Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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My RAD CareerMy RAD Career is a roller coaster ride through Hollywood in the 1980s as seen through the eyes of one of the cult figures of the era, Bill Allen (star of the movie RAD). Starting as a teen actor on his first ill-fated film...
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My Prophet MuhammadFor Kids Who Want to Get to Know the Prophet How well does your child know the greatest human being to ever walk the face of the Earth? How much do they admire the best of Allah's creation? How much do they take the...
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My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola TeslaAn Unabridged Edition with All Chapters and any footnotes to include: My Early Life - How Tesla Conceived the Rotary Magnetic Field - The Discovery of the Tesla Coil and Transformer, Gramme Dynamo, etc.Author: Nikola TeslaPublisher: Watchmaker PublishingPublished: 11/13/2019Pages: 52Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 9.00h...
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Memoirs of a Gay Shah: My Story of Family, Fame, and Becoming a KingHe didn't fit the mold--so he made a throne instead.At just four years old, Reza Farahan left Iran for what was supposed to be a quick family trip to Los Angeles. But while he was soaking up the California sun, revolution erupted back home,...
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Matrescence: On Pregnancy, Childbirth, and MotherhoodA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - An important, moving, passionate and passionately written inquiry--personal and scientific--into what happens--mentally, spiritually, physically, during the process of becoming a mother, from pregnancy and childbirth to early motherhood and what this profound process tells us...
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Marilyn Monroe: The BiographySpoto's biography of Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe makes use of over 150 interviews and more than 35,000 pages of previously sealed files, including Monroe's diaries, letters, and other personal and revealing documents. The book reveals new details of every aspect of her life, from...
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Marginalia: An Autobiography"What does it mean to dissolve into one's text?" Naomi Washer asks in Marginalia: An Autobiography. Comprised of a decade's worth of notes made in the margins of other writers' books, collected and arranged into an original work, Marginalia accumulates into an essay that...
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Love Keeps Showing Up: Music, Messes, and MiraclesOscar, Grammy, and Golden Globe recipient, platinum-selling artist. The voice of Dolores Madrigal in Encanto. Adassa invites us into her personal story of achieving her musical dreams, battling a paralyzing illness, and having faith in divine timing. Born to immigrant Colombian parents, Adassa learned...
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Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical BiographyWilliam Lee Miller's ethical biography is a fresh, engaging telling of the story of Lincoln's rise to power. Through careful scrutiny of Lincoln's actions, speeches, and writings, and of accounts from those who knew him, Miller gives us insight into the moral development of...
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Levitating the Pentagon and Other Uplifting Stories: A Life of ActivismPW EDITOR'S PICK!! "Equal parts revealing memoir, valuable historical document, and galvanizing guide to following one's beliefs." -Publishers WeeklyA bold, unflinching memoir from the front lines of American protest by lifelong activist Nancy Kurshan.In Levitating the Pentagon and Other Uplifting Stories, longtime activist Nancy...
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Labor: One Woman's WorkA powerful memoir of medicine, identity, and family secrets from an esteemed ob-gyn as she unravels her grandmother's mysterious death while reimagining women's health care from a mobile clinic--for readers of The Beauty in Breaking and The In-Between. In Labor: One Woman's Work, Dr....
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Just One More Game: A Pickleball QuestAn entertaining look at the meteoric rise of pickleball and one player's joyful obsession with the game--a fun, enlightening read for pickleballers old and new.Just One More Game is Clare Frank's account of abandoning herself to a sport loved by millions (and hated by...
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Joyful, AnywayNew York Times bestselling author and Duke University professor Kate Bowler offers a profound, funny, and deeply human case for joy that doesn't depend on everything getting better. "Joyful, Anyway is colorful and layered, unafraid of the occasional gut-punch of raw feeling and vulnerability--much...
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Joyful, AnywayNew York Times bestselling author and Duke University professor Kate Bowler offers a profound, funny, and deeply human case for joy that doesn't depend on everything getting better. "Joyful, Anyway is colorful and layered, unafraid of the occasional gut-punch of raw feeling and vulnerability--much...
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Intimate Audrey: An Authorized BiographyThe deeply personal official biography of Audrey Hepburn, full of untold stories, exclusive photos, and cherished memories from her son Sean Hepburn Ferrer, one of the people who knew her best. To those who appreciate her work and legacy, Audrey Hepburn was many things....
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In the Heart of the Heart of Another CountryA haunting exploration of identity, history, displacement, and war from an Arab American perspectiveAuthor: Etel AdnanPublisher: City Lights BooksPublished: 09/01/2005Pages: 160Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 7.98h x 5.02w x 0.41dISBN: 9780872864467About the AuthorEtel Adnan was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1925. She studied philosophy at...
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In the Fight: True Stories of Fighting for the American WorkerPart memoir, part historical account, In the Fight is a front-row seat to the key political battles and big business treachery that destroyed the once-thriving American middle class. Union leader Rich Michalski takes us from local lodges to the plush inner sanctums of billion-dollar...
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In One EarA Rough Trade Book of the Y ear A Resident Book of the Year 'A wonderful book' ELTON JOHN 'Beautiful, insightful and honest' CILLIAN MURPHY 'A love letter to a charmed life lived through music' OBSERVER As one-third of seminal band Cocteau Twins, Simon...
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Hurricane Lessons: A MemoirWhen Katrina, a 46-year-old Midwestern mother of four, becomes consumed with feelings for her female Pilates instructor, she begins to understand that she is and always has been gay. Her husband suggests they open up their 20+ year marriage, which appears to be a...
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How to die (and other stories)On April 2, 2024 I sent out a newsletter asking people to send me questions. I promised to answer a question a week. I started this project for a couple of reasons. First off, I like helping people and I figured I could find...
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