Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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A Road Called Down on Both Sides: Growing Up in Ethiopia and AmericaWinner of the Presbyterian Writers Guild's Best First Book Award Coming of age in 1950s Ethiopia, American Caroline Kurtz returns as an adult with spouse and family, searching for home." Caroline Kurtz grew up in the remote mountains of Maji, Ethiopia in the 1950s....
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Singing for Nothing: Selected Nonfiction as Literary Memoir"It turns out Wally Swist is a skilled essayist and reviewer as well as a celebrated poet and a decidedly eclectic reader. Singing for Nothing (the title alone says something about the condition of poetry) is a refined review of the work of both...
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The Garlic Papers: A Small Garlic Farm in the Age of Global VampiresThe compelling personal story at the heart of the Netflix documentary, Garlic Breath. Readers who care about preserving local businesses will appreciate this new book by writer and garlic farm owner Stanley Crawford. In the fall of 2014, Crawford questioned US tariff exemptions for...
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Jeannie's Brave Childhood: Behavior and Healing through the Lens of Attachment and TraumaJeannie, the resourceful and resilient child self of author Janyne McConnaughey takes center stage in this companion book to BRAVE: A personal Story of Healing Childhood Trauma. This second psychological memoir offers a literary adventure bringing insights into both child behavior and paths to...
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Rome's Responsibility for the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: How the Jesuits Murdered America's Beloved PresidentGeneral Thomas M. Harris, a member of the Lincoln Assassination Military Commission, possessed first-hand information about how the Jesuits plotted over many months in different cities in Rome, Italy, Canada and the United States to murder America's President Abraham Lincoln and take further control...
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Memories of an Enlisted WAF: 1962 - 1966Memories of an Enlisted WAF is the insight into life for the enlisted Women in the Air Force during the sixties. It follows the four years of active duty of one woman as she goes against the wishes of her family and pursues a...
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The Paris Husband: How It Really Was Between Ernest and Hadley Hemingway"A seasoned author and Hemingway scholar, Scott Donaldson brings this remarkable story to life with precision, lending keen new insight into Hemingway's elusive character. A masterful work and a cracking good read." --Valerie Hemingway, author of Running With the Bulls: My Years with the...
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Prepare to Meet Thy Doom: And More True Gaming StoriesFrom Masters of Doom author David Kushner comes Prepare to Meet Thy Doom, a compilation of true gaming stories covering many facets of America's biggest entertainment business: the video game industry. In addition to more than a dozen fascinating tales of game creation, play,...
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Lameco Eskrima: The Legacy of Edgar SuliteIn the art of Eskrima, few names resound like the late Edgar Sulite's. This young man from the Philippines sought out numerous masters, tested his skill in challenge matches, and developed a system called LAMECO (an acronym for Largo, Medio, Corto; the 3 fighting...
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Permanent Midnight: A MemoirJerry Stahl's seminal memoir of drug addiction and a career in Hollywood, Permanent Midnight is a classic along the lines of Hubert Selby, Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn. Illuminating the self-loathing and self-destruction of an addict's inner life, Permanent Midnight follows Stahl through the...
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Louise Brooks, Frank Zappa, & Other Charmers & DreamersAward-winning author and journalist Tom Graves in "Louise Brooks, Frank Zappa, & Other Charmers & Dreamers" collects the best of his long-form journalism and profiles as well as his in-depth interviews with a variety of curious personalities. The lead piece is "My Afternoon with...
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We Live in AlaskaAt twenty-four, Connie and her young husband, Harmon "Bud" Helmericks, setout from Fairbanks, Alaska in a homemade canoe. Paddling down theTanana and into the great Yukon River, they leave their known worldbehind. Five months later, they portage a hundred miles across muskegand icing ponds...
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Racing Toward Recovery: The Extraordinary Story of Alaska Musher Mike Williams Sr.For the first time, Alaska musher and tribal leader Mike Williams shares his remarkable life story with veteran sports writer Lew Freedman. Williams is a man of many parts, a sports figure, a government figure, a leader of his people, a husband, a father,...
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Through the Eyes of a Young Physician AssistantSean Conroy started his career in the lab, but had a burning desire to enter the clinical side of medicine as a physician assistant. After completing the first two years of book work, he spent a year learning from doctors, physician assistants, nurse practitioners,...
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Vietnam Nurse: Mending & RememberingAuthor: Lou EisenbrandtPublisher: Vietnam NursePublished: 05/26/2015Pages: 160Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.43dISBN: 9781941165683
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My Heart Laid Bare: & other textsIn My Heart Laid Bare, an apodictic work of aphorism, maxim, note, and extended reflection, we encounter a fierce dandy who revolts against utilitarianism: to be useful, Baudelaire gibes, is to be hideous. Yet, contrarily, it is not dissolution that this po te maudit...
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Andy Kaufman: The Truth, FinallyFor the first time ever, the two people who knew Andy Kaufman best open up about the most enigmatic artist of our generation. Comedian and Taxi star Andy Kaufman, known for his crazy antics on screen and off, was the ultimate prankster, delighting audiences...
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Twelve Years a SlaveSolomon Northup's riveting memoir written in 1853 and now an award winning major motion picture. Mr. Northup recounts his powerful life story of being born a free man in New York, kidnapped and forced into slavery for twelve years and then freed and reunited...
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James Bowie: Texas Fighting ManTexas' most famous fighting man, James (Jim) Bowie, a descendant of the fierce natives of the Scottish Highlands, gets the full treatment in Clifford Hopewell's biography, the first in almost half a century. In addition to hundreds of secondary sources, Hopewell researched all the...
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I Belong to Vienna: A Jewish Family's Story of Exile and ReturnA must-read for a new understanding of the Holocaust in Vienna.--Esther Safran Foer, author of I Want You to Know We're Still HereA defiant memoir from contemporary Europe: In autumn 1942, Anna Goldenberg's great-grandparents and one of their sons are deported to the Theresienstadt...
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