Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Life Without: The Wrongful Conviction of Sandy ShawIn 1987, when Sandy heard the bark of the first pistol shot right next to her ear, she bolted and ran for her life. After ducking behind desert scrub brush in the dim glow of the moonlight, she spotted eighteen-year-old Troy Kell and his...
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Face in the Mirror: A Surgeon, a Patient, and the Remarkable Story of the First Face Transplant at Mayo ClinicThe captivating story of the first face transplant at Mayo Clinic. For years, they came in on weekends to plan and practice--nearly sixty surgeons, nurses, and anesthesiologists, preparing to harmonize in a vast medical symphony. For the team at Mayo Clinic, it was their...
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The Torah Road Trip: Abraham Rides ShotgunIn September of 2007, three years after his father had passed and just before the Jewish High Holidays, Bruce Levin got a call from above. It was from his mother! His mom told him that their family's former syna-gogue in Connecticut was closing, and...
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Escaping Castro - The Refugee Edit: The Biography of Mary and EduardoFrom Communism to Freedom: A Granddaughter's Journey into Her Grandparents' Heroic Cuban EscapeEvery culinary expedition has a beginning, and in this compelling biography, Amber Garcia-Rameau's journey starts unexpectedly in her grandparents' kitchen. As a newly minted college graduate, her initial pursuit was to learn...
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Rejected: A Story of an African American Man in Search of HimselfFrom slavery and social injustice to present-day economic and racial divides, it can be challenging for African American men to find their true identity. Often rejected by society at-large, and even within their own community at times, the African American male has been seen...
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The Road Less WornStaring at the 450 pieces of clothing littering her bedroom, Erin Flynn couldn't help but wonder, "How did I end up here?" In her debut memoir The Road Less Worn, Flynn sorts through snapshots of her life-from her roots as an athlete in a...
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I Never Had It Made: The Autobiography of Jackie RobinsonThe bestselling autobiography of American baseball and civil rights legend Jackie RobinsonBefore Reggie Jackson, before Hank Aaron, baseball's stars had one undeniable trait in common: they were all white. In 1947, Jackie Robinson broke that barrier, striking a crucial blow for racial equality and...
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The Egg and I"A work of real comic genius. . . . A wonderful, funny, warm, honest book, and, to use a much overused word, a classic." --Michael Korda, author of Country MattersWhen Betty MacDonald married a Marine and moved to a small chicken farm on the...
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Crow Dog: Four Generations of Sioux Medicine Men (Harperperennial)"I am Crow Dog. I am the fourth of that name. Crow Dogs have played a big part in the history of our tribe and in the history of all the Indian nations of the Great Plains during the last two hundred years. We...
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I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend"Short's endearing memoir is, of course, funny, but it's also a rare thing: the tale of a genuine human being who's thrived on planet Hollywood." -- Washington PostIn this engagingly witty, wise, and heartfelt memoir, Martin Short tells the tale of how a showbiz-obsessed...
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Maryam's Magic: The Story of Mathematician Maryam MirzakhaniFrom Althea Gibson author Megan Reid and rising star artist Aaliya Jaleel, illustrator of Under My Hijab, comes the first picture book about trailblazing mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to win the world's most prestigious honor in mathematics. Perfect for fans of Hidden...
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Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye"A biography as dramatic as any to come out of the pop field . . . told with sympathy and unflinching candor."--San Francisco Chronicle In this intimate biography of the Prince of Soul, David Ritz provides a candid look at a star and a...
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Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous AbortionistDiscover the true story of a self-taught surgeon and trailblazing figure in medical history--Madame Restell, a revolutionary surgeon who fought for women's rights and healthcare in Gilded Age New York. An industrious immigrant who built her business from the ground up, Madame Restell was...
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Bet on Black: The Good News about Being Black in America Today"Bet on Black is an illuminating account of overcoming adversity... an inspiring and hopeful narrative on Blackness." --Bakari Sellers, New York Times bestselling author of My Vanishing Country Bet on Black is a call to action for Black people all over the world to...
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Peter the Great: His Life and WorldPULITZER PRIZE WINNER - An "urgently readable" (Newsweek) biography of the captivating tsar who changed Russian history--from the New York Times bestselling author of Nicholas and Alexandra, The Romanovs, and Catherine the Great "Enthralling . . . as fascinating as any novel and more...
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Metamaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus [With CDROM]NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER - Visually and emotionally rich, MetaMaus is as groundbreaking as the masterpiece whose creation it reveals - Featured in the documentary Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse In the pages of MetaMaus, Art Spiegelman re-enters the Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus,...
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The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "An altogether absorbing popular biography . . . The heroic Churchill is in these pages, but so is the little boy writing forlorn letters to the father who all but ignored him."--People When Winston Churchill was born in Blenheim...
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Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's BrainAlbert Einstein's brain floats in a Tupperware bowl in a gray duffel bag in the trunk of a Buick Skylark barreling across America. Driving the car is journalist Michael Paterniti. Sitting next to him is an eighty-four-year-old pathologist named Thomas Harvey, who performed the...
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Woody Guthrie: A LifeA biography of the influential American folk singer, Woody Guthrie, who lived a life on the edge of tragedy but inspired a generation of songwriters, including Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan. Few artists have captured the American experience of their time as wholly as...
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Who Was Frank Sinatra?Learn about the showstopping life of one of the most famous entertainers of all time in this book about Frank Sinatra from the #1 New York Times Bestselling Series! Before Frank Sinatra became the international superstar that we remember him as today, he was...
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