Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Aaron McDuffie Moore: An African American Physician, Educator, and Founder of Durham's Black Wall StreetAaron McDuffie Moore (1863-1923) was born in rural Columbus County in eastern North Carolina at the close of the Civil War. Defying the odds stacked against an African American of this era, he pursued an education, alternating between work on the family farm and...
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Floating in Quiet Darkness: How the Floatation Tank Has Changed Our Lives and Is Changing the WorldGlenn Perry had a life changing experience when he floated in the tank invented by Dr. John C. Lilly. Lee and Glenn Perry created a new product, a new company and triggered a global industry. They have changed not only their lives but the...
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A Long Way to School: A Story of Overcoming Challenges and Never Giving UpFrom the author of the international award-winning memoir, Evolving Through Adversity, comes the Young Readers Edition, "A Long Way to School," a story that will inspire teens and young adults on how to overcome the challenges in their own lives.A Long Way to School...
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Patrice Lumumba: The Life and Legacy of the Pan-African Politician Who Became Congo's First Prime Minister*Includes pictures*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "Without dignity there is no liberty, without justice there is no dignity, and without independence there are no free men." - Patrice LumumbaThe modern history of Africa was, until very recently, written on behalf...
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Rock n' Roll'n - The 50's and 60'sThe 50's ushered in a period of major change. Crime was low, children played freely outside, Elvis was Rock n' Roll'n, a home cost $14,500, a car about $2,000. Teenagers were discovering the Rock n' Roll lifestyle spreading across the country including Motown and...
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Galvanized: The Odyssey of a Reluctant Carolina ConfederateEvery Civil War veteran had a story to tell. But few stories top the one lived by Wright Stephen Batchelor. Like most North Carolina farmers, Batchelor eschewed slaveholding. He also opposed secession and war, yet he fought on both sides of the conflict. During...
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The Dissent Channel: American Diplomacy in a Dishonest AgeA young diplomat's account of her assignment in South Sudan, a firsthand example of US foreign policy that has failed in its diplomacy and accountability around the world. In 2017, Elizabeth Shackelford wrote a pointed resignation letter to her then boss, Secretary of State...
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A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary JemisonA story of extraordinary courage and human survival as told by the subject herself. In 1753, 15 year old Mary Jemison was captured by Indians along the Pennsylvania frontier during the Seven Years' War between the French, English, and Indian peoples of North America....
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Old Men of the Bible: Reflections on Faith & Aging"Grace in the beginning. Grace at the end. And Grace all the way through."Grace, indeed, is the theme as the authors of Old Men of the Bible wade through the sketchy stories of the great patriarchs, from Adam to the Apostle Paul. These biblical...
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El cosechador de estrellas: La inspiradora historia de un labrador itinerante convertido en astronautaBorn into a family of migrant workers, toiling in the fields by the age of six, Jose M. Hernández dreamed of traveling through the night skies on a rocket ship. REACHING FOR THE STARS is the inspiring story of how he realized that dream,...
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On the Field With...Megan Rapinoe, Alex Morgan, Carli Lloyd, and Mallory PughThe #1 sports series for kids takes readers onto the field and behind the scenes of the U.S. Women's Soccer team, in this action-packed and inspiring collection of brand new biographies.The U.S. women's national soccer team cemented their legendary status with their 2019 World...
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The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A Memoir of Friendship, Loyalty, and WarNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY PETER FARRELLY, STARRING ZAC EFRON AND RUSSELL CROWE!Instant New York Times BestsellerInstant USA Today Bestseller"Chickie takes us thousands of miles on a hilarious quest laced with sorrow, but never dull. You will laugh and cry, but you...
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The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural WorldPart H Is for Hawk, part The Soul of an Octopus, The Book of Eels is both a meditation on the world's most elusive fish--the eel--and a reflection on the human conditionRemarkably little is known about the European eel, Anguilla anguilla. So little, in...
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Women in Jazz: The Women, The Legends & Their FightThis book is about women in jazz. It charts their journeys, celebrates their presence, hears their voices, wonders at their prowess and revels in their being. We hear from female agents, arrangers, composers, musicians, PR people, radio hosts, record label managers, singers, writers and...
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Meditations from the Breakdown Lane: Running Across AmericaIn the summer of 1980, 34-year-old Jim Shapiro laced his shoes, checked the weather, and started off on a 3,000-mile run across America. It was a minimalist adventure: from Dillon Beach, California to Central Park in New York, he carried what he needed, ate...
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To Break or Bounce: Finding Balance, Stability, and Resilience in Our LivesWe can either break under the weight of life's challenges--or we can bounce back and thrive The action in Shelley Plumb's powerful story of rediscovery and emotional healing takes place over the course of a single day--the day of her grandmother's funeral. As she...
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Theodore Roosevelt: Naturalist in the ArenaTheodore Roosevelt's scientific curiosity and love of the outdoors proved a defining force throughout his hectic life as a rancher and explorer, police commissioner and governor of New York, vice president and president of the United States. Conservation and natural history were parts of...
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Ippolita Maria Sforza: The Renaissance Princess Who Linked Milan and NaplesIn April 1455, ten-year-old Ippolita Maria Sforza, a daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Milan, was betrothed to the seven-year-old crown prince of the Kingdom of Naples as a symbol of peace and reconciliation between the two rival states. This first full-scale biography...
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Peckinpah: A Portrait in Montage: The Definitive EditionIt all began in the summer of 1973, when the author--then a young man fresh out of film school--traveled to Mexico in pursuit of the man behind a list of motion picture masterpieces that include "Ride the High Country", "Major Dundee", "The Ballad of...
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My Vanishing Country: A MemoirNew York Times BestsellerWhat J. D. Vance did for Appalachia with Hillbilly Elegy, CNN analyst and one of the youngest state representatives in South Carolina history Bakari Sellers does for the rural South, in this important book that illuminates the lives of America's forgotten...
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