Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Experience: A MemoirNATIONAL BESTSELLER - "Fus[ing] humor, intellect and daring with a new gravitas and warmth" (New York Times), one of the most gifted and innovative writers of our time discloses a private life every bit as unique and fascinating as his bestselling novels. The son...
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Against Wind and Tide: Letters and Journals, 1947-1986In this final collection of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's letters and journals, we mark Mrs. Lindbergh's progress as she navigated a remarkable life and a remarkable century with enthusiasm and delight, humor and wit, sorrow and bewilderment, but above all devoted to finding the essential...
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Where Is the Mango Princess?: A Journey Back from Brain InjuryHumorist Cathy Crimmins has written a deeply personal, wrenching, and often hilarious account of the effects of traumatic brain injury, not only on the victim, in this case her husband, but on the family. When her husband Alan is injured in a speedboat accident,...
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The incredible true story of survival and salvation that is the basis for two major motion pictures: 2014's Unbroken and the upcoming Unbroken: Path to Redemption. On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed...
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1944 Diary[1944 Diary] is a deeply personal account, made even more remarkable that it was written during World War II and the horrors of the Holocaust . . . A moving and fascinating read. --Library Journal In 2010, Farrar, Straus and Giroux published two novels...
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God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth MotherGod and Jetfire is a mother's account of her decision to surrender her son in an open adoption and of their relationship over the twelve years that follow. Facing an unplanned pregnancy at twenty-two, Amy Seek and her ex-boyfriend begin an exhaustive search for...
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American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin ScaliaIf the U.S. Supreme Court teaches us anything, it is that almost everything is open to interpretation. Almost. But what's inarguable is that, while the Court has witnessed a succession of larger-than-life jurists in its two-hundred-plus-year history, it has never seen the likes of...
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Under a Red Sky: Memoir of a Childhood in Communist RomaniaEva Zimmermann is eight years old, and she has just discovered she is Jewish. Such is the life of an only child living in postwar Bucharest, a city that is changing in ever more frightening ways. Eva's family, full of eccentric and opinionated adults,...
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Jesus Christ (Prophet Isa) and Virgin Mary (Maryam) In Islam Religion Bilingual Edition English and Spanish Standar VerJesus Christ (Prophet Isa) and Virgin Mary (Maryam) In Islam Religion Bilingual Edition English and Spanish Standar Version. The Islamic view of Jesus lies between two extremes. The Jews, who rejected Jesus as a prophet, called him an imposter, while the Christians, on the...
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A Finger of Land on an Old Man's Hand: Adventures in Mexico's Baja WildernessChronicles in words and photographs the 1962-64 adventures of young men inspired by naturalist Joseph Wood Krutch's book, "The Forgotten Peninsula," about Baja California (1961). Then a sparsely populated raw wilderness, Baja proved a formidable challenge to men and equipment within its mountainous, sometimes...
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Prodigal Genius: The Biography of Nikola Tesla; His Life, Legacy and JournalsNikola Tesla was one of the 20th century's great pioneers; his role in advancing electrical energy through the use of alternating current, and his stupendous engineering finesse, make this biography by journalist John J. O'Neill a fine read. Born in a Serbian village to...
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Yashka: My Life as a Peasant, Exile and Soldier; A Biography and History of Russia in WW1, and the Bolshevik Revolution (HardcYashka is the autobiography of Maria Botchkareva, a young Russian woman who bravely took up arms first against the Germans in World War One, and then opposed the Bolsheviks in the Russian Revolution of 1917. Maria describes a hard upbringing as a member of...
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Stan Musial: An American LifeNATIONAL BESTSELLER Veteran sports journalist George Vecsey finally gives this twenty-time All-Star and St. Louis Cardinals icon the biographical treatment he deserves. Stan Musial is the definitive portrait of one of the game's best-loved but most unappreciated legends--told through the remembrances of those who...
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Happily Ever After: The Drew Barrymore StoryDrew Barrymore was a star by the time she was seven years old, a drug addict by twelve, and a has - been before her sixteenth birthday. But with the resounding success of such recent films as Ever After: A Cinderella Story, The Wedding...
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Becoming Queen Victoria: The Unexpected Rise of Britain's Greatest MonarchNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The perfect companion to the PBS Masterpiece series Victoria - A gripping account of Queen Victoria's rise and early years in power from CNN's official royal historian "Kate Williams has perfected the art of historical biography. Her pacy writing...
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Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of AutobiographyOn the day she turned seventy-seven, internationally acclaimed mystery writer P. D. James embarked on an endeavor unlike any other in her distinguished career: she decided to write a personal memoir in the form of a diary. Over the course of a year she...
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A Reporter's Life"IMMEDIATELY ENGROSSING . . . A] SPLENDID MEMOIR."--The Wall Street Journal "Run, don't walk to the nearest bookstore and treat yourself to the most heartwarming, nostalgia-producing book you will have read in many a year."--Ann Landers "Entertaining . . . The story of a...
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Chinggis KhanConcise and incisive, each interpretive biography in the Library of World Biography Series focuses on aperson whose actions and ideas either significantly influenced world events or whose life reflects important themes and developments in global history."Author: Ruth DunnellPublisher: PearsonPublished: 10/01/2009Pages: 119Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize:...
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Athenais: The Life of Louis XIV's Mistress, the Real Queen of FranceAs lovely and charming as she was shrewd and calculating, Athenais de Montespan became the most powerful noblewoman of her day by brilliantly manipulating her forbidden role as mistress of King Louis XIV. With a lively narrative style that reads like fiction, Hilton reveals...
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I'm Just Happy to Be Here: A Memoir of Renegade Mothering"A refreshingly raw, contrasting perspective on the foolproof idea of motherhood."--POPSUGAR "By turns painful and funny... A searingly candid memoir."--Kirkus "Far from your cookie-cutter story of addiction... [I'm Just Happy to Be Here] describes Hanchett's journey to recovery and sobriety in imperfect and unconventional...
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