Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Fantastic Failures: True Stories of People Who Changed the World by Falling Down FirstEven the most well-known people have struggled to succeed! Find out what they learned and how they turned their failures into triumphs with this engaging and youthful guide on how to succeed long term. There is a lot of pressure in today's society to...
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Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn't My RapistFrom legendary activist and Pose actress Cecilia Gentili comes the groundbreaking debut of a transgender Latina childhood that re-orders the field of LGBTQ+ memoirWinner of the 2023 ALA Stonewall Book Award Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award - As heard on NPR's Latino USA - Finalist...
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Facing the Lion: Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi EuropeSimone Arnold is an ordinary French schoolgirl, spirited and stubborn. Then the Nazis march in, demanding complete conformity. Friends become enemies. Teachers spout Nazi propaganda. School officials recruit for the Hitler Youth. Simone's family refuses to heil Hitler as Germany's savior. They are Jehovah's...
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Evidence Not Seen: A Woman's Miraculous Faith in the Jungles of World War IIThe True Story of One Woman's Triumph of FaithNewlywed American missionary Darlene Deibler Rose survived four years in a notorious Japanese prison camp set deep in the jungles of New Guinea. Thinking she was never to see her husband again, Darlene Rose was forced...
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Epic Athletes: Stephen CurryIn Epic Athletes: Stephen Curry, acclaimed journalist and bestselling author Dan Wetzel tells the inspiring, electrifying story of the NBA superstar, beginning a new series of sports biographies for young readers! Featuring comic-style illustrations by Zeke Peña! When you think of Stephen Curry, one...
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Elvis PresleyIn this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Elvis, the King of Rock 'n' Roll. Elvis was born into poverty in North Mississippi, a place where opportunities were a rare thing to see. Still,...
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Elizabeth Seton: American SaintFrom socialite to saint, it was an extraordinary journey for Seton, one gracefully chronicled in Catherine O'Donnell's richly textured new biography.... A remarkable biography of a remarkable woman.― Wall Street JournalIn 1975, two centuries after her birth, Pope Paul VI canonized Elizabeth Ann Seton,...
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Ed Wood: Made in Hollywood USAFor generations, Ed Wood has been known as "the worst director of all time." This sympathetic critical study repositions the director of Plan 9 from Outer Space as a maverick independent whose work challenges the boundary between "bad" and "good."When Edward D. Wood, Jr....
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East Side DreamsEast Side Dreams is an award winning, inspirational book. As you read, you will experience with the author, Art Rodriguez, the difficult time he had growing up, partly dealing with his dictatorial father. This book will make your emotions run high. You will laugh,...
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Earth to Moon: A MemoirFrom Moon Unit Zappa, the daughter of musical visionary Frank Zappa, comes a memoir of growing up in her unconventional household in 1970s Los Angeles, coming of age in the Hollywood Hills in the 1980s as the "Valley Girl," gaining momentum as an accidental...
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Duty Calls: Lessons Learned from an Unexpected Life of ServiceFollow the remarkable journey of a trailblazing American leader, Dr. Antonia Novello, the first woman and the first Hispanic Surgeon General of the United States Dr. Antonia Novello is a vanguard in the United States and Puerto Rico, whose enduring commitment to service has...
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Drinking: A Love StoryFifteen million Americans a year are plagued with alcoholism. Five million of them are women. Many of them, like Caroline Knapp, started in their early teens and began to use alcohol as "liquid armor," a way to protect themselves against the difficult realities of...
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Dream: The Life and Legacy of Hakeem OlajuwonThe life and legacy of pioneering international basketball superstar Hakeem Olajuwon, a two-time NBA champion whose Hall of Fame career forever changed the game, both in the United States and around the globe--from the New York Times bestselling author of Giannis, Mirin Fader. It's...
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Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West"Epic in its scale, fearless in its scope" (Hampton Sides), this masterfully told account of the American West from a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist sets a new standard as it sweeps from the California Gold Rush and beyond.In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W....
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Doña Fela's Dream: The Story of Puerto Rico's First Female MayorThe inspiring story of Doña Fela, an enterprising woman who broke barriers and stopped at nothing to make the island of Puerto Rico a better home for all. Though she was born before women on her island were allowed to vote, Felisa Rincón de...
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Don't Call Me Jupiter - Book One "Tightrope": Memoir of a Reluctant Hippie KidIn 1962, the Bross family was the picture of American perfection, handpicked to model Dr. Sabin's oral polio vaccine for the Cincinnati Enquirer. But in 1973, everything changed.After their mother's second divorce, Tom and his siblings are plunged into a chaotic hippie lifestyle, marked...
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DK Super Readers Level 3 Kamala HarrisHelp your child power up their reading skills and learn all about Kamala Harris's life with this fact-filled nonfiction reader, carefully leveled to help children progress. DK Super Readers Level 3: Kamala Harris will introduce kids to this ground-breaking woman of color-and is a...
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DK Super Readers Level 3 Helen KellerHelp your child power up their reading skills and learn all about the life of Helen Keller with this fun-filled nonfiction reader carefully leveled to help children progress. DK Super Readers Level 3: Helen Keller offers a sensitive account of the life of a...
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Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and BelongingA prize-winning memoirist and nature writer turns to the lives of plants entangled in our human world to explore belonging, displacement, identity, and the truths of our shared future A seed slips beyond a garden wall. A tree is planted on a precarious border....
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DiplomacyA brilliant, sweeping history of diplomacy that includes personal stories from the noted former Secretary of State, including his stunning reopening of relations with China. The seminal work on foreign policy and the art of diplomacy. Moving from a sweeping overview of history to...
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