Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Do It (Then Talk about it)"DO IT (then talk about it)," the captivating autobiography of Troy Scoughton, Sr. This compelling book chronicles Troy's life journey of making plans for his future, only to realize that life has its own plans for him. From his time serving in the Army...
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Disconnected: Portrait of a Neurodiverse Marriage"A powerful testimony about the ways neurodiverse couples can cause each other unintentional hurt." Mona Kay, MSW, Ph.D., host of the 'Neurodiverse Love' podcastIn a late-life romance, Eleanor marries Lars, a brilliant database expert, believing their fairytale love will last forever. However, just months...
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Dirty Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and FamilyIn the style of Crying in H Mart and Minor Feelings, filmmaker Jill Damatac blends memoir, food writing, and colonial history as she cooks her way through recipes from her native-born Philippines and shares stories of her undocumented family in America. Jill Damatac left...
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Diary of Latoya Hunter: My First Year in Junior HighLively, poignant, and utterly winning, The Diary of Latoya Hunter is a timely portrait of adolescence--about the universal challenges of youth and about the ways it is shaped by the inner city. It is also a lively introduction to a delightful girl whose humor...
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Diario de Un IncestoThis is a true story, told in the first person, of a woman that was submitted to sexual and physical abuse by her father when she was a young girl. It is the anatomy of a broken mind, the x-ray of an injured soul...
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Demons to Champions: How I fell in love with my neurodivergent maverick mindGary always knew he thought differently, seeing things others didn't. Labelled the "weird kid who never knew when to shut up". His mind a deluge of thoughts and ideas. The gift and curse of a neurodivergent mind. Taming this maverick would be a lifelong...
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Delegate and Disappear: Invisible Wounds and Mefloquine-Messed MindsOverlapping with and compounding the impacts of post-traumatic stress disorder, mefloquine toxicity is a condition caused by anti-malarial drugs once routinely used in the Canadian Armed Forces-issued and ordered to be taken by tens of thousands of veterans, some still serving, left with a...
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Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of JonestownHow did Jim Jones, the leader of Peoples Temple, convince more than 900 of his followers to commit "revolutionary suicide" by drinking cyanide-laced punch? From a master of narrative nonfiction comes a chilling chronicle of one of the most notorious cults in American history....
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Crooked Sidewalks TooWelcome to Crooked Sidewalks Too. I purposely titled it this way, and not Crooked Sidewalks Two, because it is a follow-up to my first book, Crooked Sidewalks. I also see it more as a 'Crooked Sidewalks "Also', or a continuation with more stories with...
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Courting the Virgin Queen: Queen Elizabeth I and Her SuitorsExamines Queen Elizabeth I's complex courtships, revealing how her romantic and political decisions shaped her reign as England's Virgin QueenThe many courtships of the woman who became Elizabeth I began when she was an infant, displayed before foreign ambassadors who considered her as a...
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Counterculture: The Story of America from Bohemia to Hip-HopA political and intellectual history of American counterculture and the historical figures who redefined mainstream understandings of freedom, culture, art, and politics--from The Beat Generation to Basquiat This entertaining, intellectual history fulfills the growing appetite for marginalized narratives. Counterculture brilliantly interrogates the diversity of...
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Could Have Been Should Have Been HERE I AM: An AutobiographyThis manuscript is an autobiography chronicling the various life paths that were presented to me and the choices I made throughout my journey. As I reflect on my experiences as a seventy-year-old man, I can now see the patterns and meanings that eluded me...
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Coosa County Turkey TalesIf you enjoy a challenge, if you like being humbled, if getting outdone regularly by a bird that has a brain the size of a marble appeals to you, then turkey hunting might just be for you! Seriously, I have been so blessed by...
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Connecting Dots: A Blind LifeThe extraordinary memoir of a scientist who became blind at a young age--how he navigates his experience and channels his genius into decades of cutting-edge work in accessibility--packed with humor, adventure, and insights on life and disability. At the age of four, Joshua Miele...
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Cockney RejectAuthor: Jeff TurnerPublisher: John BlakePublished: 04/05/2010Pages: 304Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.90dISBN: 9781844548811About the AuthorJeff Turner was the lead singer of the Cockney Rejects, a seminal punk outfit, and is a life-long fan of West Ham FC.This title is not returnable
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Coaching Football Ain't EasyCoaching Football Ain't Easy ignores the X's and O's of football in favor of a hilarious, irreverent, and occasionally grumpy memoir about the ups and downs of one man's career as a football coach.Author: Carlin B. CarpenterPublisher: Workplay PublishingPublished: 12/01/2012Pages: 188Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize:...
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Cinnabar Fields Seven Years in Lianyungang, ChinaA true story of wonder, romance, cultural adaptation, heartache, a potential new career path and family abroad: Cinnabar Fields is Garrett Bradway's personal record of his seven-year long stay in a small Chinese city. He arrived in the urban center of Lianyungang, Jiangsu province,...
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Chasing Your DreamsNo one ever sat down with me to teach me about the history of my country, the culture, the wealth, or how to count, measure, or any basic skills that most children learn in school and when they are growing up as they become...
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ChameleonKermit the Frog is famously known for his song titled "It's Not Easy Being Green." Although some might not give it much thought, the lyrics of the song actually have a lot in common with our own lives. In the song, Kermit shares his...
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Caravaggio and the Creation of ModernityNow in paperback, an accessible and beautifully illustrated account of Caravaggio as a catalyst for modernity. Undeniably one of the greatest artists of all time, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio would develop a radically new kind of psychologically expressive, realistic art and, in the sixteenth...
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