Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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The Lafferty Girl: Surviving Trauma, Abuse, and My Father's CrimesThe messianic beliefs of radical LDS fundamentalists Dan Lafferty and his brother Ron drove them to commit an unspeakable crime.This is a riveting, raw, and unfiltered look at the Lafferty family saga from a daughter who lived it, and of her journey to self-love...
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The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness: A MemoirThe darkly funny memoir of Sarah Ramey's years-long battle with a mysterious illness that doctors thought was all in her head--but wasn't. In her harrowing, darkly funny, and unforgettable memoir, Sarah Ramey recounts the decade-long saga of how a seemingly minor illness in her...
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The Jaws LogWinner of three Oscars and the highest-grossing film of its time, Jaws was a phenomenon, and this is the only book on how twenty-six-year-old Steven Spielberg transformed Peter Benchley's number-one bestselling novel into the classic film it became.Hired by Spielberg as a screenwriter to...
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The Inherited Mind: A Story of Family, Hope, and the Genetics of Mental IllnessA compelling memoir by ABC News correspondent James Longman in which he discusses mental illness and trauma in families, what the latest genetic science is telling us, and how to not only persevere but thrive. James Longman was a preteen in boarding school when...
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The Hiding Place: A Graphic NovelOne of the bestselling books of all time-- now a captivating graphic novel!It's World War II. Darkness has fallen over the world as the Nazis spread fear and hatred. No one feels safe. But on a city corner in Holland one woman fights against...
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The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz SurvivorA New York Times BestsellerIn this uplifting memoir in the vein of The Last Lecture and Man's Search for Meaning, a Holocaust survivor pays tribute to those who were lost by telling his story, sharing his wisdom, and living his best possible life.Born in...
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The Girl with Seven Names: Escape from North KoreaNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn extraordinary insight into life under one of the world's most ruthless and secretive dictatorships - and the story of one woman's terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom.As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo...
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The Gates of Gaza: A Story of Betrayal, Survival, and Hope in Israel's BorderlandsWINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD "Incredibly powerful ... [The Gates of Gaza is] a rescue story, but also a reported history of the tragedy that is Israel's Gaza policy. It helped me to understand how we got to this horrible point."--Susan Glasser,...
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The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning SongsIn The Future Is Disabled, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha asks some provocative questions: What if, in the near future, the majority of people will be disabled--and what if that's not a bad thing? And what if disability justice and disabled wisdom are crucial to creating...
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The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill HitlerThe Faithful Spy is the dramatic true story of German pastor and Nazi resister Dietrich Bonhoeffer come to life in this award-winning graphic novel from John Hendrix. "Intertwines two stories: the insidious rise of Hitler with his creed of hatred and Bonhoeffer's development as...
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The Explorers: A New History of America in Ten ExpeditionsA fascinating new history of America, told through the stories of a diverse cast of ten extraordinary--and often overlooked--adventurers, from Sacagawea to Matthew Henson to Sally Ride, who pushed the boundaries of discovery and determined our national destiny."Brilliantly imaginative, beautifully written." --David Blight, Pulitzer...
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The End Is the Beginning: A Personal History of My MotherJill Bialosky, the poet behind the "tender, absorbing, and deeply moving memoir" (Entertainment Weekly) History of a Suicide, returns with a lyrical portrait of her mother's life, told in reverse order from burial to birth. When Iris Yvonne Bialosky died in an assisted care...
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The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; DependencyCalled "a masterpiece" by The New York Times, the acclaimed trilogy from Tove Ditlevsen, a pioneer in the field of genre-bending confessional writing. Tove Ditlevsen is today celebrated as one of the most important and unique voices in twentieth-century Danish literature, and The Copenhagen...
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The Collected Schizophrenias: EssaysPowerful, affecting essays on mental illness, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and a Whiting Award An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts...
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The Cancer JournalsMoving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political as she reflects on her experience coping with breast cancer and a radical mastectomy. A Penguin Classic First published over forty years ago, The Cancer Journals is a startling, powerful...
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and HopeNow a Netflix Film, Starring and Directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor of 12 Years a SlaveWilliam Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a country where magic ruled and modern science was mystery. It was also a land withered by drought and hunger. But William had read...
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The Boy Who Grew a Forest: The True Story of Jadav PayengFlorida Book Award Gold Winner Recipient of the 2019 Eureka! Honors AwardWinner -Best of 2019 Kids Books - Most Inspiring Category As a boy, Jadav Payeng was distressed by the destruction deforestation and erosion was causing on his island home in India's Brahmaputra River....
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The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old ManOne of our nation's most prominent writers discovers the truth about how to live a long and happy life from the centenarian next door in this "original and highly readable account of a splendid American life" (The Wall Street Journal). When a veteran Washington...
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Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York CityThe life and 1984 murder of a beloved Black grandmother that changed community activism forever--and sparked the ongoing movement against racist policing and brutality #SayHerName: The story of Eleanor Bumpurs, told for the first time by decorated historian and Bumpurs's former neighbor LaShawn Harris...
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Taylor Swift's the Eras Tour EncyclopediaThis title offers readers a backstage pass to Taylor Swift's iconic The Eras Tour. Included in this comprehensive encyclopedia is a detailed exploration of each tour stop in North America, the stage design, costumes, and dancers, and an in-depth analysis of every song featured...
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