Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Cuentos Para Niños Que Se Atreven a Ser Diferentes 2 / Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different 2 = Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different 2El fenómeno bestseller internacional está de vuelta con más historias reales, brillantes e inspiradoras de niños que demuestran que ser vulnerables no es debilidad, que ser de mente abierta es genial, y que realmente está bien ser diferente. Qué tienen en común el escritor...
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A Boy Called Bob: Becomes an AFL footballerAuthor: Bob Murphy, Tony WilsonPublisher: Piccolo NeroPublished: 07/02/2019Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 7.80h x 5.08w x 0.51dISBN: 9781760641429This title is not returnable
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A Bigger Sky: Awakening a Fierce Feminine BuddhismReimagining Buddhism through a feminine lens: A powerful memoir of healing, strength, and spiritual awakening. Written by the first and only layperson to receive full dharma transmission in the Suzuki Roshi Soto Zen lineage, A Bigger Sky explores what it means to traverse the...
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From Yoga to the Rose Cross"Thunderbolt light of sacred love is your continuous resurging, the reply of the gods to your endless gift. But only beyond the ancient cloistered circle of nature and of the psyche can your free being know the language of the gods, the thinking that...
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Travis Scott: Lo-Fi Hip-Hop CreatorThis biography highlights the life and accomplishments of Travis Scott. Readers learn about Scott's early life, inspiration to pursue music, and successes as a hip-hop artist. With striking photographs and sidebars, the book also explores Scott's over-the-top tours and live shows and his relationship...
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What Stars Are Made of: The Life of Cecilia Payne-GaposchkinA New Scientist Book of the YearA Physics Today Book of the YearA Science News Book of the Year The history of science is replete with women getting little notice for their groundbreaking discoveries. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, a tireless innovator who correctly theorized the substance...
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The Lemon Bar Queen: A Memoir of Love, Baking, and Memory LossIn her beautifully crafted memoir, Jodi Melsness finds herself caring for her mother after her father's death from cancer. Warned by her father that her mother is becoming more forgetful, Jodi begins caring for her from afar, first commuting to and from her family...
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Edgar: An AutobiographyPatience, persistence, and the most unlikely of circumstances vaulted Edgar Martinez from a poor neighborhood in Dorado, Puerto Rico to the spotlight in Seattle, where he spent the entirety of his 18-year major league career with the Mariners. At last, his path is destined...
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Climbing Lessons: Stories of fathers, sons, and the bond betweenWhen Doc Bascom tries to show his grade school sons how to climb a huge sycamore, he ends up dropping 12 feet flat-out on his back. Stunned, he finally gasps, "So that's how it's done." And in that moment, he becomes an emblem for...
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Beyond Good Intentions: A Journey into the Realities of International AidIn the wake of several international aid failures, including the tsunami recovery efforts in Indonesia and the recent earthquake relief in Haiti, much of the world has become aware of the shortcomings of aid, and Hogan is the expert who's been using her voice...
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Epic Solitude: A Story of Survival and a Quest for Meaning in the Far NorthAll her life, Katherine Keith has hungered for remote, wild places that fill her soul with freedom and peace. Her travels take her across America, but it is in the vast and rugged landscape of Alaska that she finds her true home. Alaska is...
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It Is What It Is: Further Adventures of a Western MysticSpiritual adventures in consciousness and mastery under the guidance of the ascended master Saint Germain. Fascinating and often amusing stories by the author of the best-seller, "Apprentice to the Masters: Adventures of a Western Mystic."Peter Mt. Shasta continues his eclectic autobiography with these stories...
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Einstein in BohemiaA finely drawn portrait of Einstein's sixteen months in Prague In the spring of 1911, Albert Einstein moved with his wife and two sons to Prague, the capital of Bohemia, where he accepted a post as a professor of theoretical physics. Though he intended...
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The Last Anglo-IndiansThis is a biographical account of events from the 1880s to 1950s in India. The story spans 3 generations of women in an Anglo-Indian Family and draws upon some of the noteworthy historical events in India at the time. We also see some of...
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Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of IslamIn Muhammad and the Empires of Faith, Sean W. Anthony demonstrates how critical readings of non-Muslim and Muslim sources in tandem can breathe new life into the historical study of Muhammad and how his message transformed the world. By placing these sources within the...
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Marie Curie: The Pioneer, the Nobel Laureate, the Discoverer of RadioactivityThis illustrated biography explores all of Marie Curie's accomplishments, from her discoveries of radioactivity, polonium, and radium to her Nobel Prize victory and her continuing influence today. When Marie Curie and her husband, Pierre, discovered the atomic nature of radioactivity, and isolated polonium and...
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Stories from a Rearview MirrorStories from a Rearview Mirror follows the life of a boy, raised at the bank of the Danube River after World War II. This covers seventy years of some of the most turbulent events in history: fascist and communist dictatorships, revolutions and wars, and...
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Gholson Brothers in The Thick of It: True Stories of Early Texas as Told by Two Who Lived ItGholson Brothers in The Thick of It: True Stories of Early Texas as Told by Two Who Lived It is Donna Gholson Cook's fourth book. Donna is a sixth-Generation Texan and Great-Granddaughter of Benjamin Franklin Gholson. Sam and Frank Gholson were born in the...
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Spanish - Ch - John Newton: de Esclavista a AbolicionistaLa vida de John Newton se vena abajo sin control. Tras ser reclutado de manera forzosa por la Marina real, se enfrent a sus compaeros de tripulacin y acab convertido en siervo de un comcerciante de esclavos de la costa occidental de frica. Ms...
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The Imposteress Rabbit Breeder: Mary Toft and Eighteenth-Century EnglandIn October 1726, newspapers began reporting a remarkable event. In the town of Godalming in Surrey, a woman called Mary Toft had started to give birth to rabbits. Several leading doctors - some sent directly by King George I - travelled to examine the...
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