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 and Mysterious Death of Ian Mackintosh: The Inside Story of the Sandbaggers and Television's Top SpyNo spy drama has ever matched The Sandbaggers, which featured a tiny, covert intelligence unit based in London during the Cold War. The show that the New York Times called the "best spy series in television history" was the vision of Ian MacKintosh, who...
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When These Things Begin: Conversations with Michel TreguerIn this lively series of conversations with writer Michel Treguer, Ren Girard revisits the major concepts of mimetic theory and explores science, democracy, and the nature of God and freedom. Girard affirms that "our unprecedented present is incomprehensible without Christianity." Globalization has unified the...
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Following the Red Bird: First Steps into a Life of FaithIn Following the Red Bird, Kate Rademacher describes how she came to embrace a relationship with God after maintaining a pick-and-choose approach to spirituality for many years. Raised in a staunchly secular, liberal community, Christianity was never a path she had seriously considered. Married...
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Alone: The True Story of the Man Who Fought the Sharks, Waves, and Weather of the Pacific and WonThis is the incredible true story of one man's heroic battle against impossible odds, a tale of pain and anguish, bravery and utter solitude, a tale that ends in a victory not only over the implacable ocean but over himself as well. At the...
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The Secret Piano: From Mao's Labor Camps to Bach's Goldberg VariationsZhu Xiao-Mei was born to middle-class parents in post-war China, and her musical proficiency became clear at an early age. Taught to play the piano by her mother, she developed quickly into a prodigy, immersing herself in the work of classical masters like Bach...
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A Sorrowful JoyDescription: Albert Raboteau was born into a Catholic family in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, three months after his father was shot and killed by a white man. It was during the 1940s, when blacks couldn't swim at the same beach as whites, when the...
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I'm Dying Up Here: Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-Up Comedy's Golden EraIn the mid-1970s, Jay Leno, David Letterman, Andy Kaufman, Richard Lewis, Robin Williams, Elayne Boosler, Tom Dreesen, and several hundred other shameless showoffs and incorrigible cutups from all across the country migrated en masse to Los Angeles, the new home of Johnny Carson's Tonight...
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Bob Dylan: Writings 1968-2010Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan's life in music is revisited by his foremost interpreter -- weaving individual moods and moments into a brilliant history of their changing times. The book begins in Berkeley in 1968, and ends with a piece on Dylan's show at...
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Gold Rush in the Klondike: A Woman's Journey in 1898-1899When Josephine Knowles left for the Klondike gold fields with her husband in 1898, she didn't know she would be facing a constant battle with cold, disease, malnutrition, and the ever-present possibility of death. With quiet determination, she resolved to survive, to endure each...
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Memoirs of a Superfluous ManAlbert Jay Nock, perhaps the most brilliant American essayist of the 20th century, and certainly among its most important libertarian thinkers, set out to write his autobiography but he ended up doing much more. He presents here a full theory of society, state, economy,...
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Gospel of Wealth and the Autobiography of Andrew CarnegieAndrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist, business magnate, and philanthropist. He led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. He later became a leading philanthropist in the United States and in the British Empire. Carnegie was born in Scotland,...
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A Wrestling Life 2: More Inspiring Stories of Dan GableWhen most people think of the celebrated greatness that is Coach Dan Gable, they think of an almost mythic intensity toward wrestling. Gable breathes and bleeds the sport, and faithfully applies lessons learned from both on and off the mat. Expanding upon Gable's first...
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No Life of My Own""I hope this book will help all those who face the dilemmas of being Christian in this evil apartheid society and who, because of their commitment to the liberation struggle, can truly say they have no life of their own."" --Frank Chikane Frank Chikane,...
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Appalachian Odyssey: A 28-Year Hike on America's TrailLike many hikers who've completed the Appalachian Trail, Jeffrey Ryan didn't do it in one long through-hike. Grabbing weekends here and days off there, it took Jeffrey twenty-eight years to finish the trail, and along the way he learned much about himself and made...
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Last One In: Tales of a New England BoyhoodThere used to be a time when marvelous skyrockets could be purchased for a dime and the iceman came around once a week, when throwing a cap on and off took special talent and pants had watch pockets. When John Gould was young it...
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Where War Ends: A Combat Veteran's 2,700-Mile Journey to Heal -- Recovering from Ptsd and Moral Injury Through MeditationAn Iraq War veteran's riveting journey from suicidal despair to hope Winner of a 2019 Foreword INDIES Silver Book of the Year Award After serving in a scout-sniper platoon in Mosul, Tom Voss came home carrying invisible wounds of war -- the memory of...
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There Is No God and He Is Always with You: A Search for God in Odd PlacesCan you be an atheist and still believe in God?Can you be a true believer and still doubt?Can Zen give us a way past our constant fighting about God? Brad Warner was initially interested in Buddhism because he wanted to find God, but Buddhism...
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Life and Death of Leon TrotskyLeon Trotsky was one of the leaders of the Russian Revolution who was exiled and murdered following Stalin's rise to power. Written by two of his closest collaborators, this book provides an invaluable picture of a great revolutionary and the world-historic events in which...
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Alexandra Kollontai: A BiographyAlexandra Kollontai was a key leader of the Russian Socialist movement, the only woman in the early Soviet government, and one of the most famous women in Russian history. She worked tirelessly all her life as a speaker, writer, and organizer for women's emancipation....
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Burt Rutan: : Aeronautical and Space LegendBurt Rutan is universally acknowledged to be a true aviation and space pioneer. Award-winning author Daniel Alef tells the remarkable story of an American legend and treasure. In addition to creating more than 50 unique aircraft, Burt Rutan was the driving intellectual and organizational...
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