Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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It Never Ends: A Memoir with Nice Memories!NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the comedian, television writer, and host of the Best Show, a revealing and powerful memoir exploring a life of struggle and reinvention"This book is unflinchingly honest, deeply affecting and just relentlessly funny. If you read it and don't like it, it's...
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Duty Is Ours, Results Are God'sIn Duty is Ours, Results are God's, Captain Randall J. Jansen tells of his tough and demanding yet adventurous and exciting nine years in the US Marine Corps. He discusses principles to follow and life lessons to be learned, along with interesting and sometimes...
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Home Sweet Road: Finding Love, Making Music & Building a Life One City at a TimeThe hugely popular singer/songwriter duo Johnnyswim share their story like never before, showing readers how to find home wherever they are in this visually stunning debut. Foreword by Chip and Joanna Gaines Work and life partners Amanda Sudano Ramirez and Abner Ramirez are known...
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Crash: How I Became a Reluctant Caregiver". . . an engaging exploration of duty, guilt, and self-preservation. . . . A cleareyed consideration of difficult ethical and familial choices." --KIRKUS REVIEWS Rachel likes to think of herself as a nice Jewish girl, dedicated to doing what's honorable, just as her...
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Living with Shakespeare: Saint Helen's Parish, London, 1593-1598In the 1590s, Shakespeare was working with and writing for the Lord Chamberlain's Men at The Theatre, Shoreditch while he was living in the parish of St. Helen's, Bishopsgate Street. Living with Shakespeare examines his parish, church, locale, neighbours and their potential influences on...
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The Old King in His ExileInternational BestsellerShortlisted for the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize and Schlegel-Tieck PrizeWhat makes us who we are? Arno Geiger's father was never an easy man to know and when he developed Alzheimer's, Arno realised he was not going to ask for help. "As my...
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The First Lady of UnderfashionsThe First Lady of Underfashions is a nonfiction saga-like memoir written by Christina Erteszek and including excerpts from her parents' (Jan and Olga) unpublished memoirs. It is a complex, layered, and nuanced story that bridges the violence of war, the innovation of thought, the...
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Hidden ScarsTo the outside world, author Cheyenne Hanson was just another happy kid. She loved her childhood to the fullest. The only difference was that she grew up faster than most kids and got really good at hiding it. Behind closed doors, she was a...
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John Dante's Inferno, a Playboy's LifeThe life of one of the Great Lovers of all time, John Dante lived the life of a bachelor's fantasy, going from his humble beginnings in a small Italian village to the Playboy Mansion, where he lived for 26 years with Hugh Hefner and...
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Walk in My Combat Boots: True Stories from America's Bravest WarriorsDiscover "the stories America needs to hear" (Admiral William H. McRaven, US Navy (Ret.)) with these moving and powerful recollections of war, told by the men and women who lived them. Walk in my Combat Boots is a powerful collection crafted from hundreds of...
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Parallel Lives - 13 selected biographies"To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days." -PLUTARCH Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, also called Parallel Lives, is a collection of biographies of famous Greek...
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Grant's Tomb: The Epic Death of Ulysses S. Grant and the Making of an American PantheonThe moving story of Ulysses S. Grant's final battle, and the definitive account of the national memorial honoring him as one of America's most enduring heroes The final resting place of Ulysses S. Grant, the victorious general in the Civil War and the eighteenth...
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Twenty-Eight Years a Slave: or the Story of My Life in Three Continents - North America, Europe and Africa - An AutobiographyThomas L. Johnson's remarkable life, wherein he was born into slavery before going on to a successful career as a minister and missionary, is told here in his own words.Until the age of twenty-eight, Johnson lived under the yolk of his slave masters. As...
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The Protector: A Woman's Journey from the Secret Service to Guarding VIPs and Working in Some of the World's Most Dangerous PlacesMary Beth Wilkas landed her dream job as one of the few female United States Secret Service agents in the early 1990s. But when her integrity is unfairly called into question, the dream dissolves. Freed from the red tape of a federal agency--as well...
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How Cancer Cured Me: Experiencing the healing of brokenness and diseaseDavid Gira wants rightly to live but he knows that requires an account of what it means to live right. To live right requires honest candor. That is what he has given us in this book. Pain is here but then also is laughter....
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The Yankee Comandante: The Untold Story of Courage, Passion, and One American's Fight to Liberate CubaWilliam Morgan, a tough-talking ex-paratrooper, stunned family and friends when in 1957 he left Ohio to join freedom fighters in the mountains of Cuba. He led one band of guerrillas, and Che Guevara another, and together they swept through the country, ultimately forcing corrupt...
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Limitless: The Power of Hope and Resilience to Overcome CircumstanceMeet Mallory Weggemann: a Paralympic gold-medalist, world champion swimmer, ESPY winner, and NBC Sports commentator whose extraordinary story will give you the encouragement you need to rise up to meet any challenge you face in life.On January 21, 2008, a routine medical procedure left...
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Pass with Flying Colours - Vital Preparations for Aviation Students: Learn Simple Strategies To Save Money & Time On Flight School & Training For YourYou may have told yourself you will one day get your pilot's license. With this book, you can make your dreams a reality Sensei Paul David is both a private pilot and author. Learn from his experiences in flight school as he shares his...
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Milan Rastislav Stefanik: A Man of Iron WillPer aspera ad astra - Through adversity to the starsMilan Rastislav Stef nik was great not only for the Slovaks, but also for the Czechs and the French. A virtuoso in life and death, a magnificent example of a man who in every act...
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Jeremy Brett - Playing A Part"Holmes could be rude, impatient, abrupt, and his intolerance of fools was legendary. I tried to show all this, all of the man's incredible brilliance. But there are some cracks in Holmes's marble, as in an almost-perfect Rodin statue. And I tried to show...
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