Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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James Oglethorpe, Father of Georgia: A Founder's Journey from Slave Trader to AbolitionistFounded by James Oglethorpe on February 12, 1733, the Georgia colony was envisioned as a unique social welfare experiment. Administered by twenty-one original trustees, the Georgia Plan offered England's "worthy poor" and persecuted Christians an opportunity to achieve financial security in the New World...
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It's Just the Way It Was: Inside the War on the New England Mob and other storiesIn It's Just the Way It Was: Inside the War on the New England Mob and other stories, Joe Broadmeadow and Brendan Doherty take you inside the investigations, covert surveillances, and murky world of informants in the war against Organized Crime. Make no mistake...
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I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: A MemoirA smart, funny and relatable memoir from the anticapitalist TikTok star about her journey growing up poor in Fresno, living paycheck to paycheck through multiple recessions, losing the love of her life to suicide, and finally creating a business of her own that functions...
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In the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and RedemptionWilbert Rideau, an award-winning journalist who spent forty-four years in prison, delivers a remarkable memoir of crime, punishment, and ultimate triumph. After killing a bank teller in a moment of panic during a botched robbery, Wilbert Rideau was sentenced to death at the age...
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Inspirational Football Stories for Young Readers: 12 Unbelievable True Tales to Inspire and Amaze Young Football LoversDo you consider yourself a fan of professional football?Do you love learning stories about the athletes who play on the gridiron?Have you ever heard where the "Hail Mary" play got its name? The sport of football is a battle in many ways, all carried...
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Inside Out: A MemoirINSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Daily Mail, Good Morning America, She ReadsFamed American actress Demi Moore at last tells her own story in a surprisingly intimate and emotionally charged...
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Inside GracelandIf you wanted a picture of the life of Elvis Presley, who better to paint it for you than someone who worked as his trusted cook and maid at Graceland? Someone whose daily tasks centered around keeping the 'King of Rock & Roll' happy,...
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In My Mother's Footsteps: A Palestinian Refugee Returns Home'Refugees are like seeds that scatter in the wind, and land in different soils that become their reluctant homes' my mother once told me. As a small child, I looked up at my mother and clutched her hand. The puffiness of her palm reminded...
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Inciting Joy: EssaysFrom New York Times bestselling author Ross Gay comes a "brilliant" intimate and electrifying collection of essays about the joy that comes from connection (Ada Limón, U.S. poet laureate). In these gorgeously written and timely pieces, prizewinning poet and author Gay considers the joy...
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If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won't)The New York Times bestseller from the beloved actress and Hollywood icon who's made us laugh on shows from The Mary Tyler Moore Show to Golden Girls to Saturday Night Live! In this candid take on everything from the unglamorous reality behind red-carpet affairs...
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If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me HomeA classic from the New York Times bestselling author of The Things They Carried "One of the best, most disturbing, and most powerful books about the shame that was / is Vietnam."--Minneapolis Star and TribuneBefore writing his award-winning Going After Cacciato, Tim O'Brien gave...
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I Believe in Zero: Learning from the World's ChildrenFirst-hand, human stories of hope, resilience, determination, and family: a call to see the world's children as our own, by the President and CEO of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF In I Believe in ZERO, President and CEO of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF...
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I Am Maroon: The True Story of an American Political PrisonerIn this cinematic memoir, follow one man's journey from gang member to Black liberation leader to political prisoner-and the justice and redemption he fought for along the way. Inspired by Malcolm X, Russell Shoatz became a lifelong crusader for justice, a soldier in the...
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I Am Brave: A Little Book about Martin Luther King, Jr.The littlest readers can learn about Martin Luther King, Jr., in this board book version of the New York Times bestselling Ordinary People Change the World biography. This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great--the traits that kids...
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Home Inside the Globe: Embracing Our Human FamilyA memoir taking you to far-flung places across the globe and the inner realms of the soul"Home Inside the Globe takes its place beside some of the best travel memoirs, but it stands on its own as a new kind of reading experience. Gail...
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Henri's ScissorsStep into the colorful world of Henri Matisse and his magnificent paper cutouts in this biography by acclaimed picture book creator Jeanette Winter. In a small weaving town in France, a young boy named Henri-Emile Matisse drew pictures everywhere, and when he grew up,...
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Have a Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and SweatsocksThe #1 New York Times bestselling autobiography of World Wrestling Entertainment's Hall of Famer Mick Foley, Have a Nice Day! gives an inside look into the reckless and vengeful life of one of the WWE's most complex and feared superstars.In the rich history of...
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GutsGuess what -- Gary Paulsen was being kind to Brian. In Guts, Gary tells the real stories behind the Brian books, the stories of the adventures that inspired him to write Brian Robeson's story: working as an emergency volunteer; the death that inspired the...
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Guest PrivilegesWeaving memoir with unprecedented reportage, Guest Privileges is a decade-long journey of discovery through the clandestine queer communities of the Gulf States, and into the very nature of home and belongingWhen journalist Gaar Adams first arrives in the Gulf States--where four out of five...
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Groucho And MeFirst published in the US in 1959 by Bernard Geis Associates, New York.The "Me" in the title is a comparatively unknown Marx named Julius (1895-1977), who, under the nom de plume of Groucho, enjoyed a sensational career on Broadway and in Hollywood with such...
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