Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens: A HistoryA colorful and authoritative narrative history of the often-overlooked--yet hugely influential--figures of the Tudor court: the ladies-in-waiting. Every Tudor Queen had ladies-in-waiting. They were her confidantes and her chaperones. Only the Queen's ladies had the right to enter her most private chambers, spending hours...
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The Untold Story of A. Philip Randolph: Union Organizer and Civil Rights ActivistYou may have heard about labor organizers like Cesar Chavez, who helped organize farmworkers in California. But decades earlier, A. Philip Randolph started a union for Black porters who worked on Pullman railcars. It was the first predominately Black union in the United States....
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The Turning Point: Memoirs of Determination, Hope, Faith, Loss, Love, and ResilienceDo you crave insight into your situations or uncomfortable circumstances, change, conflicts, failure, or confusion?What if your life storms or problems are knocking at your door to lead you into a breakthrough or reveal your purpose and God-given calling? Take advantage of your most...
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The True Story Behind Alfred Hitchcock's The BirdsThe Birds was different from most of Hitchcock's work. For admirers of Hitchcock, The Birds also raises disturbing questions about the director as a person. He was a complex and confusing character in many ways, and perhaps it's not surprising that someone who built...
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The Trail of the Serpent: Stories from the Smoke-Filled Rooms of PoliticsPolitics is a mess--what's the cure? After living through WWII, Americans watched Soviet tanks roll into Saigon in 1975--we lost the Vietnam War. That changed politics. And Ronald Reagan was elected president. The Berlin Wall fell, the Soviet Union collapsed, we won the Cold...
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The Thomas the Tank Engine Man: The Life of Reverend W AwdryThe stories of Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends have delighted generations of children and adults, but what do we know of the man who created them? A devoted pastor and family man, the Reverend W Awdry first started telling the stories in...
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The Story of the BuddhaFor readers of mythology, an original and introspective journey through the life of the Buddha accompanied by 26 beautiful color illustrations and 8 meditations. From longtime Zen teacher and poet John Tarrant, this is an original retelling of the foundational myth of Buddhism--the life...
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The Story of My LifeThe Story of My Life is an autobiography by Helen Keller. It is the story of Helen Keller and her life as a deaf and blind girl, and her triumph over these tribulations. Iin the book, she reveals her frustration and rage over her...
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The Silk Finisher: Bigotry, Murder, and Sacrifice in the Crossroads of AmericaWhat happens when toxicity invades a life at every turn? A 1963 murder leads to a decade-long journey for a son to uncover truths about his family, an American town, and ultimately himself. In the "Crossroads of America," three active-duty US Army paratroopers commit...
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The Second Shot Heard Around the WorldAuthor: Monica KingPublisher: Strategic Book PublishingPublished: 10/28/2012Pages: 158Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.37dISBN: 9781609764517This title is not returnable
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The Safe Word is PINEAPPLE!: Mayor to Manic - My Journey Through CrazyA creepy club. A sketchy fast food restaurant. Ultra wealth and urban poverty. A weird night during a political conference in Vancouver turns author Gerry Taft's life-and mind-inside out. Believing he's about to die, with visions of good and evil conspiring around him, Gerry...
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The Rock and the River: Victory over SatanGod, Satan, angels, demons--I believed these all exist, but I only knew about God from personal experience. I knew that people with split personalities exist because I'd read about them, but I never expected to know one. I knew about child abuse, but I...
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The Risk InvolvedThe Risk Involved is a collection of related, creative nonfiction essays that, when read together, constitute a memoir of sorts. The first few essays were written while Jeffrey Utzinger, in his mid-twenties, was working at a chemical plant in Austin, Texas living with his...
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The PromiseThe Promise is the real life of a man with much to share with us. Mayo's childhood experiences and life lessons are worth exploring. It is truly encouraging to see Mayo's intriguing life story unfold and to get excited about how his purpose was...
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The Pool Is Closed: Segregation, Summertime, and the Search for a Place to SwimIn 2018, while teaching her kids to swim and working on urban river restoration projects, Hannah S. Palmer began a journal of social encounters with water. As she found herself dangling her feet in a seemingly all-white swimming pool, she started to worry about...
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The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story"Sam Wasson's supremely entertaining book tracks the ups and downs, ins and outs, of a remarkable career. . . . A marvel of unshowy reportage."--New York TimesThe New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. and The Big Goodbye returns with the...
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The Nomads Of The Badlands: Continuing the Wilhelm's Adventures Prospecting the Mojave Deserts of Arizona, Nevada, and California in 1915With Nomads Of The Badlands: Walt continues the autobiographical family story he started in Last Rig To Battle Mountain. 'Nomads' is filled with tales and details vital to a meaningful understanding of the people, places and times that were the Mohave and Mojave Deserts...
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The Life VestEmbark on a captivating journey into Mr. Ollie's life with "The Life Vest." This lively illustrated graphic memoir delves into the bumpy path that intensified his passion for cartooning. It also reveals how a significant health issue transformed his outlook on life and his...
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The Life of Lisa Marie Presley: From the King's Daughter to a Queen of Her Own DestinyPlunge into the enrapturing life of Lisa Marie Presley, a lady whose excursion repeats the incredible strides of her famous dad, Elvis Presley. This intimate biography reveals the enigmatic layers of Lisa's life-a tale of music, legacy, love, and the unrelenting pursuit of her...
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The Legacy of Billy Lee: An American HeroThis is a story about the life and times of William "Billy" Lee. This is the story of an American hero.William "Billy" Lee was filled with concern as he walked up the lane with his brother to their new home at the Mount Vernon...
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