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Vendor: Sousanna Stratmann
Sousanna: The Lost Daughter
Five-year-old Sousanna is often cold and always hungry, but she's happy living in post-WWII Greece with her kind and loving family. Then one day a stranger approaches Sousanna's father with a startling proposition, made bearable only by the assurance that the situation is temporary.But...- $29.99
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Vendor: Margaret Blair Young
The Last Mile of the Way: Standing on the Promises, Book Three
Book three of the Standing on the Promises trilogy. After this groundbreaking, deeply moving trilogy on black LDS pioneers was first published, modern-day descendants came forward with further information, photographs, and more detailed history. In this new edition, the authors have corrected some errors...- $19.95
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Vendor: Bruce Portmann
Elvis Presley: My Second Chance
This innovative concept is fiction, incorporating a bit of history and romance into a story that stretches the bounds of reality. Instead of a fatal heart attack that day, Elvis is felled by a stroke. He survives this life altering event, which becomes the...- $17.99
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Vendor: Rozsa Gaston
Anne and Charles: Passion and Politics in Late Medieval France
When Anne of Brittany's father dies in 1488, the eleven-year-old beauty becomes Duchess of Brittany, her country's ruler. For the next three years, the orphaned, unmarried young duchess is relentlessly pursued by suitors while Brittany is invaded by France, its larger, more powerful neighbor....- $14.95
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Vendor: Margaret Blair Young
Bound for Canaan: Standing on the Promises, Book Two
Book two of the Standing on the Promises trilogy. After this groundbreaking, deeply moving trilogy on black LDS pioneers was first published, modern-day descendants came forward with further information, photographs, and more detailed history. In this new edition, the authors have corrected some errors...- $18.95
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Vendor: Margaret Blair Young
One More River to Cross: Standing on the Promises, Book One
After this groundbreaking, deeply moving trilogy about black LDS pioneers was first published, modern-day descendants came forward with further information, photographs, and more detailed history. In this new edition, the authors have corrected some errors and dramatized the experience of additional black pioneers.Author: Margaret...- $17.95
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Vendor: Eileen Haavik McIntire
Shadow of the Rock
"A riveting story of time and humanity, highly recommended (Midwest Book Review), "A bold adventure....Chapters move quickly in a mixture of danger, excitement, and pure enjoyment..." (Foreword Online Reviews). Two women, two hundred years apart, seek their past and their future on journeys that...- $17.95
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Vendor: Roland Merullo
Leaving Losapas
Leaving Losapas begins on a tiny atoll in the equatorial Pacific. Leo Markin, a young US Marine and Vietnam combat veteran who survived the war, found himself so changed by the experience that he simply could not find a way to return to his...- $18.00
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Vendor: Marcy Heidish
The Secret Annie Oakley
The acclaimed historical novel of the Legendry Sharp Shooter; for 28 years Nobody knew the Dark Secrets behind the Legendary Woman of the Wild West. A Readers Digest Condensed Book selection.Author: Marcy HeidishISBN-10: 0983116407ISBN-13: 9780983116400Publisher: Dolan & AssociatesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/29/2010Pages: 306Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 8.50h...- $14.95
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Vendor: John William McMullen
The Miracle of Stalag 8a - Beauty Beyond the Horror: Olivier Messiaen and the Quartet for the End of Time
The Miracle of Stalag 8A is a retelling of the fascinating story of Olivier Messiaen's composition of his Quartet for the End of Time. Set in France & Germany from 1939 to 1941, Messiaen served in the French army, was captured at Verdun, and...- $29.95
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Vendor: R. L. Prendergast
The Confessions of Socrates
Socrates sits chained to a wall in a small prison cell. In a month he will die of hemlock poisoning. At night, by the light of a tiny oil lamp, on rolls of paper smuggled in by loyal friends, he tells his three sons...- $27.95
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Vendor: Leba Wine
Stitches in Time: The Biography of a Quilt
Leba Wine on Her Novel, Stitches in TimeISBN 978-09773070-2-9 312 pp"I realized, in my middle years," says Leba Wine, "that I was of the last generation to hear first- hand Jewish Eastern European immigrant history from the lips of those who had made the...- $20.00
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Vendor: Lojze Kovacic
Newcomers: Book One
The first volume of this three-part autobiographical series begins in 1938 with the expulsion of the Kovacic family from their home of Switzerland, eventually leading to their settlement in the father's home country of Slovenia. Narrated by Kovacic as a ten-year-old boy, he describes...- $18.00
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Vendor: Lea Black
Red Carpets & White Lies
From celebrity author Lea Black comes a sizzling deep-dive into Miami's socialites. In a city known for its never-ending parties, Leigh Anatole White hosts the most extravagant party of them all. Her annual Charity Ball, a star-studded benefit for troubled teens, is the most...- $24.95
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Vendor: Bensalem Himmich
A Muslim Suicide
Award-winning novelist Bensalem Himmich's third novel to be translated into English is a vertiginous exploration of one of Islam's most radical thinkers, the Sufi philosopher Ibn Sab'in. Born in Spain, he was forced to immigrate to Africa because of his controversial views. Later expelled...- $29.95
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Vendor: Sarah Dunant
In the Name of the Family
Before the Corleones, before the Lannisters, there were the Borgias. One of history's notorious families comes to life in a captivating novel from the author of The Birth of Venus.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY COSMOPOLITAN (UK) AND THE TIMES...- $18.00
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Vendor: Norman Mailer
The Castle in the Forest
The final work of fiction from Norman Mailer, a defining voice of the postwar era, is also one of his most ambitious, taking as its subject the evil of Adolf Hitler. The narrator, a mysterious SS man in possession of extraordinary secrets, follows Adolf...- $18.00
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Vendor: Yoel Hoffmann
Curriculum Vitae
Yoel Hoffmann's Curriculum Vitae is the remarkable summation of the writer's life: his escape from the Holocaust; his arrival in Palestine; time in an orphanage; youth; two marriages; fatherhood; his studies of Japanese Buddhism; his travels; his ever-busy inner life. Curriculum Vitae begins quietly...- $15.95
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Vendor: Allison Amend
Enchanted Islands
Born to immigrant parents in Minnesota just before the turn of the century, Frances Frankowski grew up coveting the life of her best friend, Rosalie Mendel. And yet, decades later, when the women reconnect in San Francisco, their lives have diverged. Rosalie is a...- $16.00
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Vendor: Mario Escobar
Children of the Stars
From international bestselling author Mario Escobar comes a story of escape, sacrifice, and hope amid the perils of the Second World War. August 1942. Jacob and Moses Stein, two young Jewish brothers, are staying with their aunt in Paris amid the Nazi occupation. The...- $26.99
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Vendor: Rebecca Dean
The Shadow Queen: A Novel of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor
King Edward VIII abdicated his throne for her in one of the world's great love stories - but who was Wallis Simpson?Born into a poor southern family but taken in by rich relatives, Wallis Simpson was raised as a socialite. Between family conflicts and...- $19.00
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Vendor: Heidi Thomas
Follow the Dream
In this sequel to Cowgirl Dreams, Nettie Brady, now Nettie Moser, is working with her husband Jake to prepare for a busy rodeo season when she's offered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to travel to London to perform with the Tex Austin Wild West Troupe. When...- $16.95
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Vendor: Farzana Moon
Babur, The First Moghul in India: In the Land of Cain
This thrilling biographical account of Babur's life and reign brings Afghanistan in the sixteenth century back to life. Babur was the first Moghul emperor of Hindustan-also known as South Asia-and is remembered for his love of beauty, justice, and joy.Author: Farzana MoonISBN-10: 0761856293ISBN-13: 9780761856290Publisher:...- $51.99
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Thoreau at Devil's Perch
Henry David Thoreau leaves the seclusion of Walden Pond to help investigate a series of murders in the first in B. B. Oak's fascinating new historical mystery series, set against the bucolic backdrop of 19th century New England.The lush, overgrown banks of Massachusetts's Assabet...- $19.00
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Vendor: Marianne Wiggins
The Shadow Catcher
Following her National Book Award finalist, Evidence of Things Unseen, Marianne Wiggins turns her extraordinary literary imagination to the American West, where the life of legendary photographer Edward S. Curtis is the basis for a resonant exploration of history and family, landscape and legacy....- $20.99
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Vendor: Faith L. Justice
Twilight Empress: A Novel of Imperial Rome
She lives a life of ambition, power, and intrigue she didn't seek, but can't refuse. Daughter of Rome, Placidia expects to do her duty to God and country, marry appropriately, and raise imperial heirs. But in AD 410, the city of Rome falls to...- $13.95
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Vendor: Cynthia L. Simmons
Women Who Overcame
Are you facing heartache? Perhaps you're already battle weary and wonder where God is. How can you continue to believe in God's power and love when storms invade? These ladies from the past didn't just face the impossible, they overcame. Author Cynthia L Simmons...- $16.39
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Vendor: Jane Mendelsohn
I Was Amelia Earhart
In this brilliantly imagined novel, Amelia Earhart tells us what happened after she and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared off the coast of New Guinea one glorious, windy day in 1937. And she tells us about herself. There is her love affair with flying...- $14.00
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Vendor: Susan Higginbotham
The Stolen Crown: The Secret Marriage That Forever Changed the Fate of England
Award-winning author Susan Higginbotham's The Stolen Crown is a compelling tale of one marriage that changed the fate of England foreverOn May Day, 1464, six-year-old Katherine Woodville, daughter of a duchess who has married a knight of modest means, awakes to find her gorgeous...- $18.99
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Vendor: Elizabeth Chadwick
The Greatest Knight: The Unsung Story of the Queen's Champion
THE NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER!"The best writer of medieval fiction currently around."--Historical Novels ReviewRoyal protector. Loyal servant. Forgotten hero.12th century, England: A penniless young knight with few prospects, William Marshal is plucked from obscurity when he saves the life of Henry...- $20.99
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Vendor: John Clarke
The Tournament
A novel of the 20th century in which the greatest thinkers and personalities engage in a two-week tennis tournament. "If you didn't know better you'd think this city had gone crazy. The streets of Paris are full of celebrities and media, and out at...- $35.00
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Vendor: Jill Ciment
The Tattoo Artist
In 1970, Sara Ehrenreich boards a small plane and returns to New York City with much fanfare; she will be featured in Life magazine. She has not left Ta'un'uu-the South Seas island upon which she and her husband, Philip, were marooned during a storm-in...- $18.00
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Vendor: Madison Smartt Bell
Master of the Crossroads
Continuing his epic trilogy of the Haitian slave uprising, Madison Smartt Bell's Master of the Crossroads delivers a stunning portrayal of Toussaint Louverture, former slave, military genius and liberator of Haiti, and his struggle against the great European powers to free his people in...- $22.00
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Vendor: Nellie Hermann
Season of Migration
The lyrically told story of one of the world's greatest artists finding his true calling Though Vincent van Gogh is one of the most popular painters of all time, we know very little about a ten-month period in the painter's youth when he and...- $19.00
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Vendor: Jo Baker
A Country Road, a Tree
From the bestselling author of Longbourn comes a story of survival and determination, of spies and artists, passion and danger--a portrait of Samuel Beckett's wartime experiences in Paris. "Exquisitely crafted." --O, The Oprah Magazine In 1939 Paris, the ground rumbles with the footfall of...- $16.00
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Vendor: George Grossmith
The Diary of a Nobody
This delightful Victorian comic diary is a classic of English humor which has never been out of print since its first publication in 1892. City clerk Charles Pooter asks: "Why should I not publish my diary ... because I do not happen to be...- $25.99
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Vendor: Harrison Gross
First Stop Brooklyn: A selection of twenty-five short chronicles on life in Old Brooklyn.
Twenty-five fictionalized, autobiographical stories describing life in Old Brooklyn. Learn how it was in the '40s and '50s in the now-posh borough of New York City, when immigrant families lived, loved and vied for the American Dream.Author: Harrison Gross, Dee-Dee DiamondISBN-10: 1080618910ISBN-13: 9781080618910Publisher: Independently...- $9.90
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Vendor: Hagar Peeters
Malva: The Unknown Story of Pablo Neruda's Only Child, Told from the Afterlife
The abandoned daughter of Pablo Neruda speaks through "incandescent poetic prose full of magical realism, biographical details and psychological insight." Winner of the Fintro Prize for Literature Malva, a precocious eight-year-old ghost, is running amok in the afterlife with a cadre of other lost...- $18.95
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Vendor: Caroline Preston
Gatsby's Girl
Just as Jay Gatsby was haunted by Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fizgerald was haunted by his own great first love -- a Chicago socialite named Ginevra. Alluring, capricious, and ultimately unavailable, she would become his first muse, the inspiration for...- $17.99
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Vendor: Charles Casillo
The Marilyn Diaries
What if Marilyn Monroe left a diary? In this NEW EXPANDED EDITION of THE MARILYN DIARIES, imagine the secret, lost diary of Marilyn Monroe is being published for the first time. Fantasize that you are reading her enigmatic life story as if told in...- $15.99
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Vendor: Robert Hammond
C. B. DeMille: The Man Who Invented Hollywood
Citizen Kane meets Sunset Boulevard as a creative visionary battles a tight-fisted money man and his own vices to make Biblical epics and usher in Hollywood's Golden Age. Complications arise when his relationship with his two mistresses threatens to destroy his family. C.B. DeMille...- $14.99
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Vendor: Betsy Wagner
Spirit of Gonzales
The story of a young pioneer girl who settled in Gonzales, Texas, just in time for the revolution. There is a spirit of vigor and courage in Texas. It inspired the early settlers, and it unified them during rough times. That spirit of determination...- $15.00
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The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe
In November 1960, Frank Sinatra gave Marilyn Monroe a dog. His name was Mafia Honey, or Maf for short. He had an instinct for celebrity. For politics. For psychoanalysis. For literature. For interior decoration. For Liver Treat with a side order of National Biscuits....- $16.99
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Patient X: The Case-Book of Ryunosuke Akutagawa
In these twelve interconnected tales, David Peace--acclaimed author of the Red Riding Quartet, Occupied City, and Tokyo Year Zero--weaves fact and fiction as he takes up the brief but fiercely lived life of the early-twentieth-century Japanese writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. Unique and offbeat, Patient X...- $17.00
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Vendor: Stephanie Thornton
The Tiger Queens
In the late twelfth century, across the sweeping Mongolian grasslands, brilliant, charismatic Temujin ascends to power, declaring himself the Great, or Genghis, Khan. But it is the women who stand beside him who ensure his triumph.... After her mother foretells an ominous future for...- $22.00
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The Secret History: A Novel of Empress Theodora
Where Theodora went, trouble followed.... In sixth-century Constantinople, one woman, Theodora, defied every convention and all the odds and rose from common theater tart to empress of a great kingdom, the most powerful woman the Roman Empire would ever know. The woman whose image...- $22.00
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Vendor: Karen Harper
The Irish Princess
A grand-scale historical novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Mistress Shakespeare. Born into a first family of Ireland, with royal ties on both sides, Elizabeth Fitzgerald--known as Gera--finds her world overturned when Henry VIII imprisons her father, the Earl of Kildare,...- $22.00
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Vendor: Anne O'Brien
The Virgin Widow
A dazzling historical novel set during England's War of the Roses- the story of the courageous Anne Neville, future wife of Richard III, who comes of age in a time of chaos... Anne Neville, daughter of the powerful Earl of Warwick, grows up during...- $16.00
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Signora Da Vinci
An enchanting novel on the life and origins of Leonardo da Vinci's mother, as imagined by the author of the "absolutely superb" (Diane Haeger, author of The Secret Bride) Mademoiselle Boleyn.A young woman named Caterina was only fifteen years old in 1452 when she...- $22.00
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The Book of the Film of the Story of My Life
- The Book of the Film... was originally published in New Zealand and in the UK, winning widespread acclaim from publications including the London Observer, Time Out London, and New Zealand Herald, among others.- Born in London and raised in New Zealand, William Brandt...- $21.99
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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.

