Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Friends and Purpose: Stories from sofas on streets and some confounding ideas for tough times"As political narratives focus on division, Maff Potts finds connection and joy in the extraordinary, ordinary network of public living rooms"- Anoosh Chakelian, Britain Editor, The New Statesman"The Mighty Maff on top form: Provocative and funny and seriously serious. Soul soaringly, shit stirringly special....
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Forgive Us Our Trespasses: A Memoir of a Jewish Teacher in a Catholic SchoolHave you ever been the odd man out? A different breed? A fish out of water? Join the author as she navigates foreign territory as the only Jewish person teaching in a Catholic school. Experience the joy and memorable moments as well as the...
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Flying for FranceFlying for France is a classic World War One history text by James R. McConnell. Beneath the canvas of a huge hangar mechanicians are at work on the motor of an airplane. Outside, on the borders of an aviation field, others loiter awaiting their...
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Florence Price: The Life, Compositions and Influence of a Black American ComposerOver the last decade or more, classical music programming has expanded to an unprecedented extent, now including works by less familiar composers and underappreciated works by familiar names. At the center of this recent trend has been the musical legacy of Florence B. Price,...
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Firefly Song: Lynn Frierson Faust and the Great Smoky Mountain DiscoveryThe Leaf Detective meets fireflies in this inspirational nonfiction picture book from Sibert Honoree Colleen Paeff about how one woman proved to scientists that the fireflies she had watched as a young girl put on dazzling and impossibly synchronous nighttime performances. Every year, Lynn...
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Finding MeDorothy Hruby was blessed to have grown up in a loving and supportive family. She was blessed when she received salvation and accepted Jesus Christ as her Saviour. And, she was blessed when she prayed for someone to teach her more about the Bible,...
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Finding Calcutta: What Mother Teresa Taught Me About Meaningful Work and ServiceMary Poplin's chronicle of her volunteer work with the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta provides an inside glimpse into Mother Teresa's life of service to the poor. Transformed by the experience, Poplin discovered how all of us can find our own places of meaningful...
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Fetishized: A Reckoning with Yellow Fever, Feminism, and BeautyA deeply personal memoir-in-essays, reckoning with being an object of Asian fetish and how media, pop culture, and colonialism contributed to the oversexualization of Asian women--from Kaila Yu, former pin-up model and lead singer of Nylon Pink. No one fetishized Kaila Yu more than...
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Fallosophy: My Trip Through Life with MSA memoir based on podcaster, blogger, fashion host and MS advocate Ardra Shephard's award-winning blog, Tripping on Air. Twenty-three-year-old Ardra Shephard is sleeping with the wrong guy, living in a crappy apartment, and spending money she doesn't have on designer shoes, boozy brunches and...
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Faithful Witness: Life and Mission of William CareyFrom a cobbler's shop in rural England, William Carey went on to become renowned as 'the father of modern missions'.Driven by a burning desire to make Christ known, he spent the last forty years of his life in India. Despite his lack of education...
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Embedded: The Irreconcilable Nature of War, Loss and ConsequenceWhen Catherine Lang's niece Michelle Lang was killed while embedded with Canadian troops near Kandahar City, Afghanistan, in 2009, her world shifted. As she pieced together fragments from Michelle's last days, Lang connected with the loved ones of soldiers who died alongside Michelle. She...
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Drug Lord: A True Story: The Life and Death of a Mexican KingpinDrug Lord is the real thing. Raw, immediate, indispensable. -- Don Winslow, author of City on Fire and The Power of the Dog Pablo Acosta was a living legend in his Mexican border town of Ojinaga. He smuggled tremendous amounts of drugs into the...
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Dorothy BakerThe Crowned Heart series is the popular and inspiring collection of stories for young readers, drawn from Lights of Fortitude. It introduces beloved heroines of the Faith."How many queens of the world have laid down their heads on a pillow of dust and disappeared......
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DK Super Readers Level 4 Martin Luther King, JrLearn all about the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. Make reading your superpower with our non-fiction DK Super Readers! Help your child power up their reading skills and learn all about the life of Martin Luther King, Jr, with this fact-filled nonfiction reader...
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DK Super Readers Level 4 John LewisLearn all about the life of John Lewis. Make reading your superpower with our non-fiction DK Super Readers! Help your child power up their reading skills and learn all about the life of civil rights leader John Lewis, with this fact-filled nonfiction reader -...
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DK Super Readers Level 4 Dolly PartonLearn all about the life of Dolly Parton. Make reading your superpower with our non-fiction DK Super Readers! Help your child power up their reading skills and learn all about the life of the celebrated singer, actor and philanthropist with this fact-filled nonfiction reader...
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DK Super Readers Level 3 Anne FrankLearn all about the brave diarist, Anne Frank. Make reading your superpower with our non-fiction DK Super Readers! Help your child power up their reading skills and learn all about Anne Frank, with this fact-filled non-fiction reader - carefully levelled to help children progress....
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DK Super Readers Level 3 Abraham LincolnLearn all about Abraham Lincoln. Make reading your superpower with our non-fiction DK Super Readers! Help your child power up their reading skills and learn all about US President Abraham Lincoln, with this fact-filled non-fiction reader - carefully levelled to help children progress. Abraham...
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Disease Knows No PoliticsDisease Knows No Politics is a timely, inspirational medical and political memoir that champions the American Dream and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), while recounting the extraordinary immigrant journey of Dr. Elias Zerhouni, former NIH director under President George W. Bush, presidential envoy...
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Dearest Kitty: Anne Frank: Then and NowMy classmate Mike Burke and I toured the Anne Frank Foundation (Fonds) Annex in Amsterdam, Holland, and after visiting the gift shop, ventured over to a downstairs diner across the street. Soon an elderly gentleman asked if he might sit with us and so...
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