Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Trapline Chatter: Life and Love with 'Last Alaskan' Bob HarteA story of love, loss, family and discovery - a story of life on a trapline in the Far North. "Bob Harte was well-known to those of us in the trapping community long before he became an international celebrity as a star of the...
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This Hill, This Valley: A Memoir (American Land Classics)An Inspiring Year on a New England Hill FarmHal Borland, whose nature essays graced the Sunday New York Times for almost 4 decades, transported readers to a simpler time and place by his intimate perspective on weather, flowers, birds, and the changing seasons. After...
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Rising Above: A Green Beret's Story of Childhood Trauma and Ultimate HealingA simple car accident changed the path of six-year-old Sean Rogers's life forever. His single mother checked into the hospital as a vibrant young woman and checked out as a full-blown opioid addict. From that day forward, Sean's life became a silent nightmare of...
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Who Is Michelle Obama?Born into a close knit family in Chicago, Michelle Robinson was a star student who graduated from Princeton and Harvard Law. Then in 1992, she married another promising young lawyer and the rest, as they say, is history. It is undeniable that President Barack...
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Forgotten Heroes of Comedy: An Encyclopedia of the Comedy UnderdogIn this long overdue and affectionate salute, celebrated comedy historian Robert Ross pays tribute to some of the finest, funniest and most fascinating names in comedy from both sides of the Atlantic. Monty Python's Terry Jones wrote the foreword. With the passionate input of...
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The Duchess of Windsor: Memoirs of a FriendAn intimate friend of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Diana Mosley was a frequent guest at their parties in Paris or at 'the Moulin' in Orsay, where they were neighbours. Written in her inimitable style -- archly intelligent, witty and perceptive -- Diana...
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Michael JordanThe My Itty-Bitty Bio series are biographies for the earliest readers. This book examines the life of Michael Jordan, the basketball legend, in a simple, age-appropriate way that will help young readers develop word recognition and reading skills. Includes a table of contents, author...
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Mahatma Gandhi - The Man Who Became One With the Universal Being: Biography of the Famous Indian LeaderThis edition presents the life and legacy of the legendary Indian Political Leader written by Romain Rolland, French novelist and Nobel Prize winner. The book includes the historical facts about the Indian culture and history, telling a lot about the British colonization and how...
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The Weight of the Stars: The Life of Anarchist Octavio AlberolaFrom the Spanish Civil War to the present day--the story of an exceptional life.Octavio Alberola has spent over eighty years thinking, living, and formulating his life from an anarchist perspective. He belongs to a generation of protagonists in some of the twentieth century's most...
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Letters to my future Husband: Love Notes Journal Prompts for Letters to Dear Future Husband Wedding Day Gift valentine's day notebook gift Love MessThis blank lined notebook features the words "Letters to My Future Husband" on the cover and plenty of room to let your fiance know how much you appreciate him and how much he means to you.This Journal book is lined to record all your...
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Whispers from the Wilderness: One man's five-decade journey through life, addiction, and on to freedomA truthful, gritty, sometimes heart-wrenching look at the life of an overcomer. Join an everyman on his own odyssey from dysfunction, addiction, and near-death experiences to a life of peace and helping others find their way. A story that truly shows that no matter...
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If Anyone Calls, Tell Them I Died: A MemoirThe Holocaust and its aftermath were not often discussed in families of second-generation survivors. In Tel Aviv of the 1960s, Emanuel Rosen grew up hearing the staccato of his mother's typewriter, but had no idea about the battle she was fighting. This changed years...
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The Most Beautiful Rose: Memoir Of An Italian Immigrant's Extraordinary ChildhoodDomenica Calabrese Tedeschi's The Most Beautiful Rose is a delightful, yet heartbreaking memoir of an Italian girl growing up in a rural village in the Molise section of Italy. She tends cows, brings manure to her father, feeds the animals, and does other daily...
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The Emphatically Queer Career of Artist Perkins Harnly and His Bohemian FriendsThe Emphatically Queer Career of Artist Perkins Harnly is the story of a Nebraska-born artist (1901-1986) who crossed paths with a staggering array of famous and infamous personalities. He stole a box of bon-bons from Sarah Bernhardt. Was friends with Paul Swan, a.k.a. "The...
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We Had Prayin' MothersThe adventure of a lifetime...One September morning in 1974, two nineteen-year-old boys, full of life and looking for adventure, mounted up on ten speed bikes and pedaled into the distance, determined to traverse the United States from sea to shining sea. No cell phones,...
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Welcome to Hell World: Dispatches from the American DystopiaWhen Luke O'Neil isn't angry, he's asleep. When he's awake, he gives vent to some of the most heartfelt, political and anger-fueled prose to power its way to the public sphere since Hunter S. Thompson smashed a typewriter's keys.Welcome to Hell World is an...
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Facing Fear: The True Story of Evelyn FrechetteFacing Fear depicts the true story of Evelyn (Billie) Frechette, the beloved companion of John Dillinger. The unyielding violence that ravaged the Native American Race made survival extremely dangerous. As society fought to overcome the Great Depression, Evelyn tried to make ends meet by...
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The Tulsa Race MassacreA brief introduction into the violent Tulsa Race Massacre that occurred on May 31-June 1 1921. Additional features include detailed captions and sidebars, critical-thinking questions, a phonetic glossary, an index, and sources for further research.Author: Kara L. LaughlinPublisher: Child's WorldPublished: 01/01/2021Pages: 32Binding Type: Library...
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The Man-Eaters of TsavoFirst published in 1907 and considered to be one of the most famous stories of man-eating lions in modern times, "The Man-Eaters of Tsavo" is the first-hand account of Lieutenant-Colonel John Henry Patterson's encounter with several deadly lions during the building of the Uganda...
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Famous Gunfighters of the Western FrontierFirst published in 1907 as a series of articles in "Human Life" magazine, "Famous Gunfighters of the Western Frontier" is the fascinating first-hand account of these famous Americans by Bat Masterson. Born Bartholemew William Barclay Masterson in Canada in 1853, Bat Masterson led an...
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