Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell*An Observer Best New Biographies of 2024*Celebrated NPR music critic Ann Powers explores the life and career of Joni Mitchell in a lyrical style as fascinating and ethereal as the songs of the artist herself."What you are about to read is not a standard...
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To Tell the TruthStanding alone against people who wanted me dead, people who had controlled me from infancy, I was terrified! My rescuer said, "You and Papa God are a majority. He is bigger than all of them!" Freedom was a battle that I had waged with...
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Total F*cking Godhead: The Biography of Chris Cornell"The new Chris Cornell biography is the book his legacy deserves." --Kerrang! "Reiff unearths plenty of unexpected details and novel anecdotes...but the book is perhaps most valuable for the way it rounds out and humanizes this man who managed to keep so many of...
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To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No RegretNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "With winning candor, Jedidiah Jenkins takes us with him as he bicycles across two continents and delves deeply into his own beautiful heart."--Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things On the eve of turning thirty, terrified of...
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To Die with Such Men: Frontline Stories from Ukraine's International LegionThis book is Black Hawk Down meets Enemy at the Gates meets Band of Brothers, and it's all true. It's about what happens when Western politicians carelessly assume we're living the 'end of history'--until the Great Game comes back, uglier and more callous than...
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This Is Rhythm: Ella Jenkins, Children's Music, and the Long Civil Rights MovementThe remarkable life story of Ella Jenkins, "The First Lady of Children's Music." Ella Jenkins was one of the most influential musicians of the twentieth century. Her songs "You'll Sing a Song and I'll Sing a Song" and "Who Fed the Chickens?" are classics...
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They Never Threw Anything Away, Memories of the Great Depression by Americans Who Lived ItThey Never Threw Anything AwayMemories of the Great Depression by Americans Who Lived ItThe parallels to the present are ominous: an international pandemic killing nearly 700,000 Americans, followed by a booming stock markets and political turmoil....then years of unimaginable misery for so many -...
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They Found the Secret: Twenty Lives That Reveal a Touch of EternityExplore the lives of twenty Christian figures whose powerful testimonies and lives of service will inspire you to embrace Christ as the secret to abundant living.Written by V. Raymond Edman, who is best remembered as the fourth president of Wheaton College in Illinois and...
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The Year of Magical ThinkingNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - A landmark work about grief, love, and survival from one of America's most iconic writersOne of The New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century - One of The Guardian's 100 Best...
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The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at the New YorkerFinalist for the Pulitzer PrizeFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award"Meticulously researched." --The New York Times "A first-rate biography." --Washington PostA lively and intimate biography of trailblazing and era-defining New Yorker editor Katharine S. White, who helped build the magazine's prestigious legacy and...
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The World According to Joan Didion**INDIE BESTSELLER**A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2023 by The Millions - B&N Best Books of 2023 - "Shaped by intellectual rigor and artistic grace ... McDonnell's portrait is vibrant, fluent, sensitive, and clarifying." -- Booklist, starred reviewAn intimate exploration of the life, craft, and...
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The Way of the Hermit: My Incredible 40 Years Living in the Wilderness*INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER*Subconsciously, I pressed myself into the loch's banks as that summer inched forward. We'd got off to a rocky beginning, but I started to see Treig in a different way. There was something about this land that told me just to hold on...
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The Way I AmChart topping-and headline-making-rap artist Eminem shares his private reflections, drawings, handwritten lyrics, and photographs in his New York Times bestseller The Way I Am Fiercely intelligent, relentlessly provocative, and prodigiously gifted, Eminem is known as much for his enigmatic persona as for being the...
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The Water Is Wide: A MemoirA "miraculous" (Newsweek) human drama, based on a true story, from the renowned author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini The island is nearly deserted, haunting, beautiful. Across a slip of ocean lies South Carolina. But for the handful of families...
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The Vertical Plane: The Mystery of the Dodleston Messages: Second EditionThe Mystery of the Dodleston Messages: A unique supernatural detective story.For a period of two years in the 1980s, Ken Webster found himself in the extraordinary position of corresponding directly with an individual who said they had lived on the site of his own...
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The Upcycled Self: A Memoir on the Art of Becoming Who We AreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "One of hip-hop's greatest MCs, unpacking his harrowing, remarkable journey in his own words, with enough insights for two lifetimes."--Lin-Manuel Miranda, award-winning songwriter, producer, director, and creator of In the Heights and Hamilton From one of our generation's most...
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The Tree of Life: An Expose of Physical RegenesisUnabridged edition to include: Introduction (What Jehovah, Eve, David & John say) Parts I (Wonders and Possibilities of the Human Body) II (The Bridge of Life) III (Optic Thalmus), and a Vision of Immortality at book's end -Author: George W. CareyPublisher: Merchant BooksPublished: 09/29/2013Pages:...
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The TalkNamed one of Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Best Books of 2023Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction 2024New York Public Library's Best New Comics of 2023 Top Ten Pick Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he...
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The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking HistoryA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOK - Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography The forgotten story of a pioneering group of five Black ballerinas and their fifty-year sisterhood, a legacy erased from history--until now. "This is the kind of...
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The Swamp Fox: How Francis Marion Saved the American RevolutionThis comprehensive biography of Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox, covers his famous wartime stories as well as a private side of him that has rarely been exploredIn the darkest days of the American Revolution, Francis Marion and his band of militia freedom fighters kept...
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