Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Marathon Woman: Running the Race to Revolutionize Women's SportsA new edition of a sports icon's memoir, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of Kathrine Switzer's historic running of the Boston Marathon as the first woman to run. In 1967, Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to officially run what was then the all-male...
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Making Room: Three Decades of Fighting for Beds, Belonging, and a Safe Place for LGBTQ YouthFrom a pioneering advocate for LGBTQ youth, a gripping, impassioned account of how an unhoused queer youth's murder compelled him to create the nation's largest housing program for homeless LGBTQ teens. "A brave, honest, and deeply spiritual reckoning with the trauma and joys of...
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Maggie: Trapped in The School for the Feeble MindedA Heartbreaking Odyssey through America's Darkest Hours: The Tragedy of Maggie UnveiledIn the annals of American history, there exists a chapter so harrowing it reverberates through time - the era of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and the Eugenic movement. Maggie: Trapped in...
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Love, Pamela: A MemoirInstant New York Times bestsellerThe actress, activist, and once infamous Playboy Playmate reclaims the narrative of her life in a memoir that defies expectation in both content and approach, blending searing prose with snippets of original poetry."The iconic Anderson uses a mixture of poetry...
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Love Me TenderA novel of lesbian identity and motherhood, and the societal pressures that place them in opposition. The daughter of an illustrious French family whose members include a former Prime Minister, a model, and a journalist, Constance Debré abandoned her marriage and legal career in...
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Love Is Hard Work: The Art and Heart of Corita KentThe story of how a Catholic nun became one of the twentieth century's most significant artists and activists is brought to life in a colorful picture book biography. "To be fully alive is to work for the common good." --Corita Kent Frances Kent always...
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Loved as I Am: An Invitation to Conversion, Healing, and Freedom Through JesusWhen Sr. Miriam James Heidland's life as a successful college athlete proved unfulfilling, she went searching for something deeper and ended up falling in love with Jesus. By charting her own journey toward wholeness, Heidland invites young Catholics to pursue their own relationship with...
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Long Road: Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of a GenerationA leading music journalist's riveting chronicle of how beloved band Pearl Jam shaped the times, and how their legacy and longevity have transcended generations. Ever since Pearl Jam first blasted onto the Seattle grunge scene three decades ago with their debut album, Ten, they...
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Local: A Search for Nearby Nature and WildnessSHORTLISTED: Wainwright Prize Nature 2024 'Agile, wryly funny and wise' Robert Macfarlane A search for nearby nature and wildness After years of expeditions all over the world, adventurer Alastair Humphreys spends a year exploring the detailed local map around his home. Can this unassuming...
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Living My LifeAnarchist, journalist, drama critic, advocate of birth control and free love, Emma Goldman was the most famous--and notorious--woman in the early twentieth century. This abridged version of her two-volume autobiography takes her from her birthplace in czarist Russia to the socialist enclaves of Manhattan's...
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Living A Life That Matters: from Nazi Nightmare to American DreamIn his highly readable, educational and inspiring memoir, Holocaust Survivor Ben Lesser's warm, grandfatherly tone invites the reader to do more than just visit a time when the world went mad. He also shows how this madness came to be--and the lessons that the...
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Little Naturalists: Jane Goodall Is a Friend to AllIntroduce your brilliant baby to the inspiring primatologist and anthropologist Jane Goodall.Jane Goodall loved animals from the time she was a child. She studied in Africa, and then traveled to Tanzania to learn all about chimpanzees. She befriended the chimpanzees, learning important things we...
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Little Britches: Father and I Were RanchersRalph was eight years old in 1906 when his family moved from New Hampshire to a Colorado ranch. Through his eyes, the pleasures and perils of ranching in the early twentieth century are experienced... auctions and roundups, family picnics, irrigation wars, tornadoes and wind...
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Little Book of Christian Louboutin: The Story of the Iconic Shoe Designer"A woman can carry a bag, but it is the shoe that carries the woman" - Christian Louboutin Among designers of luxury shoes, there is one whose designs are instantly recognizable: Christian Louboutin. His iconic red soles can be seen everywhere from the red...
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Linnea in Monet's Garden25th Anniversary EditionStep into a real artist's garden--and let your child fall in love with art, nature, and storytelling.When Linnea visits Paris and the home of Impressionist painter Claude Monet, she doesn't just learn about art--she experiences it. From walking Monet's iconic flower garden...
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Liberated: The Radical Art and Life of Claude CahunIllustrator Kaz Rowe's graphic biography Liberated: The Radical Art and Life of Claude Cahun, reveals how the creative and courageous Surrealist artist championed freedom at every turn, from rejecting gender norms and finding queer love to risking death to sabotage the Nazis. Winner of...
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Levels of the GameLevels of the Game is John McPhee's astonishing account of a tennis match played by Arthur Ashe against Clark Graebner at Forest Hills in 1968.It begins with the ball rising into the air for the initial serve and ends with the final point. McPhee...
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Let's Meet Messi: Story of the Superstar Lionel MessiHey football fans! Step into the world of a sporting sensation... Let's Meet Messi! In this awesome picture book you can learn all about Lionel Messi's life, from playing football as a child, to becoming a record-breaking player. Read along to discover more about...
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Leonardo Da VinciNow a docuseries from Ken Burns on PBS! The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is "a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it...Most important, it...
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Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman and the Struggle to Save the RedwoodsOn December 18, 1999, Julia Butterfly Hill's feet touched the ground for the first time in over two years, as she descended from "Luna," a thousandyear-old redwood in Humboldt County, California.Hill had climbed 180 feet up into the tree high on a mountain on...
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