Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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There Was a Party for Langston: (Caldecott Honor & Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor)A Caldecott Honor Book A Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds's debut picture book is a snappy, joyous ode to Word King, literary genius, and glass-ceiling smasher Langston Hughes and the luminaries he inspired. Back...
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The Raft: Three Men, 34 Days, and a Thousand Miles AdriftThe Raft, the subject of the 2014 movie Against the Sun (also known as Ghosts of the Pacific), recounts the harrowing adventures of three downed U.S. Navy airmen -- Harold Dixon, Tony Pastula, and Gene Aldrich -- in the Pacific Ocean during World War...
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The Playing Lesson: A Duffer's Year Among the ProsYou are cordially invited to join Michael Bamberger on a year-long golfing adventure--playing alongside the pros of the PGA Tour, the LPGA Tour, LIV Golf, and more--as he seeks to unlock golf's most stubborn secrets in various and surprising ways, all in the name...
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The Other Ten Wolves: A Yellowstone BackstoryIn a bittersweet blend of science and yarn, Carter Niemeyer takes us back to 1996 on a heart-pounding, eye-witness adventure to add ten more wolves - the Sawtooth pups - to Yellowstone's newly reintroduced wolf packs. So much could go wrong. So much did...
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The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay AreaSelected by the San Francisco Chronicle's as one of the top 100 western nonfiction books of the twentieth century."Beautifully imagined and written."--Alice WalkerOne of the most ground-breaking and highly-acclaimed titles that Heyday has published, The Ohlone Way describes the culture of the Indian people...
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The Movement: How Women's Liberation Transformed America 1963-1973A comprehensive and engaging oral history of the decade that defined the feminist movement, including interviews with living icons and unsung heroes--from former Newsweek reporter and author of the "powerful and moving" (The New York Times) Witness to the Revolution. For lovers of both...
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The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American JourneyA New York Times bestsellerWith a new introduction by The Motorcyle Diaries filmmaker Walter Salles, and featuring 24 pages of photos taken by Che. The Motorcycle Diaries is Che Guevara's diary of his journey to discover the continent of Latin America while still a...
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The Mother Of All Days: The True Story Of A Fatal Break-In And The Unexpected Path To HealingIn the dead of night, Tennyson and Kyle Jacobson's world is shattered when a violent home intruder forces them into a fight for their lives. The traumatic ordeal leaves the headlines buzzing with the gripping story of survival, but the true journey-the one most...
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The Mother Code: My Story of Love, Loss, and the Myths That Shape UsIn this propulsive memoir, an award-winning journalist blends history, science, and cultural criticism to uncover whether motherhood outside of society's rigid rules and expectations is possible--and whether she fits the mold for what a mother should be. "This tender, generous book does the hard...
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The Mitfords"Fascinating" (Wall Street Journal) and "Irresistible" (New York Times Book Review), The Mitfords is the critically-acclaimed collection of the never-before-published letters of the legendary Mitford sistersThe Mitford sisters were the great wits and beauties of their time. Immoderate in their passions for ideas and...
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The Lost Women of ScienceFrom the popular Lost Women of Science podcast, comes an empowering collection that recognizes ten trailblazing female scientists whose lives and works have been lost to history...until now. Uncover the truth behind some of the world's greatest accomplishments--and the women who made it happen....
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The Leadership Journey: How Four Kids Became PresidentA New York Times bestseller! From #1 New York Times bestselling author, Pulitzer Prize winner, and leading historian Doris Kearns Goodwin comes an essential middle grade guide to Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, and Lyndon Johnson and how they became leaders. All...
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The Lafferty Girl: Surviving Trauma, Abuse, and My Father's CrimesThe messianic beliefs of radical LDS fundamentalists Dan Lafferty and his brother Ron drove them to commit an unspeakable crime.This is a riveting, raw, and unfiltered look at the Lafferty family saga from a daughter who lived it, and of her journey to self-love...
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The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness: A MemoirThe darkly funny memoir of Sarah Ramey's years-long battle with a mysterious illness that doctors thought was all in her head--but wasn't. In her harrowing, darkly funny, and unforgettable memoir, Sarah Ramey recounts the decade-long saga of how a seemingly minor illness in her...
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The Jaws LogWinner of three Oscars and the highest-grossing film of its time, Jaws was a phenomenon, and this is the only book on how twenty-six-year-old Steven Spielberg transformed Peter Benchley's number-one bestselling novel into the classic film it became.Hired by Spielberg as a screenwriter to...
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The Inherited Mind: A Story of Family, Hope, and the Genetics of Mental IllnessA compelling memoir by ABC News correspondent James Longman in which he discusses mental illness and trauma in families, what the latest genetic science is telling us, and how to not only persevere but thrive. James Longman was a preteen in boarding school when...
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The Hiding Place: A Graphic NovelOne of the bestselling books of all time-- now a captivating graphic novel!It's World War II. Darkness has fallen over the world as the Nazis spread fear and hatred. No one feels safe. But on a city corner in Holland one woman fights against...
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The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz SurvivorA New York Times BestsellerIn this uplifting memoir in the vein of The Last Lecture and Man's Search for Meaning, a Holocaust survivor pays tribute to those who were lost by telling his story, sharing his wisdom, and living his best possible life.Born in...
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The Girl with Seven Names: Escape from North KoreaNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn extraordinary insight into life under one of the world's most ruthless and secretive dictatorships - and the story of one woman's terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom.As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo...
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The Gates of Gaza: A Story of Betrayal, Survival, and Hope in Israel's BorderlandsWINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD "Incredibly powerful ... [The Gates of Gaza is] a rescue story, but also a reported history of the tragedy that is Israel's Gaza policy. It helped me to understand how we got to this horrible point."--Susan Glasser,...
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