Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Traveler from the PastABOUT THE AUTHORCome along and join me and my friends, traveling to almost 70 countries on an adventure that spans a lifetime. Experience sailing Tropic Tramp, a 53-foot Gaff rigged Ketch sailboat around 15,000 miles from British Columbia to South America and across the...
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Escape to FreedomThere are approximately 84 million refugees that were forcibly displaced in the world. This is one of those stories. Determined to live in freedom at all costs and escape communism, a brave refugee family of 11 escapes in the middle of the night during...
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Pilgrims Searching for a Home: The Odyssey of a FamilyIn this biographical sketch, the author traces the extraordinary life pilgrimage of his grandparents. In the aftermath of the 1917 Revolution, Jacob and Justina Friesen started their family in Ischalka, Samara, Russia, enduring the turmoil and terror of the disastrous civil war and the...
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The Love Tones: Finding IdentityAt a critical point in her life, author Nicole Noelle begins to journal, trying to make sense of the noise in her brain. It's the documentation of her experience during the fallout, a collection of data as she understands it. It's not pretty, but...
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Pablo Escobar: Learn the Real History Behind the World's Most Infamous Drug Lord (The Life and Crimes of the World's Most Notorious NColombian drug lord Pablo Escobar's ambition and ruthlessness made him one of the wealthiest, most powerful and most violent criminals of all time.Pablo Escobar, born on December 1, 1949, in Antioquia, Colombia, entered the cocaine trade in the early 1970s. He collaborated with other...
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Pieman - The Papa D Story: The Secret To Life Through Comfort FoodsPieman - The Papa D Story is the story of one man's journey to self during a special time in his life. A time that fell into place when he learned to let go and trust his intuition.It is also a business adventure towards...
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In the Garden of the Righteous: The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust"In the Garden of the Righteous brilliantly describes how in the midst of the brutality of the Holocaust and the collaboration, acquiescence and passivity of millions, there were people who risked their lives to save others out of a sense of shared humanity. This...
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Cary Grant: Taking the LeadIn 1937, it seemed as if Cary Grant had it all: the fame and fortune of being a leading man for one of Hollywood's biggest studios, with a life of luxury that was a world away from the hardship and misery he knew growing...
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Changed and Accepted: The Story of How I Met Jesus in Federal PrisonIn September 2012, sixteen members of the Amish community in Bergholz, Ohio, were sentenced to federal prison for the hair- and beard-cutting crimes committed against members of other Amish communities. Linda Shrock, a daughter of the Bergholz community leader, listened quietly as the judge...
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Impossible?"His parents need to know he won't leave this hospital alive." Seventeen and perfectly healthy one moment and the next I was unconscious on the floor. Soon we learned that I had suffered a massive and likely fatal brain bleed. Though I was given...
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The Migrant Chef: The Life and Times of Lalo GarcíaBorn in rural Mexico, Eduardo "Lalo" García Guzmán and his family left for the United States when he was a child, picking fruits and vegetables on the migrant route from Florida to Michigan. He worked in Atlanta restaurants as a teenager before being convicted...
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In the Blood: How Two Outsiders Solved a Centuries-Old Medical Mystery and Took on the US ArmyThe incredible true story of how an absent-minded inventor and a down-on-his-luck salesman joined forces to create a once-in-a-generation lifesaving product--and were persecuted for it by the U.S. Army. At the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, dramatized by the popular film Black Hawk Down, the...
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Justice, Peace, and the Future of the Police: How to Dig Deep and Do What's Right - from the InsideI am an African American woman, a veteran of the Washington State Patrol, and the Executive Director of the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission. I probably look very good on paper. The irony is that for the same reasons I look good on...
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Pacts With God: My Journey, His AnswersA life-altering diagnosis leads a young woman down a path to fight for her life, a path that would lead her to discover her true faith. A rare cancer and the uncertainty of survival would come to test any uncertainty she might have had...
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Good Living Street: The Fortunes of My Viennese FamilyFrom high society in Vienna to a small flat in Sydney; from patrons of the arts to refugees from the Holocaust; this is the enthralling story of three generations of women spanning a century of upheaval. In 1900 Vienna was one of the most...
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Suarez: From the Playground to the PitchAuthor: Matt Oldfield, Tom OldfieldPublisher: John BlakePublished: 03/01/2018Pages: 176Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9781786068064Audience: Ages 9-12About the AuthorMatt Oldfield is an accomplished writer and the editor-in-chief of football review site Of Pitch and Page .Tom Oldfield is a freelance sports writer and the author of biographies...
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Interesting Stories for Curious Kids: An Amazing Collection of Unbelievable, Funny, and True Stories from Around the World!Explore incredible adventures and amazing facts -- satisfy your kid's curiosity with this one-of-a-kind storybook!Do your fantasy-loving kids find history class too serious or boring?Do they wonder if maybe some really awesome stories from the past never made it into their library books?What about...
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Unemployable: The Odyssey of an ArtistYou have a unique Destiny, an unquenchable dream inside you that's waiting for you to take action. Maybe you are an artist.But chances are you've been told that you'll starve on the streets if you pursue your art. That's what Elli Milan was told,...
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Door to HeavenAstha has now put her life's amazing journey in a book "Door to Heaven" yet another feather in her cap. Barely out of her thirties, Astha Dixit Joshi has the flair and the flow of a compelling story teller and her book is a...
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The Pasta Queen: A Just Gorgeous Cookbook: 100+ Recipes and StoriesTikTok sensation and beloved home cook Nadia Caterina Munno, a.k.a. The Pasta Queen, presents a cookbook of never-before-shared recipes featuring the signature pasta tips and tricks that are 100% authentic to Italian traditions--and just as gorgeous as you are.In the first-ever cookbook from TikTok...
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