Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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From the Prairie to the Pacific: A Blue Angel's JourneyFrom the Prairie to the Pacific is the story of one man's journey from rural North Dakota to the cockpits of U.S. Navy jet fighters and ultimately Captain of a flagship aircraft carrier. Gil Rud flew combat missions over Vietnam in A-7 Corsair II...
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Steep: A Black Neurosurgeon's JourneySteep traces an odyssey from a poor Boston neighborhood to a neurosurgical practice in Middle America. It's more about the price of success than the weight of bigotry - a story of resilience and self-discovery that will resonate with anyone who has wrestled with...
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Ozzy Osbourne: The Official Coloring BookAll Aboard! Step into the universe of Ozzy Osbourne with his only official Coloring Book! The only official Ozzy Osbourne coloring book has arrived! With 72 pages of art, worthy of the "Prince of Darkness" artistry and sense of humor. Revisit his entire solo...
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LeonardoFilling notebook after notebook with sketches, inventions, and theories, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) not only stands as one of the most exceptional draftsmen of art history, but also as a mastermind and innovator who anticipated some of the greatest discoveries of human progress, sometimes...
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Beyoncé: Renaissance WomanWhen Beyoncé stepped onto a stage for the first time at the age of seven, her career was just beginning. Over the following decades, she would skyrocket to a level of fame only few artists can claim. Beyoncé Renaissance Woman chronicles Beyoncé's life and...
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Fearless Benjamin: The Quaker Dwarf Who Fought SlaveryBenjamin Lay's remarkable life story can be a lesson in courage and hope for us all. Fearless Benjamin tells the story of a courageous little person, only four feet tall, who fought slavery at a time when almost everyone else accepted it. A shepherd,...
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Learning to Live in the Dark: Essays in a Time of CatastropheIn these hard-hitting and deeply personal essays, Nation writer and veteran activist Wen Stephenson traces his search for resolve in the face of our converging climate and political catastrophes. After three decades of failed international efforts to avoid catastrophic climate change, progressive visions of...
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That's Gonna Leave a Mark: Chronicles of an Appalachian CoronerIf you've ever wondered exactly what role the coroner plays in the investigation of sudden and unexpected deaths, That's Gonna Leave a Mark will take you behind the scenes and give you significant insight into the day-to-day operations of the job. While one might...
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3000 Questions about Me3000 Questions About Me - A Guided Journal for Self-Discovery and Personal Insight Get to know yourself on a deeper level with 3000 Questions About Me, a guided journal designed to spark introspection, encourage self-awareness, and promote personal growth. With 204 pages and thousands...
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Stumbling BlocksStumbling Blocks, a second-generation Holocaust memoir, tells Jennifer's and Paul's stories.Paul, Jennifer's father, was born in Germany in 1928. At the age of ten, just after Kristallnacht, his parents sent him and his older sisters to Belgium. There, they lived for two years with...
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A Bookshop of One's Own: How a Group of Women Set Out to Change the WorldWhat was it like to start a feminist bookshop, in an industry dominated by men? How could a lesbian thrive in Thatcher's time, with the government legislating to restrict her rights? How do you run a business when your real aim is to change...
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My Best Friend Fred: The Real-Life Adventures of Fred and Uncle DaveMany of us have pet dogs that we adore, and this is a perfect book for anyone to read, especially with their children, to shar the love of dogs. This book will take you on countless adventures with 'Uncle Dave' and Fred, showing how...
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High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know about Drugs and SocietyWinner of the PEN / E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award"Moving and inspiring.... Hart's memoir, especially his description of meeting his now-adult son, is deeply honest and often painful. And his account of the ways in which scientific evidence has been ignored in the...
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This Is Me: Loving the Person You Are TodayAn inspirational book about life and its lessons from the Golden Globe and Emmy nominated star of NBC's This Is Us.When This Is Us debuted in fall 2016, a divided America embraced a show that celebrates human connection. The critically acclaimed series became America's...
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The Recovering: Intoxication and Its AftermathFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy Exams comes this transformative work showing that sometimes the recovery is more gripping than the addiction. With its deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and reportage, The Recovering turns...
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John Quincy Adams: A Man for the Whole PeopleA magisterial journey through the epic life and transformative times of John Quincy Adams In this masterful biography, historian Randall B. Woods peels back the many layers of John Quincy's long life, exposing a rich and complicated family saga and a political legacy that...
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Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of EspionageFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls comes the never-before-told story of a small cadre of influential female spies in the precarious early days of the CIA--women who helped create the template for cutting-edge espionage (and blazed new...
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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A special 20th anniversary edition of the beloved book that changed millions of lives--with a new afterword by the author "A wonderful book, a story of the heart told by a writer with soul."--Los Angeles TimesMaybe it was...
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Nuestra América: 30 Inspiring Latinas/Latinos Who Have Shaped the United StatesCelebrate 30 influential Latinas/Latinos/Latinxs in U.S. history with Nuestra América, a fully-illustrated anthology from the Smithsonian Latino Center. Nuestra América highlights the inspiring stories of thirty Latina/o/xs throughout history and their incredible contributions to the cultural, social, and political character of the United States....
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She Kept Dancing: The True Story of a Professional Dancer with a Limb DifferenceThis warm and inviting picture book, cowritten with Catherine Laudone and brightly illustrated by Natelle Quek, takes young readers along on Sydney's journey--through the joyous ups as well as the crushing downs--and tells the story of how through it all, she kept dancing. No...
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