Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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The Playing Lesson: A Duffer's Year Among the ProsYou are cordially invited to join Michael Bamberger on a year-long golfing adventure--playing alongside the pros of the PGA Tour, the LPGA Tour, LIV Golf, and more--as he seeks to unlock golf's most stubborn secrets in various and surprising ways, all in the name...
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The Permanent Holdout: Jackson Browne, His Music, His AmericaKnown for albums like Late for the Sky, The Pretender, and Running on Empty, Jackson Browne was a master of capturing the counterculture ethos of the 1960s. Cornel Bonca dives deeply into his music, his long fifty-year career, and activism--including environmentalism--within the context of...
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The P-38 Lightning and the Men Who Flew ItThe P-38 Lightning was one of the fastest operational fighters of World War II, famous for its successes in North Africa and the Pacific. In The P-38 Lightning and the Men Who Flew It, Wolfgang W. E. Samuel shares the stories of the young...
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Theoderic the Great: King of Goths, Ruler of RomansThe first full-scale history of Theoderic and the Goths in more than seventy-five years, tracing the transformation of a divided kingdom into a great power "A monumental exploration. . . . It is the most important treatment of its subject since Wilhelm Ensslin's 1947...
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The Mirabal Sisters / Las hermanas Mirabal: From Caterpillars to Butterflies / De orugas a mariposasHonorable Mention. 2024 Campoy-Ada Award.The Mirabal sisters lived during a time when the Dominican Republic was ruled by a very harsh dictatorship. Even though they were daughters, wives, and mothers, Patria, Minerva, and Mar?a Teresa went against the norm and bravely stood up to...
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The Man in the Arena: The Story of an Aviator's Roller-Coaster Ride to the Clouds and BackFly with Captain Tom Cooper on this most incredible roller coaster ride from a rural, Mayberry-ish community in the foothills of North Carolina to the apex of the scheduled airline world.A superb story teller, Captain Cooper takes you on a breathtaking trip with intermediate...
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The Lucky Ones: My Passionate Fight for Farm AnimalsJonathan Safran Foer meets Jeffrey Moussaieff Mason in a poignant, provocative memoir of survival, compassion, and awakening to the reality of our food system. Jenny Brown was ten years old when she lost a leg to bone cancer. Throughout the ordeal, her constant companion...
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The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a PresidentAn "elegant and illuminating" (Jon Meacham) family love story, revealing how an icon of rugged American masculinity was profoundly shaped by the women in his life, especially his mother, sisters, and wives. Theodore Roosevelt wrote in his senior thesis for Harvard in 1880 that...
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The Life of Singleton: From Boyz N the Hood to SnowfallThe Life of Singleton will be the definitive account of film icon John Singleton's life and times. John Singleton became a living legend at just 24 years old when he earned Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for Boyz N...
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The Last Women of the Durham Coalfield: Hannah's Granddaughter Volume 3'As this book shows, the women of the Durham coalfield played an equal role in shaping daily life and trajectories of history in the region, just as women today are building their own futures in communities around the world.' - Hillary Rodham ClintonThe Second...
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The Last Empress of France: The Rebellious Life of Eug?nie de MontijoThe dramatic, untold story of Eug?nie de Montijo, the woman who created haute couture, fought for women's rights, opened France's schools to girls and ruled the country as its last empress, yet today remains almost unknown.Although a nineteenth-century woman, her almost twenty-first century outlook...
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The Last 3 YearsThe Last 3 Years, based on the true story of the author's journey, offers a deeply personal account of love, heartbreak, and the transformative power of choosing oneself. Through the voice of Lily, a young woman navigating the highs of a passionate romance and...
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The LamdonisDevorah Leah was a little girl with a big secret. She lived at a time when there were no Jewish schools for girls, and many people thought that girls shouldn't learn Torah at all. But Devorah Leah taught herself to read, and began studying...
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The Jannayak Karpoori Thakur: Voice of the VoicelessKarpoori Thakur, often called Jannayak, was a legendary leader from Bihar who had a significant impact on India's politics. In early 2024, he was posthumously honoured with the Bharat Ratna in recognition of his extraordinary contributions to society. Commemorating his birth centenary, this gripping...
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The Jailhouse LawyerA searing and ultimately hopeful account of Calvin Duncan, "the most extraordinary jailhouse lawyer of our time" (Sister Helen Prejean), and his thirty-year path through Angola after a wrongful murder conviction, his coming-of-age as a legal mind while imprisoned, and his continued advocacy for...
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The Guerrilla Feminist: A Search for Belonging Online and OfflineThe Guerrilla Feminist: A Search for Belonging Online & Offline is a raw, deeply personal, and sharply insightful journey through the intersections of digital activism, feminism, and the relentless pursuit of belonging. Lachrista Greco, the powerhouse behind Guerrilla Feminism, takes readers on an unflinching...
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The Guerrilla Feminist: A Search for Belonging Online and OfflineThe Guerrilla Feminist: A Search for Belonging Online & Offline is a raw, deeply personal, and sharply insightful journey through the intersections of digital activism, feminism, and the relentless pursuit of belonging. Lachrista Greco, the powerhouse behind Guerrilla Feminism, takes readers on an unflinching...
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The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of UsNATIONAL BESTSELLER This "lively and important portrait of a true literary revolutionary" (Los Angeles Times) explores Judy Blume's life, work, and cultural impact, focusing on her most iconic--and controversial--young adult novels, from Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret to Blubber. Everyone knows Judy...
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The Forbidden Zone 1940This is a continuation of the story of Anne Angelo, as published in the companion book: A Sprig of White Heather and a Scottish Lass. It is a heart-warming story that completely justifies the researching and writing. It demonstrates how inexorably lives can be...
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The First Stampede of Flores Ladue: The True Love Story of Florence and Guy Weadick and the Beginning of the Calgary StampedeIn honor of the 100th anniversary of the Calgary Stampede, Bryden presents this #1 Calgary Herald bestseller detailing the fascinating true story of the romance that started the Stampede. The love story of rodeo promoter Guy Weadick and trick roper Flores LaDue began among...
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