Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Goats of BasketballNo sport has evolved more over the past century than basketball, growing from small time to a global game featuring some of the most talented athletes on the planet. This title explores the achievements of the men and women who have taken and continue...
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Mother Teresa: The Smile of CalcuttaThe great saints devoted their lives to the love of God and of others. Their fascinating life stories will help children discover the great adventure of holiness. This beautifully illustrated book tells the story of such a great saint who lived in our times.Amid...
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Miss America by Day: Lessons Learned from Ultimate Betrayals and Unconditional LoveWon the prestigious Writer's Digest award. 1,900 books entered the national competition, Miss America by Day won first place in the "Most Inspirational Book" category. In this award winning book, former Miss America, Marilyn Van Derbur, describes, in detail, her healing process after 13...
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X: A Biography of Malcolm XSomeone was trying to kill Malcolm X, and he knew who it was. From his troubled youth to his days as spokesman for the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X had much to say about race and civil rights. But when he split with the...
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The Names of the Stars: A Life in the Wilds2016 Montana Book Award Honor BookFrom the Author of Indian Creek Chronicles and the Winner of Five PNBA Awards, Pete Fromm's New Memoir Sees His Return to the Wilderness to Explore a Life Lived in the Wilds. Twenty-five years after his beloved memoir Indian...
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Great Lives in Graphics: Albert EinsteinThe Great Lives in Graphics series is a new way of looking at the lives of famous and influential people. It takes the essential dates and achievements of each person's life, mixes them with lesser-known facts and trivia, and uses infographics to show them...
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How Emily Saved the Bridge: The Story of Emily Warren Roebling and the Building of the Brooklyn BridgeThe amazing story of Emily Warren Roebling, the woman who stepped in to oversee the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, which was completed in 1883.Emily was not an engineer, but she was educated in math and science. She married Washington Roebling, the chief engineer...
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Live Original: How the Duck Commander Teen Keeps It Real and Stays True to Her ValuesSadie Robertson--former star of A&E's Duck Dynasty and daughter of Willie and Korie Robertson--shares her outlook on life as she opens up about herself and the values that make her family what it is. Sadie Robertson represents everythingAuthor: Sadie Robertson, Beth ClarkPublisher: Howard BooksPublished:...
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The Two Kinds of DecayA Spare and Unsparing Look at Affliction and Recovery that Heralds a Stunning New Voice The events that began in 1995 might keep happening to me as long as things can happen to me. Think of deep space, through which heavenly bodies fly forever....
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Nilsson: The Life of a Singer-SongwriterPaul McCartney and John Lennon described him as the Beatles' "favorite group," he won Grammy awards, wrote and recorded hit songs, and yet no figure in popular music is as much of a paradox, or as underrated, as Harry Nilsson. In this first ever...
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Cooked: My Journey from the Streets to the StoveBy twenty-one, Jeff Henderson was making up to $35,000 a week cooking and selling crack cocaine. By twenty-four, he had been sentenced to nineteen and a half years in prison on federal drug trafficking charges. It was an all-too-familiar story for a young man...
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The Woman Who Cracked the Anxiety Code: The Extraordinary Life of Dr Claire WeekesThe true story of the little-known mental-health pioneer who revolutionized how we see the defining problem of our era: anxiety. Panic, depression, sorrow, guilt, disgrace, obsession, sleeplessness, low confidence, loneliness, agoraphobia...The international bestseller Hope and Help for Your Nerves, first published in 1962 and...
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Fighting for Change: Andrew Yang's Path Forward"During these dark times when increasing reports of AAPI Hate are escalating, Fighting for Change: Andrew Yang's Path Forward provides a bright light. Yang has taken the Asian-American community forward by stepping front and center in the fight against exclusion. He continues to work...
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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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Saint Giuseppe Moscati: Doctor of the PoorThis is the compelling and inspirational true story of a twentieth-century doctor and saint. Giuseppe Moscati, born of an aristocratic family in Naples, Italy, devoted his medical career to serving the poor. He was also a medical school professor and a pioneer in the...
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It's Her Story Rosalind Franklin: A Graphic NovelA graphic novel for children ages 7 to 10. Rosalind Franklin was a British chemist during the 1940s and 1950s, when few women worked in the sciences. During WWII, she expanded our knowledge of the physics of coal and carbon, and later she studied...
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Hello, I'm Johnny CashA stirring look at the early life of Johnny Cash, from his harsh but music-filled childhood to the first flush of stardom. There's never been anyone like music legend Johnny Cash. His deep voice is instantly recognizable, and his heartfelt songs resonate with listeners...
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A Little Thing Called Life: On Loving Elvis Presley, Bruce Jenner, and Songs in BetweenAward-winning songwriter Linda Thompson breaks her silence, sharing the extraordinary story of her life, career, and epic romances with two of the most celebrated, yet enigmatic, modern American superstars--Elvis Presley and Bruce JennerFor the last forty years, award-winning songwriter Linda Thompson has quietly led...
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Surviving Hitler, Evading Stalin: One Woman's Remarkable Escape from Nazi GermanyThe peaceful farm life of a teenage girl in Germany is abruptly upended when WWII comes knocking at her family's door. One month before her sixteenth birthday, Mildred "Mickchen" Schindler and her family are captured by Russian Soldiers. Having already survived life in Hitler's...
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The Beatles in Comics!This volume explores the complete illustrated story of the Beatles from their formation, through the Beatlemania phenomenon, all the way through their breakup. Readers see how the band evolved and amplifed the uproar of the sixties, became politically and socially active, and achieved a...
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