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Vendor: Ian R. Forman
The Returnee: Alive Again in Howth
Ian has returned. But from where? Everyone thinks he is mentally disturbed because he is claiming to be the grown-up Ian Forman, who everyone knows drowned when he was just a 12-year-old child. Even his wife Mary of over 40 years says she doesn't...- $22.99
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Vendor: David Boyer
The Ghosts In My Head
Chuck Polanski is an alcoholic - and an aspiring writer.He is also a huge fan of a fellow alcoholic and aspiring writer, Charles Bukowski, whose legacy is one of epic proportions, at least within his own community, that being fellow lost souls in search...- $9.99
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Vendor: Sachi G. Dastidar
Hudson Ganga Merger
This is a fictionalized non-fiction story of a family who initially grew up in the Bay of Bengal area of Indian Subcontinent, then moving to New York area living for decades, connecting with Apalachee Bay of the Gulf of Mexico, near Tallahassee, Florida, via...- $36.99
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Vendor: Federico Falco
The Plains
After a loss, a year in the country: four seasons to transform a garden and a self.'In the city the notion of the hours of the day, of the passage of time, is lost. In the countryside that is impossible, ' our narrator tells...- $16.95
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Vendor: Jack Kerouac
Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46
Written in 1967 from the vantage point of the psychedelic sixties, Vanity of Duluoz is a fascinating portrait of the artist as a young man.This book presents the formative years in the life of Jack Duluoz--Kerouac's alter ego--beginning with his high school experiences as...- $39.95
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Vendor: Roland J. Beckerman
Seeking Justice: Courtroom Drama in a Medical Malpractice Setting
Roland J. Beckerman is a Southern man that grew up learning right from wrong in a healthy family environment. He had many successes in most of the things he attempted to do as a young man. As he continued to age, he became versed...- $34.95
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Vendor: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Men of Our Times
Reproduction of the original: Men of Our Times by Harriet Beecher StoweAuthor: Harriet Beecher StoweISBN-10: 3752429704ISBN-13: 9783752429701Publisher: Outlook VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/14/2020Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.79d- $62.90
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Vendor: Franz Liszt
Life of Chopin
Life of Chopin is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1863. 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 we focus on...- $26.90
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Vendor: Ken Goodman
The Smart One: A Grandfather's Tale
The future is often foretold in stories of the past. As families flee the Debaltseve in Eastern Ukraine in 2015, Ken Goodman's The Smart One: A Grandfather's Tale takes us back to families fleeing persecution in Eastern Europe at the turn of the Twentieth...- $27.95
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Vendor: Michael Gorton
Forefathers & Founding Fathers
In the early colonies, this country was on the precipice of becoming an autocratic theocracy. The battle for democracy and equal rights was sparked by a few characters, who are now lost and forgotten pieces of history. Forefathers & Founding Fathers is an adventure,...- $14.99
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Vendor: Winfred Blevins
Give Your Heart to the Hawks: A Tribute to the Mountain Men
Originally published: New York: Tom Dougherty Associates, 1973.Author: Winfred BlevinsISBN-10: 1432855409ISBN-13: 9781432855406Publisher: Wheeler Publishing Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/19/2018Pages: 539Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.27lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.00dLarge Print- $26.99
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Vendor: Oscar Carlos Valdes
Donald and Melania: 75 Days
Donald and Melania are under enormous pressure as they arrive in the White House. They had been unprepared. She had not been political before the presidency and now it strikes her that his decisions carry far reaching consequences. She discovers that she cannot be...- $12.95
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Vendor: Paulette Brooks
Not Just a Homemaker: The Extraordinary Life of Sheila MacGregor
Read this if you like your dual-timeline historical fiction with a strong sense of place and an everywoman's zeal.At the end of her remarkable life of ninety-three years, spanning a world war and three continents, Sheila MacGregor Beals donates her beautiful, forested property to...- $14.99
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Vendor: Gordon Hudson
Will I ever see?
This collection of poems is inspired by nature, travel, relationships, politics, society, and the mind. They reflect the author's unique perspective which arises from a life path less travelled. Most, but not all, conform to more traditional forms of rhyming verse and reveal his...- $22.99
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Vendor: Dw Duke
Because I'm Black: The Story of Jesse Washington
Because I'm Black is a biographical novel inspired by the true story of a Black sharecropper who was tried for murder in Waco, Texas in 1916.Author: Dw DukeISBN-10: 1665759593ISBN-13: 9781665759595Publisher: Archway PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/04/2024Pages: 254Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d- $43.99
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Vendor: Ian R. Forman
The Returnee: Alive Again in Howth
Ian has returned. But from where? Everyone thinks he is mentally disturbed because he is claiming to be the grown-up Ian Forman, who everyone knows drowned when he was just a 12-year-old child. Even his wife Mary of over 40 years says she doesn't...- $30.99
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Vendor: Helen Wolff
Background for Love
A lush autobiographical story of young love, 1930s C?te d'Azur, and rising fascism in Nazi Germany -- by the famed publisher of Calvino, Pasternak, and Gunter Grass In a giddy rush, a young woman and her older lover leave 1930s Berlin for a summer...- $16.95
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Vendor: Lore Segal
The Journal I Did Not Keep: New and Selected Writing
"For almost six decades Segal has quietly produced some of the best fiction and essays in American literature, as this generous sampler attests."--The New York Times "Segal is a monumental writer, one of the finest of her generation; this lovely collection is a fine...- $19.99
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The Unexpected Diva
Author: Tiffany L. WarrenISBN-10: 0063322137ISBN-13: 9780063322134Publisher: William Morrow & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/07/2025Pages: 432Format: Paperback- $19.99
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Vendor: Gail Milissa Grant
The Sable Cloak
An eye-opening, atmospheric novel set in the South and Midwest during the time of Jim Crow that reveals a little-known part of American pre-civil rights history of Black intrigue and power. In the South, justice is swift and absolute. Jordan Sable, a prosperous undertaker...- $28.00
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Vendor: Abdiya Wesab
Mara Hatun
Mara H t n enters the world scene a Serbian princess of Byzantine descent. War forces complex solutions that include the mysterious key which surfaces in the tents of Tamurlane. What will it unlock in Constantinople? Mara lived from 1416-1487. This carefully researched historical...- $22.99
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Vendor: Johann Georg Korb
Diary of an Austrian Secretary of Legation at the Court of Czar Peter the Great: Vol. I
Diary of an Austrian Secretary of Legation at the Court of Czar Peter the Great - Vol. I is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1863. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science,...- $35.50
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Vendor: Benjamin Franklin
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Edited From His Manuscript, With Notes and an Introduction
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Edited From His Manuscript, With Notes and an Introduction is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1868. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking...- $41.90
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Vendor: Ken Goodman
The Smart One: A Grandfather's Tale
The future is often foretold in stories of the past. As families flee the Debaltseve in Eastern Ukraine in 2015, Ken Goodman's The Smart One: A Grandfather's Tale takes us back to families fleeing persecution in Eastern Europe at the turn of the Twentieth...- $13.95
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Vendor: Elroy Haverlah
Anna's Journey: A Tale of Early Swedish Immigrants to Texas
Anna's Journey is a true story of two dozen immigrants who left behind the security of their homes in Sweden and became in 1848 the first pioneers in the untamed frontier of central Texas. Andrew, one of Anna Palm's six sons, narrates their family's...- $14.99
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Vendor: C. W. Gortner
The Saint Laurent Muse
The Paris runways of the 70s come to wild and splashy life in this novel of fashion's "It Girl" Loulou de la Falaise and her life partying and designing with Yves Saint Laurent, Karl Lagerfeld, and Halston. Nightlife! Gowns! Cocaine! Glamour!It's the 1970s, and...- $18.99
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Vendor: H. Bacon
Ratliner
When Karl Conrad uncovers his grandfather's shocking past after inheriting his estate, he finds himself pulled into a high-stakes quest for justice - and a race to stop sinister forces from unleashing unspeakable evil. Karl teams up with the alluring real estate agent Jessica...- $15.99
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Vendor: Alison Weir
Katharine Parr, the Sixth Wife
Bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir brings her Tudor Queens series to a close with the remarkable story of Henry VIII's sixth and final wife, who manages to survive him and remarry, only to be thrown into a romantic intrigue that threatens the...- $28.99
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Vendor: Robert Linehart
Inside & Falling Away
Inside & Falling Away is a fictional autobiographical coming-of-age story that follows three young men: Will Haywood, Ronny Connor, Jim Owens, and several of their friends. While they are all from diverse geographical and cultural backgrounds, they come from similar Christian homes benefitting from...- $18.99
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Vendor: Jessica Tvordi
The Schoolmaster
In 1570, Catholic followers of the exiled Mary, Queen of Scots wage war against those of her four-year-old son, King James VI. Enter Master Peter Young, a Geneva-educated merchant's son. Eager to make his way in the world, Peter is appointed to serve as...- $13.99
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Vendor: Jonathan Power
The Human Flow: A Novel Uncovering the Brutal Realities of West African Migrant Trafficking
Looking for a gripping and thought-provoking read? Look no further than this captivating book about two journalists, a Tanzanian, Agnes and Jon, an Englishman, who embark on a dangerous journey to report on the trafficking of West African migrants. As they travel from Senegal...- $33.00
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Vendor: Dee Mallon
The Weight of Cloth
SOUTH CAROLINA. Mid-1700's. Four narrators: one privileged, three enslaved. When Eliza is just sixteen, her father departs for the West Indies leaving her in charge of three heavily mortgaged plantations. Her authority will be challenged, including by her mother. A second epidemic erupts and...- $16.99
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Vendor: L. D. Richards
Through My Eyes
From a Life of Struggles to a Beacon of Success: An Inspiring Journey of Personal Transformation and Professional Triumph, Fueled by Passion and Resilience.Through My Eyes chronicles the life of a child born into dysfunction, who, against all odds, evolves into a successful professional...- $12.99
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Vendor: Britian Bell
The Creation of Music
Bart dreams of being an inventor, of building something that matters. When a famous composer asks him to make an instrument that doesn't exist, an opportunity exceeding his imagination presents itself, along with it, struggle and heartache of overwhelming proportions. When life throws its...- $24.99
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Vendor: Bruce Anthony
Undisputed
As seen in thrilling TikTok trailers comes an exciting fantasy league with twenty of the greatest heavyweight boxers in history colliding to see who's the best ever. Readers are raving about Undisputed! 'This is the best boxing book I've ever read' 'I was so...- $19.99
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Vendor: D. H. Lawrence
Lady Chatterley's Lover
"Lady Chatterley's Lover" is a novel by D. H. Lawrence, first published privately in 1928 in Italy and in 1929 in France. It tells the story of Constance Reid, a young woman married to Sir Clifford Chatterley, a wealthy and titled landowner who is...- $15.99
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Vendor: Patricia Spencer
Lake of the Cedars: Story of a Family on Fire for Generations
Make no mistake: this book holds secrets. Lake of the Cedars: Story of a Family on Fire for Generations spans nearly a century, from the point that two families, one from Germany and one from England, arrive at Ellis Island in 1920 through to...- $30.95
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Vendor: Collins Hemingway
The Marriage of Miss Jane Austen: Volume I
Marry for Love, Austen Said-Did She? Tradition holds that Jane Austen lived a quiet single life. But what if she wed a man equal to her intelligence, character, and passion-and the family covered it up? "The Marriage of Miss Jane Austen" resolves the mystery...- $16.95
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Vendor: Collins Hemingway
The Marriage of Miss Jane Austen: Volume III
T he Stunning Finale to Jane Austen's Saga: In the moving conclusion to "The Marriage of Miss Jane Austen," Jane and her husband struggle with the serious illness of their son, confront a bitter relationship with the aristocratic family who were once their friends,...- $16.95
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Vendor: Dave Thompson
To Major Tom: The Bowie Letters
Since his angst ridden adolescent years through to life as a greying father of two, Gary has been writing to his idol, David Bowie. Through 30 years of one-way correspondence we look back over a time in which both men have overcome life's obstacles....- $20.00
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Vendor: Daniel Defoe
The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe was an English writer, journalist and spy, who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest practitioners of the novel and helped popularize the genre in Britain. In some texts he is even...- $7.99
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Vendor: Walter Scott
The Black Dwarf
As I may, without vanity, presume that the name and official description prefixed to this Proem will secure it, from the sedate and reflecting part of mankind, to whom only I would be understood to address myself, such attention as is due to the...- $6.99
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Vendor: Tyler J. Houston
Elsewhere In Time: Trilogy Book II
Volume 2. Stanford, 1972Clinton Everis Brokaw Barnes; his tradition, his honor, and his code of ethics face the a test--you will laugh, cry, and be shocked beyond the norms of Humanity.Author: Tyler J. HoustonISBN-10: 1490484337ISBN-13: 9781490484334Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/20/2013Pages: 204Format: PaperbackWeight:...- $8.25
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Vendor: Travis Montez
Braverman: Confessions of a Jewish Teenage Drug Dealer
There have been two great surprises in my life. The first surprise is that I became a teenage drug dealer. The second surprise is that I didn't die one. But, I was stubborn and charming and determined to use those talents to better my...- $16.99
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Vendor: Javier Marías
Dark Back of Time
From one of Spain's greatest writers--and the international bestselling, award-winning author of The Infatuations--comes an odyssey into the nature of identity and of time that weaves together fact and fiction into a completely original and unforgettable hybrid. "Stylish, cerebral...Marías is a startling talent...His prose...- $15.00
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Vendor: David Anthony Durham
The Risen
It is one of the most storied uprisings of classical times. Spartacus, the visionary captive and gladiator, used his toughness and charisma turn a prison break into a revolt that would threaten the Roman empire. Now, with verve and intelligence, David Anthony Durham brings...- $16.95
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Vendor: Jean Plaidy
Light on Lucrezia: A Novel of the Borgias
Some said she was an elegant seductress. Others swore she was an incestuous murderess. It didn't matter what they called her. She was the most dangerous and sought-after woman in all of Rome. She was Lucrezia Borgia. Born into Rome's notorious Borgia family, young...- $15.00
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Vendor: Jim Cohee
The Swan
Ten-year-old Aaron Cooper has witnessed the death of his younger sister, Pookie, and the trauma has left him unwilling to speak. Aaron copes with life's challenges by disappearing into his own imagination, envisioning being captain of the Kon Tiki, driving his sled in the...- $14.95
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Vendor: Eiji Yoshikawa
Musashi (New Edition)
Eiji Yoshikawa's classic samurai novel about the real exploits of the most famous swordsman. New Edition features a new cover design by the creator of Slam Dunk and Vagabond, Takehiko Inoue! Miyamoto Musashi was the child of an era when Japan was emerging from...- $39.95
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Vendor: Allan Havis
Architects of the Taj Mahal
Author: Allan HavisISBN-10: 1965059066ISBN-13: 9781965059067Publisher: Willow River PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/17/2024Pages: 278Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d- $14.99
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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.