Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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The Shot Caller: A Latino Gangbanger's Miraculous Escape from a Life of Violence to a New Life in ChristWhen you feel like you've made too many missteps to go forward, how do you find the strength to carry on? Join Casey Diaz as he tells the remarkable story of God's heart for second chances.The son of El Salvadorian immigrants, Casey Diaz was...
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The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient LandscapeThe New York Times bestseller and International PhenomenonOne of the Top Ten Books of 2015, Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times."It's bloody marvelous." - Helen Macdonald, New York Times bestselling author of H IS FOR HAWK"Captivating... A book about continuity and roots and a...
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The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Hidden History of Math's Unsung TrailblazersShortlisted for the 2024 British Academy Book PrizeA new history of mathematics focusing on the marginalized voices who propelled the discipline, spanning six continents and thousands of years of untold stories."A book to make you love math." --Financial TimesMathematics shapes almost everything we do....
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The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional HealingThe first Navajo woman surgeon combines western medicine and traditional healing. A spellbinding journey between two worlds, this remarkable book describes surgeon Lori Arviso Alvord's struggles to bring modern medicine to the Navajo reservation in Gallup, New Mexico--and to bring the values of her...
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The Revolutionary: Samuel AdamsThis "glorious" revelatory biography from a Pulitzer Prize winner is about the most essential Founding Father (Ron Chernow)--the one who stood behind the change in thinking that produced the American Revolution. Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, "Samuel...
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There Must Be Something in the Water: Anthology of the Fourth Generation: Descendants of Green Pond after the EmancipationA small rural community in the Low Country along Ocean Highway, Green Pond, South Carolina, has long lacked cultural and educational opportunities for its young people's future success. Still, many have gone on to serve in the highest levels of education, government, public service,...
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The Remembering: A Journey Back to SelfTransformation is never linear. It doesn't follow a predictable path, nor does it arrive in the way we expect. We like to think growth happens in a straight line-from struggle to breakthrough, from challenge to clarity-but the truth is far messier. It's unpredictable, uncomfortable,...
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The Quiet Damage: Qanon and the Destruction of the American FamilyThe "gripping" (The Atlantic) story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how we might set ourselves free from a crisis that could haunt American life for generations. "Excellent . . . This is the intimate side of the cold civil...
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The Quotable Eleanor Roosevelt"Clearly the definitive book of Eleanor Roosevelt quotes. Albion does excellent work weeding out all the apocryphal quotes so often attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, giving us only the real thing."--Christy Regenhardt, associate editor of The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, Volume 2 "Eleanor Roosevelt remains a...
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The Price of Power: How Mitch McConnell Mastered the Senate, Changed America, and Lost His PartyThe first definitive biography of Mitch McConnell, revealing an intimate look at the personal and political life of one of the most powerful senators in American history. In the long history of American government, few senators have wielded as much power as Kentucky's Mitch...
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The Pool Is Closed: Segregation, Summertime, and the Search for a Place to SwimIn 2018, while teaching her kids to swim and working on urban river restoration projects, Hannah S. Palmer began a journal of social encounters with water. As she found herself dangling her feet in a seemingly all-white swimming pool, she started to worry about...
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The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant: The Complete Annotated Edition"This fine volume leaps straight onto the roster of essential reading for anyone even vaguely interested in Grant and the Civil War. The book is deeply researched, but it introduces its scholarship with a light touch that never interferes with the reader's enjoyment of...
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The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon JohnsonWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE, THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE, THE AMERICAN HISTORY BOOK PRIZEOne of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century - A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of...
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The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern SportsA Finalist for the 2025 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Nonfiction. A Finalist for the 2024 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History and the 2025 Mark Lynton History Prize. Named one of the Best Books of 2024 by The New Yorker, NPR and...
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Theodore Roosevelt (Re-Issue) PPringle's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography not only chronicles the incidents that shaped Roosevelt's career but also offers insight into the character and mind of this colorful american president. Index.Author: Henry Pringle,PringlePublisher: Houghton MifflinPublished: 01/13/2003Pages: 456Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.59w x 1.18dISBN: 9780156028028
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The Most Costly Journey: Stories of Migrant Farmworkers in Vermont Drawn by New England CartoonistsThis non-fiction comics anthology presents stories of survival and healing told by Latin American migrant farmworkers in Vermont, and drawn by New England cartoonists as part of the El Viaje Más Caro Project-a health care outreach effort of the Open Door Clinic and UVM...
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The MiracleIn this unflinching yet touching memoir, James LeBlanc recounts his life as a bi-racial adoptee growing up poor among the upper-crust of Berkeley, CA. Abandonment, confusion, abuse and loneliness led to a life of addiction, homelessness and incarceration as he wandered from one coast...
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The Marathon Don't Stop: The Life and Times of Nipsey Hussle /]crob KennerA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER This "beautiful tribute to a legendary artist" (Quincy Jones) is the first in-depth biography of Nipsey Hussle, the hip-hop mogul, artist, and activist whose transformative legacy inspired a generation with his motivational lyrics and visionary business savvy--before he was...
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The Man Who Walked Between the Towers: (Caldecott Medal Winner)The story of a daring tightrope walk between skyscrapers, as seen in Robert Zemeckis's The Walk, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt. In 1974, French aerialist Philippe Petit threw a tightrope between the two towers of the World Trade Center and spent an hour walking, dancing, and...
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The Man Who Watered His LawnThe Man Who Watered His Lawn gently but powerfully fuses the raw emotions of a teenage love story into a blended tragedy of grief, sorrow, violence, philosophy and healing.It is a true story that is raw, caring and emotive, allowing the reader to enter...
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