Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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The Walter and Eleanor Gillen Story: As Told By Their ChildrenThe Walter and Eleanor Gillen story is an account of daily life in a large family raised on a farm in the Midwest during the sixties, and the trials and tribulations that led to their individual success.The youngest of nine children, Walter was born...
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Each Step I TakeJust when I was at one of my lowest points in life and thought I could not lose weight, God spoke to me through a morning prayer, and this is the reason I have written my book, Each Step I Take. God, you have...
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Viên Sỏi TrắngTrung Tâm Nghiên Cứu Việt - Mỹ hân hạnh chủ trì việc dịch thuật từ tiếng Pháp và ấn hành di cảo "Viên Sỏi Trắng" của bà Ngô-Đình Nhu (nhũ danh Trần Lệ Xuân), đượcviết vào những năm cuối đời của bà. Kèm theo...
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CHARLENE - In Search of a princessWhen Charlene Wittstock married Prince Albert of Monaco in a star-studded wedding watched by millions across the world in 2011, rumours of her getting cold feet and her unhappiness about his love children swirled around the couple.Ever since then, the statuesque Olympic swimmer has...
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The Little Dark One: A True Story of Switched at BirthImagine feeling like you never belonged or didn't know who you were. That's precisely what happened to me. My life was flipped upside down on the eve of my 43rd birthday. My life would never be the same. I had wondered about it since...
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The Life of a LinemanThe Life of a Lineman shares the life of a young man with only a high school education who served his country and then transitioned into the fascinating world of electrical powerline work. This book provides stories from an era gone by in the...
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American Grunt: Ridiculous Stories of a Life Lived at $8.00 an HourWorking dead-end blue-collar jobs your whole life can take a dramatic physical and emotional toll-unless you learn to embrace the absurdity. Kevin Cramer has almost died at work three separate times, surviving each incident only through a minor miracle. It got him asking the...
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The Little Dark One: A True Story of Switched at BirthHave you ever felt like you didn't belong? Imagine not knowing who you really are. That was my reality when everything I knew about myself was ripped away. My life was flipped upside down on April 7, 2001, one day before my forty-third birthday....
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The Adventure of a LifetimeI'm hoping to inspire readers to get out and see the wonders we have all around us.The encounters of my adventures and experiences just show that age and determination have no boundaries. This true story shows only a glimpse of what this world has...
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Being Elisabeth Elliot: The Authorized Biography: Elisabeth's Later YearsElisabeth Elliot was a young missionary in Ecuador when members of a remote Amazonian indigenous people group killed her husband Jim and his four colleagues. And yet, she stayed in the jungle with her young daughter to minister to the very people who had...
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Mormonism, the Matrix, and Me: My Journey from Kolob to CalvaryTracy Tennant's compelling and inspirational account of raising and homeschooling ten children as a devout Mormon mother. Her story provides insight into Mormon lifestyle, practices, and beliefs. Her life as a Latter-day Saint was rich with humor and drama, as well as the mundane...
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King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding FatherA rollicking portrait of the paradoxical patriot, whose measured pragmatism helped make American independence a reality. Americans are surprisingly more familiar with his famous signature than with the man himself. In this spirited account of John Hancock's life, Brooke Barbier depicts a patriot of...
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Nietzsche: Volumes Three and Four: Volumes Three and FourA landmark discussion between two great thinkers--the second (combining volumes III and IV) of two volumes inquiring into the central issues of Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy.Author: Martin HeideggerPublisher: HarperOnePublished: 03/01/1991Pages: 608Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.52lbsSize: 8.51h x 5.30w x 1.36dISBN: 9780060637941About the AuthorHeidegger, Martin: - Martin...
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EllasAfter years and, in some cases, centuries, a book finally arrives that gives protagonism and credit to the incredible women who forged their own paths throughout Puerto Rican history. ELLAS is a book that was completely created by Puerto Rican women so that children...
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Northern Lights: A History of the Arctic ScotsIn the tradition of Arthur Herman's How the Scots Invented the Modern World comes a narrative that charts the remarkable--yet often overlooked or misidentified--Scottish contribution to Arctic exploration The search for the Northwest Passage is filled with stories of tragedy, adventure, courage, and endurance....
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The Stuff of Life'An old teapot, used daily, can tell me more of my past than anything I recorded of it.' Sylvia Townsend Warner There are many ways of telling the story of a life and how we've got to where we are. The questions of why...
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17 and LifeIn April 1983, Upland High School senior Anna Marie Bachoc was brutally murdered by her boyfriend, sending waves of shock and disbelief through the quiet city that had branded itself "the city of gracious living." 17 & Life is a meditation on her life,...
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A Sweet Spot Called Home: Oakvale, WV: How We Lived and Why It MattersCarl Boggess Honaker's thoughtful, playful, and at times transcendent memoir gives readers a delightfully vivid and nostalgic picture of life growing up in the lively Honaker family in Oakvale, West Virginia, during the 1930s. He includes tidbits of natural history, old-fashioned farming, one-room school...
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A Life Begun on Third BaseAfter growing up in a world surrounded by icons of mid-century professional sports, John S. Martin Jr. enjoyed a legal career that spanned almost six decades and over that time he touched many of the most prominent events in national and New York City...
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Life's Too Short to Go So F*cking Slow: Lessons from an Epic Friendship That Went the DistanceSusan and Carlos were unlikely friends. She was a young, overweight college professor and a bit of a trainwreck--juggling a divorce, a pack-a-day habit, and hiding empty boxes of wine under her bed. He was her boss, an Ironman triathlete, with life figured out....
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