Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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By My HandsThe internet's favorite potter opens up about his life and craft in this inspiring, stunningly photographed ode to the beauty of small things that brighten life's daily rituals. Florian Gadsby has devoted his life to pottery, refining his technique towards the point of perfection--and...
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Goering's Man in Paris: The Story of a Nazi Art Plunderer and His WorldA charged biography of a notorious Nazi art plunderer and his career in the postwar art world "[Petropoulos] brings Lohse into sharper focus, as a personality and axis point from which to explore a network of art dealers, collectors and museum curators connected to...
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The Thrill of the DealTHE THRILL OF THE DEAL is a story of the American dream, realized through real estate. In it, we see how Midwesterner Dale Marquardt moved to California and used imagination, guts, luck, and good humor to build a $50 million income-property portfolio that changed his...
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Book of Queens: The True Story of the Middle Eastern Horsewomen Who Fought the War on TerrorThe untold story of generations of Middle Eastern freedom fighters--horsewomen who safeguarded an ancient breed of Caspian horse--and their efforts to defend their homelands from the Taliban and others seeking to destroy them."A breathtaking book that revisits nearly one hundred years of Iranian history,...
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The Last Real World Champion: The Legacy of "Nature Boy" Ric FlairFor more than a century, professional wrestling has cultivated some of the most eccentric and compelling personalities. As the embodiment of flamboyance and intensity, the "Nature Boy" Ric Flair stood at wrestling's apex for decades, cementing his place as a once-in-a-lifetime athlete and performer....
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Serpents of War: An American Officer's Story of World War I Combat and CaptivitySerpents of War, the memoir of Pennsylvanian Major Harry Dravo Parkin, is a rare account of World War I as seen from the perspective of a battalion commander. As a mid-level officer responsible for the lives and welfare of over a thousand men, Parkin...
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What's Left Unsaid: My Life at the Center of Power, Politics & CrisisFrom the frontlines of the COVID crisis to the real events behind the meteoric rise and unfathomable fall of Governor Andrew Cuomo, one of the most powerful women in New York State government history shares her gripping and candid story for the first time....
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My Memoirs: An AutobiographyMany may think that 1917 and 2017 do not have much in common. Though times have changed, what is essential often stays the same. These memoirs are a thrilling narrative of Alphonso A. Christian I, a barefoot boy in the most remote and undeveloped...
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The Seattle SeahawksHear the roar of the crowd as people cheer for the Seattle Seahawks! In this hi-lo title, young readers will learn about this exciting team's history and traditions through engaging text and vibrant, action-packed photos. Special features provide a closer look at some of...
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No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: A Lyric EssayPart memoir, part manifesto, Chamorro climate activist Julian Aguon's No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies is a coming-of-age story and a call for justice--for everyone, but in particular, for Indigenous peoples. In bracing poetry and compelling prose, Aguon weaves together stories from his childhood in...
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Under the Mulberry Tree: A Contemporary Uyghur Anthology, Vol. IThe Contemporary Uyghur Anthology is a collection of Uyghur reflections in diaspora. Weaving together memories of the homeland, experiences of displacement, and transitions of identities, this anthology is a creative reflection of the beauty and complexities of the Uyghur experience. By centering Uyghur voices...
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Women Who DreamLife is meant to be a joyful journey, expressing your divine blueprint, soul gifts and radiant essence. If you are looking for inspiration for your own life. Join me and 29 other women as we share our stories of how we found the courage...
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The Coffin 400: All That Glitters Once Upon A Time TravelThe Coffin 400 honors a timeline of more than 400 years weaving a tapestry that links significant historical events through an awakening of rewritten memoirs of our very profound ancestors. It has been said, that my story is reviving a kind of "resurrection" if...
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Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic ScienceA bold and brilliant revisionist take on the history of psychedelics in the twentieth century, illuminating how a culture of experimental drugs shaped the Cold War and the birth of Silicon Valley. "It was not the Baby Boomers who ushered in the first era...
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Where There's a Will, There's a WayWhere There's a Will, There's a Way Ma was a crafty lady who had been taught well by her father and mother, Elias Samuel Totten and Nancy Jane Bradford Totten. She learned to cook, sew, plow, hoe, pick cotton, do housework, and dry apples...
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Lionel Messi - The Boy Who Dreamed of Being a Champion: An Argentinean Boy's Tale of Grit, Talent, and Triumph:: the Boy Who Dreamed of Being a ChampiLooking for an inspiring and engaging children's book that celebrates the life of one of the greatest soccer players of all time? Look no further than "Lionel Messi: The Boy Who Dreamed of Being a Champion"!This book from bestselling author Michael Langdon tells the...
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Looking For Martin Eden: The Diaries of a Romantic GirlPhysicists tell us that the past and future exist at the same time as the present. They are simply found in different parts of the universe's four-dimensional fabric called space-time. The author, utilizing her journals from the time she was ten, imagines traveling around...
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The Silent IntegratorsIn 1969, two young black men entered the University of Montevallo as its first African American student-athletes. It all happened in Montevallo, Alabama, a small, busy, predominately white, college town. There were court-ordered guidelines and federal government assessments, but no one marching... no one...
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Whatever It TakesIn 1915, the world is in turmoil. A war, the likes of which has never been seen, involves much of the known world. An Englishman, John Norton Griffiths, proposes using miners to tunnel under the enemy lines and destroy them from below. Once his...
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Towards a Political Theology: Significance of a Multigenerational MemoirOtis Clayton Sr writes the significance of a multigenerational memoir that delineates a trajectory for him to develop his own political theology. He insists that religion is useful as a means to achieve public policy objectives strategically and ultimately through nonviolent direct action. He...
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