Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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The House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American SouthIn defiance of his middle-class landowning family, a young white man named James Morgan Richardson married a light-skinned black woman, Edna Howell. It was 1914 in south Alabama. Together they eventually built a house at the dead end of a road in a rural...
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Imperfect Harmony: Finding Happiness Singing with Others"In this one-of-a-kind celebration of singing with others, I'd call her pitch nearly perfect."--The Atlantic For Stacy Horn, regardless of what is going on in the world or her life, singing in an amateur choir--the Choral Society of Grace Church in New York--never fails...
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All I Know Now: Wonderings and Advice on Making Friends, Making Mistakes, Falling in (and Out Of) Love, and Other Adventures in Growin"This is a best friend in book form."--Andrew Kaufman, author of All My Friends Are SuperheroesToday, Carrie Hope Fletcher is living her dream as an actress and YouTube star. But not long ago, she was trying to survive the many perils of the Teen...
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Con Weber's BrightonCon Weber's Brighton spans seven generations. It is a story of the rise of the industrial age and growth of militarism in nineteenth century Germany, pioneer hardships on the southeast Michigan frontier, and the challenges of the Great Depression. The first century of a...
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Somewhere in Between: A TRU Journey Through Sex, Drugs, Alcohol & Everything in BetweenSomewhere In Between takes you on a young woman's journey traveling through the world of sex, drugs, alcohol & everything in between. It's a unique collection of personal stories, journal entries and powerful, self-expressive photography, which were all created to help her cope with...
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Flight to Arras2015 Reprint of 1942 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Illustrated by Bernard Lamotte. "Flight to Arras" is a memoir by French author Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Written in 1942, it recounts his role in the French Air...
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20 Hrs. 40 Min: Our Flight in the Friendship2014 Reprint of 1928 Edition. Earhart captured the hearts and imaginations of people around the world when she became the first woman to cross the Atlantic by airplane. This book, her personal account of the historic flight, sparkles with her high-spirited charm and adventurous...
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WaldenAuthor: Henry David ThoreauPublisher: Simon & BrownPublished: 07/25/2011Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.51dISBN: 9781613820889Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 8.7Point Value: 21Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 6000 / WaldenThis title is not returnable
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Women of Steel and Stone: 22 Inspirational Architects, Engineers, and Landscape DesignersAn inspiration for young people who love to design, build, and work with their hands, Women of Steel and Stone tells the stories of 22 female architects, engineers, and landscape designers from the 1800s to today. Engaging profiles based on historical research and firsthand...
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Queen of the Mountaineers: The Trailblazing Life of Fanny Bullock WorkmanFanny Bullock Workman was a complicated and restless woman who defied the rigid Victorian morals she found as restrictive as a corset. With her frizzy brown hair tucked under a helmet, Workman was a force on and off the mountain. Instrumental in breaking the...
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Led Zeppelin on Led Zeppelin: Interviews and EncountersIn a series of more than 50 interviews that span seven decades, many never before seen in print, this is the story of Led Zeppelin told by the people who knew it best--the members of the band. This book shoots down the folklore and...
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Double Victory: How African American Women Broke Race and Gender Barriers to Help Win World War II2014 Amelia Bloomer Top Ten ListDouble Victory tells the stories of African American women who did extraordinary things to help their country during World War II. In these pages young readers meet a range of remarkable women: war workers, political activists, military women, volunteers,...
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Code Name Pauline: Memoirs of a World War II Special AgentAn NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People There was a full moon on the evening of September 22, 1943, when Pearl Witherington, age 29, parachuted into France to aid the French Resistance as a special agent for the British Special Operations...
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For Frying Out Loud: Rehoboth Beach DiariesFay Jacobs returns with more wise and witty recollections about life in Rehoboth Beach. For Frying Out Loud is a collection of Fay s latest columns plus some new, never published material. It's provocative, political, occasionally heartwarming and reliably hilarious. Jacobs' utterly unique voice...
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick DouglassThe powerful story of slavery that has become a classic of American autobiography, now in an authoritative edition. This dramatic autobiography of the early life of an American slave was first published in 1845, when its young author had just achieved his freedom. Douglass'...
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Becoming Ronald Reagan: The Rise of a Conservative IconIn the 1960s transitioning from acting to politics was rare. Ronald Reagan was not the first to do it, but he was the first to jump from the screen to the stump and on to credibility as a presidential contender. Reagan's transformation from struggling...
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Pauline Frederick Reporting: A Pioneering Broadcaster Covers the Cold WarPauline Frederick Reporting is the biography of the life and career of the first woman to become a network news correspondent. After no less an authority than Edward R. Murrow told her there was no place for her in broadcasting, Pauline Frederick (1908-90) cracked...
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Desert Diplomat: Inside Saudi Arabia Following 9/11In the spring of 2001, George W. Bush selected Dallas attorney Robert W. Jordan as the ambassador to Saudi Arabia. Jordan's nomination sped through Congress in the wake of the terrorist attacks on 9/11, and he was at his post by early October, though...
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Whispers in the Tall GrassThe previously unpublished second volume of Nick Brokhausen's vivid and riveting memoir of his experiences in MACV-SOG in Vietnam."This battle-scarred memoir is an excellent tribute to the generation that fought, laughed, and died in Southeast Asia." -New York Journal of BooksWhispers in the Tall...
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The Daring Trader: Jacob Smith in the Michigan Territory, 1802-1825A fur trader in the Michigan Territory and confidant of both the U.S. government and local Indian tribes, Jacob Smith could have stepped out of a James Fenimore Cooper novel. Controversial, mysterious, and bold during his lifetime, in death Smith has not, until now,...
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