Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Quien Fue Nelson Mandela?As a child he dreamt of changing South Africa; as a man he changed the world. Nelson Mandela spent his life battling apartheid and championing a peaceful revolution. He spent twenty-seven years in prison and emerged as the inspiring leader of the new South...
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Cub"Raina Telgemeier fans will lap this up." -- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books A laugh-out-loud funny and empowering graphic memoir about growing up and finding your voice. Twelve-year-old Cindy has just dipped a toe into seventh-grade drama--with its complicated friendships, bullies, and...
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John Muir: America's NaturalistThis book brings the world and words of John Muir to readers. This book is part of an illustrated series of books by Thomas Locker introducing the young and old to great Americans who loved and wrote about the land.Author: Thomas LockerPublisher: Fulcrum PublishingPublished:...
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The Hunt for the Last Public Enemy in Northeastern Ohio: Alvin Creepy Karpis and His Road to AlcatrazThe last Public Enemy No. 1 of the Depression era, Alvin Creepy Karpis reportedly compiled a record of fifty-four aliases, fifteen bank robberies, fourteen murders, three jailbreaks and two kidnappings.His criminal career came to an end when J. Edgar Hoover and his famed G-Men...
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Chinese Girl in the GhettoAs China opens itself to the world and undertakes historic economic reforms, a little girl in the southern city of Guangzhou immerses herself in a world of fantasy and foreign influences while grappling with the mundane vagaries of Communist rule. She happily immigrates to...
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Jackie Robinson: Baseball's Great PioneerA biography telling the personal life and baseball career of the legendary player, Jackie Robinson. Written in graphic-novel format.Author: Jason GlaserPublisher: Capstone PressPublished: 01/01/2006Pages: 32Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 8.80h x 6.70w x 0.10dISBN: 9780736861977Audience: 08 - 14Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 3.8Point Value: 0.5Interest Level: Middle...
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Fortunate Son: My Life, My MusicNATIONAL BESTSELLER The long-awaited memoir from John Fogerty, the legendary singer-songwriter and creative force behind Creedence Clearwater Revival. Creedence Clearwater Revival is one of the most important and beloved bands in the history of rock, and John Fogerty wrote, sang, and produced their instantly...
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The Circassian: A Life of Esref Bey, Late Ottoman Insurgent and Special AgentEsref Kusçubasi remains controversial in Turkey over fifty years after his death. Elsewhere the man sometimes called the "Turkish Lawrence of Arabia" is far less known but his life offers fascinating insights into the traumatic, increasingly violent struggles that ended the Ottoman Empire and...
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Washed by Blood: Lessons from My Time with Korn and My Journey to ChristAn Out-of-Control Rock Star. An Inescapable Addiction to Drugs. A Miraculous Redemption through Jesus Christ.You think you've heard this story before but you haven't. Washed by Blood is a look at the dramatic saving power of Jesus Christ unlike any other--one that shows how...
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The Boy from Gorge River: From New Zealand's Remotest Family to the World Beyond∗∗The number-one bestseller∗∗The story of how an extraordinary childhood shaped an extraordinary life On the West Coast of the South Island, past deep fiords and snow-capped mountains, Chris Long grew up two days' hike from the nearest road. He was born into the country's...
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Female Force: Stacey AbramsPolitician and voting rights activist Stacey Yvonne Abrams is committed to serving her home state of Georgia. After serving in Georgia's House of Representatives from 2007 to 2017, she ran for Governor in 2018. Stacey lost that race in a nail biter. Instead of...
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Just a Kid from MaineNFL veteran Matthew Mulligan beat the odds with his outstanding career of nine years as a blocking tight end. Matt's high school didn't offer football, so how did this small-town kid end up playing in the NFL for nearly a decade? His journey inspires...
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Wisdom and Wonder: How Peter Kreeft Shaped the Next Generation of CatholicsFew figures have impacted the rising generation of Catholics more than Peter Kreeft, the widely respected philosophy professor and prolific bestselling author of over 80 books. Through his writings and lectures, Kreeft has shaped the minds and hearts of thousands of young apologists, evangelists,...
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Nelson Mandela (the First Names Series)Now in paperback, meet the South African activist and president who fought for what was right!Before he was the first Black president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) was a boy with a traditional Thembu upbringing. He went on to study law and become...
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Winter 8000: Climbing the World's Highest Mountains in the Coldest Season2020 Banff Mountain Book Competition Finalist in Mountain Literature Recounts some of the most dangerous feats in mountaineering history Insights into the human attraction to danger and suffering Award-winning author While you wouldn't expect climbing an 8000-meter peak in winter to be a popular...
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A Black Man's Journey from Sharecropper to College President: The Life and Work of William Johnson Trent, 1873-1963An intimate portrait of the life of a black man who lived from just after emancipation to the boycotts and sit-ins of the 1950s and 1960s -- this book not only tells of his journey from the farm to a leadership position in the...
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Patterns from Nature: The Art of KlimtThis story illustrates how Klimt, an Austrian painter, expressed the inspiration from nature in his own style of the gold colored decoration in his paintings. Author: Myeong-Hwa YuPublisher: Big & SmallPublished: 01/01/2017Pages: 36Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 9.00h x 9.40w x 0.20dISBN: 9781925235005Audience: Ages 9-12Accelerated...
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Pushing the Envelope: The Career of Fighter Ace and Test Pilot Marion CarlFirst published in 1994, this stirring autobiography of a fighter and test pilot takes readers full throttle through Marion Carl's imposing list of "firsts." This very readable memoir is as forthright and compelling as the man it chronicles.Author: Marion Carl, Barrett TillmanPublisher: US Naval...
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Jonathan Winters: My Life: "In Search of a Playground"Jonathan Winters was the most gifted improviser of comedy show business has ever seen. His approach was completely unique and his delivery was impossible for anybody else to do. His comedy appeared to be intense and bordering on the crazy because Jon was, in...
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The Spy Wore Red: The Romanones Spy SeriesTHE SPY WORE RED, New York Times best seller list When Aline Griffith was born in Pearl River, New York, in 1923, one might have guessed from her exceptional beauty that a career as an actress or a model might be in her future....
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