Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Jermain Wesley Loguen: Defiant FugitiveA gripping biography of a man who escaped slavery to become an influential abolitionist, famously known as the "King of the Underground Railroad" Jermain Wesley Loguen (1813-1872) was a fugitive from slavery, an abolitionist, and a minister, teacher, and political activist. He worked alongside...
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Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a LegAuthor: Rebecca RomneyPublisher: Center PointPublished: 10/01/2025Pages: 500Binding Type: Library BindingWeight: 1.64lbsSize: 8.63h x 5.83w x 1.25dISBN: 9798891646490
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Jalen Hurts vs. John Elway: Who Would Win?Hall of Famer John Elway is considered one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time. Jalen Hurts is a rising star quarterback with a bright future ahead. Between them, Hurts and Elway have three Super Bowl appearances and careers full of highlights. But who...
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Jalen Hurts: Dual-Threat QuarterbackJalen Hurts was a five-sport athlete in high school. He put all his focus into football and chose to play at the University of Alabama. Despite starting strong, Hurts was eventually benched. This adversity made him a stronger player and reshaped his future, taking...
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Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab"The story of the Cherokee removal has been told many times, but never before has a single book given us such a sense of how it happened and what it meant, not only for Indians, but also for the future and soul of America."...
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I Would Meet You Anywhere: A MemoirA Library Journal best memoir of 2023 - Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography Growing up with adoptive nisei parents, Susan Kiyo Ito knew only that her birth mother was Japanese American and her father white. But finding and meeting her birth...
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I Used to Have Cancer: How I Found My Own Way Back to HealthBy all standards of success, James Templeton seemed to have it all. He was a highly successful businessman, had a beautiful wife and daughter, and, only in his early thirties, had his whole life in front of him. To avoid the same fate as...
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Irascible: The Combative Life of Douglas Cooper, Collector and Friend of PicassoA pioneering collector of Cubist art, the English art historian and critic Douglas Cooper was one of the most important--and divisive--figures in the international art world of the 20th century Born into a wealthy family whose money was made in the 19th century in...
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I Only Believe in Myself: Conversation with Murielle JoudetA long-form dialogue--on cinema and survival--with the visionary French filmmaker. The virtuous always engage in a pseudoreligious morality. But there's one thing they never say: the desire for pleasure is thought in motion. It's what makes you transfigure a dull and repetitive sexual act...
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Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath--And BeyondA rollicking, effusive, and candid memoir by the heavy metal musician and founding member of Black Sabbath, covering his years as the band's bassist and main lyricist through his later-career projects, and detailing how one of rock's most influential bands formed and prevailed. With...
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In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage"In climbing the Seven Summits, Silvia Vasquez-Lavado did nothing less than take back her own life--one brave step at a time. She will inspire untold numbers of souls with this story, for her victory is a win on behalf of all of us."--Elizabeth Gilbert...
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In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer"No matter how many Holocaust stories one has read, this one is a must, for its impact is so powerful."--School Library Journal, starred I did not ask myself, "Should I do this?" but "How will I do this?" Through this intimate and compelling memoir,...
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Impossible Odds: The Kidnapping of Jessica Buchanan and Her Dramatic Rescue by SEAL Team SixA New York Times bestseller! In 2006, twenty-seven-year-old Jessica Buchanan stepped off a plane in Nairobi, Kenya, with a teaching degree and long-held dreams of helping to educate African children. By 2009, she had met and married a native Swede named Erik Landemalm, who...
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Imaginary Borders"It won't take you long to read this book, but it will linger in your heart and head for quite a while, and perhaps inspire you to join in the creative, blossoming movement to make this world work." -- Bill McKibben, environmentalist, New York...
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Illustrated Lives of the Saints Boxed Set: Includes 860/22 and 865/22Illustrated Lives of The Saints Boxed Set 978-0-89942-949-6 The Illustrated Lives of the Saints Boxed Set contains both volumes of this impressive collection that includes, for each day of the year, a short biography of a Saint or Blessed along with a prayer. The...
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IdiocyAn audacious, unabashedly transgressive memoir about two acts of escape by the author: rebelling aginst his family to seek a freer life in Paris and then, later, from the French military during the Algerian War. Pierre Guyotat was one of the most radical and...
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I Deliver Parcels in Beijing"Hu Anyan's I Deliver Parcels in Beijing, translated by Jack Hargreaves, offers an unvarnished dispatch from the front lines of the gig economy, written by a guy who's held nearly every low-wage, low-reward job on the market (delivery driver, security guard, convenience store clerk,...
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IcebergMost people only ever see the surface of a story. Iceberg invites you to see what's underneath.On the surface, it's the account of a run across Canada and back-over 21,000 kilometres-to raise awareness for Alzheimer's and breast cancer. But at its heart, it's about...
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I Am Simone BilesSimone Biles, the most decorated gymnast of all time, joins the ranks of this New York Times bestselling Ordinary People Change the World picture book biography series about heroes, for ages 5 to 9. At age eight, Simone Biles began working with a gymnastics...
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I Am Finally, Finally French: My Accidental Life in BrittanyA hilarious and heartfelt memoir of embracing life in rural France. At 47, Mark Greenside, a glass-is-half-empty native New Yorker living in California, unwillingly went to Brittany, and to his great amazement and surprise fell in love with the place and its people. Then,...
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