Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
-
Elvis and the Colonel: An Insider's Look at the Most Legendary Partnership in Show BusinessA fresh biography of legendary entertainment manager Colonel Tom Parker, with a contrarian and corrective point of view.Colonel Tom Parker, often reviled in his time, led the strategy from the earliest days of Elvis's career. Together, they built the most legendary partnership in show...
- $45.30 AUD
- $45.30 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Elon Musk: La Biografía de un EmprendedorELON MUSK Quieres saber más sobre una de las figuras más innovadoras e influyentes de nuestro tiempo? No busques más: "Elon Musk: La Biografía de un Emprendedor". Este libro detallado y actualizado sobre la vida del empresario e inventor Elon Musk es una lectura...
- $33.95 AUD
- $33.95 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Eastern Inferno: The Journals of a German Panzerjäger on the Eastern Front, 1941-43Participating in every key campaign on the Eastern Front, a young German soldier keeps a private uncensored diary as he battles the Red Army to conquer Russia.This book presents the remarkable personal journals of a German soldier who participated in Operation Barbarossa and subsequent...
- $42.93 AUD
- $42.93 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil SandsA New York Times Notable Book; a Barack Obama's end of year favorite of 2022; and the winner of Canada ReadsKate Beaton's Ducks stunned the world with its unflinching honesty and candid vulnerability, cementing its place in the graphic novel canon alongside Maus, Persepolis,...
- $79.15 AUD
- $79.15 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Dreaming From the Trunk of an American CarThe memoir, Dreaming from the Trunk of an American Car, recounts a story shared by many immigrants who are in pursuit of the American dream. Through intertwining his personal experiences with those of his ancestors, the author guides readers through his formative years and...
- $60.35 AUD
- $60.35 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Downrange at Gardez: Forward Operating Base LightningExperience a soldier's journey in Afghanistan through the lens of a sergeant. Discover military life, perilous drives on icy roads, and the power of home support in this compelling tale.Downrange at Gardez is a raw, unfiltered account of Sergeant First Class Wynn's life on...
- $48.28 AUD
- $48.28 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Double Exposure: Resurveying the West with Timothy O'Sullivan, America's Most Mysterious War Photographer"Singular . . . Virtuosic . . . Double Exposure is the best book I've read about America . . . in many, many years." --Corey Seymour, Vogue (a best book of 2024)"Extraordinary . . . A transformative experience for the reader." --Lucy Sante...
- $49.83 AUD
- $49.83 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Do Not Cry When I Die: A Holocaust Memoir of a Mother and Daughter's Survival in Jewish Ghettos, Auschwitz, and Bergen-BelsenOne of the oldest living Holocaust survivors recounts her family's imprisonment at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen in this moving memoir of love, loss, courage, and hope. "I only survived because of my mother's love." When German soldiers invaded Poland in September 1939, it began a...
- $67.93 AUD
- $67.93 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Do It (Then Talk about it)"DO IT (then talk about it)," the captivating autobiography of Troy Scoughton, Sr. This compelling book chronicles Troy's life journey of making plans for his future, only to realize that life has its own plans for him. From his time serving in the Army...
- $36.20 AUD
- $36.20 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Disconnected: Portrait of a Neurodiverse Marriage"A powerful testimony about the ways neurodiverse couples can cause each other unintentional hurt." Mona Kay, MSW, Ph.D., host of the 'Neurodiverse Love' podcastIn a late-life romance, Eleanor marries Lars, a brilliant database expert, believing their fairytale love will last forever. However, just months...
- $54.33 AUD
- $54.33 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Dirty Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and FamilyIn the style of Crying in H Mart and Minor Feelings, filmmaker Jill Damatac blends memoir, food writing, and colonial history as she cooks her way through recipes from her native-born Philippines and shares stories of her undocumented family in America. Jill Damatac left...
- $65.65 AUD
- $65.65 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Diary of Latoya Hunter: My First Year in Junior HighLively, poignant, and utterly winning, The Diary of Latoya Hunter is a timely portrait of adolescence--about the universal challenges of youth and about the ways it is shaped by the inner city. It is also a lively introduction to a delightful girl whose humor...
- $41.08 AUD
- $41.08 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Diario de Un IncestoThis is a true story, told in the first person, of a woman that was submitted to sexual and physical abuse by her father when she was a young girl. It is the anatomy of a broken mind, the x-ray of an injured soul...
- $38.38 AUD
- $38.38 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Demons to Champions: How I fell in love with my neurodivergent maverick mindGary always knew he thought differently, seeing things others didn't. Labelled the "weird kid who never knew when to shut up". His mind a deluge of thoughts and ideas. The gift and curse of a neurodivergent mind. Taming this maverick would be a lifelong...
- $120.75 AUD
- $120.75 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Delegate and Disappear: Invisible Wounds and Mefloquine-Messed MindsOverlapping with and compounding the impacts of post-traumatic stress disorder, mefloquine toxicity is a condition caused by anti-malarial drugs once routinely used in the Canadian Armed Forces-issued and ordered to be taken by tens of thousands of veterans, some still serving, left with a...
- $40.75 AUD
- $40.75 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of JonestownHow did Jim Jones, the leader of Peoples Temple, convince more than 900 of his followers to commit "revolutionary suicide" by drinking cyanide-laced punch? From a master of narrative nonfiction comes a chilling chronicle of one of the most notorious cults in American history....
- $45.28 AUD
- $45.28 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Crooked Sidewalks TooWelcome to Crooked Sidewalks Too. I purposely titled it this way, and not Crooked Sidewalks Two, because it is a follow-up to my first book, Crooked Sidewalks. I also see it more as a 'Crooked Sidewalks "Also', or a continuation with more stories with...
- $54.33 AUD
- $54.33 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Courting the Virgin Queen: Queen Elizabeth I and Her SuitorsExamines Queen Elizabeth I's complex courtships, revealing how her romantic and political decisions shaped her reign as England's Virgin QueenThe many courtships of the woman who became Elizabeth I began when she was an infant, displayed before foreign ambassadors who considered her as a...
- $83.68 AUD
- $83.68 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Counterculture: The Story of America from Bohemia to Hip-HopA political and intellectual history of American counterculture and the historical figures who redefined mainstream understandings of freedom, culture, art, and politics--from The Beat Generation to Basquiat This entertaining, intellectual history fulfills the growing appetite for marginalized narratives. Counterculture brilliantly interrogates the diversity of...
- $72.48 AUD
- $72.48 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Could Have Been Should Have Been HERE I AM: An AutobiographyThis manuscript is an autobiography chronicling the various life paths that were presented to me and the choices I made throughout my journey. As I reflect on my experiences as a seventy-year-old man, I can now see the patterns and meanings that eluded me...
- $51.98 AUD
- $51.98 AUD
- Unit price
- per
