Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat TillmanNATIONAL BESTSELLER - A "gripping book about this extraordinary man who lived passionately and died unnecessarily" (USA Today) in post-9/11 Afghanistan, from the bestselling author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air.In 2002, Pat Tillman walked away from a multimillion-dollar NFL contract to...
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Where I Was from: A MemoirFrom the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Notes to John: In this "arresting amalgam of memoir and historical timeline" (The Baltimore Sun), Didion--a native Californian--reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history, and ours. Didion applies her scalpel-like...
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What the Bears Know: How I Found Truth and Magic in America's Most Misunderstood Creatures--A Memoir by Animal Planet's the Bear WhispererThe incredible story of how one man went from a hired hunter to becoming one of America's top champions for this iconic animal. **A Los Angeles Times and USA Today Bestseller** In this wondrous and eye-opening exploration, Steve Searles, the renowned and respected "Bear...
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What Rich Clients Want: (But Won't Tell You)How to Attract and Serve the World's Wealthiest ClientsYou want to build a successful service business with high-end clientele. But you don't know what matters to the affluent and why. You're looking for a proven process to earn their business, build trust, offer more...
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What My Mother and I Don't Talk about: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence"You will devour these beautifully written--and very important--tales of honesty, pain, and resilience" (Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and City of Girls) from fifteen brilliant writers who explore how what we don't talk about with our mothers affects...
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What in the World?!: A Southern Woman's Guide to Laughing at Life's Unexpected Curveballs and Beautiful BlessingsNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "This book is the inspirational story that we all need. No one makes me laugh harder than Leanne Morgan!"--Reese Witherspoon Look for Leanne Morgan's new sitcom, Leanne, and her hit standup special, I'm Every Woman, both available on Netflix....
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West with the Night: A MemoirA new edition of a great, underappreciated classic of our time Beryl Markham's West with the Night is a true classic, a book that deserves the same acclaim and readership as the work of her contemporaries Ernest Hemingway, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and Isak Dinesen....
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We Loved It All: A Memory of LifeAcross more than a dozen acclaimed works of fiction, readers have become intimate with Lydia Millet's distinctive voice and sly wit. We Loved It All, her first nonfiction book, combines the precision of fact with the power of narrative to evoke our enmeshment with...
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Washington: A LifeFrom the author of Alexander Hamilton, the New York Times bestselling biography that inspired the musical, comes a gripping portrait of the first president of the United States. Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Biography "Truly magnificent . . . [a] well-researched, well-written...
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Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the MovementThe award-winning national bestseller, Walking with the Wind, is one of our most important records of the American civil rights movement. Told by John Lewis, who Cornel West calls a "national treasure," this is a gripping first-hand account of theAuthor: John Lewis,Michael D'OrsoPublisher: Simon...
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Vision: A Memoir of Blindness and JusticeThe "moving, thoughtful, and inspiring memoir" (Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy) by one of America's most accomplished public servants and legal thinkers--who spent years denying and working around his blindness, before finally embracing it as an essential part of his identity. David Tatel...
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Venus and Aphrodite: A Biography of DesireA "lively, wide-ranging" (TheTimes, UK)cultural history of the goddess of love Aphrodite was said to have been born from the sea, rising out of a froth of white foam. But long before the ancient Greeks conceived of this voluptuous blonde, she existed as an...
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Unshrinking: How to Face FatphobiaNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - The definitive takedown of fatphobia, drawing on personal experience as well as rigorous research to expose how size discrimination harms everyone, and how to combat it--from the acclaimed author of Down Girl and Entitled "An elegant, fierce, and profound...
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Unbroken (the Young Adult Adaptation): An Olympian's Journey from Airman to Castaway to CaptiveIn this captivating and lavishly illustrated young adult edition of her award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller, Laura Hillenbrand tells the story of a former Olympian's courage, cunning, and fortitude following his plane crash in enemy territory. This adaptation of Unbroken introduces a new...
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The incredible true story of survival and salvation that is the basis for two major motion pictures: Unbroken and Unbroken: Path to Redemption. "Extraordinarily moving . . . a powerfully drawn survival epic."--The Wall Street Journal Hailed as...
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Unbreakable Boy: A Father's Fear, a Son's Courage, and a Story of Unconditional LoveThe Unbreakable Boy is the raucously tender story of the life of a teenage boy with a rare brittle-bone disease who joyfully embraces life's tragedies and triumphs. Now in trade paper.Meet Austin, an eighteen-year-old whose body is much more fragile than his spirit.Despite the...
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Unattached: A Year of Heartache, Hiking, and Learning How to LoveEveryone thinks 33-year-old travel writer Reannon Muth is brave for backpacking through dozens of countries on her own. But what Reannon's friends, travel blog readers, and boyfriend don't know is Reannon has an anxiety disorder that makes it difficult for her to get close...
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Two Badges: The Lives of Mona RuizThis engrossing memoir charts Ruiz's journey toward self-identity, tracing the tortuous path of her life--a life in which Ruiz assumed contradictory roles: gang chola, high school drop-out, disowned daughter, battered wife, welfare mother, student, and policewoman.Author: Mona Boucher RuizPublisher: Arte Publico PressPublished: 04/01/2005Pages: 288Binding...
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Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights MarchA memoir of the Civil Rights Movement from one of its youngest heroes--now in paperback will an all-new discussion guide. As the youngest marcher in the 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Albama, Lynda Blackmon Lowery proved that young adults can be...
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Truth & Beauty: A Friendship"A loving testament to the work and reward of the best friendships, the kind where your arms can't distinguish burden from embrace." -- PeopleNew York Times Bestselling author Ann Patchett's first work of nonfiction chronicling her decades-long friendship with the critically acclaimed and recently...
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