Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Teaching Freedom: Stories of Anti-Fascist Teachers in ItalyBetween 1920 and 1944, fascist Italy envisaged elementary schools as a place for constructing child-soldiers obedient to the regime. Teaching Freedom recounts twelve stories of elementary schoolteachers who opposed this model, educating their students in solidarity and awareness, and sometimes paying the ultimate price...
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Tales from a Free-Range ChildhoodA cycle of twenty stories, each of which is focused on childhood friends, the antics of his neighborhood and school chums, and the mysteries of adult life seen through a child's unerring eye.Author: Donald DavisPublisher: Parkhurst Brothers Publishers IncPublished: 09/01/2023Pages: 246Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize:...
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Take a Decade: A True StoryThis book is an overview of about ten years of my life. I've been fortunate to have the ability to travel around the world and experience many new and exciting things. During this time frame, I lived in four different states and traveled to...
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Sunakali the Messi of the HimalayasSunakali, a small Nepalese country girl, keeps goats with her friends in the Himalayas. But the girls have a secret passion--soccer! They play it every afternoon in the pastures. One day, a visitor from Katmandu asks to meet them. "I want to start a...
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Sucker Punch: EssaysAuthor: Scaachi KoulPublisher: St. Martin's PressPublished: 03/11/2025Pages: 272Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00dISBN: 9781250270504
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S? Tu MismoAuthor: Hua HsuPublisher: BatiscafoPublished: 09/24/2024Pages: 200Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9788419552860Language: SpanishAbout the AuthorHua Hsu es un escritor y académico estadounidense que reside en la ciudad de Nueva York. Es profesor de inglés en Bard College y redactor de The New Yorker. Su trabajo incluye investigaciones...
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Starmaker: HOW TO MAKE IT IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS 2nd EditionIn this book, Jim delivers the essentials to success in this ever-changing industry by showing grit, determination and the power of performance. Jim Halsey is the Starmaker. For over 70 years, Jim has been a major force in the music industry. Starting at 19...
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Stand Out: The True Story of Paralympic Gold Medallist Greg StewartIn 2021, Greg Stewart threw a Paralympic record of 16.75 meters to win gold in the shot put. However, his journey to the top of the podium was anything but direct. After being born with part of his left arm missing, he struggled with...
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Stalag IV-B: An Ex-POW Tells His StoryAuthor: A. W. IsheePublisher: AuthorhousePublished: 05/21/2004Pages: 128Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.30dISBN: 9781418426880This title is not returnable
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Spurgeon: A LifeIn this biography, Alex DiPrima paints a fresh portrait of Charles Haddon Spurgeon--the most well-known minister of the gospel in the nineteenth century. As DiPrima traces Spurgeon's life, readers will marvel at his many gifts, including his extraordinary speaking abilities, genius for administration, and...
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Son of the Old WestAn epic narrative of the Old West told through the vivid, outsized life of cowboy, detective, and chronicler Charlie Siringo No figure in the Old West lived or shaped its history more fully than Charlie Siringo, as Nathan Ward reveals in his colorful portrait...
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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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