Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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How Angel Peterson Got His Name: And Other Outrageous Tales about Extreme SportsWHEN YOU GROW up in a small town in the north woods, you have to make your own excitement. High spirits, idiocy, and showing off for the girls inspire Gary Paulsen and his friends to attempt: - Shooting waterfalls in a barrel - The...
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Father Water, Mother Woods: Essays on Fishing and Hunting in the North WoodsSurvival in the wilderness--Gary Paulsen writes about it so powerfully in his novels Hatchet and The River because he's lived it. These essays recount his adventures alone and with friends, along the rivers and in the woods of northern Minnesota. There, fishing and hunting...
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Hitler's Forgotten Children: A True Story of the Lebensborn Program and One Woman's Search for Her Real IdentityHitler's Forgotten Children is both a harrowing personal memoir and a devastating investigation into the awful crimes and monstrous scope of the Lebensborn program in World War 2. Created by Heinrich Himmler, the Lebensborn program abducted as many as half a million children from...
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Goldie: A Lotus Grows in the MudIn this candid, insightful, and unconventional memoir, Goldie Hawn invites us to join her in an inspirational look back at the people, places, and events that have touched her. It is the spiritual journey of a heart in search of enlightenment. With her trademark...
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LindberghEven after twenty years, A. Scott Berg's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Charles Lindberg remains "the definitive account" of one of the 20th century's most extraordinary figures. Few American icons provoke more enduring fascination than Charles Lindbergh--renowned for his one-man transatlantic flight in 1927, remembered...
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The Seamstress: A Memoir of SurvivalFrom its opening pages, in which she recounts her own premature birth, triggered by terrifying rumors of an incipient pogrom, Bernstein' s tale is clearly not a typical memoir of the Holocaust. She was born into a large family in rural Romania...and grew up...
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Beauty in the Broken Places: A Memoir of Love, Faith, and Resilience"An inspiring, intimate memoir about faith, resilience and the tenacity of love."--People "In this emotional tale, a young couple see their lives changed in the blink of an eye--and learn to find love again."--US Weekly Five months pregnant, on a flight to their "babymoon,"...
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Walking with Abel: Journeys with the Nomads of the African SavannahLook out for Anna Badkhen's new book, Fisherman's Blues: A West African Community at Sea, on sale now An intrepid journalist joins the planet's largest group of nomads on an annual migration that, like them, has endured for centuries. Anna Badkhen has forged a...
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Rising Above: Inspiring Women in SportsBehold the power of women These are the inspirational real-life stories of female superstar athletes Serena and Venus Williams, Simone Biles, Carli Lloyd, and more -- role models all. For sports fans, aspiring athletes and readers of sports biographies. Growing up in a crime-plagued,...
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Locally Laid: How We Built a Plucky, Industry-Changing Egg Farm - From ScratchHow a Midwestern family with no agriculture experience went from a few backyard chickens to a full-fledged farm--and discovered why local chicks are better. When Lucie Amundsen had a rare night out with her husband, she never imagined what he'd tell her over dinner--that...
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Rising Above: How 11 Athletes Overcame Challenges in Their Youth to Become StarsDiscover inspirational real-life stories of superstar athletes in this collection of sports biographies featuring LeBron James, Stephen Curry, Tim Howard, and more Team USA goalkeeper Tim Howard was diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome in 6th grade. He went on to become a national treasure after...
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Dead Presidents: An American Adventure Into the Strange Deaths and Surprising Afterlives of Our Nation's LeadersIn Dead Presidents, public radio host and reporter Brady Carlson takes readers on an epic trip to presidential gravesites, monuments, and memorials from sea to shining sea. With an engaging mix of history and contemporary reporting, Carlson explores the death stories of our greatest...
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Jack's Life: A Biography of Jack NicholsonJack Nicholson has lived large on and off the screen. Patrick McGilligan, one of America's outstanding film biographers, has plumbed research and interviews to expand his definitive biography since its publication twenty years ago. Jack's Life captures the essence of this most private and...
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Helga's Diary: A Young Girl's Account of Life in a Concentration CampIn 1939, Helga Weiss was a young Jewish schoolgirl in Prague. As she endured the first waves of the Nazi invasion, she began to document her experiences in a diary. During her internment at the concentration camp of Terez n, Helga's uncle hid her...
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A Little More about MeRenowned author Pam Houston treats us to a celebration of real-life adventures in this rich collection of essays. Ranging over five years and five continents, A Little More About Me introduces us to a woman--adventure-seeking, curious, and awestruck--whose experiences resonate with our own navigation...
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One Hundred Names for LoveIt is a truism that lovers have their own language. And the love story--extending over more than forty years--of acclaimed writers Diane Ackerman and Paul West is equally a story of the love of language and its mysteries. In this heart-warming, uplifting memoir, Ackerman...
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T. S. Eliot: An Imperfect LifeIn this "nuanced, discerning account of a life famously flawed in its search for perfection" (The New Yorker), Gordon captures Eliot's "complex spiritual and artistic history . . . with tact, diligence, and subtlety" (Boston Globe). Drawing on recently discovered letters, she addresses in...
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Give Us This DayIn April 1942, Sidney Stewart, a 21-year-old U.S. Army enlisted man, was captured at Bataan. For nearly three and a half years, until he was liberated by the Russians in Manchuria, he remained a prisoner of war. Here is his account of this long...
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Object Lessons (Revised)In this important prose work, one of our major poets explores, through autobiography and argument, a woman's life in Ireland together with a poet's work. Eavan Boland beautifully uncovers the powerful drama of how these lives affect one another; how the tradition of womanhood...
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The Devil Drives: A Life of Sir Richard BurtonStarting in a hollowed log of wood--some thousand miles up a river, with an infinitesimal prospect of returning! I ask myself Why? and the only echo is damned fool! . . . the Devil drives! So Richard Francis Burton, preparing for an exploration of...
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