Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Why I am an Atheist Who Believes in God: How to give love, create beauty and find peaceWHY I AM AN ATHEIST WHO BELIEVES IN GOD How to Create Beauty, Give Love and Find Peace By Frank Schaeffer *** Caught between the beauty of his grandchildren and grief over a friend's death, Frank Schaeffer finds himself simultaneously believing and not believing...
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The Spy Went DancingAmerica's most captivating secret agent reveals how she recruited the Duchess of Windsor-in her spellbinding sequel to The Spy Wore Red. American beauty, Spanish socialite, devoted wife and mother, spy: Aline, Countess of Romanones, made international headlines and bestseller lists with her dazzling memoir...
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The Teachings of ConfuciusConfucius was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history. The philosophy of Confucius emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice and sincerity. His followers competed successfully with many other schools during the...
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Remembering VolhyniaA compelling story of tragedy and triumph, a passionate true account of two families' struggles to survive the conflagration that was WWII.Author: Irene NickelburgPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 09/07/2014Pages: 206Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.44dISBN: 9781494958268About the AuthorIrene Nickelburg was born...
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Stepping Into William Shakespeare's WorldPowerful plays, deadly plagues, and chamber pots... Shakespeare lived in a world vastly different from our own. This nonfiction text breathes life into the pages of history, and gives students a sense of what life was like in Shakespeare's time. Developed by Timothy Rasinski...
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The Last Icon: Tom Seaver and His TimesIn early 1969, New York City and all it represented was in disarray: politically, criminally, and athletically. But while Simon and Garfunkel lamented the absence of a sports icon like Joe DiMaggio, a modern Lancelot rode forth to lead the New York Mets to...
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Worst. President. Ever.: James Buchanan, the POTUS Rating Game, and the Legacy of the Least of the Lesser PresidentsForeword Reviews' INDIEFAB Book of the Year Winner in Biography "The Funniest. Presidential. Biographer. Ever." --Kai Bird, Pulitzer-prize winning historian Now in paperback, W.P.E. flips the great presidential biography on its head, offering an enlightening--and highly entertaining --account of poor James Buchanan's presidency. This...
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Why We Climb: The World's Most Inspiring ClimbersWhy We Climb is a celebration, in word and image, of those aspects of the climbing life that are most universal, meaningful, and long lasting-- the strong connection to partners and nature; the physical and mental mastery required (and how to achieve it); the...
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Behind Every Great Man: The Forgotten Women Behind the World's Famous and InfamousWho Said Men Get to Monopolize the Glory?Discover the Little Known Women Who Have Put the World's Alpha Males on the Map.From ancient times to the present, men have gotten most of the good ink. Yet standing just outside the spotlight are the extraordinary,...
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Connor McDavidHockey fans had been talking about Connor McDavid since he was not yet a teenager. They had been watching his growth and development, and marveling at his feats on the ice. Fans compared him to Wayne Gretzky and Sidney Crosby, two of pro hockey's...
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Friends of Mine: Thirty Years in the Life of a Duran Duran FanElisa Lorello's lifelong love affair with Duran Duran began like that of many other fans: staying up late watching MTV, plastering her bedroom walls with glossy posters and magazine pinups, and writing secret stories about someday becoming Mrs. John Taylor. But waiting in the...
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Junk to Gold: From Salvage to the World's Largest Online Auto AuctionJunk to Gold is about one man's journey from humble beginnings to unimaginable success. Willis Johnson, the founder of Copart CPRT], offers up a personal and inspirational account of this journey to the top including lessons he learned from love, war and building a...
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زیر سایۀ شمشیرها - A l'Ombre des Sabresاین کتاب دومین دفتر از زنجیرۀ جانشینان نفرین شده (الخلفاء الملعونون) یا پنج کتابی است که با بازسازی تاریخی دوره های حکمروایی چهار جانشین پیامبر اسلام، آن روزگار پارینه را بر بنیاد قدیمی ترین روایات و کتب تاریخی مسلمان ها در برابر دیدگان ذهن...
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Transformation on the Southern Ukrainian Steppe: Letters and Papers of Johann Cornies, Volume II: 1836-1842In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Russian empire opened the grasslands of southern Ukraine to agricultural settlement. Among the immigrants who arrived were communities of Prussian Mennonites, recruited as "model colonists" to bring progressive agricultural methods to the east. Transformation on the Southern...
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Breaking the Ocean: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and ReconciliationIn Breaking the Ocean, diversity and inclusion specialist Annahid Dashtgard addresses the long-term impacts of exile, immigration, and racism by offering a vulnerable, deeply personal account of her life and work.Annahid Dashtgard was born into a supportive mixed-race family in 1970s Iran. Then came...
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Thomas Paine and the Dangerous WordThe mind once enlightened cannot again become dark. As an English corset-maker's son, Thomas Paine was expected to spend his life sewing women's underwear. But as a teenager, Thomas dared to change his destiny, enduring years of struggle until a meeting with Benjamin Franklin...
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Raised by an AngelAuthor: Dudley E. FloodPublisher: AuthorhousePublished: 04/03/2013Pages: 166Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38dISBN: 9781481714624This title is not returnable
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A is for Abigail: An Almanac of Amazing American WomenNew York Times bestselling team Lynne Cheney and Robin Preiss Glasser tell the remarkable (and often little known) stories of exceptional American women. Lynne Cheney and Robin Preiss Glasser collaborated on America: A Patriotic Primer, which captured the imagination of American children and became...
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Sylvia's Bookshop: The Story of Paris's Beloved Bookstore and Its Founder (as Told by the Bookstore Itself!)Meet the trailblazer and book lover who started the Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris, France, in this beautifully illustrated picture book that celebrates stories, reading, and the importance of sharing ideas. "Books are my treasures--the best that I've got." Books are like rivers...
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The Isle of the Dragon: The Last Flight of the Bugs BunnyIn The Isle of the Dragon, author Rolf Stibbe portrays the heroism and courage of United States Army Air Corps flight crews during combat in World War II against the forces of Imperial Japan. In the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the...
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