Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Chief William McIntosh"An excellent book fore understanding the settlement of Georgia from the Creek Indian point of view." - The Book ReportAuthor: George ChapmanPublisher: Cherokee Publishing Company (GA)Published: 03/10/2005Pages: 160Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.37dISBN: 9780877973140
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Nurse and Spy in the Union Army During the American Civil WarSoldier, nurse and spy for the Republic This is an extraordinary book by any standards and no short description of it could possibly do justice to its author or her book. Sarah Edmonds was a lady from the northern states of America who, when...
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Adventures in Darkness: The Summer of an Eleven-Year-Old Blind BoyIn Adventures in Darkness, Tom Sullivan takes readers through the adventures of his monumental eleventh year. Blind since birth, Tom lived in a challenging world of isolation and special treatment. But he was driven to break out and live as sighted people do. This...
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Freedom in the Wilds: An Artist in the AdirondacksHarold Weston's Freedom in the Wilds brings an informal history of the rugged Adirondack wilderness together with Weston's own adventures there as an artist. The vivid and spirited stories he gathered from guides, lumbermen, and visionaries continue to make the case for preserving the...
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The Tory's Wife: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary AmericaAuthor: Cynthia A. KiernerPublisher: University of Virginia PressPublished: 09/01/2023Pages: 224Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.06h x 5.91w x 1.02dISBN: 9780813949918
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Behold the Walls: Commemorative Edition Volume 3On August 19, 1958, Clara Luper and thirteen Black youth walked into Katz Drug Store in Oklahoma City and sat down at the lunch counter. When they tried to order, they were denied service. As they sat in silence, refusing to leave, the surrounding...
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Stars of World Soccer: Fourth EditionHere are the best of the best, from legends like Messi and Ronaldo to dynamic newcomers like Kylian Mbappé and Erling Haaland. This lively book features short biographies of some twenty-eight stars in all--goalkeepers, defenders, midfielders, and attackers. With the same action-packed photos and...
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Cutter Frisco: Growing Up on the Original Southfork Ranch: A MemoirI once had a horse named Cutter Frisco. Well, he wasn't exactly my horse. He actually belonged to my father, but I sure thought of him as mine. I was the one who took care of him, fed him, and washed him. I was...
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But We Said NoThere were thousands of Germans who fought courageously, and risked their and their families' lives taking a stand against Hitler, even after he and his criminal horde came to power. While a few of the most famous ones have received the publicity they well...
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Life and Death on the Mormon Frontier: The Murders of Frank LeSueur and Gus Gibbons by the Wild BunchThis thoroughly researched and vivid account examines a murderous spree by one of the West's most notorious outlaw gangs and the consequences for a small Mormon community in Arizona's White Mountains.On March 27, 1900, Frank LeSueur and Gus Gibbons joined a sheriff's posse to...
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Appetite for Risk: What It Is, Who Has It & How I Survived / An Adventure Memoir"Like the appetite for a piece of dark chocolate, risk is alluring, and its taste is savory, dopamine-triggering, life-affirming, delicious."Robert "Bud" Abbott should know. As a young man, he marched with MLK and joined the Peace Corps to avoid having to kill in Vietnam....
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Against Racial Capitalism: Selected Writings'Amidst all this talk of racial capitalism and abolition, there is one thinker we should all be reading: Neville Alexander. He is a revolutionary intellectual for our times and for our planet. For anyone committed to abolishing, not just studying, racial capitalism, this is...
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Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a WizardFrom the magical moments on set as Draco Malfoy to the challenges of growing up in the spotlight, get a backstage pass into Tom Felton's life on and off the big screen in this #1 New York Times bestseller. Tom Felton's adolescence was anything...
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Bing and Billie and Frank and Ella and Judy and BarbraCrosby, Holiday, Sinatra, Fitzgerald, Garland, and Streisand were the major interpreters of the American songbook, and this is the interlocking story of their lives and careers. Here is the epic tale of how these artists dominated American popular music over a fifty-year period, a...
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Joothan: An Untouchable's LifeOmprakash Valmiki describes his life as an untouchable, or Dalit, in the newly independent India of the 1950s. "Joothan" refers to scraps of food left on a plate, destined for the garbage or animals. India's untouchables have been forced to accept and eat joothan...
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The Art Of Marrying WellA Collection of Notes, Poetry, And A Little Something Extra When you are forced to move more carefully and mindfully through the world, you notice things differently. I certainly have. Andrew Niblock was diagnosed with ALS in 2016 at the age of 41. As...
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Capturing Skunk Alpha: A Barrio Sailor's Journey in VietnamOn the evening of July 11, 1967, a Navy surveillance aircraft spotted a suspicious trawler in international waters heading toward the Quang Ngai coast of South Vietnam. While the ship tried to appear innocuous on its deck, Saigon quickly identified it as an enemy...
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In Her Own Voice: A Woman's Rise to Ceo: Overcoming Hurdles to Change the Face of LeadershipIn Her Own Voice reveals how Jennifer McCollum and other C-suite women leaders have overcome the unique challenges women face in business. The data-grounded roadmap offers advice and empowerment for any woman who aspires to rise to more senior ranks in leadership...and any organization...
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My Peacock Tale: Secrets Of An NBC PageMy Peacock Tale: Secrets Of An NBC Page is a funny, sexy, gossipy, celebrity-filled memoir with real-life, never-before-told stories. Set against the backdrop of NBC Burbank in the mid-70s, the Pages had VIP access to stars ranging from Johnny Carson to Joan Rivers, Gilda...
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So Much to Do: A Full Life of Business, Politics, and Confronting Fiscal CrisesEvery city and every state needs a Richard Ravitch. In sixty years on the job, whether working in business or government, he was the man willing to tackle some of the most complex challenges facing New York. Trained as a lawyer, he worked briefly...
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