Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Pearl Jam Live!: 35 Years of Legendary Music and Revolutionary ShowsA must-have for every Pearl Jam fan, this beautifully designed volume traces 35 years of the groundbreaking grunge group through photos, interviews, and all the fascinating facts. Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard, Mike McCready, Eddie Vedder, and Matt Cameron are Seattle's own alternative rock band...
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Patrimony: A True Story (National Book Critics Circle Award Winner)WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD - "A tough-minded, beautifully written memoir" (San Francisco Chronicle) about a son watching his elderly father battle with the brain tumor that will kill him--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral. Patrimony, a true story,...
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Party Crash Your Career & Life: Be Bold, Risk Safely, and Succeed Without an InvitationAt one point in our lives or another, we have all had the experience of wanting to try our hand at something we have no business trying. Whether it's striking out on a new career path or asking someone out who's out of our...
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Papillon [Movie Tie-In]"A modern classic of courage and excitement." --The New YorkerNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CHARLIE HUNNAM AND RAMI MALEKHenri Charrière, nicknamed "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit. Sentenced...
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Paid for: My Journey Through Prostitution"The best work by anyone on prostitution ever, Rachel Moran's Paid For fuses the memoirist's lived poignancy with the philosopher's conceptual sophistication. The result is riveting, compelling, incontestable. Impossible to put down. This book provides all anyone needs to know about the reality of...
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Padre Pio: Stories and Memories of My Mentor and FriendThis colorful memoir offers a rare, up-close glimpse of the life and personality of St. Pio of Pietrelcina, the beloved Italian monk who was blessed with extraordinary gifts.The late Fr. Amorth--well-known as an exorcist --enjoyed over two decades of a close friendship with the...
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Over to You: Letters Between a Father and SonCompelling and intimate, this collection of never-before-seen letters between the celebrated art critic and essayist, John Berger and his son Yves, an artist, is a moving look at their musings on art, memory, life, death, and beyond. Written between 2015-16, with 53 color images...
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Over EasyA fast-paced semi-memoir about diners, drugs, and California in the late 70s After being denied financial aid to cover her last year of art school, Margaret takes a waitressing job at local Oakland fixture: the Imperial Café. Here an impressionable young woman transforms into...
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Out There: Dispatches from My Personal WildernessOut There recounts one man's search to lead an authentic life, an adventure that takes him all over the world and through some of the biggest societal changes of recent history. From a distance, this could be a typical American story: boy grows up...
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Other People's MothersA nostalgic and poignant coming-of-agestory told through one young woman's relationships with the mother figures inher life Relationshipsbetween mothers and daughters can often be complicated and fraught. Even in thebest of circumstances, many of us may have grown up curious about the mothersof our...
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Orphan Bachelors: A MemoirCALIFORNIA BOOK AWARDS GOLD MEDAL WINNER FOR NONFICTIONFrom the bestselling and award-winning author of novels Bone and Steer Toward Rock, Fae Myenne Ng's Orphan Bachelors is an extraordinary memoir of her beloved San Francisco's Chinatown and of a family building a life in a...
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On Thin Ice: An LAPD Veteran's Journey to Reimagine Policing"POLICING IS ON THIN ICE. It's up to us to reimagine what happens next." -Jeff WenningerOn Thin Ice delivers an unflinching look inside the American law enforcement from a voice who's lived it. With over 30 years in the LAPD and direct oversight of...
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On the Rocks: The Primadonna StoryOn the Rocks chronicles the real-life journey of restaurateur Joseph Costanzo Jr., from his rise to success in the 1990s as a owner of the highly acclaimed Primadonna Restaurant, radio host, columnist, and aspiring politician to his sharp fall in the early 2000s, ending...
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On Lighthouses"This book is a light at the end of the tunnel." --The Paris ReviewFar from home, in the confines of a dim New York apartment where the oppressive skyscrapers further isolate her, Jazmina Barrera offers a tour of her lighthouses--those structures whose message is...
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One Thousand Ways to Make $1000One Thousand Ways to Make $1000 is the book that Warren Buffett's biographers credit with shaping the legendary investor's business acumen and giving him his trademark appreciation of compound interest. After pulling a copy of One Thousand Ways off a library shelf at age...
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On Elton John: An Opinionated GuideA lively and imaginative exploration of the career and music of the Rocket ManElton John is not only "still standing," he is a living superlative, the ultimate record-breaking, award-winning survivor of the great era of pop and rock music that he helped to shape...
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On AnimalsNATIONAL BESTSELLER "Magnificent." --The New York Times * "Beguiling, observant, and howlingly funny." --San Francisco Chronicle * "Spectacular." --Star Tribune (Minneapolis) * "Full of astonishments." --The Boston Globe Susan Orlean--the beloved New Yorker staff writer hailed as "a national treasure" by The Washington Post...
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Oliver Jeffers (the Illustrators)A phenomenon of twenty-first-century bookmaking, Oliver Jeffers's energy and curiosity has driven an extraordinary career that shows no sign of slowing. Only in his forties, he has published an array of hugely popular books, both as illustrator and author-illustrator, including How to Catch a...
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Of Slash Pines and Manatees: A Highly Selective Field Guide to My Suburban WildernessThrough stories of nature near at hand, a South Florida writer offers a unique view of humans and the environment amid development and change Wings and talons clatter against a windowpane. Foxes den under a deck. Pines stand in quarter-acre lots, recalling a vanished...
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Oceans of Time: The Musical Autobiography of Billy HartOceans of Time Charts the Rhythmic Course of Jazz Master Billy HartFew drummers have traversed more stylistic terrain or logged more miles behind the world's greatest jazz musicians than Billy Hart. From Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock to McCoy Tyner and Wes Montgomery, Hart...
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