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Vendor: Marc McGaffigan
San Antonio Nights: Legends, Lore, and Life in the Seventies
Author: Marc McGaffiganISBN-10: 1637849508ISBN-13: 9781637849507Publisher: Hawes & JenkinsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/14/2025Pages: 200Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46d- $18.95
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Vendor: David Shires
Saving Cezanne: JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES Rescuing Great Art from the Chaos of War
John Maynard Keynes and the Degas Art CollectionIn March 1918, with World War 1 still raging, the man who would become the twentieth century's most famous economist crossed the English Channel with a Royal Navy destroyer escort and a silver airship watching overhead. His...- $10.59
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Vendor: Dawn Tripp
Jackie
In this mesmerizing novel about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, acclaimed author Dawn Tripp has crafted an intimate story of love and power, family and tragedy, loss and reinvention. "A brilliant, beautiful book [that] touches the soul."--Chris Bohjalian, New York Times bestselling author of The Princess...- $19.00
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Vendor: Kirsten Mickelwait
The Ashtrays are Full and the Glasses are Empty
Raised in New York's Gilded Age, pampered heiress Sara Wiborg dreams of a more creative life than the rigid future prescribed for her. It's only when she meets Gerald Murphy that she finds a man who shares her creative, aesthetic ideal and, after a...- $20.95
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Vendor: Peter Freeman
Shadows on the Moon
Tommy has experienced success and hardship in two distinct arenas-at the hockey rink and on the battlefield. After returning from Afghanistan, he faces a challenge he can't overcome without accepting help from others-something that we learn he hates to do. Eventually, Tommy chooses a...- $20.99
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Running from the Dreamland
Deepak comes to America immediately mesmerized by the immensity of its abundance. After leaving Nepal to earn a graduate degree in the U.S., his plan is to make his fortune in the land of opportunity. He quickly learns America is more than he bargained...- $11.99
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Cynthia Ann Parker: The Story of her Capture
Cynthia Ann Parker - The Story of her Capture is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1886. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other...- $17.50
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Not In Steerage
John James Conway, an orphan, boarded the R. M. S. Cedric in Queenstown, Ireland in 1907. Turning his back on the land of his birth, John travelled alone in steerage. He prayed that if he could be strong enough to survive the journey's wretched...- $19.99
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Louis XVIII and Post-Napoleonic France: From the Shadow of the Guillotine to the Rebirth of the French Monarchy
Exiled, overshadowed by revolutionary fervor, and navigating the volatile aftermath of Napoleon's empire, Louis XVIII's journey to reclaim the French throne is one of resilience, diplomacy, and transformation. This compelling narrative delves into the life of a monarch who rose above the chaos of...- $16.99
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Mrs. Aaron Burr: I'm Eliza To You
From the streets of Providence to the grandeur of a New York City mansion, Betsy Bowen - later known as Madame Eliza Jumel Burr, who believed George Washington was her father - lived a life marked with secret longing and bold ambition.Although her business...- $18.49
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Vendor: John Galt
Annals Of The Parish
This novel is a classic of Scottish literature, telling the story of a parish over the course of several decades. It is a vivid and detailed portrait of Scottish life and society, and is sure to captivate readers with its rich characterization and storytelling.This...- $32.95
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Absaroka War Chief
On the run from trouble in 1824 St. Louis, James Beckwourth joins an expedition out West. As a freed slave, he struggles for respect, but makes a name for himself as a fighter in engagements with hostile tribes. He is captured by the Crow,...- $23.49
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In Memoriam: John White Geary
In Memoriam - John White Geary is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1873. 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...- $16.50
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Before Eureka!: The Adventures of Young Archimedes
Before Eureka!The novel takes the young Archimedes of Syracuse (in Sicily) from the age of nine until he leaves for Alexandria. The many discoveries Archimedes makes in his adult life are prefigured by life-threatening adventures as a child and a teenager-laws of hydrostatics, levers,...- $16.20
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Vendor: Gail Milissa Grant
The Sable Cloak
In this atmospheric novel set in the Jim Crow South, a powerful Black family fights to protect their empire--for readers of Tayari Jones. Jordan Sable, a prosperous undertaker turned political boss, has controlled the Black vote in St. Louis for decades. Sara, his equally...- $30.00
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Vendor: Shana Abe
A Crown of Stars
A sumptuously vivid and poignant account of the Lusitania's fateful last days, drawn from the true story of an extraordinary young actress who survived the unthinkable--for fans of Marie Benedict, Louis Bayard, Fiona Davis, Kate Quinn, and HBO's The Gilded Age. In turn of...- $28.00
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Vendor: Kirsten Mickelwait
The Ashtrays are Full and the Glasses are Empty
Raised in New York's Gilded Age, pampered heiress Sara Wiborg dreams of a more creative life than the rigid future prescribed for her. It's only when she meets Gerald Murphy that she finds a man who shares her creative, aesthetic ideal and, after a...- $28.95
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Vendor: Colombe Schneck
Swimming in Paris: A Life in Three Stories
A Natalie Portman Book Club Pick "Sinewy, tough, sharp . . . Even though Schneck works at a scale that is deliberately small, insistently concrete, and extremely lean, her writing somehow exposes whole vistas of the female experience." --Katie Roiphe, The Atlantic From the...- $18.00
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Vendor: Gail Meath
Agustina de Arag?n
Her story is so much more than a tale of war, tremendous courage, and loss. It is one of the greatest love stories in history. Based upon a true Spanish heroine during the Napoleon War. Barcelona, Spain, 1803. Agustina Saragossa, the youngest daughter of...- $8.99
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Vendor: Yuri Herrera
Season of the Swamp
A major new novel set in nineteenth-century New Orleans by the author of Signs Preceding the End of the WorldNew Orleans, 1853. A young exile named Benito Ju?rez disembarks at a fetid port city at the edge of a swamp. Years later, he will...- $17.00
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Vendor: Richard Daub
The Greater Massapequas
49 short stories from the legendary hamlet of Massapequa on Long Island, New York... tales of 1980s suburbia, divorce, being the new kid, bicycles, shoplifting, local mafia figures, standup comedians, actors, classic rock concerts, dysfunctional families, friendship, loneliness, a sexy English teacher, the mall,...- $19.99
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Vendor: Charles Clement Walker
John Heminge and Henry Condell, Friends and Fellow-Actors of: Shakespeare, and what the World Owes to them
John Heminge and Henry Condell, Friends and Fellow-Actors of - Shakespeare, and what the World Owes to them is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science,...- $16.50
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Vendor: Edwin D. Mead
A Memorial of John Greenleaf Whittier from His Native city, Haverhill, Massachusetts
A Memorial of John Greenleaf Whittier from His Native city, Haverhill, Massachusetts 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,...- $20.90
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Vendor: Jean D'Ormesson
The Conversation: The Night Napoleon Changed the World
Several years after the French Revolution, in the winter of 1804, Napoleon Bonaparte has to make a crucial decision: to keep the main ideals of the new France alive or to elevate the country into a powerful base by making it an empire and...- $19.95
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Vendor: Martin Liss
The Boy who Died a fake Death.: Stieg Larsson's Successful Escape.
If Stieg larsson Didn't die? Why didn't Stieg Larsson just run away as is Anita Vanger did in his first Millennium book? What information did Stieg Larsson really have about important happenings in Sweden as the killing of the Prime minister 1986, Olof Palme?...- $9.99
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Vendor: Ian Dallas
The Ten Symphonies of Gorka Konig
Subtitled a 'Fictional Textbook', The Ten Symphonies of Gorka K nig is at first sight a fictitious musical biography interwoven among the historical events of the twentieth century, but as usual with Dallas there is more to it. He utilises the book's mesmerising structure...- $19.99
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Vendor: N. J. Mastro
Solitary Walker: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft
"A captivating work of historical fiction, intellectually stimulating and dramatically engrossing." -Kirkus ReviewsEngland, 1787. Mary Wollstonecraft is an avowed spinster. At 28, she moves to London to live independently as a writer. With her publication of A Vindication for the Rights of Woman a...- $22.95
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Vendor: Caroline Lea
Love, Sex, and Frankenstein
An evocative, haunting retelling of the summer that should have broken Mary Shelley, but instead inspired her to write her masterpiece. Villa Diodati, Lake Geneva, 1816: the dark summer that birthed a monster. Eighteen-year-old Mary Shelley has fled London with her lover, Percy Shelley,...- $27.95
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Vendor: Jack Flowers
Rat Six
"Perchance I suffer only mildly from claustrophobia but when I learned of the horrors and scarcely imaginable dangers of the tunnels of Ku Chi under the Iron Triangle of Vietnam all those years back, I was one big goosebump. Then I met and talked...- $22.95
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Vendor: Luke Jerod Kummer
The Blue Period
A riveting novel about the tragic romance that nearly destroyed a young Pablo Picasso--while granting him his first flight of creative genius.From rowdy Barcelona barrooms to the incandescent streets of turn-of-the-century Paris, Pablo Picasso experiences the sumptuous highs and seedy lows of bohemian life...- $14.95
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Vendor: Mark Pracht
The Mark Of Kane
"This robust new play reveals the writers and artists who launched an enduring icon of American popular culture, Batman." - Chicago On StageStep into the shadows of 1939, where a spark of creativity in a Bronx apartment ignites a legend that will change the...- $12.95
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The Storyteller's War: Geoffrey Chaucer, Reluctant Spy
"The Storyteller's War is a rousing good tale that will delight the most ardent Chaucer enthusiasts and novices alike." -Donna D. Conrad, bestselling author of The Magdalene ChroniclesMarch, 1366. Amid the chaos of a war-torn Spain, Geoffrey Chaucer-page to King Edward III and the...- $23.95
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Vendor: Diana Rubino
Mrs. Aaron Burr: I'm Eliza To You
From the streets of Providence to the grandeur of a New York City mansion, Betsy Bowen - later known as Madame Eliza Jumel Burr, who believed George Washington was her father - lived a life marked with secret longing and bold ambition.Although her business...- $26.99
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Vendor: Ruth Ann Ellinger
The Broken Spear: Reformation Rising
The fires of rebellion and freedom burn brightly in sixteenth-century Scotland. The Carmichael Clan-the men of The Broken Spear-lead an uprising against the Roman Catholic Church in a quest to reveal the truth of God's Word to all, thanks to William Tyndale's translation of...- $27.99
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ABOUT ANDRE et al.
One man, two centuries, in America's last continental frontier. Adapting to a new language during the early years of the family featured in this novel proved to be more difficult for adults than for their children who had the benefit of formal in-class schooling....- $24.95
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Vendor: James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The most extensively annotated edition available with almost 1,000 notes by Marc A. Mamigonian and John Turner This text is based on the Egoist Press second edition of 1918 James Joyce's first novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a...- $12.00
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Vendor: C. J. Hogarth
Childhood
On the 12th of August, 18- (just three days after my tenth birthday, when I had been given such wonderful presents), I was awakened at seven o'clock in the morning by Karl Ivanitch slapping the wall close to my head with a fly-flap made...- $6.89
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Vendor: Jerome Charyn
Maria La Divina
Author: Jerome CharynISBN-10: 1954276486ISBN-13: 9781954276482Publisher: Bellevue Literary PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/16/2025Pages: 336Format: Paperback- $17.99
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Spring Castle: A Novel by Michiko Ishimure
"A magnificent historical novel extolling the virtues and exposing the vices of human beings." --Sajed Kamal, author, artist, and sustainability educator The Untold Story of the Christian Rebellion That Changed Japanese History Spring Castle is the epic story of Japan's bloody Shimabara Rebellion, told...- $19.99
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Vendor: James Patterson
The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe: A True Crime Thriller
Her rise, her triumph, her tragic loss--only James Patterson can tell the full story of America's tragedy. In the early hours of Sunday, August 5, 1962, Marilyn Monroe's live-in housekeeper wakes with a sinking feeling. She knocks loudly at her employer's locked bedroom door,...- $30.00
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Vendor: Pamela Reitman
Charlotte Salomon Paints Her Life
Charlotte Salomon Paints Her LifeInspired by the life and work of Charlotte Salomon, this novel shows an artist intent on pursuing her art against all odds. As a young German-Jewish art student at The Berlin Art Academy during Hitler's rise to power in 1938,...- $22.00
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Vendor: Michelle Tea
Valencia
An anarchic and unflinching cult novel "charged with reflection, anger, and the feeling of being alive" (Village Voice), tracing a year of love and lust in San Francisco's lesbian underground, with a new foreword by Maggie Nelson Valencia is a fast-paced account of one...- $17.99
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The Rarest Fruit
Ga?lle B?lem's The Rarest Fruit is a captivating tale of resilience, discovery, and the untold stories behind a beloved flavor.Set in 19th-century La R?union, this novel follows Edmond Albius, a young Creole boy born into slavery, whose extraordinary talent for botany leads him to...- $24.00
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The Thirty Years War - Complete
The Thirty Years War - Complete by Friedrich Schiller offers an in-depth exploration of the political and religious divisions that led to one of the most destructive conflicts in European history. The narrative highlights the role of religion in shaping power dynamics, particularly the...- $21.99
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Sappho: The Tenth Muse of Passion and Mystery: Unveiling Her Life, Poetry, and Lasting Legacy
Step into the captivating world of Sappho, the legendary poetess of Lesbos, whose verses have inspired and mystified readers for over two millennia. In this comprehensive exploration, Jessica Decker peels back the layers of myth and history to reveal the woman behind the lyrical...- $16.99
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ADHD Warrior. The Journey Of A girl With ADHD
A story about Elizabeth, a young girl who faces challenges with her overactive imagination and intrusive thoughts. During the years of her youth and adolescence, she navigates life's obstacles and her self-made problems. Through relationship and social issues, to difficult study habits, she has...- $8.99
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Vendor: John Tottenham
Service
A darkly comic novel set on the lower slopes of the Los Angeles literary world. I stepped out to behold a crimson-streaked sky that would soon be adorning ten thousand Instagram posts, and walked down the sleepy residential streets, suffused with a soft and...- $17.95
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Dead Hedge
Dead Hedge is a satire. It is a fictitious novel, but based on a real case. It portrays the corruption and criminality prevalent in the global banking system today. It is the story of Cleopatra and how she and her shipping company were manipulated...- $10.99
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The Companion's Secret
Nell's new job sees her welcomed into a more prestigious social circle. But she comes to realise that not all friendships are what they seem...November 1882Scarred by the events of her last voyage, Nell is ready for a change, and being offered a role...- $17.99
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Ride The Wind, Choose The Fire: The Story Of Joan Of Arc
Come on a whirlwind ride across time and place with one of the most recognizable figures of Western history - Joan of Arc.We all know of her, but few know the details of her life. Travel back in time with The Maid, in a...- $23.99
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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.