Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Princess: Secrets to ShareIn this explosive and riveting addition to the Princess series, Jean Sasson and the rebel Princess Sultana team up once again. This time, to bring readers up to date on Sultana's secret work to help women and children in the region. With the help...
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Mania: The Story of the Outraged & Outrageous Lives That Launched a Cultural RevolutionBy the time Lucien Carr stabbed David Kammerer to death on the banks of the Hudson River in August 1944, it was clear that the hard-partying teenage companion to Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, and William S. Burroughs might need to reevaluate his...
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Dead Giveaway: The Rescue, Hamburgers, White Folks, and Instant Celebrity... What You Saw on TV Doesn't Begin to Tell the Story...One of America's most unusual celebrities tells his own outrageous story.From dishwasher to international celebrity in one afternoon ... Charles Ramsey gives a roller coaster account of his life before, during, and after the dramatic rescue of three kidnapped women in Cleveland ...Global news...
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Three Minus One: Stories of Parents' Love and LossThree Minus One: Parents' Stories of Love and Loss is a collection of intimate, soul-baring stories and artwork by parents who have lost a child to stillbirth, miscarriage, or neonatal death, inspired by the film Return to Zero.;The loss of a child is unlike...
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Flip-Flops After Fifty: And Other Thoughts on Aging I Remembered to Write DownFlip-flops After 50;will amuse, enlighten, and provoke readers to think about the topics that affect all of us. Who hasn't dealt with the emotions from family events, stress from lousy jobs, or the bittersweet feelings when the kids leave home? Not to mention body...
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Prince and Little Weird Black Boy GodsThis collection of essays, what-ifs and tidbits contains everything writer and critic Scott Woods has publicly written and published about Prince, as well as new material written specifically for this edition. A fun, sometimes biting history with Prince from a super-fan's perspective, Prince and...
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Crash Course: Essays from Where Writing and Life CollideRobin Black's path through loss and survival delivered her to the writer's life. Agoraphobia, the challenges of parenting a child with special needs, and the legacy of a formidable father all shaped that journey. In these deeply personal and instructive essays, the author of...
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Doc Shores: An Authorized Reprint of Memoirs of a LawmanThe name Cyrus W. "Doc" Shores may not be found on the list of larger-than-life lawmen whose legends and lore give them top billing in the taming of America's "wild and wooly West;" yet, in the late 1800s, Doc Shores became known to law...
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Native American Pathways: A Guide to Inner PeaceThoas Mails presents spiritual practices of the Hopi, the Cherokee, the Apache, and the Sioux and explains how these ancient ceremonies invoke both natural and supernatural powers. Native American Pathways explains how to: experience connectedness with the earth and all life; open the mind...
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Imogen: The Mother of Modernism and Three BoysImogen's family didn't have much, and life was hard atop the wild hill they call home. But when Imogen declared she wanted to be a photographer, her father built her her very own darkroom. Flash forward. Imogen is a photographer and a mother. She...
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Mindfulness as Medicine: A Story of Healing Body and SpiritA Buddhist nun shares her profound journey of healing, plus step-by-step directions for embracing and transforming suffering through mindfulness, meditation, and other techniques Before she became a Buddhist nun in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh, Sister Dang Nghiem was a doctor. She'd traveled...
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The Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinThe Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin himself appears to have called the work his Memoirs. Although it had a tortuous publication history after...
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Released to the Angels: Discovering the Hidden Gifts of Alzheimer'sA Caregiver's Journey Alzheimer's is devastating. It can erase memory, change lives, and destroy dreams. When Marilynn Garzione accepts the role of primary caregiver for her husband, Patrick, she faces a world that is slowly being taken away. While living with the numerous challenges...
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Low Down: Junk, Jazz, and Other Fairy Tales from ChildhoodA. J. Albany's recollection of life with her father, the great jazz pianist Joe Albany, is the story of one girl's unsentimental education. Joe played with the likes of Charles Mingus, Lester Young, and Charlie Parker, but between gigs he slipped into drug-induced obscurity....
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Charles Lloyd: A Wild, Blatant TruthSaxophonist and composer Charles Lloyd has been a strong and important voice in the jazz world since the late 1950s. This freewheeling, fascinating unauthorized biographybased on twenty years' worth of interviews covers the extreme ups and downs of an uncommonly eventful life, often in...
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The Pigman & MeAn account of Paul Zindel's teenage years on Staten Island, when his life was enriched by finding his own personal pigman, or mentor.Author: Paul ZindelPublisher: Graymalkin MediaPublished: 09/30/2010Pages: 179Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.21lbsSize: 6.79h x 4.25w x 0.48dISBN: 9781935169307Audience: Young AdultAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 5.6Point Value:...
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Sam Langford: Boxing's Greatest Uncrowned ChampionStanding no more than 5' 7" tall, Sam Langford was one of the 20th century's greatest fighters. In 1951, the great featherweight champion Abe Attell was asked if Sugar Ray Robinson was the best of all time, either as a welterweight or middleweight. He...
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The Nikola Tesla TreasuryHere's the Tesla collection you've been waiting for: 214 figures; 668 pages; and 107 articles, letters to editors, and lectures. All the famous lectures and articles that you'd expect are here, such as A New System of Alternating Current Motors and Transformers; Experiments with...
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In God We TrustOur daughter, Ann Marie, died on November 12, 1990, as a result of a traffic accident while returning home from a college seminar. Her passing has forever changed the lives of everyone who knew her. We all look at things differently now and do...
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Tales of Two Cities: A Persian MemoirTales of Two Cities is an engrossing, cross-cultural memoir of revolution and exile. It is the story of a fifteen year-old Persian boy sent for his eduction from an old-world, pre-oil boom Tehran, to the new-world, avant-garde San Francisco of the 1960s. Abbas Milani...
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