Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Fishing and Other Follies: Including Self-Guided Fishing in ArgentinaAuthor: Charles ThacherPublisher: Archway PublishingPublished: 11/05/2024Pages: 358Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.45lbsSize: 6.22h x 9.13w x 1.26dISBN: 9781665762120
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The Leaf Detective: How Margaret Lowman Uncovered Secrets in the RainforestThis picture book biography tells the story of Meg Lowman, a groundbreaking female scientist called a "real life Lorax" by National Geographic, who was determined to investigate the marvelous, undiscovered world of the rainforest treetops. Meg Lowman was always fascinated by the natural world...
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Words from a Fashion Icon: Marilyn MonroeThe Fashion Icons Quote Series is a series of gift books full of inspiring and fabulous quotes from fashion icons across the generations. Words from a Fashion Icon: Marilyn Monroe is a fully illustrated collection of quotes with Megan Hess' iconic and hugely popular...
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Heaven in Ordinary: A Poet's Corner CollectionPoet's Corner is Malcolm Guite's delectable column that appears on the back page of the Church Times each week. This second collection brings together more than seventy columns created from little glimpses and reflections from all corners of the country, the musings of a...
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Beyoncé All the Songs: The Story Behind Every TrackThe latest instalment in the bestselling All The Songs series, this definitive book reveals the complete story behind every track Beyoncé has ever released. THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF BEYONCÉ'S WORK EVER. THE DEFINITIVE, UNTOLD, RECORDING HISTORY OF BEYONCÉ, TOLD ALBUM-BY-ALBUM AND SONG-BY-SONG. In...
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Seeing GenderNow with a new foreword by National Book Award Winner Kacen Callender, this fascinating book on a relevant subject illustrates the complexities of gender and sexuality through history, science, sociology, and the author's own story. Gender is an intensely personal, yet universal, facet of...
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The Little Guide to Leonard Cohen: I'm Your ManA legend in music, with a career that spanned five decades, Cohen was globally renowned, praised and acclaimed for his poetry, novels, lyrics and artistic work. Cohen's most famous song, "Hallelujah" has been covered by such artists as John Cale, Rufus Wainwright and Jeff...
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The Living Stones: CornwallA classic travelogue by Britain's foremost female surrealist painter, which immerses the reader in a dreamlike Cornwall where landscape and legend meet "Her responses to the aura of place are keen, and her eye for detail is excitingly sharp" -- Sunday Times "She is...
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Thomas Becket and His WorldA life of England's most famous martyr, rooted in the currents of twelfth-century Europe. This book explores the turbulent life and violent death of Thomas Becket, one of the most controversial figures in the Middle Ages: a London merchant's son turned royal chancellor, an...
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Odyssey Moscow: One American's Journey from Russia Optimist to Prisoner of the State'A riveting tale of betrayal and lawlessness by the Russian Government, told by the most successful US investor in Russia' - Ambassador John Sullivan, US Ambassador to Russia 2020-22 It is dawn on Thursday, 14 February 2019, and armed FSB agents are raiding Michael...
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Maya AngelouIn this international bestseller from the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the incredible life of Maya Angelou, the powerful speaker, writer and civil rights activist. Maya Angelou spent much of her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas. After a traumatic event at age...
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Journey to the Center of the CrampsMore than a band, the Cramps are a uniquely special rock'n'roll phenomenon that has endured for over 35 years. Formed in the creative maelstrom of late 1970's New York by Ohio natives Lux Interior (Erick Purkhiser) and Poison Ivy Rorschach (Kirsty Wallace), the Cramps...
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The Honour Drum: Sharing the Beauty of Canada's Indigenous People with Children, Families and ClassroomsThe Honour Drum is a uniquely envisioned and crafted project shared between two Canadian friends--an Indigenous woman from the West Coast and a non-Indigenous man from Ontario--to reach children, families and classrooms across Canada and around the world with a message of great beauty...
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You Let Some Girl Beat You?: The Story of Ann Meyers Drysdale"Annie was one of the best players ever. I didn't say male or female; I said ever."--Bill Russell, former Boston Celtics player Ann Meyers Drysdale is one of the greatest stars in the history of basketball. But her rise wasn't without controversy. Her 1979...
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Black Warriors: The Buffalo Soldiers of World War II Memories of the Only Negro Infantry Division to Fight in Europe During World WarNumbering 4,000 select officers and men, Combat Team 370 was part of n Europe during World War II the 92nd Infantry Division, the only all-Negro division to fight in Europe during World War II. In Black Warriors: The Buffalo Soldiers of World War II,...
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Life Lived Wild: Adventures at the Edge of the MapA life worth living is lived at the edges where it is wild At the beginning of his memoir Life Lived Wild, Adventures at the Edge of the Map, Rick Ridgeway tells us that if you add up all his many expeditions, he's spent...
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Gold Buckle Dreams: The Life & Times of Chris LeDouxChris LeDoux was a rodeo icon, known for his ability to ride bareback horses and a world championship. But Chris also had a talent with a guitar and an ability to put the life and thoughts of a rodeo cowboy into song. With the...
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The Curé d'ArsThe chief labour of the Curé d'Ars was the direction of souls. During the last ten years of his life, he spent from sixteen to eighteen hours a day in the confessional. He was sought by bishops, priests, religious, young men and women in...
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Public Opinion: The Original 1922 EditionWalter Lippmann wrote his "Public Opinion" at a time when something like the 'mass media' was coming into existence. Prior to the age of electronic communication, the only mechanism for reaching large numbers of individuals was the newspapers. In World War I, he saw...
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My Vietnam, Your Vietnam: A Father Flees. a Daughter Returns. a Dual Memoir."Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2024" --Ms. MagazineA chronicle of the divergent journeys of a Vietnamese father, who fled his home country in desperation, and his American-born daughter, who ventured to Vietnam as an adult, capturing the stark contrast between their perspectives as they...
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