Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Teacher, Preacher, Soldier, Spy: The Civil Wars of John R. KelsoThe epic life story of a schoolteacher and preacher in Missouri, guerrilla fighter in the Civil War, Congressman, freethinking lecturer and author, and anarchist. A former Methodist preacher and Missouri schoolteacher, John R. Kelso served as a Union Army foot soldier, cavalry officer, guerrilla...
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Holding On by Letting Go: A MemoirBlind since birth, a once-spirited kid with big dreams now finds herself in a locked psychiatric facility-a wounded young woman in the midst of a global pandemic.This memoir spans decades and continents to tell a story of the beautiful similarities that make us all...
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After the FallWhen communism fell in Central Europe in 1989, Gabriela was devastated. Everything her entire life was built upon proved to be a lie. Who was she to trust? Where was she to go? She didn't even know what was real anymore. The shock of...
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Facing Sunset: 3800 solo miles; a woman's journey back and forwardFacing Sunset; a woman's journey back and forward, is a coming-of-a-certain-age memoir framed within sixty-year-old patti brehler's 2016 bicycle tour between her home in northeastern Michigan and Missoula, Montana. Forty years earlier, patti brehler was one of more than 4000 bicyclists taking part in...
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It's a Beautiful Day to Save Lives: A Medic's Journey to His DestinyIt's A Beautiful Day To Save Lives is a powerful memoir of a combat medic's journey through life as he recognizes his destiny from very early in his young childhood. This life-long journey proves to be very courageous and challenging in the face of...
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The Plan: An Incredible Story of Amazing Grace, Unfailing Love, and Undeniable MiraclesPshyra learned as the baby of a large family that she had to make noise until she was heard. This determination became the very strength that fueled her faith as an adult. So when she realized she was having a serious health issue, she...
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We Were the Morris Orphans: 4 Brothers, 5 Sisters & MeWhen a drunk driver orphans ten children, their plea to stay together sparks international news--and prompts a trust fund that attracts corrupt and abusive fostering. "They're not dead, are they?" The officer's body visibly slumped as he delivered his final nod. From that July...
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Lord DevlinLord Devlin was a leading lawyer of his generation. Moreover, he was one of the most recognised figures in the judiciary, thanks to his role in the John Bodkin Adams trial and the Nyasaland Commission of Inquiry. It is hard then to believe that...
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Transformed: Grand-Dad's StoryIf anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!2 Corinthians 5:17 The man originally born as Calvin Buford Armstrong became known as "Buford" and eventually as "Buzz." But to Cameron Armstrong, he was known as...
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Stops Along the Way: A Catholic Soul, a Conservative Heart, an Irish Temper, and a Love of LifeA book unlike any ever written by a leader of the conservative movement, because the stories told are unlike anything ever experienced by any public figure on the American scene today. Stops Along the Way tells tales of ten red-headed Catholic children raised on...
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Johann Henrich Wagner: The Chronicle of an 18th Century German PioneerWalk through history in the footsteps of Johann Henrich Wagner, a.k.a Henry Wagner, a.k.a Henry Waggoner of Russell County, an early 18th century German pioneer. In 1742, Johann Henrich Wagner (later identified as Henry Waggoner of Russell County, Virginia), disembarked in Philadelphia with his...
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X, Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was BrokenSpymasters. Spycraft. Imprisonment. Escapes. Betrayal. The untold story of Enigma and the men who broke it. Now in paperback. December, 1932 In the bathroom of a Belgian hotel, a French spymaster photographs secret documents - operating instructions of the cipher machine, Enigma. A few...
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Shadows Uplifted Volume II: Black Women Authors of 19th Century American Personal Narratives & AutobiographiesA landmark anthology of full-length works by Black American women writers of the 19th century including Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Harriet Jacobs, and Mary Weston Fordham-edited and with an introduction by C.S.R. Calloway.Shadows Uplifted collects and celebrates the vibrant and diverse work of these...
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Anacaona: The Golden Flower QueenAnacaona lived during the time of Christopher Columbus. She was a Taína, a native from Quisqueya, the island that today is comprised of the Dominican Republic and Haiti. She made a powerful stand against the Spanish invaders, for which she lost her life. The...
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Transitions: A Director's Journey and Motivational HandbookBecoming a director is not just about making a film, webseries, commercial, or music video. The opportunity to direct for television is not a given because you've successfully completed a project in another medium. Turning your passion into your profession requires the ability to...
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Grace & Steel: Dorothy, Barbara, Laura, and the Women of the Bush DynastyFrom New York Times bestselling celebrity biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli comes Grace & Steel, the epic, hidden history of the exceptional women behind the greatest political dynasty of all time--the Bush family. Bestselling author J. Randy Taraborrelli reveals the unsung heroines of the inimitable...
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Civil War Witnesses and Their Books: New Perspectives on Iconic WorksCivil War Witnesses and Their Books: New Perspectives on Iconic Works serves as a wide-ranging analysis of texts written by individuals who experienced the American Civil War. Edited by Gary W. Gallagher and Stephen Cushman, this volume, like its companion, Civil War Writing: New...
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Epstein-Barr Virus: My Journey and Winning the FightTristina H. Bown has been a sufferer of Epstein-Barr Virus for over 35 years. She has felt great the last 12 years of this journey and would like to share her personal story and recipe of getting well and fighting the battle. Tristina is...
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Owen Barfield, Romanticism Come of Age: A Biography"Barfield towers above us all...the wisest and best of my unofficial teachers." --C.S. Lewis "We are well supplied with interesting writers, but Owen Barfield is not content to be merely interesting. His ambition is to set us free from the prison we have made...
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Drafted, A Memoir of the '60'sIt's 1966, and young Heywood Gould, a Brooklyn boy with literary ambitions, has his dream job. He is a reporter at the ultra liberal (that's right liberal) New York Post, alongside young writers like Nora Ephron, Pete Hamill and Anthony Scaduto. New York is...
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