Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Mr. Secretary: From the Potato Fields to the White HouseGrowing up in South Florida in the 1940s, Wilbert Bryant wanted nothing more than to help his disabled mother get enough money to build a house with electricity and running water. At age 8 he picked potatoes in the fields with his four brothers...
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Miseducated: A MemoirAn inspiring memoir of one man's transformation from a delinquent, drug-dealing dropout to an award-winning Harvard educator through literature and debate--all by the age of twenty-seven. Brandon P. Fleming grew up in an abusive home and was shuffled through school, his passing grades a...
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Michael Davies: The Great Defender of Catholic TraditionFor so many people who were enduring the trauma of the years of drastic change after the Second Vatican Council, Michael Davies' books and lectures were like manna from heaven and uplifted and educated many lay people and clergy. In his research and exposition...
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Mending Reality: An Advocate's Existential Journey with Mental HealthAfter being incarcerated for nearly killing his dad due to a psychosis-induced prophetic vision, Cohen Miles-Rath wishes to support others with their mental health challenges. Cohen Miles-Rath, an elite runner and first-generation college student, attacked his dad with a knife. He thought he was...
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Meet the Puritans: A Guide to Their Lives and BooksWhether you're meeting them for the first time or returning with questions, this is the indispensable guide to the lives and works of the Puritans.If your impression of the Puritans comes from grim portraits, high collars, and joyless sermons, Meet the Puritans will surprise...
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Making Art and Making a Living: Adventures in Funding a Creative Life"Mason Currey is the undisputed master of finding, in the messy lives of great artists and thinkers throughout time, deeply human lessons about cultivating meaning in our current age." --Cal Newport, New York Times bestselling author of Slow Productivity and Deep Work Daily Rituals...
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Magnum Opus: The Unbelievable 15-Year Saga of Guns N' Roses' Chinese DemocracyBy 1993, Guns N' Roses had hit practically every benchmark possible for a rock n' roll band. Their eight-year journey had included an explosive and game-changing debut record, a self-indulgent but even more successful double album release, a handful of raucous global tours, and...
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Made for This: Lessons in Leadership, Legacy, and Living UnapologeticallyStep Into the Life You Were Made to LeadMade for This is a powerful reminder that leadership is not about a title-it's about how you choose to live.In this deeply inspiring memoir, DeAngela Burns-Wallace, EdD, shares a remarkable journey of purpose, discipline, and personal...
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Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons"Like jumping into the cockpit of an F-14 Tomcat-Lead to Win seizes you by the throat and doesn't let go!This book is hard to put down and can make anyone a better person as well as an accomplished leader and mentor! -Admiral James Stavridis,...
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Kutchinsky's Egg: A Family's Story of Obsession, Love, and LossA riveting, heart-stopping family memoir that blends art, obsession, and love as the author searches for the spectacular jeweled egg that consumed her father's dreams--and spelled her family's downfall. When she was eleven years old, Serena Kutchinsky's life changed forever. Her father Paul, who...
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Killing the Kingfish: The Huey Long AssassinationOn September 8, 1935, Huey Long, a United States senator and former Louisiana governor, was fatally shot in a back corridor of the Louisiana state capitol. Although the most widely accepted theory holds that Dr. Carl Weiss, son-in-law of Long's political opponent Judge Benjamin...
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I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard CohenThe New York Times-bestselling, definitive biography of legendary artist Leonard Cohen, now with new afterword by the author "There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." -- Leonard CohenThe genius behind such classic songs as Suzanne, Bird on a Wire,...
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How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay: Tips and Tricks That Kept Me Alive, Happy, and Creative in Spite of MyselfWarm, insightful, and witty, the first book of advice from New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lawson--aka the Bloggess Jenny Lawson is full of contradictions. She's a celebrated author but battles self-doubt, paralysis, and anxiety. She's an award-winning humorist but struggles with treatment-resistant depression....
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How a Bear Became a Book: The Collaboration That Created Winnie-The-Pooh*FOUR STARRED REVIEWS* Celebrate the 100th anniversary of Winnie-the-Pooh with this gorgeous picture book about the creation of the World's Most Famous Bear! In 1926, the very first Winnie-the-Pooh book was published. One hundred years later, generations of kids have grown up in the...
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Houdini's Library: How Books Created the World's Greatest MagicianA fresh and fascinating picture book biography about the iconic magician Harry Houdini, an avid book collector who lived and breathed the idea that books are magic, from the author of Caldecott Honor book The Noisy Paint Box. Houdini is the world's most beloved...
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Holy Disobedience: Sex, Sin, and Secrets in the Biggest Church No One KnowsA book of fierce honesty and radical freedom for breaking out of controlling systems."Spiers's writing is propulsive and intelligent." -Tia Levings, author of the New York Times bestselling A Well-Trained WifeHoly Disobedience is a gripping, unflinching story by Melissa Duge Spiers about growing up...
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Henry Knox: Visionary General of the American RevolutionMark Puls delivers a compelling portrait of the Revolutionary War general who played a key role in all of George Washington's battles. During the Siege of Boston, Henry Knox's amazing 300 mile transport of forty nine cannons from Ticonderoga saved the city. Building upon...
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Golf Legends AlphabetFrom Billy Casper to Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Arnold Palmer to Tiger Woods, tee off with the greats in Golf Legends Alphabet. Strikingly illustrated from A to Z, this book is sure to be a hole-in-one for all lovers of the game.Author: Beck FeinerPublisher: Alphabet...
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Girl Gone WildThe Hollywood Misadventures of a Small-Town GirlTales of ambition, delusion, drugs, sex, and misogyny... including selling T-shirts on the Girls Gone Wild busGIRL GONE WILD is a collection of exploits and delusions about chasing your dreams with reckless abandon and what happens when their...
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Ghosts of War: The True Story of a 19-Year-Old GIIn this extraordinary and harrowing memoir, follow one GI's tour of duty as Ryan Smithson brings readers inside a world that few understand. This is no ordinary teenager's story. Instead of opting for college life, Ryan Smithson joined the Army Reserve when he was...
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