Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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A Hard Silence: One daughter remaps family, grief, and faith when HIV/AIDS changes it all"A profound and riveting journey through shame and grief, A Hard Silence is, quite simply, unforgettable." Monica Wood, author of When We Were the KennedysIn the mid 1980s, Canada's worst public health disaster was unfolding. Catastrophic mismanagement of the country's blood supply allowed contaminated...
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Marshall "Major" Taylor: World Champion Bicyclist, 1899This biography presents the life and times of Marshall "Major" Taylor, the African-American bicycle racer who won three consecutive world championship titles at the turn of the twentieth century. He started his cycling career when he was twelve years old, doing bicycle tricks and...
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Viva La Pinche Migra: A Special Agent's Memoir of the Old Immigration and Naturalization ServiceJake Hopkins has created a tough, comprehensive, and thought provoking picture of his 25 years with the pre 9/11 United States Immigration and Naturalization Service. He takes the reader on a sometimes disturbing journey through the maze of Immigration Law and the enforcement of...
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In the Company of AngelsIn the Company of Angels chronicles one woman's travels to Medjugorje, where she becomes a witness to how our Lord takes part in everything we do. Her faith journey leads her from skeptic to true believer with miracles in between. The nonprofit Toybox Connection...
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The Artist, the Farmer, the Hunter, and the Good GuyWhat's it about? It's about life, growing up on a farm in a small town, and lessons learned. About fun and foolishness, hard--really hard--work and accomplishments, family and friends, love and heartbreak. About hometown and Hollywood! About overcomers and encouragers, the mundane and the...
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Full Throttle: From the Blue Angels to Hollywood Stunt PilotScott Kartvedt watched Top Gun and then went on to be a Navy pilot. He was selected to be a Blue Angel, then served during five combat deployments flying 91 combat missions and accumulated over 6,300 flight hours, 658 carrier arrested landings on eleven...
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Female Force: Ruth Handler- Creator of BarbieFor over fifty years, Barbie has helped young girls come of age in the midst of an ever-changing social climate, but what do we really know about her? Female Force: Barbie tells the story of how America's favorite fashion doll emerged from the seedy...
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Recollections of an Old Soldier: Autobiography of Captain David Perry, a Soldier of the United States' War of Independence (American Revolutionary WarDavid Perry was an American soldier who fought in the Revolutionary War, which resulted in the founding of the United States - this autobiography recalls his early years, and his role in the conflict.Born in colonial Massachusetts on August 8th, 1741, Perry had a...
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The Moron at the End of This BookA sardonic Post-it-Note to self, The Moron at the End of This Book is a collection of short stories and love letters to the living and the dead written by Author, and man of many uses, Andrew Couch. Take a trip from 1980s Mississippi...
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The Sky's the Limit: The Joe Dial StoryJOE DIAL'S STORY IS ONE OF HARD WORK, perseverance, dedication and determination. Starting at age five when he began pole vaulting in the family's front yard his under the watchful eyes of his father and long-time coach, Dean Dial, Joe had the sport literally...
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Out of Montana: A MemoirWhen Gordon Noel was five years old he came home from school to find that his father had left his mother for another woman. There were no roadmaps for divorced kids in 1940s Montana, and for the next thirteen years, Noel seldom saw his...
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The Larger LifeA highly educated and cultured young woman, Laura Franklin Glenn (Devamata) was born in the Midwest in the nineteenth century. Possessing many talents and practical good sense, she was well prepared for the work which absorbed her. She began serving the cause of Vedanta...
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Kaibeto Memories: A trader's daughter remembers growing up on the Navajo Reservation at Kaibeto Trading Post in remote northern ArizonaKaibeto MemoriesELIZABETH ANNE JONES DEWVEALLA trader's daughter remembers growing upon the Navajo Reservation at Kaibeto Trading Postin remote northern Arizona1936 - 1960TRADERS TO THE NAVAJORALPH AND JULIA JONES, parents of author Elizabeth Anne JonesDewveall, operated the Kaibeto Trading Post on the Navajo Reservation for28...
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The Rise and Fall of Emilio PicarielloIn this study of Emilio Picariello (aka Emperor Pick) Adriana Davies paints a vivid portrait of what life was like at the turn of the 20th century in the Canadian west for Italian immigrants, with opportunity hampered by bigotry. Despite this, Emilio managed to...
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That Was Ernest: The Story of Ernest Holmes and the Religious Science MovementBiography of metaphysician Ernest Holmes, founder of the Science of Mind philosophy and of the Religious Science Movement, told by a life-long associate.Author: Reginald C. Armor, Robin Llast, Arthur VergaraPublisher: DeVorss & CompanyPublished: 04/01/2000Pages: 143Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 7.99h x 5.52w x 0.53dISBN: 9780875167121
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Southern Paiute: A PortraitNow little recognized by their neighbors, Southern Paiutes once had homelands that included much of the vast Colorado Plateau, Great Basin, and Mojave Desert. From the Four Corners' San Juan River to California's lower Colorado, from Death Valley to Canyonlands, from Capitol Reef to...
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My Army Life and the Fort Phil. Kearney Massacre: The Classic Account of an Infantry Lieutenant's Wife on the Great Plains During the Indian WarsA classic memoir of life on the western frontier The author of this well known and well regarded work begins her story of army life as a young officer's wife on the western frontier with all the naivety and trepidation one might expect. She...
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Ascent from Darkness: How Satan's Soldier Became God's WarriorHis assignment from Satan was to kill Pastor Craig Groeschel. Today he sits on the front row of that pastor's church.For twenty years of his life, Michael Leehan lived and worked for Satan. At age 33, he made a decision to serve the darkness...
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Spinning Tea Cups: A Mythical American MemoirIn these quirky and richly told tales, Alexandra Teague brings readers along for the wild ride of her youth, traversing wide swaths of the American landscape in the company of a talking puppet, Victorian ghosts, and a family fueled by fantasy, dysfunction, and fierce...
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J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Cold War, and the Atomic WestIn 1922, the teenage son of a Jewish immigrant ventured from Manhattan to New Mexico for his health. It was the first of many trips to the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, a western retreat where J. Robert Oppenheimer would eventually hold pathbreaking discussions with...
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