Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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The World of the Great Gatsby 1000 Piece Puzzle: A Jigsaw by Adam SimpsonPiece together one of Jay Gatsby's notorious parties, where figures both real and fictional from Fitzgerald's life and work are hidden among the enigmatic guests. Find Daisy Buchanan weeping over a pile of silk shirts, Gatsby gazing towards the green light of his dreams,...
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The Waterbearers: A Memoir of Mothers and DaughtersA powerful new voice, telling the American story through three generations of Black mothers. "The Waterbearers is one of the most beautiful and truthful books I've ever read." --Imani Perry, National Book Award-winning author of South to America "An epic love song and remarkable...
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The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us FreeAN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP'S NOMINEE FOR SECRETARY OF DEFENSEReal men fought for our freedoms. It's time we fought for theirs.Pete Hegseth joined the Army to fight extremists. Then that same Army called him one. The military Pete joined...
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The Twenty-Ninth Day: Surviving a Grizzly Attack in the Canadian TundraA six-hundred-mile canoe trip in the Canadian wilderness is a seventeen-year-old's dream adventure, but after he is mauled by a grizzly bear, it's all about staying alive.This true-life wilderness survival epic recounts seventeen-year-old Alex Messenger's near-lethal encounter with a grizzly bear during a canoe...
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The Trouble of Color: An American Family MemoirAn "intimate and searching" (Natasha Trethewey, New York Times-bestselling author of Memorial Drive) memoir of family, color, and being Black, white, and other in America, from "one of our country's greatest historians" (Clint Smith, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of How the Word is...
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The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before YouFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning, a book of humorous and charming advice for embracing life and aging joyfully. In her international bestseller The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning Margareta Magnusson introduced the world...
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The Survivor: How I Made It Through Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter"Sobering, unforgettable reading. This is a standout of its kind." - Publishers Weekly"A riveting, deeply moving memoir. The writing is descriptive and dramatic, preserving Lewkowicz's deep emotions." - Jewish Book CouncilThis is the remarkable story of Josef Lewkowicz--Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor who became...
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The Stonewall ReaderFor the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded it, with a foreword by Edmund White. Finalist for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction, presented by The...
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The Sleep Room: A Sadistic Psychiatrist and the Women Who Survived HimA chilling true story of medical abuse, psychological manipulation, and the women who refused to be silenced. In the heart of postwar London, Dr. William Sargant was a revered psychiatrist with a glittering résumé. He was also a regular lecturer in the United States,...
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The Silver Snarling Trumpet: The Birth of the Grateful Dead--The Lost Manuscript of Robert HunterDiscovered at last, the legendary lost manuscript of Grateful Dead co-founder and primary lyricist Robert Hunter, written in the early 1960s--a wry, richly observed, and enlightening remembrance of "the scene" in Palo Alto that gave rise to an incredible partnership of Hunter and Jerry...
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These Precious Days: EssaysThe beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays. "The elegance of Patchett's prose is seductive and inviting: with Patchett as a guide, readers will really get to grips with the power...
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The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High TideThe Second Emancipation, the second work in a trilogy from best-selling author Howard W. French about Africa's pivotal role in shaping world history, underscores Adam Hochschild's contention that French is a "modern-day Copernicus." The title--referring to a brief period beginning in 1957 when dozens...
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The Roma: A Traveling History"A deeply sympathetic picture of Romani life over the centuries." -Wall Street Journal"A spellbinding tale of resilience and survival in the face of widespread bigotry and violence."--Boston GlobeA unique, deeply personal portrait of the nomadic Romani people and their on-going journey that sheds new...
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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest JourneyNATIONAL BESTSELLER - At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait--the bestselling author of River of the Gods brings us the true story of Theodore Roosevelt's harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth. "A rich, dramatic tale...
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The Rebel Romanov: Julie of Saxe-Coburg, the Empress Russia Never HadFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters comes the story of a courageous young Imperial Grand Duchess who scandalized Europe in search of freedom. In 1795, Catherine the Great of Russia was in search of a bride for her grandson...
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The Quiet Ear: An Investigation of Missing Sound: A MemoirA groundbreaking exploration of deafness by a young award-winning poet--a memoir, a cultural history, and a call to action hailed as "insightful, bighearted [and] a transformative story for all readers" (The New York Times Book Review) "Beautifully complicates and expands our understanding of what...
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The Purposeful Warrior: Standing Up for What's Right When the Stakes Are HighFrom Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a road map for shattering the status quo and standing up for ourselves, our communities, and our country. NATIONAL BESTSELLER! AN OPEN FIELD BOOK FROM MARIA SHRIVER As Michigan's Secretary of State and chief election official, Jocelyn...
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The Presidents Visual Encyclopedia, 3rd EditionDiscover what life is like inside the White House in this fact-packed guide to the Presidents. This encyclopedia presents more than 150 easy-to-read entries of the Presidents, the First Ladies, the Louisiana Purchase, the Gettysburg Address, and much more! Created in association with the...
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The Power of Parting: Finding Peace and Freedom Through Family EstrangementA myth-shattering, inspiring book that combines research, reportage, and memoir to explore the growing phenomenon of estrangement from toxic relatives--showing it not as a tragedy, but as an empowering and effective solution to the heartbreak of family abuse. After decades of enduring his mother's...
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The Order of TimeOne of TIME's Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade "Meet the new Stephen Hawking . . . The Order of Time is a dazzling book." --The Sunday Times From the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Reality Is Not What It...
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