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Vendor: Sarah Coleman
The Realist: A Novel of Berenice Abbott
Cleveland, 1910: For a poor girl whose father has abandoned her, the prospect of becoming an artist is almost non-existent. But Bernice Abbott is resourceful and will happily challenge convention in order to succeed. Setting out to fulfill her dream, she embarks on a...- $33.99
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The Realist: A Novel of Berenice Abbott
Cleveland, 1910: For a poor girl whose father has abandoned her, the prospect of becoming an artist is almost non-existent. But Bernice Abbott is resourceful and will happily challenge convention in order to succeed. Setting out to fulfill her dream, she embarks on a...- $18.99
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Vendor: Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler's The Way Of All Flesh: "Sensible people get the greater part of their dying done during their own lifetime."
"Sensible people get the greater part of their dying done during their own lifetime." Samuel Butler (4th December 1835 - 18th June 1902) had both a father and grandfather in the church and was being groomed by his father to be a priest. However,...- $11.24
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Vendor: Ruth Anne Whicher
Murder in the Fourth: A case of Mindslaughter
Murder in the Fourth is both a story of escape and exposure: escape from the clutches of a fear-driven ideology, and exposure of the secret mind-bending machinations employed by religious cults to keep members compliant, submissive and isolated from mainstream society. Depicting one family's...- $24.95
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Vendor: Tracey Rombough
Immortal Air, A Novel
Bright and promising as a student, George Cameron was sent to live with his sister in Boston while he attended a prestigious Latin school and later the Boston School of Law. It was what his mother wanted for him and his brother, Charley. It...- $19.95
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Vendor: H. G. Watts
Blood of the Seven Suns: A Medieval Novel Based on Real People & Events
This biographical historical novel focuses on Jacoba dei Settesoli - the woman who came to be known as Jacoba of the Seven Suns. A wealthy, beautiful Italian aristocrat, Jacoba lived in the tumultuous Middle Ages. In her early teens she moves from her family's...- $16.93
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Vendor: Brad Kash
A Model Mind
In 1989, Tommy Model was one of the world's most famous rock stars. But after selling more than one hundred million albums worldwide and reaching the pinnacle of a career fueled by greed, addictions, and ego, he soon falls from grace after being upended...- $24.95
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Vendor: Alice Wollman
#80: And Other Dog Stories
The day 103 Brittany dogs were seized was the day their lives changed forever. Each dog was given a number. A number means they matter. A number means at one time they were touched and loved by a human. I guess I matter too,...- $7.75
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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,...- $18.89
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Vendor: Barry Shaw
A Tale of Love and Destiny: The dramatic life of a passionate heroine.
A TALE OF LOVE AND DESTINY follows a beautiful young woman through an unsuccessful love affair and a failed marriage into the turmoil of war, heroism, and espionage. Based in Palestine during World War One the dedication and courage of Sarah helped paved the...- $12.99
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Vendor: Byron Williams
Solitaire: Magda Goebbels: A Banality of Ambition and Evil
Solitaire is the ambitious, seductive and macabre story of the "unofficial" First Lady of the Third Reich, Magda Goebbels. On May 1, 1945, after Adolf Hitler committs suicide, Magda murders six of her seven children and sits down to play solitaire in the Fuhrerbunker,...- $10.99
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Vendor: I. Siezo
Street Graffiti: I.Siezo, L.A. to San Francisco
Down on the San Francisco Summer night rosy and blue reflections of celestial Street Graffiti appeared, and I said 'God, I love you' and looked up to the sky and into the hearts of God's children everywhere. We have fallen in love with you,...- $12.99
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Vendor: James Baldwin
Fifty Famous People: A Book of Short Stories
Offers stories about real persons who actually lived and performed their parts in the great drama of the world's history. Some of these persons were more famous than others, yet all have left enduring footprints on the 'sands of time, ' and their names...- $12.50
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Vendor: Tzvi Fishman
arise and shine!
When Rabbi Kook arrives in Jerusalem in 1919, Tevye joins the fanfare at the railway depot to greet him. Rabbi Kook reminds the simple milkman from Anatevka that at this great time in Jewish history, as the Nation of Israel rises to rebirth in...- $19.95
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Vendor: Wayne P. Anderson
Christina's Saga: From Norway to Dakota Territory
Christina's Saga: From Norway to Dakota Territory is the heartwarming story of a single woman's emigration to the Midwest prairie. This pioneer story is based on the life of Christina Gunnerson, expertly told by her grandson, Wayne Anderson. Following hardships mixed with adventure during...- $20.00
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Vendor: J Gnarr
The Outlaw
In The Outlaw, the third and final volume in his acclaimed trilogy, former Reykjav k mayor and comedian J n Gnarr returns to face the dark teenage years with his signature humor and candor. Raging with music, poetry, life, loneliness, and questions of right...- $15.95
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The Indian
"A beautiful but disturbing portrait of a misfit painfully aware that he's not like anyone else." --NPRFormer comedian (and mayor) J Gnarr now turns his lens from politics to tell his life story in his literary debut.The Indian is a highly entertaining and bittersweet...- $14.95
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Vendor: Edgardo Franzosini
The Animal Gazer
Limpid, laser-sharp prose ... It's difficult not to love the eccentric, fragile Rembrandt Bugatti and suffer alongside him.--The New York Times Book ReviewA hypnotic novel inspired by the strange and fascinating life of sculptor Rembrandt Bugatti, brother of the fabled automaker. With World War...- $16.95
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The Dragon Stone
Arthur, the younger son of a minor British nobleman, receives vital help from Merlin and Arthur's dog Cabal, and survives a series of attempts on his life, in the process proving himself qualified to become Britain's new High King. The Dragon Stone is the...- $13.95
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The Facts in the Case of E. A. Poe
'The book is a bravura performance, exhibiting the virtuosity that has lit up all Sinclair's work.' - C.P. Snow, Financial Times 'This is a rich and satisfying hybrid work - part fiction and part biography. Its hold on the reader stems, at least in...- $18.99
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Vendor: Michael Piafsky
All the Happiness You Deserve
Piafsky's captivating, Tarot-inspired debut depicts the dramatic arc of an Everyman's life from childhood to old age."Brilliant . . . Michael Piafsky is a word wizard . . . with prose so dramatic and suspenseful that the book becomes impossible to put down." --ForeWord...- $15.00
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Vendor: Alison Leslie Gold
The Devil's Mistress: The Diary of Eva Braun The woman who lived and died with Hitler
Based on extensive research and supported by a factual armature, this novel of evil takes the reader into the hidden erotic life of Hitler and--as she was affectionately nicknamed--Fraulein Effie. Beyond most nonfiction accounts of that place and period, the author has created a...- $9.95
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Vendor: Gavin McCrea
Mrs. Engels
One of Amazon's Top Twenty Books of 2015 - Selected as both a Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction of 2015 - Longlisted for The Guardian 2015 First Novel Award "The illiterate lover and eventual wife of a coauthor of The Communist Manifesto...- $16.95
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Vendor: Kevin Clouther
We Were Flying to Chicago
In this striking debut collection, characters find unexpected moments of profound insight while navigating daily life. "Clouther's first collection of stories shows an 'old' talent--meaning, his sophistication in treatment and technique and his wise observations of the human condition have the feel of an...- $14.00
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Vendor: Virginia Zaharieva
Nine Rabbits
"Zaharieva packs several genres into one, including but not limited to pastoral idyll, sexual coming-of-age story, and feminist memoir. Ultimately, she presents life in all its messiness and possibility, vivid enough for the reader to almost taste."--Publishers Weekly "This is powerful, controlled writing."--Rain Taxi...- $14.00
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Vendor: D. Harlan Wilson
Freud: The Penultimate Biography
(Publisher's Note: The author failed to fold my laundry in the proper manner, so I am letting the cat out of the bag-these are not actual biographies. They are closer to maps of the author's ego than they are texts about the namesakes adorning...- $12.95
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Vendor: Russell Schneider
The Secret Diaries of Watkin Tench
FACT OR FICTION? Why did the British Government invest a fortune in 1787 to send the worst of its people to the other side of the world? And what was behind the mysterious disappearance of French naval hero and explorer La Perouse, whose two...- $21.20
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Vendor: Mudrooroo
Doctor Wooreddy's Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World
The young Wooreddy recognised the omen immediately, accidentally stepping on it while bounding along the beach: something slimy, something eerily cold and not from the earth. Since it had come from the sea, it was an evil omen. Soon after, many people died mysteriously,...- $19.99
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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...- $26.99
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Vendor: Jose Luandino Vieira
Our Musseque
Our Musseque is a tale of growing up in one of the vibrant shanty towns (musseques) of Luanda during the 1940s and 1950s. Weaving back and forwards through his half-remembered childhood, the narrator draws us into a close-knit world of labourers, shopkeepers, drunks, prostitutes...- $15.99
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Vendor: Eduard Kochergin
Christened with Crosses
While the mothers in Siberia wait for their soldier sons to return from the war in the west in 1945, the eight year old Eduard secretly jumps on board the trains heading in the opposite direction, heading west, towards Leningrad. Placed in a Siberian...- $29.99
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Vendor: Oleg Pavlov
Asystole
From the first pages it becomes apparent that Asystole is a novel about love of life in its purest, instinctive and intimate form. It's also a novel about human faith in its existence and a desire to experience this love. Author Oleg Pavlov places...- $29.99
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Vendor: Thomas Hardy
The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy. The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character is an 1886 novel by British author Thomas Hardy. It is set in the fictional town of Casterbridge. At a country fair near Casterbridge...- $8.95
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Vendor: Jean Amery
Charles Bovary, Country Doctor: Portrait of a Simple Man
Fans of Flaubert's Madame Bovary will want to read this reimagination of one of literature's most famous failures, Charles Bovary. Part fiction, part philosophy, Charles Bovary, Country Doctor is also a book about love. Charles Bovary, Country Doctor is one of the most unusual...- $14.95
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Vendor: Charlotte Brontë
Villette
Villette is an 1853 novel written by English author Charlotte Bront . After an unspecified family disaster, the protagonist Lucy Snowe travels from her native England to the fictional French-speaking city of Villette to teach at a girls' school, where she is drawn into...- $34.95
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Vendor: Frédéric Beigbeder
A Life Without End
What does the man who has everything―fame, fortune, a new love, and a new baby―want for his fiftieth birthday? The answer is simple: eternal life. Determined to shake off the first intimations of his approaching demise, Fr d ric tries every possible procedure to...- $16.99
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Vendor: Kenn Visser
Peace of Ourselves
Inspired by a true story, Peace of Ourselves is a coming-of-age novel about a young man's evolving objection to the Vietnam War and his subsequent move from the US to Canada. The book offers a unique point of view that will trigger contemplative memories...- $16.95
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Vendor: Michael Downing
Still in Love
This hilarious, sometimes harrowing, and ultimately heartening novel is the companion to the critically acclaimed, national bestseller Perfect Agreement. "Beautifully and economically written, and very funny." --Linda Wertheimer, NPR This is your chance to enroll in English 10 at highly rated Hellman College--if you...- $26.00
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Vendor: Annette Weisser
Mycelium
In a novel set against a transforming Berlin, an artist confronts a diagnosis of breast cancer.Going to openings and parties, setting up a studio and breaking up with her longtime boyfriend, Noora is living the post-art school life in Berlin when, in 2005, she's...- $16.00
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Vendor: Doyle Hammon
The Witness of a Roman Soldier
When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple. He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. The Pilate commanded the body to be dilevered. And when Joseph had taken the...- $12.95
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Vendor: Mako Idemitsu
White Elephant
With a deeply-imbedded indebtedness to their father Morimasa Morimoto, a self-made man in post-war Japan, two sisters struggle to uphold a family legacy. Sakiko moves to the fantastically free United States. Fragile and unsure in 1960s San Francisco, she clings to her brazen artist...- $15.00
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Vendor: Jack M. Zackin
This Army Does Not Retreat: The Memoirs of General George H. Thomas
Major General George H. Thomas was a very private person. One of the few Civil War commanders not to write his memoirs, he also ordered his wife to burn his correspondence and private papers upon his death. This hasn't stopped historians from reconstructing his...- $10.50
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Vendor: Kathleen McKenna Hewtson
The Shaken Throne
Empress Alexandra is triumphant. After producing four daughters, who are regarded as of no consequence by her mother-in-law, Dowager-Empress Minnie, and the court, she has at last given birth to a son and heir, the Tsarevich Alexei. This success, after so many years of...- $16.99
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Typee: A Peep At Polynesian Life
Typee is the first book by the famous American writer Herman Melville. First published in 1846, the book is today considered a classic in travel literature and adventure. The story is based on real experiences by the author as a prisoner in 1842 on...- $12.99
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Vendor: Ajut
Trust on Life Support: A Novel About the Life of a Female Corrections Officer
Becoming a corrections officer and working behind the walls of a maximum security male prison is grueling, especially for a female, because she can be lulled into a false sense of security and become swayed by the flattering remarks of both the male prisoners...- $26.99
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Trust on Life Support: A Novel About the Life of a Female Corrections Officer
Becoming a corrections officer and working behind the walls of a maximum security male prison is grueling, especially for a female, because she can be lulled into a false sense of security and become swayed by the flattering remarks of both the male prisoners...- $13.99
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Vendor: Leland J. Katz
The Pretenders
The Pretenders is an autobiographical novel. Told through the adventures of Joel Kramer, it is the story of tens of thousands with degrees in history, English, communications, psychology and other disciplines who worked in high tech and who unintentionally became pretenders. They lived through,...- $28.99
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Allerton and Axtell: The Rush
It is 1879--four years after a great fire ravages Independence, Iowa--when a well-dressed creamery businessman shows up in the small town, looking for a horse to buy. When Charles W. Williams meets young orphaned horse groom, Gilbert Fenny, the two find a kinship in...- $42.99
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Vendor: Robert Arthur Cosgrove
Vincent van Gogh: A Poisoned Life: A Novel
It is July 1890 as thirty-seven-year old Vincent van Gogh prepares for his last destination. Soon he plans to leave his tormented earthly life and move forward to a more peaceful place.After Vincent dons his usual paint-splattered clothes and leaves several still-wet canvases behind...- $25.99
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The Story of My Life
The Story of My Life (biography) The Story of My Life, first published in 1903, is Helen Keller's autobiography detailing her early life, especially her experiences with Anne Sullivan. Portions of it were adapted by William Gibson for a 1957 Playhouse 90 production, a...- $5.99
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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.

