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Vendor: Ellen Ewing Sherman
Memorial of Thomas Ewing, of Ohio
Memorial of Thomas Ewing, of Ohio 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...- $32.50
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Vendor: D. B. Cashman
The Life of Michael Davitt: With a History of the Rise and Development of the Irish National Land League
The Life of Michael Davitt - With a History of the Rise and Development of the Irish National Land League is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1881. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research...- $30.90
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Vendor: Henry Brodribb Irving
The Life of Judge Jeffreys
The Life of Judge Jeffreys is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1898. 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 we...- $38.90
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Vendor: Mark Rutherford
The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford
The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1881. 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...- $23.50
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Vendor: Cardinal Bonaventure
St. Bonaventure's Life of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
St. Bonaventure's Life of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1881. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and...- $40.90
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Vendor: Benjamin F. Taylor
Pictures of Life in Camp and Field: Second Edition
Pictures of Life in Camp and Field - Second Edition 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...- $30.50
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Vendor: Richard Garnett
Life of Thomas Carlyle
Life of Thomas Carlyle 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, medicine, and other genres.As a publisher we focus...- $23.50
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Vendor: Alfred Cooper Fryer
Cuthberht of Lindisfarne: His Life and Times
Cuthberht of Lindisfarne - His Life and Times is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1880. 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....- $28.90
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Vendor: Lulu Hurst
Lulu Hurst (The Georgia Wonder) writes her Autobiography
Lulu Hurst (The Georgia Wonder) writes her Autobiography 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...- $31.50
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Vendor: Marcus David Gilman
The Bibliography of Vermont: or, a list of books and pamphlets relating in any way to the state, with biographical and other notes
The Bibliography of Vermont - or, a list of books and pamphlets relating in any way to the state, with biographical and other notes is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1897. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic...- $37.50
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Vendor: Anne Wiazemsky
My Berlin Child
Based on the life of Claire Mauriac, mother of acclaimed writer Anne Wiazemsky, My Berlin Child tells the inspiring story of an extraordinary young woman who abandons her privileged world and finds courage and love while working for the French Red Cross during the...- $15.00
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Vendor: Franklin B. Sanborn
Memoirs of Pliny Earle, M.D.: With extracts from his diary and letters (1830-1892) and selections from his professional writings ( 1839-1891)
Memoirs of Pliny Earle, M.D. - With extracts from his diary and letters (1830-1892) and selections from his professional writings ( 1839-1891) is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1898. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such...- $43.50
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Vendor: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender is the Night: With the Introductory Essay 'The Jazz Age Literature of the Lost Generation' (Read & Co. Classics Edition)
Lyrical, tragic, and hauntingly beautiful, Tender is the Night absorbs F. Scott Fitzgerald's personal struggles and mirrors the incredible writer's fractured marriage.Dick Diver is a talented, successful young psychiatrist. He lives with his wife and patient, Nicole, on the French Riviera. Set in the...- $24.99
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Vendor: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender is the Night: With the Introductory Essay 'The Jazz Age Literature of the Lost Generation' (Read & Co. Classics Edition)
Lyrical, tragic, and hauntingly beautiful, Tender is the Night absorbs F. Scott Fitzgerald's personal struggles and mirrors the incredible writer's fractured marriage.Dick Diver is a talented, successful young psychiatrist. He lives with his wife and patient, Nicole, on the French Riviera. Set in the...- $17.99
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Vendor: Herman Melville
Omoo
THE term "suburban" has always seemed to me to have a peculiarly English meaning. It suggests images that are not apt to present themselves in America. American cities have suburbs; but they have to a very limited extent what may be called suburban scenery....- $19.89
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Vendor: Anne Holmes Davis
Affinity for Girls: Tears from Vidalia's Onion Fields
When Isabelle Louise Parks and her siblings were children, growing up in rural Georgia all seemed well on the surface. However, the death of their mother at a young age left Isabelle vulnerable to child sexual abuse at the hands of her own father...- $29.99
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Vendor: Stephen Doster
Jesus Tree
A Black man wrongly convicted of murder attempts to rebuild his life and bring the real killer to justice, in this historical novel based on a true story. In the summer of 1932, Ben Jordan was wrongfully accused of killing a white pastor in...- $31.99
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Vendor: Deanne Jenkins Tate-Johnson
The Innocent Beard
Like many dedicated women, Rebecca James has fought hard for her place in the male-dominated domain of politics. As a single mother and conservative political consultant, she's had to fight harder than most, but she's succeeded in securing a career fighting for the values...- $19.95
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Vendor: Marco Preshevski
The Time Thief
"YOU HAVE PARKINSON'S DISEASE, MR PRESHEVSKI" The Time Thief is the remarkable story of Marco Preshevski who one day in March 2001 just after his 30th birthday was diagnosed with Adult Early Onset Idiopathic Parkinson's Disease. In the minutes, hours and days following his...- $14.95
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Vendor: Mark Twain
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain that recounts the life of Joan of Arc. It is Twain's last completed novel, published when he was 61 years old. The novel is presented...- $11.99
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Vendor: Marjorie Herrera Lewis
When the Men Were Gone
"...Sublimely ties together the drama of high school football, gender politics, and the impact of war on a small town in Texas." - Sports Illustrated A 2019 One of the Best Books So Far--Newsweek.comA cross between Friday Night Lights and The Atomic City Girls,...- $22.99
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Vendor: Annick Atyame
Albertan
ALBERTAN is a fascinating short story about a nature photographer and a baby bald eagle struggling to overcome problems. The humorous and exciting characters with positive feelings will make you want to read nonstop.Thomas, a successful nature photographer, retreats from the town, eaten by...- $7.00
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Vendor: I. Caroline Crocker
Brave Face: The Inspiring WWII Memoir of a Dutch/German Child
A human story of resilience in the face of evil; a memoir to be cherished. - Dr. Hemchand Gossai, Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences As the daughter of a Dutch postman and his German wife, five-year-old Meta finds her life totally changed when...- $24.95
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Vendor: David Ackley
The Patent Clerk's Violin
When Carl collected the violin for repairs, he could never have imagined the momentous future awaiting its owner.A luthier repairs a Patent Office clerk's violin in Bern, Switzerland, and thus begins the friendship of Carl and Albert, two very different people - the one...- $14.99
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Vendor: Wayne Karlin
Memorial Days: Vietnam Stories, 1973-2022
The conflict in Vietnam has been rewritten and reframedinto many corners of American life and has long shadowed contemporary politicalscience and foreign policy. The war and its aftermath have engenderedaward-winning films and books. It has held up a mirror to the twentieth centuryand to...- $26.95
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Vendor: Stacia Raymond
Grace Notes: A Novel Based on the Life of Henry Mancini
Celebrating a giant of American popular music... With a legacy that resonates today in the work of contemporary film composers, the magnanimous Henry Mancini left an indelible mark on the culture.Over the course of a life cut short, Mancini helped liberate a concentration camp...- $15.99
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Vendor: Jordan Castro
The Novelist
"Brisk and shockingly witty, exuberantly scatological as well as deeply wise, The Novelist is a delight. Jordan Castro is a rare new talent: an author highly attuned to the traditions he is working within while also offering a refreshingly fun sendup of life beset...- $16.95
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Vendor: Alan Kaufman
The Berlin Woman
Lena is a married, chronically infidelitous Berlin-based European writer, devoted only to gratifying her ambitions and hard-driving libido. Nathan is a footloose womanizing American author, unable to produce the big novel for which he's been contracted. When both writers meet in the Alps, they...- $16.95
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Vendor: Scarlette Hall
Aunt Jenny of Sawed Off Corners: ... and, The Everlasting Johnsongrass Patch
In the 1940s, in Caddo County of Oklahoma, there was a rural intersection known as Sawed Off Corners; a name that probably morphed from Sudiff's corner. It was likely an acreage that belonged to someone named Sudiff, in an earlier time. If I recall...- $11.20
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Vendor: D. Harlan Wilson
Douglass: The Lost Autobiography
(Publisher's Note: The author failed to fold my laundry in the proper manner, so I am letting the cat out of the bag-these are not actual biographies. They are closer to maps of the author's ego than they are texts about the namesakes adorning...- $12.95
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Vendor: Linn Ullmann
Unquiet
He is a renowned Swedish filmmaker and has a plan for everything. She is his daughter, the youngest of nine children. Every summer, since she was a little girl, she visits him at his beloved stony house surrounded by woods, poppies, and the Baltic...- $30.99
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Vendor: Kelly O'Connor McNees
Undiscovered Country: A Novel Inspired by the Lives of Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok
New York City, 1932. Reporter Lorena "Hick" Hickok's days start with a front page byline and finish with bourbon and her next big scoop. But an assignment to cover FDR's campaign and write a feature on his wife turns Hick's hard-won independent life on...- $30.99
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Vendor: Stephen Murabito
Chasing Saint George
In Chasing Saint George, Stephen Murabito creates a cast of rich, memorable characters. While these stories sparkle with small everyday wonders and mysteries, loves and desires, they're also operatic in the best sense of the word, soaring with grand, genuine passion. Murabito tells his...- $19.95
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Vendor: Lea Rachel
Seeking Forgiveness
Seeking Forgiveness tells the story of interracial adoption in the United States today, from the perspective of a white mother who adopts a Black son and finds she has no idea what the hell she is doing. Rachel, the adoptive mother of Miles, receives...- $21.99
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Vendor: Chandra Prasad
Breathe the Sky: A Novel Inspired by the Life of Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart disappeared from the world's radar in the 1930s, but she has not been forgotten. Breathe the Sky is a fresh and provocative portrait of the legendary pilot whose courage and charisma have dazzled millions. It is also the first novel to reveal...- $14.99
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Vendor: Marie Benedict
The First Ladies
The Instant New York Times Bestseller! A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune--an unlikely friendship that changed the world, from the New York Times bestselling authors of the Good Morning America Book Club...- $30.00
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Vendor: Maggie Gee
Virginia Woolf in Manhattan
"I have been dragged through time, summoned like a book requisitioned from a distant library," says Virginia Woolf, "resurrected" by modern-day author, Angela Lamb, working on Woolf manuscripts in the New York Public Library's Berg collection. Angela dumps her irrepressible daughter at boarding-school to...- $15.95
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Vendor: Kerstin Ekman
Childhood
Kerstin Ekman is primarily known as a novelist, but she has occasionally turned to free verse, especially when the subject is autobiographical. In 1993-1994, Swedish TV 1 conducted a series of talks with prominent writers under the rubric 'Seven Boys and Seven Girls'. In...- $9.99
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Vendor: Mary Calvi
If a Poem Could Live and Breathe: A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt's First Love
A fact-based romantic speculative novel about Teddy Roosevelt's first love, by Mary Calvi, author of Dear George, Dear MaryStudded with the real love letters between a young Theodore Roosevelt and Boston beauty Alice Lee―many of them never before published―If a Poem Could Live and...- $36.95
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Vendor: Campbell Slimon
Horse Kogill and Mr Money-Man
THE BOOK: Horse Kogill and Mr. Money-Man'Ride like Kogill' was a saying 19th century in Iceland when the swashbuckling Capt. John Coghill was galloping across this land of volcanoes and glaciers. A train of horses with boxes of gold to pay for sheep and...- $18.10
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Vendor: Molly Greeley
Marvelous
"Enchanting. Molly Greeley has pulled off a piece of magic to tell a dazzling love story about the outcast's ache to be cared for and belong. This book broke my heart and put it back together again."--Allison Epstein, author of A Tip for the...- $51.99
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Vendor: William Coles
Lord Lucan: My Story
A murder gone wrong. A worldwide police hunt for the killer. And a fugitive who became a legend: The 7th Earl of Lucan. The Lord Lucan Scandal is one of the greatest and most extraordinary mysteries of the 20th Century. Ever since Lucky Lord...- $15.99
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Vendor: I. Caroline Crocker
Brave Face: The Inspiring WWII Memoir of a Dutch/German Child
A human story of resilience in the face of evil; a memoir to be cherished. - Dr. Hemchand Gossai, Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences As the daughter of a Dutch postman and his German wife, five-year-old Meta finds her life totally changed when...- $17.95
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Vendor: M. B. Zucker
The Eisenhower Chronicles
A Five-Star Book about a Five-Star GeneralIn 1938 he was a lieutenant colonel stationed in the Philippines; by 1945 the world proclaimed him its savior. From leading the forces of liberal democracy against history's most evil tyrant to the presidency, Dwight D. Eisenhower fought...- $35.99
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Vendor: Atulya K. Bingham
Ayşe's Trail
Ayşe Metin - a 38-year-old mother from Istanbul - decides to tackle the Lycian Way in southern Turkey. She has never camped alone in her life. As she strikes out into Lycia's ancient forests, she is on a quest to leave behind the past....- $14.99
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Vendor: Gill Hornby
Godmersham Park
A richly imagined novel inspired by the true story of Anne Sharp, a governess who became very close with Jane Austen and her family by the #1 International bestselling author of Miss Austen.On January 21, 1804, Anne Sharpe arrives at Godmersham Park in Kent...- $41.95
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Vendor: J. R. Tomlin
A King Uncaged: A Historical Novel of Scotland
At last after long years of English imprisonment, Scotland's King James I negotiates the terms of his release and of his marriage to his beloved Joan Beaufort. But he returns to a Scotland in chaos. Surrounded by plots, intrigues, and rebellions, James struggles to...- $12.99
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Vendor: Pamela Hamilton
Lady Be Good: The Life and Times of Dorothy Hale
A moving portrait of Dorothy Hale, the legendary 1930s socialite immortalized in one of Frida Kahlo's most celebrated paintings.Winner of the National Indie Excellence Awards, Pamela Hamilton delivers glamour, romance, tragedy, a close and stormy friendship with famed playwright and Vogue and Vanity Fair...- $36.95
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Vendor: Sarah Miller
Marmee
From the author of Caroline, a revealing retelling of Louisa May Alcott's beloved Little Women, from the perspective of Margaret Marmee March, about the larger real-world challenges behind the cozy domestic concerns cherished by generations of readers.In 1861, war is raging in the South,...- $51.99
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Vendor: Tom Dalton
The Hard-Place Boy
Three-and-a-half-year-old Michael Murphy is a pain in the ass. He sure shouldn't be invited to any more weddings; last one he kicked the man his mother married in the shins. All he does is piss and moan, and he won't eat anything his mother...- $24.99
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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.