Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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The Famous Rift Between Freud and JungThe book is a fascinating exploration of the critical issues which precipitated and then led to the famous rift between Freud and Jung. Extensive commentary from the secondary literature was presented and analyzed with a view toward identifying those issues which apparently played the...
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The Covered SmileThe Covered Smile is a story of abuse, neglect, recovery, forgiveness and triumph. Even though dentists described her case as hopeless due to neglect, Sonja survived surgical removal of most of her teeth at age twelve. After multiple oral surgeries and a long struggle,...
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The Cougar Lady: Legendary Trapper of Sechelt InletEvery town has its celebrities, but Sechelt's own unique and larger-than-life personality is wholesome enough to satisfy all of North America's appetite for eccentrics. Asta Bergliot Solberg, or "Bergie," as her friends knew her, lived life on her own terms. She climbed wild mountain...
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The Complete Prophecies of NostradamusHere are the complete prophecies of Nostradamus. Nostradamus is the best known and most accurate mystic and seer of all times. There are those who say that he predicted Napoleon and even the attack on the World Trade Center. Read the prophecies and judge...
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The Catastrophe Hour: Selected EssaysFrom the New York Times-bestselling author of The Unspeakable and The Problem with Everything comes a new collection of unputdownable essays. "For the last five or six years, on many afternoons around 4 or 5 p.m., I've been overcome with the sensation that my...
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The Carpool Detectives: A True Story of Four Moms, Two Bodies, and One Mysterious Cold CaseThe incredible true story of a group of moms who, united by a search for purpose and shared passion for justice, attempt to solve a fifteen-year-old double murder A lot of us like to think we could solve a mystery. Can these four moms...
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The Boys in the Light: An Extraordinary World War II Story of Survival, Faith, and BrotherhoodAn epic story of the triumph of good over evil. The soldiers of D Company could not believe their eyes as they came face-to-face with the human cost of Hitler's evil: two teenage boys--survivors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald--who had escaped. The Boys in the...
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The Black Prince of Baseball: Hal Chase and the Mythology of the GameAs America lurched into the twentieth century, its national pastime was afflicted with the same moral malaise that was enveloping the rest of the nation. Players regularly bet on games, games were routinely fixed, and league politics were as dirty as the base paths....
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The Black Family Who Built America: The McKissacks, Two Centuries of Daring PioneersThe riveting story of the McKissack family--the founders of the leading Black design and construction firm in the United States, from its beginnings in the mid-1800s to its thriving status today--in a moving celebration of resilience and innovation. Captured in his native West Africa...
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The BeatlesThe Beatles In Pictures celebrates the career and legacy of one of history's most iconic groups through 300 archive photographs. The best-selling band in history, with sales of over a billion, The Beatles John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr have had...
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The Accident: July 21, 1960About the BookOn July 21, 1960, Bob Grudle was struck by a car at the age of five, leaving him unconscious for five weeks and partially paralyzed, having suffered multiple skull fractures. As a result, he ended up attending a school for handicapped children.Grudle...
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Tearing Down the Orange Curtain: How Punk Rock Brought Orange County to the WorldThe untold story of OC punk--the loud, rebellious force behind the '90s explosion of the Orange County music scene, featuring stories about legendary bands like Social Distortion, The Offspring, No Doubt, Sublime, The Adolescents, The Vandals, and many more When it comes to punk...
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Taking Flight: The Nadine Ramsey StoryIn October 1944, Nadine Ramsey was thirty-three and she was flying the cutting-edge P-51 Mustang to New Jersey, its last stop before heading to the war in Europe. The irrepressible young woman from Wichita had long been determined to fly and the gathering storm...
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Swimming Upstream: One Man's Fight to Save the Atlantic Wild SalmonPatsy Peril's memoir explores the impact of the Ardnacrusha hydro-electric station on Ireland's wildlife and the conservation of salmon.'Unlike me, the Atlantic wild salmon does not have a voice, so it cannot tell the story of why and how it has been driven to...
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Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre LordeA Time Must-Read Book of the YearA Publishers Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year A bold, innovative biography that offers a new understanding of the life, work, and enduring impact of Audre Lorde. We remember Audre Lorde as an iconic writer, a quotable...
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Surfer Stories: 12 Untold Stories by 12 Writers about 12 of the World's Greatest SurfersSurfer Stories is an unrivaled collection of unique, revealing, and intimate stories about twelve of the world's greatest surfers. From the monstrous walls of water at Teahupoo, to the reef-scraping barrels of Pipeline, to the endless peeling break of Jeffreys Bay, legendary surfers have...
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Steal AwayA poetry and prose collection that reflects a life loved and well-lived. With extensive travel, a satisfying career, and a beloved family, who could want more? Brenda says, When I reflect on my total life, I realize how truly fortunate I am to have...
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Sofia Perovskaya, Terrorist Princess: The Plot to Kill Tsar Alexander II and the Woman Who Led ItMore than ever, terrorist acts command enormous attention. Concerns about terrorism have led to sweeping new restrictive government policies on such matters as immigration and airline security. In an often repeated syndrome, the one lasting legacy the departed terrorists leave behind them is a...
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Sky Roads of the World: Amy Johnson's Story about Her Adventurous Flying CareerAmy Johnson bacame world famous as the first woman to fly solo in a historical journey from England to Australia in 1930. She also set records in other flights, including a 1931 flight from England to Japan, a 1932 flight from England to Cape...
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Sharing in the Groove: The Untold Story of the '90s Jam Band Explosion and the Scene That FollowedThe wild, untold oral history of the unlikely rise of Phish, Dave Matthews Band, Widespread Panic, Blues Traveler, and numerous other bands that helped define the 1990s jam band scene. Sharing in the Groove is the untold oral history behind the unlikely rise of...
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