Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Alexander the Great: Lives and LegaciesAn evenhanded reimagining of the Greek conqueror's life. This book offers a fresh perspective on the reign of Alexander the Great. It re-examines Alexander's military victories and personality while also exploring the impact of his campaigns on the people he conquered. Alexander's story, Stephen...
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Albert EinsteinIn this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Albert Einstein, the legendary scientist. Little Albert grew up in Germany, where it took him four years to formulate his first word. He was fascinated by...
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A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership#1 New York Times Bestseller now in paperback with new material. A Higher Loyalty provided the inspiration for The Comey Rule, the Showtime limited series starring Jeff Daniels.In his book, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes...
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A Healer and a Builder: The Life and Times of Dr. John R. AugustineA Healer and A Builder traces the life and times of Dr. John R. Augustine from his early years in Kitchener, Ontario, through his medical education at the University of Western Ontario in the late 1940s and early 1950s, to his years in Thunder...
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A Gift From The Stars: Extraterrestrial Contacts and Guide of Alien RacesThis is the true story of an abduction and a rescue by benevolent extraterrestrials, various direct contacts Elena Danaan had throughout the years with UFOs and visitors from other worlds. This book includes as well an illustrated descriptive of 110 different alien races involved...
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Africa in My Blood: An Autobiography in Letters: The Early YearsAFRICA IN MY BLOOD is an extraordinary self-portrait, in letters and commentary, of Jane Goodall's early years, from childhood to the landmark publication of IN THE SHADOW OF MAN. It reveals this remarkable woman more vividly and clearly than anything that has been published...
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Afeni Shakur: Evolution of a RevolutionaryAfeni Shakur, one of the most visible figures in both the hip-hop and civil rights movements, reveals her moral and spiritual development in an innovative memoir spanning four decades. Before becoming one of the most well-known members of the Black Power movement, Alice Faye...
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Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and ScreenwritingEnter Hollywood's inner sanctums in this gosippy and honest book, named one the top 100 film books of all time by The Hollywood Reporter, by the Academy Award-winning screenwriter and bestselling author of The Primcess Bride. No one knows the writer's Hollywood more intimately...
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A Different Journey Vietnam: 1965-1973In A Different Journey: Vietnam 1965-1973, a young man goes to Vietnam to find adventure in a place as unlike home as he could imagine. As an humanitarian aid volunteer andjournalist, Berliner encountered the Vietnamese people in their homes, markets, and cafes. Conversant in...
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Across a Rural Skyline: The Art of Andrea KowchUsing timeless imagery of powerful women, sprawling country and scenes of magical surrealism that evoke not-so-distant times and places, Andrea Kowch has risen to be one of the leading figurative realists working today. The Michigan artist is a powerhouse of a painter who is...
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A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès VardaOver the course of her sixty-five-year career, the longest of any female filmmaker, Agnès Varda (1928-2019) wrote and directed some of the most acclaimed films of her era, from her tour de force Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), a classic of modernist cinema,...
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A Childhood: A Childhood: The Biography of a Place"One of the Finest Memoirs Ever Written" -The New Yorker "A Childhood has been widely recognized as a masterpiece, a Dickensian document of survival and blight in Depression-era Georgia." -Harper's The highly acclaimed memoir of one of the most original American storytellers of the...
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A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (Pulitzer Prize Winner)One of the most acclaimed books of our time--the definitive Vietnam War exposé and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. When he came to Vietnam in 1962, Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann was the one clear-sighted participant in an...
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A Beautiful Story: Jesus & St. NickThe Christmas season is here, and you are once again juggling the story of Jesus with good Ol' St. Nick......but what if you didn't have to?This beautifully illustrated bedtime story teaches children the story behind St. Nick and how he was a follower of...
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8 Seconds of Courage: A Soldier's Story from Immigrant to the Medal of HonorIn an inspiring story of valor and the making of a hero, Florent Groberg--who grew up in France and emigrated to the US--becomes the first immigrant in forty years to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor after he tackled a suicide bomber in Afghanistan....
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8 Days Till SunriseThis is a story about a man going down a path he hadn't intended to go down where he lost his way. He thought he was going through one of life's difficult trials when he hit the side of a building at high speed...
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137: Jung, Pauli, and the Pursuit of a Scientific ObsessionIs there a number at the root of the universe? A primal number that everything in the world hinges on? This question exercised many great minds of the twentieth century, among them the groundbreaking physicist Wolfgang Pauli and the famous psychoanalyst Carl Jung. Their...
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12 Days on the RoadIn the mid-seventies, the Sex Pistols, the most controversial rock-and-roll band ever, erupted out of London, offending everyone from members of Parliament to the rock establishment it sought to unseat. With its raw, anarchic sounds, aura of sex and violence, outrageous behavior, and concerts...
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You Can't Be Like JonahIs God calling you to do something outside your comfort zone? Is He asking you to move from one place to the other, to start a ministry you feel underqualified for, to share your story with others, even though you wonder, Who am I?...
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You Can Do It!: Speak Your Mind, AmericaAn unfiltered and outrageously funny commentary on the threats to free speech in America from a legendary comedian, actor, and Emmy-nominated SNL writer. Rob Schneider's childhood in the San Francisco Bay area with parents of mixed-race backgrounds shaped his view of the world: that...
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