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Vendor: Deedee Reynolds
The Man Behind the Mask: The Story of a Lone Texas Ranger
Author: Deedee ReynoldsISBN-10: 1499055862ISBN-13: 9781499055863Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/23/2014Pages: 78Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.19d- $15.99
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Vendor: Tony Riches
Warwick: The Man Behind The Wars of the Roses
Inspired by true events.Sir Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, is known of as the 'Kingmaker'. This is his story of medieval adventure, power and influence at the heart of one of the most dangerous times in the history of England.Richard Neville is one of...- $12.99
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Vendor: Christy K. Robinson
Mary Dyer: For Such a Time as This
In the second of two volumes, Mary Dyer: For Such a Time as This, the Mary and William Dyer return to war-torn England and lay a foundation for liberty that resonates in the 21st century. Why did beautiful, wealthy Mary Dyer deliberately give up...- $19.99
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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 a war novel by American author Stephen Crane (1871-1900). Taking place during the American Civil War, the story is about a young private of the Union Army, Henry Fleming, who flees from the field of battle. Overcome with...- $6.95
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Vendor: Jean Wilson
Charles V Catherine Dickens: As They Were
In 1831 when nineteen, Charles was at last beginning to believe that he might be able to at least bury some of the past and escape following in his father's footsteps which frequently led to the Marshalsea Debtors' Prison.There were many opportunities opening up...- $7.87
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Vendor: Peter Golenbock
7: The Mickey Mantle Novel
In Peter Golenbock's shocking and revealing first novel, Mickey Mantle tells the hidden story of his life as a baseball hero.Author: Peter GolenbockISBN-10: 1493013955ISBN-13: 9781493013951Publisher: Lyons PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/13/2015Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d- $17.95
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Vendor: Christy K. Robinson
Mary Dyer Illuminated
Mary Barrett Dyer, 1611-1660, was comely, dignified, admired for her intellect, and known in the court of King Charles. But how did she become infamous in England and America as a heretic who gave birth to a monster? Was she responsible for curses falling...- $19.99
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Vendor: Constance Caruso
Foothold in the Mountain
A compelling story of a woman's determination and spirit, proof that most things are possible with courage; a faith that indeed moves mountains and opens doors for others to succeed in the generations that follow. At twenty-four Connie Caruso was a secretary in a...- $19.95
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Vendor: Constance Bierkan
Alone in a Crowded Room: An Adoption Story
When five-year-old Lexie Saunders learns she is adopted and is told she is handpicked by Mother from a line-up of baby cribs, her life is forever changed. Instead of feeling special, Lexie becomes haunted by "Mama," the mystery lady who gave birth to her....- $35.95
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Alone in a Crowded Room: An Adoption Story
When five-year-old Lexie Saunders learns she is adopted and is told she is handpicked by Mother from a line-up of baby cribs, her life is forever changed. Instead of feeling special, Lexie becomes haunted by "Mama," the mystery lady who gave birth to her....- $18.99
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Vendor: Parris Michaels
Drowning Above Water
Based on true-life events, Parris reflects on her struggle with Nature vs. Nurture and the childhood memories of her dysfunctional family. Turning the clock back two generations, Parris's story begins with her grandparents and the events that led up to her family's extreme narcissistic...- $23.49
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Vendor: Sheryl S. Boyd
Codename Litefoot: 2nd edition, extended Version
This story is fiction based in part on the life of Robert A. Boyd while he served in the United States Air Force in the mid 1960's. The story centers around the US Military during a time of civil unrest in America and the...- $37.95
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Vendor: Jerry L. Vandergriff
Justice for the Innocent
This is a fictional story that takes place on and around the now decomissioned Wurtsmith Air Force base in Oscoda Michigan. Taking place in 1987 the story does feature some true to life charaters and some real life charaters in fictional roles. Only the...- $9.90
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Vendor: Katie Lee
Groundswell
"If you liked Eat, Pray, Love, then read Groundswell." --US Weekly (Essential Summer Read selection) A "compulsively readable novel charting the highs and lows of love" (Jen Lancaster) about a young woman recovering from divorce who finds healing--and romance--through surfing. A butterfly flaps its...- $16.99
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Vendor: Dena Levin
The Unexpected Connection
While sitting poolside near her grandmother's West Palm Beach condo, young millennial Vanessa overhears a strange conversation: "What, you want to have phone sex?" Accustomed to little more than old folks with their card games and early bird dinners, Vanessa is shocked-but intrigued-and soon...- $18.99
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Vendor: S. T. Levin
The Memoirs of Socrates: The Last Rational Man
During the month between the conviction and the execution of the original teacher of wisdom (or philosopher) Socrates, these memoirs were dictated in the hope of correcting the "conventional wisdom" of history and the foolishness of Sophists as of 399 BCE with the knowledge...- $39.95
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Vendor: Alex Struik
Swann's Way: Remembrance of Things Past, Vol I
In Search of Lost Time or Remembrance of Things Past (French: A la recherche du temps perdu) is a novel in seven volumes by Marcel Proust. His most prominent work, it is known both for its length and its theme of involuntary memory, the...- $20.99
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Vendor: Jack Welsh
Check Canopy
The title of the book refers to one of the procedures a paratrooper must perform after exiting the aircraft. There are many checks and procedures that need to be performed prior to exiting the aircraft and others required during descent and landing. The most...- $13.95
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Vendor: Robert J. Graham
Blood Ties: The Emotional Journeys of Two Adoptees Searching for and Finding Their Birth Parents
In 1963, Theresa McMullen was a successful political journalist in Boston, Massachusetts, but she had a challenging dilemma: she had become pregnant out of wedlock. Was it wrong for her to give up her newborn baby girl in a closed adoption? After all, she...- $16.95
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Vendor: Ronald a. Lancaster
Tears too Late
It's California in the 60's. It is supposed to be a time of peace and love. A poor dysfunctional family manages to survive, but pays a high price due to alcoholism, child abuse and mental illness. True life short stories of survival, friendship, and...- $12.95
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Vendor: Olivia Mayes
Blind, But Now I See
This story is about the life of a young girl, whom was forced to grow up too soon. Her childhood was taken away and replaced with motherhood (although she had no children of her own), household chores, being a personal shopper, a chef and...- $24.95
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Vendor: Nicholas Tanek
The Coolest Way to Kill Yourself
Okay. So no one actually kills themselves in this book. The Coolest Way to Kill Yourself pulls you into the early 90's New York City rave scene, in all its chaotic, psychedelic glory. The narrator grabs you by your wrist and drags you behind...- $18.95
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Vendor: Colin Falconer
Isabella: Braveheart of France
She was taught to obey. Now she has learned to rebel.When Princess Isabella is offered as bride to King Edward of England, for her it's love at first sight. But her dashing husband has a secret, one that threatens to tear their marriage--and England--apart....- $14.95
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Vendor: Luong Ung-Lai
The Freedom...Cage
This devastating and moving account tells in a fictional form the author's true autobiographical story of her childhood, written as a loving testament to the unimaginable, inhumane experiences that were inflicted on her beloved grandfather and mother, as well as on her younger self...- $9.95
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Vendor: Ed Ochs
Freedom Spy: David Jove and The Meaning of Existence
Canadian-born David Jove was an actor, singer, songwriter, musician, poet, sculptor, writer and filmmaker. He could have been successful at anything he wanted to do, but it was the free-thinking 1960s and he wanted to be a magician, an alchemist, and a master of...- $19.95
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Vendor: Mary Swarnalatha Rabindran
Forget-Me-Nots of Mullaperiyar: An Autumn Dream
Precocious little Keepee knows no world but her tiny untamed paradise. Will her home always be the beautiful perilous jungles, the place of her birth?...... With her heart rooted in her beloved wilds like the venerable trees, will she be a frolicking forest nymph...- $12.50
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Vendor: Brian Leyden
Sweet Old World: New & Selected Stories
Profoundly moving, funny and authentic, Sweet Old World is an unputdownable read. In a story collection spanning three decades Brian Leyden is a master at evoking time and place and people with a voice that is consistently wise, observant and wonderfully entertaining. Irish family...- $9.99
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Vendor: Tara Hanks
The Mmm Girl
"Nothing lasts forever...all we can do is shine, or just survive." Who was Marilyn Monroe? She began as Norma Jeane, the Los Angeles waif who dreamed of being a movie star. The camera worshipped her, and she became America's greatest sex symbol. For thirty-six...- $13.25
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Vendor: Thelma Adams
Bittersweet Brooklyn
In turn-of-the century New York, a mobster rises--and his favorite sister struggles between loyalty and life itself. How far will she go when he commits murder?After midnight, Thelma Lorber enters her brother Abie's hangout under the Williamsburg Bridge, finding Jewish mobster Louis "Pretty" Amberg...- $14.95
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Vendor: Anne Bronte
Agnes Grey
Anne Bronte (1820-1849) was an English novelist and poet who didn't live long enough to give the world all she could have, but she did write Agnes Grey, which is now generally considered a classic in English and Western literature. Bronte and her sisters...- $5.99
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Vendor: Laurie Notaro
Crossing the Horizon
Soar back to the fearless 1920s with #1 New York Times bestselling writer Laurie Notaro--beloved author of The Idiot Girls' Action Adventure Club--in a "captivating historical" (Kirkus Reviews) novel that tells the true, little-known story of three aviatrixes in a race to be the...- $16.99
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Vendor: Suzanne Corso
Hello, Hollywood
Samantha Bonti came from a humble background in Brooklyn and listened to her beloved grandmother's advice: she wrote herself out of her story as a poor girl and into an affluent one as the wife of a Wall Street banker. Her glitzy life took...- $19.99
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Vendor: W. Somerset Maugham
Of Human Bondage: Original and Unabridged
W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage is generally agreed to be his masterpiece and to be strongly autobiographical in nature. Although Maugham stated, "This is a novel, not an autobiography, though much in it is autobiographical, more is pure invention." Of Human Bondage was...- $18.35
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Vendor: Thomas A. Hutchings
Mendicus
Mendicus: a Latin word typically referring to a member of the mendicant orders and one who lives by asking for alms. Whitman doesn't ask for anything, except acceptance, understanding and compassion. He is a homeless veteran, unknowingly struggling with post-traumatic stress syndrome. He wanders...- $13.99
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Vendor: Joseph Wallace
Diamond Ruby
Seventeen-year-old Ruby Thomas, newly responsible for her two young nieces after a devastating tragedy, is determined to keep her family safe in the vast, swirling world of 1920s New York City. She's got street smarts, boundless determination, and one unusual skill: the ability to...- $28.99
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Vendor: Rafael Yglesias
A Happy Marriage
A Happy Marriage, Yglesias's return to fiction after a thirteen-year hiatus, was inspired by his relationship with his wife, who died in 2004. Both intimate and expansive, it is a stunningly candid novel that alternates between the romantic misadventures of the first weeks of...- $16.00
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Vendor: Edmond G. Addeo
The Midnight Special: A Novel about Leadbelly
"First published by Bernard Geis Associates, November, 1971"--T.p. verso.Author: Edmond G. Addeo, Richard M. GarvinISBN-10: 1438975791ISBN-13: 9781438975795Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/12/2009Pages: 356Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.49lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 07/11/2011- $28.49
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Vendor: Ed La Buy
Metamorphosis of a Psycho, I Mean Psychic
Author: Ed La BuyISBN-10: 1434908844ISBN-13: 9781434908841Publisher: Dorrance Publishing Co.Language: EnglishPublished: 12/30/2011Pages: 146Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.31d- $20.00
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Vendor: Larry Sargeant
The Saga of Chief Barking Loincloth: Book One - In Search of a Hero
It was 1945. The end of WW II brought renewed hope for America and the world, inspiring rejuvenated national pride along with enthusiasm for motherhood and apple pie, family, God, conformity, virginity, and idealism While experiencing post-war euphoria, Alan Bentley dreamed of becoming a...- $18.95
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Vendor: David Shaffer
In to Life: One Man's Story of Life from the Appalachia to Viet Nam and Beyond. Part 1, the Beginning
Eric Howard started out live on the mean streets of the lower West Side of New York City, learning to be street smart. Then at the age of five Eric moved to rural Kentucky, high in the Appalachian Mountains. Eric lived here with his...- $25.95
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Vendor: Todd Connor
Liz Here Now
A privileged child's life is forever changed by the bravery of the family's Black maid when Elizabeth Baxter refuses to silently witness the abuse Todd Connor and his siblings receive at the hands of their wealthy, prominent parents. Overcoming fear for her own safety,...- $19.95
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Vendor: Mary Avery Kabrich
Once Upon a Time a Sparrow
Once Upon a Time a Sparrow is an autobiographically inspired novel about a woman's journey toward accepting a less than perfect past. Structurally the story is told through the narrative voices of forty-seven-year-old Mary Madelyn Meyers (spring of '05) and nine-year-old "Maddie" (spring of...- $15.95
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Vendor: Cindy Rinaman Marsch
Rosette: A Novel of Pioneer Michigan
Almost-spinster schoolteacher Rosette Cordelia Ramsdell married Otis Churchill on a Michigan farm in 1857. Her real-life journal recounts two years of homesteading, history hints at the next six decades, and the novel explores the truth. We meet Rosette in 1888 as she revises the...- $16.00
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Madame Presidentess
Forty-eight years before women were granted the right to vote, one woman dared to run for President of the United States, yet her name has been virtually written out of the history books. Rising from the shame of an abusive childhood, Victoria Woodhull, the...- $25.00
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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...- $32.99
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Vendor: Glen Craney
The Fire and the Light: A Novel of the Cathars
As the 13th century dawns, an ancient scroll hidden in the French Pyrenees is rumored to hold shocking revelations about Jesus of Nazareth. To preserve this lost evidence of Christ's teachings, a charismatic Cathar holy woman must defy Rome. Christianity is about to enter...- $22.99
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Vendor: Steven R. Malikowski Phd
Walking Out of the Dark: Bad luck took his sight. With hope and humor, my brother didn't let it take more.
Even after bad luck had taken Mike's sight, he still enjoyed an adventure. In one, he helped blind racers ski down a mountain, to impress a girl. Mike says, "You might think skiing without sight is tough, but we had the hard part, since...- $11.99
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Vendor: Olea Nel
Andrew Murray: Destined to Serve: A Biographical Novel
For lovers of historical fiction about Christian heroes of the faith A boyish and fun-loving Andrew Murray arrives back in South Africa after being ordained at the Hague on his twentieth birthday in 1848. He soon discovers that his preaching lacks the power displayed...- $15.99
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Vendor: Hylke Speerstra
The Comfort Bird
The Comfort Bird follows the experiences of three generations of two families of farm laborers from a small town in the Northern Netherlands. One family moves across the ocean and passes through Ellis Island in 1911 to seek their fortune on the American Prairies....- $19.95
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Rabbi, Rabbi
Descending from a long line of revered rabbis, Yakov is expected to follow in his father's footsteps as the leader of an ultra-Orthodox community in Brooklyn. But for Yakov, who questions his faith from an early age, becoming a rabbi is more an obligation...- $16.95
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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.

