Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Sixty Tattoos I Secretly Gave Myself at WorkEx-girlfriends. LSD. Motorcycle and canoe trips. Seinfeld. Skateboarding. Drunk friends and punk rock and shitty jobs. Sixty Tattoos I Secretly Gave Myself at Work is the most beautiful, the most vulnerable of punk and adventure memoirs. Each vignette centers around a hand-poked tattoo that...
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Illegal: a true story of love, revolution and crossing bordersIllegal tells the true story of love and deception, revolutions and deportations as it chronicles the trials of John Dennehy. Na ve New Yorker, Dennehy refuses to be part of the feverish nationalism of post 9/11 America. His search for hope takes him to...
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Courtier to the CrowdCourtier to the Crowd is the full-length biography of the public relations pioneer Ivy Ledbetter Lee.This book traces the story of Lee through his early training in the family of a Methodist minister and in schools, in the newspaper office, as a fledgling publicist,...
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Be Brave: A Wife's Journey Through CaregivingFlorrie Munat became her husband Chuck's caregiver on the day he suffered a severe stroke. Any chances for his recovery were derailed when they learned that Chuck was also suffering from Lewy body dementia. After that devastating news, Florrie and Chuck assumed their loving...
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Our Abenaki Family from Roger's Raid on Odanak in 1759 to the 1900s: A compilation of research and analysis of the times and doings of our Annance, ThThe authors organized this study around two ancestors (great-great grandsons of Gabriel Annance and great-great grandfathers of the authors) who were born nearly two centuries ago at Odanak (St. Francis), the Abenaki Indian Reserve in Qu bec, Canada; by name Francis Brazille and his...
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Trans Homo...Gasp! Gay Ftm and Cis Men on Sex and LoveLiterary Nonfiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Finalist for a 2018 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Anthology. TRANS HOMO...GASP offers an honest, tender, sexy and rare look into the hearts and minds of gay and queer trans men and their trans/cis male lovers. Authors share hot, vulnerable...
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Postcards From Liverpool: Beatles Moments & MemoriesThe British Beatles Fan Club Magazine described Postcards From Liverpool: Beatles Moments & Memories as "delightful" and a "Very enjoyable book."English Songwriter Mitch Murray (Three Sixties No. 1 Hits) "I was part of Beatleworld during the early days and even I have been thourghly...
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American Sons: The Untold Story of the Falcon and the Snowman (40th Anniversary Edition)"A compelling narrative of survival and redemption." --Robert Lindsey, author of The Falcon and the SnowmanForty years before the names Snowden and Manning entered the world's cultural lexicon, Christopher Boyce and Andrew Daulton Lee became America's youngest convicted spies--condemned to federal prison in 1977...
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The Frontline Generation: How We Served Post 9/11"The leadership lessons learned in combat apply here at home: take care of the people to your left and to your right. You are the frontlines--no matter where or how you serve." It began as a personal memoir for her son. Reflecting one day...
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John Hughes, Eagle of the ChurchJohn Hughes was an Irish immigrant who played a significant role in the establishment of the Church in northeastern United States before the Civil War. As Bishop and then Archbishop of New York, he was the leader and protector of his people during the...
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Four Seasons of Loneliness: A Lawyer's Case StoriesWhat happens when loneliness engulfs us? How do we manage life when the absence of adequate connections becomes an excruciating hunger?During his extraordinary decades-long career as an attorney, J. W. Freiberg consulted on hundreds of cases involving clients affected by chronic and debilitating loneliness....
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The Aviatrix: Fly Like A GirlFlying is terrifying to many people, and piloting an airplane is a domain seemingly dominated by men. When flying slowly but surely came to scare her to death, Kim Jochl set out to overcome her fear by earning a pilot's license. She figured the...
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The Forgotten Christmas Saint: Saint AnastasiaMeet Saint Anastasia, one of the greatest Christmas saints and the Patroness of Martyrs. Take her hand and let her lead you to the Crib When people think of saints that remind them of Christmas, Saint Anastasia is almost always forgotten. For centuries, this...
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God's Waiting RoomGod's Waiting Room was written to let you know that sometimes "everything is not going to be alright". Sometimes, you must wait but the best place to wait is God's waiting room. It is in his waiting room that you discover the purpose of...
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Love SickAt 28, Cory Martin thought she had it all, a budding career as a writer in Hollywood, an apartment of her own, and a healthy obsession with yoga. But when she found herself on the floor of her apartment wailing into the phone, 'but...
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Missing: Coming to Terms with a Borderline MotherKathy Ewing knows what it's like to be raised by someone variously sullen, pleasant, angry, demanding, manipulative, engaging, and all the rest-sometimes changing from one mood to the next in a single conversation. In this personal memoir she writes of her memories from my...
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The Last Corpsman: The Story of John I. Unger, Chief Hospital Corpsman, U.S. Navy, and Former World War II Prisoner of War in the PacificThe Last Corpsman, chronicles the life of John I. Unger from his birth in Austria in 1920, his immigration to the US, joining the Navy, his training as a Corpsman and his subsequent assignment with the Marine 1st Defense Battalion on Wake Island. His...
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Letters To My ExCici. B's debut novel, Letters To My Ex, is a collection of letters written to a past love over a three year period of time that was never sent to him---but they are far from your typical love letters. If you are looking for...
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Our Life Off the Grid: An Urban Couple Goes FeralNOMINATED FOR THE STEPHEN LEACOCK MEDAL FOR HUMOUR"Let's do this! How hard can it be?"And, with that, David and his wife Sally, in their mid-fifties, went from being white collar urbanites to living off the grid on a remote island in the wilds of...
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My Grape YearAt the age of seventeen in a last-minute twist of fate, Laura Bradbury is sent to Burgundy, France, for a year's exchange. She arrives knowing only a smattering of French and with no idea what to expect in her first foray out of North...
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