Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Confidence of The MobBetrayed by the Government He Served, He Became the Mob's Most Trusted Advisor.Boston, 1950s. Fred G. Pastore was one of the IRS's most feared investigators-a relentless enforcer tasked with dismantling the Patriarca crime family, tracking illegal gambling money, and exposing tax fraud at the...
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Composing Olana: A Journey on Foot Through Frederic Church's Greatest Work of ArtThe first and only book devoted to the landscape Frederic Church designed at Olana--what he considered his greatest work of art--timed to coincide with the bicentennial of his birth Modelled on her acclaimed On the High Line (now in its third edition from Fordham...
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Clam Down: A MetamorphosisPULITZER PRIZE FINALIST - In this wondrously unusual memoir, a woman retreats into her shell in the aftermath of her divorce, and must choose between the pleasures and the perils of a closed-up life--a transformation fable from an acclaimed 5 Under 35 National Book...
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Checkmate: Genius, Lies, Ambition, and the Biggest Scandal in Chess"The best black-and-white drama this side of Chess on Broadway." - Vanity Fair From the bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House comes the cinematic true story about the biggest scandal in modern chess. In September 2022, the unthinkable happened:...
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Checkmate: Genius, Lies, Ambition, and the Biggest Scandal in Chess"The best black-and-white drama this side of Chess on Broadway." - Vanity Fair From the bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House comes the cinematic true story about the biggest scandal in modern chess. In September 2022, the unthinkable happened:...
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Changeover: A Young Rivalry and a New Era of Men's TennisNATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2025 BY * THE NEW YORKER * NPR * TOWN & COUNTRY * The story of Carlos Alcaraz, Jannik Sinner, and their epic rivalry, as told by "the best tennis writer in America" (Brian Phillips, The Ringer).For...
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Chain Reaction: How Chemistry Shapes Us and Our WorldBy one of the world's leading chemists, an entertaining and revealing tour of the chemical bonds that shape our everyday lives and provide the infrastructure for our chaotic world.We all have a relationship with chemistry. Bonds between molecules, forged and broken in the blink...
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Cape Cod Baseball League: From College Stars to Big League FuturesThe Cape Cod League is the premier amateur baseball league in the United States, and this book presents stories of the people, places, and players who have made it great.If someone told you an amateur baseball league had produced 18 future major leaguers, it...
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Called by the Hills: A Home in the HimalayaA book about building a home and a wild garden on the edge of a Himalayan forest, illuminated by the author's own watercolors.When acclaimed novelist Anuradha Roy and her husband stumble upon a derelict cottage in the hill station of Ranikhet, they decide it...
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Big Baby: On Endings, Beginnings, and an Interdimensional CatFrom comedian and viral sensation Kevin James Thornton comes a hilarious and heartfelt story of growing up in a Christian fundamentalist church, turning trauma into comedy, and finding your own way. Growing up in the 90s in a small town in Indiana, Kevin James...
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Becoming Richard Pryor"Becoming Richard Pryor is a book that breaks new ground. . . . Saul details the amazing way that Richard found his way out of the life for which he seemed destined and into the world of the performing arts." --New York TimesRichard Pryor...
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Battle for BerlinGermany's short-lived Weimar Republic appears in the historical record as little more than an interregnum between Germany's defeat in the First World War and the rise of Adolf Hitler's new order in 1933. While often overlooked, the situation on the ground in the 1920s...
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AudenPeter Ackroyd's compelling portrait of W. H. Auden, poet of a restless century. Of all the English poets born in the twentieth century, Wystan Hugh Auden is by far the most significant. This critical biography explores the evolution of his poetic voice in tandem...
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Around the Bend: Floating Down the Missouri RiverThe Missouri River is one of the most dangerous rivers in the United States--and one of the most economically important. Even as prolonged drought in the Midwest has imperiled urban drinking water and agricultural water supplies, parched regions in the basin far from the...
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Angelica: For Love and Country in a Time of RevolutionFew women of the American Revolution have come through 250 years of US history with such clarity and color as Angelica Schuyler Church. She was Alexander Hamilton's "saucy" sister-in-law, and the heart of Thomas Jefferson's "charming coterie" of artists and salonnières in Paris. Her...
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A Murderer's Guide to Cleaning: And Other Stories from My Life as a Probation OfficerCould you sit across from a murderer, listen to their crimes, empathise and help them change? Welcome to the Probation Service. Elizabeth Baxter has heard it all. Thieves, rapists, drug dealers, burglars, murderers, abusers and arsonists - they've all confided in her 'Remarkable' THE...
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A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School"A searing and emotionally gripping account of a young black girl growing up to become a strong black woman during the most difficult time of racial segregation."--Professor Charles Ogletree, Harvard Law School "Provides important context for an important moment in America's history."--Associated Press When...
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Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People: The Memoirs of the Greatest Gambler Who Ever LivedAmarillo Slim Preston has won $300,000 from Willie Neslon playing dominoes and $2 million from Larry Flynt playing poker. He has shuffled, dealt, and bluffed with some of twentieth-century's most famous figures. He beat Minnesota Fats at pool with a broom, Bobby Riggs at...
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Always with Honor: The Memoirs of General WrangelAlways with Honor is the gripping memoir of General Pyotr Wrangel, the last commander of the White Army during the Russian Civil War. In this vivid and unflinching account, Wrangel chronicles the chaos, courage, and tragedy of his struggle against the Bolsheviks-a fight for...
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All the Work I Never Wanted: A Memoirella of JobsThe lady at the plastic-cup-making factory is missing her fingers. The kid at the burger joint is spitting on patties. The newspapers are thrown out of dented vans in the darkest hours of morning. There are blood bank maimings, factory near-faintings, and storage facility...
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