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Emily's Tears
Emily's Tears tells the story of a family ripped apart by DHS and the corrupt actions of the State. Emily, the young adopted daughter, never knew her foster parents because her adoptive parents did not divulge any information about them as she grew up....- $9.99
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The Memoirs of an Empress
Empress sat in her thoughts for days wondering if she would ever escape the prison that she had created for herself. It was as though she could see the jail bars, smell the stench of loneliness, feel the hunger of lonely prison nights, and...- $12.95
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Letters That Never Came
Originally published in Spanish in 2000 and first appearing in English in 2004, The Letters that Never Came is an autobiographical novel in three parts that reflects Rosencof's life growing up in 1930s Uruguay as the son of Polish-Jewish immigrants and, later, his twelve-year...- $21.95
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The Middle Generation: A Novel of John Quincy Adams and the Monroe Doctrine
John Quincy Adams is the missing link in the classical era of American history which began with the Revolution and ended with Emancipation.Between these bookends lies the absorbing yet overshadowed epic of a new nation spearheading liberty's cause in a world skeptical of freedom...- $26.99
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Snowbound and Eclipse
Two stories of renowned American explorers in one low-priced edition, from master of the western novel Richard S. WheelerSnowbound American explorer John Fr mont embarks on a quest to find a railway route to the west along the 38th parallel. His fourth expedition, into...- $24.99
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Crazy
'One of the best novels I've read in years: obsessive, intimate and very funny' Blake Morrison, Author of Two Sisters'Stunning . . . it almost feels transgressive' Anthony Cummins, Daily Mail'One of the most startling novels I've read this year' Frances Wilson, TLS'This book...- $17.99
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Vendor: Alin Gruia
Capturing the Sunset
The French Foreign Legion is a mysterious organization that operates mostly in the shadows. Capturing the Sunset is the coming-of-age story of someone who entered this clandestine group as a boy, and emerged a man.Facing death taught this former legionnaire about life. He overcame...- $54.95
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Pfisters M?le: Ein Sommerferienheft: Der erste deutsche Umwelt-Roman: Ver舅derungen durch Industrielle Revolution
Wilhelm Raabe wurde zu Zeiten Goethes geboren, und starb in der Zeit von K nigin Victoria. Er erlebte einige Ver nderungen seiner Umwelt, vor allem im Zusammenhang mit der Industrialisierung. Im Jahr 1884 dr ckte er seine Unzufriedenheit und Bedenken ber diese Ver nderungen...- $6.50
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Life and Times of Andrew Johnson, Seventeenth President of the United States: Written from a national stand-point. Vol. 1
Life and Times of Andrew Johnson, Seventeenth President of the United States - Written from a national stand-point. Vol. 1 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1866. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research...- $36.90
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Life and Times of Andrew Johnson, Seventeenth President of the United States: Written from a national stand-point. Vol. 2
Life and Times of Andrew Johnson, Seventeenth President of the United States - Written from a national stand-point. Vol. 2 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1866. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research...- $38.50
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Stephen: Unlikely Martyr
Don't let the 17-year-old Stephen where the story begins fool you. He is enthusiastic but immature as he tries to defend the only true God in a hostile world. Follow him through his frightened teens. Then walk with him in his twenties as he...- $22.00
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Luke: Slave & Physician
Luke is a part of the spoils of war after the famous Roman Battle of Baduhenna Wood of AD 28. With no sight of Luke's Nordic warrior father, Most Excellent Theophilus, knighted Roman tribune, takes Luke as his slave to be trained as his...- $22.00
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Vendor: Joyce Gibson Roach
The Land of Rain Shadow: Horned Toad, Texas
They came and scattered themselves about the plains and prairies of West Texas like seeds thrown into the constant winds. In clusters or in singles they dug in. Depending on rainfall, they flourished or failed. Maybe the journeyers arrived in the springtime of a...- $24.95
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Vendor: Peter Theoharis
Muslim Madonna
In a time when Turkey has nothing but animus for its Greek citizens, a Greek Christian boy falls in love with a Turkish Muslim girl. Their love is an affront to both cultures, yet somehow it carves its own path-a path fraught with peril...- $15.95
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Rawhide Jake: Learning the Ropes
Convict. Detective. Lawman. On the wild American frontier, no man's path is straight and narrow, and Jonas V. Brighton's is no exception. Like many Western lawmen-even those with names like Earp and Hickock-he hails from hardscrabble roots and does what he has to in...- $14.99
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Vendor: Elizabeth Chadwick
Templar Silks
From New York Times bestselling author of medieval fiction, Elizabeth Chadwick, comes a gripping and romantic novel about William Marshal and the Knights Templar.To save his soul, William Marshal, medieval England's greatest knight, begins a pilgrimage to the Holy Land with his brother--a perilous...- $16.99
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Dick Cheney Saves Paris
With insight, humor, and a bit of "I don't know what," Ryan Forsythe turns the modern political satire on its head in this alternative historical novel exploring why Dick Cheney has done the things he's done.We first meet a young Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney...- $12.99
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Blow Ins: From there to here...
This is the story of how the author fell in love with Ireland. In a nutshell, it's two peoples' journey to a new life. The first section of the book offers a day-by-day account of the first holiday the author had in the country;...- $9.99
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Vendor: Alin Gruia
Capturing the Sunset
The French Foreign Legion is a mysterious organization that operates mostly in the shadows. Capturing the Sunset is the coming-of-age story of someone who entered this clandestine group as a boy, and emerged a man.Facing death taught this former legionnaire about life. He overcame...- $36.95
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The Autobiography of Theobald Wolfe Tone: 1763-1798
The Autobiography of Theobald Wolfe Tone - 1763-1798 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...- $37.50
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Vendor: Constance Garnett
The Torrents Of Spring
The story opens with a middle-aged Dmitry Sanin rummaging through the papers in his study when he comes across a small cross set with garnets, which sends his thoughts back thirty years to 1840. In the summer of 1840, a twenty-two-year-old Sanin, arrives in...- $7.25
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Vendor: Herman Melville
Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures In the South Seas
Omoo is the second book by Herman Melville, first published in 1847 and a sequel to Typee. After leaving the island of Nuku Hiva, the main character embarks on a whaling ship that goes all the way from Tahiti, after which there is a...- $12.99
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Vendor: Erik Christian
The Drunk
From having a heart-attack at 32 and battling severe Alcoholism later in life, Erik Christian has truly embraced all of humanity's upsets and tribulations and tells his story with a disarming and unique voice. Christian reveals his life of alcoholism and the demoralizing descent...- $7.99
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Vendor: Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War
Young Fleming has the romantic notions of the hero he will be when he enters his first battle, but his illusions are soon destroyed and he turns and runs. Ironically, he receives his 'red badge' when a fellow soldier strikes his head with the...- $28.26
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Vendor: Stephen Shender
Once There Was Fire: A Novel of Old Hawaii
The Hawaiian people lived in an isolated Eden and fought over it for centuries. When pale strangers with 'pointed heads', strange 'skins', and magical weapons came from beyond the horizon on 'floating islands', the Hawaiians thought they were gods. One man understood these 'gods'...- $40.00
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Vendor: Diane McHutchison
Duffy: Quincy's Little Brother Takes on the World
Quincy's little brother Duffy has decided it is his turn to step into the spotlight and share his story. Duffy openly talks about his rough start in life, as he adjusted from the rough and uncaring world of puppy mills into a loving family...- $34.95
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Vendor: Chandrapala Rajapakse
Hello Johnny! One Cigarette?: Recollections of a Sri Lankan from the Silent Generation, of British Ceylon, the war, and of life at large
"'Buddhu Ammoo (an invocation of one's sainted mother) Is it an Air Raid by the Japs?' - father shouted in alarm. Before anybody could respond, we heard the Siren installed at the Police Station at Wellawatte erupt into action. The 'wha-wha' emitted by this...- $9.99
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Vendor: Radu Guiasu
The Faraway Mountains
A dark chapter in recent human history The first part of this novel follows the adventures of three young friends during a memorable last mountain climbing trip to a remote area of a country under the control of a ruthless authoritarian regime. During their...- $29.99
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Vendor: Scott Pitoniak
Invisible No More a Historical
Wilmeth Sidat-Singh is the greatest athlete you've never heard of--and so much more. A rocket-armed passer on the football field, an ankle-breaking playmaker on the basketball court, he was also a scholar, civil rights pioneer, patriot, and one other thing--forgotten.In this historical novel based...- $24.95
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The Spy and the Seamstress
"I regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."Captain Nathan Hale, America's first spy, uttered these immortal words while staring at a hangman's noose in a leafy New York City park in September 1776.When a patriot mob threatened to lynch...- $17.99
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Vendor: Francis Mallett
Here Is Not Our Home
Closely based on existing archive material, this short novel tells the true story of the life of Austrian artist Richard Gerstl, who took his own life in 1908 at the age of 25. Émigré Viennese art dealer Otto Kallir narrates his chance discovery of...- $18.95
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Vendor: Robert Matzen
Season of the Gods
A woman in wartime Hollywood and her dream of the perfect motion picture. Renie Lee has climbed the ladder in a man's world to be head of the Story Department at Warner Bros. Studios. Renie is an idealist who believes that "the perfect film"...- $18.00
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Vendor: Stefan Heym
Radek
A first-ever English translation which reveals the inner voice of a brilliant Bolshevik politician during the first global revolution Through this dramatic history by Stefan Heym, we become intimate with the story of the maverick and internationalist Karl Radek, known as the editor of...- $89.00
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Vendor: E. M. Forster
The Longest Journey
Edward Morgan Forster OM CH (1 January 1879 - 7 June 1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. Many of his novels examined class difference and hypocrisy, including A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage...- $29.95
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Vendor: Laura Du Pre
The Three Graces Trilogy: Stories from Renaissance France
Travel back to the court of the French Renaissance.. Almost a Queen: Book One of the Three Graces Trilogy Cousins to the King of Navarre, the Cleves sisters witness the glamour and danger of the French royal court firsthand. Youngest sister, Marie is trapped...- $23.99
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Vendor: Gretta Curran Browne
Tread Softly On My Dreams
WINNER OF READERS' FAVORITE GOLD MEDAL AWARDAN EPIC NOVEL FROM IRELAND'S PAST"We were taught nothing about Ireland or its history in school, and when I learned of our part in that struggle I felt shame. I think the whole world should know about young...- $16.99
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Vendor: James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Chiltern creates the most beautiful editions of the World's finest literature. Your favourite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before; the tactile layers, fine details and beautiful colours of these remarkable covers make these titles feel extra special and will...- $19.73
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The Dove Upon Her Branch: A Novel Portrait of Christina Rossetti
"How many children could say their home hosted the humblest and highest at the same time, on any given evening invaded by expatriates their father never hesitated to invite in? Through the back door he welcomed a bookseller, organ grinder, biscuit maker, macaroni man,...- $19.99
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Vendor: Nancy Moser
Just Jane: A Novel of Jane Austen's Life
In this moving and authentic portrayal, Christy Award-winning author Nancy Moser transports readers back to the life and times of one of the literary world's beloved heroines, Jane Austen. Growing up in a clergyman's home gives Jane opportunities to observe human nature at its...- $15.99
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Comedy of Errors
Life isn't always fair. Get over it!"Comedy of Errors" is the story of Stewart Little, a boy who grows up with some handicaps that might have led him to failure as an adult, but which actually propel him to a successful career as an...- $22.95
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The Path of the Eels
This multi-volume Balkan saga traces the author's family line from the fall of the Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the twentieth century to the collapse of Yugoslavia at the close of that century, crossing borders, identities, languages, religions, and genres. The novel explores...- $15.00
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My Name is Bryan
If your friends jumped off a cliff, would you jump too? Bryan chose to dive. Moments later, as he lay on the beach, unable to move his arms or legs, two questions ran through his mind: Would he walk again? And would he ever...- $15.99
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Britain's Glory: Charlotte: The People's Princess
Princess Charlotte was the daughter, and only child, of Princess Caroline of Brunswick and Prince George of Wales, eldest son of King George III. Destined to be Queen of Great Britain, her story-book life ended too soon, leading to a scramble for another, suitable,...- $9.95
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Amado Muro and Me: A Tale of Honesty and Deception
In Amado Muro and Me, ten-year-old Robert Seltzer discovers that his father, Chester, actually leads two lives--one as a newspaperman and father who somehow always knows what his son is thinking; the other as Amado Muro, a passionate and gifted writer whose pseudonym is...- $22.95
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Let's Hope for the Best
"In Let's Hope for the Best, the protagonist becomes a widow in a moment, a moment that I cannot get out of my head. I feel tremulous admiration for how a work of beauty can exist within a well of violent pain. We should...- $27.00
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Rawhide Jake: Westward Ho!
"Forced to confront his past, Jake sets out on a mission to cleanse the land of these outlaws. But just as he seeks solace in California's Central Valley, a tragic riding accident hurls him into the chaos of San Francisco. With a shattered leg,...- $26.99
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Tatae's Promise: Based on the true story of a young woman's escape from Auschwitz
This never-before-told true story of a young woman's escape from Auschwitz with her sister is a remarkable tale of unimaginable courage, family, faith and enduring love."...readers will admire Hinda's devotion to her family and her determination to resist her Nazi captors as they attempt...- $39.99
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Gentleman of the Road: A Hitchhiking Memoir of the 1970s
This is the story of a young couple who go on a hitchhiking odyssey across the country in the 1970s, hoping to find a new life for themselves. The protagonist is an artist and a self-styled "searcher" who uses the I Ching for interpreting...- $14.99
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The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War
The Red Badge of Courage follows events of the American Civil War, and life of a young private of the Union Army, Henry Fleming, who flees from the field of battle. Overcome with shame, he longs for a wound, a red badge of courage,...- $25.00
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My endometriosis Journey - From Hell to Healing
An E-book that opens up about the author's experience with endometriosis, how she moved from hell to healing after 2 decades of suffering. It's funny, witty and full of self-truth.This book describes the author's journey from age 12 when she began her period, to...- $7.00
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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.