Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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The Most Human: Reconciling with My Father, Leonard Nimoy"Adam Nimoy has written about the challenges growing up with his famous father and about their estrangement later in life. The fact that Leonard and Adam found a way to rebuild their relationship should resonate with anyone who struggles with difficult family dynamics."--George Takei...
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The Book of Kin: On Absence, Love, and Being There"The Book of Kin is an expansive experience . . . beautiful, brave, and inventive."--Hanif AbdurraquibA remarkable debut that explores the imperfect ways we care for one another, and how we seek repair when care fails."What's our obligation to each other?" asks Jennifer Eli...
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Wellness Warrior Style: A Simple, Peer-Supported Guide to Help First Responders and Veterans HealA Warrior's Roadmap to Healing Trauma "A book that will save lives and a book about those who save lives."-Belles and RebellesWork stress relief--even after retirement--for first responders, veterans, service members, or others. Hear from warriors who credit author Kim Colegrove's first book for...
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Living Blue: Helping Law Enforcement Officers and Their Families Survive and Thrive from Recruitment to RetirementTwo perspectives. A retired Cold Case Homicide detective, Jason Palamara, and acclaimed author and thanatologist, Barbara Rubel, whose parents were police officers. As you read this book on law enforcement wellness, you'll notice that each chapter begins with Palamara's memoir, "In My Experience and...
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Momma May Be Mad: A MemoirMomma May Be Mad: A Memoir is an inventive and striking memoir about motherhood, madness, and the grace of second and third chances. Kerry Neville shares the story of how she was caught in the perfect storm of bipolar disorder, anorexia, and alcoholism when...
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Sometimes Brilliant: The Impossible Adventure of a Spiritual Seeker and Visionary Physician Who Helped Conquer the Worst Disease in HistoryWhen a powerful mystic steps on the hand of a radical young hippie doctor from Detroit, it changes lives and the world. Sometimes Brilliant is the adventures of a philosopher, mystic, hippie, doctor, groundbreaking tech innovator, and key player in the eradication of one...
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VocationVocation is a poetry collection that examines the many ways of viewing the work of a life and all that contributes to it. The book's first section, "The Voices," evokes the various individuals whose lives and voices resonate with the narrator and contribute to...
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More Than a Hobby: How a $600 Startup Became America's Home and Craft Superstore (the Inside Story of Hobby Lobby)Discover the behind-the-scenes story of the founding and exponential growth of Hobby Lobby.Learn the secrets of retail success from the man you built America's home-and-craft superstore--from the ground up.The retail industry has undergone enormous changes during the last thirty years. But there is one...
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Eleanor of Aquitaine: Woman, Queen and LegendAn approachable biography of medieval Europe's most powerful (and enigmatic) queen. Eleanor of Aquitaine (1124-1204), the legendary queen of France and later England, has captivated historians for centuries. Heiress to the Duchy of Aquitaine, wife to King Henry II, and mother to Richard the...
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Meet Anthony Edwards: Minnesota Timberwolves SuperstarAnthony Edwards has only played pro basketball for a few years, but he's already a star. The shooting guard for the Minnesota Timberwolves was an NBA All-Star in 2023 and 2024. He even played for Team USA in the 2024 Summer Olympic Games! Follow...
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Brother & Sister: A MemoirNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER When they were kids in the suburbs of Los Angeles in the 1950s, Diane Keaton and her younger brother, Randy, were best friends and companions. But as they grew up, Randy became troubled, then reclusive. Before he was thirty, he...
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The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine DynastyAn epic, scandal-plagued story of the immigrant family that built--and then spectacularly lost--a global wine empireSet in California's lush Napa Valley and spanning four generations of a talented and visionary family, The House of Mondavi is a tale of genius, sibling rivalry, and betrayal....
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Israel, a Personal History: A Personal HistoryCombining poignant memoir and historical research, a son of Holocaust survivors grapples with the dream of Zionism and its consequences. Israel: A Personal History takes off where Göran Rosenberg's internationally acclaimed and award-winning childhood memoir, A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz, ends....
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Wilma Rudolph: The Graphic NovelA thrilling graphic novel about Wilma Rudolph, who overcame obstacles and odds to become one of the greatest track stars of all time! When Wilma Rudolph was just a young girl, she lost strength in her leg and foot after contracting polio. Forced to...
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Guinness: A Family Succession: The True Story of the Struggle to Create the World's Largest BreweryThe head of the Guinness family tells the dramatic true story of how his ancestors created the largest brewery in the world. Growing up at Farmleigh, the country house outside Dublin, Arthur Edward Guinness - Ned for short - was fascinated by the secrets...
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The Swimmer of Auschwitz: The Incredible True Story of the Olympic Hero Who Swam for His LifeThe extraordinary story of Olympian who was imprisoned in Auschwitz and survived to tell his story. "Sports writer Leblond revisits in his propulsive English-language debut the life of Alfred Nakache, an Olympic athlete who was forced to swim for his guards' entertainment at Auschwitz......
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Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophy in the Age of AirplanesThe first biography in more than three decades of the Austrian-born thinker Ludwig Wittgenstein, one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century According to the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), philosophy is a "battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of...
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Selected Letters of John UpdikeThe arc of literary giant John Updike's life emerges in these luminous daily letters to family, friends, editors, and lovers--a remarkable outpouring over six decades, from his earliest consciousness as a writer to his final days. As James Schiff writes in the introduction to...
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The ChairLeader: Lead Without LimitsWhen former pro football player Chris Malleo took over a broken high school program, he expected a challenge. What he didn't expect was that the person who would help rebuild it had never coached a football game and had been born with cerebral palsy....
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To Rescue the American Spirit: Teddy Roosevelt and the Birth of a SuperpowerFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author and Fox News Channel's Chief Political Anchor, a captivating biography of Teddy Roosevelt, whose bold leadership thrust America onto the world stage and changed the course of U.S. history.There has never been a president like Theodore Roosevelt....
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