Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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15 Jewels For Your JourneyTake the Journey. Every Step Matters.Life is a road full of twists, turns, and unexpected detours - but no part of the journey is wasted. In this heartfelt collection, Dawn Gatling invites you to walk alongside her through stories of faith, struggle, and redemption,...
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Young Discoverers: Adventures in Real-Life Curiosity and DiscoveryDiscover the incredible true stories of children who have changed how we see the world. From fossilized creatures and ancient treasures to mysterious scrolls and glimmering gems, Young Discoverers is a thrilling collection of real-life tales about some of the most astonishing discoveries ever...
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Write It When I'm Gone: Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations with Gerald R. FordThe New York Times bestseller?and the candid voice of an American president In 1974, Newsweek correspondent Thomas M. DeFrank was interviewing Gerald Ford when the Vice President blurted out something astonishingly indiscreet. He then extracted a promise not to publish it. ?Write it when...
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Windows on Washington SquareFor 40 years, Mayor Joe Riley helped guide Charleston through transformation-reviving its historic core, expanding public spaces, supporting the arts and rebuilding after disaster. But behind every groundbreaking council meeting and crisis response were the unseen decisions, doubts, debates and moments of clarity that...
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Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out*NATIONAL BESTSELLER**A WGN Radio Best Book of 2024**A Good Housekeeping Reads pick*A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a "beloved and wonderful writer" (George Saunders), teacher, bibliophile, and Thurber Prize SemifinalistWe read to escape, to learn, to find love, to...
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Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our WorldWhy Mahler? Why does his music affect us in the way it does? Norman Lebrecht, one of the world's most widely read cultural commentators, has been wrestling obsessively with Mahler for half his life. Following Mahler's every footstep from birthplace to grave, scrutinizing his...
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Who's Watching Shorty?: Reclaiming Myself from the Shame of R. Kelly's AbuseWho's Watching Shorty? is a fearless memoir about the 14-year-old-girl in the child pornography video that ultimately led to R.Kelly's trial, and one of the most high-profile cases of a generation. Reshona Landfair--known as "Jane Doe" when she testified at R. Kelly's trial--was the...
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Who Is Colin Kaepernick?Learn about the inspiring life and career of professional football player and activist Colin Kaepernick in the new Who HQ Now format featuring newsmakers and trending topics. On August 14, 2016, NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick began a protest when he refused to stand for...
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What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation about Race in AmericaA "tour de force" (Harry Belafonte) now finally in paperback An electrifying and traumatic encounter in the sixties crystallized the fraught conflict between conscience and politics - between morality and power - in addressing race. In 1963 Attorney General Robert Kennedy sought out James...
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Walk Ride Rodeo: A Story About Amberley SnyderThis is a story of a cowgirl whose love for horses overpowered all challenges put in her path. Her rodeo career began at a young age and her future was destined for success. A car accident changed Amberley's life at age eighteen, leaving her...
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Two-Part Harmony: Reflections on Love, Loss, and Forgiveness: Stories and Poems by an Aunt and Her NephewHere's a rarity-an inspiring and powerful memoir by an aunt and her nephew who have achieved a perfect harmony as people as well as writers. Through stories and poems written over the course of their entire lifetimes, the book offers their separate accounts of...
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Trinity Rodman vs. Carli Lloyd: Who Would Win?Carli Lloyd is a soccer legend, while Trinity Rodman is one of its exciting rising stars. Rodman is following in Lloyd's footsteps, with Olympic medals, World Cup appearances, and amazing goals. But who would win in a head-to-head matchup? Compare their stats and careers,...
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Tragedy to Triumph: Testimonies of Trauma and Spiritual GrowthThis spiritual read will give you a glimpse into Dr. Fatima McCoy-Leonard's childhood as she outlines her experiences with childhood trauma and her astonishing journey to spiritual growth. Growing up in marginalized communities stricken with poverty without her mother and father and the console...
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The Way Love Goes: A Guide to Building a "Beaurtiful" and Everlasting RelationshipHip-hop legend "Da Brat" DuPart and her wife Judy DuPart, stars of WEtv's highly rated reality series Brat Loves Judy, share their journey to the altar and parenthood in this candid relationship guide and marriage memoir.Hip-hop legend Da Brat and beauty entrepreneur Jesseca "Judy"...
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The VoyageurNute's best-selling book portrays the indefatigable French-Canadian canoemen, whose labors were vital to the fur trade and whose influence reaches us through the colorful songs, place names, customs, and legends they left behind.Author: Grace Lee NutePublisher: Minnesota Historical Society PressPublished: 03/01/1987Pages: 301Binding Type: PaperbackWeight:...
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The Six Queens of Henry VIIIMove over Henry VIII, it's the Queens' time to shine. Uncover the truth about these bold and brilliant Queens with this fresh, feminist guide to their lives.We all know Henry VIII had six wives. But these ladies are FAR too interesting to only be...
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The Remarkable Life of Reed Peggram: The Man Who Stared Down World War II in the Name of LoveThe dramatic and heartrending true story of one remarkable young man's account of love in the time of war, by a celebrated historian of untold Black stories On the eve of World War II, a handsome young scholar arrived in Paris. The queer, Black...
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The People Can Fly: American Promise, Black Prodigies, and the Greatest Miracle of All TimeWhat does it mean to be deemed promising in an unjust world? The award-winning poet and MIT Distinguished Chair of the Humanities interrogates this question--and offers a more expansive vision of giftedness--in this striking, original work. "The People Can Fly will levitate your mind...
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The Pain JournalFlanagan's last finished work, is an extraordinary chronicle of the final year of his life before his death from cystic fibrosis at the age of forty-three. Los Angeles writer and artist Bob Flanagan created performances with Sheree Rose that shocked and inspired audiences. He...
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The Last Resort: A Memoir of Mischief and Mayhem on a Family Farm in AfricaThrilling, heartbreaking, and, at times, absurdly funny, The Last Resort is a remarkable true story about one family in a country under siege and a testament to the love, perseverance, and resilience of the human spirit. Born and raised in Zimbabwe, Douglas Rogers is...
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