Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Gregor Mendel: The Friar Who Grew PeasAuthor Cheryl Bardoe and illustrator Jos. A. Smith's picture book Gregor Mendel: The Friar Who Grew Peas tells the true story about the father of genetics and his pea plants! An Orbis Pictus Honor Book An ALA-ALSC Notable Book An IRA Notable Book AAAS/Subaru...
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Golden Bones: An Extraordinary Journey from Hell in Cambodia to a New Life in AmericaWhile the United States battled Vietnamese Communists in the 1960s and 1970s, in neighboring Cambodia dictator Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge declared war on their own people, enslaving and slaughtering anybody who disagreed with them. Sichan Siv knew he would soon be a...
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Give Her Credit: The Untold Account of a Women's Bank That Empowered a GenerationThe galvanizing true story of a group of remarkable women in the 1970s male-run world of business, banking, and finance. They didn't play by the rules. They changed them and made history.In the 1970s, a new wave of feminism was sweeping America. But in...
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Ghost Dogs: On Killers and KinDuring childhood summers in Louisiana, Andre Dubus III's grandfather taught him that men's work is hard. As an adult, whether tracking down a drug lord in Mexico as a bounty hunter or grappling with privilege while living with a rich girlfriend in New York...
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George's DaughterA complex story of contradiction, disillusion and love, George's Daughter is a memoir/essay about a daughter's attempt to live in accordance with her own values, in spite of conflicts with her controlling father whom she nonetheless adores. Ultimately, her defiance of him--by refusing to...
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Gaytheist: Coming Out of My Orthodox ChildhoodStarred Review from Kirkus Reviews. "The animated evolution of a queer boy from his strict religious upbringing to a liberated adolescence. . . . Tokyo-based couple Mann and Gatts integrate their illustrative and authorial talents in this debut graphic memoir vividly detailing Mann's coming-of-age...
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Garden Secrets of Bunny MellonA treasure trove of Bunny Mellon's garden design philosophy and advice from her personal archive.Garden Secrets of Bunny Mellon is for anyone who has enjoyed time spent in a garden, from aspiring garden makers to those who manage large estates. This collection is comprised...
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From Fear to Faith: My Journey with JesusFear is something that, throughout their lives, everyone will encounter in some form or fashion. Revelation 12:11 says that we are "conquerors by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of our testimony." This book is just that--one person's testimony of how...
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Free: Coming of Age at the End of HistoryFamily and nation formed a reliable bedrock of security for precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi. She was a Young Pioneer, helping to lead her country toward the future of perfect freedom promised by the leaders of her country, the People's Socialist Republic of Albania. Then,...
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Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet TubmanBorn into slavery, young Harriet Tubman knew only hard work and hunger. Escape seemed impossible - certainly dangerous. Yet Harriet did escape North, by the secret route called the Underground Railroad. Harriet didn't forget her people. Again and again she risked her life to...
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Frederic Chopin, Son of Poland, Later YearsChopin remembered Vienna as the city where he had made an instant success with his music, so when, after years at home in Warsaw, he returned to Vienna he was heartsick to find only a cool welcome awaiting him. Vienna wanted to dance and...
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Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A chorus of extraordinary voices tells the epic story of the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present--edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. Blain, author of...
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Found and LostFound and Lost is the shocking true story of an abandoned child turned executive, and her journeyto reveal her biological family's true identity. In this book, we follow Leigha Janelle Curry (NeéShepard) as she unearths her genealogy and demands answers of those who left...
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Forgotten Founders: Black Patriots, Women Soldiers, and Other Thinkers and Heroes Who Shaped Early America"[T]he cause is just, and readers will come away with a firmer understanding that, as the introduction has it, the story of this country's founding is 'everyone's story.'"--Booklist A Junior Library Guild Gold Selection "This book will delight visual learners, history lovers, and trivia...
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Forged in Chaos: A Warrior's Origin StoryForged in chaos, shattered in peace: What happens when the war doesn't end, it just moves inside your head? Tyler Grey was the epitome of the warrior archetype: a Delta Force operator, a master of counterterrorism. He hunted the worst bullies on the world's...
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Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family"Mitch Albom has done it again with this moving memoir of love and loss. You can't help but fall for Chika. A page-turner that will no doubt become a classic." --Mary Karr, author of The Liars' Club and The Art of MemoirFrom the #1...
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Fighting for Space: Two Pilots and Their Historic Battle for Female SpaceflightSpaceflight historian Amy Shira Teitel tells the riveting story of the female pilots who each dreamed of being the first American woman in space. When the space age dawned in the late 1950s, Jackie Cochran held more propeller and jet flying records than any...
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Fast Girl: A Life Spent Running from MadnessNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe former middle distance Olympic runner and high-end escort speaks out for the first time about her battle with mental illness, and how mania controlled and compelled her in competition, but also in life. This is a heartbreakingly honest yet hopeful...
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Faithful Friends: Holocaust Survivors' Stories of the Pets Who Gave Them Comfort, Suffered Alongside Them and Waited for Their ReturnWhat happened to the pets that were left behind in World War II Europe, when Jewish families were torn from their homes and taken to ghettos and concentration camps, forced to leave neighborhoods, livelihoods, possessions, and the animals that loved and depended on them?...
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Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai on the African SavannaJoseph Lemasolai Lekuton gives American kids a firsthand look at growing up in Kenya as a member of a tribe of nomads whose livelihood centers on the raising and grazing of cattle. Readers share Lekuton's first encounter with a lion, the epitome of bravery...
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