Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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The Unlikely War Hero: A Vietnam War Pow's Story of Courage and Resilience in the Hanoi Hilton"What a strange, fascinating, and ultimately powerful account of one man's endurance of life as a POW during the American war in Vietnam. . . . This book, I believe, will stand the test of time as one of the finest nonfiction narratives to...
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The Unconquerable GameAmong the 40 million active golfers in the world today, Callaway is recognized by touring pros and amateurs alike for having created the most compatible golf equipment ever made. Indeed, Callaway's revolutionary approach to research and manufacturing changed the game, and how people approached...
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The Trembling Hand: Reflections of a Black Woman in the Romantic ArchiveA provocative, revelatory history of British Romanticism that examines the impact of the transatlantic slave economy on the lives and times of some of our most beloved poets--with urgent lessons for today "[P]owerful, revelatory. . . . [A]s a writer Nabugodi is warm and...
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The Tree of Life: How a Holocaust Sapling Inspired the WorldHope triumphs over fear in this poignant and impactful true story of the Holocaust--a delicate introduction to World War Two history for older picture book readers. During World War Two, in the concentration camp Terezin, a group of Jewish children and their devoted teacher...
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The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a NationNew York Times Bestseller "This dynamic blend of biography and manifesto centers on Louise Little, Alberta King, and Berdis Baldwin . . . Tubbs's book stands against the women's erasure, a monument to their historical importance."--The New Yorker "Tubbs' connection to these women is...
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The Tennis PartnerAn unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive, from Abraham Verghese, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Cutting for Stone and The Covenant of Water, an Oprah's Book Club Pick."Heartbreaking. . . . Indelible and haunting, [The Tennis...
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The Surrender Experiment: My Journey Into Life's PerfectionNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of The Untethered Soul and Living Untethered comes the astonishing true-life story about the spiritual harmony and personal happiness he found when he just let go. "With his hallmark precision and clarity Michael Singer reveals how...
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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life, Freedom, and JusticeThe New York Times bestseller and Oprah's Book Club 2018 Selection. Winner of the 2019 Moore Prize Finalist, Dayton Peace Prize, 2019 "An amazing and heartwarming story, it restores our faith in the inherent goodness of humanity."- Archbishop Desmond Tutu A powerful, revealing story...
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The Strangers: Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them"Moving, thoughtful, redemptive. The Strangers is an important book. It will become a Black classic."-- Ben Okri, author of The Famished Road"Thrilling and ingenious, propulsive and genre-defying: The Strangers is an outstanding book. Compelling and imaginatively expansive, this is something very special--creative nonfiction that...
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The Soul of Sponsorship: The Friendship of Fr. Ed Dowling, S.J. and Bill Wilson in LettersThe Soul of Sponsorship explores the relationship of Bill Wilson, cofounder of Alcoholics Anonymous, and his spiritual adviser and friend, Father Ed Dowling. Many might consider that such a remarkable individual as Bill Wilson, who was the primary author of AA literature, would be...
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The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "The most authoritative portrait of one of the most important American investors of our time."--Los Angeles Times "Even people who don't care a whit about business will be intrigued. . . . A side of the Oracle of...
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The Sixteenth Round: From Number 1 Contender to Number 45472Rubin "Hurricane" Carter was riding a wave of success. The survivor of a difficult youth, he rose to become a top contender for the middleweight boxing crown. But his career crashed to a halt on May 26, 1967, when he and another man were...
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The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A memoir of leadership and success The CEO of Disney shares the ideas and values he embraced while reinventing one of the world's most beloved companies and inspiring the people who bring the magic to life. AN NPR...
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The Return (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Fathers, Sons and the Land in BetweenWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE - The acclaimed memoir about fathers and sons, a legacy of loss, and, ultimately, healing--one of The New York Times Book Review's ten best books of the year, winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and a finalist for...
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The Pasta Queen: A Just Gorgeous Cookbook: 100+ Recipes and StoriesNOW AN ORIGINAL SERIES ON PRIME VIDEO NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER TikTok sensation and beloved home cook Nadia Caterina Munno, a.k.a. The Pasta Queen, presents a cookbook of never-before-shared recipes featuring the signature pasta tips and tricks that are 100% authentic to Italian traditions--and...
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The Other GirlWINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's profound investigation into the life of her mysterious older sister, who died at six, two years before Annie was born. In the summer of 1950, when Annie Ernaux is ten, she inadvertently learns she...
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The Operator: Firing the Shots That Killed Osama Bin Laden and My Years as a Seal Team WarriorThis instant New York Times bestseller--"a jaw-dropping, fast-paced account" (New York Post) recounts SEAL Team Operator Robert O'Neill's incredible four-hundred-mission career, including the attempts to rescue "Lone Survivor" Marcus Luttrell and abducted-by-Somali-pirates Captain Richard Phillips, and which culminated in the historic raid that led...
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The Nine Lives of Christopher ColumbusChristopher Columbus was born Cristoforo Colombo, in the autumn of 1451 in the Mediterranean port city of Genoa, and he died in the Spanish city of Valladolid in May 1506, as don Cristóbal Colón. More than five centuries later, we are still arguing over...
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The Night Trilogy: Night/Dawn/DayThe new translation of the bestselling memoir Night in one volume with its companion novels, Dawn and Day Night is one of the masterpieces of Holocaust literature. First published in 1958, it is the autobiographical account of an adolescent boy and his father in...
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The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto: A Fifteen-Year Quest to Unmask the Secret Genius Behind CryptoA "highly entertaining" (The Wall Street Journal) investigation into the mysterious identity of Bitcoin's creator and a deep dive into crypto's utopian origin story--from The New York Times bestselling author of The Billionaire's Vinegar "Could be the best mystery story of the past twenty...
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