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Vendor: Dilip Desai
The Dark Side of White
Author: Dilip DesaiISBN-10: 1035814536ISBN-13: 9781035814534Publisher: Austin MacauleyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/13/2024Pages: 234Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.73lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.49d- $15.95
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Vendor: Elle Croxford
The Sentimental Blonde
Inspired by real people and based on true events, THE SENTIMENTAL BLONDE is an enduring love story between Lottie Lyell & Raymond Longford. Lottie is Australia's first movie star, writer, stunt woman, director, lover, rule breaker and trailblazer who was tested again and again;...- $21.99
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Vendor: W. Somerset Maugham
The Moon and Sixpence
The Moon and Sixpence is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham, first published on 15 April 1919. It is told in episodic form by a first-person narrator providing a series of glimpses into the mind and soul of the central character, Charles Strickland, a...- $31.99
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Vendor: Angela B. Chrysler
Broken
When journalist William seeks out Elizabeth - an acclaimed author - to write her biography, the recluse grants him twenty-four hours to hear her story.William is not ready for what unfolds. Toggling the lines of insanity, Elizabeth tells the story of her darkness-filled past....- $18.99
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Vendor: Marc Moskovitz
The Eyes of Bach
Author: Marc MoskovitzISBN-10: 1038320887ISBN-13: 9781038320889Publisher: FriesenPressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/26/2024Pages: 300Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.67d- $21.99
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Vendor: Marc Moskovitz
The Eyes of Bach
Author: Marc MoskovitzISBN-10: 1038320895ISBN-13: 9781038320896Publisher: FriesenPressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/26/2024Pages: 300Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.14lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.81d- $39.49
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Vendor: Robert Dugoni
Hold Strong
From Robert Dugoni, Jeff Langholz, and Chris Crabtree comes an epic and inspiring novel--based on true events--about love, heroism, and resilience during the darkest chapters of World War II.Sam Carlson is a projectionist in small-town Minnesota, where fantasies unspool in glorious black and white--for...- $28.99
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Vendor: T. D. Motley
The Art of Farming: Sketches of a Life in the Country
Sam Bartlett's formidable antagonist has four legs. Sol, a miniature donkey, schemes daily to outwit his kindly caretaker. This delightful rural drama regales a symbiosis of plants, humans, dogs and livestock, with wild creatures observing from secluded, weedy perimeters. Retired from teaching, artist Sam...- $24.95
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Vendor: T. D. Motley
The Art of Farming: Sketches of a Life in the Country
Sam Bartlett's formidable antagonist has four legs. Sol, a miniature donkey, schemes daily to outwit his kindly caretaker. This delightful rural drama regales a symbiosis of plants, humans, dogs and livestock, with wild creatures observing from secluded, weedy perimeters. Retired from teaching, artist Sam...- $39.95
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Vendor: Sotero Navarro
Get Out of My Mind
Get Out Of My Mind by Sotero Navarro is a compelling novel that explores the grim realities of child abuse in our society. Loosely based on true events, this story follows a boy Atticus, whose tumultuous childhood is only the beginning of a more...- $18.99
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Vendor: Tonio Rocciano
Innocent on Death Row: Arrested for wanting a cherry coke
Author: Tonio RoccianoISBN-13: 9798893761047Publisher: Leap Write LiteraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/17/2024Pages: 136Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.42lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.29d- $15.00
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Vendor: Britian Bell
The Creation of Music
Bart dreams of being an inventor, of building something that matters. When a famous composer asks him to make an instrument that doesn't exist, an opportunity exceeding his imagination presents itself, along with it, struggle and heartache of overwhelming proportions. When life throws its...- $12.99
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Vendor: Hazel Gaynor
Christmas with the Queen
'Tis the season! The Crown meets When Harry Met Sally in the latest heartwarming historical novel from Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb, bestselling authors of Last Christmas in Paris, Meet Me in Monaco, and Three Words for Goodbye.December 1952. While the young Queen Elizabeth...- $49.99
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Vendor: Hazel Gaynor
Christmas with the Queen
'Tis the season! The Crown meets When Harry Met Sally in the latest heartwarming historical novel from Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb, bestselling authors of Last Christmas in Paris, Meet Me in Monaco, and Three Words for Goodbye.December 1952. While the young Queen Elizabeth...- $45.95
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Vendor: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Fanshawe
"Fanshawe" is an ancient fiction romance story book written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The story of this book falls to the romance fiction category, which means that it presents viewers with an information of the complicated nature of human relationships and the success of 1's...- $14.99
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Vendor: Theodor Kallifatides
Mothers and Sons: A Memoir
An aging writer's love letter to his elderly mother, this achingly beautiful work of autofiction traces their family's history in Greece and in exile. Theodor Kallifatides, an acclaimed Greek author exiled in Sweden for more than 4 decades at age 68, visits his 92-year-old...- $16.99
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Vendor: Melvyn New
Apphia Peach, George Lord Lyttelton, and 'The Correspondents': An Annotated Edition of a Forgotten Gem (1775)
This book is an annotated edition of The Correspondents (1775), a work, as the introduction argues, derived from A Sentimental Journey, and one of the best of the many later efforts to capture Sterne's unique blend of sensibility and sensuality.Author: Melvyn NewISBN-10: 1839991518ISBN-13: 9781839991516Publisher:...- $110.00
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Vendor: Arthur J. Butler
The Memoirs of Baron de Marbot: translated from the French, 2nd ed., in Two Volumes - Vol. 1
The Memoirs of Baron de Marbot - translated from the French, 2nd ed., in Two Volumes - Vol. 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...- $49.50
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Vendor: Maria De Andrade
While on a Cruise: A Short Story Collection About Life
While on a Cruise starts with the very moment when the author begins her journey as a writer and finishes with the completion of this as her sixth book. In between these moments are engaging and thought-provoking stories that examine how situations, environments, and...- $21.99
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Vendor: William Cobbett
Observations on the Emigration of Dr. Joseph Priestley
Observations on the Emigration of Dr. Joseph Priestley is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1795. 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....- $17.90
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Vendor: Jean Girard De Villethierry
The Life of St. John of God: Founder of the Order of Hospitallers
The Life of St. John of God - Founder of the Order of Hospitallers 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...- $36.90
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Vendor: Brian Sweany
Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
In the highly personal tradition of Jenny Offill and Elena Ferrante, Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride is loosely based on Sweany's tragicomic teenage life growing up in Indiana and his later years working in the New York publishing industry. Hunter S. Thompson biographer...- $20.00
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Vendor: Ruth Anne Whicher
Murder in the Fourth: A case of Mindslaughter
Murder in the Fourth is both a story of escape and exposure: escape from the clutches of a fear-driven ideology, and exposure of the secret mind-bending machinations employed by religious cults to keep members compliant, submissive and isolated from mainstream society. Depicting one family's...- $18.95
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Vendor: Kate Alcott
A Touch of Stardust
Julie Crawford left Fort Wayne, Indiana with dreams of being a Hollywood screenwriter. Unfortunately, her new life is off to a rocky start. Fired by the notoriously demanding director of Gone With the Wind, she's lucky to be rescued by Carole Lombard, whose scandalous...- $15.00
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Vendor: Rebecca Flynt
American Harlot
Author: Rebecca FlyntISBN-13: 9798218473211Publisher: Ashes to Roses PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/17/2024Pages: 390Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.09lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.87d- $14.99
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Vendor: Shelley Noble
The Colony Club
From New York Times bestselling author Shelley Noble comes a thrilling historical novel about the inception of the Colony Club, the first women's club of its kind, set against the dazzling backdrop of Gilded Age New York. When young Gilded Age society matron Daisy...- $45.95
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Vendor: Michael Jon Lundell
Brevity: A Meditation on Mortality
Author: Michael Jon LundellISBN-10: 1634101790ISBN-13: 9781634101790Publisher: Strategic Book PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/05/2024Pages: 500Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.60lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.11d- $26.00
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Vendor: Shelley Noble
The Colony Club
From New York Times bestselling author Shelley Noble comes a thrilling historical novel about the inception of the Colony Club, the first women's club of its kind, set against the dazzling backdrop of Gilded Age New York. When young Gilded Age society matron Daisy...- $49.99
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Vendor: Alix Rickloff
The Last Light Over Oslo
A gripping historical novel set in Norway and Sweden in 1940, based on true events, which follows one of the first female US Ministers, Daisy Harriman, and her niece as the two are unexpectedly caught up in the German invasion of Norway.Cleo Jaffray was...- $45.95
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Vendor: Jan Nemec
A History of Light
A unique blend of fiction and biography that explores the fascinating life of early-twentieth-century Czech photographer Frantisek Drtikol. Have you ever wondered what a story written by a beam of light would be like? The story would be ordinary, but the course of events...- $27.00
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Vendor: M. Abel Francois Villemain
Life of Gregory the Seventh: Volume I
Life of Gregory the Seventh - Volume I is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1874. 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....- $45.90
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Vendor: Sarah Orne Jewett
The Country Of The Pointed Firs
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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...- $30.99
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Vendor: Joseph Henry Shorthouse
Sir Percival: A story of the past and of the present
Sir Percival - A story of the past and of the present 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,...- $37.50
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Vendor: Debra Ann Pawlak
Soldier, Spy, Heroine: A Novel Based on a True Story of the Civil War
The Story of the Woman Who Fooled the Yankees and Rebels Alike. As a child, Sarah Emma Edmonds dreamed of faraway places and adventure, often picturing herself as a man. When her abusive father traded her hand in marriage for a few head of...- $24.99
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Vendor: Willa Cather
A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays
Willa Cather, in full Wilella Sibert Cather, (born December 7, 1873, near Winchester, Virginia, U.S.--died April 24, 1947, New York City, New York), American novelist noted for her portrayals of the settlers and frontier life on the American plains.... Cather's first novel, Alexander's Bridge...- $14.95
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Vendor: Assaf Eliyahu
Am I Dead Or Alive?
The question that most humans ask is, what happens when you die? Well, this book is a first-hand experience of surviving death. Waking up from a month-long coma. This book takes you on a trip of surviving death, and what happens along the way....- $34.99
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Vendor: Christine Angot
Incest
A daring novel that made Christine Angot one of the most controversial figures in contemporary France recounts the narrator's incestuous relationship with her father. Tess Lewis's forceful translation brings into English this audacious novel of taboo. The narrator is falling out from a torrential...- $16.00
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Vendor: Andrea Penna
Sea Wind
Giudo and Giuseppe are two brothers with a mutual passion for adventure and discovering the world, which will prise them far apart. Maria is a strong-willed and determined girl. Giancarlo has a great talent for drawing. Love, adventure and sickness against the backdrop of...- $23.99
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Vendor: Garret D. III Onderdonk
Lance's Follies
Synopsis: Lance is a "coming of age during the sexual revolution" story. He was uniquely different from the millions of other baby boomers. How often do the stars align right? The DNA lottery presented a gift that kept on giving. The nurses in the...- $17.99
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Vendor: Gypsy Angel
Angel of Words
No information about the author available this time.Author: Gypsy AngelISBN-10: 1796054585ISBN-13: 9781796054583Publisher: Xlibris UsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/24/2024Pages: 322Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.38lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d- $47.99
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Vendor: Rafael Tejada
Life and Its Times
In the depths of memory, two siblings find the courage to confront their pasts and the events that have shaped them. "Life and Its Times" is a poignant, vivid tale of love, loss, and redemption. Through their conversations, they relive key moments in their...- $19.99
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Vendor: Hugh Lupton
The Ballad of John Clare
'The first novel from, the renowned storyteller Hugh Lupton opens with a scene that could be straight out of Thomas Hardy... A helpless observer of the damage that enclosure is doing to his beloved landscape and the people who live there, a young man...- $13.99
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Vendor: Eric Lane
Dante Alighieri's Publishing Company
The entry in Dante Alighieri's diary for April 22nd 1980 reads: What do publishers do, who do not do their own repping, distribution, publicity and writing? I can't help wondering? For instance, if it is a bit quiet on the sales and distribution front,...- $13.99
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Vendor: Baljit Ghuman
Grandfather's Mulberry Tree
Deeply humane, a short yet powerful narration of history and imagination through the prism of one life story. Captivating and cathartic story follows an adolescent Sikh boy's journey through the turbulent Punjab of 1980's, and his unconscious attempt to heal from the personal trauma....- $18.53
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Vendor: William H. Shawcross
A Brief of a Lineage of the Very Ancient Family and Surname of Shallcross: or Shawcross, of that Manor, in the High Peak, Co. Derby
A Brief of a Lineage of the Very Ancient Family and Surname of Shallcross - or Shawcross, of that Manor, in the High Peak, Co. Derby is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on...- $16.50
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Vendor: Zane Grey
Betty Zane
Inspired by the life and adventures of his own great-great aunt, Betty Zane was Zane Grey's first novel and launched his career as a master writer of rousing frontier and Western adventures.Betty Zane is the story of the events culminating in the last battle...- $26.95
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Vendor: Juni Lee Park
Kim Jong Un: The Little Rocket Man
Who is Kim Jong-Un? Learn More About the Life of a Supreme Leader of North Korea!Read this Book to Understand Why is Kim Jong-Un Also Known as the Little Rocket Man!Would you like to learn more about the life of a supreme leader of...- $11.14
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Vendor: William Le Queux
The Minister of Evil: The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia
This novel is a fictional account of Rasputin's life based on facts - that is facts according to Le Queux. It is a well-written eye-witness account of a fascinating era in the Russian/Germanic history.Author: William Le QueuxISBN-10: 154273794XISBN-13: 9781542737944Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished:...- $12.20
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Vendor: Jeanne Mackin
The Beautiful American
Author: Jeanne MackinISBN-10: 0451465822ISBN-13: 9780451465825Publisher: Penguin Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/03/2014Pages: 384Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.00dReview Citation(s): Romantic Times 06/01/2014 pg. 40 - Excellent- $22.00
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Vendor: Alma H. Bond
Jackie O on the Couch: Inside the Mind and Life of Jackie Kennedy Onassis
"Jackie O: On the Couch is the story of Jackie Kennedy Onassis as she might have written it.This is not just another biography. For the first time, Jackie O: On the Couch highlights Jackie's life from her own perspective, as imagined by author Dr....- $21.99
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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.