Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Feild Notes on Little Rock: History and Memoir, 1622-2024The title Feild Notes on Little Rock is an "E before I" play on an anachronistic spelling of an old family name. The book weaves that Feild family history, extensive research, and a trove of photos, maps, and documents together to tell a story...
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Feedsack Dresses and Wild Plum Jam Remembering Farm Life in the 1950sI love watching old movies on television because I know how everything worked in them. The telephones transmitted messages - that's all. The coffee makers just made coffee and only when you set them on the stove. Typewriters didn't have screens and lots of...
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Far from Home: An Alaskan Senator Faces the Extreme Climate of Washington, D.C.A voice of reason in a polarized U.S. Senate, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska tells the story of how she learned to adapt to the harsh climate of Washington, D.C., and issues a fervent appeal for a politics grounded in compromise and compassion. "Two paths...
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Facing East: A Pilgrim's Journey Into the Mysteries of OrthodoxyThe Classic Story of a Family's Pilgrimage into the Orthodox ChurchVeiled in the smoke of incense, the Eastern Orthodox Church has long been an enigma to the Western world. Yet, as Frederica Mathewes-Green discovered, it is a vital, living faith, rich in ritual beauty...
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Eyewitness PresidentsBecome an eyewitness to America's history with a look at the leaders who have held its highest office in this visual and informative guide The iconic eyewitness is back in a new and improved format to be passed down through the generations. This picture-led...
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Etty Hillesum: An Interrupted Life and Letters from WesterborkFor the first time, Etty Hillesum's diary and letters appear together to give us the fullest possible portrait of this extraordinary woman in the midst of World War II. In the darkest years of Nazi occupation and genocide, Etty Hillesum remained a celebrant of...
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Ethan Hawke & Me: The Before TrilogyWhen Andrew Bertaina first saw the 1995 Ethan Hawke-Julie Delpy film Before Sunrise-swiping the tape from his sister's bedroom-he was fifteen, painfully shy, and living a sheltered existence in small-town California. The movie cracked something open in him, with its romantic European setting and...
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Endure: How to Work Hard, Outlast, and Keep HammeringTHE EXPLOSIVE NEW YORK TIMES AND NATIONAL BESTSELLER Push beyond your physical limits to improve yourself by following bowhunter and ultramarathoner Cameron Hanes's lifelong philosophies and disciplines."It's all mental."I say this all the time, and it's true.If you believe you can do it, you...
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Encampment: Resistance, Grace, and an Unhoused Community"Striking, elegant." - Publishers Weekly, ★ STARRED ReviewAn activist priest provides sanctuary for an encampment of unhoused people in her churchyardThe housing crisis plaguing major urban centres has sent countless people into the streets. In spring 2022, some of them found their way to...
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Else B. in the Sea: The Woman Who Painted the Wonders of the DeepElse B. in the Sea is a poetic picture book biography honoring a daring and pioneering woman artist that combines themes of art and science. Else Bostelmann donned a red swimsuit and a copper diving helmet and, with paints and brushes in hand, descended...
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Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her SuperpowerNOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An Emma Watson "Our Shared Shelf" Selection for November/December 2018 - NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018/ MENTIONED BY: The New York Public Library - Mashable - The Atlantic - Bustle - The Root - Politico Magazine...
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Elevate and Dominate: 21 Ways to Win on and Off the FieldFrom "national treasure" (Steve Harvey) Deion "Coach Prime" Sanders, the ultimate playbook of inspiring personal stories, winning strategies, and the motivation required to help us "elevate and dominate" in all aspects of our lives. A natural-born leader, Deion Sanders demands and expects the best...
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EleanorThe New York Times bestseller from prizewinning author David Michaelis presents a "stunning" (The Wall Street Journal) breakthrough portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt, America's longest-serving First Lady, an avatar of democracy whose ever-expanding agency as diplomat, activist, and humanitarian made her one of the world's...
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Ecology of a Cracker ChildhoodFrom the memories of a childhood marked by extreme poverty, mental illness, and restrictive fundamentalist Christian rules, Janisse Ray crafted a "heartfelt and refreshing" (New York Times) memoir that has inspired thousands to embrace their beginnings, no matter how humble, and to fight for...
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Early Aviation in Porter County, IndianaExplore what was happening in Porter County, Indiana, as the area welcomed the advent of aviation. Cinda Urschel, the granddaughter of aviation enthusiast William E. Urschel, interviewed many Porter County aviation pioneers and their families to gather the stories of the men and women...
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Dressed in Black: The Shangri-Las and Their Recorded LegacyThe first full-length history of the Shangri-Las, one of the most significant--and most misunderstood--pop groups of the 1960s.Sisters Mary and Betty Weiss, together with twins Mary Ann and Marguerite Ganser, were schoolgirls when they formed the Shangri-Las in 1963, and had a meteoric rise...
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Drawing on Walls: A Story of Keith HaringAn inspiring, celebratory picture book biography of iconic Pop artist Keith Haring. ★ A 2021 Rainbow Book List selection ★ A New York Public Library Best Book for Kids of 2020 ★ A Washington Post Best Children's Book of 2020 ★ A Kirkus Best...
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Donald Trump, 2nd Edition: Unprecedented PoliticianDonald Trump has been an unusual political leader ever since he was first elected to the US's highest office in 2016. President Trump's first term included more than twenty executive orders, three US Supreme Court justice nominations, and the first years of the COVID-19...
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Dirty Electricity: Electrification and the Diseases of CivilizationWhen Thomas Edison began wiring New York City with a direct current electricity distribution system in the 1880s, he gave humankind the magic of electric light, heat, and power; in the process, though, he inadvertently opened a Pandora's Box of unimaginable illness and death.Dirty...
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Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A ConfessionalNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERUSA TODAY BESTSELLERWinner of the New England Book Award for NonfictionWinner of the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Nonfiction Book of the Year "The best of what memoir can accomplish... pulling no punches on the path to truth, but it always...
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