Biographical fiction Books

Admiral of the Fleet, Sir Provo W. P. Wallis, G.C.B. - A Memoir 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,...

A sketch of the life of Randolph Fairfax - A private in the ranks of the Rockbridge artillery is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1878.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and...

Under Queen and Khedive - The Autobiography of a Anglo-Egyptian Official is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1899.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and...

India, Forty Years of Progress and Reform - Being a Sketch of the Life and Times of Behramji M. Malabari is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as...

The Life and Times of William IV - Including a view of social life and manners during his reign. Vol. 1 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1884.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as...

Some Passages of the Life and Death of the Right Honourable John, Earl of Rochester, 1680 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,...

Ten Years of Preacher-Life - Chapters from an Autobiography is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1860.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions,...

Life of Sir Robert Peel is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1888.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other...

Life, Genius, Achievement 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...

Four Great Teachers - John Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Robert Browning is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1890.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and...

A Checkered Life is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1883.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...

Life of Charles Richard Sumner - Bishop of Winchester and Prelate of the Most Noble Order of the... is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1876.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and...

The Life of Saint Teresa of the Order of our Lady of Mount Carmel - Second Edition is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1867.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel...

The Life of St. John of God - Founder of the Order of Hospitallers 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,...

The Memoirs of Philip de Commines, Lord of Argenton... - Vol. I 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,...

Passages from the Life of Henry Warren Howe - Consisting of Diary and Letters Written during the Civil War, 1816-1865 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1899.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas...

Francis Bacon, Poet, Prophet, Philosopher - Versus phantom Captain Shakespeare, the Rosicrucian mask is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1891.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research...

24 écrivains – d’Acadie, de France, d’Ontario, des Premières Nations et du Québec – sont montés à bord du train l’Océan le 23 octobre 2015, au départ d’Halifax à...

Engagée dans la Résistance à vingt ans et arrêtée dès le 10 juin 1943, Janine sera déportée à Ravensbrückpuis à Zwodau. Elle réussira l'impossible : s'évader ! Elle nous raconte cette évasion, le 11 novembre 1944,et son parcours de six mois à travers...

C'est l'histoire de quatre femmes, trentenaires, éclatantes, originales, qui vont connaître des péripéties dans leurs relations amoureuses, amicales ou familiales.Elles vont être emmenées à sortir de leurs zones de confort, étriquées et désagréables...

Depuis 2015, Patrick Sansano publie chaque année son journal. Celui de cette année est dédié à Emma Marrone, la chanteuse italienne numéro un, qu'il a vu en concert en février et qui est tombée gravement malade en septembre avant de revenir défendre son...

Mes souvenirs d'enfance de 1941 à 1951 et surtout mes souvenirs à la ferme de mes grands parents de fin 1949 à 1951. Une description sommaire de la vie en Provence dans ces années d'après guerre.

Quarante ans avant que l'auto-entreprise ne devienne LA solution pour nombre de jeunes des générations à venir, l'auteur, enfant heureux mais rebelle, prit son destin en main à dix-huit ans, sans diplôme ni formation, et partit à la conquête du monde.Il...

Laure est née et a grandi dans une ville de l'Avesnois, dans le nord de la France. Après une enfance malheureuse, une adolescence mouvementée et un départ précipité très jeune, loin de chez elle, la jeune femme reviendra cependant aux sources pour fonder...

Pascal Colastenait à écrire cet ouvrage pour se rappeler ses souvenirs d'enfance dans les années soixante, lorsqu'il regardait la télévision en noir et blanc dans le séjour du pavillonoù il habitait près des bords de Marne, dans la banlieue parisienne...

La vie de Léna se découpe en tranches de vie de dix-huit années chacune.Depuis sa naissance, elle cherche à plaire à son entourage qui l'ignore totalement. Cette attitude effacée la détruit à petit feu.A peine sortie du lycée, elle épouse Robert qui se...

A quest for redemption or an exercise in futility...? In the late 1930s in a Southern port city, Joseph Curcio meets his former student Amanda,who is now a street artist selling mosaics made of broken glass and who offers Joseph a place to stay at the...

By the age of fifteen, Arthur Rimbaud was already one of the most brilliant poets of his time. And for the next four years - and four only - Rimbaud (the Claude Morel of this book) was simultaneously a writer of genius, a visionary idealist, and a...

[US Paperback]On October 22, 2010, a human skull was found in Sir David Attenborough's garden in south London...a middle-aged female skull. How did it get there? Where was the rest of the body?The Murderess and the Hangman is a story of this murder, told...

From Pain to Fame: A Congo Boy StoryThe social unit formed by a family living together or a place one lives permanently especially as a member of a family or household according to both the Merriam-Webster and the Oxford Dictionary is something I have...

An ambitious Kemuel Afobula was sent to Monrovia to rescue High Rocks Computers, a firm that has just suffered a major setback. Contrary to his expectations, he found himself in a strange environment and sort for peculiar measures.While in Monrovia, ...

30 días para morir es una novela con una dosis muy alta de realidad y que al pasar de los años y de acuerdo a la justicia del hombre esas dosis de realidad quedan obsoletas al escrutinio de un juez calificado, el buen Benito decide denunciar esos hechos...

Mike O'Shea and Andy Cotto knew each other their entire lives. Born days apart on the same block, baptized in the same water, the two friends were inseparable growing up and into adulthood.After celebrating their 40th birthdays together, Mike falls ill...

When author Victor Rash visited a bird rescue and encountered the bird that would eventually become Freddie Mercury, a blue-and-gold-scarlet macaw mix, he was thrilled. He knew that this one-and-a half- the year-old parrot was very special.Freddie...

Sometimes people leave their home with the hopes of finding something better. Sometimes they are forced out and chased away. Philip Eamer and his wife, Catrina, experience both in this true story of immigrants searching for a place to call home. The...

A Journey to Paradise is about the author’s experiences as he grew up in Uganda and later moved to the United Kingdom. It tells of the usual antagonisms—like poverty, conflict, and mental illness—and it compares the infrastructure of...

Il romanzo si snoda attraverso una serie di quadri, posti in ordinate sequenze logiche, veri e propri affreschi, che sembrano rimanere indelebili nel tempo, che continua a sgocciolare i suoi minuti e a camminare verso nuovi eventi, verso imprevedibili...

Based on a true story, Bellosguardo: The Lives of Anna & Huguette Clark is an historical novel of the Gilded Age Clark family. With impeccable research into this family that American history elided, this novel presents the lives of the...

How an iPhone Made Me the Youngest Billionaairee

La prosa de Roberto Jordán es lúdica, reflexiva, contextual, histórica y me atrevo a decir que hasta un tanto irónica. Por sus historias pasan toda clase de anécdotas, algunas de las cuales, contienen fuertes dosis de...

No husband. No money. A great bottom. With no money coming in, Arabella Aristo feared being thrown onto the streets. When her husband lost his job, Arabella decided she would become the bread winner. A visit to a pub showed her how to use her only...

Ludwig Ganghofer (1855-1920) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller, der durch seine Heimatromane bekannt geworden ist. Viele Werke Ganghofers greifen Geschehnisse aus der Geschichte des Berchtesgadener Landes auf, wo er sich regelmäßig aufhielt. Ganghofer ist...

Stanislaw Przybyszewski (1868-1927) war ein polnischer Schriftsteller, der zu Beginn seiner Laufbahn auf Deutsch schrieb. Przybyszewski entwickelte ein großes Interesse für Satanismus sowie die Philosophie von Friedrich Nietzsche und begann ein...

Jakob Elias Poritzky, eigentlich: Isaak Porycki (1876 - 1935) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller und Theater-Regisseur russischer Herkunft. Aus dem Buch: "Und meine Seele, die, wie man mich belehrte, göttlichen Ursprungs war, stellte Schönheitsforderungen...