Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Harpo Speaks!"This is a riotous story which is reasonably mad and as accurate as a Marx brother can make it. Despite only a year and a half of schooling, Harpo, or perhaps his collaborator, is the best writer of the Marx Brother. Highly recommended." -Library...
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Happy Birthday to You!: The Sisters Who Wrote the Most Famous Song in the WorldPatty and Mildred Hill are the most famous composers you've never heard of. They came up with "Happy Birthday to You!" in an effort to make something all children could easily sing. They ended up with a tune the whole world loved. "Happy Birthday...
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Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King Jr.Let the Scholastic Bookshelf be your guide through the whole range of your child's experiences: laugh with them, learn with them, read with them!Sixteen best-selling titles available now!Category: BiographyThis book is a beautifully-rendered study of Martin Luther King Jr.'s life, told in simple, straightforward...
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Handbook for the Recently Deceased: Movie Prop Replica Book, Perfect for Halloween Costumes and Gifts!A fantastic movie prop replica of he Handbook for the Recently Deceased! This is a lined, blank journal notebook with beautiful colored cream pages. This is perfect to use for your Beetlejuice Halloween costume, then have a handy journal to use after, or proudly...
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Great Lives in Graphics: GandhiGreat Lives in Graphics: Gandhi gives young readers a compelling visual guide to the life and times of a man who personifies peace and non-violent protest for millions all over the world.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was a shy small boy with average school grades who...
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GraysonDon't believe in interspecies communication? Grayson, author [Lynne] Cox's moving memoir about the lost baby whale she encountered when she was 17, just might change your mind.--PeopleIt was the dark of early morning; seventeen-year-old Lynne Cox was swimming her last half mile back to...
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Got the Life: My Journey of Addiction, Faith, Recovery, and KornFrom Reggie "Fieldy" Arvizu, legendary bassist of nu-metal pioneers KORN, comes Got the Life: a no-holds-barred look at his extreme highs, drug- and-booze-fueled lows, and, finally, redemption through a conversion to Christianity. Got the Life is simultaneously an insider's look at rock n' roll...
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Go Pick Peas: A Childhood Out of Touch"From the richness of castle living to the poverty of abandoned farmhouses, an inventor's daughter depicts the fear and neglect clinging to a childhood lacking simple human touch.""Get it. Verbout is a gifted storyteller." -Kirkus Reviews "I wish you all the best on your...
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Good Grandpa: Stories from the Heart of GrandfatherhoodAS SEEN ON NBC'S THE TODAY SHOW Join Ted Page as he embarks on a journey to bring together the stories and wisdom of grandfathers from all walks of life--all with a mission to nurture the next great generation. When author Ted Page found...
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Goodbye to a River: A NarrativeIn the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos River in north-central Texas. For John Graves, this project meant that if the stream's regimen was thus changed, the beautiful and sometimes brutal surrounding countryside would also change, as would the lives...
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Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival"Stunning . . . . This is an immensely courageous story that will break your heart, leave you in tears, and, finally, offer hope and redemption. Brava, Kelly Sundberg." --Rene Denfeld, author of The Child FinderIn this brave and beautiful memoir, written with the...
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Good Blood, Second EditionWhen she was a child, her father said he had "good blood" and that is why he and his wife survived and healed from the Holocaust. The author searched for the meaning and significance of her father's words over two continents and through four...
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God or Nothing"The idea of putting Magisterial teaching in a beautiful display case while separating it from pastoral practice, which then could evolve along with circumstances, fashions, and passions, is a sort of heresy, a dangerous schizophrenic pathology. I therefore solemnly state that the Church in...
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Godfather of the Kremlin: The Decline of Russia in the Age of Gangster CapitalismFrom nuclear superpower to impoverished nation, post-communist Russia has become one of the most corrupt regimes in the world. Paul Klebnikov pieces together the previous decade in Russian history, showing that a major piece of "the decline of Russia' puzzle lies in the meteoric...
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God, Country, Notre Dame: The Autobiography of Theodore M. HesburghExperience Father Hesburgh's life story in his own words in God, Country, Notre Dame.As an adviser to presidents, special envoy to popes, theologian, author, educator, and activist, Father Hesburgh was considered the most influential priest in America for decades. His autobiography brings his phenomenal...
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Giving Voice To LinnentownGiving Voice To Linnentown is a compelling true story about a young Black girl's family that lived in a thriving small Black community called Linnentown. Written by Hattie Thomas Whitehead, she describes her early childhood years in the 1960s and how her life and...
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Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created HerA plucky "titian-haired" sleuth solved her first mystery in 1930. Eighty million books later, Nancy Drew has survived the Depression, World War II, and the sixties (when she was taken up with a vengeance by women's libbers) to enter the pantheon of American girlhood....
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GingerA poor kid from Scotland, survived an abusive father, developed a passion for food, joined the US Navy, cooked for two US Presidents, and helped launch a Scottish food revolution. Ginger is an inspiring story of hardship, hard work, passion, and never taking no...
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Gifts from the Enemy"I am an ordinary person with an extraordinary past."In this true and moving story, Alter Wiener, a teen Holocaust survivor of five Nazi prison camps during World War II, transports young readers back in time when an unexpected person demonstrated moral courage in repeated...
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Getting Out of Saigon: How a 27-Year-Old Banker Saved 113 Vietnamese CiviliansA "captivating" (The Washington Post) true story of "courage, resolve, and determination" (Christian Science Monitor), author Ralph White's successful effort to save nearly the entire staff of the Saigon branch of Chase Manhattan bank and their families before the city fell to the North...
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