Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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The Complete Story of Sadako Sasaki: And the Thousand Paper Cranes**Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) Winner****Middle School Book of the Year -- Northern Lights Book Awards****Skipping Stones Honor Award Winner** For the first time, middle readers can learn the complete story of the courageous girl whose life, which ended through the effects of war,...
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The Climate Book: The Facts and the SolutionsA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER We still have time to change the world. From climate activist Greta Thunberg, comes the essential handbook for making it happen. You might think it's an impossible task: secure a safe future for life on Earth, at a scale...
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The Cat I Never Named: A True Story of Love, War, and SurvivalThe stunning memoir of a Muslim teen struggling to survive in the midst of the Bosnian genocide-and the stray cat who protected her family through it all.*Six Starred Reviews*"Extraordinary." - Booklist "A must-read." - School Library Journal "Unforgettable." - Kirkus "Gripping." - Foreword "Excellent."...
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The Catastrophe Hour: Selected EssaysFrom the New York Times-bestselling author of The Unspeakable and The Problem with Everything comes a new collection of unputdownable essays. "For the last five or six years, on many afternoons around 4 or 5 p.m., I've been overcome with the sensation that my...
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The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill ClubA Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor Winner At the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nation's leaders, fifteen-year-old Knud Pedersen resolved with his brother and a handful of schoolmates to take action against the...
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The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen LivesA scholar and bookmaker "breathes both books-as-objects and their creators back into life" (Financial Times) in this five-hundred-year history of printed books, told through the people who created them Books tell all kinds of stories--romances, tragedies, comedies--but if we learn to read the signs...
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The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer HomeFaced with the sale of the century-old family summer house on Cape Cod where he had spent forty-two summers, George Howe Colt recounts returning for one last stay with his wife and children in this stunning memoir that was a National Book Award Finalist...
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The Art of Shralpinism: Lessons from the Mountains"Drawn from decades of journal entries and years of experience, the book is full of stories and tangible tips about how to live and travel well in the backcountry"--Outside 2023 National Outdoor Book Award Winner in Outdoor Adventure Guides 2023 Banff Mountain Book Award...
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The Art of Clear Thinking: A Stealth Fighter Pilot's Timeless Rules for Making Tough DecisionsTHE #2 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER Based on a career of making high-stakes, split-second decisions as a U.S. fighter pilot, The Art of Clear Thinking teaches readers to apply Hasard Lee's combat-tested techniques in everyday life. The training to become a fighter pilot is...
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The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's RightsAn LA Times Best Book of the Year, Christopher Award Winner, and Chautauqua Prize Finalist! "Engrossing... examines the major events of the mid 19th century through the lives of three key figures in the abolitionist and women's rights movements." --Smithsonian From the executive editor...
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Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A MemoirThe never-thought-we'd-see-it memoir from the legendary Sly Stone.Sly Stone created some of the most memorable anthems of the 1960s and 1970s ("Everyday People," "Family Affair"). He electrified audiences at Woodstock and all over the world. His influence on modern music and culture is indisputable....
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Taylor Swift: Superstar!Taylor Swift is a singer, songwriter, and superstar! Fans ages 4-6 will love learning about their favorite music icon in this Step 2 hardcover biography! Is your child a Swiftie in their "wanting to know more" Era? This biography is the perfect fit! Follow...
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Surf When You Can: Lessons in Life, Loyalty, and Leadership from a Maverick Navy CaptainInspiring lessons learned from a lifetime of honor, service, and leadership from Captain Brett Crozier, the former commanding officer of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt and renowned Navy officer. Amid one of the darkest times in American history, it was a moment that...
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Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside ParsonsNow a CBS All Access series created by Mark Heyman with executive producer Ridley Scott. ROCKET SCIENTIST KILLED IN PASADENA EXPLOSIONscreamed the headline of the Los Angeles Times. John Parsons, a maverick rocketeer who helped transform the rocket from a derided sci-fi plot line...
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Steven SpielbergDirector, writer, editor, producer . . . Steven Spielberg is the person behind some of the most celebrated films ever made. Little People, BIG DREAMS Steven Spielberg is an empowering testament to believing in yourself and following your childhood dream.Little Steven was six when...
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Stephen Curry: The Children's Book: The Boy Who Never Gave UpThe Boy Who Never Gave Up is the inspiring true story of NBA superstar Stephen Curry. This Fully illustrated picture book biography tells the story of a young boy who many said was too short to play in high school, too weak to play...
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Stalin: Russia's Man of SteelAuthor: Albert MarrinPublisher: Beautiful Feet BooksPublished: 02/28/1988Pages: 254Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.72lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.58dISBN: 9781893103092Audience: Ages 9-12This title is not returnable
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Splinters: Another Kind of Love StoryFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes "a blazing, unputdownable memoir" (Mary Karr, author of Lit), the "piercing, intimate" story (TIME Magazine) of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage--an exploration of motherhood, art,...
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Speak, Memory: An Autobiography RevisitedFrom one of the 20th century's great writers comes one of the finest autobiographies of our time. - "Scintillating ... One finds here amazing glimpses into the life of a world that has vanished forever." --The New York Times Speak, Memory was first published...
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Solitary ConfinementParachuted into France as a British secret agent, Christopher Burney was arrested by the Gestapo and thrown into a solitary confinement cell in a prison outside Paris. There he spent 526 days in complete isolation. With little human contact and nothing to distract him,...
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