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Vendor: Kelly Savage
Settlers by the Pond: From Common Stream to Commonwealth: an American family's journey from Puritans to Patriots
The discovery of a Native American war club in the foundation of the author's childhood home in Massachusetts led her to delve into its history and the people who forged it, resulting in "The Pond Dwellers."This sequel, "Settlers by the Pond," gives a historical...- $29.99
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How Do I Love Thee?: A Novel of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Poetic Romance
A shipwreck, an attic sanctum, an oppressive father, love letters, clandestine meetings, a secret marriage, an escape to Italy, the birth of a child, and happily ever after. So plays out the odd but mesmerizing life of poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning. How do I...- $15.99
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Vendor: Angela D. Thompson
Hands of Abuse - The Unforeseen Truth: How Domestic Violence Changed my Life
"A good fight does not require dying, while trying to live" Don't be a victim, right your wrongs, and be a reflection of the wrong decisions that you made in your life. Be a true hero to yourself; and add power and strength for...- $20.95
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Vendor: ノdouard Louis
Change
An autobiographical novel from ノdouard Louis, hailed as one of the most important voices of his generation--about social class, transformation, and the perils of leaving the past behind.One question took center stage in my life, it focused all of my thoughts and occupied every...- $27.00
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Vendor: Allison Pataki
Finding Margaret Fuller
A "sweeping" (Entertainment Weekly) novel of America's forgotten leading lady, the central figure of a movement that defined a nation--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post "Whether exploring Margaret's remarkable friendships or delving into her crucial legacy...- $30.00
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The Line of Splendor: A Novel of Nathanael Greene and the American Revolution
When the first shots of the American Revolutionary War were fired in Massachusetts on April 19, 1775, thirty-two-year-old Nathanael Greene, a self-educated Quaker with no military experience, dismayed his family and marched toward Boston as general of the Rhode Island provincial army. General George...- $18.95
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Vendor: Ray Franze
The Heights
"A MASTERFUL DIVE INTO MOB HISTORY." - Fox News ChicagoFALL IN LINE, OR FALL IN A GRAVEAfter 30 years of research and scouring 5,000 pages of FBI files, The Heights was born. Inspired by true events and racketeers who ruthlessly fought their way into...- $29.99
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Vendor: Festus Adu
Rising to Greatness
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Daani was born poor. He achieved greatness through determination, fortitude, resilience, early childhood ingenuity, and the abounding grace of God to see himself through the primary school in his remote...- $19.95
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Vendor: Nancy Moser
Mozart's Sister
Nannerl Mozart was just as talented as her little brother, Wolfgang, but because she was a woman...As children, Nannerl Mozart and her younger brother, Wolfgang, performed before the crowned heads of Europe. But behind the glamour lurked dark difficulties-the hardship of travel, agonizing bouts...- $16.99
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Vendor: Glenn Schiffman
Life in the Fast Lane: Truckin' on the 1970s Rock'n'Roll Road
The 1970s Rock'n'Roll Road is paved with myths and stories. Some of them are mine. In this fictional autobiography, events and names are often changed for privacy, but much of it is mostly true... From 1971-76, I crewed 1,100 shows with over-40 top rock...- $22.95
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Vendor: Colin Ruthven
Testing the Edge - Book Three
Testing the Edge - Book Three is the last of a three book memoir of the author's twenty year career in the Marine Corps as a fighter pilot. This book deals with a period of recovery from alcoholism and the final ten years of...- $14.99
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Vendor: Anonymous
The Amorous Intrigues and Adventures of Aaron Burr
The Amorous Intrigues and Adventures of Aaron Burr (1861) is an erotic biography of Aaron Burr. Published anonymously decades after Burr's death, the book incorporates some of the well-known facts and scandals of his political life--including his arrest for treason and murder of Alexander...- $10.99
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Vendor: Mudrooroo
Long Live Sandawara
On the periphery of the fast-moving city of Perth, Aboriginal teenagers eke out a living full of violence, sex, lawlessness and poverty. Every revolution needs a leader and there is no question in Alan's mind that he is that leader. For inspiration he goes...- $16.99
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Vendor: Marcel Proust
Die Welt der Guermantes: Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Zeit: Die Herzogin von Guermantes
Der Roman spielt im Frankreich des Fin de si cle in der gehobenen Gesellschaft. Ein Ich-Erz hler berichtet von seinem Leben und vom Vorgang des Erinnerns. Der Ich-Erz hler stammt aus einer Familie des Pariser B rgertums, die den Sommer blicherweise bei Verwandten auf...- $11.80
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Vendor: Dieter Steffen
Cockpit: Zero mistakes, not only in the Cockpit
In 1959, at the age of 24, the author travelled to places to become a flight engineer on board of the Lufthansa Super Constellations, a job the majority of Germans could only dream of. He flew to Rio de Janeiro, New York, to the...- $27.50
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Vendor: Lisa J. Yarde
Sultana: The Pomegranate Tree: A Novel of Moorish Spain
Book #5 of the Sultana series. In fifteenth-century Moorish Spain, Aisha, the descendant of the Sultans of Granada endures a life imperiled by dynastic warfare, loss, and cruel fate. Enemies descend on the kingdom from all sides and threaten to tear it apart. To...- $15.99
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Sultana: The Bride Price: A Novel of Moorish Spain
Book #4 of the Sultana series. In fourteenth-century Moorish Spain, a marriage of convenience for the sake of peace leads to disaster in the medieval kingdom of Granada. The young queen Jazirah, caught up in a dynastic struggle between warring brothers, fights for her...- $14.99
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Vendor: Akira Graphics
The Enormous Room: (Starbooks Classics Editions)
The Enormous Room (The Green-Eyed Stores) is a 1922 autobiographical novel by the poet and novelist E. E. Cummings about his temporary imprisonment in France during World War I. Cummings served as an ambulance driver during the war. In late August 1917 his friend...- $10.99
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Vendor: James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
An excellent introduction to the often-difficult work of James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man also introduces the reader to Joyce's literary alter-ego, Stephen Dedalus.Author: James JoyceISBN-10: 1495987450ISBN-13: 9781495987458Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/18/2014Pages: 114Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.36lbsSize: 9.00h x...- $6.99
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Vendor: David Hall
Broken from Within: Broken from Within
This story spans 314 pages depicting the life of a child encountering many ordeals which mold the character. The entire book includes various short stories which introduce this youngster to many life situations. There are 33 chapters encompassing this young man's tales.Author: David HallISBN-10:...- $15.00
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Vendor: Stanley Lane-Poole
The Life of the Right Honourable Stratford Canning: Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe - Vol. 1
The Life of the Right Honourable Stratford Canning - Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe - Vol. 1 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1888. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and...- $51.90
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The life of the Right Honourable Stratford Canning: Volume II
The life of the Right Honourable Stratford Canning - Volume II is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1888. 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: Patrick C. Notchtree
Maxym: I am a male, and males are not afraid.
He looks like an angel but kills like a devil...In war-ravaged Chechnya in 2000, six-year-old Maxym's life is shattered when his parents are brutally murdered by Islamic militants and his sister is subjected to a horrific assault. Orphaned, he is adopted by Russian militia...- $26.99
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Vendor: John Wilson
North with Franklin: The Lost Journals of James Fitzjames
"...a richly re-imagined fable which goes far beyond anything the historical record alone might suggest." Russell A. Potter, Arctic Book Review Perhaps, on a barren Arctic shore in the summer of 1849, knowing he was dying, a British Naval officer wrapped his journal in...- $14.95
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Vendor: Kimberly Olson Fakih
Little Miseries: This Is Not a Story about My Childhood. a Novel.
Set in Iowa and Minnesota in the 60s and 70s, Little Miseries is a Midwestern Gothic where sometimes the misery is just that--little--and sometimes it is epic and yawning, capable of swallowing every childhood memory. There are the miseries the Castles will talk about--old...- $18.00
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Vendor: Governia Jewell Rose
Forever Young: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Adventure
As Governia Jewell Rose read article after article and listened to news channels discussing the invisible enemy, she wondered what had happened to love, peace, and happiness. Was this the end of time as she once knew it? Was it too late for love?...- $13.99
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Vendor: Karen Beatty
Dodging Prayers and Bullets
A young girl prevails over poverty and religious bigotry to survive childhood abduction, a predatory theologian, family secrets, and the drug culture of the 1960s.In an Appalachian Mountain town during the early 1950s, guns and domestic abuse are as prevalent as prayer meetings and...- $16.99
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Vendor: F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned
Twenty-five-year-old Anthony Patch appears to have it all: a Harvard education, an apartment in New York City, memberships at all of the best clubs, and a generous trust fund to draw from. Sure, his grandfather is not happy with Anthony's lack of initiative and...- $12.99
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Vendor: Karen Richardson
Harvesting the American Dream: A Novel Based on the Life of Ernest Gallo
A toast to the man who changed how America drinks ...Enduring an unspeakable nightmare and a family secret that he guarded at all costs, Ernest Gallo overcame unimaginable odds to achieve the American dream.Ernest Gallo (the "E" of E & J Gallo) may have...- $15.99
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Vendor: Peter Dube
Subtle Bodies: A Fantasia on Voice, History and Rene Crevel
It is Paris, 1935, and the poet Rene Crevel (with whatever accent mark) has turned on the gas stove in his apartment. As death fills the rooms, Crevel dwells on past events that changed his life and ended the peace among the Surrealists. Years...- $13.00
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Vendor: Zane Grey
The Spirit of the Border
The Spirit of the Border: A Romance of the Early Settlers in the Ohio Valley By Zane, Grey,Author: Zane GreyISBN-10: 1546641408ISBN-13: 9781546641407Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/16/2017Pages: 138Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.43lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.30d- $7.49
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Vendor: William John Rostron
The Other Side of the Wind
In 1968 she went in search of America...America didn't want to be found.After personal disaster ends all her hopes and dreams in New York, Maria Romano sets out alone in search of a new life. Her quest for meaning takes her through numerous adventures...- $25.00
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Vendor: Kent B. Kearney
Eyes That Do Not See
This book is an absolute must-read if your Irish ancestors immigrated to America during the famine years! Even more so if they fought in the Civil War or were among the homestead settlers of the plains. Read the life story of Henry Kearney, an...- $15.99
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Vendor: Diana Stevan
Sunflowers Under Fire
In this family saga, love and loss are bound together by a country always at war.Finalist for the 2019 Whistler Independent Book Awards, and semi-finalist for the 2019 Kindle Book Awards.Lukia Mazurets, a Ukrainian farmwife, delivers her eighth child while her husband is serving...- $21.95
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Lilacs in the Dust Bowl
Author Diana Stevan's sequel to the award-winning Sunflowers Under Fire. Lukia's story continues in Lilacs in the Dust Bowl, an inspirational family saga about love and heartache during the Great Depression.In 1929, when Lukia Mazurets, a widow and a Ukrainian peasant farmer, immigrates to...- $22.98
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Vendor: Alison Weir
The Passionate Tudor: A Novel of Queen Mary I
The New York Times bestselling author of the Six Tudor Queens series explores the dramatic and poignant life of King Henry VIII's daughter--infamously known as Bloody Mary--who ruled England for five violent years. Born from young King Henry's first marriage, his elder daughter, Princess...- $30.00
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Vendor: Diana Stevan
Paper Roses on Stony Mountain
An Inspirational Family Saga, that started with the Award-Winning Sunflowers Under Fire. On Miramichi Readers' List of Best Fiction for 2022.Wars, typhus, drought and family losses could not stop Lukia Mazurec. Will her children's indifference finally break her spirit?With the Great Depression ending and...- $22.95
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Help! My Family Makes Me Sick: No time for assholes
"Not deviating a single meter, always being there for them throughout your whole life, spending every moment at their side." This was the life of Peter S. Fischer, as his mother and her sister had already made precise plans for him in his childhood....- $27.90
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Vendor: J. R. Tomlin
The Lion of Galloway
An uneasy truce. A threat of rebellion. A knight's loyalty is tested to the limit... Scotland and England have signed a truce, but a peaceful life is not to be as Archibald Douglas faces threats from nobles rebelling against King David. Meanwhile, the old...- $14.99
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Vendor: Paul Colt
Vaquero Padre
Eusebio Francisco Kino, missionary, mathematician, astronomer, navigator, cartographer, explorer, rancher, diplomat, instrument of God's work, and candidate for sainthood. Imagine a seventeenth-century man with these talents and abilities, born to a New World by near-death experience. You have the premise for an epic life...- $26.99
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The King of Kahel
Tierno Mon駭embo's The King of Kahel was originally published in France in 2008 and was the winner of the French literary prize, the prix Renaudot, which is awarded to the author of an outstanding original novel. Loosely based on the life of Olivier de...- $13.95
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Vendor: Karen Harper
American Duchess: A Novel of Consuelo Vanderbilt
Before there was Meghan Markle, there was Consuelo Vanderbilt, the original American Duchess. Perfect for readers of Jennifer Robson and lovers of Downton Abbey.Karen Harper tells the tale of Consuelo Vanderbilt, her "The Wedding of the Century" to the Duke of Marlborough, and her...- $15.99
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Vendor: Javier Mar?s
All Souls
From one of the most important voices in world literature--and the award-winning author of The Infatuations--a darkly comic campus novel and love story about that most British of institutions, Oxford University. - "Javier Mar?s is in my opinion one of the best contemporary writers."...- $21.00
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The Monster, Mayhem, & Magical Love
Larry and Allison rang in 2020 with high hopes for the year ahead. On the surface, they appeared to live a blissful version of his latest fairytale. Life seemed almost too good to be true.Then, Carla Kimbrel interviewed the author and sparked something deep...- $20.95
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Vendor: Elizabeth Bordley Gibson
Biographical Sketches of the Bordley Family: Of Maryland for their Descendants
Biographical Sketches of the Bordley Family - Of Maryland for their Descendants is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1865. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition,...- $22.90
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Vendor: Francesco Massaccesi
First Among Equals: A Novel Based on the Life of Cosimo de' Medici
Born into privilege at the end of the 1300s in an age of turmoil, Cosimo de' Medici, heir to the Medici banking fortune, grew up surrounded by poverty, corruption, and war. Reserved and soft-spoken yet charismatic and determined, Cosimo vowed to use his wealth...- $15.99
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There's a Giraffe in my Pool
Follow the amusing and often touching story of Ms. Molly's life, living on a game farm in Africa and surrounded by a menagerie of animals and people. Each chapter forms a story by itself, told in a simple narrative that matches the no-frills reality...- $7.99
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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.