Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Pretty Evil Pennsylvania: True Stories of Mobster Molls, Violent Vixens, and Murderous MatriarchsPennsylvania may have been founded by peaceful Quakers, but the sect's pacifist ways didn't dampen the state's enthusiasm for violent scandals-or capital punishment. In Pretty Evil Pennsylvania, historical true crime author Stephanie Hoover recounts the crimes of some of the Keystone State's most violent...
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Surviving the Streets: The Rags to Riches Life of a CEOSurviving the Streets is Paula Villarroel's personal tale of rising from the ashes to achieve a successful life. She believes we all have the power to break whatever chains hold us down and the generational shortcomings that often destroy a family line. All too...
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My Cup Runneth Over: Collected Stories of a LifetimeBorn in Nashville, Tennessee, Mary Binkley Williams details her first ninety-four years of watching her city and family grow side-by-side in her memoir, My Cup Runneth Over. She shares life as recorded in notebooks and paper scraps along the journey, and here is the...
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Michael Collins: The Lost LeaderIn print continuously for more than thirty years, this book is long established as a reliable and affectionate portrait. First, published in 1971, its great strength is that the author was able to interview Collins' surviving contemporaries and was offered unrestricted access to personal...
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John Moses Browning: The Life and Legacy of the American Gunsmith Who Modernized Automatic and Semi-Automatic Firearms*Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further readingThe Industrial Revolution that unfolded in Western societies at the dawn of the 19th century altered daily life as a rapidly developing paradigm. One historian suggests that in Europe and America, the highest known form of technology was...
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Touching the Jaguar: Transforming Fear Into Action to Change Your Life and the WorldThis eloquent book inspires us to create a new reality of what it means to be humans on this magnificent planet.--Deepak Chopra When New York Times bestselling author John Perkins was a young Peace Corps volunteer, his life was saved by an Amazonian shaman...
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Riding the Elephant: A Memoir of Altercations, Humiliations, Hallucinations, and ObservationsFrom the comedian, actor, and former host of The Late Late Show comes an irreverent, lyrical memoir in essays featuring his signature wit. Craig Ferguson has defied the odds his entire life. He has failed when he should have succeeded and succeeded when he...
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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: A Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical PoliticsThis classic work presents the candid wit and wisdom of George Washington Plunkitt (1842-1924), a longtime state senator from New York who represented the Fifteenth Assembly District and was especially powerful in New York City. Plunkitt was part of the city's Tammany Hall organization...
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Luka ModricFrom his childhood in Croatia to his triumphs in Europe and beyond, Luca Modri_ is one of the World's Greatest Soccer Players. The title features informative sidebars, exciting photos, a glossary, and an index. SportsZone is an imprint of Abdo Publishing Company.Author: Michael DeckerPublisher:...
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Caroline's Comets: A True StoryWith courage and confidence, Caroline Herschel (1750-1848) becomes the first woman professional scientist and one of the greatest astronomers who ever lived. Born the youngest daughter of a poor family in Hanover, Germany, Caroline was scarred from smallpox, stunted from typhus, and used by...
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The Farmer's Son: Calving Season on a Family FarmFor fans of The Shepherd's Life, a poignant memoir--and #1 Irish bestseller--about a wayward son's return home to his family's farm, and how he found a new beginning in an age-old world Farming has been in John Connell's family for generations, but he never...
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Kitchen Bitch: Life Lessons From Carol's KitchenKitchen Bitch is the story of Carol Frazzetta -- her life growing up in Brooklyn, her marriage, children, and move to Staten Island where she began her career by teaching cooking in her home. The book chronicles her desire for education, both academic and...
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A$ap Rocky: Master CollaboratorThis biography highlights the life and accomplishments of A$AP Rocky. Readers learn about Rocky's early life, inspiration to pursue music, and successes as a hip-hop artist. With striking photographs and thought-provoking sidebars, the book also explores Rocky's collaborative work with the A$AP Mob and...
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Jim Henson: Master Muppets Puppeteer & FilmmakerThis book takes a look at the life of Jim Henson, maker and creator of lovable Muppet characters like Kermit the Frog, Bert and Ernie, Big Bird, and Miss Piggy. The title is complete with historical black and white and color photographs, simple text,...
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A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J. B. S. HaldaneJ. B. S. Haldane's life was rich and strange, never short on genius or drama--from his boyhood apprenticeship to his scientist father, who first instilled in him a devotion to the scientific method; to his time in the trenches during the First World War,...
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Everything Beautiful in Its Time: Seasons of Love and LossJenna Bush Hager, the former first daughter and granddaughter, #1 New York Times bestselling author, and coanchor of the Today show, shares moving, funny stories about her beloved grandparents and the wisdom they passed on that has shaped her life.To the world, George and...
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From Sudden Death to Paradise: The Story of a Near-Death ExperienceIt's easy to take it all for granted and go through life feeling invincible-especially if you've spent your life successfully facing challenges, overcoming obstacles in the way, and working hard to improve yourself both mentally and physically. Yet for all of us, this feeling...
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Maria MontessoriMeet Maria Montessori and discover the story of her life and work in this engagingly illustrated biography--narrated by Montessori herself. Maria Montessori believed in the creative potential of every child--and she developed a brand-new approach to education, building on the way children naturally learn....
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Uncomfortably Numb: a memoir about the life-altering diagnosis of multiple sclerosisAbout losing one's life as it was once imagined, and the ultimate, uneasy peace that's achieved with the permanent uncertainty which accompanies living with a chronic illness.It begins with numbness on her left leg. Then it spreads. Even though an MRI finds a "mass"...
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In Love and Struggle: The Revolutionary Lives of James and Grace Lee BoggsJames Boggs (1919-1993) and Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015) were two largely unsung but critically important figures in the black freedom struggle. Born and raised in Alabama, James Boggs came to Detroit during the Great Migration, becoming an automobile worker and a union activist. Grace...
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