Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Sigrid Rides: The Story of an Extraordinary Friendship and an Adventure on Two WheelsIn the tradition of A Street Cat Named Bob, Nala's World, and Felix the Railway Cat: This is the story of Travis Nelson, his deaf Norwegian Forest cat, Sigrid, and their adventures on two wheels. When Travis Nelson arrived in London, he expected to...
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Sharks in the Runway: A Seaplane Pilot's Fifty-Year Journey Through Bahamian Times!Captain Paul Harding moved with his family to the Bahamas when he was just twelve. He fell in love with his exotic new home immediately and this epic memoir pays tribute to his passion for island life, his ecclectic friends and family, and the...
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Seeing Baya: Portrait of an Algerian Artist in ParisThe first biography of the Algerian artist Baya Mahieddine, celebrated in mid-twentieth-century Paris, her life shrouded in myth. On a flower farm in colonial Algeria, a servant and field worker known as Baya escaped the drudgery of her labor by coloring the skirts in...
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Sea Detail: A Naval Officer's VoyageCovering almost four decades of naval service, SEA DETAIL is the story of one naval officer's career at sea and ashore. From the Vietnam War to the War on Terror, Admiral Sullivan was a participant in world events throughout the last quarter of the...
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Scattershot: My Journey from the Projects to Paris to Rodeo DriveLarry Chrysler's life takes a dramatic turn when a chance encounter with a mysterious stranger disrupts his day. From that moment, the son of a bipolar mom and a homophobic dad decides he must follow his heart and forge his own path to success...
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Saving EricMary's nightmare began when her seven-year-old adopted son inexplicably screamed before dinner one night. From that point on, her son's struggle became her struggle. Mental and physical illness, along with drug addiction, turned her life upside down. The love Mary had for her son,...
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Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night LiveSaturday Night is the intimate history of the original Saturday Night Live, from its beginnings as an outlaw program produced by an unruly band of renegades from the comedy underground to a TV institution that made stars of John Belushi, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase,...
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Salinger's Soul: His Personal & Religious OdysseyA close-up look at how J.D. Salinger's private life influenced his famous stories. J.D. Salinger remains one of America's best known but least understood writers. His 1951 book, The Catcher in the Rye, lives on as one of the most iconic American novels of...
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Sad Papaw's: Heritage IISynopsis: When Kelsey Harmon posted a tweet of her Papaw at a family barbecue, she had no idea that this innocent message, meant to poke fun at her cousins, would start a wave of emotion to be felt around the world. Kenny Harmon, who...
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: La Biografía, vida y legado de una jurista estadounidense en sus propias palabrasSumérgete en la extraordinaria vida y el legado de Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg, una abogada y jurista estadounidense pionera que dejó una huella indeleble en el panorama legal y la búsqueda de la igualdad de género. El libro de Ruth Bader Ginsburg ofrece una...
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Rosa Parks: Brave and DeterminedAuthor: Jennifer Marino WaltersPublisher: Red Chair PressPublished: 08/01/2024Pages: 24Binding Type: Library BindingWeight: 0.61lbsSize: 8.10h x 8.00w x 0.30dISBN: 9781643712499Audience: Ages 9-12Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 4.5Point Value: 0.5Interest Level: Lower GradeQuiz #/Name: 550222 / Rosa Parks: Brave and Determined
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Riverside Women Creating Change: Stories and InspirationWho are the Riverside Women Creating Change?They are women who call the City of Riverside home and who have all made a difference in our community. Through oral history interviews exploring their roots, call to activism, inspiration, and advice, learn the unique story of...
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Rivals in the Storm: How Lloyd George Seized Power, Won the War and Lost His Government - Recommended by Rory Stewart on the Rest Is PolitiA vivid biography in cinematic snapshots of David Lloyd George, one of the world's greatest statesmen. Brought up in rural North Wales, David Lloyd George attended neither a grand school nor ancient university. He was very much an outsider. And yet he rose through...
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Rewi: Ata Haere, Kia TereRewi: Ata haere, kia tere is a tribute to the late architect Rewi Thompson (Ngati Porou, Ngati Raukawa), a visionary thinker who believed that great architecture is crafted through careful consideration of people and place. This book brings together a breathtaking range of his...
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Return to the War on the Plaine des JarresFred Apgar's new memoir, Return to the War on the Plaine des Jarres, tells the incredible story of one man's journey from the battlefields of Laos during the Second Indochina War to his return to those same battlefields more than forty years later. During...
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Report from a Last SurvivorFred Harris is the last surviving member of the Kerner Rights Commission, famously created by President Lyndon Johnson following the terrible riots, disorders, and violent protests that exploded in so many of America's cities in the "long hot summer" of 1967. He is the...
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Relative to Wind: On Sailing, Craft, and CommunityA lingering, long-haul collection of writing about sailing for readers of Julietta Singh and Kyo Maclear.In Relative to Wind, Phoebe Wang delivers a poetic rendering of her decade-long journey of learning to sail and a deep dive into what it means to be a...
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Rehearsals for Dying: Digressions on Love and CancerAn expansive, darkly funny, and deeply personal reflection on the reality of living with--and dying from--metastatic breast cancer.Deena stepped out of the shower and opened her towel in the steam. "Does my breast look weird?" These words irrevocably change the lives of writer Ariel...
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Rees Howells, Monument of Faith, History of The Bible College of Wales 1922-1932: A School of Intercession, the Holy Spirit, Faith, Power, Spiritual WThe Authentic Voice of Rees Howells. Rees Howells was a man of extraordinary faith, with little to his name, but an unyielding belief in the power of God. With empty pockets and a vision from God, he embarked on a journey that would defy...
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Raised by Wolves, Possibly Monsters: From Mobster to Reiki MasterThis is a story about a boy who wanted to be kind and loving but was raised by wolves and monsters who taught him to choose violence and aggression. As the boy grew to be a man, he wanted to be a protector of...
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