Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Strong Roots: A Memoir of Food, Family, and UkraineWhen Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, award-winning Ukrainian chef and food writer Olia Hercules decided it was finally time to tell her story. Strong Roots is the story of a century in Ukraine told through four generations of one extraordinary...
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Starting Somewhere: Community Organizing for Socially Awkward People Who've Had EnoughStarting Somewhere: Community Organizing for Socially Awkward People Who've Had Enough offers readers a crash course in organizing, educating, and agitating in the 21st Century. Written with a mix of incriminating anecdotes, personal retellings, and historical examples, Starting Somewhere is a first-person look at...
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Spurgeon: A BiographyThis book will meet the need of those completely ignorant of Spurgeon and his vast achievements, but will stir also the interest of all who value his unique ministry.Author: Arnold A. DallimorePublisher: Banner of Truth TrustPublished: 06/01/1987Pages: 8Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.30w...
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Sonny Boy: A MemoirThe Instant New York Times Bestseller - One of People Magazine's Top 10 Books of the Year "The rare celebrity memoir that's also a literary read. As funny as it is reflective, it shares stories behind Pacino's hardscrabble upbringing, classic films and journey to...
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Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave: My Cemetery JourneysAn enchanting, highly personal tour of some of the most iconic cemeteries of the world--part travelogue, part memoir, part "excursions through death," by the author of Our Share of Night and "queen of horror" (Los Angeles Times) "Not a travelogue so much as a...
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Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human SmugglingWINNER OF THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION A TIME 10 Best Nonfiction Book of 2024 - An NPR Book We Love 2024 - A New York Times Notable Book of 2024 - A Boston Globe Best Book of 2024 "A work of...
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the CrematoryArmed with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre, Caitlin Doughty took a job at a crematory and turned morbid curiosity into her life's work. She cared for bodies of every color, shape, and affliction, and became an intrepid explorer...
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Simon Peter: Flawed But Faithful DiscipleSimon Peter--an ordinary fisherman who heard an extraordinary call. He left everything to follow his teacher and possessed a passion that would change the world. That's one way to describe Peter. Here's another: poor, uneducated, quick-tempered, and full of doubts and fears. Doesn't even...
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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 a rich examination of an underdog genre that helped...
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Setting the TableThe bestselling business book from award-winning restauranteur Danny Meyer, of Union Square Cafe, Gramercy Tavern, and Shake ShackSeventy-five percent of all new restaurant ventures fail, and of those that do stick around, only a few become icons. Danny Meyer started Union Square Cafe when...
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Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood Memories of the Civil Rights DaysSheyann Webb was eight years old and Rachel West was nine when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. arrived in Selma, Alabama, on January 2, 1965. He came to organize non-violent demonstrations against discriminatory voting laws. Selma, Lord, Selma is their firsthand account of the...
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Scar TissueIn this "vivid and inspiring" New York Times bestseller (Newsweek), the Red Hot Chili Peppers' lead singer and songwriter shares a searingly honest account of life in the rock scene's fast lane--from the darkness into the light. In 1983, four self-described "knuckleheads" burst out...
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Rewriting the Rules: How Dr. Kathleen Friel Created New Possibilities for Brain Research and DisabilityWhen Kathleen Friel was young, she was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, and a doctor told her parents all the things she'd never be able to do. They left his office for good and found a new doctor. As Kathleen grew up, she found her...
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Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)The searing, visionary memoir of founding Black Panther Huey P. Newton, in a dazzling graphic package Tracing the birth of a revolutionary, Huey P. Newton's famous and oft-quoted autobiography is as much a manifesto as a portrait of the inner circle of America's Black...
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Renegade Grief: A Guide to the Wild Ride of Life After LossFrom grief quests to altar-making, to dinner parties to Dungeons & Dragons, Renegade Grief is an "offering to the struggle and art of being human" (Krista Tippett, New York Times bestselling author) and a profound, vulnerable exploration of care practices and rituals that empower...
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Realm of Ice and Sky: Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic RescueTwo-time National Outdoor Book Award-winning author Buddy Levy's thrilling narrative of polar exploration via airship―and the men who sacrificed everything to make history. Arctic explorer and American visionary Walter Wellman pioneered both polar and trans-Atlantic airship aviation, making history's first attempts at each. Yet,...
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Ready for My Close-Up: The Making of Sunset Boulevard and the Dark Side of the Hollywood DreamFor readers of Sam Wasson and Glenn Frankel, a cultural history about the making and lasting significance of Sunset Boulevard, whose piercing--and in many ways, prophetic--critiques of fame continue to resonate today. Great films are born of great collaborations, and Sunset Boulevard represents one...
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Queen of All Mayhem: The Blood-Soaked Life and Mysterious Death of Belle Starr, the Most Dangerous Woman in the WestA riveting, deeply researched, blood-on-the-spurs biography of Belle Starr, the most legendary female outlaw of the American West. On February 3, 1889, just two days shy of her forty-first birthday, Myra Maybelle Shirley--better known at that point by her outlaw sobriquet "Belle Starr"--was blown...
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Pure Innocent Fun: EssaysNATIONAL BESTSELLER - In this nostalgic and raucous collection of sixteen original essays, Ira Madison III--critic, television writer, and host of the beloved Keep It podcast--combines memoir and criticism to offer a brand-new pop-culture manifesto. "This is the most fun I've had reading all...
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Proof of Life: Let Go, Let Love, and Stop Looking for Permission to Live Your LifeNATIONAL BESTSELLER An urgent rallying cry to stop holding back and start living life on your terms. Jen Pastiloff convinced herself My life is fine and fine's enough, until the whisper that something was missing turned full-on scream. This is Pastiloff's account of how...
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