Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Love Wins: The Lovers and Lawyers Who Fought the Landmark Case for Marriage EqualityThe fascinating and very moving story of the lovers, lawyers, judges and activists behind the groundbreaking Supreme Court case that led to one of the most important, national civil rights victories in decades--the legalization of same-sex marriage.In June 2015, the Supreme Court made same-sex...
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101 Lessons From The SkyThe companion book to the best selling General Aviation book '81 Lessons From The Sky'.101 Lessons From The Sky focusses on commercial and air transport aviation, and is possible thanks to the pilots who shared their failings and misadventures. Read 101 true stories from...
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Streetcar to Justice: How Elizabeth Jennings Won the Right to Ride in New YorkStarred reviews hail Streetcar to Justice as "a book that belongs in any civil rights library collection" (Publishers Weekly) and "completely fascinating and unique" (Kirkus). An ALA Notable Book and winner of a Septima Clark Book Award from the National Council for the Social...
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Play by Play: Calling the Wildest Games in Sports-From SEC Football to College Basketball, the Masters, and MoreOne of America's most beloved sportscasters turns the spotlight on his own life, chronicling his incredible life covering Southeastern Conference football and some of the most iconic moments in sports history over the last five decadesVerne Lundquist's remarkable broadcasting career has placed him at...
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Where the Past Begins: A Writer's MemoirFROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR AMY TAN, A MEMOIR ON HER LIFE AS A WRITER, HER CHILDHOOD, AND THE SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FICTION AND EMOTIONAL MEMORYIn Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy...
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Until Victory AlwaysBord Gais Energy Sports Books of the Year 'Sports Book of the Year' The Sunday Times 'McGuinness' story is remarkable.' The Irish Independent 'A powerful blend of defiance and vulnerability ... memorable and distinctive.' The Irish Times Before Jim McGuinness took over as manager...
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Kidnapped by the Taliban: A Story of Terror, Hope, and Rescue by Seal Team SixBeing abducted and held captive by the Taliban isn't a tale many survive to tell. An American doctor shares the harrowing story about the four days he spent with his captors after being abducted on a humanitarian mission and his incredible rescue by SEAL...
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Perfect I'm Not: Boomer on Beer, Brawls, Backaches, and BaseballBaseball's most beloved bad-ass offers a smart, wildly entertaining, jaw-droppingly honest look at the game he knows, loves, and lived. On May 17th 1998, David "Boomer" Wells became the 14th man in Major League Baseball History to ever throw a perfect game. He stands...
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Sex with Shakespeare: Here's Much to Do with Pain, But More with LoveA provocative, moving, kinky, and often absurdly funny memoir about Shakespeare, love, obsession, and spankingWhen it came to understanding love, a teenage Jillian Keenan had nothing to guide her--until a production of The Tempest sent Shakespeare's language flowing through her blood for the first...
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The Private Lives of the ImpressionistsNew York Times Bestseller"Anyone who has ever lost themselves in Monet's color-saturated gardens or swooned over Degas's dancers will enjoy this revealing group portrait of the artists who founded the Impressionist movement. . . . For the armchair dilettante, as well as the art-history...
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black CargoNew York Times Bestseller - TIME Magazine's Best Nonfiction Book of 2018 - New York Public Library's Best Book of 2018 - NPR's Book Concierge Best Book of 2018 - Economist Book of the Year - SELF.com's Best Books of 2018 - Audible's Best...
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Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr."The most comprehensive, the most thoroughly researched and documented, the most scholarly of the biographies of Martin Luther King, Jr." --Henry Steele Commanger, Philadelphia InquirerWinner of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Award * A New York Times Notable Book of the YearBy the...
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Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife"Prose's book is a stunning achievement. . . . Now Anne Frank stands before us. . . a figure who will live not only in history but also in the literature she aspired to create." -- Minneapolis Star TribuneIn June, 1942, Anne Frank received...
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Serving Victoria"A vivid, entertaining and often comical portrait of life at court." --Wall Street Journal"Compelling. . . . The rhythm of court life at Windsor or Balmoral is the backdrop to a rich human drama, a story of people existing in uneasy intimacy with the...
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The Pirate Queen: Queen Elizabeth I, Her Pirate Adventurers, and the Dawn of Empire"A highly colorful, swashbuckling read, one that will give you new respect for Britain's first Elizabeth." --Seattle TimesAn illuminating revisionist biography about Queen Elizabeth I and her merchant-adventurers who terrorized the seas, extended the Empire, and amassed great wealth for the throne.Extravagant, whimsical, and...
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Kennedy: The Classic Biography"A brilliant and essential document about the man, the President, and his times. In all the millions of words which have been written about the martyred President, this book must remain unique. . . . It is John F. Kennedy's life, his personality, his...
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CrusaderThe Crusader tells the fascinating life story of Pat Buchanan, the three-time presidential candidate, Nixon confidant, White House communications director during Iran-Contra, pundit, and bestselling author. Buchanan is one of America's most controversial conservative rebels. After serving Nixon and Reagan, he led a revolt...
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Revolution on My Mind: Writing a Diary Under StalinRevolution on My Mind is a stunning revelation of the inner world of Stalin's Russia. We see into the minds and hearts of Soviet citizens who recorded their lives during an extraordinary period of revolutionary fervor and state terror. Writing a diary, like other...
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On Call: A Doctor's Days and Nights in ResidencyOn Call begins with a newly-minted doctor checking in for her first day of residency--wearing the long white coat of an MD and being called Doctor for the first time. Having studied at Yale and Dartmouth, Dr. Emily Transue arrives in Seattle to start...
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Every Sun That Rises: Wyatt Moore of Caddo Lake"What I done and what I been accused of covers everything, you put 'em both together." Wyatt Moore of Caddo Lake exaggerates, but perhaps not very much. During his long life at Caddo Lake, Moore was at various times a boat operator, commercial fisherman,...
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