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Vendor: John Banville
Kepler
The Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea re-creates the life of the Renaissance mathematical genius Johannes Kepler and his incredible drive to chart the orbits of the planets and the geometry of the universe. Johannes Kepler, born in 1571 in southern Germany, was one...- $18.99
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Doctor Copernicus
The classic novel by "Irish master" (New Yorker) and Booker Prize-winner John Banville brings to life the dramatic and surprising world of sixteenth-century astronomer Nicolas Copernicus and the theory that would shatter the medieval view of the universe. Sixteenth-century Europe is teeming with change...- $18.99
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Vendor: Maureen Kerr
Fields of Cabbages: A Bedfordshire Clanger
The 1940s were years of war and austerity. If you are interested in that decade, this book may interest you. The Bedfordshire village of my youth, where produce was grown to feed the nation no longer exists. It is now commuter land, fed by...- $12.00
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Vendor: Alexis Minnich
Amateur Dreams: Reaching New Heights
Jack was a young, inexperienced ex-racehorse when he came to live with Lou. He was her dream horse. But sometimes dreams don't go how you plan them. Some dreams take you for rides that you never could have expected. Does Lou have what it...- $17.95
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Vendor: Jonathan Buckley
Tell
A novel of intense, flickering intelligence, Tell is structured as a series of interviews with a woman who worked as a gardener for a wealthy businessman and art collector who has mysteriously disappeared, and may or may not have committed suicide. What might be...- $15.95
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Vendor: Osamu Dazai
Self-Portraits: Stories
"Art dies the moment it acquires authority." So said Japan's quintessential rebel writer Osamu Dazai, who, disgusted with the hypocrisy of every kind of establishment, from the nation's obsolete aristocracy to its posturing, warmongering generals, went his own way, even when that meant his...- $15.95
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Vendor: Sasha Vasilyuk
Your Presence Is Mandatory
A riveting debut novel, based on real events, about a World War II veteran with a secret that could land him in the Gulag, and his family who are forced to live in the shadow of all he has not told them. Ukraine, 2007....- $28.99
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Vendor: Will Burns
The Paper Lantern
When future generations come to ask themselves when England lost it and what it lost, they will pick up The Paper Lantern' Michael Hofmann, TLS 'A remarkable achievement in a book that feels at once timely and deeply considered' Irish Times 'A book that...- $15.99
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Vendor: Dugmore Boetie
Familiarity Is the Kingdom of the Lost
A fast-paced romp through apartheid-era South Africa that exemplifies the creative human capacity to overcome seemingly omnipotent enemies and overwhelming odds. The picaresque hero of this novel, Duggie, is a dispossessed black street kid turned con man. Duggie's response to being confined to the...- $24.95
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Vendor: Michael Herndon
The Bisbee Flash
Set in 1960s -1980s Southern Arizona and Sonora Mexico, these collected stories are drawn from the true experiences of a rare breed of blue-collar worker - the hard rock underground miner. Let great American storyteller Michael Herndon share with you these tales of adventure,...- $12.95
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Vendor: 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...- $39.95
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Vendor: Julia Dennis Frazier
The Last Became The First
I was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. I loved being in the city. When I met James we both had the love of the city. We both knew how to survive the urban jungle. Jimmy and I were very similar, but when we...- $15.95
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Vendor: Suzanne Hadfield Semsch
The Lees of Menokin: An Early American Love Story
Francis Lightfoot Lee is known in the annals of Virginia history as one of the colony's signers of the Declaration of Independence. Yet little is known of Lee's personal life, a void which novelist and long-time Virginian Suzanne Hadfield Semsch set out to fill...- $24.95
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Vendor: Melissa Pritchard
Flight of the Wild Swan
A majestic novel of Florence Nightingale, whose courage, self-confidence, and resilience transformed nursing and the role of women in medicineSweeping yet intimate, Flight of the Wild Swan tells the story of Florence Nightingale, a brilliant, trailblazing woman whose humanity has been obscured beneath the...- $18.99
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Vendor: Nolan Murphy
Jehanne
Jehanne depicts France in the summer of 1429, a pivotal sequence for the Hundred Years War and the life of its greatest hero. England rules France! Jehanne must liberate her occupied nation and lead their claimant to the Paris throne.Author: Nolan MurphyISBN-10: 8386970197ISBN-13: 9798386970192Publisher:...- $6.50
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Vendor: Anastasia Rubis
Oriana: A Novel of Oriana Fallaci
When a Hollywood producer comes to Oriana Fallaci at the end of her life to propose a movie, the story unfolds of her gutsy career rise as a journalist, her tragic love, and her greatest regret.Oriana was born a rebel. She fought beside her...- $27.99
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Vendor: G. Neal
Pi the Numerical Cheatcode to the Laws of the Universal
Brace yourself for the most impactful book since the Bible. Life lessons and modern day parables told from Afghanistan war and 9/11 survivor, explained and broken down in a way never done before. This book ties together religion, science, math, and common sense like...- $15.00
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Vendor: Paul Ryan
How Vast is the Ocean - An Odyssey of Desperation and Hope
The Ryan family are in dire straits, having been evicted from their crofter holdings in Ireland. A chance for a new life and brighter prospects is offered to them with their passage paid by a benevolent society. It is an opportunity to own their...- $17.99
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Vendor: Jim H. Ainsworth
Rivers Crossing
In the summer of 1958, Spooner Hays, teenage son of Ivory, king of the colored community, is face down on the courthouse lawn in Delta County, Texas, drowning in his own blood. His white friend, Gray Boy Rivers, is in a jail cell thirty...- $24.95
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Vendor: Ian Minielly
Emily's Tears
Emily's Tears tells the story of a family ripped apart by DHS and the corrupt actions of the State. Emily, the young adopted daughter, never knew her foster parents because her adoptive parents did not divulge any information about them as she grew up....- $9.99
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Vendor: Zylia N. Knowlin
The Memoirs of an Empress
Empress sat in her thoughts for days wondering if she would ever escape the prison that she had created for herself. It was as though she could see the jail bars, smell the stench of loneliness, feel the hunger of lonely prison nights, and...- $12.95
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Vendor: Mauricio Rosencof
Letters That Never Came
Originally published in Spanish in 2000 and first appearing in English in 2004, The Letters that Never Came is an autobiographical novel in three parts that reflects Rosencof's life growing up in 1930s Uruguay as the son of Polish-Jewish immigrants and, later, his twelve-year...- $21.95
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Vendor: M. B. Zucker
The Middle Generation: A Novel of John Quincy Adams and the Monroe Doctrine
John Quincy Adams is the missing link in the classical era of American history which began with the Revolution and ended with Emancipation.Between these bookends lies the absorbing yet overshadowed epic of a new nation spearheading liberty's cause in a world skeptical of freedom...- $26.99
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Vendor: Richard S. Wheeler
Snowbound and Eclipse
Two stories of renowned American explorers in one low-priced edition, from master of the western novel Richard S. WheelerSnowbound American explorer John Fr mont embarks on a quest to find a railway route to the west along the 38th parallel. His fourth expedition, into...- $24.99
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Vendor: Jane Feaver
Crazy
'One of the best novels I've read in years: obsessive, intimate and very funny' Blake Morrison, Author of Two Sisters'Stunning . . . it almost feels transgressive' Anthony Cummins, Daily Mail'One of the most startling novels I've read this year' Frances Wilson, TLS'This book...- $17.99
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Vendor: Alin Gruia
Capturing the Sunset
The French Foreign Legion is a mysterious organization that operates mostly in the shadows. Capturing the Sunset is the coming-of-age story of someone who entered this clandestine group as a boy, and emerged a man.Facing death taught this former legionnaire about life. He overcame...- $54.95
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Vendor: Wilhelm Raabe
Pfisters M?le: Ein Sommerferienheft: Der erste deutsche Umwelt-Roman: Ver舅derungen durch Industrielle Revolution
Wilhelm Raabe wurde zu Zeiten Goethes geboren, und starb in der Zeit von K nigin Victoria. Er erlebte einige Ver nderungen seiner Umwelt, vor allem im Zusammenhang mit der Industrialisierung. Im Jahr 1884 dr ckte er seine Unzufriedenheit und Bedenken ber diese Ver nderungen...- $6.50
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Vendor: Kenneth Rayner
Life and Times of Andrew Johnson, Seventeenth President of the United States: Written from a national stand-point. Vol. 1
Life and Times of Andrew Johnson, Seventeenth President of the United States - Written from a national stand-point. Vol. 1 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1866. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research...- $36.90
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Life and Times of Andrew Johnson, Seventeenth President of the United States: Written from a national stand-point. Vol. 2
Life and Times of Andrew Johnson, Seventeenth President of the United States - Written from a national stand-point. Vol. 2 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1866. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research...- $38.50
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Vendor: Katheryn Maddox Haddad
Stephen: Unlikely Martyr
Don't let the 17-year-old Stephen where the story begins fool you. He is enthusiastic but immature as he tries to defend the only true God in a hostile world. Follow him through his frightened teens. Then walk with him in his twenties as he...- $22.00
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Luke: Slave & Physician
Luke is a part of the spoils of war after the famous Roman Battle of Baduhenna Wood of AD 28. With no sight of Luke's Nordic warrior father, Most Excellent Theophilus, knighted Roman tribune, takes Luke as his slave to be trained as his...- $22.00
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Vendor: Joyce Gibson Roach
The Land of Rain Shadow: Horned Toad, Texas
They came and scattered themselves about the plains and prairies of West Texas like seeds thrown into the constant winds. In clusters or in singles they dug in. Depending on rainfall, they flourished or failed. Maybe the journeyers arrived in the springtime of a...- $24.95
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Vendor: Peter Theoharis
Muslim Madonna
In a time when Turkey has nothing but animus for its Greek citizens, a Greek Christian boy falls in love with a Turkish Muslim girl. Their love is an affront to both cultures, yet somehow it carves its own path-a path fraught with peril...- $15.95
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Vendor: Jd Arnold
Rawhide Jake: Learning the Ropes
Convict. Detective. Lawman. On the wild American frontier, no man's path is straight and narrow, and Jonas V. Brighton's is no exception. Like many Western lawmen-even those with names like Earp and Hickock-he hails from hardscrabble roots and does what he has to in...- $14.99
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Vendor: Elizabeth Chadwick
Templar Silks
From New York Times bestselling author of medieval fiction, Elizabeth Chadwick, comes a gripping and romantic novel about William Marshal and the Knights Templar.To save his soul, William Marshal, medieval England's greatest knight, begins a pilgrimage to the Holy Land with his brother--a perilous...- $16.99
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Vendor: Ryan Forsythe
Dick Cheney Saves Paris
With insight, humor, and a bit of "I don't know what," Ryan Forsythe turns the modern political satire on its head in this alternative historical novel exploring why Dick Cheney has done the things he's done.We first meet a young Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney...- $12.99
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Vendor: Andrew Knowles
Blow Ins: From there to here...
This is the story of how the author fell in love with Ireland. In a nutshell, it's two peoples' journey to a new life. The first section of the book offers a day-by-day account of the first holiday the author had in the country;...- $9.99
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Vendor: Alin Gruia
Capturing the Sunset
The French Foreign Legion is a mysterious organization that operates mostly in the shadows. Capturing the Sunset is the coming-of-age story of someone who entered this clandestine group as a boy, and emerged a man.Facing death taught this former legionnaire about life. He overcame...- $36.95
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Vendor: R. Barry Oエbrien
The Autobiography of Theobald Wolfe Tone: 1763-1798
The Autobiography of Theobald Wolfe Tone - 1763-1798 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, medicine, and other genres.As...- $37.50
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Vendor: Constance Garnett
The Torrents Of Spring
The story opens with a middle-aged Dmitry Sanin rummaging through the papers in his study when he comes across a small cross set with garnets, which sends his thoughts back thirty years to 1840. In the summer of 1840, a twenty-two-year-old Sanin, arrives in...- $7.25
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Vendor: Herman Melville
Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures In the South Seas
Omoo is the second book by Herman Melville, first published in 1847 and a sequel to Typee. After leaving the island of Nuku Hiva, the main character embarks on a whaling ship that goes all the way from Tahiti, after which there is a...- $12.99
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Vendor: Erik Christian
The Drunk
From having a heart-attack at 32 and battling severe Alcoholism later in life, Erik Christian has truly embraced all of humanity's upsets and tribulations and tells his story with a disarming and unique voice. Christian reveals his life of alcoholism and the demoralizing descent...- $7.99
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Vendor: Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War
Young Fleming has the romantic notions of the hero he will be when he enters his first battle, but his illusions are soon destroyed and he turns and runs. Ironically, he receives his 'red badge' when a fellow soldier strikes his head with the...- $28.26
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Vendor: Stephen Shender
Once There Was Fire: A Novel of Old Hawaii
The Hawaiian people lived in an isolated Eden and fought over it for centuries. When pale strangers with 'pointed heads', strange 'skins', and magical weapons came from beyond the horizon on 'floating islands', the Hawaiians thought they were gods. One man understood these 'gods'...- $40.00
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Vendor: Diane McHutchison
Duffy: Quincy's Little Brother Takes on the World
Quincy's little brother Duffy has decided it is his turn to step into the spotlight and share his story. Duffy openly talks about his rough start in life, as he adjusted from the rough and uncaring world of puppy mills into a loving family...- $34.95
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Vendor: Chandrapala Rajapakse
Hello Johnny! One Cigarette?: Recollections of a Sri Lankan from the Silent Generation, of British Ceylon, the war, and of life at large
"'Buddhu Ammoo (an invocation of one's sainted mother) Is it an Air Raid by the Japs?' - father shouted in alarm. Before anybody could respond, we heard the Siren installed at the Police Station at Wellawatte erupt into action. The 'wha-wha' emitted by this...- $9.99
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The Faraway Mountains
A dark chapter in recent human history The first part of this novel follows the adventures of three young friends during a memorable last mountain climbing trip to a remote area of a country under the control of a ruthless authoritarian regime. During their...- $29.99
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Vendor: Scott Pitoniak
Invisible No More a Historical
Wilmeth Sidat-Singh is the greatest athlete you've never heard of--and so much more. A rocket-armed passer on the football field, an ankle-breaking playmaker on the basketball court, he was also a scholar, civil rights pioneer, patriot, and one other thing--forgotten.In this historical novel based...- $24.95
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The Spy and the Seamstress
"I regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."Captain Nathan Hale, America's first spy, uttered these immortal words while staring at a hangman's noose in a leafy New York City park in September 1776.When a patriot mob threatened to lynch...- $17.99
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Here Is Not Our Home
Closely based on existing archive material, this short novel tells the true story of the life of Austrian artist Richard Gerstl, who took his own life in 1908 at the age of 25. Émigré Viennese art dealer Otto Kallir narrates his chance discovery of...- $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.