Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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The Story of Helen Keller: An Inspiring Biography for Young ReadersHelp kids ages 6 to 9 discover the life of Helen Keller--a story about hope, courage, and finding your voiceHelen Keller was a celebrated author, educator, and activist who believed in equality for people with disabilities. Before she made history as the first deaf...
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The Story of Harriet Tubman: An Inspiring Biography for Young ReadersDiscover the life of Harriet Tubman--a story about about courage, bravery, and freedom for kids ages 6 to 9Harriet Tubman became a celebrated leader in the fight to free people from slavery. Before that, she was a determined young girl who believed that everyone...
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The Secret Doctrine: The Classic Work, Abridged and AnnotatedMadame Blavatsky's Victorian-era masterpiece is now scaled down to its essentials, providing the most readable, accessible experience ever of one of history's seminal occult works. The Secret Doctrine, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky's masterwork on the origin and evolution of the universe and humanity itself, is...
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The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples TempleAn Edgar Award Finalist for Best Fact Crime "A thoroughly readable, thoroughly chilling account of a brilliant con man and his all-too vulnerable prey" (The Boston Globe)--the definitive story of preacher Jim Jones, who was responsible for the Jonestown Massacre, the largest murder-suicide in...
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The Rialto in Richmond Reconstructed: Confederates, Canada and CarpetbaggersJoin revisionist author Joseph P. Farrell as he looks at the money war between the Union government and the Confederacy. A rialto is a market or place of exchange, and in The Rialto in Richmond Reconstructed, Farrell examines the Confederate and Union monetary systems,...
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The Rest of Our LivesA lively and poignant exploration of life's latter decades.In The Rest of Our Lives, memoirist Judy Goldman brings her devoted readers dispatches from the edge of life, when turning eighty can be as surprising and baffling as losing your virginity or seeing The Beatles...
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There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest CatfishPart memoir, part explosive window into the mind of a catfisher, a thrilling personal account of three women coming face-to-face with an internet predator and teaming up to expose them. In 2011, three successful and highly educated women fell head over heels for the...
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The Portable Anna Julia CooperA collection of essential writings from the iconic foremother of Black women's intellectual history, feminism, and activism, who helped pave the way for modern social justice movements like Black Lives Matter and Say Her Name Winner of the American Library Association Award for Best...
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The Plot to Kill King: The Truth Behind the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.Bestselling author, James Earl Ray's defense attorney, and, later, lawyer for the King family William Pepper reveals who actually killed MLK. William Pepper was James Earl Ray's lawyer in the trial for the murder of Martin Luther King Jr., and even after Ray's conviction...
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The Pale-Faced Lie: A True StorySpur Award Winner for Best Western First Nonfiction Book - Spur Award Finalist for Best Western Contemporary Nonfiction - IPPY Silver Award for Best Memoir - Next Generation Indie Award for Best Memoir (Overcoming Adversity) - International Book Award for Best True CrimeA violent...
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The Outermost House: a Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)Long hailed as a classic of American nature writing, Henry Beston's eloquent chronicle of a solitary year spent on a Cape Cod beach was written in longhand at the kitchen table, in a little room overlooking the North Atlantic and the dunes. In 1926...
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The Orchid ThiefNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - THE BASIS FOR THE FILM ADAPTATION DIRECTED BY SPIKE JONZE AND STARRING NICOLAS CAGE AND MERYL STREEP The "eccentric, illuminating, [and] hilarious" (New York Daily News) true story of beauty and obsession...
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The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Hermann Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWIINOW THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE NUREMBERG In 1945, an improbable relationship between the fallen Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goering, and ambitious US Army physician, Douglas Kelley, becomes a hazardous quest into the nature of evil, amid the devastation of Europe at the end of World War...
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The Monk of MokhaNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "A gripping, triumphant adventure" (Los Angeles Times) from the bestselling author of The Circle--the incredible true story of a young Yemeni American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds...
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The Long Road to Justice: Unraveling Alex Murdaugh's Tangled WebThe saga of Alex Murdaugh: One juror's dramatic retelling of South Carolina's "trial of the century"One of the most high-profile cases in South Carolina history, The State of South Carolina v. Richard Alexander Murdaugh captured the attention of the nation and the world. While...
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The Little Guide to the Beatles: Quips and Quotes from the Fab FourThe Little Book of the Beatles is a superb book of quotations by, and about, the band that revolutionised popular music the world over. A perfect companion for Beatles fans everywhere, this collection of bite-sized quips helps capture exactly what made the Fab Four...
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The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford"The full-throated biography fans have been yearning for." --Kirkus Starred Review, April 2025 "McWilliams does a remarkable job connecting Stanford's poetry with his personal life, particularly his lifelong friendship with Irv Broughton, owner of a small press and Stanford's first publisher; his penchant for...
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The Last Cowboy: The True Story of One of DEA's Most Decorated Undercover AgentsThe Last Cowboy is the true story of an undercover agent with unconventional methods who became one of the most highly decorated agents in the history of the US Drug Enforcement Administration. At the heart of this story are the remarkable actions of the...
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The LamdonisDevorah Leah was a little girl with a big secret. She lived at a time when there were no Jewish schools for girls, and many people thought that girls shouldn't learn Torah at all. But Devorah Leah taught herself to read, and began studying...
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The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American MonarchThe "unputdownable" (Dave Eggers, National Book award finalist) story of the most infamous American con man you've never heard of: James Strang, self-proclaimed divine king of earth, heaven, and an island in Lake Michigan, "perfect for fans of The Devil in the White City"...
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