Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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The Running of the BeesIn the beautiful mountains of Georgia, a special family called the Dumbadzes welcomes spring with open arms. They live on a farm bursting with life, where flowers bloom, fruit trees sway, and honeybees buzz with excitement.Every spring, something magical happens: the bees go on...
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The Real Sin?ad O'ConnorSin?ad O'Connor, renowned for her angelic voice and activism, overcame a tumultuous upbringing to become a global protest singer and advocate for social justice.Sin?ad O'Connor achieved worldwide success as an angel-voiced, shaven-headed Irish singer of heartfelt songs, but she was far more than just...
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The Power of the Vote: Electing Presidents, Overthrowing Dictators, and Promoting Democracy Around the WorldOne of the Democratic Party's most successful strategists tells the inside stories of his most dramatic victories and failures, while illustrating how technology and politics merged to change the political process in America.For the last 30 years, Douglas E. Schoen has been one of...
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The Phantom Vietnam War: An F-4 Pilot's Combat Over Laos Volume 12David R. "Buff" Honodel was a cocky young man with an inflated self-image when he arrived in 1969 at his base in Udorn, Thailand. His war was not in Vietnam; it was a secret one in the skies of a neighboring country almost unknown...
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The Perfect Horse: The Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the NazisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of The Ride of Her Life and The Eighty-Dollar Champion comes the "winningly readable" (The Christian Science Monitor) true story of the heroic rescue of priceless horses in the closing days of World War II. "Hard...
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The Missing Kennedy: Rosemary Kennedy and the Secret Bonds of Four WomenRosemary Kennedy, younger sister of President John F. Kennedy, was lobotomized in 1941 at age 23. In 1959, she was put out of public view at a remote facility in rural Wisconsin, where, for more than twenty years, she remained unvisited by family and...
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THE MEMOIR OF A Cold War CommunicatorIn June 1961, author William C. Burk graduated from Milford High School, Milford, Delaware, with 130 other students. He joined the Navy in July at Philadelphia and took his first airplane ride to Great Lakes Recruiting Center for thirteen weeks of boot camp, during...
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The Long Way Home: The Travel Memoirs of Callan PinckneyEmbark on an unforgettable journey through the eyes of a passionate wanderer. Callan Pinckney - founder of the Callanetics fitness method - invites you to travel the globe alongside her, sharing tales of stunning landscapes, vibrant cultures, and the profound connections forged along the...
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The Little Book of Cults: A Pocket Guide to the World's Most Notorious CultsExplore the chilling world of cults, from manipulation to murder, in this gripping pocket guide From brainwashing and blackmail to manipulation and murder, explore the terrifying world of cults in this pocket guide The strange and disturbing world of cults is fascinating and horrifying...
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The Life of a Romanian WWI Prisoner of War: A War JournalReaders today are watching the voices of those who endured the First and Second World Wars diminish or disappear, unheard, altogether. To preserve, illuminate, and share her great-grandfather's memories for future generations, Emma Dirk has translated his over 100-year-old journal and compiled those entries...
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The Last EsseneThe Last Essene is a story of historical and personal enlightenment. It details the author's experience in past-life regression, uncovering details of a little-understood period of history (1st-2nd centuries, CE, and their growing Jewish-Christian split), correlating this with his progress as an adoptee and...
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The Journey of My Life Finding the American DreamWe all know that it is the dream of every young Nigerian man to make it in life regardless of what it costs him. This book depicts just the level they can go to get rich so as to get out of that horrific...
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The JFK Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy--And Why It FailedFrom the New York Times bestselling authors of The Nazi Conspiracy and The Lincoln Conspiracy comes a true, little-known story about the first assassination attempt on John F. Kennedy, right before his inauguration. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth president of the United States, is often ranked...
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The Intoku Code: Delta Force's Intelligence Officer--Doing Good in Secret"If one aspires to live a noble and meaningful life, you'll find an exemplar here. Of the many marvelous American traits, Ish's notion of 'Intoku' or "good done in secret" is the answer to so many of our current challenges as families, communities and...
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The Inside Story of Viz: Rude KidsThis is the straight-talking, fascinating story of Viz magazine, founded in 1979 by Chris Donald - editor until 1999. Chris tells the remarkable story of the magazine, from the tatty rag produced in his Newcastle bedroom to becoming one of the bestselling magazines in...
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The Impossible DreamRacism and healthcare disparities have always been a problem in the black community, especially small country towns. This book illustrates how a poor Black boy at the age of twelve watched his mother almost die from the lack of adequate health care from a...
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The House of Barnes: The Man, the Collection, the ControversyThe life and times of extraordinary Philadelphia art collector Albert C. Barnes Philadelphia art collector Albert C. Barnes (1872-1951) is renowned today for collecting many of the world's most important impressionist, post-impressionist, and modern paintings, and displaying them alongside African masks, Native American jewelry,...
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The Great Napoleon for ChildrenOriginally published in 1893, The Great Napoleon for Children is a gripping, colorful account of the life of one of the brightest minds in military history. The original ornate illustrations of the magnificent Napoleon Bonaparte spill across nearly fifty pages, covering the events from...
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The Godfather of PokerFascinating true-life adventure of an American treasure, a man who bluffed death, survived the mean streets of Fort Worth and mob-run Las Vegas, and bet millions of dollars on everything from poker to golf, to become a two-time world champion poker player. The story...
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The Gloomy Girl Variety Show: A MemoirMerging memoir, poetry, and criticism, this radical literary revue traces a first-generation Nigerian American's search for home and belonging on her own terms.In The Gloomy Girl Variety Show, Freda Epum explores the opposing forces of her "no-place, no-where" identity as a Nigerian American daughter,...
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