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Author:Lucas Carter
American Baby Boomer
The book is the story about one individual who was born and grew up as a baby boomer in the United States.It begins by introducing his parents, who are Norwegian and grew up in Canada. They move to the United States, and soon after,...- $20.99
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Author:Paola Giorgio
Molecules and Women
A collection of fifteen vignettes, Molecules and Women takes a journey through the lives of women connected invisibly across time and space. The narratives carry and embody the voices and actions of women, some spoken, some witnessed, some experienced first hand.They Illuminate pivotal moments,...- $9.99
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Author: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...- $31.99
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Author:J. D. Knibbs
Unconventional Beginnings
Unconventional Beginnings recounts the story of a young engineer's introduction to the cutthroat oil and gas business in the Canadian prairies. While Garth Gibbins longs to be a farmer and maintain his family's agrarian traditions, he discovers a real talent in his new career...- $30.49
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Author:Ken Melber
A Brush with Chaos
Karl and Anna consider themselves to be veterans of Africa, having spent three years teaching in Uganda during the brutal despotic rule of Idi Amin Dada. In this semi-autobiographical novel set in the 1970s, they take a teaching post in Nigeria, with the promise...- $16.95
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Author:Bob Young
Nish: The South's Man of Mystery and Deception
NISH is a historical novel based on the life of Abraham Dionysius Chenault, a minister and physician from Lincoln County, Georgia, who lived from the 1830s-1880s. Nish, as folks called him, is perhaps best-known for being tortured by a fanatical Union general in his...- $19.95
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Author:Edwin Abbott Abbott
Onesimus: Memoirs of a Disciple of St. Paul
Onesimus: Memoirs of a Disciple of St. Paul by Edwin Abbott Abbott is one of the best works. Edwin Abbott Abbott (20 December 1838 - 12 October 1926) was an English schoolmaster and theologian, best known as the author of the novella Flatland (1884).Author:...- $6.99
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Author:Stephanie Dray
America's First Daughter
In a compelling, richly researched novel that draws from thousands of letters and original sources, bestselling authors Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie tell the fascinating, untold story of Thomas Jefferson's eldest daughter, Martha "Patsy" Jefferson Randolph--a woman who kept the secrets of our most...- $55.99
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Author:Jean Plaidy
The Captive Queen of Scots: Mary, Queen of Scots
"Plaidy excels at blending history with romance and drama."--The New York Times"Burn the murderess!" So begins The Captive Queen of Scots, the epic tale of the Scottish Queen Mary Stuart, cousin to Queen Elizabeth of England. After her husband, Lord Darnley, is murdered, suspicion...- $20.00
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Author:Marie E. Rickwood
Determination: The Life of Eugene and Elizabeth
The Canadian Homestead Act, patented in 1871, gave farmers a new start when they lost their farm to taxes. This novel chronicles the life of Homesteaders, Eugene, and Elizabeth, during the depression one century ago. It will show how their Catholic Faith sustained them...- $40.99
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Author:J. P. Reedman
The Good Queen: Matilda of Scotland, Wife of Henry I
Daughter of a Scottish king and an Anglo-Saxon princess, Edith is sent to her Aunt Cristina, the Abbess of Romsey for her education. Cristina is harsh and unkind and tries to force Edith to wear a nun's veil, first as a disguise and then...- $12.00
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Author:Clare McHugh
The Romanov Brides: A Novel of the Last Tsarina and Her Sisters
From the author of A Most English Princess comes a rich novel about young Princess Alix of Hesse--the future Alexandra, last Empress of Imperial Russia--and her sister, Princess Ella. Their decision to marry into the Romanov royal family changed history. They were granddaughters of...- $41.99
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Author:Shirley Read-Jahn
Hidden in Plain Sight: A British Military Agent's Story
When World War Two splits Fred Read-Jahn and his English bride, Molly, she is forced to face the Blitz alone while he carries out secret missions on an epic journey from London to Moscow, travelling through North America, Canada, and much of Asia to...- $20.43
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Author:Michelle Gable
The Beautiful People
Set against the glamorous 1960s Jet Set, a novel about a failed debutante whose new job as assistant to society photographer Slim Aarons takes her into the complicated inner circle of Palm Beach socialites, and into a beguiling friendship with the star at its...- $41.99
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Author:Chris Bachelder
Dayswork
In the endless days of the pandemic, a woman spends her time sorting fact from fiction in the life and work of Herman Melville. As she delves into Melville's impulsive purchase of a Massachusetts farmhouse, his fevered revision of Moby-Dick there, his intense friendship...- $17.99
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Author:Dawn Beecroft Teetzel
My Mary: A Story of One Barnardo Home Child
"Rich and intriguing, My Mary is a compelling look into clinical depression, the trauma of being a Barnardo Home Child, and the heartbreaking story of enduring love." -Renee Cronley, author of BurnoutTeetzel delivers a powerful historical narrative, brimming with idyllic scenes and beautiful imagery...- $21.95
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Author:Gail Ward Olmsted
Katharine's Remarkable Road Trip
"Kate makes me want to take a road trip. She's lovable and charming, and her voice... SO GOOD." -Kerry Chaput, author of the Defying the Crown seriesIf you loved Landscape of a Marriage by Gail Ward Olmsted, you'll absolutely adore Katharine's Remarkable Road Trip....- $20.95
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Author:Nooshie Motaref
The Girl Raised in Bull Blood: Thea, bold as a bull, but soft as a morning breeze
"Run, Thea! Escape the walls around you...!"On that imperative, a young slave girl flees a royal Roman household into a mystical, harrowing adventure. In the mountains surrounding the city Thea meets the "master of all sorceresses" who reveals Thea's past identity. She will need...- $24.95
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Author:David Halpin
Psychoillogical: Part Two of the Donald Diaries
Author: David HalpinISBN-10: 1923101765ISBN-13: 9781923101760Publisher: Shawline Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/29/2024Pages: 350Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.40lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d- $29.99
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Author:Edward Charles
The House of Medici: Seeds of Decline
The Riveting Sequel to The House of Medici: Inheritance of Power. Lucrezia Tornabuoni, brought up in the Palazzo Medici alongside Cosimo's children, always expected to marry his charismatic younger son, Giovanni. But now in later life, she finds herself imprisoned in a loveless marriage...- $24.99
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Author: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...- $20.99
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Author:Marie Benedict
The First Ladies
Author: Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher MurrayISBN-10: 0593440293ISBN-13: 9780593440292Publisher: Berkley BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/04/2024Pages: 416Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.84d- $19.00
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Author:Omer Mahmud Zeynu
I wish I never left home: My identity rests firmly and happily on one fact, I am Eritrean.
The author, an Eritrean refugee, living in Switzerland, has brilliantly created this novel, a pure fiction which touches light on both the positive and negative out come from being a refugee in Europe .The character in this book has brilliantly describes the conflict one...- $13.50
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Author:G. Inskip
They Never Told Me That at Vet School: Life as seen by Vets and what they don't tell you happens in the real world
Newly graduated veterinary surgeon, Gwen Inskip, is searching for the perfect first practice to kickstart her career. However, as she lurches from the sublime to the surreal (and every rollercoaster emotion in between) she soon discovers that securing a job which ticks all the...- $9.99
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Author:Thomas Edward Bartlett
The Bartletts: Ancestral, Genealogical, Biographical, Historical
The Bartletts - Ancestral, Genealogical, Biographical, Historical 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 science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As...- $21.90
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Author:Frances Anne Budge
Annals of the eEarly Friends: A Series of Biographical Sketches
Annals of the eEarly Friends - A Series of Biographical Sketches 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 and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine,...- $44.90
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Author:Richard Holeman
First Boy on the Moon
This is a story for boys...and for girls, too, of course, but mostly it's a story for grown-ups who can't remember - or can't forget - when a best friend was like a brother, a promise was forever and the neighborhood where you lived...- $13.63
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Author:Judena Klebs
From Horror to Hope
Lisa was a victim of Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA). Bound by demons and forced by trauma to develop multiple personalities, she beats all odds for survival: physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. These pages provide hope for recovery from the most extreme and damaging forms...- $10.99
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Author:Susanne Bellefeuille
Path of Lucas: The Journey He Endured
Thick white fog, headlights coming straight-on, and a violent car accident. A devoted father, Lucas confronts what parents fear most as he clutches his daughter's hand in the hospital. The doctors say she has severe head trauma and there is little hope. Her fate...- $21.99
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Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned
The Beautiful and Damned, first published by Scribner's in 1922, is F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel.It tells the story of Anthony Patch (a 1920s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune), his relationship with his wife Gloria, his service in the army, and...- $32.95
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Author:Paul Colt
Lunger: The Doc Holliday Story
The product of an aristocratic Old South upbringing, John Henry "Doc" Holliday's dreams of a career in dentistry are dashed at a young age by respiratory disease. Encouraged to seek the therapeutic benefits of drier climes, John Henry undertakes an odyssey crossing the western...- $14.99
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Author:Ken White
Getaway Day
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.- Jewish Proverb Mikey Wright is a normal 13-year-old. With normal problems. Until the day he finds out his dad has cancer. Getaway Day chronicles Mikey's journey...- $14.99
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Author:Eliza Knight
Can't We Be Friends: A Novel of Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe
Award-winning author Denny S. Bryce and USA Today bestselling author Eliza Knight collaborate on a brilliant novel that uncovers the boundary-breaking, genuine friendship between Ella Fitzgerald, the Queen of Jazz, and iconic movie star Marilyn Monroe. One woman was recognized as the premiere singer...- $41.99
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Author:Calvin Barry Schwartz
There's a Tortoise in My Hair: A Journey to Spirit, a Novel
Cameron Simmons has always been haunted. It begins as a child, when Cam's father bestows upon him an insult that will take a lifetime to outlive, blaming his slow development on a fictitious tortoise in his hair. From there, Cam's hauntings multiply: The constant...- $18.99
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Author:Mario Escobar
The Forgotten Names
In August 1942, French parents were faced with a horrible choice: watch their children die, or abandon them forever. Fifty years later, it becomes one woman's mission to match the abandoned names with the people they belong to. Five years after the highly publicized...- $31.99
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Author:Michelle Gable
The Beautiful People
Set against the glamorous 1960s Jet Set, a novel about a failed debutante whose new job as assistant to society photographer Slim Aarons takes her into the complicated inner circle of Palm Beach socialites, and into a beguiling friendship with the star at its...- $46.99
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Author:Tananarive Due
The Black Rose
Author: Tananarive DueISBN-10: 0345441567ISBN-13: 9780345441560Publisher: Random House GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/02/2001Pages: 384Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.00dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 6.6Point Value: 27Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 45715 / Black RoseReview Citation(s): Booklist 04/15/2007 pg. 31About the AuthorTananarive Due is a former features writer...- $19.00
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Author:W. Michael Farmer
Desperate Warrior: Days of War, Days of Peace
Risking all for love and redemption, a reformed killer battles to free his family from the shackles of slavery.In the untamed pages of history, the saga of Pedes-klinje-known to the Mexicans as the relentless Chato-blazes a trail through the blood-soaked annals of the Apache...- $14.99
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Author:Sachi G. Dastidar
Hudson Ganga Merger
Author: Sachi G. Dastidar, Shuvo G. DastidarISBN-10: 1961908743ISBN-13: 9781961908741Publisher: Authors' Tranquility PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/18/2024Pages: 382Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.51lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.04d- $29.99
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Author:Robin Cain
The Secret Miss Rabbit Kept
All Sophie's life, her abandonment as a newborn left her feeling unwanted. Now sixteen years old, she's convinced she'll fit right in with all the other 'toss-aways' when she takes a job at a nursing home. But lessons in dying aren't what she had...- $14.95
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Author:Jean Plaidy
Victoria Victorious: The Story of Queen Victoria
In this unforgettable novel of Queen Victoria, Jean Plaidy re-creates a remarkable life filled with romance, triumph, and tragedy. At birth, Princess Victoria was fourth in line for the throne of England, the often-overlooked daughter of a prince who died shortly after her birth....- $18.00
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Author:Mona Simpson
Off Keck Road
In this flawless novella, Mona Simpson turns her powers of observation toward characters who, unlike Ann and Adele August in her bestselling Anywhere but Here, choose to stay rather than go. As a high school student in Green Bay, Bea Maxwell raised money for...- $18.00
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Author:Anya Seton
The Hearth and Eagle
"A substantial and well-told story that makes real one of the longest and most vigorous strands in the making of our country." --New York Herald Tribune In the mid-1940s, the great historical novelist Anya Seton embarked on a fervent search for her forebears that...- $17.99
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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.Anthony Opoka and Florence Okori are coming...- $28.99
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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.Anthony Opoka and Florence Okori are coming...- $16.99
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Author:E. R. Braithwaite
To Sir, with Love
This schoolroom drama that inspired the classic Sidney Poitier film is "a microcosm of the racial issues . . . A dramatic picture of discrimination" (Kirkus Reviews). With opportunities for black men limited in post-World War II London, Rick Braithwaite, a former Royal Air...- $14.99
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Author:Ryan Byrnes
My Dear Antonio: A Love Story
My Dear Antonio is a novel inspired by the true love story of Byrnes' great-grandparents-children of the Sicilian diaspora separated from their families on the Mediterranean coast who loved, parted, and found each other again seven years and three continents later. In 1912, after...- $17.95
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Author:Clarence Levi Jr. Cooper
Scene
The Scene is an urban half-world of drug pushers and users, of pimps and prostitutes and narcotics detectives, laid bare in this explosive novel. From The Panic, the time of no dope, to The Man, who controls its ebb and flow on the streets,...- $23.95
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Author:Benjamin Black
The Secret Guests
"When you're done binge-watching The Crown, pick up this multifaceted wartime thriller." --Kirkus ReviewsAs London endures nightly German bombings, Britain's secret service whisks the princesses Elizabeth and Margaret from England, seeking safety for the young royals on an old estate in Ireland.Ahead of the...- $30.99
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Author:Judy Howard
The Grieving Gift: An Autobiographical Novel
THE GRIEVING GIFTJanice's older sister, Margaret, wanted to believe that the L.A. doctors at Cedars Sinai Medical Center held a magical deck of cards, but after eight years of treatment they dealt their final card. The Hospice card. No miracles for Margaret. Janice reassures...- $14.99
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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.