Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Real Physicians Real FaithIn the fall of 2024, Ben spent a sabbatical at The Faraday Institute for Science & Religion and St Edmund's College, University of Cambridge. The Faraday Institute is a welcoming community of keen-minded scholars and good-hearted friends. The place is a beehive of activity....
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Raising Giants: My Extraordinary Journey with TWO NFL SonsAn insider's story with lessons learnedIt was late 1980s when two off-the-chart babies were born in West Los Angeles, California. Geoffrey and Mitchell Schwartz popped out at the 95th percentile and never looked back. ultimately parlaying their physical and intellectual attributes into lengthy NFL...
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Radical Endurance: Growing Old in an Age of LongevityA personal guide to the transformations, hard truths, profound pleasures, and infinite possibilities of aging One May morning shortly before her seventy-fifth birthday, Andrea Gilats awoke to a startling, sudden spike in consciousness that she was about to leap from older to old. Radical...
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Rabboni: Which Is to Say, MasterThis classic devotional from the best-selling author of "A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23" surveys the ministry of Jesus Christ through both the Old and New Testaments. Keller begins with the Lord's role in creation and ends with His return as the conquering King.Author:...
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Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's StoryA Washington Post "Most Anticipated" Book of the Year - A New York Times "Must Read" For readers of My Dark Places and The Fact of a Body, a beautiful, brutal memoir documenting one woman's search for identity alongside her family's decades-long quest to...
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Possibility Is Your Superpower: Unlock Your Endless PotentialTaking readers on her journey from dictator-occupied Argentina to her duties as an executive producer for Marvel Studios, Victoria Alonso shares how anyone can live in a heightened state of possibility and use their voice for change and empowerment. As a creative powerhouse and...
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Playing from the Rough: A Personal Journey Through America's 100 Greatest Golf CoursesA "wonderful story of passion, commitment, resilience, and determination," (Paul Gasol, former NBA All-Star) about one man's quest to become the first person to play each of America's 100 greatest golf courses in a single year, an odyssey that brings him face to face...
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Photographic: The Life of Graciela IturbideA Boston Globe-Horn Book Nonfiction Award Winner and a Moonbeam Children's Book Gold Award Winner, Photographic is a picture book biography of Graciela Iturbide from author Isabel Quintero and illustrator Zeke Peña. Graciela Iturbide was born in Mexico City in 1942, the oldest of...
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Phosphorescence: A Memoir of Finding Joy When Your World Goes Dark"Both timeless and timely, this is a book of wisdom and wonder" (Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March), a deeply personal exploration of what can sustain us through our darkest moments. "What has fascinated and sustained me over these last few years has...
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Persepolis Box SetAn attractive boxed set of Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed graphic memoir of growing up as a girl in revolutionary Iran "A wholly original achievement.... Satrapi evokes herself and her schoolmates coming of age in a world of protests and disappearances.... A stark, shocking...
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People the Planet Needs Now: Voices for Justice, Science, and a Future of PromiseFind inspiration to affect global change with stories and perspectives from people the planet needs now: 25 Black and Brown scientists and activists.From climate change and industrial waste to social injustice and poverty, the challenges that our world faces are daunting. To make matters...
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Patricia St. John Tells Her Own StoryAnyone who has read Patricia St. John's books already knows how her stories come alive, and this account of her own life is no exception. Her powers of description make the story leap from the page and the reader is transported to far off...
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Paris: The Memoir***An Instant New York Times Bestseller***From the woman who is credited for launching what we know as the celebrity focused, "brand" driven, social media obsessed popular culture of today, comes an honest and surprising memoir that reckons with that truth, and shows that there...
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Paris in Winter: An Illustrated MemoirA newly expanded edition of the beloved Paris in Winter absorbs readers into magic of the City of Light, showcasing its serendipitous essence and cultural treasures anew with a captivating contemporary introduction and whimsical illustrations by author and artist David Coggins Paris in Winter...
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Out of Hiding: A Holocaust Survivor's Journey to America (with a Foreword by Alan Gratz)With a foreword by Alan Gratz, New York Times bestselling author of Refugee.Ruth Gruener was a hidden child during the Holocaust. At the end of the war, she and her parents were overjoyed to be free. But their struggles as displaced people had just...
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Our Vietnam Wars, Volume 2: as told by more veterans who servedWant to know what Vietnam was really like? 60 Stories, 271 photographs, and 4.6 Stars on over 100 customer reviews.From a Marine sniper in Hue, to a medevac dust-off pilot going into a hot LZ, Navy Corpsmen, A-6 pilots taking out bridges and SAM...
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Our Town, Our KidsEric Protzman chaired the Young Life committee and Andy Morman served as the Area Director. When they began their journey together, they brimmed with confidence and trust.In just a few years, they couldn't stand each other, and their Young Life Area struggled because of...
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Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution"A fast-paced, often riveting account of the military and political events leading up to the Declaration of Independence and those that followed during the war ... Brands does his readers a service by reminding them that division, as much as unity, is central to...
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Other People: The Puzzle of LifeFor the first 16 years of his life, Michael Piraino considered the world a safe and compassionate place. Then he encountered the deeply dark aspect of the world. This memoir describes the many people, places, and stories that helped him construct a life full...
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Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years before. But that past has caught up...
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