Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce LeeBruce Lee's daughter illuminates her father's most powerful life philosophies--demonstrating how martial arts are a perfect metaphor for personal growth, and how we can practice those teachings every day. "Empty your mind; be formless, shapeless like water." Bruce Lee is a cultural icon, renowned...
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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: A Veteran's MemoirFrom award winning poet Khadijah Queen, a coming-of-age memoir about family, survival, and one servicewoman's search for autonomy. Yanked out of college and torn from her sunny hometown of Los Angeles in the early 1990s, Khadijah Queen finds herself sharing a basement apartment with...
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Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian's Journey HomeWinner of the Reading the West Book AwardWinner of the Pacific Northwest Book AwardA People Best Memoir of the YearA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of the Year SelectionA Book Riot Best Book of the Year"I'm in awe of Chris La Tray's storytelling. Becoming Little...
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Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian's Journey HomeWinner of the Pacific Northwest Book AwardWinner of the Reading the West Book AwardA People and Esquire Best Memoir of the Year"A strong and beautiful story of identity, kinship, and the journey toward justice." --Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding SweetgrassGrowing up in Montana,...
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A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian PatriarchyThe instant New York Times bestseller: "Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn't a savior coming. Maybe it was up to me to save me." Recruited into the fundamentalist Quiverfull movement as a young wife,...
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Augustine the AfricanAugustine of Hippo (354-430), also known as Saint Augustine, was one of the most influential theologians in history. His writings, including the autobiographical Confessions and The City of God, helped shape the foundations of Christianity and Western philosophy. But for many centuries, Augustine's North...
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As the Seas Rise: Nicole Hernández Hammer and the Fight for Climate JusticeThis inspiring picture book biography introduces environmental scientist Nicole Hernández Hammer, who was recognized by former first lady Michelle Obama at the 2015 State of the Union Address for her efforts to partner with vulnerable communities threatened by climate change. Nicole had seen many...
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A Song for Nagasaki - Hallow Edition: The Story of Takashi Nagai a Scientist, Convert, and Survivor of the Atomic BombIn collaboration with the Hallow Catholic meditation app, Ignatius Press presents this special edition of A Song for Nagasaki by Paul Glynn. Takashi Nagai's incredible story of conversion and faith will be featured in Hallow's 2025 Lent challenge, entitled Pray40: The Way. Follow Nagai's...
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A Small PlaceA brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua, by the author of Annie John.Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright, A Small Place magnifies our vision of one small place with Swiftian wit and precision. Jamaica Kincaid's expansive essay candidly appraises the ten-by-twelve-mile island in...
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Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They DestroyedINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER #1 SUNDAY TIMES (UK) BESTSELLER "The must-read book of the summer" (Megyn Kelly) from New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan: a "harrowing, incendiary" exposé of the real Kennedy Curse--the family's generations-long legacy of misogyny, murder, and mayhem (Karen Abbott)....
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Art Above Everything: One Woman's Global Exploration of the Joys and Torments of a Creative LifeMeet queer, BIPOC, and women artists around the world as they discuss the gifts, costs, and redemptive power of pursuing a creative life Is the all-encompassing quest to become a self-sustaining artist worth the sacrifices it often requires? Throughout her 20s and 30s, Stephanie...
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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and MadnessNATIONAL BESTSELLER - A deeply powerful memoir about bipolar illness that has both transformed and saved lives--with a new preface by the author. Dr. Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on manic-depressive (bipolar) illness; she has also experienced it firsthand. For even while...
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Angela's Ashes: A MemoirA Pulitzer Prize-winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, Angela's Ashes is Frank McCourt's masterful memoir of his childhood in Ireland--now with a new introduction by Patrick Radden Keefe. "When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all....
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An Exercise in Uncertainty: A Memoir of Illness and HopeIn this thought-provoking memoir, an award-winning journalist explores the chaos, doubt, and search for meaning that come with staying one step ahead of cancer for decades. "An Exercise in Uncertainty has a powerful and restorative story to tell us. Jonathan Gluck's life of illness...
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And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American StruggleNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Jon Meacham chronicles the life of Abraham Lincoln, charting how--and why--he confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery to expand the possibilities of America. "Meacham has given us the Lincoln for our time."--Henry...
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A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild PlacesAn "instant classic", this genre-bending blend of naturalism, memoir, and social manifesto is a fascinating study for rewilding the city, the self, and society (Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times bestselling author). During the real estate crash of the late 2000s, Christopher Brown purchased an...
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A Moveable Feast"There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other." --Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable FeastErnest Hemingway's classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s remains one of his most beloved works....
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American Poison: A Deadly Invention and the Woman Who Battled for Environmental JusticeFrom the national bestselling author of The Food Explorer comes the untold story of Alice Hamilton, a trailblazing doctor and public health activist who took on the booming auto industry--and the deadly invention of leaded gasoline, which would poison millions of people across America....
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Alive Day: A MemoirA searing, unflinchingly intimate memoir about one young couple caught up in the machinery of America's military system, learning to live and love through war and all that comes after "Astonishing . . . both a love story and a gripping account of the...
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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains: Volume 14In 1872, Isabella Bird, daughter of a clergyman, set off alone to the Antipodes 'in search of health' and found she had embarked on a life of adventurous travel. In 1873, wearing Hawaiian riding dress, she rode her horse through the American Wild West,...
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