Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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The Suicide IndexA daughter's moving account of her father's suicide and its impact on her surviving family members--"beautiful...bleak, strong, and fiercely honest" (The Washington Post) One winter morning in 1991, Joan Wickersham's father shot himself in the head. How could the man she knew and loved...
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The Story of Stan Lee: An Inspiring Biography for Young ReadersDiscover the life of Stan Lee--a story about creating your own adventures for kids ages 6 to 9Stan Lee was a famous comic book writer, artist, editor, and publisher for Marvel Comics. Before he helped create heroes like the Incredible Hulk, Spider-Man, the X-Men,...
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The Story of Malala Yousafzai: An Inspiring Biography for Young ReadersHelp kids ages 6 to 9 discover the life of Malala Yousafzai--a story about standing up for education and equal rightsMalala Yousafzai became a brave activist while she was still a young girl. Before she fearlessly fought for girls' right to education, she was...
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The Story of Lamborghini: A Tribute to Automotive ExcellenceThe Story of Lamborghini is a pocket-sized and wonderfully designed celebration of this most astonishing of supercar manufacturers. With their incredible looks and performance to match, Ferruccio Lamborghini's cars have been synonymous with speed and exclusivity for more than 60 years. In The Story...
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The Story of Jane Goodall: An Inspiring Biography for Young ReadersDiscover the life of Jane Goodall--a story about loving and protecting nature for kids 6 to 9Jane Goodall is a celebrated scientist for her studies of chimpanzees in the forests of Africa. Before she observed chimps and helped save them from losing their home,...
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The Story of Aston Martin: A Tribute to Automotive ExcellenceThe Story of Aston Martin is a compact and beautifully designed celebration of the iconic car manufacturer. With their stunning looks and powerful engineering, Aston Martin's cars have been synonymous with speed and luxury for more than 110 years. In The Story of Aston...
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The Stateless Central Asian Merchant: The Life of Haim Aghajan Abraham Based on his Journal 1897-1986Haim Abraham, born in 1897 in Turkmenistan, wrote out his memoir in a spiral-bound notebook covering a period of ninety years. After he passed away in 1999, the journal was discovered in his home, written in an ancient language: Judeo-Farsi. Years later, the journals...
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The Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for JusticeAn NBC Dateline producer's cinematic account of his two-decade journey navigating the broken criminal justice system to help free six innocent men In 2002, Dan Slepian, a veteran producer for NBC's Dateline, received a tip from a Bronx homicide detective that two men were...
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The Seed Is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, A South African SharecropperA bold and innovative social history, The Seed is Mine concerns disenfranchised black people who did so much to shape the destiny of South Africa. After years of interviews with Kas Maine and his neighbours, employers, friends, and family - a rare triumph of...
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The Secret Garden of George Washington CarverThe inspirational story of George Washington Carver and his childhood secret garden is brought to life in this picture book biography by the author-illustrator team behind Muhammad Ali: A Champion Is Born. When George Washington Carver was just a young child, he had a...
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The Sacred Stone CampA stunning account of the Sacred Stone Camp's first day, where Indigenous activist LaDonna BraveBull Allard gathered water protectors to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline The land is sacred to the people. The people are sacred to the land. As Water Protectors gather to...
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The Road to Unafraid: How the Army's Top Ranger Faced Fear and Found Courage ThroughJeff Struecker, a "Black Hawk Down" hero, the Army's Top Ranger, now an Army Chaplain, relates his own tales from the frontlines of every U.S. initiative since Panama, and tells how God taught him faith from the front in fear-soaked times. As readers go...
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The Resilience Myth: New Thinking on Grit, Strength, and Growth After TraumaA "vital, life-saving must-read" (Nora McInerny, author of Bad Vibes Only) manifesto for communal resilience based on in-depth investigations into history, social science, and psychology, from the bestselling author of Rage Becomes Her. We are often urged to rely only on ourselves for strength,...
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The Reel Thrilling Events of Bank Robber Henry Starr: From Gentleman Bandit to Movie Star and Back AgainIn 1921 headlines across the country announced the death of Henry Starr, a burgeoning silent film star who was killed while attempting to rob a bank in Harrison, Arkansas. Cynics who knew the real Starr were not surprised. Before becoming a matinee idol, Starr...
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The Real Environmentalists: How Wayne Elliott & Other Capitalists Will Save the WorldWe believe in climate change - and that humans are part of it. This book is not written by a denier, but by someone who believes the problem is real and urgent.But who's actually solving it?The Real Environmentalists spotlights the uncelebrated entrepreneurs who are...
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The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended AmericaFrom Pulitzer Prize finalist John Fabian Witt comes the captivating secret history of an epic experiment to remake American democracy. Before the dark money of the Koch Brothers, before the billions of the Ford Foundation, there was the Garland Fund. In 1922, a young...
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The Prince of Providence: The Rise and Fall of Buddy Cianci, America's Most Notorious MayorCOP: "Buddy, I think this is a whorehouse." BUDDY CIANCI: "Now I know why they made you a detective." Welcome to Providence, Rhode Island, where corruption is entertainment and Mayor Buddy Cianci presided over the longest-running lounge act in American politics. In The Prince...
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The PrinceThe Prince is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. The Prince is sometimes claimed to be one of the first works of modern philosophy, especially modern political philosophy, in which the effective truth is taken to be...
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The Priest and the Medium: The Amazing True Story of Psychic Medium B. Anne Gehman and Her Husband, Former Jesuit Priest Wayne Knoll, Ph.D.Psychic medium B. Anne Gehman gave her first spirit readings to her teddy bears at age five. Raised in the Mennonite tradition, she left home at age 14 to finish her schooling. A life-changing near-death experience led Anne to develop her natural gifts, including...
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The Places of Marguerite DurasThe first English translation of an important and evocative interview-turned-book project in Marguerite Duras' illustrious oeuvre"I could talk for hours about this house, this garden. I know it all, I know where every old door is, everything, the walls of the pond, all the...
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