Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Queen Elizabeth II: A Concise Biography of an Exceptional SovereignThe life of Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's extraordinary and longest-lived monarch The reign of Queen Elizabeth II was exceptional for many reasons: among them her remarkable longevity, her enduring marriage to Prince Philip, her astonishing success in concealing her opinions on virtually any contentious...
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Q: A Voyage Around the QueenA BEST BOOK OF THE YEARThe Telegraph (Top 10) - The Washington Post - The Guardian - The Times (London) Independent (London) - Vox - New Statesman Virginia Woolf compared her to a caterpillar; Anne Frank kept pictures of her on the wall of...
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Prince: All the Songs: The Story Behind Every TrackA new, definitive look at one of music's greatest songbooks by an expert author The latest book in the bestselling All the Songs series, this is the most in-depth exploration of Prince's songs ever written. Spanning nearly 50 years of albums, EPs, B-sides, and...
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Prime Obsession: Berhhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in MathematicsThe definitive story of the Riemann Hypothesis, a fascinating and epic mathematical mystery that continues to challege the world. In 1859, Bernhard Riemann, a little-known thirty-two year old mathematician, made a hypothesis while presenting a paper to the Berlin Academy titled "On the Number...
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Positively Fourth and Mercer: The Inside Story of New York's Iconic Music Club, the Bottom LineIn 1974, when young music promoters Allan Pepper and Stanley Snadowsky opened their night club the Bottom Line in an industrial area of Greenwich Village that was all but deserted after 6 pm, no one could have foreseen either its long-term success or its...
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Political Girl: Life and Fate in RussiaFrom a member of the Pussy Riot collective: An urgent, intimate, firsthand account of grassroots dissent, bravery, art, and spectacle in Putin's Russia Picking up where Riot Days left off, Maria (Masha) Alyokhina takes us through her activist experiences between 2014 to 2022. In...
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Patchwork: A Sewist's DiaryIn Patchwork, a charming and evocative sewist's diary, Maddie Ballard explores the making (and sometimes remaking) of seventeen specific garments over a period of great change in her life--from a jacket lined with the embroidered Cantonese names of her female ancestors, to a dressing...
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Party Out of Bounds: The B-52's, R.E.M., and the Kids Who Rocked Athens, GeorgiaOriginally published in 1991, Rodger Lyle Brown's Party Out of Bounds is a cult classic that offers an insider's look at the underground rock music culture that sprang from a lazy Georgia college town. Brown uses half-remembered stories, local anecdotes, and legendary lore to...
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Paddling North: A Solo Adventure Along the Inside Passage2013 Gold Winner IBPA Ben Franklin AwardsIn a memoir remarkable for its quiet confidence and acute natural observation, the author of Paddling Hawaii and Paddling My Own Canoe begins with her decision, at age 60, to undertake a solo, summer-long voyage along the southeast...
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On the Ground: My Life as a Foreign CorrespondentInstant Bestseller A powerful memoir revealing the pressures, joys, and traumas of witnessing history up close and personal, from one of Canada's most prominent and decorated foreign correspondents. Brian Stewart is a trusted voice who brought stories of the world home to Canadians for...
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Old Man on a Bicycle: A Ride Across America and How to Realize a More Enjoyable Old AgeWhen Don Petterson, a former American ambassador, told family and friends he intended to ride a bicycle from New Hampshire to San Francisco, most of them questioned his judgment, if not his sanity. He was in his seventies, hadn't been on a bike for...
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Of Metal and Man - The Definitive Biography of James Hetfield'James Hetfield is a guitarist of otherworldly ability... this book tries to understand, de-mystify and even humanise a rock legend who, for most of his career, has remained impenetrable.' Metallica's ascension from thrash metal obscurity to becoming arguably one of the greatest rock bands...
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Not Dead & Not for Sale: The Earthling Papers, a MemoirThe instant New York Times bestseller: the lead singer of the Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver delivers an exhilarating memoir of scaling the pinnacle of rock stardom, plunging into the chasm of addiction and incarceration, and then clawing his way back to the...
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No Less Strange or Wonderful: EssaysCelebrated author and artist A. Kendra Greene's No Less Strange or Wonderful is a brilliant and generous meditation--on the complex wonder of being alive, on how to pay attention to even the tiniest (sometimes strangest) details that glitter with insight, whimsy, and deep humanity,...
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Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The unforgettable memoir by the late Virginia Roberts Giuffre, the woman who dared to take on Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell "Make no mistake: this is a book about power, corruption, industrial-scale sex abuse and the way in...
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Nisei DaughterWith charm, humor, and deep understanding, Monica Sone tells what it was like to grow up Japanese American on Seattle's waterfront in the 1930s and to be subjected to "relocation" during World War II. Along with over one hundred thousand other persons of Japanese...
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Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern IndiaFrom the author of The Last Mughal, an enlightening book that explores with remarkable compassion and expansive insight nine varieties of religious devotion in India today. In portraits of people we might otherwise never know William Dalrymple distills his twenty-five years of travel in...
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Ni De Aqui, Ni De Alla: A Soul Suspended Between Two WorldsNi De Aquí, Ni De Allá A Soul Suspended Between Two Worlds is a raw, intimate memoir about identity, resilience, and the healing power of storytelling. From the dusty streets of Mexico to the uncertain promise of the American dream, this is the journey...
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Nick Drake: The LifeExperience the definitive biography of one of the greatest singer-songwriters of the twentieth century with this eye-opening book featuring a foreword by Gabrielle Drake and over 75 photos, many rare or previously unseen. In 1968, Nick Drake had everything to live for. The product...
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Nature Noir: A Park Ranger's Patrol in the SierraA nature book unlike any other, Jordan Fisher Smith's startling account of fourteen years as a park ranger thoroughly dispels our idealized visions of life in the great outdoors. Instead of scout troops and placid birdwatchers, Smith's beat -- a stretch of land that...
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