Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Just a Busy Season: Essays on Motherhood, an Unexpected ComedyComedian and author of Birdie & Harlow @thedailytay shares an honest and hilarious essay collection on parenting young children, navigating social anxiety, and being a millennial woman. "It's just a busy season," we say to ourselves after a chaotic morning (that we've had every...
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I've Made My Peace...So Can YouHe thought he could survive anything... until one afternoon proved him wrong.Jim Blanchette wasn't searching for God. A retired cop hardened by a violent childhood and years on the streets, he thought he could handle anything life threw at him.Then came the afternoon that...
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In the Rooms: A Therapist's Guide to Getting and Staying SoberUnmasking Sobriety: A Candid Guide to Overcoming Addiction, Navigating Recovery and Becoming Your Best SelfIn today's volatile cultural and political landscape, despair often seems to be around every corner, driving many further into problematic drinking. Yet, in the aftermath of a global pandemic, a...
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Intelligence Operator 230: In the Service of CanadaForget the tuxedos and shaken martinis. This isn't fiction-it's colder, quieter, and much more real.As an intelligence operator during the tense Cold War period, Mike served as a Peacekeeper and operated covertly behind the Iron Curtain, where silence spoke louder than words. Later, he...
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I Bottled My Mother: Grit, Grime & Growing a Business. the Mrs. Meyer's StoryMonica Nassif didn't just build a brand--she bottled a legacy. I Bottled My Mother is the gritty, hilarious, heartfelt origin story behind Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day, the cult-favorite cleaning line inspired by Monica's real-life mom, Thelma Meyer: a whip-smart, no-nonsense Midwesterner who raised nine...
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I Am Strong: A Little Book about Rosa ParksThe littlest readers can learn about Rosa Parks in this board book version of the New York Times bestselling Ordinary People Change the World biography. This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great--the traits that kids can aspire...
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I Am Kind: A Little Book about Abraham LincolnThe littlest readers can learn about Abraham Lincoln in this board book version of the New York Times bestselling Ordinary People Change the World biography. This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great--the traits that kids can aspire...
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I Am a Royal Rulebreaker: Women Who Shaped HistoryThe NOT-SO boring biographies of the queens and princesses who shattered royal conventions and empowered generations of girls just like you. Forget wilting wallflowers and doting daughters - the royal women in this unapologetic history book for kids 9-12 rocked the world with their...
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How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing WorldWinner of the New England Book Award Finalist for the Vermont Book Award A tender, fearless exploration by a forester writing in the tradition of Suzanne Simard, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and Robert Macfarlane. Only those who love trees should cut them, writes forester Ethan...
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Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish BundNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The dramatic story of the Jewish Bund--a revolutionary movement from a vanished world--and its radical vision of solidarity in an age of division. "Molly Crabapple beckons readers through a portal to an irresistible, lost world, one bound together by...
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Happiness Included: Jan Brady and BeyondIt's finally time for Jan, Jan, Jan! As Jan Brady, America's most memorable middle child on the beloved TV sitcom, The Brady Bunch, Eve Plumb has been an enduring icon of American pop culture for over 60 years. Now in an engaging, intimate memoir,...
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Gladys Aylward: The Adventure of a LifetimeThis is the powerful story of Gladys Aylward. Without formal education or a missionary organization to back her, Gladys raised her own finances for the overland trip that would bring her to the country and people that God had etched so deeply on her...
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George Morrison: Modern ArtistGeorge Morrison, a skilled Ojibwe artist, grew up on the shores of Lake Superior, and by the age of nine was known for his drawing and creative talents. He graduated from the Minneapolis College of Art and went on to create paintings and sculptures...
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Eight Suitcases and a Dog"...a testament to the human spirit...and it stays with you long after the final page. I loved it. Every word." -J. Randy Taraborrelli New York Times bestselling author They left everything behind to build a dream- only to find themselves fighting to survive. When...
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Dual Identities: Living in Meier's Shadow"[A] beautifully rendered and deeply personal narrative." - Peter Salovey, president emeritus, Yale UniversityA Faux Photo. A Heavy Burden. Two Lives, Forever Intertwined."You hear nothing!" his mother shouts. But like many young children of Holocaust survivors, Arthur hears too much. And his mother, Sally...
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Dual Identities: Living in Meier's Shadow"[A] beautifully rendered and deeply personal narrative." -Peter Salovey, president emeritus, Yale UniversityA Faux Photo. A Heavy Burden. Two Lives, Forever Intertwined."You hear nothing!" his mother shouts. But like many young children of Holocaust survivors, Arthur hears too much. And his mother, Sally Finkelstein...
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DrivenInstant Sunday Times bestsellerAn inside look at the competitive world of Formula One and trailblazer Susie Wolff's 20-year career, taking readers from the driver's seat and the F1 paddock all the way to the future of the sport.As a young girl, Susie Wolff dreamed...
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Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I've Cried about: A MemoirFrom the social media superstar behind @SimonSits, Isabel Klee--known for her heartwarming tales of dog rescue--comes an utterly winning memoir about a twentysomething woman's search for true love in New York City and the dogs who helped her find it.A Jersey girl by birth,...
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Crowded Tables and Bonus Tracks: A Memoir"One life I've lived was liminal - I was not what I had been, but I had yet to become what I will be."In her memoir Crowded Tables and Bonus Tracks, Ashley McLain moves from an adopted child in 1970s Dallas to a pioneering...
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Care and Feeding: A MemoirAn Instant New York Times Bestseller!A candid, funny, and occasionally devastating culinary memoir of a woman making her way through the food world, navigating addiction, a cultural reckoning, and an unexpected tragedyIn this moving, hilarious, and insightful bestselling memoir, Laurie Woolever traces her path...
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