Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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The Man Who Shot J. P. Morgan: A Life of Arsenic, Anarchy, and IntrigueThe thrilling, true story of a prolific criminal's many identities and exploits On the morning of July 3, 1915, John Pierpont Morgan Jr., one of the most famous names in finance, was entertaining guests at his sprawling Long Island estate when the doorbell unexpectedly...
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The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer"...a wise book about an important and overlooked American journalist and intellectual." -- The Wall Street Journal Frank Meyer devised the blueprint for American conservatism--fusionism--championed by Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, and so many to this day. Yet long before and far away, Communists in...
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The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A MemoirPULITZER PRIZE FINALIST - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - From the bestselling author of Fruit of the Drunken Tree, comes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic memoir reclaiming her family's otherworldly legacy. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME, NPR, VULTURE, PEOPLE, BOSTON GLOBE, VANITY FAIR, ESQUIRE,...
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The Leadership Detour: How The Unexpected Path Shaped My SuccessThe Leadership Detour is a deeply personal and powerful memoir-meets-leadership guide by Dr. Tammi Fleming. Blending lived experience with professional insight, she shares her unexpected journey from early career success to profound personal transformation. Through heartfelt storytelling and coaching wisdom, she explores the essential...
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The Last Outlaws: The Desperate Final Days of the Dalton GangThe definitive account of the Dalton Gang and the most brazen bank heist in history, by the multiple New York Times bestselling author. The Last Outlaws is the thrilling true story of the last of one of the greatest outlaw gangs. The dreaded Dalton...
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The Last Outlaw: My 50 Years in Southern Rock & CountryHenry Paul is the co-founder of '70s Southern Rock legends the Outlaws, founder of '80s hitmakers The Henry Paul Band, co-founder of '90s Country superstars Blackhawk, and one of music's most distinctive voices for over half a century. This is Henry's own story of...
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The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic IllnessA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION Named one of the BEST BOOKS OF 2022 by NPR, The New Yorker, Time, and Vogue"Remarkable." -Andrew Solomon, The New York Times Book Review "At once a rigorous work of...
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The Inventor's Workshop: How People and Machines Transformed Each OtherExplore ten inventions that changed the world in The Inventor's Workshop: How People and Machines Transformed Each Other, the debut children's book from award-winning inventor Ruth Amos Step inside the inventor's workshop to see how one creative spark leads to another . . ....
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Or, Gustavus Vassa, the AfricanEdited and with Notes by Shelly EversleyIntroduction by Robert Reid-Pharr In this truly astonishing eighteenth-century memoir, Olaudah Equiano recounts his remarkable life story, which begins when he is kidnapped in Africa as a boy and sold into slavery and culminates when he has achieved...
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The Hiding Place: An Engaging Visual JourneyThe Hiding Place is Corrie ten Boom's personal story of faith, courage, forgiveness, and love for the persecuted Jewish community during the World War II Nazi invasion and occupation of Holland.Part of an underground resistance movement, Corrie and her family risked their lives to...
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The Hiding PlaceIn this special youth edition, Corrie ten Boom's remarkable story of heroism and faith inspires a new generation of readers with its timeless message.Author: Corrie Ten Boom,Elizabeth Sherrill,John SherrillPublisher: Chosen BooksPublished: 05/05/2015Pages: 208Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.40w x 0.50dISBN: 9780800796273Audience: Ages 9-12About...
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The Hiding PlaceCorrie ten Boom was a Dutch watchmaker who became a heroine of the Resistance, a survivor of Hitler's concentration camps, and one of the most remarkable evangelists of the twentieth century. Now in a beautiful deluxe edition, this incredible, moving true story is ultimately...
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The Gospel Side of ElvisGospel music was a significant part of not only who Elvis became as a man, but as an artist as well. As Elvis mania continues to consume generation after generation throughout the world, fans still crave new insights into the person of Elvis Presley....
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The Girl Who Fought Back: Vladka Meed and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Scholastic Focus)A Junior Library Guild Selection!The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising is one of history's most powerful acts of resistance. Here, author Joshua M. Greene (Signs of Survival) tells the true story of a young Jewish woman who was instrumental in the uprising as a smuggler of...
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The Dream Big, Little One CollectionThis irresistible collection by #1 New York Times bestselling creator Vashti Harrison is the perfect way to introduce little readers to inspiring leaders, thinkers, and dreamers in Black history. Beautifully illustrated and accessibly written, Dream Big, Little One; Think Big, Little One; and Follow...
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The Don Cherry StoryDon Cherry is one of the most well-known Canadians and also one of the most controversial, known for his outspoken opinions on hockey, politics and any number of topics. On Remembrance Day, November 11, 2019, it all came to an end. However, there's more...
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The Cruise of the SnarkInspired by the examples of his heroes Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Joshua Slocum, Jack London determined to sail around the world. In April 1907 he sailed from San Francisco in the forty-five-foot ketch Snark, with his wife, Charmian, a skeleton crew, and...
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The Book Against DeathThe Book Against Death is the work of a lifetime: a collection of Elias Canetti's powerful, disarming, and often bleakly comic observations, diatribes, musings, and commentaries on and against death. Evoking despair, melancholy, and fury, Canetti examines the inevitable demise of all beings--from the...
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The Beautiful Struggle: A MemoirAn exceptional father-son story from the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me about the reality that tests us, the myths that sustain us, and the love that saves us. Paul Coates was an enigmatic god to his sons: a Vietnam...
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The Autobiography of H. LAN Thao LamSituated between memoir, social criticism, and conceptual art, The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam is an incisive response to a modernist classic and an affecting exploration of the poetics and politics of our times. In her 1933 The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas,...
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