Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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The French Traveler: Adventure, Exploration & Indian Life In Eighteenth-Century CanadaThe French Traveler -- Letters to "Ch re Madame" Adventure, Exploration & Indian Life In Eighteenth-Century Canada The First English Translation of The 1768 Bestseller "Le Voyageur Fran ais"Translation and Commentary by William D. Gairdner, PhDFrom the very first page, readers are thrown into...
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Gypsy Fugue: An Archetypal MemoirWho is to say that the outer stories of our lives are more important than the images that haunt our imagination? What if memoir could capture the vital pulse of our inner lives and track the mysterious affinities and longings we so often feel?...
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Jocko Willink: A BiographyFor Jocko Willink his unique approach to life goes further than his name. After serving 20 years as a Navy SEAL, Jocko became privy to the elements of success bound in the recesses of everyone's drive. Given Jocko's prestigious background, one would be remised...
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Benjamin Franklin AutobiographyThe Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin himself appears to have called the work his Memoirs. Although it had a tortuous publication history after...
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The Truths We Hold: An American JourneyNow adapted for young readers, Vice President Kamala Harris's empowering memoir about the values and inspirations that guided her life. With her election to the vice presidency, her election to the U.S. Senate, and her position as attorney general of California, Kamala Harris has...
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One Man's Coincidences: Believe It or NotMy book is about several special people in my life as well as people whom I have met over the years and who sometimes intertwined with the people that I knew. I believe you will find it entertaining as I did while I was...
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Spirit Untethered: A Psychotherapist's Journey from Terminal Cancer to Seeing the DeadWhen you lose a loved one, the pain can feel unbearable, but what if you knew that the spirit of your loved one lived on? Author, psychotherapist, and psychic medium Suzanne Maiden can answer that-six months before she was diagnosed with terminal cancer, she...
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El Secreto de Selena (Selena's Secret): La Reveladora Historia Detrás de Su Trágica MuerteUn retrato ntimo e investigativo del asesinato de la querida reina de la m sica tejana, Selena Quintanilla P rez, escrito por la galardonada periodista Mar a Celeste Arrar s. Ahora, una serie en Telemundo. No hay duda de que Yolanda Sald var dispar...
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The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library"Like a Renaissance wonder cabinet, full of surprises and opening up into a lost world." --Stephen Greenblatt "A captivating adventure...For lovers of history, Wilson-Lee offers a thrill on almost every page...Magnificent." --The New York Times Book Review Named a Best Book of the Year...
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About My Father and the BracerosAn extended tribute to the author's father, and to Mexican-American working class culture in the 1950s, with distinctive reflections on race, nationality, internationalism and ethics.Author: Luis Lazaro TijerinaPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 11/15/2017Pages: 54Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.19lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.11dISBN: 9781979422956This title...
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Ray Dalio: A Biography [Booklet]Ray Dalio is an American investor, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist. Dalio is the founder of investment firm Bridgewater Associates, one of the world's largest hedge funds. Raymond Dalio was born in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York. He is the son of a jazz...
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Magic in a Bottle: The Untold Story of Arnie Esterer and Markko VineyardArnie Esterer, the father of vinifera in Ohio Arnie Esterer and Tim Hubbard were taking a big gamble back in 1968 when they started their vineyard and winery. With guidance from Dr. Konstantin Frank, Arnie and Tim built a winery that has led the...
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Marilyn Monroe: A Life From Beginning to EndMarilyn MonroeShe vigorously played the dumb-blonde stereotype in her movie roles, but there is nothing at all dumb about Marilyn Monroe. Born to a single mother who suffered from severe mental illness, the odds were stacked against the girl originally named Norma Jeane from...
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Behind the presidential curtain: inside Out of real Paul Kagame from his former bodyguardAt age 16, in late 1991, Noble Marara joined the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) that was fighting the army of the Rwandan government. RPF was an armed rebellion movement that were composed by mostly Rwandan refugees who lived in Uganda. Throughout his time with...
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Woman of the Cavalcade: An Epic True StoryIn "Woman of the Cavalcade," Edith Kohl describes her dramatic, true-life experiences in helping to settle America's wild West. As background, the Homestead Acts offered free ownership of 270 million acres of public land (10% of America) to people who settle the undeveloped lands...
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The Sodbreakers: People Who Lived and Died Settling the WestIn "The Sodbreakers," Edith Kohl writes of her exciting experiences as she helped countless homesteaders settle the frontier area around Lusk and Van Tassell, Wyoming in the early 1900s. As background, the Homestead Acts offered free ownership of 270 million acres of public land...
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Creí Y Recibí Mi Encuentro Con Jesús"Cre y recib " est basada en la vida personal de la autora, Susy Abbate. Es un relato honesto de la jornada de una madre soltera hacia el crecimiento emocional y espiritual ante una vida llena de problemas, fracasos y altos y bajos financieros....
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Whiteout: recollections on a family of privilegeHugh Merrill, internationally renowned printmaker and forerunner in the social practice art movement, writes this memoir focused on his formative years where he grew up in a high-profile, politically connected, wealthy white family in the deep Jim Crow South. Author: Hugh MerrillPublisher: Spartan PressPublished:...
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Autobiography of a Yogi: Reprint of the original (1946) EditionThe book begins with his childhood family life, to finding his guru, to becoming a monk and establishing his teachings of Kriya Yoga meditation. The book continues in 1920 when Yogananda accepts an invitation to speak in a religious congress in Boston, Massachusetts, USA....
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Business Biographies and Memoirs - Titans of Industry: Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford, Cornelius VanderbiltThe five 'Titans of Industry' discussed in this series are, without a doubt, the most influential and impactful men in American history. Without any one of them, the entire landscape of the US would be different. They are the founders of the American economy....
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