Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Baby Young, Gifted, and Black: With a Mirror!"There are so many things I am and can be... There's a whole world waiting for me." Introduce your baby to Black excellence with this lyrical board-book edition of Young, Gifted and Black. Includes a mirror at the back so young dreamers can see...
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A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis StevensonONE OF THE ATLANTIC'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE PICK AND 2024 NOTABLE BOOK AN NPR FAVORITE READ OF 2024 "Peri's joint biography is a thrilling, haunting yarn of the sort that the Scottish writer Robert Louis...
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A Very Easy Death: A MemoirA Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir's masterpieces. The profoundly moving, day-by-day recounting of her mother's death "shows the power of compassion when it is allied with acute intelligence" (The Sunday Telegraph). Powerful, touching, and sometimes shocking, this...
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A Three Dog LifeWhen Abigail Thomas's husband, Rich, was hit by a car, his brain shattered. Subject to rages, terrors, and hallucinations, he must live the rest of his life in an institu-tion. He has no memory of what he did the hour, the day, the year...
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A Silent Treatment: A MemoirShe did it to my dad, though. They used the silent treatment on each other, she explained, because they didn't want to say something they'd regret. What does she want to say now that she'd regret? Jeannie Vanasco's mother starts using the silent treatment...
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Art's Principles: 50 years of hard-learned lessons in building a world-class professional services firmArt's Principles reveals the blueprint behind one of the most successful professional services firms, giving career-minded individuals the tools they need to excel in business. The book covers the essentials of leadership, talent acquisition and operations, while outlining the creative strategies that propelled a...
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Are You My Mother?: A Comic DramaFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Fun Home, Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama is a brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be.A New York Times, USA Today, and Time Best Book of...
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A Promised LandA riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making--from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE - NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY...
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Angela Davis: An Autobiography"An activist. An author. A scholar. An abolitionist. A legend."--Ibram X. KendiThis beautiful new edition of Angela Davis's classic Autobiography features an expansive new introduction by the author."I am excited to be publishing this new edition of my autobiography with Haymarket Books at a...
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American Heroes: From the #1 Bestselling Authors of Walk in My Combat BootsIn this instant #1 national bestseller from the authors of Walk in My Combat Boots, "American Heroes is a gripping collection of firsthand accounts...capturing the indomitable spirit of our nation's finest" (Jack Carr, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Terminal List series)....
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A Matter of Complexion: The Life and Fictions of Charles W. ChesnuttA NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE "Chakkalakal asks the reader to see the 'First Negro Novelist' as he saw himself: a writer and student of American letters at a time when the literary marketplace struggled to take him seriously...a timely reminder of the influence...
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy SoldierIn the #1 New York Times bestseller, A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government...
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All Things Bright and Beautiful: The Warm and Joyful Memoirs of the World's Most Beloved Animal DoctorThe basis for the PBS Masterpiece series and the second volume in the multimillion copy bestselling series. Millions of readers have delighted in the wonderful storytelling and everyday miracles of James Herriot in the fifty years since his animal stories were first introduced to...
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All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-ManifestoIn a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson's All Boys Aren't Blue explores their childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. A New York Times Bestseller! Good Morning America, NBC Nightly News, Today Show, and...
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Alive: Our Bodies and the Richness and Brevity of ExistenceA profound and provocative journey through the human body from a surgeon and award-winning writer. "Weston's evocative descriptions will change how readers see the body....This captivates."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) What does it mean to live in a body? For Gabriel Weston, there was always...
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A Kids' Guide to the National Baseball Hall of Fame: The Greatest Players from Hank Aaron to Derek Jeter to Cy YoungOfficially licensed with the National Baseball Hall of Fame, A Kids' Guide to the National Baseball Hall of Fame is the young reader's guide to all things baseball. Baseball's newest fans can take in all the glorious moments from the game's storied history in...
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A Journey North: Jefferson, Madison, and the Forging of a FriendshipA storied friendship between two of America's founders--one that endured for fifty years--and the roadtrip that forged it. Between May 21 and June 16, 1791, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison went on a trip together through Upstate New York and parts of New England...
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Aggregated Discontent: Confessions of the Last Normal Woman"An essay collection that covers everything from the freelance hustle to the state of trans healthcare in the U.S. with a dryly confessional, comedic voice guaranteed to make you burst out laughing."--Vogue "Walker cuts to the heart of what it means to be a...
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Agents of Change: The Women Who Transformed the CIAA USA Today Bestseller The timely and revelatory exploration of the pioneering women who changed the insulated world of international espionage--from the barrier-crashing challenges of the 1960s to the present-day reckoning--told through the eyes of a former intelligence operative herself. Foreword by Valerie Plame,...
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A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the SixtiesRotolo has written a moving account of the fertile years just before the circus of the 1960s was in full swing. She chronicles the backstory of Greenwich Village in the early days, when Bob Dylan was honing his music skills and she was in...
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