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Vendor: Donna Dean
Seer of Apollo
Winter 1531, London. It is a time of great upheaval; a time when love, faith and loyalty will be tested. In his quest to marry Anne Boleyn, King Henry VIII has named himself Head of the Church in England, but many of his subjects...- $20.99
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Vendor: Tony Riches
Raleigh - Tudor Adventurer
Tudor adventurer, courtier, explorer and poet, Sir Walter Raleigh has been called the last true Elizabethan. He didn't dance or joust, didn't come from a noble family, or marry into one. So how did an impoverished law student become a favourite of the queen,...- $12.99
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Vendor: Paul Thomas McCartney
I'm Paul McCartney: Not the Beatle.
You can voluntarily fulfill your purpose- They love to get new ideas and experiences and leave positive feedback ...... even if it is difficult-It is a steady and unconditional love, unforgettable-They are brave, sincere, kind and they fight for prosperity, no matter what your...- $6.00
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Vendor: Jean Plaidy
To Hold the Crown: The Story of King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York
From exile and war to love and loss--every dynasty has a beginning. Henry Tudor was not born to the throne of England. Having come of age in a time of political turmoil and danger, the man who would become Henry VII spent fourteen years...- $19.00
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Vendor: Lan Cao
The Lotus and the Storm
A lyrical novel of love and betrayal in the aftermath of the fall of Saigon--from the author of Monkey Bridge A singular work of witness, inspiration, and courage, The Lotus and the Storm marks the welcome return of Lan Cao's pitch-perfect voice, telling the...- $19.00
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Vendor: Ron Currie
Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles
A bold, arresting new work of fiction from the acclaimed author of Everything Matters and the forthcoming novel The One-Eyed Man (March 2017) In this tour de force of imagination, Ron Currie asks why literal veracity means more to us than deeper truths, creating...- $16.00
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Vendor: Connor Black
Pearl of Arabia
The sweeping saga of a young woman uncovering her mysterious past, only to find herself at the epicenter of a power struggle that could shatter a nation.As an orphan who aged out of the system, Adira beat the odds, earning a nursing degree and...- $16.99
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Vendor: Michelle Gable
The Lipstick Bureau: A Novel Inspired by True WWII Events
1944, Rome. Newlywed Niki Novotna is recruited by a new American spy agency to establish a secret branch in Italy's capital.One of the OSS's few female operatives abroad--and multilingual--she is tasked with crafting fake stories and distributing propaganda to lower the morale of enemy...- $41.99
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Vendor: Ann Mah
Jacqueline in Paris
"Captivating...Mah channels Kennedy and brings postwar Paris to life with exquisite detail and insight." -- PeopleFrom the bestselling author of The Lost Vintage, a rare and dazzling portrait of Jacqueline Bouvier's college year abroad in postwar Paris, an intimate and electrifying story of love...- $18.99
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Vendor: Imbert De Saint-Amand
Marie Antoinette and the End of the Old Regime
Marie Antoinette and the End of the Old Regime is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1909. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other...- $38.50
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Vendor: Sue Hubbard
Girl in White: A Dazzling Novel Telling the Tumultuous Life Story of the Pioneering Expressioni St Artist Paula Modersohn-Becker
"A triumph of literary and artistic understanding, a tour de force: Masterly, moving and beautifully written." -- Fay Weldon A dazzling novel about groundbreaking artist, Paula Modersohn-Becker -- a brilliant early expressionist who toiled under the shadow of her lover Rainer Maria Rilke Perfect...- $16.95
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Vendor: Namrata Chadha
Budham Sharanam
Budhham Sharnam is a book put together with 17 short stories. Each of them giving us a glance in the lives of less celebrated women from a well-known era. All these characters have historical presence yet not remembered. These are emotionally complex stories and...- $14.00
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Vendor: ノdouard Louis
History of Violence
History of Violence is international bestselling French author Edouard Louis's autobiographical novel about surviving a shocking sexual assault and coping with the post-traumatic stress disorder of its aftermath. On Christmas Eve 2012, in Paris, the novelist douard Louis was raped and almost murdered by...- $19.00
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Vendor: Lydia Chais
Stolen Virtue: A Child Bride
Child marriages have been the topic of debate for many years. Having been given in marriage at the tender age of fourteen, Lydia Chais retells her story of what it was like being married to a much older man, a man who had over-stepped...- $13.99
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Vendor: James G. Yeo
An Individual's Innocence Book II: The Fog of Time
It has been ten years since Charles Davis was diagnosed with schizophrenia and began rebuilding his life from scratch. Waking up in a hospital ten years ago was a major turning point for Charles; now, as he grapples with a fresh wave of symptoms...- $34.49
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Vendor: James G. Yeo
An Individual's Innocence Book II: The Fog of Time
It has been ten years since Charles Davis was diagnosed with schizophrenia and began rebuilding his life from scratch. Waking up in a hospital ten years ago was a major turning point for Charles; now, as he grapples with a fresh wave of symptoms...- $21.49
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Vendor: M. J. Cornwall
To Be Frank: A fictional memoir
Known to so many, and yet unknowable, was Frank Thring. Actor, bon vivant, professional flamboyant, withering critic. No one else could tell his story, so here it is, as if by his own hand. His boyhood as the son of a doomed movie mogul...- $20.95
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Vendor: Bridget Erica
Magdala: The Lost Story of Mary Magdalene
"For over two thousand years my name has been printed in the holy book and buildings have been erected in my honor. Yet, men in ornate robes have trampled on my words, tainted my name, and hidden my story from you. The exceptional events...- $16.90
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Vendor: Bridget Erica
Magdala: The Lost Story of Mary Magdalene
"For over two thousand years my name has been printed in the holy book and buildings have been erected in my honor. Yet, men in ornate robes have trampled on my words, tainted my name, and hidden my story from you. The exceptional events...- $22.90
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Vendor: C. R. Page
The Ride to Work
For seven years, public servant Anthony Speed has commuted by bicycle to his inner-city office dreading the monotony and drudgery of his job. On an otherwise routine Monday morning, he sets out to do this one last time. The ride forward to his destination...- $12.95
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Vendor: Murendeni Matumba
Rilonde: This isn't just another rape story.
Rilonde has a normal childhood, raised in a family that instils faith and hope into her life. And although she faces a bit of stereotype and abuse here and there, that has nothing on the resilient type that she is. However, the terror of...- $15.00
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Vendor: Mary Calvi
If a Poem Could Live and Breathe: A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt's First Love
A fact-based romantic speculative novel about Teddy Roosevelt's first love, by Mary Calvi, author of Dear George, Dear MaryStudded with the real love letters between a young Theodore Roosevelt and Boston beauty Alice Lee―many of them never before published―If a Poem Could Live and...- $31.95
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Vendor: S. a. Lapoint
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...- $31.95
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Vendor: Heather Webb
Strangers in the Night: A Novel of Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner
It was the tumultuous romance that scandalized the world: Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner fought, loved, and lived life to the hilt. Now their unbridled story is brought vividly to life by Heather Webb, the bestselling author of Meet Me in Monaco and The...- $41.99
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Vendor: Molly Greeley
Marvelous
"Enchanting. Molly Greeley has pulled off a piece of magic to tell a dazzling love story about the outcast's ache to be cared for and belong. This book broke my heart and put it back together again."--Allison Epstein, author of A Tip for the...- $41.99
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Vendor: David Fisher
The War Magician: Based on an Extraordinary True Story
Based on an extraordinary true story and soon to be a major film produced by and starring Benedict Cumberbatch, The War Magician is the remarkable tale of the man who used the powers of illusion to fight the Nazis--and created the most remarkable feat...- $31.95
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Vendor: Sandra Sweeney
Morning Train North: Margie Volume 1
Author: Sandra SweeneyISBN-10: 1955047081ISBN-13: 9781955047081Publisher: Titletown Publishing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/11/2022Pages: 144Format: Paperback- $19.95
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Vendor: Alan Lelchuk
Searching for Wallenberg
Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Budapest Jews in 1944-45, was arrested by the Soviets and taken to Moscow where he disappeared. Now, more than 70 years after these events, many mysteries about Wallenberg's life and fate persist. As both a...- $29.95
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Vendor: Uyen Nicole Duong
Daughters of the River Huong
Daughters of the River Huong by Vietnam-born, Houston-based writer Uyen Nicole Duong is a richly woven tapestry of family, country, conflict, and redemption. A saga spanning four generations of Vietnamese women, we discover lives inextricably tied to their country's struggle for independence. Narrated by...- $13.95
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Vendor: Laura Ellen Scott
Death Wishing
"This is a terrific story, beautifully written, and completely enthralling."--Dorothy Allison "I admire the sentences, the clarity of mind, and characters who catch and keep our attention. Bob Dylan sings about a journey 'all the way from New Orleans to Jerusalem...' as way of...- $15.95
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Vendor: Jacek Dehnel
Saturn
aturn is a fictionalised version of the personal life of the great Spanish Painter Goya. The story is narrated by Goya, his son Javier and his grandson Mariano. The deeply flawed relationship between the three generations produce an atmosphere of psychological tension.The story is...- $15.99
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Vendor: Mark B. Arrieta
Son of a Basque
After the sudden death of his father, young Mark Vergara, the oldest son of immigrant parents, was thrust into the role of principal breadwinner, working hard in the beet fields of Colorado to support his family. After joining the Army Air Corps and flying...- $16.95
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Vendor: Kate Fuglei
The Dream of Life: A Novel Based on the Life of Federico Fellini
Too young to hear the drumbeat of a world preparing for war, little Federico daydreamed on the shores of Italy's Adriatic Sea. At night the boy soared over his provincial town, his head swimming with fantastical visions unconstrained by earthly boundaries and limitations. As...- $16.99
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Vendor: Christopher Noxon
Plus One
"Behind every great man there's a great woman . . . and in Noxon's telling, behind every great woman there's a charming, deeply conflicted guy (sometimes holding a very expensive handbag). Hilarious and unflinching, Plus One is a funny, sharply observed, heartbreaking look at...- $16.00
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Vendor: Laura Dowers
Master Wolsey: The Thomas Wolsey Trilogy
1485. The world has changed.Henry VII sits on England's throne following his defeat of King Richard III at Bosworth Field.Enter Thomas Wolsey, a young man with a great deal of brains and even greater ambition. Despite his reputation for brilliance at Magdalen College, Thomas...- $14.99
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Vendor: Miranda Miller
Angelica, Paintress of Minds
Angelica Kaufman is so successful that when she comes to England as a young woman in 1766 a word is coined: Angelicamad.'Miller's intricate fictions are lit by the dark flicker of a strong and original imagination.' - Hilary MantelThis sparky, true life novel tells...- $17.99
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Vendor: Colin W. Sargent
Red Hands
A deeply compelling tale of a woman caught inside the destruction of a Communist regime. Iordana is a normal girl, brought up with all the perks of Romania's corrupt communist regime. Then she falls in love and marries the eldest son of her parents'...- $16.99
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Vendor: Leo Solstrom
Southern Cross
Southern Cross is the story of a young man wrestling with the challenges and choices confronting him as he enters adulthood. It's a story about life's biggest questions, which must be answered by everyone seeking to find meaning and purpose in life. The story...- $22.99
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Vendor: Herman Lee Pettiford
Righteousness In America
Herman Pettiford is a 76 year old man with 9 children, with 5 children being older than his wife being 46 years old. They have been together 22 years and married for 20 years. This is an exciting and wonderful story about a boy...- $19.99
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Vendor: David Philips
The Judas Conspiracy: A JFK Thriller
In January 1971, Colin, an officer from British Special Branch recruits eighteen-year-old Sam Nathan to infiltrate a group of student extremists who they believe are planning a terrorist attack in Sam's home city of Glasgow, Scotland.Sam foils the plot, narrowly escaping being murdered by...- $21.95
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Vendor: Marsden Kerrington Kray
A Compilation of 33 Incredible Stories
We have all heard the expression that fact can be stranger than fiction. This collection of short stories may indeed prove this idea to be true. About half of these stories have been experienced by myself; the remaining stories have been retrieved from friends,...- $15.95
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Vendor: Eva Stachniak
The Chosen Maiden
The lush, sweeping story of a remarkable dancer who charts her own course through the tumultuous years of early twentieth-century Europe. Beautifully blending fiction with fact, The Chosen Maiden plunges readers into an artistic world upended by modernity, immersing them in the experiences of...- $18.00
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Vendor: Karen Joy Fowler
Booth
Best Book of the Year Real Simple - AARP - USA Today - NPR - Virginia Living Longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize From the Man Booker finalist and bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic and intimate novel...- $18.00
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Vendor: Patricia Bracewell
The Steel Beneath the Silk
A breathtaking conclusion to Bracewell's Emma of Normandy Trilogy, brimming with treachery, heartache, tenderness and passion as the English queen confronts ambitious and traitorous councilors, invading armies and the Danish king's power-hungry concubine. In the year 1012, England's Norman-born Queen Emma has been ten...- $22.99
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Vendor: Lev Levanda
An Amateur Performance: (Reminiscences of a Student in the 1850s)
Russia's best Jewish writer in the nineteenth-century, Lev Levanda (1835-1888), is still barely known in the English-speaking world. Here for the first time is one of his major novels in his entirety, An Amateur Performance (Reminiscences of a Student in the 1850s), translated with...- $139.00
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Vendor: Leticia Morta
The Vocation - 2nd Edition
The Vocation is a fictional story based on true life dramas. It emanates from areas in Southern Africa which have no boundaries except for towns, farms, territories, suburbs and villages. In this story, the European nations' rule over African territories (colonialism) - The Partition...- $17.99
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Vendor: Thomas Edmondston
The Young Shetlander: or, Shadow over the Sunshine
The Young Shetlander - or, Shadow over the Sunshine 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 and nutrition, medicine, and other...- $40.50
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Vendor: Russell H. Conwell
The life, travels, and literary career of Bayard Taylor
The life, travels, and literary career of Bayard Taylor is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1895. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other...- $41.50
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Vendor: Washington Irving
Columbus: His Life and Voyages
Columbus - His Life and Voyages is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1893. 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...- $46.90
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Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1879. 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...- $27.90
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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.

