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Vendor: John Henry Dam
A Beginning After The End
Departing a tumultuous endeavor!Having an instance of perpetually attempting to lay to rest an unfair saga. Yet as circumstance allow he was not sure it may come to pass!John Henry Dam, a truck driver that is living a dream. You might say, I am...- $5.99
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Vendor: William Fraser
The Sutherland Book: Volume 2
The Sutherland Book - Volume 2 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1892. 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...- $43.90
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Me & Five Guys
Me & Five Guys is a rough-and-tumble story, where love is messy, and the characters frequently work things out by wrestling or punching or smashing something to pieces. But ultimately, each family member knows that they are a part of this organic unit, for...- $17.99
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The Sutherland Book: Volume 1
The Sutherland Book - Volume 1 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1892. 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...- $57.90
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Vendor: Brandyn Cross
The Legacy Series Book Three
Brandyn (Brandy) Harris- a terminally ill young boy-suffers daily from physical, emotional and sexual abuse at the hands of parents and a family friend. A small yet close group of teenage friends in a virtual world Brandy secretly discovers on the Internet offers him...- $15.31
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Vendor: Van Garber
Under the Belly of a Snake
Based on actual events, Under the Belly of a Snake paints a panoramic portrait of 20th Century American life as experienced by 4 members of the Garber-Vartanian family: Araxie Momigonian, a 14 year old picture postcard bride escaping the horrors of the Armenian Genocide...- $19.99
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Vendor: Tim Blake Nelson
City of Blows
"A travelogue of purgatory. Brutal, but minutely rendered..." --Guillermo del Toro It's early 2020, and legendary producer Jacob Rosenthal is eager to make his next film, Coal, adapted from the bestselling novel by the celebrated writer Rex Patterson. The project--which takes on the controversial...- $30.00
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The Life of Josiah Wedgwood: from his private correspondence and family papers in the possession of Joseph Mayer, F. Wedgwood, C. Darwin, Miss Wedg
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Vendor: Greer Macallister
The Thirteenth Husband
From the acclaimed author of The Arctic FuryTearing through millions of dollars, four continents, and a hearty collection of husbands, real-life heiress Aimee Crocker blazed an unbelievable trail of public notoriety, private pain, and the kind of strong independent woman the 1880s had never...- $16.99
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The Paris Book: A Novel About Hemingway's Last Book
While at the Ritz Hotel in Paris in 1956, a beleaguered Hemingway-suffering from a host of maladies-discovers two trunks filled with notes and manuscripts left there thirty years ago. It is these reminisces that eventually result in the posthumous publication of A Moveable Feast....- $9.99
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Vendor: Nathan Kirk
Pretty Lights: Inside Club Land
Clubland has a new Voice Studio 54. The Hacienda. Tunnel. Limelight. CBGB. Ministry of Sound. Now it's Sydney's turn in Nathan Kirk's raw memoir of nightclub life under a glittering mirror ball sky. A late-night journey teeming with beats, sex, drugs and rock n...- $20.50
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Vendor: Ivory Keyes
Tuff Love: Deana's Biography
"Tuff Love, Deana's Biography" "A young girl is in a rush to become a grown woman, but when the time comes for her to take responsibility for her actions, she has a lot of growing up to do."Author: Ivory KeyesISBN-10: 884086606XISBN-13: 9798840866061Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage:...- $7.99
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Vendor: Marcel Rouff
The Passionate Epicure: La Vie et la Passion de Dodin-Bouffant, Gourmet
In the classic French novel The Passionate Epicure, Marcel Rouff introduces Dodin-Bouffant, a character based loosely on Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, an infamous bachelor and epicure dedicated to the high arts: the art of food and the art of love. This edition contains a Preface by...- $17.00
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Vendor: Jb Biggs
Child of Wrath
Spanning 30 years, Child of Wrath is the story of Jonah, initially a tough ten-year old survivor who wants nothing more than a real home where he can be a normal kid. Jonah's erratic and abusive father leads the family on an endless nomadic...- $17.99
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Vendor: Ioana Cristina Casapu
Heart Beats - A Memoir of The Millennial Generation on Social Media
Heart Beats is a deep X-ray of the Millennial Generation, a vivid depiction of the way Social Media has re-wired the way we think, feel, love, act and connect with each other in our relationships, friendships, daily lives and in our work. Written by...- $16.00
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Vendor: Magda Palmer
Paper Sparrow
Paper Sparrow is a historical novel inspired by real-life events, Australia 1943 to 1955. PEGGY is born to circumstances that deny her opportunities afforded to others. Before her thirteenth birthday, she has no choice but to work as a Nursing Aide in a home...- $34.99
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Vendor: Alison Leslie Gold
Clairvoyant: The Imagined Life of Lucia Joyce
A moving recreation of the tortured life of Lucia Joyce, the schizophrenic daughter of James Joyce, follows Lucia's struggle to survive despite the terrifying effects of this devastating mental illness.Author: Alison Leslie GoldISBN-10: 1938371119ISBN-13: 9781938371110Publisher: Tmi PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/16/2014Pages: 136Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.46lbsSize: 9.02h x...- $9.95
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Vendor: James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
2018 Reprint of 1922 Edition. First published in 1916, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is Joyce's first novel. It is a K nstlerroman, or Artist's Novel in a modernist style, as it traces the religious and intellectual awakening of young...- $5.95
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Vendor: Anthony Koranda
Broken Bottles
After growing up with an alcoholic mother and an intermittent stepfather, Alex pines for connection, even as he sabotages his life with substances, and substitutes one failed relationship for the next. Shuffling from troubled home to chaotic institution, he narrates his strange search through...- $16.99
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Vendor: Laini Giles
The Forgotten Flapper: A Novel of Olive Thomas
A presence lurks in New York City's New Amsterdam Theatre when the lights go down and the audience goes home. They say she's the ghost of Olive Thomas, one of the loveliest girls who ever lit up the Ziegfeld Follies and the silent screen....- $35.99
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Vendor: Laura Dowers
The Thomas Wolsey Trilogy: Books I-III, Master Wolsey, Power & Glory, Forsaken
The entire Thomas Wolsey trilogy in one edition!Master WolseyThe rise of England's most notorious priest, from his days as an Oxford scholar to his becoming Cardinal.Power & GloryThomas Wolsey is at the pinnacle of his career and has great ambitions for the economic and...- $28.99
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Vendor: Bradley Tyler Johnson
A Memoir of the Life and Public Service of Joseph E. Johnston: once the quartermaster general of the army of the United States, and a general in the a
A Memoir of the Life and Public Service of Joseph E. Johnston - once the quartermaster general of the army of the United States, and a general in the army of the Confederate States of America - Vol. 1 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint...- $65.90
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Vendor: Sara Jeannette Duncan
The Imperialist
The Imperialist by Sara Jeannette Duncan is a satirical novel that explores the impact of imperialism in Canada. Implying that even the most mundane of clerks could become 'imperialist', the book offers a hilarious insight into the attitudes of the British Empire towards the...- $27.95
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Vendor: Anonymous
Portrait and biographical album: Of Isabella county, Mich., containing portraits and biographical sketches of citizens also containing a complete hist
Portrait and biographical album - Of Isabella county, Mich., containing portraits and biographical sketches of citizens also containing a complete history of the county, from its earliest settlement to the present time is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1884. Hansebooks...- $52.90
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Vendor: C. Northcote Parkinson
The Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower: A Biography of C. S. Forester's Famous Naval Hero
Many know of Horatio Hornblower's exploits during the Napoleonic Wars through the novels of C. S. Forester, but how many know the true Hornblower--the man who rose from midshipman to admiral of the British Fleet? Using Hornblower family papers discovered in the 1970s, C....- $24.95
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Vendor: Billy Lawrence
Highway Zero
Jack has moved on from his troubles in the old town, but now he stands at a crossroads with an uncertain vision of the future and an urge to leave behind everything he's ever known. Highway Zero is a road trip novel through the...- $15.95
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Vendor: Eliza Meteyard
The Life of Josiah Wedgwood: from his private correspondence and family papers in the possession of Joseph Mayer, F. Wedgwood, C. Darwin, Miss Wedg
The Life of Josiah Wedgwood - from his private correspondence and family papers in the possession of Joseph Mayer, F. Wedgwood, C. Darwin, Miss Wedgwood and other Original Sources, in Two Volumes - Vol. 1 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition...- $51.90
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Vendor: Richard S. Ward
Against the Flow: A Canuck in Vietnam
The infamous Arizona Territory was a place to be avoided like the plague. Like Go Noi Island, it was a free-fire zone that had seen lots of action. Yet right now, everything was deadly quiet. The usually melodic birds were muted. Not a breath...- $24.99
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Vendor: Carmen Laforet
Nada: Una Novela
Mientras vive con estrecheces en una casa misteriosa de la calle de Aribau, la joven Andrea conoce a un grupo de estudiantes ricos, que representan un contrapunto atractivo para la miseria de su vida cotidiana. Con sus nuevas experiencias, la inocente Andrea va averiguando...- $18.00
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Vendor: Gioia Diliberto
Coco at the Ritz
A riveting and prismatic novel of the eternally enigmatic Coco Chanel in the aftermath of World War II.Though her name is synonymous with elegance and chic, the iconic Coco Chanel had a complicated dark side, and in late August 1944, as World War II...- $39.00
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Vendor: Edmund Burke
The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke: Third Edition. Vol. IX
The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke - Third Edition. Vol. IX is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1869. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and...- $49.90
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Vendor: Fordon James
The Sound Post
New Orleans in the early 1990's, the country in a low grade recession, of a hot summer night, with a few dollars in his duffel and a second hand violin latched up in a blistered case, an "unlikely" James Buck steps off the bus...- $24.99
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Vendor: Colombe Schneck
Swimming in Paris: A Life in Three Stories
From the award-winning and bestselling French author Colombe Schneck, a woman's personal journey through abortion, sex, friendship, love, and swimming At fifty years old, while taking swimming lessons, I finally realized that my body was not actually as incompetent as I'd thought. My physical...- $27.00
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Vendor: Charlotte Bronte
Villette
A reworking of "The Professor", the author's first novel, "Villette" is Charlotte Bronte's fourth and last novel which is loosely based upon her own experiences at a boarding school in Brussels. The work follows the life of Lucy Snowe, a quiet yet self-reliant young...- $16.99
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Vendor: Richard Bowes
Dust Devil on a Quiet Street
Dust Devil on a Quiet Street chronicles the remarkable life of Boston-born, New York City-reared author Richard Bowes. Bowes's childhood and adolescent brushes with dramatic spirits and hustlers, large and small, paved the way for his adult encounters with the remarkable, the numinous, the...- $18.00
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Vendor: Diane Richards
Ella
In the vein of The Paris Wife and The Personal Librarian comes this debut novel, a magnificent work of "biographical fiction" that reimagines the turbulent and triumphant early years of Ella Fitzgerald, arguably the greatest singer of the twentieth century.When fifteen-year-old Ella Fitzgerald's mother...- $28.00
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Vendor: Belén López Peiró
Why Did You Come Back Every Summer
A fractured account of family abuse, secrets, and the cost of pursuing the truth.In the most private spaces, the most intimate betrayals occur. Belén López Peiró places us squarely in the tenderest of times--young teenagehood, in a home about to be ruptured by sexual...- $16.95
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Vendor: Julie Fearn
The Suitcase of Secrets
Northern England 1946, Roman Kozynski, a Polish refugee determined to build a new life after WW2, arrives in West Yorkshire. Torn from his homeland, Roman continues his search for his family, whom he last saw in 1940s Warsaw. But Roman is hiding something. And...- $12.99
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Vendor: Peter Long
Identity
It's 1850 and New South Wales, Australia is awash with gold. Bushrangers are in the press, their names on everyone's lips: Ben Hall, Frank Gardiner, John Peisley, Dan Morgan, Captain Thunderbolt. They roam free, uninhibited, spending big in the shanties. The girls love them,...- $19.99
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Vendor: James Southern
The Chronicles of Jay South: Two Tales of One Birth
Mr. Radcliff was flung halfway through his window, caught by the broken glass and dragged about fifty feet along the pavement under his truck with who knows how many tons of pressure grinding his upper torso and head like he had been in a...- $26.95
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Vendor: Larry L Powell
My Life, My Love, My Music
This book is a fictional Biography. For the most part, the main topics that bring this book together are LIFE, LOVE AND MUSIC in that order because first I had to be born. That is Life. I was born out of, or through Love....- $44.99
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Vendor: Heather G. Marshall
When the Ocean Flies
"This book brought me to tears and a greater understanding of my own possibilities." Terresa Cooper Haskew, author of Winston's Book of SoulsAn email from a stranger tells Alison Earley that her natural father, whom she has known for only six years, has died...- $17.99
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Vendor: Joanne Perella
Vanishing Act
Eighty-two-year-old Angie Martini is trapped.After a fall at home, she is confined to a dreary room in a shabby assisted living facility. With the help of an old friend, Angie sneaks out in the dead of night to claim her lost independence. Hopping on...- $30.00
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Vendor: Evelyn Waugh
Helena
Evelyn Waugh's personal favorite of his novels and "a superlatively well done book" (Chicago Tribune) set in the age of Emperor Constantine. Helena is the intelligent, horse-mad daughter of a British chieftain who is thrown into marriage with the man who will one day...- $29.99
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Vendor: Dawn Tripp
Jackie
In this mesmerizing novel about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, acclaimed author Dawn Tripp has crafted an intimate story of love and power, family and tragedy, loss and reinvention. "A brilliant, beautiful book [that] touches the soul."--Chris Bohjalian, New York Times bestselling author of The Princess...- $30.00
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Vendor: Frederick W. Penney
Goose 2: The Early Days
William Collins Jr. was a curious, fun-loving, adventurous boy who was willing to take on the world. This is his coming of age story as he learned the value of hard work and family first. Willie moved from the city to the country in...- $29.95
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Vendor: Es Laurence
Nan Britton: The Most Hated Woman in America
Nan Britton, a young single mother, smiled softly as she went to bed on the evening of August 2, 1923. Her married lover and the father of her child would soon be returning from a business trip. She'd see him soon. With his generous...- $24.99
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Vendor: Marc L. Carrier
Homing
Robert's father is in the late stages of dementia, in need of near-constant care. When his girlfriend's caregiver fatigue gets the better of her, she leaves him all alone in the world-except for his son. But while he's living in a trailer in Florida,...- $18.99
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Vendor: James E. Seaver
A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison
A NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF MRS. MARY JEMISON, Who was taken by the Indians, in the year 1755, when only about twelve years of age, and has continued to reside amongst them to the present time. CONTAINING An Account of the Murder of...- $16.95
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Ali Muhami and the Forty IEDs
Ali Muhami, the American attorney, the trusted infidel, invited to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to manage the security of the oil pipeline and the industrial city, was bestowed with the highest government security clearances for which he was blackmailed by Colonel Abdullah leading...- $23.99
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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.