Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Drawn to the LightDrawn to the Light is a captivating memoir that chronicles the life of an empathic child born into a loving and psychic family. From the author's birth, readers will follow her journey of discovering spirituality and finding her place in the spiritual world. This...
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L.A. Interchanges: A Brown & Queer Archival Memoir"A Powerful Memoir and Documentary History"By combining the intimacy of a personal memoir with the rigor of documentary history, Lydia Otero weaves together a rich narrative of identity, activism, and personal transformation. With meticulous attention to detail, Otero traverses the homes of family members...
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Chancing Your Arm: How I Made It Big in BritainWHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BECOME A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS OWNER IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY? Chancing Your Arm is one man's entertaining and unflinchingly honest story of business and personal success against all odds. David García González' inspirational account of his odyssey from ordinary person...
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A Tourist From Petach Tikva: Growing Up Alongside the Creation of the State of Israel"An enjoyable, touchingly personal account of a turbulent time in the Middle East." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Shulamit Frankel grew up in the tumultuous years during the creation of the State of Israel. In this book, she shares candid reflections of her young life...
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Tse Tsan Tai (1872-1938): An Australian-Cantonese Opinion Maker in British Hong KongWho was Tse Tsan Tai? Insurrectionist? Socialite? Patriot? Revolutionary?Born and raised in Australia and trained in Anglo-Hong Kong's civil service, Tse Tsan Tai (1872-1938) was all of these and more. A first native media man and anti-Qing patriot, he advocated independent thinking and a...
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Resurrected Roadkill: Triumph over Tragedy and Awakening from the Unlived LifeMelanie caught a life-threatening disease within one day of her birth. The heroic care to save her life was successful - except for the early affects of trauma, affecting her through life. Growing up in chronic conflict with parents, babysitters, and schools, Melanie "learned"...
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The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch MastersArriving as a young writer in an ancient Dutch town, Benjamin Moser found himself visiting--casually at first, and then more and more obsessively--the country's great museums. Inside these old buildings, he discovered the remains of the Dutch Golden Age and began to unearth the...
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Intended for Evil: A Survivor's Story of Love, Faith, and Courage in the Cambodian Killing FieldsA True Story of Surviving Genocide and Forging a New LifeWhen the Khmer Rouge took Phnom Penh in 1975, new Christian Radha Manickam and his family were among two million people driven out of the city. Over the next four years, 1.7 million people--including...
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The Spider and the Fly: A Writer, a Murderer, and a Story of ObsessionWinner of the Washington State Book Award for Memoir"Extraordinarily suspenseful and truly gut-wrenching. . . . A must-read."--Gillian Flynn, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Gone GirlIn this superb work of literary true crime--a spellbinding combination of memoir and psychological suspense--a female...
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Living My Best Life, Hun: Following Your Dreams Is No JokeFrom stand-up comedian, actress, and host of The Netflix Afterparty, London Hughes, comes an uplifting and raucously funny memoir to show you how to ditch the self-loathing, start the self-loving, and engage with your inner winner. London Hughes has come a long way from...
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The Widow Spy: My CIA Journey from the Jungles of Laos to Prison in MoscowThe Widow Spy is the firsthand account of a true Cold War spy operation in Moscow, told exclusively by the CIA case officer who lived this experience. Martha D. Peterson was one of the first women to be assigned to Moscow, a very difficult...
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Bringing Columbia Home Lib/E: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her CrewOn February 1, 2003, Columbia disintegrated on reentry before the nation's eyes, and all seven astronauts aboard were lost. Author Mike Leinbach, Launch Director of the space shuttle program at NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center was a key leader in the search and...
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Aftershocks: A MemoirThis poetic, genre-bending work--blending memoir with cultural history--from Whiting Award winner Nadia Owusu grapples with the fault lines of identity, the meaning of home, black womanhood, and the ripple effects, both personal and generational, of emotional trauma. Nadia Owusu grew up all over the...
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Service of Ladies: An AutobiographyUlrich von Liechtenstein's extraordinary account of his adventures as a knight-errant is one of the most vivid images of chivalric life. Ulrich von Liechtenstein's extraordinary account of his adventures as a knight-errant is one of the most vivid images of chivalric life to have...
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Dare To Be You: Break free from the shackles of the past to become yourself, outstanding and unstoppable!Dare To Be You" is a very broad overview of the Authors life and the trials and tribulations she personally went through to become the person she is today.To get to where Lynette is today, she had to turn her life completely upside down....
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Comforts of the Abyss: The Art of Persona WritingThroughout his growth as a writer, acclaimed poet Philip Schultz has battled with the dark voice in his head--the "shitbird," as his late friend the poet Ralph Dickey termed it--that whispers his insecurities and questions his ability to create. Persona writing, a method of...
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Talking to My AngelsTwenty years after the success of her first memoir, the New York Times bestseller The Truth Is . . ., the Grammy and Oscar award-winning rocker and trailblazing LGBTQAI icon takes stock of the intervening years, recounting the euphoric triumphs and the life-altering tragedies...
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Francis of Assisi: His Life, Vision and CompanionsAn accessible introduction to the life of this most-venerated saint. This book is an accessible biography of Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscan religious order and one of the most venerated figures in Christianity. In it, Michael F. Cusato explores how Francis and...
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The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's FutureFranklin Foer tells the definitive insider story of the first two years of the Biden presidency, with exclusive access to Biden's longtime team of advisers, and presents a gripping portrait of a president during this momentous time in our nation's history. On January 20,...
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Cristiano RonaldoNearly all of Cristiano Ronaldo's life has revolved around soccer. As a talented forward, he has scored more goals in international games than any other male player in the world! This hi-lo book has engaging text and vibrant photos that get readers eager to...
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