Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Coming Home: Why Protestant Clergy Are Becoming OrthodoxEighteen former Protestant leaders tell about their journey of "Coming Home" to the Orthodox Christian Faith.The 18 stories include: Antony Hughes (Oral Roberts University) Gregory Rogers (Church of Christ) Nicholas Sorensen (Concordia Seminary)Daniel Matheson (United Church of Canada) Thomas Renfree (Western Conservative Baptist Seminary)...
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The Beatles, Drugs, Mysticism & India: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi - Transcendental Meditation - Jai Guru Deva OM'The Beatles, Drugs, Mysticism & India' is the detailed story of The Beatles' quest for bliss, self-knowledge and enlightenment through extensive experimentation with drugs, and dabbling in mysticism; their journey through psychedelia to transcendence. The Beatles' involvement with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and the practice...
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Kaspar Hauser: Where Did He Come From?The mysterious circumstances surrounding the life and death of Kaspar Hauser still raise questions today. Born into the aristocratic house of Baden, then imprisoned and cut off from all human contact as a child, in 1828 Kaspar appeared on the streets of Nuremberg at...
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Father of the IditarodIn a place where respect is not easily earned, the name of this homesteader, pilot, and visionary dog-musher generates awe. His is the classic image of an Alaska pioneer--rugged, independent, determined, hard-working. Meet Joe Redington, Father of the Iditarod, a man who found his...
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Bee Gees: The Day-By-Day Story, 1945-1972Taking the form of a journal chronicling all of the Bee Gees important events, including recording sessions, concerts, television appearances, radio shows and record releases, The Bee Gees Day-By-Day Story: 1945-1972 is the most in-depth look at the early years of this international phenomenon....
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The Wind of Morning: An AutobiographyMuch more than a record of an extraordinary military career, the life story of Colonel Sir Hugh Boustead details how he spent the greater part of his life in service to undeveloped countries. In addition to serving in wars in Sudan and Ethiopia, Colonel...
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Looking Like the Enemy (the Young Reader's Edition)Mary Matsuda is a typical 16-year-old girl living on Vashon Island, Washington with her family. On December 7, 1942, the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, and Mary's life changes forever. Mary and her brother, Yoneichi, are U.S. citizens, but they are imprisoned, along with their...
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Judy and I: My Life with Judy GarlandThe third of Judy Garland's five husbands, Sid Luft was the one man in her life who stuck around. He was chiefly responsible for the final act of Judy's meteoric career, producing her iconic, Oscar-nominated performance in A Star Is Born and expertly shaping...
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Marjory Stoneman Douglas: Voice of the RiverBorn in Minnesota in 1890 and raised and educated in Massachusetts, Marjory Stoneman Douglas came to Florida in 1915 to work for her father, who had just started a newspaper called the Herald in a small town called Miami. In this "frontier" town, she...
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Saint Augustine: Man, Pastor, MysticAuthored by world-renowned scholar Rev. Agostino Trape, O.S.A., Saint Augustine is a comprehensive biography of one of the Church's greatest and most-quoted Saints. From his youthful wanderings away from the Church to his mother's prayers for his conversion and his eventual embrace of Catholicism,...
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On Her FeetWhen she was 14, Ashley jumped off a roof, thinking it would be fun, and suffered a permanent spinal cord injury. Her doctors tell her she will never walk again; her mother tells her to get out of bed and on her feet. On...
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Memoirs of a Mountain Guide* The only biography of this Northwest's climbing hero * Features 15 color photos * Remarkable stories of climbs on K2, Kangchenjunga, and Denali * Features stories about Jim Wickwire, Pete Schoening, John Roskelley, Joe Kennedy, Jr., Peter Whittaker, and Willi Unsoeld Lou Whittaker...
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Bruce Lee: The Evolution of a Martial ArtistTracing Bruce Lee's path from wing chun student to jeet kune do founder, this biography chronicles Lee's physical journey--from Hong Kong to Seattle to Oakland to Los Angeles and back again to Hong Kong--as well as his voyage of self-discovery and actualization. The book...
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St. Albert the Great: Champion of Faith and ReasonEven while he was still alive, Dominican friar Albert of Cologne was widely called Magnus the Great. His contemporaries said St. Albert simply knew all there was to know; he was a scientist, theologian, and philosopher; a teacher, preacher, and negotiator; a shrewd shepherd...
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Sermons of St. Francis for Advent and Christmas: For Advent and ChristmasThis volume consists of nine sermons preached by St. Francis de Sales--saintly Bishop, Founder and Doctor of the Church--during Advent and Christmas of various years from 1613 to 1622. Steeped as he was in Sacred Scripture, St. Francis de Sales draws forth a wonderful...
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Modern Saints Book 2: Their Lives and Faces45 saints, beati, and other holy people of the past 200 years, and their pictures; most are actual photographs. Includes the Cure of Ars, St. Catherine Laboure, St. Therese the Little Flower, St. Pius X, Vens. Jacinta and Francisco Marto, Dom Columba Marmion, St....
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Biography and SermonsAuthor: Marshall Keeble, B C GoodpasturePublisher: Gospel Advocate CompanyPublished: 12/01/1999Pages: 112Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.41lbsSize: 9.22h x 6.06w x 0.32dISBN: 9780892255023This title is not returnable
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Sixty Days in Combat: An Infantryman's Memoir of World War II in Europe"The infantryman's war is . . . without the slightest doubt the dirtiest, roughest job of them all." He went in as a military history buff, a virgin, and a teetotaler. He came out with a war bride, a taste for German beer, and...
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Four Pictures by Emily CarrEmily Carr was one of the few famous women painters of her generation, and today her work is being exhibited with and compared to that of Georgia O'Keeffe and Frida Kahlo. In this original picture book, Nicolas Debon traces Carr's life through four of...
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Cavalier in the Wilderness"Phares' book is readable and interesting. It's well-researched but is not the totally academic sort of material". Nacogdoches (TX) Daily SentinelThis is the biography of Louis Juchereau de St. Denis (1676-1744), who founded Natchitoches.Author: Ross PharesPublisher: Pelican Publishing CompanyPublished: 12/19/1976Pages: 292Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize:...
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