Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Stripped Down: Unfiltered and UnapologeticFrom the trailer parks of Vegas to the mansions of Nashville, Bunnie Xo has lived a lot of lives and seen the darkest sides of humanity. Her memoir, Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic, is cold, clear evidence that no one is irredeemable. With a...
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Strangers on a Bridge: The Case of Colonel Abel and Francis Gary PowersThe #1 New York Times bestseller and subject of the acclaimed major motion picture Bridge of Spies directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Hanks as James B. Donovan. Originally published in 1964, this is the "enthralling...truly remarkable" (The New York Times Book Review) insider...
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Slow Dancing with a Stranger: Lost and Found in the Age of Alzheimer'sEmmy-award winning broadcast journalist and leading Alzheimer's advocate Meryl Comer's Slow Dancing With a Stranger is a profoundly personal, unflinching account of her husband's battle with Alzheimer's disease that serves as a much-needed wake-up call to better understand and address a progressive and deadly...
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Signposts: Unexpected Encounters of Grace, Mercy & TruthChrist never avoided the mess. He stepped into it-touching the unclean, healing the sick, and lifting the afflicted. Signposts reveals that He still steps into our messes today.Travel through combat zones, overcrowded emergency units, shopping malls, and everyday neighborhoods to discover a Christ who...
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Shores Beyond Shores: From Holocaust to Hope - A Bergen-Belsen Survivor's True Story2025 Recipient of THE ANNE FRANK AWARD FOR HUMAN DIGNITY AND TOLERANCE, from the Dutch Government2024 Recipient of THE OFFICER'S CROSS OF THE ORDER OF MERIT of the Federal Republic of Germany, Germany's highest civilian medalNATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALIST"Irene Butter's book is a...
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Saddled: How a Spirited Horse Reined Me in and Set Me FreeOne day, at the age of thirty-one, Susan Richards realized that she was an alcoholic. She wrote it down in her journal, struck by the fact that it had taken nine years of waking up hung-over to name her illness. What had changed? Susan...
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Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary ShelleyNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SEATTLE TIMES This groundbreaking dual biography brings to life a pioneering English feminist and the daughter she never knew. Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley have each...
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Rethinking RaceRethinking Race: A Memoir was written as an act of compassionate antiracism. The book invites people to better understand their role in fighting racism by calling them into the struggle rather than calling them out. It is the true story of everyday challenges and...
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Rehab All-StarFollow the author's harrowing descent from a successful journalist and communications professional into severe addiction to alcohol and drugs, including multiple relapses and a dozen stays in various inpatient rehabilitation facilities.At center is the "Rehab All-Star" paradox: the tendency to thrive within structured environments...
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Rebel of the Regency: The Scandalous Saga of Caroline of Brunswick, Britain's Queen Without a Crown*A Washington Post Notable Book for February!*The dramatic, absolutely outrageous story of Caroline of Brunswick, a beloved icon of the Regency era, who uplifted the voice of the public and unabashedly defied society's expectations, yet was shockingly robbed of her crown, from the host...
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Reach Up: My Beautiful Journey with James DePreistGinette Depreist's life with James DePreist was a wonderful one. One filled with excitement, rewards and love with a partner she would have never dreamed of. His life, however, was so much more. His journey took him through so many twists and turns and...
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Queens of the Conquest: England's Medieval Queens Book OneA captivating, sweeping saga of England's medieval queens, from the New York Times bestselling author hailed as "the finest historian of English monarchical succession writing" (The Boston Globe) "Polished [and] fascinating . . . It was a man's world but, as Weir convincingly shows,...
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Power Hungry: Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a MovementTwo unsung women whose power using food as a political weapon during the civil rights movement was so great it brought the ire of government agents working against them In early 1969 Cleo Silvers and a few Black Panther Party members met at a...
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Places and Names: On War, Revolution, and ReturningOne of NPR's Best Books of 2019 "Lyrical . . . A thoughtful perspective on America's role overseas." --Washington Post From a decorated Marine war veteran and National Book Award finalist, an astonishing reckoning with the nature of combat and the human cost of...
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Place Envy: Essays in Search of OrientationA queer, Jewish writer searches for belonging across countries, identities, and histories in a moving collection of essays about orientation and home. Growing up in places where his family had no past, and met mostly by silence from his Holocaust-refugee grandparents, Michael Lowenthal longed...
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Pioneer WomenFrom a rediscovered collection of autobiographical accounts written by hundreds of Kansas pioneer women in the early twentieth century, Joanna Stratton has created a collection hailed by Newsweek as "uncommonly interesting" and "a remarkable distillation of primary sources." Never before has there been such...
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Phantom Paradise: Escape from ManchuriaAFTER THE JAPANESE EMPIRE COLLAPSED OVERNIGHT, CIVILIANS WERE ABANDONED TO FIGHT FOR THEIR LIVESWhen Soviet forces stormed into Manchuria at the end of World War II, a young mother was left alone with her small children in a world suddenly filled with terror and...
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Parallel Lives: Five Victorian MarriagesIn her study of the married couple as the smallest political unit, Phyllis Rose uses the marriages of five Victorian writers who wrote about their own lives with unusual candor: Charles Dickens, John Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill, and George Eliot--née Marian Evans.Author:...
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Out of the Rough: Ted Rhodes and His Fight Against Golf's Color BarrierThe long-overdue biography of golfing pioneer Ted Rhodes. After winning The Masters in 1997, Tiger Woods paused to express gratitude to three African American golf pioneers. One was Ted Rhodes. As prolific as Woods would go on to become, his success paled when compared...
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OpenedVulnerable, provocative, and laugh-out-loud honest, OPENED is more than a story about non-monogamy-it's about what happens when a woman stops asking for permission to want more.Courtney Boyer was a therapist and relationship coach who spent years teaching others how to communicate, connect, and love....
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