Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the CrematoryArmed with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre, Caitlin Doughty took a job at a crematory and turned morbid curiosity into her life's work. She cared for bodies of every color, shape, and affliction, and became an intrepid explorer...
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Simon Peter: Flawed But Faithful DiscipleSimon Peter--an ordinary fisherman who heard an extraordinary call. He left everything to follow his teacher and possessed a passion that would change the world. That's one way to describe Peter. Here's another: poor, uneducated, quick-tempered, and full of doubts and fears. Doesn't even...
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Sharing in the Groove: The Untold Story of the '90s Jam Band Explosion and the Scene That FollowedThe wild, untold oral history of the unlikely rise of Phish, Dave Matthews Band, Widespread Panic, Blues Traveler, and numerous other bands that helped define the 1990s jam band scene Sharing in the Groove is a rich examination of an underdog genre that helped...
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Setting the TableThe bestselling business book from award-winning restauranteur Danny Meyer, of Union Square Cafe, Gramercy Tavern, and Shake ShackSeventy-five percent of all new restaurant ventures fail, and of those that do stick around, only a few become icons. Danny Meyer started Union Square Cafe when...
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Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood Memories of the Civil Rights DaysSheyann Webb was eight years old and Rachel West was nine when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. arrived in Selma, Alabama, on January 2, 1965. He came to organize non-violent demonstrations against discriminatory voting laws. Selma, Lord, Selma is their firsthand account of the...
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Scar TissueIn this "vivid and inspiring" New York Times bestseller (Newsweek), the Red Hot Chili Peppers' lead singer and songwriter shares a searingly honest account of life in the rock scene's fast lane--from the darkness into the light. In 1983, four self-described "knuckleheads" burst out...
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Rewriting the Rules: How Dr. Kathleen Friel Created New Possibilities for Brain Research and DisabilityWhen Kathleen Friel was young, she was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, and a doctor told her parents all the things she'd never be able to do. They left his office for good and found a new doctor. As Kathleen grew up, she found her...
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Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)The searing, visionary memoir of founding Black Panther Huey P. Newton, in a dazzling graphic package Tracing the birth of a revolutionary, Huey P. Newton's famous and oft-quoted autobiography is as much a manifesto as a portrait of the inner circle of America's Black...
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Renegade Grief: A Guide to the Wild Ride of Life After LossFrom grief quests to altar-making, to dinner parties to Dungeons & Dragons, Renegade Grief is an "offering to the struggle and art of being human" (Krista Tippett, New York Times bestselling author) and a profound, vulnerable exploration of care practices and rituals that empower...
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Realm of Ice and Sky: Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic RescueTwo-time National Outdoor Book Award-winning author Buddy Levy's thrilling narrative of polar exploration via airship―and the men who sacrificed everything to make history. Arctic explorer and American visionary Walter Wellman pioneered both polar and trans-Atlantic airship aviation, making history's first attempts at each. Yet,...
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Ready for My Close-Up: The Making of Sunset Boulevard and the Dark Side of the Hollywood DreamFor readers of Sam Wasson and Glenn Frankel, a cultural history about the making and lasting significance of Sunset Boulevard, whose piercing--and in many ways, prophetic--critiques of fame continue to resonate today. Great films are born of great collaborations, and Sunset Boulevard represents one...
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Queen of All Mayhem: The Blood-Soaked Life and Mysterious Death of Belle Starr, the Most Dangerous Woman in the WestA riveting, deeply researched, blood-on-the-spurs biography of Belle Starr, the most legendary female outlaw of the American West. On February 3, 1889, just two days shy of her forty-first birthday, Myra Maybelle Shirley--better known at that point by her outlaw sobriquet "Belle Starr"--was blown...
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Pure Innocent Fun: EssaysNATIONAL BESTSELLER - In this nostalgic and raucous collection of sixteen original essays, Ira Madison III--critic, television writer, and host of the beloved Keep It podcast--combines memoir and criticism to offer a brand-new pop-culture manifesto. "This is the most fun I've had reading all...
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Proof of Life: Let Go, Let Love, and Stop Looking for Permission to Live Your LifeNATIONAL BESTSELLER An urgent rallying cry to stop holding back and start living life on your terms. Jen Pastiloff convinced herself My life is fine and fine's enough, until the whisper that something was missing turned full-on scream. This is Pastiloff's account of how...
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Princesses of Heaven: The FlowersPrincesses of Heaven is a picture book for young girls ages 3-8 written and illustrated by Disney artist Fabiola Garza. This breathtaking book shares the stories of St. Joan of Arc, St. Josephine Bakhita, St. Kateri Tekakwitha, St. Narcisa de Jesus, St. Lucy Yi...
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Presidents at War: How World War II Shaped a Generation of Presidents, from Eisenhower and JFK Through Reagan and BushSteven M. Gillon, historian and New York Times bestselling author, is back with the story of how WWII shaped the characters and politics of seven American presidents. World War II loomed over the latter half of the twentieth century, transforming every level of American...
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Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country CooksNATIONAL BESTSELLER - A lyrical culinary journey that explores the hidden legacy of Black Appalachians, through powerful storytelling alongside nearly forty comforting recipes, from the former poet laureate of Kentucky."With Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts, Crystal Wilkinson cements herself as one of the most...
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Pilgrim at Tinker CreekWinner of the Pulitzer Prize"The book is a form of meditation, written with headlong urgency, about seeing. . . . There is an ambition about [Dillard's] book that I like. . . . It is the ambition to feel." -- Eudora Welty, New York...
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Painting Wonder: How Pauline Baynes Illustrated the Worlds of C. S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien★ "It's a beautiful tribute. An accessible and inspiring mini-biography, delightfully illustrated."--Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) Just in time for the 75th anniversary of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe comes Painting Wonder, an enchanting picture book biography about the artist whose illustrations brought...
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Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of "Latino"WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR NONFICTIONNAMED ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES' 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2023ONE OF TIME'S 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2023 A TOP TEN BOOK OF 2023 AT CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY A new book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer about...
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