Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance"Delano's story is compelling, important and even haunting. . . . Her memoir evokes Girl, Interrupted for the age of the prescription pill. . . . In Unshrunk, she tells her own story, and she tells it powerfully." --Casey Schwartz, The New York Times...
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Uncultured: A MemoirIn the vein of Educated and The Glass Castle, Uncultured is more than a memoir about an exceptional upbringing, but about a woman who, no matter the lack of tools given to her, is determined to overcome. Behind the tall, foreboding gates of a...
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Uncanny: The Origins of FearFor the first time since his debut 35 years ago, horror master Junji Ito reveals exactly how he creates his unique worlds. Why are we drawn to fear? Horror manga legend Junji Ito has fascinated the world with his beautiful and strange tales, from...
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The incredible true story of survival and salvation that is the basis for two major motion pictures: Unbroken and Unbroken: Path to Redemption. "Extraordinarily moving . . . a powerfully drawn survival epic."--The Wall Street Journal Hailed as...
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Typhoid Mary: An Urban HistoricalThe riveting true crime tale from beloved chef and bestselling author Anthony Bourdain, originally published in 2001, centering deadly cook Mary Mallon-otherwise known as the infamous Typhoid Mary. By the turn of the twentieth century, it seemed that New York had put an end...
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Trying: A MemoirIf you're writing about your life in real time, are you inherently fucked? Over the years that Chloé Caldwell had been married and hoping to conceive a child, she'd read everything she could find on infertility. But no memoir or message board reflected her...
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Trespassers at the Golden Gate: A True Account of Love, Murder, and Madness in Gilded-Age San FranciscoThe sensational, forgotten true story of a woman who murdered her married lover in Gilded Age San Francisco and the trial that epitomized the city's transformation from raucous frontier town into modern metropolis--from the New York Times bestselling author of Empire of Sin Shortly...
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Travels with Charley in Search of America: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)A collectible 50th anniversary deluxe edition featuring an updated introduction by Jay Parini and first edition cover art and illustrated maps of Steinbeck's route by Don Freeman A Penguin Classic In September 1960, John Steinbeck embarked on a journey across America. He felt that...
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Travels with Charley: In Search of AmericaAn intimate journey across America, as told by one of its most beloved writers To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light--these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out,...
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Trans History: A Graphic Novel: From Ancient Times to the Present Day"Combs and Eakett do a fantastic job of providing readers an incredibly comprehensive and strongly researched--yet somehow compact--look into the history of trans identity." --School Library Journal (starred review)An essential introduction to trans history, from ancient times to the present day, in full-color graphic...
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To Selena, with Love: Commemorative EditionA heartfelt and revealing tribute to music superstar Selena, one of the most compelling and adored singers in Latin music history Selena was nothing short of a phenomenon who shared all of herself with her millions of devoted fans. Her tragic murder, at the...
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They're Lying: The Media, The Left, and The Death of George FloydAward-winning investigative journalist Liz Collin sets the record straight. She uncovers what really happened on a street in Minneapolis that set off the riots, the demands to defund the police, and skyrocketing crime across the country. Based on conversations with those who were there-including...
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The Youngest One in the RoomWhat does Forrest Gump have in common with each of us? A life of unplanned yet meaningful escapades. At least, that is what Dayna Adelman believes. In her literary debut, Dayna takes you on a behind-the-scenes journey through the first decade of her career-as...
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The World of the Great Gatsby 1000 Piece Puzzle: A Jigsaw by Adam SimpsonPiece together one of Jay Gatsby's notorious parties, where figures both real and fictional from Fitzgerald's life and work are hidden among the enigmatic guests. Find Daisy Buchanan weeping over a pile of silk shirts, Gatsby gazing towards the green light of his dreams,...
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The Waterbearers: A Memoir of Mothers and DaughtersA powerful new voice, telling the American story through three generations of Black mothers. "The Waterbearers is one of the most beautiful and truthful books I've ever read." --Imani Perry, National Book Award-winning author of South to America "An epic love song and remarkable...
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The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us FreeAN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP'S NOMINEE FOR SECRETARY OF DEFENSEReal men fought for our freedoms. It's time we fought for theirs.Pete Hegseth joined the Army to fight extremists. Then that same Army called him one. The military Pete joined...
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The Twenty-Ninth Day: Surviving a Grizzly Attack in the Canadian TundraA six-hundred-mile canoe trip in the Canadian wilderness is a seventeen-year-old's dream adventure, but after he is mauled by a grizzly bear, it's all about staying alive.This true-life wilderness survival epic recounts seventeen-year-old Alex Messenger's near-lethal encounter with a grizzly bear during a canoe...
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The Trouble of Color: An American Family MemoirAn "intimate and searching" (Natasha Trethewey, New York Times-bestselling author of Memorial Drive) memoir of family, color, and being Black, white, and other in America, from "one of our country's greatest historians" (Clint Smith, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of How the Word is...
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The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before YouFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning, a book of humorous and charming advice for embracing life and aging joyfully. In her international bestseller The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning Margareta Magnusson introduced the world...
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The Survivor: How I Made It Through Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter"Sobering, unforgettable reading. This is a standout of its kind." - Publishers Weekly"A riveting, deeply moving memoir. The writing is descriptive and dramatic, preserving Lewkowicz's deep emotions." - Jewish Book CouncilThis is the remarkable story of Josef Lewkowicz--Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor who became...
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