Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted DaughterMore than 800,000 copies in print! From the author of critically acclaimed and bestselling memoir Falling Leaves, this is a poignant and moving true account of her childhood, growing up as an unloved daughter in 1940s China. A Chinese proverb says, "Falling leaves return...
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Chasing Lincoln's Killer: The Search for John Wilkes BoothChasing Lincoln's Killer is based on James L. Swanson's New York Times bestselling book, Manhunt, also an Apple TV+ Series.Based on rare archival material, obscure trial manuscripts, and interviews with relatives of the conspirators and the manhunters, Chasing Lincoln's Killer is a fast-paced thriller...
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Chasing Hope: A Reporter's LifeFrom New York Times columnist, Pulitzer Prize winner, and best-selling author Nicholas D. Kristof, an intimate and gripping memoir about a life in journalism "Nick Kristof takes us behind the scenes as he risks his life to shine a light on the world's most...
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Changing My MindBestselling author Julian Barnes illuminates the process of how minds are changed--about politics, books, words, memories, and more--in this wise and fascinating new book. "We always believe that changing our mind is an improvement, bringing a greater truthfulness to our dealings with the world...
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Can You Imagine?: The Art and Life of Yoko OnoA stunning picture book biography in lyrical, poignant prose about Yoko Ono--a brilliant musician and one of the creative minds behind the iconic song "Imagine" by John Lennon. Yoko Ono has been called many things: Bold. Confrontational. Controversial. Artist. Musician. Witch. But she has...
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Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWho better to face the greatest evil of the 20th century than a humble man of faith?As Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seduced a nation, bullied a continent, and attempted to exterminate the Jews of Europe, a small number of...
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Bob Ross: A Little Golden Book BiographyHelp your little one dream big with a Little Golden Book biography about Bob Ross, the beloved painter with a big head of hair and an even bigger heart! Little Golden Book biographies are the perfect introduction to nonfiction for young readers--as well as...
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Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and MeAn instant New York Times and USA Today bestseller!From multi-award winner Whoopi Goldberg comes a new and unique memoir of her family and their influence on her early life.If it weren't for Emma Johnson, Caryn Johnson would have never become Whoopi Goldberg. Emma gave...
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Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a WizardFrom the magical moments on set as Draco Malfoy to the challenges of growing up in the spotlight, get a backstage pass into Tom Felton's life on and off the big screen in this #1 New York Times bestseller. Tom Felton's adolescence was anything...
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Becoming Spectacular: The Rhythm of Resilience from the First African American RocketteThe first African American Rockette charts her journey to one of the world's most celebrated dance troupes in this gripping memoir that, for the first time, goes behind the velvet curtains at Radio City's legendary holiday show. "Smashing through glass windows and paving the...
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Bad to Blue: The True Story of a Chinatown Gangster Turned NYPD DetectiveIn this intimate and harrowing memoir, a former Chinese gang member tells the story of how he went from "bad to blue" by leaving the gang behind and becoming a New York City police detective.Nestled in the warm embrace of his immigrant grandmother, Mike...
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A Young Patriot: The American Revolution as Experienced by One BoyThe story of the American Revolution as experienced by a Connecticut farm boy who enlisted in the army in 1776. A Young Patriot skillfully weaves together excerpts from the boy's wartime account with the author's explanatory text to create a fascinating and factual history...
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Augustus: First Emperor of RomeThe dramatic story of Augustus, Rome's first emperor, who plunged into Rome's violent power struggles at the age of nineteen, proceeded to destroy all rivals, and more than anyone else created the Roman Empire "A fascinating study of political life in ancient Rome."--Nick Romeo,...
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Audrey Hepburn: A Life of Beautiful UncertaintyThis is the definitive tribute to the glamor and character of a beloved icon, including rarely published details, photographs and stories about the lasting impact of Audrey Hepburn's remarkable life.Academy Award-winning actress, fashion icon, ethereal beauty, wife, mother, World War II resistance activist, UNICEF...
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At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice MNamed one of the Ten Best Books of 2016 by the New York Times, a spirited account of a major intellectual movement of the twentieth century and the revolutionary thinkers who came to shape it, by the best-selling author of How to Live and...
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A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy ... a Memoir of SortsTHE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER From award-winning writer Nigel Slater, comes a new and exquisitely written collection of notes, memoir, stories and small moments of joy. 'Nigel Slater's prose is the rarest delicacy of all: exquisite yet effortless, filled with heart, tenderness, yearning...
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A Sheepdog Named Oscar: Love and Companionship in Rural IrelandA moving memoir of grief, healing, and the unbreakable bond between man and dog, set against the lush backdrop of rural Ireland.After the sudden loss of his father, film scholar and father of two boys, Dara Waldron finds unexpected solace in Ireland's East Clare...
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A Season for That: Lost and Found in the Other Southern FranceIn this poignant, delicious memoir, American tax preparer and food writer Steve Hoffman tells the story of how he and his family move to the French countryside, where the locals upend everything he knows about food, wine, and learning how to belong. Steve Hoffman...
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A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire"Clever, bold, and refreshingly feminist; readers will be engaged and entertained to the very end." (Booklist) This wildly entertaining new history of Rome uses the lives of 21 women to upend our understanding of the ancient world, from the acclaimed author of A Fatal...
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A Monster in Mount Pleasant: A Story of Murders and JusticeIn the quiet town of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, the idyllic calm of 1978 was shattered by a series of brutal murders. Karol Beavers, a vivacious high school junior, and her mother, Clementine, became the unsuspecting victims of a heinous act of violence that left...
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