Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Reunion in BarsaloiFourteen years after fleeing Kenya with her baby daughter, Corinne returned in the summer of 2004 to meet Lketinga and his family again in their village, Barsaloi. Nervous as she was, and uncertain as to how he would react on seeing her again, she...
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Reports From HellAuthor: Chas SmithPublisher: Red Sofa BooksPublished: 10/23/2024Pages: 282Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.59dISBN: 9798990892538This title is not returnable
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Remembering Grandma MosesThis is a portrayal, not of Grandma Moses's primitive paintings, but the woman herself: a crusty, feisty, upstate New York farmwife and grandmother, as remembered in affectionate detail by Beth Moses Hickok, who married into the family at 22, and raised two of Grandma's...
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Really the BluesHailed as an "American counter-culture classic, " this "funny" and candid musical memoir offers a delicious glimpse into the 1930s jazz scene (The Wall Street Journal) Mezz Mezzrow was a boy from Chicago who learned to play the sax in reform school and pursued...
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Read Between the Lines: The story of a Kindertransport survivorThe Kindertransport project brought 10,000 unaccompanied German and Austrian children to Great Britain in 1939. Recent research has uncovered an inconvenient truth: many children suffered abuse, obstacles to integration when their stay became permanent, social estrangement, and forced conversions to Christianity.One of those children,...
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Reacher: The Stories Behind the StoriesAfter making his debut in 1997's The Killing Floor, Jack Reacher has quickly become one of the most popular--and most enduring--fictional heroes to emerge in the past half century. Now, his creator tells the stories behind the stories. These are the origin tales of...
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R.C. Hutchinson: The Man and His WritingIn R.C. Hutchinson, Barry Webb reclaims the legacy of a highly-acclaimed, yet often forgotten writer. Despite having been awarded the Sunday Times Gold medal for fiction, the W.H.Smith award for the best novelist of the year, being short-listed for the Booker Prize, and several...
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RATS With Backpacks: Dr. Donna Kean and Her Work at APOPO.RATS With Backpacks? Do you wonder about what's inside of those little packs and why they wear them? Be curious and open up this book! Be inspired by intelligent rats who are trained to save people's lives because of their powerful sense of smell...
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Radical Tenderness: The Value of Vulnerability in an Often Unkind WorldAn inspiring manifesto from philanthropist and advocate Gisele Barreto Fetterman that explores her surprising source of power and strength--vulnerability--and how we can all harness it to effect meaningful change. As a society, we shy away from public expressions of vulnerability, mistaking it for weakness...
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Racing Uphill: Confronting a Life with EpilepsyThe candid, inspiring story of a woman's experience with a chronic, unpredictable neurological condition When twenty-nine-year-old reporter Stacia Kalinoski regained consciousness on a couch at the TV station where she worked, she assumed that she'd had another seizure. But the electrical storm that had...
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Racing Legends: Lando NorrisRace through fun facts, stats and stories about your favorite drivers with F1 expert, Maurice Hamilton. Find out how Lando Norris has become one of the world's youngest ever RACING LEGENDS! Covering his super fast rise to fame and his first Grand Prix win,...
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Quiet Riot: True Tales of Shy Superheroes Who Changed the WorldYour shyness is your superpower! Why is it, when we see people achieving incredible things, they all seem so outgoing? Where are all the softly spoken leaders, artists and champions? Discover 40 stories of shy and mighty power that show quiet people can be...
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Questionable Behavior: Tales from the College Frat HouseExperience the bond of friendship between fraternity brothers in this real-life version of "Animal House."For anyone who attended college in the South during the mid 20th century, Larry Chewning's amusing anecdotes from his fraternity days at Wake Forest University will prove to be highly...
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Purple Blood: The Divide Between Rural and Urban HealthcareAuthor: Steven SpencerPublisher: Dorrance Publishing Co.Published: 02/27/2025Pages: 186Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40dISBN: 9798894996073
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Purple Blood: The Divide Between Rural and Urban HealthcareAuthor: Steven SpencerPublisher: Dorrance Publishing Co.Published: 02/27/2025Pages: 186Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.92lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50dISBN: 9798894991085
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Practicing Tranquility: A Legal MemoirI really am the luckiest guy in the world because I married Ruth. Because of her, I had a wonderful life and a second career. After practicing law--particularly banking law, which I recommend for its methodical ways and methodical hours--I began teaching in college,...
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Playing from the Rough: A Personal Journey Through America's 100 Greatest Golf CoursesA "wonderful story of passion, commitment, resilience, and determination," (Paul Gasol, former NBA All-Star) about one man's quest to become the first person to play each of America's 100 greatest golf courses in a single year, an odyssey that brings him face to face...
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Pilots and Painted Ladies: 493rd Bomb Squadron and the Air War in the CbiRaised on a Montana farm, Vernon Drake enlisted in the Army Air Corps, piloting B-24 bombers and painting nose art while enduring perilous missions in the Himalayas during World War II.Raised on a farm in Montana, Vernon Drake enlisted in the Army Air Corp...
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Pew Pain: A Spiritual MemoirPew Pain is not written as slander. Rather, it is written to encourage honest inventory and critique for the betterment of the greatest of God-ordained institutions. Assessments should be made as ungodly issues are worked on. Leadership should seek reputable counsel as actions that...
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Penitentiary BuiltDiscover Humor Behind Bars: Real-Life Tales & Comedic Illustrations From Inside the Big House. Unearth the lighter side of prison life. Delve into the pages of Penitentiary Built, a unique compilation of true, factual stories from the inside of a prison. Authored by an...
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