Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip HopA John Steptoe New Talent Award Winner Before there was hip hop, there was DJ Kool Herc. On a hot day at the end of summer in 1973 Cindy Campbell threw a back-to-school party at a park in the South Bronx. Her brother, Clive...
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When People Were Things: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, and the Emancipation ProclamationDuring the three decades before the American Civil War, Southern slaveholders tried to end the anti-slavery movement. They exerted their influence by censoring the press and the mail, attacking and killing abolitionists, burning buildings, drafting frightening new laws and repealing others, and terrorizing and...
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What Debt Demands: Family, Betrayal, and Precarity in a Broken SystemA powerful memoir of a woman plunged into fraudulent debt that explores America's broken student loan system and illuminates the ways that debt shapes every aspect of our lives. At 22 years old, Kristin Collier was on the verge of college graduation, applying for...
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What Are Taylor Swift's Eras?"Are you ready for it?" Learn all the details of Taylor Swift's Eras Tour in this nonfiction book for young readers that teaches them about every Taylor album, from her debut to The Tortured Poets Department. On March 17, 2023, Taylor Swift began the...
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What Are Taylor Swift's Eras?"Are you ready for it?" Learn all the details of Taylor Swift's Eras Tour in this nonfiction book for young readers that teaches them about every Taylor album, from her debut to The Tortured Poets Department. On March 17, 2023, Taylor Swift began the...
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We've Got This: Essays by Disabled ParentsThe first major anthology by parents with disabilities. How does a father who is blind take his child to the park? How is a mother with dwarfism treated when she walks her child down the street? How do Deaf parents know when their baby...
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Voices from the Kitchen: Personal Narratives from New York's Immigrant Restaurant Workers27 personal histories of immigrant restaurant workers in New York City whose stories of persistence, hope, and endurance show how vital they are to our country Compiled by a longtime chef who knows how indispensable--and fascinating--they are All author proceeds from the book will...
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Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our WorldWinner of The Green Prize for Sustainable LiteratureA Finalist for the PEN/Bograd Weld Prize for BiographyFour influential women we thought we knew well--Jane Jacobs, Rachel Carson, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters--and how they spearheaded the modern progressive movementThis is the story of four visionaries...
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Unplugged: Adventures from MTV to TimbuktuA freewheeling and riveting memoir from media honcho Tom Freston that takes us behind the scenes of his global adventures--from hitchhiking around the world, to running a clothing export company out of India and Afghanistan, to cofounding MTV, to becoming CEO of MTV Networks,...
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Under the Same Sky: From Starvation in North Korea to Salvation in AmericaAn inspirational memoir about an abandoned young boy who escaped the devastating famine in North Korea and came to America in search of survival, freedom, and the pursuit of his wildest dreams. "Riveting."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) Inside the hidden and mysterious world of North...
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Twenty Letters to a Friend: A MemoirIn this riveting, New York Times-bestselling memoir--first published by Harper in 1967--Svetlana Alliluyeva, subject of Rosemary Sullivan's critically acclaimed biography, Stalin's Daughter, describes the surreal experience of growing up in the Kremlin in the shadow of her father, Joseph Stalin.Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva, later known...
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Trusting You: The journey to unapologetically learning to listen, believe, and trust yourself againAuthor: Christy TrujilloPublisher: Burning Soul PressPublished: 11/20/2025Pages: 192Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69dISBN: 9781964924489This title is not returnable
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Totto-Chan, the Little Girl at the Window: The SequelThe long-awaited sequel to the bestselling book in Japanese history is finally here! Over forty years ago, Japanese pop culture icon Tetsuko Kuroyanagi ended the memoir chronicling her childhood adventures at the unconventional Tomoe Gakuen with that beloved school burning down amidst the bombs...
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Tony Hawk: Professional SkateboarderIn this young adult autobiography, Tony Hawk shares the stories from his life that have helped him become a skateboarding hero. Hawk speaks of being a super-competitive ′demon′ child who found peace while on a skateboard. Classmates teased him because of his interest in...
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Tomboyland: EssaysA fiercely personal and startlingly universal essay collection about the mysteries of gender and desire, of identity and class, of the stories we tell and the places we call home.Flyover country, the middle of nowhere, the space between the coasts. The American Midwest is...
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Titan Unfinished: An Untold Story of Exploration, Innovation, and the Oceangate TragedyA firsthand, never-before-told account of the creation of OceanGate, the heartbreaking Titan tragedy and the supposed villain behind it all, Stockton Rush, as told by the only person who can: his cofounder and friend. In the summer of 2023, the entire world fixated on...
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Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with AutismThe 25th anniversary edition of this seminal work on autism and neurodiversity provides "a uniquely fascinating view" (Deborah Tannen, author of You Just Don't Understand) of the differences in our brains, and features updated research and insights. With a foreword by Oliver Sacks. Originally...
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The War for Middle-Earth: J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Confront the Gathering Storm, 1933-1945For fans of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, discover the story behind their unique friendship forged in the darkness of World War II and how it inspired the stories of The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Chronicles of Narnia and Mere Christianity.In...
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The Unexpected Abigail Adams: A Woman Not Apt to Be IntimidatedA Wall Street Journal Spring Books 2024 Selection: "What to Read This Spring" An Extraordinary Portrait of America's Beloved Female Founder and First Lady Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams, was an eyewitness to America's founding, and helped guide the new nation through her...
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The Ultimate Kansas City Chiefs Trivia Book: A Collection of Amazing Trivia Quizzes and Fun Facts for Die-Hard Chiefs Fans!Attention Chiefs Nation!Few NFL Teams have a more historic, star-studded tradition than the Chiefs. From the early days as the Dallas Texans in the AFL, to the glory days in the NFL in Kansas City, the Chiefs have had no shortage of characters throughout...
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