Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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My Choice To Choose: A MemoirMy Choice to Choose is a compelling testament to the transformative power of intentional decisions and resilience. Christina S. Johnson shares a raw and honest account of overcoming adversity, from a challenging origin story shaped by systemic disadvantages and generational struggles to pivotal moments...
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My Circus, My Monkeys: Reflections on an Interesting LifeI selected my first college by virtue of it's proximity to my duck hunting fields. I was promptly kicked out of that school, and enjoyed a brief and aborted naval career. After serving a year of exile at a junior college, I entered the...
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My Bondage and My Freedom (Royal Collector's Edition) (Annotated) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)My Bondage and My Freedom is an autobiographical slave narrative published in 1855. It is an expansion of Douglass' first autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, that discusses in greater detail his transition from bondage to liberty. Following this liberation, Douglass went...
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Murder for Hire: My Life as the Country's Most Successful Undercover AgentAfter joining the Phoenix Police Department in 1978, Jack Ballentine quickly rose to the top as one of the nation's most successful undercover operatives. His specialty: posing as a hit man. Ballentine led a schizophrenic life, changing assumed identities at the drop of a...
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M?tis Matriarchs: Agents of TransitionExplores the integral roles that M?tis women assumed to ensure the survival of their communities during the fur trade era and onward M?tis Matriarchs examines the roles of prominent M?tis women from across Western Canada from the late 19th to the mid-20th century, providing...
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MovementsThese poems tell their stories with the pulsing language of music-which is also the language of silence and held breath-pressing their ears to all that is miraculous and mundane. Here, the resonant strings of song, love, and faith harmonize into one brilliant chord pulling...
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Mountain Man: The Life of a Guide OutfitterLife was one big adventure for Hiram Cody Tegart. At times unbelievable and others just downright impressive, Mountain Man is the celebration of a legend of a man and a legendary way of life that is quickly disappearing. Cody was born in 1950 on...
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Mother, Nature: A 5,000-Mile Journey to Discover if a Mother and Son Can Survive Their DifferencesNATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the author of To Shake the Sleeping Self . . . "Exquisitely written and completely compelling . . . As Jedidiah Jenkins traces a 5,000-mile route with his wildly entertaining mother, Barb, he begins to untangle the live wires of...
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Moments of Reprieve: A Memoir of Auschwitz"He is our Dante . . . writing a modern masterpiece about his journey into Hell . . . that is] unique in the literature of the Holocaust." --USA Today A Penguin ClassicPrimo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from...
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Mind of a Mixed StateHave you or anyone you've known suffered through the depth of depression or mania? What about both at the same time? Mind of a Mixed State follows the thoughts and emotional tribulations of a young woman riding the waves of a severe Bipolar mixed...
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Melania Trump: Everything you ever wanted to know about America's future first ladyThe 2016 Presidential campaign candidate Donald J. Trump never fails to make big headlines. However, his attractive wife Melania Trump isn't too far behind. She recently came into the spotlight through her speech at the Republican National Convention. She has won the heart of...
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Medieval WomenReveals extraordinary medieval women, from famous figures to forgotten Jewish businesswomen, Crusader Queens, mystics, and more, offering a rich historical tapestry.A jewel of a book, this latest release from one of Pen & Sword's women historians, contains a treasure trove of medieval dramatis personae,...
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Mayflower Fullers in Nunda, New York: Joshua Fuller and His Descendants, 1833 - 1932The Mayflower Fullers in Nunda, New York, is a historical account of the Fuller family in Nunda, who were direct descendants of Edward Fuller. Edward arrived in the "New World" aboard the Mayflower in the fall of 1620.The Township and Village of Nunda, New...
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Markus Barth: His Life and LegacyA Definitive Biography of the Twentieth-Century Thinker"Certainly, in all my work my dependence upon my father will be visible, and, so I hope, a testimony to his life's work will be given. But on the whole, I have never attempted simply to represent or...
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Making It Home: My year as a middle-aged runawayHave you ever wanted to "run away" for a while? Where would you go? How would you live life differently? In the year she turned 50, Liz Moore acted on a long-time daydream. She loaded up her car and left home for a year....
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Love Wins: A True Story of Tragedy, Heroes, and Healing in Small town MontanaWhen the unfathomable occurs, survival depends upon living among people who care.Ennis, Montana - Population 864. On an early summer night in 2003, a group of young friends in a small Montana town gathered for a night out. But their summer celebration soon turned...
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Love Letters from Heartbreak RidgeFor more than seventy years, a tattered box tied with lace ribbon, yellowed with age, had been tucked away, untouched and unknown to anyone but the long-deceased recipient and owner of that box my mother. As I carefully opened the box, I discovered not...
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Love, Joe: The Selected Letters of Joe BrainardAn artist and writer whose charming and inventive works are at once modest and ambitious, Joe Brainard was one of the most distinctive figures on New York City's vibrant cultural scene in the 1960s and 1970s. Widely known for his influential experimental memoir, I...
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Lincoln's Conservative Advisor: Attorney General Edward BatesHow a traditionalist became part of Lincoln's volatile team of rivals Edward Bates, a founding father of Missouri and leader of the Missouri Whig Party, served as Abraham Lincoln's attorney general during the American Civil War. The first full biography of Bates in nearly...
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Life Beyond the Scars: Finding Hope in TragedyHow will you respond when tragedy strikes? When life-altering tragedy strikes, it leaves us reeling in emotional or physical pain. So how do we get through it? More importantly, how do we move beyond simply surviving the storm to growing stronger because of it?...
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