Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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The Operator: Firing the Shots That Killed Osama Bin Laden and My Years as a Seal Team WarriorThis instant New York Times bestseller--"a jaw-dropping, fast-paced account" (New York Post) recounts SEAL Team Operator Robert O'Neill's incredible four-hundred-mission career, including the attempts to rescue "Lone Survivor" Marcus Luttrell and abducted-by-Somali-pirates Captain Richard Phillips, and which culminated in the historic raid that led...
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The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to ReadImagine learning to read at the age of 116! Discover the true story of Mary Walker, the nation's oldest student who did just that, in this picture book from a Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator and a rising star author. In 1848, Mary Walker was born...
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The Last Days of Socrates: Euthyphro; Apology; Crito; PhaedoThe trial and death of Socrates (469-399 BCE) have almost as central a place in Western consciousness as the trial and death of Jesus. In four superb dialogues, Plato provides the classic account. Euthyphro finds Socrates outside the court-house, debating the nature of piety,...
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The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation's Largest HomeA New York Times bestseller with an "engaging narrative and array of detail" (The Wall Street Journal), the "intimate and sweeping" (Raleigh News & Observer) untold, true story behind the Biltmore Estate--the largest, grandest private residence in North America, which has seen more than...
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The Last Boy in Auschwitz: A WW2 Jewish Holocaust Survival True StoryMeeting his brother in Auschwitz, he understood that they are all aloneA young boy's world falls apart! He can trust no one and does not know what his tomorrow holds or if he will live to see it.Poland 1944, Mjetek finds himself in Auschwitz...
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The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature"In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. All of these hues are me; I am, in the deepest sense, colored." From these fertile soils of love, land, identity, family, and race emerges...
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The History of World War II: A Graphic Novel Retelling of the 20th Century's Defining WarA massive and lushly illustrated graphic novel on World War II that looks through the eyes of major players such as Winston Churchill, Josef Stalin, Adolf Hitler, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt In 20 captivating chapters, interspersed with informative chapter openers as well as a...
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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American FamilyThis epic work--named a best book of the year by the Washington Post, Time, the Los Angeles Times, Amazon, the San Francisco Chronicle, and a notable book by the New York Times--tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third...
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The Greatest American: Benjamin Franklin, the World's Most Versatile Genius"I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to have been born two or three centuries hence." -- Ben Franklin Was Benjamin Franklin an indispensable public servant or a cunning chameleon? A hard-headed entrepreneur or an opportunistic privateer? A devoted family man...
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The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America's Judicial HeroThe "superb" (The Guardian) biography of an American who stood against all the forces of Gilded Age America to fight for civil rights and economic freedom: Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan. They say that history is written by the victors. But not in...
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The Girl Who Thought in Pictures: The Story of Dr. Temple GrandinNSTA Best STEM Books for K-12 SelectionNSTA Outstanding Science Trade Books SelectionDolly Gray Children's Literature Award RecipientA Mighty Girl Book of the Year If you've ever felt different, if you've ever been low, if you don't quite fit in, there's a name you should...
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The Girl in the LeavesThe shocking true crime story of one of the most bizarre mass murders ever recorded--and the girl who escaped with her life. In the fall of 2010, in the all-American town of Apple Valley, Ohio, four people disappeared without a trace: Stephanie Sprang; her...
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The Gender Binary Is a Big Lie: Infinite Identities Around the WorldWhat if you discovered that the whole concept of a gender binary is an illusion? While many people identify as men or women, that is not all there is. The idea that all humans fall into one of two gender categories is largely a...
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The GameWidely acknowledged as the best hockey book ever written and lauded by Sports Illustrated as one of the Top 10 Sports Books of All Time, The Game is a reflective and thought-provoking look at a life in hockey. Ken Dryden, the former Montreal Canadiens...
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The Evin Prison Bakers' Club: Surviving Iran's Most Notorious Prisons in 16 Recipes16 recipes testifying to the sisterhood and solidarity forged in the most notorious prisons in Iran 'A remarkable testimony to women's bravery, compassion and solidarity in the harshest of conditions... Think Nigella crossed with Nelson Mandela.' SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE WEEK 'A fighting...
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The Education of Henry Adams: An AutobiographySelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time 'I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams, ' said Gore Vidal. 'He was remarkably prescient about the coming horrors.' His political ideals shaped by...
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The Dirt Beneath Our Door: My Journey to Freedom After Escaping a Polygamous Mormon Cult"Jones' remarkable story is impossible to put down." --Booklist "Shocking, sad and hopeful." --The Minneapolis Star Tribune "This gripping story of survival, resilience, and hope is one I will not soon forget." --Ruth Wariner, New York Times Bestselling Author, The Sound of Gravel For...
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The Diary of a Young GirlThe Diary of a Young Girl started two days before Anne Frank's thirteenth birthday. In 1942, the Nazis had occupied Holland, and her family left their home to go into hiding, as they were Jews. Anne Frank recorded daily events, her personal experiences and...
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The Devil in the Kitchen: Sex, Pain, Madness, and the Making of a Great ChefAn exhilarating memoir from the original "bad boy" of cooking and a thrilling look behind the doors of a 3-star kitchen. Without question, the original rock-star chef is Marco Pierre White. Anyone with even a passing interest in the food world knows White is...
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The Devil Finds Work: An EssayFrom "the best essayist in this country" (The New York Times Book Review) comes an incisive book-length essay about racism in American movies that challenges the underlying assumptions in many of the films that have shaped our consciousness. Baldwin's personal reflections on movies gathered...
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