Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Moving Through Life: Essential Lessons of DanceA story of resilience, joyful creativity, and the empowering potential of dance Moving through Life traces the journey of influential dancer, teacher, and choreographer Naomi Goldberg Haas. Sharing her lifelong love of movement, her experiences as a dancer with chronic health conditions, and accessible...
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My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol FlynnKnown to millions as the preeminent swashbuckler of the silver screen, Errol Flynn was a complex man who lived a life far more adventurous than any of his films. In My Wicked, Wicked Ways, Flynn reveals himself to be a self-aware and cosmopolitan devotee...
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My Withered Legs and Other EssaysMy Withered Legs and Other Essays is a collection of personal essays by Sandra Gail Lambert that reflects upon her experience becoming a writer alongside discussions of disability, queerness, and aging. A seventy-year history of disability is threaded throughout these essays and intertwined with...
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Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia JonesIn Left of Karl Marx, Carole Boyce Davies assesses the activism, writing, and legacy of Claudia Jones (1915-1964), a pioneering Afro-Caribbean radical intellectual, dedicated communist, and feminist. Jones is buried in London's Highgate Cemetery, to the left of Karl Marx-a location that Boyce Davies...
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Rajarsi Janakananda (James J. Lynn): A Great Western YogiAuthor: Self-Realization FellowshipPublisher: Self-Realization Fellowship PublishersPublished: 01/01/1996Pages: 187Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 7.78h x 6.48w x 0.37dISBN: 9780876120194
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A Child of Hitler: Germany in the Days When God Wore a SwastikaIn this starkly candid account of one boy's indoctrination into the Hitler Youth, we see a side of Nazism that has been little recorded. This autobiographical account is a rare glimpse at World War II from a German boy's viewpoint.Author: Alfons HeckPublisher: Primer PublishersPublished:...
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The YosemiteIn the classic nature work, The Yosemite, the great American naturalist, John Muir, describes the Yosemite valley's geography and the myriad types of trees, flowers, birds, and other animals that can be found there.The Yosemite is among the finest examples of John Muir nature...
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Homicide at Rough PointPeter Lance, author of HOMICIDE AT ROUGH POINT, debunks Doris Duke's claim that she accidentally killed Eduardo Tirella. - NY PostIn the fall of 1966, Eduardo Tirella, close confidant of billionaire Doris Duke, informed the possessive and vindictive heiress that he was leaving her...
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Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement (Caldecott Honor Book)A Caldecott-honor winning picture book biography of the mother of Emmett Till, and how she channeled grief over her son's death into a call to action for the civil rights movement.Mamie Till-Mobley is the mother of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old boy who was brutally...
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The Art of Clear Thinking: A Stealth Fighter Pilot's Timeless Rules for Making Tough DecisionsTHE #2 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER Based on a career of making high-stakes, split-second decisions as a U.S. fighter pilot, The Art of Clear Thinking teaches readers to apply Hasard Lee's combat-tested techniques in everyday life. The training to become a fighter pilot is...
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Epic Athletes: Simone BilesHeading into the 2024 Olympics, in which Simon Biles makes her triumphant return, celebrated sports journalist Dan Wetzel scores a perfect ten with this uplifting young reader's biography of the gold medal gymnast! Featuring comic-style illustrations from Marcelo Baez! For nearly a decade, Simone...
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Free LunchInstead of giving him lunch money, Rex's mom has signed him up for free meals. As a poor kid in a wealthy school district, better-off kids crowd impatiently behind him as he tries to explain to the cashier that he's on the free meal...
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Razor 03: A Night Stalker's Wars"A truly extraordinary book by a phenomenal pilot and warrior. Alan Mack was in the thick of every sensitive, harrowing, high-stakes operation in the decade following 9/11. His account of combat from the cockpit of the world's most exceptional special ops aviation unit and...
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The Senior: My Amazing Year as a 59-Year-Old College Football LinebackerIt's Never Too Late to Tackle Your Dreams!Mike Flynt was swapping stories with some old football buddies when he brought up the biggest regret of his life: getting kicked off the college team before his senior year. So, one of his pals said, "Why...
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Benjamin Franklin's Book of VirtuesDiscover Benjamin Franklin's Blueprint for Living a Moral LifeThis pocket-sized hardcover edition contains all thirteen moral virtues as Benjamin Franklin wrote them in his memoirs, first posthumously published in 1791. In the heart of this larger work, today known as The Autobiography of Benjamin...
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Simple Dreams: A Musical MemoirIn this memoir, iconic singer Linda Ronstadt weaves together a captivating story of her origins in Tucson, Arizona, and her rise to stardom in the Southern California music scene of the 1960s and '70s. Tracing the timeline of her remarkable life, Linda Ronstadt, whose...
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House of Diggs: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Consequential Black Congressman, Charles C. Diggs Jr.At the height of the civil rights movement, Charles C. Diggs Jr. (1922-1998) was the consummate power broker. In a political career spanning 1951 to 1980, Diggs, Michigan's first Black member of Congress, was the only federal official to attend the trial of Emmett...
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Lucky 666: The Impossible Mission That Changed the War in the Pacific"A fast-paced, well-researched...irresistible" (USA TODAY) World War II aviation account of friendship, heroism, and sacrifice that reads like Unbroken meets The Dirty Dozen from the authors of the #1 New York Times bestselling The Heart of Everything That Is. It's 1942, just after the...
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Life in Motion: An Unlikely BallerinaDetermination meets dance in this prizewinning and New York Times bestselling memoir by the history-making ballerina Misty Copeland, vividly recounting the story of her journey to become the first African American female principal ballerina at the prestigious American Ballet Theatre. When she first placed...
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Mommie DearestThe 40th anniversary edition of the "shocking" #1 New York Times bestseller with an exclusive new introduction by the author (Los Angeles Times). When Christina Crawford's harrowing chronicle of child abuse was first published in 1978, it brought global attention to the previously closeted...
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