Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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2004: S E L F - H E L P S E L F - L O V E S E L F - D I S C O V E R Y S E L F - P E R C E P T I O N2004 is a journey through verses that unveil the resilience of a silent spirit. This autobiographical poetry collection by Ycarp Leahcimrac chronicles a life where ease was a stranger but surrender was never an option. Each poem in this book is a step taken,...
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12 Elephants and a Dragon: A Memoir of Survival and the Kindness of StrangersAuthor: VI Tu Banh, Marie Beswick ArthurPublisher: Ingenium BooksPublished: 10/25/2024Pages: 240Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.68lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.55dISBN: 9781990688263
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Your Name Is JosephImagine hosting a baby shower for a dear friend out of town. Your phone signal is low, but you don't think too much of it until the event ends, and you move to an area with better reception. You see that you missed a...
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Your Loving Son, Ty: A World War II Story of Hope and Horror in the PacificMadsen "Ty" Cobb Kokjer grew up in a small city in the middle of Nebraska. Halfway through college in 1940, he chose the adventure of becoming an Army Air Corps pilot. This book is the memoir he might have written about the war he...
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Yeats: The Man And The MasksThe definitive biography of William Butler YeatsThe most influential poet of his age, Yeats eluded the grasp of many who sought to explain him. In this classic critical examination of the poet, Richard Ellmann strips away the masks of his subject: occultist, senator of...
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Written in the Waters: A Memoir of History, Home, and BelongingThis searing memoir by a National Geographic explorer recounts one woman's epic journey to trace the global slave trade across the Atlantic Ocean--and find her place in the world. For fans of adventurous women's memoirs like Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat Pray Love, Cheryl Strayed's Wild,...
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Wright Brothers: National Memorial, North CarolinaKitty Hawk and Kill Devil Hills are American place names that will live in History. Here Wilbur and Orville Wright, two unassuming brothers with a passion for advancing aeronautical knowledge, and the willingness to undertake a scientific adventure, made the worlds first successful flight...
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Women Surrounded by Water: A MemoirGrowing up in Puerto Rico, Patricia Coral was surrounded by women who fought for their needs amid the demands of domesticity and who were dismissed and judged when they rejected any predetermined paths on an island that itself has never been free. At age...
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Within the Fire I Found My VoiceWithin the fire, I found my voice Is a powerful memoir that will allow the readers to follow along my journey facing health challenges from toddler age through adulthood. Along with facing some gender discrimination while employed as a female firefighter to being diagnosed...
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WILLderness: Losing My Way to Find It: Surviving Deception, The Occult, & Heartbreak in the Fight for PurposeThe search for purpose is a journey full of possibilities, adventure, and excitement, but it can also lead you down a path of confusion and put you at risk of danger and deception, if not rooted in a firm understanding of yourself and your...
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Wild Bill Hickok & Calamity Jane: Deadwood Legendsbibliography, index, eight-page photo essayAuthor: James D. McLairdPublisher: South Dakota Historical Society PressPublished: 09/01/2008Pages: 174Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 7.90h x 4.80w x 0.70dISBN: 9780977795598
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Who Walk Alone: A Man's Life with Leprosy and the Sanctuary of SorrowWho Walk Alone, first published in 1940, is author Perry Burgess' moving account of the life of Ned Langford, then a patient at the leper colony on Culion Island, Philippines (known as the "Sanctuary of Sorrow"). Langford had first gone to the Philippines as...
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Who Is the "I Am"? Psalm 46: 10: Knowing Your Worth to GodBorn and raised in Northeast Tennessee, Deanna went from the life of a young girl running barefooted on the farm and playing on her tire swing into the fast-paced life of being a wife and working full-time, all the while being a senior in...
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When the Going Was Good: An Editor's Adventures During the Last Golden Age of MagazinesFrom the pages of Vanity Fair to the red carpets of Hollywood, editor Graydon Carter's memoir revives the glamorous heyday of print magazines when they were at the vanguard of American culture When Graydon Carter was offered the editorship of Vanity Fair in 1992,...
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What We Take: Memories of an Outdoor Biologist"I loved Dana's book. Dana's stories of watching and studying wildlife, remind me of some of my favorite natural history writers I read growing up: David Attenborough, Gerald Durrell, and Jane Goodall! Dana is a gripping writer. I read this book in only two...
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What a Beautiful World!: The Designed Spaces of Isabelle d'OrnanoChristiane de NicolaY-Mazery's What a Beautiful World! offers an intimate look inside the boldly designed spaces of Isabelle d'Ornano's life, from the personal to the professional. Isabelle d'Ornano, cofounder of the French skin care brand Sisley, has created places in her life as unique...
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We Walk the Earth in Beauty: Traditional Navajo LifewaysWitness the time-honored practices of the Navajo from wisdom-keepers who live close to the land and follow ancestral ways. In the nineteen chapters of We Walk the Earth in Beauty, readers will learn practical ways to live in harmony with an austere landscape. "Everything...
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Welcome to My WorldLittle story about Jack and Diane...but mostly Jack! Jack Sutter has written an inspiring and humorous journal of his life on and off the court. His story begins as an innocent, unassuming boy growing up in a small farming and coal mining town in...
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We All Want to Be Happy: A Book of Thoughts (Volume 1)This book is for those who face the same trials, joys, wins, and losses that we all do. Ann Mullen's philosophy is to live a life of joy and share true stories, some humorous and some not. The stories within these pages reinforce those...
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WarTwo-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three wars--Ukraine, the Middle East and the struggle for the American Presidency. War is an intimate and sweeping account of one of the most tumultuous periods in presidential politics and American history....
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