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Vendor: Alyssa Palombo
Borgia Confessions
'Under Palombo's skillful hand, the entangled world of the Borgias comes vividly to life, exposing the dark facets of class structure and the all-consuming greed that comes with ambition--and love." - Heather Webb, internationally bestselling author of Last Christmas in Paris and Meet Me...- $20.99
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Vendor: John Torrey Morse
John Quincy Adams: American Statesmen. Eighth Edition
John Quincy Adams - American Statesmen. Eighth Edition is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1885. 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....- $40.50
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Vendor: Caroline Cauchi
Mrs Van Gogh
"As intricate and absorbing as a Van Gogh painting...MRS VAN GOGH will stay with me for a long time." New York Times bestseller Hazel Gaynor "All the characters jump off the page...what we have here is a very fine novel." Historical Novel Society She's...- $19.99
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Vendor: Mario Vargas Llosa
Dream of the Celt
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A painstakingly researched and lively novel about a neglected human rights pioneer by the Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa In 1916, the Irish nationalist Roger Casement was hanged by the British government for treason. Casement had dedicated...- $24.00
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Vendor: Lewis Campbell
The Life of James Clerk Maxwell: With a Selection from his Correspondence and Occasional Writings and a Sketch of his Contributions to Science
The Life of James Clerk Maxwell - With a Selection from his Correspondence and Occasional Writings and a Sketch of his Contributions to Science is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1882. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic...- $64.50
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Vendor: Vern Thibedeau
The Other Side of the Door
An inmate's fictional view of life inside a Federal maximum prison in Canada. Vern states that this is fiction, but as a retired Correctional Officer who, due to many incidents which included being a hostage a couple of times, once at the point of...- $20.99
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Vendor: Keith Kelly
What I Have Learned
What I Have Learned is a collection of insights learned in my life through personal experiences, the people I have met, my travels, joys, and despair.The twenty-nine reflections in this book each deal with a specific lesson learned and discussed, and I've written a...- $16.49
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Vendor: Wayne Kyle Spitzer
X-Ray Rider and 7 Other Dark Rites of Passage
Jonesing for a drive-in theater and a hotrod El Camino? It's the dawn of the 1970s and everything is changing. The war in Vietnam is winding down. So is the Apollo Space Program. The tiny northwestern city of Spokane is about to host a...- $18.99
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Vendor: Wienke Ursula Schulenburg
Born to die, died to live
A young person experiences abuse and violence in her own family and reaches her absolute limits, mentally as well as physically. It seems that this person was born to be destroyed piece by piece and to die... But the will to live and the...- $16.95
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Vendor: Romain Rolland
Michelangelo
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...- $32.95
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Vendor: Valerio Massimo Manfredi
The Sands of Ammon
Continuing the international bestselling saga of Alexander the Great, The Sands of Ammon brilliantly describes his quest to conquer Asia, the limitless domain ruled by the Great King of the Persians. In a seemingly impossible venture, the mighty Alexander and his men storm Persian...- $30.99
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Vendor: Denise Gard
Raven Woods: Smoke Signals
Iona and Audrey emit smoke signals when they need help, but sometimes it takes more than water to put them out.Iona thought she would sip mimosas while relaxing on a beach in retirement, but instead she suffers from loneliness as vacation brochures collect dust....- $16.95
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Vendor: S. G. a. Shippard
The Autobiography of the Late Sir Andries Stockenstrom: Volume I
The Autobiography of the Late Sir Andries Stockenstrom - Volume I is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1887. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine,...- $50.50
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Vendor: Ariel Dorfman
The Suicide Museum
A Best Book of 2023 by The New Yorker A billionaire Holocaust survivor hires a writer to uncover the truth of Salvador Allende's death, and they must confront their own dark histories to find a path forward--for themselves and for our ravaged planet. An...- $21.99
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Vendor: Fabia Claridge
Patchouli Memsahib: One Australian Woman's Journey
Escape into a rich world of family intrigue and self-discovery that reaches across three centuries and across cultures. This unique tale draws us gently into itself but it also stimulates discussion about other important issues that remain current.At a time when Australia had its...- $17.99
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Vendor: Sarah Miller
Marmee
From the author of Caroline, a revealing retelling of Louisa May Alcott's beloved Little Women, from the perspective of Margaret "Marmee" March, about the larger real-world challenges behind the cozy domestic concerns cherished by generations of readers."Dazzling... Marmee carries her own secrets and sharp...- $19.99
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Vendor: Neera Lahiry
Nipa
Nipa is the inspirational story of a self-reliant and determined female freedom fighter who actively helps fight the war of liberation for her country, Bangladesh - which in 1971 was East Pakistan - against the occupying forces of West Pakistan. Nipa, a medical student...- $17.25
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Vendor: Osborne W. Tancock
Marlowe: Edward the Second
Marlowe - Edward the Second 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...- $30.90
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Vendor: Wayne Luckmann
Sleeping through the Revolution
Times were not the best nor the worst during the late 1950s when Felix Fist set out for California to attend college and fulfill the dream he had always thought impossible, the only one in his extended family to even aspire toward that auspicious...- $19.99
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Vendor: Christel Weingart
Flaniganエs Hotel: From East Friesia to Newfoundland
In the year 1908 four families from East Frisia, which lies on the coast of northern Germany and close to the Dutch border, decide to emigrate to North America. They find a steam freighter in the harbour of Emden which takes them on board....- $20.90
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Vendor: Donna Stacy
Leonard Stacy A story of Bluegrass music
This book is written in conjunction with my father, Leonard Stacy, to celebrate his life and his friendships with so many legendary bluegrass entertainers. You will recognize some of the names, as they crossed over to country music, such as Ricky Skaggs and Keith...- $9.99
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Vendor: Anja Martens
Shumba: From a farm in Africa to the ballet stages of the world, all the way to northern Germany
It is said that everyone has a story to tell. But not every biography gets under your skin like the life of Shumba, who was born Alasdair on a farm of British immigrants in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. It is a happy childhood in the...- $20.90
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Vendor: Hans Holst Andersen
Along The Margins: South Dakota Immigrant Homesteaders
In this semi-autobiographical novel of the early twentieth century, Erik leaves his home and a bleak life in Denmark permanently. He also abandoned his failure as an artist, when he immigrated to America. He became a hard-working farmhand on a rural homestead in South...- $10.99
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Vendor: Sharon Elizabeth Lennartson
Stolen Culture, Traditions, and Heritage.: Good Thunder Woman - Wakiya Waste Win in Dakota.
Losing everything as to who I am. This book is about a journey into my own Indigenous heritage and exploration into everything that I, and so many others have lost as a community. The truth of how colonialism and Europeanization has impacted many nations...- $15.99
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Vendor: Alexander Gilchrist
The Life of William Blake: With selections from his poems and other writings - Volume II
The Life of William Blake - With selections from his poems and other writings - Volume II is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1880. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel...- $48.90
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Vendor: Laura Dowers
The Tudor Court: Books I-III. The Queen's Favourite, The Queen's Rebel, The Queen's Spymaster
Three novels in one omnibus edition!THE QUEEN'S FAVOURITERobert Dudley's charm and cunning enable him to navigate the treacherous waters of courtly intrigue and become the favoured courtier of Queen Elizabeth. But the bond they share becomes increasingly complicated as Robert's personal and political ambitions...- $28.99
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Vendor: Gerald Murnane
Inland
Inland is a work which gathers in emotional power as it moves across the grasslands of its narrator's imagination--from Szolnok County on the great plains of Hungary where a man writes in the library of his manor house, to the Institute of Prairie Studies...- $19.95
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Vendor: Richard D. Blackmore
Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor
Lorna Doone - A Romance of Exmoor 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 nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As...- $55.90
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Vendor: Abbe Rolnick
Tattle Tales: Essays and Stories Along the Way
This collection of short stories and essays is an exploration of whimsy and wisdom that take the reader from the basement of a young girl learning about the Holocaust via a repairman, to a literal and psychological deep dive in the Caribbean, to the...- $14.99
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Vendor: Ludwig Nohl
Beethoven: Depicted by his contemporaries
Beethoven - Depicted by his contemporaries is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1880. 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...- $41.90
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Vendor: John Seely Hart
Female Prose Writers of America
Female Prose Writers of America is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1864. 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...- $56.50
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Vendor: Marcy Heidish
A Woman Called Moses
The Astonishing Story of Harriet Tubman, the Mythic Heroine who led her people to freedom.Author: Marcy HeidishISBN-10: 0979240492ISBN-13: 9780979240492Publisher: Dolan & AssociatesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/11/2010Pages: 378Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.78d- $14.95
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Vendor: Kari Lee Hertzberg
The Whole Damn Carrousel: A journey of loves lost and LOVE found
Karina's Quest1967 was the beginning of Karina Mikelsen's young adult search for TRUE LOVE. She'd flirted with young love, maybe love and even possibly marrying love as she tasted and discarded men much in the same manner as one discards chocolates one does not...- $19.95
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Vendor: Elin Cullhed
Euphoria
A luminous portrayal of a brilliant mind who is at once at battle with herself and with the constraints that society has placed on her.A woman's life, erupting with brilliance and promise, is fissured by betrayal and the pressures of duty. What had once...- $18.00
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Vendor: Athena Morningstar Kelly
Warrendale
Warrendale is a portrait of life of Greasers and their girls in the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s in Detroit. Their lives were like American Graffiti on acid, they shared everything from cigarettes and booze to probation officers and women. But the one guy...- $9.99
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Vendor: Stephen G. Eoannou
Yesteryear
Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear, when from out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the great horse Silver! The Lone Ranger rides again! Who was the mind behind The Lone Ranger? It's 1930s Buffalo, and the Great...- $15.95
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Vendor: Charles Francis Horne
Great Men and Famous Women: A Series of pen and pencil sketches - Volume IV
Great Men and Famous Women - A Series of pen and pencil sketches - Volume IV is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1894. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and...- $32.50
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Vendor: Kristel Thornell
Night Street
Winner, Dobbie Literary Award, FAW Barbara Ramsden Award, Sydney Morning Herald's Young Novelist Award, and The Australian/Vogel Literary AwardNight Street is the passionate story of a young painter, Clarice Beckett, who defies society's strict conventions and indifferent art critics alike and leads an intense...- $19.95
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Vendor: Mike D. Muindi
Journey Through Grief: A Collection of Stories on grief, Love, Laughter, and Legacy
Welcome to "Journey Through Grief: A Collection of Stories on Love, Laughter, and Legacy." This book is a compilation of seven powerful stories that explore the many facets of grief and the ways in which it can shape our lives. Each story is unique...- $7.99
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Vendor: Gill James
Face to Face with the F?rer
K舩he wants to be a scientist. She sees herself as more than a housewife and a mother. And she is in her own eyes definitely not Jewish.Life in Nazi Germany sees it another way however. She has to give up a promising career and...- $15.00
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Vendor: Ben Peller
Living the Gimmick
From the time he was able to body slam a pillow, Michael dreamed of becoming a professional wrestler, vanquishing imaginary enemies and nagging self-doubt with every drop kick he landed. As his buddies hit the books, Michael got hit. When they left for college,...- $24.99
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Vendor: G. Lawrence
My Lady Spy
Autumn, 1536 The Boleyns have fallen, but one has survived. Jane Boleyn, Lady Rochford, has returned to court to serve in the chambers of her friend, the new Queen, Jane Seymour, but Lady Rochford has another master: Cromwell, the man who brought about the...- $18.99
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Vendor: Pierre Michon
Masters and Servants
One of Pierre Michon's most powerful works, this book imagines decisive moments in the lives of five artists of different times and places: Vincent van Gogh, Francisco Goya, Antoine Watteau, Claude Lorrain, and Lorentino, a little-remembered disciple of Piero della Francesca. Michon focuses on...- $33.00
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Vendor: Prof Jagdish Chandra Jha
Evelyn Waugh- the Novelist
English writer Evelyn Waugh was an expert satirist and an accomplished novelist; Evelyn Waugh was the second son of the late Arthur Waugh, publisher and literary critic, and brother Alec Waugh, the famous novelist. He was educated at Lancing and Hertford College, Oxford, where...- $23.99
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Vendor: Charles Francis Horne
Great Men and Famous Women: Volume III
Great Men and Famous Women - Volume III is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1894. 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....- $33.90
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Vendor: George a. Aitken
The Life of Richard Steele: Volume II
The Life of Richard Steele - Volume II is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1889. 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....- $49.50
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Vendor: George a. Aitken
The Life of Richard Steele: Volume I
The Life of Richard Steele - Volume I is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1889. 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....- $47.90
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Vendor: Vida Dutton Scudder
The Life of the Spirit in the Modern English Poets
The Life of the Spirit in the Modern English Poets 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...- $40.50
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Vendor: David H. Lawrence
Kangaroo Illustrated
Kangaroo is a 1923 novel by D. H. Lawrence. It is set in Australia.Kangaroo is an account of a visit to New South Wales by an English writer named Richard Lovat Somers and his German wife Harriet in the early 1920s. This appears to...- $25.99
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Vendor: Gina Sedman
The Indie Post Alena Analeigh February 05, 2023 Issue Vol 3
Interview With Alena Analeigh. The Indie Post Magazine is an exciting and inspirational entertainment magazine that features powerful interviews with well-established celebrities as well as independent entertainment professionals around the world all on one platform. No matter whether you are interested in reading about...- $15.99
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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.

