Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Ablaze with Color: A Story of Painter Alma ThomasCelebrate the life-changing power of art in this inspiring and stunningly illustrated picture book biography of American artist Alma Thomas.Meet an incredible woman who broke down barriers throughout her whole life and is now known as one of the most preeminent painters of the...
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101 Black Inventors and their InventionsCome and meet 101 of the world's greatest Black inventors ranging from superb scientists to incredible innovators to exciting entrepreneurs who changed the face of technology and design! 101 Black Inventors and their Inventions introduces you to 101 groundbreaking historical and modern-day Black inventors.This...
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100 First Words for Little CaliforniansCruising down the 5, rocking our Levis, and sipping a Cactus Cooler, we're Californians, fosho. But, like, how do we pass these big California vibes on to baby? Eureka! Introducing 100 First Words for Little Californians, a state primer for kids learning their first...
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Young Water Protectors: A Story About Standing RockAt just 8 years old, Aslan arrived in North Dakota with a powerful mission: to stand up against a pipeline that threatened his people's land and water.What began as a quiet act of resistance soon captured the world's attention. This is the story of...
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You Can't Make This Stuff UpI've been collecting these stories for years. Then I started telling them. Now I'm writing them down. They come from almost 60 years of being a large animal vet driving around countless country roads caring for large animals. Some even come from earlier times...
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Year of the Tiger: An Activist's LifeNATIONAL BESTSELLER - ONE OF USA TODAY'S MUST-READ BOOKS - This groundbreaking memoir offers a glimpse into an activist's journey to finding and cultivating community and the continued fight for disability justice, from the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project "Alice Wong...
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WoolgatheringThe National Book Award-winner Patti Smith updates her treasure box of a childhood memoir about "clear unspeakable joy" and "just the wish to know" with a radiant new afterword, written during the pandemic and reflecting on current times. This expanded paperback edition also includes...
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Woodrow Wilson: The Light WithdrawnAn "assiduously researched" (The Wall Street Journal), "powerful...dispassionate new biography" (The Christian Science Monitor) of Woodrow Wilson, focused on his role in the long national struggle for racial equality and women's voting rights. More than a century after his death, Woodrow Wilson's influence on...
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Wise GuyNicholas Pileggi's vivid, unvarnished, journalistic chronicle of the life of Henry Hill--the working-class Brooklyn kid who knew from age twelve that "to be a wiseguy was to own the world," who grew up to live the highs and lows of the mafia gangster's life--has...
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Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing WomenAnnabel Abbs-Streets's Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women is a beautifully written meditation on connecting with the outdoors through the simple act of walking. In captivating and elegant prose, Abbs-Streets's follows in the footsteps of women who boldly reclaimed wild landscapes for themselves,...
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William KamkwambaDiscover the life of William Kamkwamba, the Malawian inventor and engineer, who overcame poverty and famine to build windmills from recycled materials that brought electricity to his village.Little William grew up in a small village in Malawi. His parents were farmers, so every day...
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Who Was John Lewis?Learn about the incredible legacy of civil rights legend and Georgia congressman John Lewis in this inspiring addition to the #1 New York Times Best-Selling series. Starting in the 1960s, John Lewis began his activism alongside civil rights legend and good friend Martin Luther...
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Who Was Jimmy Carter?How did a peanut farmer from a small town in Georgia become the 39th President of the United States? Find out in this addition to the #1 New York Times best-selling Who Was? series! Everyone was rather surprised when small-town farmer Jimmy Carter first...
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Who Was Galileo?Like Michelangelo, Galileo is another Renaissance great known just by his first name--a name that is synonymous with scientific achievement. Born in Pisa, Italy, in the sixteenth century, Galileo contributed to the era's great rebirth of knowledge. He invented a telescope to observe the...
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Who Was Babe Ruth?Just in time for baseball season! Babe Ruth came from a poor Baltimore family and, as a kid, he was a handful. It was at a reform school that Babe discovered his talent for baseball, and by the age of nineteen, he was on...
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Who Was Alexander Hamilton?Read the story of the Founding Father who inspired the smash Broadway musical. Born in the British West Indies and orphaned as a child, Alexander Hamilton made his way to the American Colonies and studied to become a lawyer. He joined a local militia...
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Who Is Sonia Sotomayor?The truly inspiring story of the first Latina Supreme Court Justice. Outspoken, energetic, and fun, Sonia Sotomayor has managed to turn every struggle in life into a triumph. Born in the Bronx to immigrant parents from Puerto Rico, Sonia found out at age nine...
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Who Is Lin-Manuel Miranda?Step into the spotlight with Lin-Manuel Miranda in this addition to the New York Times #1 Best-Selling series that explains how the Broadway legend got his start before Hamilton and Encanto! Born in New York to Puerto Rican parents, Lin-Manuel Miranda had a passion...
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Who I Always Was: A MemoirFor fans of Aftershocks and How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America, an affective and deeply honest memoir in essays that "asks the deepest questions of identity, of home, of belonging" (Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City). When...
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Where There's Hope: Healing, Moving Forward, and Never Giving UpElizabeth Smart follows up her #1 New York Times bestseller (October 2013), My Story--about being held in captivity as a teenager, and how she managed to survive--with a powerful and inspiring book about what it takes to overcome trauma, find the strength to move...
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