Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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I Have a Love StoryNatalie MacMaster has captivated audiences for decades with her masterful Celtic fiddling and electrifying performances. Winner of many music awards, Grammy nominee, and recipient of the Order of Canada, she has collaborated with a host of musical legends, including the Boston Pops, The Chieftains,...
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How to Score in Hollywood: Secrets to Success in the Movie BusinessHow to Score in Hollywood reveals the secrets to a movie's success and profitability. Entertainment research expert Kevin Goetz shares how smart, data-driven decisions--from development to release--help filmmakers minimize risks and maximize returns. How to Score in Hollywood reveals the secrets to a movie's...
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Hidden Cities: Travels to the Secret Corners of the World's Great Metropolises: A Memoir of Urban ExplorationIn this fascinating glimpse into the world of urban exploration, Moses Gates describes his trespasses in some of the most illustrious cities in the world from Paris to Cairo to Moscow.Gates is a new breed of adventurer for the 21st century. He thrives on...
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Hemingway's Key WestThe only place in the United States that Hemingway could really call home after he started writing was the tropical island of Key West. During his decade here in the 1930s, he acquired his famed macho persona as Papa, the biggest Big Daddy of...
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Hell's Kitchen: Behind the DreamA stunning behind-the-scenes look into Alicia Keys' hit Broadway musical, Hell's Kitchen, featuring never-before-seen photographs, exclusive interviews, and insights from Keys herself. Hell's Kitchen debuted on Broadway in 2024--and the show has been electrifying audiences ever since. With plenty of awards attention, the musical...
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Guys Read: True StoriesJon Scieszka's Guys Read anthology series for tweens turns to nonfiction in its fifth volume, True Stories. The fifth installment in the Guys Read Library of Great Reading features ten stories that are 100% amazing, 100% adventurous, 100% unbelievable--and 100% true. A star-studded group...
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Grit, Spit, and Never Quit: A Marine's Guide to Comedy and LifeComedian Rob Riggle's frank, funny, and inspirational memoir about how the lessons he learned while serving in the US Marines prepared him for life, especially when it came to pursuing his comedy dreams. Before he graced movie screens in films like The Hangover and...
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Good Grief: On Loving Pets, Here and Hereafter"A wonderful, unusual, and healing book. . . Read this book to affirm that love never dies, and you are not alone."--Sy MontgomeryAn unexpected, poignant, and personal account of loving and losing pets, exploring the singular bonds we have with our companion animals, and...
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Girls Play Dead: Acts of Self-PreservationA lyrical and groundbreaking exploration of the misunderstood ways women survive and forever carry trauma from the award-winning New York Times Magazine writer Jen Percy. "A groundbreaking exploration of women's often shamed and silenced responses to sexual assault...Extensive, empathetic...A vital record of a little...
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Getting Dressed in the Dark: An Artist's Way HomeWhile the story will forever be fiercely hers, Getting Dressed in the Dark opens a mirror or portal between D'Italia and her reader, inviting in all those attempting vulnerable journeys of discovery and creative birthings of their own. In each faceted chapter, D'Italia varyingly...
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Front Street: Resistance and Rebirth in the Tent Cities of Techlandia"This heartfelt debut study from journalist Barth offers a window into Silicon Valley's homeless encampments . . . [An] up-close, multifaceted representation of an unhoused community." --Publishers Weekly In his first book, award-winning investigative journalist Brian Barth takes us on an immersive journey deep...
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From Here to the Great Unknown: Oprah's Book Club: A Memoir#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - Born to an American myth and raised in the wilds of Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley tells her whole story for the first time in this raw, riveting, one-of-a-kind memoir faithfully...
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Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam VetWinner of the Pulitzer Prize, Lewis B. Puller, Jr.'s memoir is a moving story of a man born into a proud military legacy who struggles to rebuild his world after the Vietnam War has shattered his body and his ideals. Raised in the shadow...
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Focus: The ASML way - Inside the power struggle over the most complex machine on earth'A fabulous look at the world's most indispensable machines and the most vital company you've never heard of.' - Ben Cohen, Wall Street Journal 'Marc Hijink provides an unparalleled analysis of ASML's extraordinary rise.' - Chris Miller, author of Chip war.For decades the most...
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Flying Free: How Bessie Coleman's Dreams Took FlightBased on Karyn Parson's critically acclaimed Sweet Blackberry video series comes the story of Bessie Coleman, the first African American pilot to fight for her right to fly. Before Bessie Coleman blazed a high trail with her plane . . . Before she performed...
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Flagrant, Self-Destructive Gestures: A Biography of Denis JohnsonThe year was 1988, and Denis Johnson was at a low point. He caught malaria on a reporting trip into the jungles of the Philippines and was nearly pronounced dead. The disease left him unable to write. His second wife left him. He didn't...
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Firestorm at Peshtigo: A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History"Novelist Denise Gess and historian William Lutz brilliantly restore the event to its rightful place in the forefront of American historical imagination." --Chicago Sun-Times On October 8, 1871--the same night as the Great Chicago Fire--the lumber town of Peshtigo, Wisconsin, was struck with a...
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Finding My Way: A MemoirA USA TODAY MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK "A remarkably intimate and insistently human chronicle of a moral authority's coming of age." --The New York Times This is not the story you think you know. It's the one I've been waiting to tell. Thrust onto the...
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Finding My Pole Star: Memoir of an American hero's life of faithful military service and as an active business and community leaderDecember 17, 2021, marks the 40th anniversary of the kidnapping of then Brigadier General James Lee Dozier in Verona, Italy by Red Brigade terrorists. Dozier was held captive for 42 days before being rescued by a special operations team -- a news story that...
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Fifty-Six CountiesMontana has a long and celebrated tradition of artful, reflective nonfiction. From Joseph Kinsey Howard's Montana: High, Wide, and Handsome to K. Ross Toole's Montana: An Uncommon Land, we've been gifted with a series of erudite and sharp-eyed guides to help show us who...
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