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Author:Eliza Knight
The Queen's Faithful Companion: A Novel of Queen Elizabeth II and Her Beloved Corgi, Susan
From USA Today bestselling author Eliza Knight comes an endearing and vivid novel told from the unique multinarrative viewpoints of a young Queen Elizabeth; Hanna Penwyck, the fictionalized Keeper of the Queen's dogs; and Susan, the Queen's Corgi, whose love and loyalty were boundless.A...- $41.99
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Author:Eliza Knight
The Queen's Faithful Companion: A Novel of Queen Elizabeth II and Her Beloved Corgi, Susan
From USA Today bestselling author Eliza Knight comes an endearing and vivid novel told from the unique multinarrative viewpoints of a young Queen Elizabeth; Hanna Penwyck, the fictionalized Keeper of the Queen's dogs; and Susan, the Queen's Corgi, whose love and loyalty were boundless.A...- $46.99
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Author:Robert Graves
Wife to Mr. Milton
With impressive literary power, the acclaimed historical novelist and critic Robert Graves tells the story of the tragic and eventful life of Marie Powell, who, at the age of sixteen, was pushed into marrying the man who was England's greatest epic poet--and knew it--John...- $18.95
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Author:Randy Willis
Carolinas Wind: 2021 Revised and Expanded Edition
The son of a white man and a Cherokee, Joseph Willis must live as a slave on his own property. His struggle for freedom is complicated by a love forbidden by society and his newfound spiritual faith. With a faith molded by tragedy, Joseph...- $25.00
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Author:Anni Reed
The Scroll: Book One of The Word Unfurled Trilogy
John the Baptist and his mother, Elisabeth, are radicals. In The Scroll we witness their bold ideas loosening the hard-packed soil of futile traditions. While John challenges the lack of preparation for Messiah, his mother tackles women not being allowed reading the sacred Scrolls....- $15.99
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Author:Cornelia Eliza Hood Whipple
A genealogy of Richard Hood: who came from Lynn, in England, and settled at Lynn, in Massachusetts
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Author:J. C. Wright
Autobiography of Rev. A.B. Wright,: of the Holston conference, M.E. Church
Autobiography of Rev. A.B. Wright, - of the Holston conference, M.E. Church 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, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition,...- $44.50
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Author:L. Edward Toole
Memoirs of a Tyrant
The world around you crumbles to the ground. Your wife, child and now civilization has left you alone. So how do you start everything over again? You were smart enough to be able to survive and as you emerge into a sun-baked arena to...- $21.00
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Author:Randy Willis
Destiny
Destiny is a sweeping family saga that spans four centuries. It is the story of two great nations and Randy Willis's ancestor's struggle from tyranny-religious and political. A powerful epic with love stories, battles, testimonies, drama, politics, history, and even humor. Inspired by true...- $35.00
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Author:Peter Kreeft
An Ocean Full of Angels: The Autobiography of 'Isa Ben Adam
"On the connections between Jesus Christ, Muhammad, dead Vikings, sassy Black feminists, Dutch Calvinist seminarians, large mother substitues, armless nature mystics, Caribbean rubber dancers, three popes in one year, Cortez, Romeo and Juliet, the wandering Jew, the sea serpent, Our Lady of Guadalupe, the...- $37.50
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Author:Bruce Duffy
Disaster Was My God: A Novel of the Outlaw Life of Arthur Rimbaud
Arthur Rimbaud burst onto the literary scene in 1871 with a startling new voice, transforming himself from an anonymous country boy into the sensation of Paris. His explosive life included a passionate affair with the older (and married) poet Paul Verlaine, and a prosperous...- $21.00
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Author:Alison Weir
Katheryn Howard, the Scandalous Queen
Bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir tells the tragic story of Henry VIII's fifth wife, a nineteen-year-old beauty with a hidden past, in this fifth novel in the sweeping Six Tudor Queens series. "A vivid re-creation of a Tudor tragedy."--Kirkus Reviews In the...- $20.00
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Author:Alison Weir
Jane Seymour, the Haunted Queen
"A sumptuous historical novel anchored by its excellent depiction of Jane Seymour, Henry the VIII's third queen . . . This is a must for all fans of Tudor fiction and history."--Publishers Weekly Ever since she was a child, Jane has longed for a...- $20.00
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Author:Ezra Harker Shaw
The Aziola's Cry: A Novel of the Shelleys
Love, tragedy, and the pursuit of literary greatness intertwine in a tumultuous journey that defies societal norms and tests the resilience of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and Percy Bysshe Shelley.In the year 1814, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, a gifted teenager born into a family of literary...- $33.95
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Author:Ezra Harker Shaw
The Aziola's Cry: A Novel of the Shelleys
Love, tragedy, and the pursuit of literary greatness intertwine in a tumultuous journey that defies societal norms and tests the resilience of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and Percy Bysshe Shelley.In the year 1814, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, a gifted teenager born into a family of literary...- $19.95
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Author:Anna Godbersen
The Blonde
At the height of the Cold War, Marilyn Monroe was the most infamous woman in the world. But what if she was also a secret Soviet spy? In 1947, a young, unknown Norma Jeane Baker meets a mysterious man in Los Angeles who transforms...- $16.00
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Author:Andrea Landy
The Wrong Grief
Alice Buchner is an exceptionally smart girl and a brilliant student, but an introverted and awkward kid. At thirteen, Alice witnesses the brutal murder of her cherished older sister Marisa by a loved one. Alice is the only eyewitness to the murder, but the...- $38.95
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Author:Zülfü Livaneli
On the Back of the Tiger
A literary tour-de-force, this vivid account of an infamous Ottoman sultan's life in exile is also a powerful indictment of the hypocrisies of the West, from the internationally bestselling author of Disquiet. Abdülhamid II ruled the Ottoman Empire for thirty-three years, from 1876 to...- $17.99
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Author:Honoré de Balzac
The Lily in the Valley
A new translation of one of Balzac's finest novels, this tale of misguided passion centers on a young aristocrat who falls into a cloaked, coded entanglement with an older countess--a relationship that is upended when he becomes involved with a new lover. A story...- $17.95
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Author:Pearl Long Time Squirrel
Sacred Bird: Naatoyipi'kssi
Sacred Bird lives a fulfilled and happy life among the Blood Tribe as a mother of three, wife to a loving husband, and caretaker of her Elders. One spring day, as Sacred Bird works to complete her chores with her young daughter's help, the...- $31.99
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Author:David A. Jacinto
Out of the Darkness
Out of the Darkness is based on the true story of a nineteenth-century child coal miner rising out of the ashes of poverty and tragedy to change the world. It's the story of greed, love, sacrifice, faith, and the courage to push aside fear...- $31.95
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Author:Manju Kapur
Brothers
The story of Tapti Gaina is intimately linked with the lives of two men, her husband and his brother. Exploring caste, student politics, the freedom struggle and the Emergency, Brothers traces the history of the Gaina family, beginning with their village origins across the...- $15.95
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Author:R. C. Gupta
Life on the streets: My journey
A man's distrubed journey in life. Sometimes life takes its own course.we have to be prepared for the worst and the best. This is one of the story that explains how you have given pain and nature gives the strength to endure it. This...- $5.38
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Author:Abdiya Wesab
Mara Hatun: Large Print, Volume II
Mara Hatun enters the world scene a Serbian princess of Byzantine descent. War forces complex solutions that include the mysterious key which surfaces in the tents of Tamurlane. What will it unlock in Constantinople? Mara lived from 1416-1487. This carefully researched historical fiction deciphers...- $22.00
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Author:Abdiya Wesab
Mara Hatun: Large Print
Mara Hatun enters the world scene a Serbian princess of Byzantine descent. War forces complex solutions that include the mysterious key which surfaces in the tents of Tamurlane. What will it unlock in Constantinople? Mara lived from 1416-1487. This carefully researched historical fiction deciphers...- $18.00
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Author:John Gilmary Shea
The Life of Pope Pius IX.: And the Great Events in the History of the Church During his Pontificate
The Life of Pope Pius IX. - And the Great Events in the History of the Church During his Pontificate is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1877. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research...- $44.50
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Author:Richard Lewis Nettleship
Philosophical Lectures and Remains of Richard Lewis Nettleship: Vol. 1
Philosophical Lectures and Remains of Richard Lewis Nettleship - Vol. 1 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,...- $42.90
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Author:Robert Louis Stevenson
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes By Robert Louis StevensonAuthor: Robert Louis StevensonISBN-10: 1973706040ISBN-13: 9781973706045Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/24/2017Pages: 88Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.18d- $6.99
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Author:John McNally
After the Workshop: A Memoir by Jack Hercules Sheahan
Life is hard for a literary wunderkind after a decade of writer's block in this "ribald deconstruction . . . of an industry in love with its own absurdities" (Kirkus Reviews). You graduate from the Iowa Writers' Workshop with a short story published in...- $17.95
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Author:Eunice L. Sykes
Mashed Potatoes in My Salad: An Alzheimer's Caregiver Memoir
Mashed Potatoes in My Salad is foremost a love story. It is a poignant tale of a woman, who, after several unsuccessful, toxic and abusive relationships, finally finds the man of her dreams under unlikely, risky and daring circumstances. What she had not anticipated,...- $24.99
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Author:D. W. Duke
The Duke Legacy
Washington Duke is very young when he first realizes there is racial discrimination in the South. Living outside of Hillsboro, North Carolina, in the mid-1820s, he is one of ten children in a family that shares the wilderness with bears, rattlesnakes, and mountain lions....- $32.95
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Author:Sam Pemberton
Finding Big Flat
When some young men from Wayne County, Tennessee, join a survey crew after the Louisiana Purchase, the job takes them out of the swamps to a flat-top mountain. They call it Big Flat. After the survey is complete, the Tennessee boys return home to...- $12.99
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Author:Virginia Woolf
Orlando
A collectible hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf's pioneering novel about a time-traveling sixteenth-century nobleman who wakes up in the body of a woman, with a new foreword by Andrea Lawlor, author of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl"A brilliant book that teaches...- $29.00
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Author:Diane Richards
Ella
In the vein of The Paris Wife and The Personal Librarian comes this debut novel, a magnificent work of "biographical fiction" that reimagines the turbulent and triumphant early years of Ella Fitzgerald, arguably the greatest singer of the twentieth century.When fifteen-year-old Ella Fitzgerald's mother...- $45.95
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Author:Kathryn Davis
Versailles
Marie Antoinette "tells her own story" in this "sage, mercurial, and ravishing" novel (The New Yorker)Versailles tells the story of an expansive spirit locked in a pretty body and an impossible moment in history. As the novel begins, fourteen-year-old Marie Antoinette is traveling from...- $17.00
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Author:Mark Sullivan
All the Glimmering Stars
Inspired by a true story, two teens kidnapped by an African warlord find salvation through love in a powerful and healing historical novel from the #1 bestselling author of Beneath a Scarlet Sky and The Last Green Valley....Author: Mark SullivanISBN-10: 8891641502ISBN-13: 9798891641501Publisher: Center PointLanguage:...- $40.95
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Author:Susanna Kaysen
Cambridge
"It was probably because I was so often taken away from Cambridge when I was young that I loved it as much as I did . . ." London, Florence, Athens: Susanna, a precocious young girl growing up in 1950s Cambridge, would rather be...- $19.00
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Author:Michelle Moran
The Second Empress
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte will stop at nothing to marry the Hapsburg princess he hopes will bear him a royal heir, in this compelling novel from bestselling author Michelle Moran. After the bloody French Revolution, Emperor Napoleon's power is absolute. When eighteen year old Marie-Louise...- $19.00
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Author:Jack Kerouac
Maggie Cassidy
From the bard of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac's Maggie Cassidy is a profoundly moving, autobiographical novel of adolescence and first love One of the dozen books written by Jack Kerouac in the early and mid-1950s, Maggie Cassidy was not published until 1959, after...- $22.00
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Author:Tim Blake Nelson
City of Blows
It's early 2020, and legendary producer Jacob Rosenthal is eager to make his next film, Coal, adapted from the bestselling novel by the celebrated writer Rex Patterson. The project--which takes on the controversial topic of race in America--is Jacob's envisioned magnum opus, and likely...- $59.99
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Author:Tim Blake Nelson
City of Blows
It's early 2020, and legendary producer Jacob Rosenthal is eager to make his next film, Coal, adapted from the bestselling novel by the celebrated writer Rex Patterson. The project--which takes on the controversial topic of race in America--is Jacob's envisioned magnum opus, and likely...- $59.95
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Author:Karen Harper
The Last Boleyn
She survived her own innocence, and the treachery of Europe's royal courts; The Last Boleyn is the story of the rise and fall of the Boleyns, one of England's most powerful families, through the eyes of the eldest daughter, Mary. Although her sister, Anne,...- $21.00
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Author:Margaret Forster
Lady's Maid
"Fascinating . . . The reader is treated to a revealing account of the passionate romance between Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning through the eyes of an intimate observer."--Booklist Young and timid but full of sturdy good sense and awakening sophistication, Lily Wilson arrives...- $20.00
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Author:Jean Plaidy
The Reluctant Queen: The Story of Anne of York
In 1470, a reluctant Lady Anne Neville is betrothed by her father, the politically ambitious Earl of Warwick, to Edward, Prince of Wales. A gentle yet fiercely intelligent woman, Anne has already given her heart to the prince's younger brother, Richard, Duke of Gloucester....- $19.00
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Author:Julian Barnes
The Noise of Time
From the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending comes an extraordinary fictional portrait of the relentlessly fascinating Russian musician and composer Dmitri Shostakovich and a stunning meditation on the meaning of art and its place in society. - "Brilliant.... As...- $17.00
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Author:Erika Robuck
Call Me Zelda
" A] haunting and beautifully atmospheric novel...brilliantly brings Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald to life in all their doomed beauty, with compelling and unforgettable results."--Alex George, author of Setting Free the Kites From New York to Paris, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald reigned as king and...- $17.00
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Author:Erika Robuck
Fallen Beauty
"Without sin, can we know beauty? Can we fully appreciate the summer without the winter? No, I am glad to suffer so I can feel the fullness of our time in the light." Upstate New York, 1928. Laura Kelley and the man she loves...- $17.00
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Author:Michelle Moran
The Heretic Queen
In ancient Egypt, a forgotten princess must overcome her family's past and remake history. The winds of change are blowing through Thebes. A devastating palace fire has killed the Eighteenth Dynasty's royal family--all with the exception of Nefertari, the niece of the reviled former...- $17.00
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Author:Saul Bellow
Ravelstein
In time for the centennial of his birth, the Nobel Prize winner's moving final novel A Penguin Classic Deeply insightful, Saul Bellow's moving last novel is a journey through love and memory, an elegy to friendship, and a poignant meditation on death. Told in...- $17.00
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Author:Seth Johnson
The Deliverer: The Gifts of Saint Nicholas
The Deliverer portrays the faith and discipleship of the historical Nicholas as he grows from a boy listening to stories about Bethlehem to the aged saint who learned the true meaning of giving. With stunning illustrations, the story weaves through the themes of anonymous...- $18.95
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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.