: Hedi Lampert
The Trouble With My Aunt: Inspired by Actual Events
'Nobody really knew what the trouble was with Aunty Vi - all I knew, was that it was Gran's fault.' When an unplanned pregnancy threatens to turn the life of 32-year-old, single, careerwoman Leah Fine upside down, she fears her own child may be...- $19.15
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Vendor: Jackie Wang
Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun: An Almanac of Extreme Girlhood
The early writings of renowned poet and critical theorist Jackie Wang, drawn from her early zines, indie-lit crit, and prolific early 2000s blog. Compiled as a field guide, travelogue, essay collection, and weather report, Alien Daughters Walk into the Sun traces Jackie Wang's trajectory...- $17.95
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Vendor: Kingsley Ross Hill
Cave Days
After his parents divorce, a young man's life falls apart. In his disengagement from society, he seeks solace living in the wild, hunting and fishing for his food and taking shelter in a cave. After barely surviving falling from a rock face and being...- $19.99
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Vendor: Katayoun Zarrinkoub
The Pot of Jasmine
At 17 Anahita leaves her war-torn country to take refuge in Canada, where she can feel, taste, touch, and smell freedom with every fibre of her being. Throughout many years of working hard trying to achieve her dream of becoming a prominent physicist, she...- $14.99
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Vendor: Peter Roren
The Art of Getting Wrecked
The Art of Getting Wrecked is the true story about what led the author to build a yacht in his garden, sail off to circumnavigate the world, and hopefully, somewhere along the route, find his roots, dreams, and Shangri La. His dream of a...- $32.50
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Vendor: Jim Farrell
The Whale's Tale: Call Me Moby Dick
Herman Melville's version of Captain Ahab's great chase after Moby Dick is considered the "great American novel." However very few living Americans have read it. It is considered too difficult or too tedious to get through. Herein is Moby Dick's version of that chase....- $26.99
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Vendor: Fanny Fern
Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present TIme
In Ruth Hall, one of the bestselling novels of the 1850s, Fanny Fern drew heavily on her own experiences: the death of her first child and her beloved husband, a bitter estrangement from her family, and her struggle to make a living as a...- $22.00
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Vendor: Jess Thornton
Mailman Tales
This is a collection of stories from my long career as a mailman. From the big city streets of Chicago, I transferred to the small, river town city of Kachuda, Wisconsin. It was there I wanted to make my life, raise my family, and...- $11.99
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Vendor: Najeeb Ponnarimangalam
My Glimpses in the Misty Nainital: The British State
It's of decade's long loneliness, solitude, isolation, and about the tragic story of Miss. Vimala Menon of her endless waiting for the deceiver Casanova, Mr. Sudheer Kumar Mishra. we can see the intense reflection of pale depression in her face...!! The shrill voice of...- $6.75
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Vendor: Joseph-A de Chabrier de Peloubet
Family Records of Joseph Alexander de Chabrier de Peloubet: The first of the name in the United States with the funeral address of his eldest son L. M
Family Records of Joseph Alexander de Chabrier de Peloubet - The first of the name in the United States with the funeral address of his eldest son L. M. F. Chabrier Peloubet who died Nov. 28, 1885 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the...- $17.90
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Vendor: Ozora S. Davis
John Robinson, Pastor of the Pilgrim Fathers
John Robinson, Pastor of the Pilgrim Fathers is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1897. 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...- $16.90
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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...- $22.99
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Vendor: Samuel Seabury
Life and Correspondence of the Right Reverend Samuel Seabury, D.D.: First Bishop of Connecticut, and of the Episcopal Church in the United States
Life and Correspondence of the Right Reverend Samuel Seabury, D.D. - First Bishop of Connecticut, and of the Episcopal Church in the United States is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1881. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic...- $49.90
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Vendor: Suzette D. Harrison
My Name Is Ona Judge: An absolutely gripping historical novel
New Hampshire, 1796. "My name is Ona Judge, and I escaped from the household of the President of the United States. I was the favored maid of George and Martha Washington, but they deemed me a slave and thought me property, and I hear...- $10.99
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Vendor: David Ackley
The Language of Equals
Just as rice is unable to grow in the British Isles, Srinivasa Ramanujan struggled to survive in Cambridge; the mathematical genius may have eventually gained the recognition he desired but, removed from his Hindu religion, tradition, and culture, he suffered in his personal life....- $14.99
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Vendor: Kathryn Pascarella
Never Give Up
Never Give Up is an inspirational story of a boy who works hard to make the competitive school soccer team. He never gives up due to his disability because he is determined to be the best that he can be. This book is inspiring...- $9.99
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Vendor: Parames Ghosh
Diya Masi
All characters, names, dialogues, situations, events, incidents, and places are the products of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual events, places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. This book has been written in autobiographical style, so that the reader feels, as...- $5.52
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Never Give Up
Never Give Up is an inspirational story of a boy who works hard to make the competitive school soccer team. He never gives up due to his disability because he is determined to be the best that he can be. This book is inspiring...- $16.99
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Vendor: Tatiana L. Dubinskaya
In the Trenches: A Russian Woman Soldier's Story of World War I
Tatiana L. Dubinskaya's autobiographical novel of life in the Russian army marked the first major work published by a female World War I soldier in the Soviet Union. Often compared to All Quiet on the Western Front, Dubinskaya's stark and unsparing story presents a...- $25.00
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Vendor: Pam Flowers
Togo and Leonhard
TOGO and Leonhard is the inspiring true story about the relationship between Alaska's most famous musher, Leonhard Seppala, and his legendary lead dog, Togo. Through Leonhard Seppala's arrival as an immigrant from Norway, to the birth of a tiny, sickly puppy who was not...- $15.99
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Vendor: Paul Oshiro
Ignition: Inception of Christian Faith
The book is the autobiography of Shi'mon Bar-Jonah, the apostle Peter's personal account of his four years with Jesus. Experience what life was like two thousand years ago-the sights, sounds, food, culture, and people. Come to understand how Peter, a simple fisherman with all...- $17.95
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Vendor: Michelle Muriel
Water Lily Dance
An imaginative, stunning historical novel wrapped in a second-chance romance by the bestselling author of Essie's Roses, Michelle Muriel. Three brave women, centuries apart, risk everything for love in this healing, magical story of self-discovery, artistic freedom, and the friendships that pull us through...- $15.95
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Vendor: Michael Moorcock
The Woods of Arcady: Book Two of the Sanctuary of the White Friars
A wild desert crossing, a secret island paradise, a hidden underground civilization, plus London and Paris. The multiverse expands as pulp adventure mixes with unreal memoir in the second volume in The Sanctuary of the White Friars series. In the 1970s, Michael Moorcock, a...- $32.99
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Vendor: Sofia Lundberg
The Friday Night Club: A Novel of Artist Hilma af Klint and Her Creative Circle
An International Bestseller While men have long been credited with producing the first abstract paintings, the true creator was actually a woman - Swedish artist Hilma af Klint, who was inspired by her mystic visions. Acclaimed authors Sofia Lundberg, Alyson Richman, and M.J. Rose...- $17.00
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Fiery Red Hair, Emerald Green Eyes, and a Vicious Irish Temper: The Absolutely True Story of the World's First Female Pirate
Charles Town, South Carolina. The Year of our Lord 1755It was rare for a woman, any woman, much less a silver-haired, 56-year-old woman, to own and manage a large plantation.But then, Anne Cormac was a rare woman.In addition to her other business and philanthropic...- $13.99
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To Die Beautiful
A heartrending novel based on a true story of love, loyalty, and the limits we confront when our deepest values are tested, by award-winning writer Buzzy Jackson How far would you go to protect the people and country you love? It's 1940 and Hannie...- $28.00
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The Price of Fame: A Family Memoir
After a near-death experience, Sara Miller decides to confess her past indiscretions to her family. Her children will learn the truth about their mother and what she did to survive during a tragic time in her young adult life. Sara's pride, up until now,...- $13.95
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Vendor: Mary Pierre Quinn-Stanbro
Lace Around the Moon: The second Novella and Prequel to The Berry-Picker House
Lace Around the Moon is a fictional novella, which is the prequel to 'The Berry-Picker House'. It is the story of Jazz Singer Pierre's struggles to overcome the societal barriers that were rampant in New Orleans during the Birth of Jazz. It takes you...- $17.71
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Myson Highhill
"I don't know what the future will bring and whether or not I'll be there to help guide you along. As such, I'm writing this so you do not go forward blinded by ignorance and at the mercy of uninformed opinions that would probably...- $9.99
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The Escape to Cabo
Featuring multiple voices, sound effects, and music, The Escape to Cabo is a based-on-a-true-story emotion sparker.Scott Frieze has a comfortable life, no real complaints... a great job, home in the Tucson foothills, a Lincoln and a Road King in the garage. Deciding that it...- $36.95
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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.