Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Jean-Michel BasquiatIn this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Jean-Michel Basquiat, the graffiti street art movement pioneer. Jean-Michel was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a Puerto Rican mother and Haitian father. When he was...
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Jay Sebring: Cutting to the TruthIn the glitz and glamour of 1960s Hollywood, Jay Sebring stood as an icon of innovation and style. A visionary who invented men's hair care and design concepts, Sebring wasn't just a hairstylist-he was the architect of a $100-billion-a-year industry. His revolutionary techniques and...
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James Harden vs. Kobe Bryant: Who Would Win?Kobe Bryant and James Harden are two of the most successful basketball players of all time. They faced each other 30 times in NBA games while their careers overlapped. Bryant's legendary career included five NBA championships. Harden is one of the few players in...
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James Baldwin: A Biography"The most revealing and subjectively penetrating assessment of Baldwin's life yet published." --The New York Times Book Review. "The first Baldwin biography in which one can recognize the human features of this brilliant, troubled, principled, supremely courageous man." --Boston Globe James Baldwin was one...
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In the Weeds: Around the World and Behind the Scenes with Anthony Bourdain**Nominated for the 2022 BookTube Prize in Nonfiction** Anthony Bourdain's long time director and producer takes readers behind the scenes to reveal the insanity of filming television in some of the most volatile places in the world and what it was like to work...
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In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at YorktownNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Nathaniel Philbrick is a masterly storyteller. Here he seeks to elevate the naval battles between the French and British to a central place in the history of the American Revolution. He succeeds, marvelously."--The New York Times Book Review The thrilling...
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In the Garden of the Righteous: The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust"In the Garden of the Righteous brilliantly describes how in the midst of the brutality of the Holocaust and the collaboration, acquiescence and passivity of millions, there were people who risked their lives to save others out of a sense of shared humanity. This...
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin"Larson is a marvelous writer...superb at creating characters with a few short strokes."--New York Times Book Review Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in his new book, the bestselling author of Devil in the White City turns...
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Inspirational Hockey Stories for Young Readers: 12 Unbelievable True Tales to Inspire and Amaze Young Hockey LoversAre you a fan of the game of ice hockey?Do you see the beauty that comes from the intensity that takes place on the ice?Are you in need of an inspirational story or two? As a sport, ice hockey is an intense battle waged...
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Inside: One Woman's Journey Through the Inside Passage2017 Washington State Book Award finalist, based on the strength of its literary merit and lasting importance!The Ocean is calling me. This is my Journey.With these words, in the spring of 2010, Susan Marie Conrad scaled her world down to an 18-foot sea kayak...
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I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the HolocaustWhat is death all about? What is life all about? So wonders thirteen-year-old Elli Friedmann as she fights for her life in a Nazi concentration camp. A remarkable memoir, I Have Lived a Thousand Years is a story of cruelty and suffering, but at...
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I Am Walt DisneyThe 18th picture book in the New York Times bestselling series of biographies about heroes tells the story of Walt Disney, who made dreams come true. This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great--the traits that kids can...
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I Am Jane GoodallThis tenth book in the New York Times bestselling biography series profiles Jane Goodall, the scientist and conservationist who is famous for her work with chimpanzees. After receiving a stuffed animal chimpanzee for her first birthday, Jane Goodall's love of animals only grew. She...
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How to Survive a Bear Attack: A Memoir*INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER* In this debut memoir from the bestselling author of The Bear and The Last Neanderthal, Claire Cameron confronts the rare genetic mutation that gave her cancer by investigating an equally rare and terrifying event--a predatory bear attack.When Claire Cameron was nine...
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How to Be an Antiracist#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a "groundbreaking" (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society--and in ourselves. "The most courageous book to date on the problem of...
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How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal MindFINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR NONFICTION - ONE OF TIME'S 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF THE YEAR - ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S CRITICS' PICKS - ONE OF THE BOSTON GLOBE'S 55 BOOKS WE LOVED THIS YEAR - ONE OF KIRKUS'S...
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Hound of the Sea: Wild Man. Wild Waves. Wild Wisdom.In this thrilling and candid memoir, world record-holding and controversial Big Wave surfer Garrett McNamara--star and subject of the HBO mini-series, 100 Foot Wave--chronicles his emotional quest to ride the most formidable waves on earth.Garrett McNamara set the world record for the sport, surfing...
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Home Sweet MurderAs seen on the Discovery ID TV series Murder is Forever, these two true-crime thrillers follow a lawyer struggling to stop a killer and a detective angling to solve a double homicide.Home Sweet Murder (with Andrew Bourelle): Lawyer Leo Fisher and his wife Sue...
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Hogs in the Sand: A Gulf War A-10 Pilot's Combat Journal"I am awed by my destructive power. With a small squeeze of the gun trigger under my right index finger, I can rip the turret off a thirty-ton battle tank and throw it 200 feet across the desert, while the rest of the tank...
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Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties, and the Making of Wallis SimpsonNew York Times bestselling author Paul French examines a controversial and revealing period in the early life of the legendary Wallis, Duchess of Windsor-her one year in China.Before she was the Duchess of Windsor, Bessie Wallis Warfield was Mrs. Wallis Spencer, wife of Earl...
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