Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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What Will I Be from A to Z2025 CHILDREN'S BOOK COUNCIL HOT OFF THE PRESS PICK A picture book encouraging children to pursue their dream STEAM careers, full of diverse representation I may be small, but I dream big about what I might be My future's bright, no end in sight,...
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What I Learned From Dad: Caring for Dad through Alzheimer's DiseaseGod had directed our lives in specific ways that prepared us for events that would transpire years later. Specifically, when our parents required long-term care, my wife, Julia, and I chose to alter our chosen life projectory to be their caregivers, which we believed...
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What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious CharacterLike the "funny, brilliant, bawdy" (The New Yorker) "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" this book's many stories--some funny, others intensely moving--display Richard P. Feynman's unquenchable thirst for adventure and unparalleled ability to recount important moments from his life.Here we meet Feynman's first wife, Arlene,...
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West with the Night (Warbler Classics)In West with the Night Beryl Markham chronicles her unconventional, free-spirited girlhood in Kenya and her adventures as a rescue pilot, mail carrier, and bush pilot, scouting game for safaris all over Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. The book earned high praise upon its...
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We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim MemoirCANADA READS 2020 WINNERSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 EDNA STAEBLER AWARD FOR CREATIVE NON-FICTIONNATIONAL BESTSELLER2020 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNERONE OF BOOK RIOT'S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL QUEER BOOKS OF ALL TIME How do you find yourself when the world tells you that you don't exist? Samra...
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We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and DisobedienceA timely guide on how to live--and think--through the challenges of our century drawn from the life and thought of political theorist Hannah Arendt, one of the twentieth century's foremost opponents of totalitarianism Don't miss Lyndsey Stonebridge in the PBS American Masters documentary Hannah...
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Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and PowerFrom the podcast host of The Witch Wave and practicing witch Pam Grossman--who Vulture has dubbed the "Terry Gross of witches"--comes an exploration of the world's fascination with witches, why they have intrigued us for centuries and why they're more relevant now than ever....
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Up Home: One Girl's JourneyNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "Simmons's evocative account of her remarkable trajectory from Jim Crow Texas, where she was the youngest of twelve children in a sharecropping family, to the presidencies of Smith College and Brown University shines with tenderness and dignity."--The New York...
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Unearthed: The Lies We Carry & The Truths They BuryIn this searing memoir, Chanchal Garg reveals the spiritual and sexual abuse that shattered her sense of self and forced her to question a life defined by duty and sacrifice. Raised as a devoted Indian daughter, she was taught never to question authority-until a...
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Under the Ivy: The Life and Music of Kate BushThe critically acclaimed definitive biography of Kate Bush, revised and updated for 2024, with a new foreword by Sinéad Gleeson.Detailing everything from Bush's upbringing to her early exposition of talent, to her subsequent evolution into a stunningly creative and endlessly fascinating visual and musical...
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Unbroken: One Uyghur's Fight for Freedom"Rushan's powerful memoir takes an unwavering stand against the CCP's brutality, not only exposing systematic oppression but empowering countless others to speak truth to power. Unbroken is an urgent call to action for policymakers, advocates, and all those committed to defending human dignity." -...
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Trust Me, I'm Dr. Ozzy: Advice from Rock's Ultimate SurvivorWondering if science could explain how he survived his 40-year avalanche of drugs and alcohol, Ozzy Osbourne became one of a handful of people in the world to have his entire DNA mapped in 2010. It was a highly complex, $65,000 process, but the...
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True Tales: The Forgotten History of Michigan's Upper PeninsulaWhat Were Pioneer Days Really Like in the U.P.?The combination of mining, maritime and lumbering history created a culture in the U.P. that is unique to the Midwest. Discover true stories of the rough and dangerous times of the Upper Peninsula frontier that are...
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Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social ClassNATIONAL BESTSELLER In this "affecting...intriguing...heartbreaking" (Booklist) coming-of-age memoir, Rob Henderson vividly recounts growing up in foster care, enlisting in the US Air Force, attending elite universities, and pioneering the concept of "luxury beliefs"--ideas and opinions that confer status on the upper class while inflicting...
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Trippy: The Peril and Promise of Medicinal PsychedelicsA riveting look at the tremendous promise and inherent risks of the use of psychedelics in mental health treatment through the lens of a New York Times reporter whose journalistic exploration of this emerging field began with a personal crisis. When he signed up...
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Trailblazers: The Unmatched Story of Women's Tennis, Young Readers EditionServe up tennis history with Billie Jean King and discover the unmatched story of women's tennis, featuring beautifully illustrated, inspiring biographies of 20+ trailblazing women in the sport. Ideal for young readers who dream big. Celebrate the incredible achievements of women in tennis with...
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To Hear The Forest Sing: some musings on the divineTo Hear the Forest Sing is a collection of essays by the founder of the spoken word website Listen Well. Margaret Dulaney has been accumulating a life's worth of spiritual musings for the past two decades. In 2010 she founded the spoken word website...
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The Worst Journey in the World, Volume 1: Making Our Easting Down: The Graphic NovelEisner Award Nomination: Best Adaptation from Another Medium "A sweeping, majestic saga." -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY"An engaging, robust, and exciting adaptation of a true story." -- BOOKLIST"Stunning and dynamic illustrations ." -- FOREWORD REVIEWSA graphic novel adaption of the history masterpiece ranked #1 on National...
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The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They MadeWith a new introduction by the authors, this is the classic account of the American statesmen who rebuilt the world after the catastrophe of World War II. A captivating blend of personal biography and public drama, The Wise Men introduces six close friends who...
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The Wingmen: The Unlikely, Unusual, Unbreakable Friendship Between John Glenn and Ted WilliamsCASEY Award Finalist for Best Baseball Book of the Year The untold story of the unique fifty-year friendship between two American icons: John Glenn, the unassailable pioneer of space exploration and Ted Williams, indisputably the greatest hitter in baseball history. It was 1953, the...
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