Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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There I Am: The Journey from Hopelessness to Healing--A MemoirBrain on Fire meets Carry On, Warrior in this inspirational memoir and "testament to the things that break us, heal us, and make us who we are" (Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author) that explores one woman's journey from chronic pain and...
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The Racial Healing Handbook: Why we have to talk About Racism, Multicultural Society and Solve the Cynical Mind-set that Plagues America. A Book AbWhy do white people get so defensive when talking about race?How to reorient conversation about race and have a better cross-racial discourse?How does racism create distorted hierarchies of human value? This and much more is discussed in the book. In this book you will...
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Embracing My Sexy Sixties!: 20 Inspirational Stories from Phenomenal, Confident & Beautiful WomenBeing in our sixties now would have probably been the time to sit down, relax, maybe travel a little, and enjoy the rest of our lives in retirement, as our Mothers would have. But we're NOT our mothers' Sixties! We have lived, loved, laughed,...
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Don't Talk About it, Be About ItIt all started in a small town on the east coast. I grew up in the projects.It was a challenge not to get involved in the negative activity goingon around me, because I had dreams of being a professional baseballplayer. But there came a...
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From the Bench to the Boardroom: My Journey from Underdog Athlete to Turnaround CEOAn inspirational, motivational book that chronicles Michael MacDonald's transformation from a scholarship player at Rutgers' high-level Division I basketball program to a highly successful executive at Xerox and then chairman and CEO of Medifast. "From the Bench to the Boardroom, Michael MacDonald shares his...
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Fame: David BowieBefore there was Lady Gaga. Before there was Adam Lambert. Before there was The Killers...there was David Bowie. Bowie is one of the most influential artists of this generation from his music, fashion and persona. Bowie has reinvented himself on several occasions to make...
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This All Encompassing Trip (Chasing Pearl Jam Around The World)"It really looks well done... It's really impressive and really cool... It's special energy and I'm glad you've shared it "-Eddie Vedder What is life on the road like for a rock star? Jason Leung is no rock star but he lives the life...
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Royal Family: Years of TransitionHere is a royal book with a difference.It is a family saga showing the monarchy from the death of Queen Victoria to the present day. But rather than just an account of the reign of the five 20th-century monarchs, this is a study of...
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Her Word Is Bond: Navigating Hip Hop and Relationships in a Culture of Misogyny"Nowhere near famous but still infamous," Psalm One is a legend to rap nerds, scholars, and "heads," and has gone on to work with the brightest names in rap and have her work celebrated and taught around the globe. In Her Word Is Bond,...
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The Shimmering Is All There Is: On Nature, God, Science, and MoreThe Shimmering Is All There Is: On Nature, God, Science, and More is a collection of essays and poems by the late Heather Catto Kohout. A native of San Antonio, Heather was a disciplined and original thinker and writer. Her education, experience, and temperament--as...
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New York City Blues: Postwar Portraits from Harlem to the Village and BeyondA first-ever book on the subject, New York City Blues: Postwar Portraits from Harlem to the Village and Beyond offers a deep dive into the blues venues and performers in the city from the 1940s through the 1990s. Interviews in this volume bring the...
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The Strong Ones: How a Band of Civilian Women Made Their Mark on the Army#1 BEST SELLER and #1 NEW RELEASEThey said women couldn't keep up.They said women weren't strong enough to do the military's toughest jobs.In 1995, a ragtag band of civilians came to prove them wrong. THE STRONG ONES will inspire a new generation with its...
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Meditations: Philosophical Contemplations of a Roman Emperor"Meditations" is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor from second century, recording his private notes to himself and ideas on Stoic philosophy. Marcus Aurelius wrote the Meditations as a source for his own guidance and self-improvement. The Meditations is divided...
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St. Thomas More: A Great Man in Hard TimesSt. Thomas More, by E.E. Reynolds, is a complete life of the saint based on primary source accounts, state papers and contemporary registers. Reynolds leaves no written source uncovered in drawing together for us the man who became one of the most famous men...
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On War (Deluxe Library Edition) (Annotated)On War is a book on military strategy by Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz, written mostly after the Napoleonic wars, between 1816 and 1830, and published posthumously in 1832. On War is one of the most important treatises on political-military analysis and strategy ever...
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Memoirs of a Russianist, Volume I: From the Ground UpWhile engaging for the general reader thanks to its candid narrative of a life's path along an unusual career that took its author to remarkable destinations in Eurasia, this book will be especially welcome to specialists in the history of the Soviet Union/Russia during...
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The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth: with a full sketch of the conspiracy of which he was the leader, and the pursuit, trial and executi"Booth has simply carried out what ... secession politicians and journalists have been for years expressing in words ... who have denounced the President as a 'tyrant, ' a 'despot, ' a 'usurper, ' hinted at, and virtually recommended." --San Francisco Chronicle, 1865The Life,...
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The Divine Miss Marble: A Life of Tennis, Fame, and Mystery"In Robert Weintraub's exhaustive biography, The Divine Miss Marble, he transports the reader into Marble's vibrant world. It's a dreamy, indomitable life worth reading about as today's tennis tries to return to form."--The Washington Post "An intriguing book about a fascinating woman . ....
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Challenge: How To Succeed Beyond Your DreamsThis is the autobiography of Hobie Billingsley, the world's greatest diving coach in the history of the sport. You will be inspired and challenged to succeed beyond your dreams when you read this emotional, heart-warming story. Growing up with a single parent mother in...
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A New NameThe face of anorexia is not a glossy model in a perfume ad. It's a starving animal, circling the empty cupboards, blank-eyed and vacant. It's a face frozen in a rictus grin, mouthing lies. 'I'm fine, ' it says. 'Everything is under control.' 'I...
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