Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Genghis Khan and the Quest for God: How the World's Greatest Conqueror Gave Us Religious FreedomThe conquests of the Mongols were arguably the most important event of the last millennium in Eurasia. Yet Genghis Khan has remained an opaque and enigmatic figure, a symbol of cruelty and little else. Jack Weatherford has peeled back the curtain and revealed a...
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The Book of Possibilities: Words of Wisdom on the Road to BecomingBee Quammie invites women and girls everywhere to embrace the power of possibility in this intimate and empowering collection. A successful Black woman in media, Bee Quammie often finds herself being cast as a role model for young women--and especially Black women and other...
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Tim - The Official Biography of AviciiThe intimate biography of the iconic DJ who was lost too soon. Tim Bergling was a musical visionary who, through his sense for melodies, came to define the era when Swedish and European house music took over the world. But Tim Bergling was also...
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Let's Meet Harry: Story of the Superstar Harry StylesHarry Styles fans, this is the perfect book for you! It's time to find out all about your favorite megastar. . . Let's Meet Harry. With this bright and colorful story book, you can follow Harry's journey from television talent show contestant to pop...
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Alanis: Thirty Years of Jagged Little PillCelebrate three decades of the ground-breaking album Jagged Little Pill with this stunning volume featuring photos, interviews, insightful analysis, and celebrity quotes. On June 13, 1995, 21-year-old Alanis Morissette released Jagged Little Pill, an existential awakening of sexuality, a rail against sexism, and a...
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Ho CHI Minh: A LifeTo grasp the complicated causes and consequences of the Vietnam War, one must understand the extraordinary life of Ho Chi Minh, the man generally recognized as the father of modern Vietnam. Duiker provides startling insights into Ho's true motivation, as well as into the...
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The Tender Bar: A MemoirNow a major Amazon film directed by George Clooney and starring Ben Affleck, Tye Sheridan, Lily Rabe, and Christopher Lloyd, a raucous, poignant, luminously written memoir about a boy striving to become a man, and his romance with a bar, in the tradition of...
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The Face of WarA reissue, with a new introduction by Flâneuse author Lauren Elkin, of Martha Gellhorn's enduring collection of war reportage, The Face of WarAuthor: Martha GellhornPublisher: Grove PressPublished: 10/16/2018Pages: 352Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.60dISBN: 9780802128744About the AuthorMartha Gellhorn (1908-1998) was born...
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The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance"A marvel of storytelling and a master class in the history of the book"--Ernest Hilbert, Wall Street JournalThe bestselling author of Brunelleschi's Dome and Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling captures the excitement and spirit of the Renaissance in this chronicle of the life and...
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A. Lincoln: A Biography"If you read one book about Lincoln, make it A. Lincoln."--USA TodayNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Washington Post - The Philadelphia Inquirer - The Christian Science Monitor - St. Louis Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER...
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Nirvana's in UteroThough Nevermind was Nirvana's most commercially successful album, and the record that broke them - and the grunge phenomenon - internationally, In Utero has increasingly become regarded as the band's best album, both by the critics and the band members themselves. Instead of sticking...
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Memoirs of My Nervous IllnessIn 1884, the distinguished German jurist Daniel Paul Schreber suffered the first of a series of mental collapses that would afflict him for the rest of his life. In his madness, the world was revealed to him as an enormous architecture of nerves, dominated...
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Monkee Business: The Revolutionary Made-For-TV BandThe Monkees had everything-a popular TV show, hit records, and adoring fans. Everything but control over their careers. Author Eric Lefcowitz chronicles the kaleidoscopic journey of Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork, following each of the four Monkees, together and apart,...
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Amazing Leonardo Da Vinci Inventions: You Can Build YourselfAmazing Leonardo da Vinci Inventions You Can Build Yourself introduces readers to the life, world, and incredible mind of Leonardo da Vinci through hands-on building projects that explore his invention ideas. Most of Leonardo's inventions were never made in his lifetime--they remained sketches in...
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Tango Mike Mike: The Story of Master Sergeant Roy P. BenavidezThis is the perfect children's book and a short read (32 pages long) filled with family photos. Kids will gain a basic understanding of Tango Mike Mike ... the soldier, the father, the Legend.Author: Yvette Benavidez GarciaPublisher: Yvette Benavidez GarciaPublished: 09/08/2017Pages: 32Binding Type: HardcoverWeight:...
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The Vinyl Diaries: Sex, Deep Cuts, and My Soundtrack to Queer JoyA poignant, funny, and lively memoir of sexual awakening, music, and discovering one's true self. Pete Crighton came of age in the early/mid 1980s in the shadow of HIV/AIDS. Growing up in Toronto, he was terrified that his friends and schoolmates would find out...
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Dream March: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the March on WashingtonIntroduce children to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights movement, and the historic march on Washington with this inspiring biography! Young readers can now learn about one of the greatest civil rights leaders of all time, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in...
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Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain SurgeryNamed a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review and The Washington Post What is it like to be a brain surgeon? How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cut into the stuff that...
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Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier's First GunfighterThe definitive true story of Wild Bill, the first lawman of the Wild West, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City. In July 1865, "Wild Bill" Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt in Springfield, MO--the first quick-draw duel on the...
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Messi: The Must-Read Biography of the World Cup Champion'I have seen the player who will inherit my place in Argentine football and his name is Messi' Diego Maradona FULLY UPDATED TO INCLUDE THE 2022 WORLD CUP TRIUMPH & MESSI'S TRANSFER TO INTER MIAMI As Lionel Messi raised the World Cup triumphantly into...
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