Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Freedom's Mirage: Virgil Bennehan's Odyssey from Emancipation to ExileFreedom's Mirage traces the exceptional life of Virgil Bennehan, born in bondage in 1808 in Piedmont North Carolina, who rose to become an enslaved doctor on one of the South's largest plantations and to view himself as a friend to Black and white people...
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Flowers In The Rain: The Untold Story of The MoveIn the pantheon of rock history - The Move have been overlooked but no longer. How do you describe The Move - one of the greatest British bands to come out the 1960s beat boom? Who incorporated the hippest, pop rock and mod soul...
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Finding Endurance: Shackleton, My Father and a World Without End'Engaging, absorbing and crammed with marvelous stories, Finding Endurance is a tale about exploring the cold, told with much warmth.' MICK HERRON, author, Slow Horses 'Tender, heartfelt and lyrical' PETINA GAPPAH, author, Out of Darkness, Shining Light Since the discovery of the wreck of...
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Fielder's Choice: Honoring Fallen Teammates from Bluffton UniversityWhat if the very life you knew and loved for twenty-two years was changed forever in the blink of an eye?What if everything you had worked on and sacrificed for close to twenty years was ruined in less than ten seconds? What if your...
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Feel AgainYoung, freshly married, and pregnant with her first child, Nicole Clark is met with devastating news: she has cancer, stage 2B. Suddenly, amid the hope she feels for this new life, she finds herself face to face with death.This leads her to reflect on...
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Fear No Pink: My Journey Through Cancer, Grief, and FaithColors have always been fascinating to author Kathy Daniels Jenkins, bringing with them a plethora of feelings and emotions. However, there was one color she could never erase from her memory-pink.After seeing her mother die young from cancer, leaving five children behind, Kathy forever...
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Fear No Pink: My Journey Through Cancer, Grief, and FaithColors have always been fascinating to author Kathy Daniels Jenkins, bringing with them a plethora of feelings and emotions. However, there was one color she could never erase from her memory-pink.After seeing her mother die young from cancer, leaving five children behind, Kathy forever...
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Far and Wide: Bring That Horizon to Me!35 concerts. 17,000 motorcycle miles. Three months. One lifetime. In May 2015, the veteran Canadian rock trio Rush embarked on their 40th anniversary tour, R40. For the band and their fans, R40 was a celebration and, perhaps, a farewell. But for Neil Peart, each...
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Failure Is an Option: An Attempted Memoir"Writing this funny requires immense talent." --AV Club H. Jon Benjamin--the lead voice behind Archer and Bob's Burgers--helps us all feel a little better about our own failures by sharing his own in a hilarious memoir-ish chronicle of failure. Most people would consider H....
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Extraordinary: From Stay-At-Home Mum to World-Class EntrepreneurHow did an 'ordinary' stay-at-home mother unlock her full potential and build a hundred-million-dollar global business? Leaving the corporate world to become a stay-at-home mother, Yvon Bock thought she was settling for an ordinary life. However, a death-defying experience inspired her to make a...
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Everything is Closed on Sunday: Diaries of a Southern Queer TeenagerDeeply personal, this is a collection of journal entries that were written during Rin's teenage years until age twenty-one. It is a unique look into the life of a queer teen growing up in the south and eventually leaving.Author: Rin StonePublisher: Deep OverstockPublished: 11/05/2024Pages:...
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Enough: Climbing Toward a True Self on Mount EverestA searching, uplifting memoir by the celebrated, groundbreaking climber: a journey of overcoming where the mountain's highest peaks can only be reached by traversing the dark crevasses of the soul At twenty-seven, when Melissa Arnot Reid accepted a tank of oxygen just short of...
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Elvis and the Colonel: An Insider's Look at the Most Legendary Partnership in Show BusinessA fresh biography of legendary entertainment manager Colonel Tom Parker, with a contrarian and corrective point of view.Colonel Tom Parker, often reviled in his time, led the strategy from the earliest days of Elvis's career. Together, they built the most legendary partnership in show...
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Elon Musk: La Biografía de un EmprendedorELON MUSK Quieres saber más sobre una de las figuras más innovadoras e influyentes de nuestro tiempo? No busques más: "Elon Musk: La Biografía de un Emprendedor". Este libro detallado y actualizado sobre la vida del empresario e inventor Elon Musk es una lectura...
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Eastern Inferno: The Journals of a German Panzerjäger on the Eastern Front, 1941-43Participating in every key campaign on the Eastern Front, a young German soldier keeps a private uncensored diary as he battles the Red Army to conquer Russia.This book presents the remarkable personal journals of a German soldier who participated in Operation Barbarossa and subsequent...
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Ducks: Two Years in the Oil SandsA New York Times Notable Book; a Barack Obama's end of year favorite of 2022; and the winner of Canada ReadsKate Beaton's Ducks stunned the world with its unflinching honesty and candid vulnerability, cementing its place in the graphic novel canon alongside Maus, Persepolis,...
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Dreaming From the Trunk of an American CarThe memoir, Dreaming from the Trunk of an American Car, recounts a story shared by many immigrants who are in pursuit of the American dream. Through intertwining his personal experiences with those of his ancestors, the author guides readers through his formative years and...
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Downrange at Gardez: Forward Operating Base LightningExperience a soldier's journey in Afghanistan through the lens of a sergeant. Discover military life, perilous drives on icy roads, and the power of home support in this compelling tale.Downrange at Gardez is a raw, unfiltered account of Sergeant First Class Wynn's life on...
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Double Exposure: Resurveying the West with Timothy O'Sullivan, America's Most Mysterious War Photographer"Singular . . . Virtuosic . . . Double Exposure is the best book I've read about America . . . in many, many years." --Corey Seymour, Vogue (a best book of 2024)"Extraordinary . . . A transformative experience for the reader." --Lucy Sante...
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Do Not Cry When I Die: A Holocaust Memoir of a Mother and Daughter's Survival in Jewish Ghettos, Auschwitz, and Bergen-BelsenOne of the oldest living Holocaust survivors recounts her family's imprisonment at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen in this moving memoir of love, loss, courage, and hope. "I only survived because of my mother's love." When German soldiers invaded Poland in September 1939, it began a...
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