Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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The Genius of Birds"Lovely, celebratory. For all the belittling of 'bird brains, ' [Ackerman] shows them to be uniquely impressive machines . . ." --New York Times Book Review "A lyrical testimony to the wonders of avian intelligence." --Scientific American An award-winning science writer tours the globe...
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The Friendship Bench: How Fourteen Grandmothers Inspired a Mental Health Revolution"Dixon Chibanda's beautiful and heroic book will inspire everyone who reads it." -- Johann Hari As featured on CBS Sunday Morning and NPR's Here and Now A simple, human solution for loneliness and depression When Dr. Dixon Chibanda lost a patient to suicide, he...
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The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family MemoirThe instant New York Times bestseller - Named a Best Book of the Year by TIME, NPR, People, Town & Country, and Air Mail "Warm and perceptive." --New York Times "Griffin Dunne knows how to tell a story." --Washington Post"Dunne is a prospector for...
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The Flipside: How to Invert Your Perspective and Turn Fear Into Your SuperpowerFormer Thunderbird Lead Solo Michelle "MACE" Curran provides a blueprint for converting your fear into a strength based on the hard-earned lessons she learned in the cockpit and beyond. Michelle Curran can fly an F-16 fighter jet upside down, but she's afraid of spiders....
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The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry ChristopheSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE - The essential biography of the controversial rebel, traitor, and only king of Haiti. Henry Christophe is one of the most richly complex figures in the history of the Americas, and was, in his time, popular and...
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The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth CenturyTHE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF A RENAISSANCE-ERA EXECUTIONER AND HIS WORLD, BASED ON A RARE AND OVERLOOKED JOURNAL. In a dusty German bookshop, the noted historian Joel F. Harrington stumbled upon a remarkable document: the journal of a sixteenth-century executioner. The journal gave an account...
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The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar BerlinMore than a century ago, Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, dubbed the "Einstein of Sex," grew famous (and infamous) for his liberating theory of sexual relativity. Today, he's been largely forgotten.Journalist Daniel Brook retraces Hirschfeld's rollicking life and reinvigorates his legacy, recovering one of the great...
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The Eclipse of 1919: How Einstein's Theory of General Relativity Changed Our WorldFrom his earliest days as a child, Albert Einstein was fascinated with the relationship between light and gravity. He couldn't stop thinking about the laws of the universe, and was determined to describe how motion and time, and energy and mass, all worked together....
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The Distance Between UsIn this inspirational and unflinchingly honest memoir, acclaimed author Reyna Grande describes her childhood torn between the United States and Mexico, and shines a light on the experiences, fears, and hopes of those who choose to make the harrowing journey across the border. Reyna...
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The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the Cia, and the Rise of America's Secret GovernmentAn explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the most powerful--and secretive--colossus in Washington, from the founder of Salon.com and author of the New York Times bestseller Brothers.America's greatest untold story: the United States' rise to world dominance...
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The Determined Spy: The Turbulent Life and Times of CIA Pioneer Frank WisnerFrom Douglas Waller, New York Times bestselling author of Wild Bill Donovan, an intimate and expertly researched biography of little-known early CIA leader Frank Wisner, whose behind-the-scenes influence on Cold War policy--and hundreds of highly secret anti-Soviet missions--resonates with the international crises we see...
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Picture Book EditionThe picture book retelling of the New York Times bestseller - Now a Netflix film starring and directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor! A lyrical and gloriously illustrated true story of one boy's determination to help his community that shows how--even in the worst of times--a...
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The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible....on Schindler's List"Much like The Boy In the Striped Pajamas or The Book Thief," this remarkable memoir from Leon Leyson, one of the youngest children to survive the Holocaust on Oskar Schindler's list, "brings to readers a story of bravery and the fight for a chance...
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The Book of (More) Delights: EssaysFrom bestselling author of The Book of Delights and award-winning poet, a book of lyrical mini-essays celebrating the everyday that will inspire readers to rediscover the joys in the world around us. The author of the New York Times bestselling The Book of Delights...
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The Beatles: A Little Golden Book BiographyHelp your little one dream big with a Little Golden Book biography about one of the greatest bands of all time--The Beatles! Little Golden Book biographies are the perfect introduction to nonfiction for young readers--as well as fans of all ages! This Little Golden...
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The Asylum Seekers: A Chronicle of Life, Death, and Community at the BorderLearn the human stories of what happens at the border. A remarkable, decimating work of reporting by award-winning journalist and priest Cristina Rathbone about asylum seekers trapped at a port of entry to the US: the trauma they carry, the community they create, and...
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The ArgonautsAn intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love...
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The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered PlanetGoodreads Choice winner for Nonfiction 2021 and instant #1 bestseller! A deeply moving collection of personal essays from John Green, the author of The Fault in Our Stars and Turtles All the Way Down. "The perfect book for right now." -People"The Anthropocene Reviewed is...
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The Answer Is in the Wound"Lyrical and brutal, intimate and culturally relevant. I've never read anything like it."--Maggie SmithAn intimate, linked, lyrical essay collection focusing on the longer-lasting effects of trauma and PTSD on survivors--challenging a culture in which violence against women is normalized and illuminating the nonlinear, complex...
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The Acid Queen: The Psychedelic Life and Counterculture Rebellion of Rosemary Woodruff Leary"Shines a light on one of the twentieth century's most amazing untold life stories. ... An essential read--and an unforgettable trip." --Robert Kolker, author of Hidden Valley Road "Cahalan details a piece of lost but fascinating history, the story of a woman who embodied...
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