Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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The Flipside: How to Invert Your Perspective and Turn Fear Into Your SuperpowerFormer Thunderbird Pilot Michelle "MACE" Curran provides a blueprint for converting your fear into a superpower based on the hard-earned lessons she learned in the cockpit and beyond. Michelle Curran can fly an F-16 fighter jet upside down, but she's afraid of spiders. And...
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The Evin Prison Bakers' Club: Surviving Iran's Most Notorious Prisons in 16 RecipesHow do you cheer up a woman who has spent hours cleaning prison toilets with a broken mop? The secret is in a tres leches cake. In Iran's prisons, women endure horrors: they are beaten, interrogated, and humiliated in a thousand ways. Even a...
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The Doors Unhinged: Jim Morrison's Legacy Goes on Trial"The Doors drummer Densmore rockets through his tumultuous six-year lawsuit against former bandmates Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger in this no-holds-barred account . . . Throughout, the author's initial question--at what point does money cheapen art's original message?--remains salient, even if he hammers it...
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The Defiant 511 of the Alberni Indian Residential SchoolMany Indigenous children experienced the grim realities of residential schools-from physical, sexual, and emotional abuse to malnourishment, forced religious indoctrination, and attempted cultural eradication. In this memoir, Evelyn Thompson-George shares her father's deeply personal account of his time at the Alberni Indian Residential School,...
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The Curious Man: The Life and Works of Dr. Hans NieperAuthor: Hans A. NieperPublisher: AuthorhousePublished: 02/04/2010Pages: 228Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.08lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69dISBN: 9781449067557This title is not returnable
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The Cooking of Books: A Literary MemoirIt is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring. The strangely enduring and occasionally fractious friendship which developed between the famously outspoken historian Ramachandra Guha and his reticent editor...
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The Children We Left Behind: How Western Culture Rationalizes Family Separation & Ignores The Pain Of Child NeglectNearly every major social problem in the West can be traced back to our declining appreciation for the nuclear family structure and our failure to plan for families properly. Our culture has shifted from prioritizing sacrifice for the benefit of innocent children to catering...
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The Butcher LPThe New York Times bestselling author of Gaspipe and The Ice Man, Phillip Carlo returns with a hair-raising portrait of arguably the most depraved psychopath in the history of the Mafia, mob enforcer Tommy "Karate" Pitera. The Butcher tells the riveting true story of...
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The Book of JoelThe Book of Joel is the visual life story of one of the world's most beloved entertainers, Joel Grey: actor, singer, dancer, director, and photographer. This sprawling yet intimate scrapbook-style volume uncovers a kaleidoscope of both famous and previously unseen photographs, family snapshots, playbills,...
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The Blind Mechanic: The Amazing Story of Eric Davidson, Survivor of the 1917 Halifax ExplosionEric Davidson lost both eyes in the Halifax Explosion when he was two years old. Against all odds, he taught himself to become an auto mechanic and had a successful decades-long career as "one of the boys." Eric Davidson was a beautiful, fair-haired toddler...
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The Biggest Hole in the Iron Curtain: The Batizy StoryThe Batizy family was Eastern European nobility during the thirteenth to twentieth centuries and continued to lead comfortable lives even as the importance of aristocracy faded. Then, the unimaginable happened. These centuries of happy, committed citizenship would all seemingly fade away in an instant...
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THE AUTHOR by The AuthorWARNING: You are about to read a semi-autobiographical novel by an unnamed A-list celebrity recounting his early years in Hollywood-and the dirty, deplorable exploits that catapulted him to fame.THE AUTHOR is a dark absurdist take on the artist as a young man in a...
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The 50 Greatest Athletes in Boston Sports HistoryBoston fans are passionate about sports and are proud of their players and teams, all of which have enjoyed tremendous success through the years. In The 50 Greatest Athletes in Boston Sports History, Martin Gitlin ranks the top 50 superstars in the city's rich...
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Tell Me Why I Can'tThe United States is at a critical point. Our jobs, the prices we pay for products, and the heart of American entrepreneurship itself are at stake. Those betting against us say that China is outcompeting us, out-innovating us, and not playing by the rules...
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Talon d'Achille: RecitComment poursuivre une vie rompue? Tout s'ecroule a l'automne 1942 pour Helene Waysbord, alors agee de 6 ans: ses parents sont deportes, elle, cachee a la campagne. La petite fille a la vie sauve mais l'identite brisee. Seule la nuit demeure, avec Homere pour...
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Tales from the HeartAn unexpected gift turns one best man's life upside down - in the best way possible.Dogs aren't often considered as a gift for a best man. But for two lifelong friends, the unexpected choice proves to be the right one. When lifelong friends Vern...
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Taking the RiskTaking the Risk is Hilary Bradt's engaging, insightful, amusing and sometimes alarming memoir about serendipitous adventures in travel and publishing. A travel industry trailblazer who co-founded Bradt Guides, Hilary looks back on 50 years of escapades, surprises, mishaps, disasters... and success. From her first...
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Surprised By Grace A Spiritual Journey from West to East and BackSurprised by Grace. A Spiritual Journey from West to East and Back offers an adventurous story alongside a fascinating introduction to the spiritual depth of the Christian tradition. "After leaving family and friends in his youth, this lover of old classic cars initiates the...
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Staying Married Is the Hardest PartFor fans of Lori Gottlieb's Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, a contemporary memoir by a psychologist whose sexual conflict with her screenwriter husband threatens to destroy her marriage. Can a loving relationship endure career setbacks, infidelities, and mismatched sexual desires? This is the...
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Sports Book for Teen Boys 12-16: Epic Sports StoriesSports Book for Teens ages 12-16: Introducing Epic Sports Stories: 12 Inspirational GOAT Biographies of World Class Athletes for Young Champions; your child's next favorite book! This premium sports book is a ✌️ certain win! What's inside? 12 Athletes: From Babe Ruth to LeBron...
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