Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Resting Place of SurvivalWhat do you do with the survival instinct when it has fulfilled its purpose? Poet Gianella Ghiglino unravels this question over dozens of soul-stirring pages, charting her relationship with her Peruvian roots, her immigrant family, and survivor's guilt. Equal parts meditation and eulogy, Resting...
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Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish PunkAn Indigenous artist blends the aesthetics of punk rock with the traditional spiritual practices of the women in her lineage in this bold, contemporary journey to reclaim her heritage and unleash her power and voice while searching for a permanent home Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe...
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Red Helicopter--A Parable for Our Times: Lead Change with Kindness (Plus a Little Math)A NATIONAL BESTSELLEREmbrace your agency, lead change, and fly free--in the business of life and the life of business--with kindness (plus a little math)In kindergarten, James Rhee received a toy red helicopter in gratitude for a simple act of generosity--sharing his lunch. Decades later,...
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Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American RevolutionThe heroic story of the founding of the U.S. Navy during the Revolution has been told many times, yet largely missing from maritime histories of America's first war is the ragtag fleet of private vessels that truly revealed the new nation's character--above all, its...
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Raising Hare: A MemoirA moving and fascinating meditation on freedom, trust, loss, and our relationship with the natural world, explored through the story of one woman's unlikely friendship with a wild hare....Author: Chloe DaltonPublisher: Center PointPublished: 04/01/2025Pages: 280Binding Type: Library BindingWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.60w x 0.90dISBN:...
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Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend: A Celebration of Gay Gods, Sapphic Saints, and Queerness Through the AgesFeaturing 50 profiles and select B&W illustrated portraits, Heroes of Queer Myth & Legend is a celebration of gay gods and goddesses, sapphic sirens, misunderstood mermen, and lesbians of legend. Hidden in the margins of history books, classical literature, and thousands of years of...
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Q: A Voyage Around the QueenWith equal measures of wit and wisdom, the author of 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret draws a deeply original, hilarious, and telling portrait of the Queen herself. She was the most famous person on earth; she first appeared on the cover of Time magazine...
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Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native AmericaNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A photographic and narrative celebration of contemporary Native American life and cultures, alongside an in-depth examination of issues that Native people face, by celebrated photographer and storyteller Matika Wilbur of the Swinomish and Tulalip Tribes. "This book is too...
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Profiles in CourageTHE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CLASSIC OF POLITICAL INTEGRITY With a foreword by Robert F. Kennedy and introduction by Caroline Kennedy John F. Kennedy's enduring classic resounds with timeless lessons on the most cherished of virtues--courage and patriotism--and remains a moving, powerful, and relevant testament to...
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Preparing to BiteAchingly human auto-bio comics that extract big laughs from the small moments Cartoonist Keiler Roberts quit making comics. Or did she?Preparing to Bite, her latest collection of all-new, one-page comics is a return to perfectform. Roberts skewers innocuous aspects of everyday life and dissects...
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Pilgrim StoriesIn the early 1900s, Pumphrey, a primary school teacher, compiled stories from a number of original sources, including William Bradford's diary Of Plimouth Plantation and Edward Winslow's journal Good Newes from New England--stories of faith, courage, and joy that became the seeds of a...
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Patrick: Patron Saint of IrelandAn illustrated tribute to the Irish patron saint from the best-selling author of Quiet, Strega Nona, and many others. This timeless picture book, available in large-format paperback or as the board book Saint Patrick, is a perfect introduction to important Irish legends and an...
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Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That LastThe New York Times bestseller! "A warm and loving reflection that, like good bourbon, will stand the test of time." --Eric Asimov, The New York Times "Bourbon is for sharing, and so is Pappyland."--The Wall Street Journal The story of how Julian Van Winkle...
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Owning It: Our Disabled Childhoods in Our Own Words'Honest, hopeful, hilarious and heartwarming.' - Cerrie Burnell From birthday parties, to navigating the sports field, to being given random free stuff, to juggling hospital visits alongside social lives . . . These twenty-two true stories capture the highs and lows, the tears and...
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Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare BooksellerSome years ago, Oliver Darkshire stepped into the hushed interior of Henry Sotheran Ltd (est. 1761) to apply for a job. Allured by the smell of old books and the temptation of a management-approved afternoon nap, Darkshire was soon unteetering stacks of first editions...
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Oh Give Me a HomeFrom Author Jane Kurtz, winner of the School Library Journal Best Of The Year and numerous other awards. In verse, Oh Give Me a Home relates the story of a girl's inside-out view of America as she journeys from Ethiopia, searches for friends and...
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Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My DaughtersBarack Obama delivers a tender, beautiful letter to his daughters in this powerful picture book illustrated by award-winner Loren Long that's made to be treasured! In this poignant letter to his daughters, Barack Obama has written a moving tribute to thirteen groundbreaking Americans and...
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Not the Life It Seems: The True Lives of My Chemical RomanceMy Chemical Romance is the most significant band in alternative rock in the last decade. Inspirational, original, and stunningly creative, they forged an extraordinary connection with their fans. Not the Life It Seems: The True Lives of My Chemical Romance is their definitive biography....
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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War IIDoris Kearns Goodwin's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic about the relationship between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, and how it shaped the nation while steering it through the Great Depression and the outset of World War II. With an extraordinary collection of details, Goodwin masterfully...
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No One Gets to Fall Apart: A MemoirLonglisted for Reading the West A New York Times "Editor's Pick" and "Notable Book of the Year" * An Essence "Most Anticipated" * A Lit Hub's "Most Anticipated" * An Oprah Daily "Best Book of Fall" * An Esquire "Best Memoir of the Year"...
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