Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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In a Time of Monsters: Travels Through a Middle East in RevoltReturning to the UK in September 2010 after serving in Iraq as the political adviser to the top American general, Emma Sky felt no sense of homecoming. She soon found herself back in the Middle East traveling through a region in revolt. In a...
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Andy WarholKing of Pop Art Andy Warhol is one of the greatest artists of all time. Rarely venturing into public without his camera and tape recorder, Warhol was a great observer and documentarist of the American social scene. Somewhere within the iconic images, carefully-made personae,...
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Christina Aguilera: UnbreakableThis sensational biography charts Christina Aguilera's rise to the top in the face of parental issues, panic attacks, self-harm, and professional betrayals big and small.Initially driven by a compulsion to escape from her father, she took refuge in a private world of music, singing...
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Forty Years Among the Indians: Experiences of a Mormon Pioneer on the South-West FrontierThe life of an outstanding Mormon pioneer and Westerner As the title of this book suggests its author recalls a long period of his life in the American South- West of the nineteenth century commencing from 1847 when, travelling to take part in the...
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Pádraig Pearse and the Easter Rising 1916Easter Week 1916. The time of the great rebellion. They call it the Easter Rising. 2,500 Irish Volunteers take on the mighty British Empire, fighting for freedom from British rule. They are lead by a school principal, a barrister and a poet Padraig Pearse....
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Sawney Bean: Dissecting the Legend of Scotland's Infamous Cannibal Killer FamilySawney Bean: Dissecting the Legend of Scotland's Infamous Cannibal Killer Family is the first major non-fiction historical investigation to explore one of the most heinous crimes in 16th-century Scotland, the legend of Sawney Bean and his cannibal family. For centuries, the story of Bean...
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The Elephant Man and Other ReminiscencesThis is a new edition of Frederick Treves book with the text having been editted to remove typographical errors. The story of Merrick's (the Elephant Man's) life published in 1923 is the source of most of what is known about the man, and forms...
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The Life of Trust: Being a Narrative of the Lord's Dealings with George Muller, Written by Himself.The narrative of the Lord's dealings with George M ller were a series of volumes that have blessed many. The present volume is a more manageable version edited by Rev. H. Lincoln Wayland. EDITOR'S PREFACE: Having been requested by Messrs. Gould and Lincoln to...
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Inside the Freud Museums: History, Memory and Site-Responsive ArtSigmund Freud spent the final year of his life at 20 Maresfield Gardens, London, surrounded by all his possessions, in exile from the Nazis. The long-term home and workspace he left behind in Berggasse 19, Vienna is a seemingly empty space, devoid of the...
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Micro MiracleMicro Miracle is the moving account of a first-time mother whose expectations of childbirth and parenting are dramatically altered when she gives birth sixteen weeks prematurely to Madeline. Weighing just over a pound, with eyes fused shut, and thin, fragile skin, Madeline could fit...
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The Dog Patrol: Our Canine Companions and the Kids Who Protect ThemIn a full-color dog book unlike any other, acclaimed children's nonfiction author Rob Laidlaw delves into the history and evolution of dogs as human companions, and empowers young readers to promote the health and happiness of dogs in their own lives and beyond.From the...
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Our Future: How Kids Are Taking ActionYoung people from across the globe are raising awareness about what issues matter to them most and are working to protect the future that we all share. American Jaelun Parkerson kneels with his football teammates during the national anthem to protest racial injustice. Canadian...
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Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human BeingIn that moment, I felt closer to whiteness than not. I was completely complicit and didn't think twice about entering a space that could cover their walls with images of contemporary Indigenous perspectives, but exclude their physical bodies from entering and experiencing. In that...
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Strangers in the House: A Prairie Story of Bigotry and BelongingA renowned author investigates the dark and shocking history of her prairie house.When researching the first occupant of her Saskatoon home, Candace Savage discovers a family more fascinating and heartbreaking than she expectedNapol on Sureau dit Blondin built the house in the 1920s, an...
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The Green Horse: My Early Years in the Canadian Rockies - A Park Warden's StoryAn inspiring, humorous and adventure-packed mountain memoir that takes the reader on a journey into western Canada's backcountry parks during the raucous 1960s and 1970s. Born in the west but raised initially in the east, Dale Portman was eight years old when his family...
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Joey Jacobson's War: A Jewish-Canadian Airman in the Second World WarIn the spring of 1940 Canada sent hundreds of highly trained volunteers to serve in Britain's Royal Air Force as it began a concerted bombing campaign against Germany. Nearly half of them were killed or captured within a year. This is the story of...
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The Stone Thrower: A Daughter's Lessons, a Father's LifeA daughter discovers herself while uncovering her father's legendary past in football. At the age of thirty, Jael Ealey Richardson travelled with her father -- former CFL quarterback Chuck Ealey -- for the first time to a small town in southern Ohio for his...
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The Gift of Life: The Reality Behind Donor Organ RetrievalOrgan transplants are a very controversial and unique area of medicine. Those of us who work as Transplant Coordinators were frequently referred to by hospital staff as 'organ vultures' behind our backs, but also many times within earshot. I felt this reference to extremely...
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Jersey Tough: My Wild Ride from Outlaw Biker to Undercover CopThe only patch-wearing outlaw biker to become a sworn police officer -- and live to tell his tale In 1977, Wayne "Big Chuck" Bradshaw was Jersey tough. He was a member of the outlaw Pagans bike gang, a One Percenter, and had earned his...
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National Treasure: Nicolas CageA celebration of Nicolas Cage -- the man and the meme Nicolas Cage: leading man or character actor? Action hero or goofball comedian? Internet joke or one of the greatest actors of his generation? Beyond the gif bait and easy punchline, Nicolas Cage continually...
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