Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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The Life of / La Vida de Selena: A Bilingual Picture Book BiographyA Lil' Libros Bilingual BiographySelena's career started at a young age when she became lead singer in her family's band, Selena Y Los Dinos. She went on to become an award-winning artist with albums like Amor Prohibido and Selena Live, and earned the title...
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The Legacy of Black Women in Librarianship: When They Dared to Be PowerfulInside this stirring and timely collection, readers will discover the important stories of many trailblazing Black women who fought racism, sexism, and other hardships in their libraries and communities to become leaders of our profession.Black women have historically been hidden figures in librarianship, yet...
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The Leadership Genius of Elon MuskAn admiring portrait of the pioneering entrepreneur from the former CNBC host and Forbes editor. One of the most influential figures of our time, Elon Musk is the most talked about man in America who isn't running for president (yet!). In The Leadership Genius...
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The Key to Everything: May Swenson, a Writer's LifeAn intimate portrait of the twentieth-century American poet May Swenson (1913-1989) was one of the most important and original poets of the twentieth century. The Key to Everything is a biography of this experimental American modernist that draws directly from her unpublished diaries and...
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The Kept Ones: The Beginning Years (Volume 1)All that glitters isn't gold. Today the truth will be told. To the world DeBarge was R&B music royalty but today the group's lone female member, known professionally as Bunny DeBarge, will sing a different tune; a tune that won't always be in perfect...
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The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed AmericaFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel and Bobby Kennedy, a sweeping and spellbinding portrait of the longtime kings of jazz--Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie--who, born within a few years of one another, overcame racist exclusion and violence to become...
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The High-Flying, Deep-Diving Adventures of Kathy Sullivan: Astronaut and OceanographerDiscover the true story of Kathy Sullivan, the first woman to walk in space and the only woman who has been to both outer space and the depths of the ocean, in this inspiring nonfiction picture book biography. Growing up, Kathy Sullivan always knew...
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The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange TimeThe first volume in Hunter S. Thompson's bestselling Gonzo Papers offers brilliant commentary and outrageous humor, featuring a new introduction from award-winning author and editor John Jeremiah Sullivan. Originally published in 1979, the first volume of the bestselling "Gonzo Papers" is now back in...
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The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed ScienceIn this beautiful nonfiction biography, a Robert F. Sibert Medal winner, the Newbery Honor-winning author Joyce Sidman introduces readers to one of the first female entomologists and a woman who flouted convention in the pursuit of knowledge and her passion for insects.One of the...
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The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade"It would take a heart of stone not to be moved by the oral histories of these women and by the courage and candor with which they express themselves." --The Washington Post "A remarkably well-researched and accomplished book." --The New York Times Book Review...
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The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War IIThe New York Times bestseller, now available in paperback--an incredible true story of the top-secret World War II town of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and the young women brought there unknowingly to help build the atomic bomb. "The best kind of nonfiction: marvelously reported, fluidly...
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The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street LegendThe unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio. An instant New York Times bestseller!Ray Dalio does not want you to read this book. When the billionaire founder of Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund on the planet, announced in 2022...
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The Forbidden Experiment: The Story of the Wild Boy of AveyronThe true story of the nineteenth century's so-called "Wild Boy of Aveyron"--an abandoned French child who lived for years alone in the wilderness before being brought under the care of an innovative young physician. "Before dawn on January 9, 1800, a remarkable creature came...
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The Five Silent Years of Corrie Ten BoomPam Roswell Moore had her doubts when she interviewed to be companion of the much-loved author Corrie ten Boom. Corrie's bestselling book The Hiding Place, which recounted how she and her family had hidden Jews during World War II in Holland until their betrayal...
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The Fields of Home"A lively story . . . warm with humor; bright with incident and personality."--San Francisco ChronicleThe fatherless Moody family moved from Colorado to Medford, Massachusetts, in 1912, when Ralph was entering his teens. "I tried as hard as I could to be a city...
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The Daughter of Auschwitz: The Girl Who Lived to Tell Her StoryIn this powerful middle grade adaptation of the bestselling adult memoir of the same name, New York Times bestselling author Tova Friedman recounts her experiences as one of the youngest survivors of the Holocaust.At the tender age of five years old, Tola Grossman was...
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The Cross and the SwitchbladeThe dramatic and inspiring true story of a small town minister called to help inner city kids everyone else believed were beyond hope... David Wilkerson was just a young preacher in the Pennsylvania hills when he was stunned by a new calling from God:...
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The Creative Gene: How Books, Movies, and Music Inspired the Creator of Death Stranding and Metal Gear SolidThe ferociously talented Hideo Kojima, creator of Metal Gear Solid and Death Stranding, shares his perspective on the stories and movies that influence his work! Ever since he was a child, Metal Gear Solid and Death Stranding creator Hideo Kojima was a voracious consumer...
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The Countess and the Nazis: An American Family's Private WarFrom American heiress to Nazi resistance fighter, Muriel White's extraordinary journey reveals how one woman's privilege became her weapon against tyranny. "This compelling tale traces the intricately intertwined history of American high society with European nobility in the face of rising Nazism. A haunting...
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The Confessions: Saint Augustine of HippoThe Confessions of Saint Augustine is considered one of the greatest Christian classics of all time. It is an extended poetic, passionate, intimate prayer that Augustine wrote as an autobiography sometime after his conversion, to confess his sins and proclaim God's goodness. Just as...
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