Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Confessions of an Accidental Zoo CuratorFrom cougars, orangutans, supersize snakes, fugitive pigs, and a shocked New York City cabbie, Confessions is fascinating, and often hilarious. Berkovits masterfully regales readers with stories that give the inside scoop on what went on behind the scenes at one of the world's most...
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The Uris Trinity: The father, the son and the trophy wifeHaving the world famous novelist Leon Uris for a father had its downside. Kidnapped in Hollywood at age one, evacuated from Israel during the Suez Crisis, threatened by Arab nations and French assassins. Fueled by intrigue and ever present danger, Michael created an imaginary...
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Sonny Rollins: Meditating on a RiffJazz legend Sonny Rollins spent his youth hustling on the streets of his native Harlem, but over time the tenor saxophonist shifted gears and developed the reputation of being "the world's greatest living jazz musician." Did he deserve such a lofty title? This biography,...
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From Lion's Jaws: Chogyam Trungpa's Epic Escape To The WestIn 1959 a nineteen year-old lama, Chögyam Trungpa, led 300 Tibetan men, women and children on a desperate nine-month escape from pursuing Communist troops. Travelling where people had never been, they trekked through some of the world's harshest weather and most treacherous mountains. Then,...
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Doreen Valiente WitchA personal biographical account of the life of Doreen Valiente, described by Professor Ronald Hutton as "the greatest single female figure in the modern British history of witchcraft". Author Philip Heselton draws on first hand testimony and Doreen's own personal papers to reveal previously...
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Anointed to Sing the Gospel: The Levitical Legacy of Thomas A. DorseyAnointed to Sing the Gospel is the biography of the "Father of Gospel Music," Dr. Thomas A. Dorsey from Villa Rica, GA to Chicago, IL. It encompasses the spiritual dilemma that caused him to cross-over completely to the gospel song from blues and jazz....
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Your Diplomats at Work: A Comedy in Seven ActsThis book is an account of the author's sometimes comical, sometimes frustrating, but always enlightening adventures as a diplomat in seven countries. As a former academic who had worked and traveled in some sixty countries of the world before joining the Foreign Service, Huffman...
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Lincoln Beachey: The Man Who Owned the SkyLincoln Beachey is the Forgotten Father of Aerobatics, who invented 'trick flying', who had a fiancee in scores of American cities, who was called 'the eighth wonder of the world', whose iconoclastic story will rewrite a bit of American history. StunningAuthor: Frank MarreroPublisher: Tripod...
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Patron Saints for Postmoderns: Ten from the Past Who Speak to Our FutureIf you feel discouraged in your efforts to reflect Christ each day in our broken world, the saints can help. Especially the ones whose stories Chris Armstrong tells here, because he's chosen them for the ways they've inspired him and deepened his own faith....
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Hurt RoadThird Day guitarist Mark Lee is no stranger to heartache and hopes deferred; the road to success is never traveled without missteps along the way. Life is messy and uncertain and full of surprises. And one of the best things he's ever done is...
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Comics Confidential: Thirteen Graphic Novelists Talk Story, Craft, and Life Outside the BoxA must-have collection for comics fans and creators everywhere, packed with interviews and original comics by today's foremost graphic novelists. Respected anthologist Leonard S. Marcus turns his literary microscope to the world of comics, which has lately morphed and matured at a furious pace....
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American Connections: The Founding Fathers. Networked.Using the unique approach that he has employed in his previous books, author, columnist, and television commentator James Burke shows us our connections to the fifty-six men who signed the Declaration of Independence. Over the two hundred-plus years that separate us, these connections are...
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Benedict Arnold: American Hero and TraitorA biography telling the life of Benedict Arnold, the man who betrayed his country and became known as a traitor. Written in graphic-novel format.Author: Terry Beatty, Michael BurganPublisher: Capstone PressPublished: 01/01/2007Pages: 32Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.17lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.90w x 0.13dISBN: 9780736879064Audience: 08 - 14Accelerated...
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Ada and the Number-Crunching MachineThis is Ada. Although she might look like an ordinary little girl, she's about to change the world. Augusta Ada Byron, better known as Ada Lovelace, is an inquisitive child. Like her clever mother, she loves solving problems--big problems, little problems, and tricky, complicated...
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Florence Kelley and the Children: Factory Inspector in 1890s Chicago"This book documents and explores an important time in US history, and does so with a depth and intelligence that make it irresistibly compelling." -Scott Turow, author, Presumed Innocent A new book by a Northwestern University School of Law scholar aims to fill in...
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Lives of MuhammadRecent outbursts sparked by a viral video and controversial cartoons powerfully illustrate the passions and sensitivities that continue to surround the depiction of the seventh-century founder of Islam. The Lives of Muhammad delves into the many ways the Prophet's life story has been told...
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The Beatles (Revised Edition) (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers) (Library Edition)Meet the Beatles Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers series combines a delightful mix of full-color historical reproductions, photos, and hilarious cartoon-style illustrations that bring to life the works of renowned composers, combining poignant anecdotes with important factual information for readers (Ages 8-9).Author:...
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Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. AdamsFrom the author of Mind and Matter, an intimate portrait of Louisa Catherine Adams, the wife of John Quincy Adams, who witnessed firsthand the greatest transformations of her time Born in London to an American father and a British mother on the eve of...
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Power and the Idealists: Or, the Passion of Joschka Fischer, and Its AftermathThe student uprisings of 1968 erupted not only in America but also across Europe, expressing a distinct generational attitude about politics, the corrupt nature of democratic capitalism, and the evil of military interventions. Yet, thirty-five years later, many in that radical generation had come...
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Texas Rich: The Hunt Dynasty, from the Early Oil Days Through the Silver CrashThis book is the true story of H. L. Hunt and family. It is not an authorized biography. However, in the course of researching the book and the Texas Monthly and Playboy articles which preceded it, the author was able to interview members of...
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