Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Charlotte Brontë Before Jane EyreDo you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong --I have as much soul as you, --and full as much heart Charlotte Bront 's Jane Eyre is a beloved classic, celebrated today by readers...
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Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at WarThe winner of the Nobel Peace Prize shares her inspirational, powerful story of how a group of women working together created an unstoppable force that brought peace to Liberia. As a young woman, Leymah Gbowee was broken by the Liberian civil war, a brutal...
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Attempting NormalNATIONAL BESTSELLER Marc Maron is "a master of spinning humor out of anguish" (Bookforum), even when that anguish is pretty clearly self-inflicted. In Attempting Normal, he threads together twenty-five stories from his life and near-death, from his first comedy road trips (with a fugitive...
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Patrick Henry: Liberty or DeathA biography telling the life story of Patrick Henry, who is known as the Voice of the American Revolution. Written in graphic-novel format.Author: Jason GlaserPublisher: Capstone PressPublished: 01/01/2006Pages: 32Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 7.66h x 6.86w x 0.10dISBN: 9780736862004Audience: Young AdultAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 4.3Point Value:...
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I Could Tell You StoriesIn this timely gathering, Patricia Hampl, one of our most elegant practitioners, weaves personal stories and grand ideas into shimmering bolts of prose (Minneapolis Star Tribune) as she explores the autobiographical writing that has enchanted or bedeviled her. Subjects engaging Hampl's attention include her...
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Chuck Taylor, All Star: The True Story of the Man Behind the Most Famous Athletic Shoe in HistoryIn 1921, Converse hired 20-year-old Chuck Taylor as a salesman, sparking a nearly 50-year career that defined the Converse All Star basketball shoe. Although his name is on the label of the legendary All Stars, which have been worn by hundreds of millions, little...
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Set the Boy Free: The AutobiographyThe long-awaited memoir from the legendary guitarist and cofounder of the seminal British band The Smiths.An artist who helped define a period in popular culture, Johnny Marr tells his story in a memoir as vivid and arresting as his music. The Smiths, the band...
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Female Force: Amy Coney BarrettWife. Mother. Professor. Clerk. Judge. Few people are as accomplished as Amy Coney Barrett. A law professor and protege of Antonin Scalia, Amy Coney Barrett's controversial nomination to replace Ruth Bader Ginsberg on the Supreme Court put religion's effect on public policy in the...
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HaugheyWith exclusive access to the Haughey archives, Gary Murphy presents a reassessment of Charles Haughey's life and legacy.Saint or sinner? He was the most talented and influential politician of his generation, and his presence still looms over the Irish body politic, yet the very...
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Simone Biles (Simone Biles) (Spanish Version)Kids will be delighted to learn all about this amazing athlete's achievements. This title will cover Simone Biles's early years, how she got started in gymnastics, and her four gold medals she earned in just one Olympics Colorful full-bleed photographs, extra fun facts about...
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Choose Your Own DisasterAhilarious and heartbreaking (Jo Piazza) and unflinchingly honest memoir about one young woman's terrible and life-changing decisions while hoping--and sometimes failing--to find herself, in the style of Never Have I Ever and Adulting. Join Dana Schwartz on a journey revisiting all of the awful...
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Map Is Not the Journey: Faith Renewed While Hiking the AlpsReplace weariness with refreshment, obligations with passion, and staleness with joy.After twenty years of working the same job, Richard was burned out. When a close friend died, grief led to questions about faith, meaning, work, and life. Seeking answers, Richard hiked four hundred kilometers...
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Princess Noire: The Tumultuous Reign of Nina SimoneBorn Eunice Waymon in Tryon, North Carolina, Nina Simone (1933-2003) began her musical life playing classical piano. A child prodigy, she wanted a career on the concert stage, but when the Curtis Institute of Music rejected her, the devastating disappointment compelled her to change...
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Bandido: The Life and Times of Tiburcio VasquezTiburcio Vasquez is, next to Joaquin Murrieta, America's most infamous Hispanic bandit. After he was hanged as a murderer in 1875, the Chicago Tribune called him "the most noted desperado of modern times." Yet questions about him still linger. Why did he become a...
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This Is Your Captain Speaking: My Fantastic Voyage Through Hollywood, Faith and LifeThe remarkable life, career, and faith journey of Gavin MacLeod, the beloved star of The Love Boat and The Mary Tyler Moore Show.For 16 years, millions of Americans welcomed Gavin MacLeod into their living rooms every Saturday night. This veteran of stage and screen...
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WandererSterling Hayden was at the peak of his earning power as a star when he suddenly quit. He walked out on Hollywood, walked out of a shattered marriage, defied the courts, and, broke and an outlaw, set sail with his four children in the...
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MussoliniMussolini was one of the tyrant-killers of the Axis powers who scarred Europe during World War II, but we can't properly understand him or his regime by any facile equation with Hitler or Stalin. Like them, his life began modestly in the provinces; unlike...
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Who Will Accompany You?: My Mother-Daughter Journeys Far from Home and Close to the HeartAward-winning memoirist Meg Stafford has an adventurous spirit, and this time she takes us along for the ride. When her daughters venture into terra incognita-one of them meditating in the Himalayas and the other negotiating with the Colombian military-Stafford decides to go too. In...
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Discerning the WayThis book recounts the author's experience of being diagnosed with young-onset Parkinson's disease at the age of forty-eight and his first four years of living with this illness. With honesty and thoughtfulness, he reveals how Parkinson's has affected his life, which includes experiences of...
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Garbage Bag Suitcase: A MemoirGarbage Bag Suitcase is the true story of Shenandoah Chefalo's wholly dysfunctional journey through a childhood with neglectful, drug-and alcohol addicted parents. She endured numerous moves in the middle of the night with just minutes to pack, multiple changes in schools, hunger, cruelty, and...
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