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Vendor: Alex Stein
Variations in the Key of K
A book of provocative ideas, about art and artists, Variations In The Key of K is an artfully constructed collection of stories. Franz Kafka, Pablo Picasso, and William Blake are among the many artist lives reconceived here. A book of cautionary histories, on one...- $16.00
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Vendor: Kathleen Ambro
Wealth, Sorrow, Redemption: The Adventurous Life of a Countess
WEALTH, SORROW, REDEMPTION is a biographical novel about a young girl born into wealth, married into royalty who soon finds her fairytale life spinning out of control. With the onset of the Roaring 20's in London, she is seduced by the thrill of fast...- $19.95
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Vendor: Kathleen Morris
The Lily of the West
Winner of the 2019 Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award The Lily of the West, winner of the 2019 Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award for Best First Western Novel is the story of Mary Katherine Haroney, known as the notorious "Big Nose Kate." In the American West...- $16.95
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Vendor: Brenda Murphy
Becoming Carlotta: A Biographical Novel
For the twenty years of her acting career, Carlotta Monterey was counted among the most beautiful women in America. Beginning life in 1888 as Hazel Tharsing, the daughter of a California fruit farmer, she grew up determined to matter in the world. At seventeen,...- $14.95
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Vendor: Larch Gallagher
Nest of Ashes
October 1537At a time of most supreme triumph, the moment of her greatest glory, security and power, a Queen of England lies dying. Through dreams of fever and fantasy, Jane Seymour, third and most beloved wife of King Henry VIII remembers her childhood, the...- $15.99
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Vendor: Roy R. Luna
Lord of Reason
"Fiction demands verisimilitude; reality forces no such exigencies." So states the author of this curious amalgam of history and imagination that asks you to believe that a nineteen-year-old peasant from Savoy can travel to Paris in 1778 and become not just the boy toy...- $19.99
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Vendor: Suzy Henderson
The Beauty Shop: A WWII Novel
England, 1942. After three years of WWII, Britain is showing the scars. But in this darkest of days, three lives intertwine, changing their destinies and those of many more. Dr Archibald McIndoe, a New Zealand plastic surgeon with unorthodox methods, is on a mission...- $15.99
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Vendor: Betty Baruch
This Is My Beloved: The story of Emilia Baeyertz, Jewish Christian Lady Evangelist
Jewish Christian Lady Evangelist. Combinations of these words can cause a fuss. A little over a century ago, even more so. Back then, crowds of thousands of women and men, of all classes, in cities, towns and villages across Australia, New Zealand, North America...- $19.00
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Vendor: Father Puis a. Spiritus Sancto
The Life of St. Paul of the cross: Founder of the congregation of discalced clerks of the Holy Cross and passion of Our Lord
The Life of St. Paul of the cross: - Founder of the congregation of discalced clerks of the Holy Cross and passion of Our Lord is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1886. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different...- $45.90
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Vendor: Jan Sikes
The Convict and the Rose
In the sequel to Flowers and Stone, Luke and Darlina find their love severely tested as they struggle to overcome enormous odds. When Texas veteran musician, Luke Stone, finds himself behind bars with a seventy-five year sentence, he is filled with hate, anger and...- $14.95
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Vendor: Autumn Bardot
Dragon Lady
"a sweeping historical epic that was hard to put down" "this remarkable tale of trial, growth, loss, and triumph is one that will live in the heart and mind long after its final page" "intense and utterly gripping" Prostitution required the violation of my...- $15.99
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Vendor: John S. C. Abbott
The life of Christopher Columbus
The life of Christopher Columbus is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1875. 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...- $37.50
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Vendor: Graham Parker
Carp Fishing on Valium
Garden gnomes mysteriously vanish from suburban lawns... a momentous force enters a 13-year-old boy from the third rail of a train line and gives him powers that he uses to harass a local fishwife... Mick Jagger is killed when a bus runs over him...- $18.95
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Vendor: Ion Idriess
The Yellow Joss: Introduced by Tony Grey
With authenticity that sometimes surprises the reader, Idriess introduces us to Aboriginals from Northern Australia, Papuan head-hunters, and Islanders around the Great Barrier Reef, all still in the colonial phase of European contact. Chinese gold diggers appear too, well before the rise of China....- $16.99
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Vendor: Thomas E. Kennedy
Getting Lucky: New and Selected Stories, 1982-2012
-Kennedy's...characters are full, alive, and each story is rich and deep. He writes with wisdom, and it is perhaps this wisdom that turns some of his stories of great sorrow into something triumphant.- - Andre Dubus -Thomas E. Kennedy's . . . stories pulse...- $15.95
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Vendor: John-Michael Lander
Cracked Surface
Cracked Surface is the sequel to Surface Tension and continues exploring my personal struggle with the desire to lead a "normal" life through the eyes of David Mathew. In Surface Tension, David is sixteen years old, represents the USA, and wins the gold medal...- $24.95
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Vendor: Jan Taki
Kembali - Return of the Mystic
This is the story of a young boy born to a wealthy family in Singapore, who remembers that he had a previous life as a Japanese Officer killed by Burmese villagers with his own sword during the Second World War. Inducted to mysticism by...- $13.00
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Vendor: Alfred Kleinschwaerzer
At the Service of Mankind: A small insight or overview into the life of Alfred Kleinschw舐zer
The author of this short biography is Alfred Kleinschw rzer. Born in Rosenheim in 1960, grown up in a social hotspot, he created and achieved a lot in his life. In 1978 he left the business school and in 1979 he went to the...- $24.95
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Vendor: Sandra Williams
Moss on Stone: an historical novella
Moss on Stone was inspired by the diary of the young Susannah Norwood Torrey (1826-1908), told from her perspective in an afterlife. She speaks to us who live in a very different time, but not so different in experience. All times are times of...- $14.99
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Vendor: Win Blevins
Charbonneau: Man of Two Dreams
"Beautiful. Blevins brings it all alive." - The Los Angeles Times This is the enthralling story of an authentic adventurer, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau. He lived his dream in clashing cultures-that of Native American vitality and that of high European society. He mastered both worlds,...- $13.95
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Vendor: R. S. Danker
To Conquer a Mountain
The author was born in N.Y.C, He lived and was educated in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania at private schools, including military academies and Columbia University. Before the age of 10, he had traveled throughout most of Europe with his father and grandfather....- $19.95
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Vendor: Jillian Cantor
Half Life
The USA Today bestselling author of In Another Time reimagines the pioneering, passionate life of Marie Curie using a parallel structure to create two alternative timelines, one that mirrors her real life, one that explores the consequences for Marie and for science if she'd...- $27.99
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Vendor: Andrew Dunkley
All I See Is Mud
Try for a moment to imagine what it must have been like to face the horrors of the trenches during WWI, the mud, the blood, the rats, the lice and the constant fear of death. Now try to imagine being there at the age...- $17.99
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Vendor: Anthony Delano
Dateline: Rome
American wire service correspondent SHELBY STONE is posted to mid-20th century Rome, the Dolce Vita era. Intrigue and scandal surge between Cinecitt and the Vatican, the Deep South of Calabria and the glittering Via Veneto. He is taken in hand by an oversized and...- $14.99
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Vendor: Jane Stevenson
The Winter Queen
An immensely moving account of a strange and magical interracial love affair, The Winter Queen illuminates the Netherlands of the seventeenth century. Amid the dark ambiance of the time, the exiled Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia and Pelagius, a West African prince and former slave,...- $17.99
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Vendor: Sunshinegoldenchild
Watering your Crown: A story about breaking and rising up stronger again, one about self-reflection and growth
Sunshinegoldenchild examines the alchemy between brain, heart and soul by sharing her journey from depression to the desire of honest self-love. She seeks to highlight the nuances of growing up as a young woman of color in a predominantly white society while putting our...- $25.99
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Vendor: Jean Plaidy
Katharine of Aragon
For the first time in paperback--all three of Jean Plaidy's Katharine of Aragon novels in one volume. Legendary historical novelist Jean Plaidy begins her tales of Henry VIII's queens with the story of his first wife, the Spanish princess Katharine of Aragon. As a...- $20.00
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Vendor: Linda Metcalf
Julia: Mistress of Longwood
Go back in time to the 19th-century Deep South when America hurtled slowly to a fiery eruption. Learn how a privileged naive girl born into an aristocratic slave-holding family evolves into a woman of courage, determination, and resilience while overcoming unspeakable trials and prejudices....- $18.99
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Vendor: Eva-Lynn Jagoe
Take Her, She's Yours
We say, you belong to me, or I belong to you. But is it possible to be possessed by others? And can we ever possess ourselves? In this raw and intimate account, Eva-Lynn Jagoe merges memoir with critical theory as she recounts the unraveling...- $21.00
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Vendor: Toria Newman
The Chrysalis
Robbie feels as though life is passing her by without any way to change it. Being confined to a wheelchair due to Spastic Cerebral Palsy, and having a speech impediment as a result, she feels unworthy, and overlooked. A tragic accident occurs, and Robbie...- $24.99
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Vendor: Christoph Werner
Castle by the River: The Life and Death of Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Painter and Master Builder
Always the canvas recoils when he tries to apply the brush. How can hope be made apparent if he doesn't succeed in putting the white dove into the painting? Brentano's smile was so friendly when he, Schinkel, had made a sketch in his notebook...- $10.99
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Vendor: Elizabeth Loupas
The Red Lily Crown: A Novel of Medici Florence
Elizabeth Loupas returns with her most ambitious historical novel yet, a story of intrigue, passion, and murder in the Medici Court... April, 1574, Florence, Italy. Grand Duke Cosimo de' Medici lies dying. The city is paralyzed with dread, for the next man to wear...- $22.00
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Vendor: Design Betibup
No More Time to Dance
July 1540After eight months as a maid of court, Catherine Howard has become Queen. Separated from past friends and surrounded by people who resent her rise to the throne, the sole close companion she has left is Jane Boleyn, the infamous Lady Rochford. And...- $18.99
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Vendor: Hans Keilson
Life Goes On
Published when the author was just twenty-three, Life Goes On was Hans Keilson's literary debut, an extraordinary autobiographical novel that paints a dark yet illuminating portrait of Germany between the world wars. It is the story of Herr Seldersen--a Jewish store owner modeled on...- $18.00
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Vendor: Jae Hodges
The Rose and the Whip
Lidia Wardell walked naked through the Newbury meeting house. She was prosecuted, and publicly whipped for this crime.This event is common historical knowledge. The Rose and the Whip is set in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in May 1663, but tells the entire story of...- $16.99
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Vendor: Elena Mauli Shapiro
13, Rue Th駻鑚e
American academic Trevor Stratton discovers a box full of artifacts from World War I as he settles into his new office in Paris. The pictures, letters, and objects in the box relate to the life of Louise Brunet, a feisty, charming Frenchwoman who lived...- $21.99
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Vendor: Randy Stephenson
The Last Wagon Ride
In this moving and historically accurate tale, author Randy Stephenson weaves the story of his grandfather Albert Stephenson's life and those of his family. Spanning the late nineteenth century and into the twentieth, through World War I and finally the great flu pandemic of...- $14.99
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Vendor: Ginger L. Pedersen
The Blessed Isle: and its Happy Families
Byrd Spilman Dewey, Florida's Pioneer author, captured the adventures of the Blessed Isle cat and dog families in her whimsical 1907 book The Blessed Isle and its Happy Families. The many memorable cats and dogs at Ben Trovato, the Dewey's lakeside estate in West...- $9.95
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Vendor: Jean Plaidy
Loyal in Love: Henrietta Maria, Wife of Charles I
The daughter of Henry IV of France, Princess Henrietta Maria, becomes a pawn in a political strategy to stabilize relations between two countries when her father marries her to Charles I of England. Sent abroad, she finds herself living in a Protestant country that...- $19.00
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Vendor: Jackie Wang
Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun: An Almanac of Extreme Girlhood
The early writings of renowned poet and critical theorist Jackie Wang, drawn from her early zines, indie-lit crit, and prolific early 2000s blog. Compiled as a field guide, travelogue, essay collection, and weather report, Alien Daughters Walk into the Sun traces Jackie Wang's trajectory...- $17.95
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Vendor: Katayoun Zarrinkoub
The Pot of Jasmine
At 17 Anahita leaves her war-torn country to take refuge in Canada, where she can feel, taste, touch, and smell freedom with every fibre of her being. Throughout many years of working hard trying to achieve her dream of becoming a prominent physicist, she...- $14.99
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The Art of Getting Wrecked
The Art of Getting Wrecked is the true story about what led the author to build a yacht in his garden, sail off to circumnavigate the world, and hopefully, somewhere along the route, find his roots, dreams, and Shangri La. His dream of a...- $32.50
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The Whale's Tale: Call Me Moby Dick
Herman Melville's version of Captain Ahab's great chase after Moby Dick is considered the "great American novel." However very few living Americans have read it. It is considered too difficult or too tedious to get through. Herein is Moby Dick's version of that chase....- $26.99
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Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present TIme
In Ruth Hall, one of the bestselling novels of the 1850s, Fanny Fern drew heavily on her own experiences: the death of her first child and her beloved husband, a bitter estrangement from her family, and her struggle to make a living as a...- $22.00
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Mailman Tales
This is a collection of stories from my long career as a mailman. From the big city streets of Chicago, I transferred to the small, river town city of Kachuda, Wisconsin. It was there I wanted to make my life, raise my family, and...- $11.99
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Vendor: Joseph-A de Chabrier de Peloubet
Family Records of Joseph Alexander de Chabrier de Peloubet: The first of the name in the United States with the funeral address of his eldest son L. M
Family Records of Joseph Alexander de Chabrier de Peloubet - The first of the name in the United States with the funeral address of his eldest son L. M. F. Chabrier Peloubet who died Nov. 28, 1885 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the...- $17.90
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John Robinson, Pastor of the Pilgrim Fathers
John Robinson, Pastor of the Pilgrim Fathers is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1897. 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...- $16.90
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Sister B
The history of Mississippi prompts a young African American mother to leave that state and seek a better life out west. In 1939, while traveling by train from California to Oregon, she encounters a Japanese photographer whose photos are used to plan the destruction...- $22.99
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Life and Correspondence of the Right Reverend Samuel Seabury, D.D.: First Bishop of Connecticut, and of the Episcopal Church in the United States
Life and Correspondence of the Right Reverend Samuel Seabury, D.D. - First Bishop of Connecticut, and of the Episcopal Church in the United States is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1881. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic...- $49.90
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My Name Is Ona Judge: An absolutely gripping historical novel
New Hampshire, 1796. "My name is Ona Judge, and I escaped from the household of the President of the United States. I was the favored maid of George and Martha Washington, but they deemed me a slave and thought me property, and I hear...- $10.99
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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.

