Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet TubmanBorn into slavery, young Harriet Tubman knew only hard work and hunger. Escape seemed impossible - certainly dangerous. Yet Harriet did escape North, by the secret route called the Underground Railroad. Harriet didn't forget her people. Again and again she risked her life to...
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Frederic Chopin, Son of Poland, Later YearsChopin remembered Vienna as the city where he had made an instant success with his music, so when, after years at home in Warsaw, he returned to Vienna he was heartsick to find only a cool welcome awaiting him. Vienna wanted to dance and...
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Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A chorus of extraordinary voices tells the epic story of the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present--edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. Blain, author of...
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Found and LostFound and Lost is the shocking true story of an abandoned child turned executive, and her journeyto reveal her biological family's true identity. In this book, we follow Leigha Janelle Curry (NeéShepard) as she unearths her genealogy and demands answers of those who left...
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Forgotten Founders: Black Patriots, Women Soldiers, and Other Thinkers and Heroes Who Shaped Early America"[T]he cause is just, and readers will come away with a firmer understanding that, as the introduction has it, the story of this country's founding is 'everyone's story.'"--Booklist A Junior Library Guild Gold Selection "This book will delight visual learners, history lovers, and trivia...
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Forged in Chaos: A Warrior's Origin StoryForged in chaos, shattered in peace: What happens when the war doesn't end, it just moves inside your head? Tyler Grey was the epitome of the warrior archetype: a Delta Force operator, a master of counterterrorism. He hunted the worst bullies on the world's...
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Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family"Mitch Albom has done it again with this moving memoir of love and loss. You can't help but fall for Chika. A page-turner that will no doubt become a classic." --Mary Karr, author of The Liars' Club and The Art of MemoirFrom the #1...
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Fighting for Space: Two Pilots and Their Historic Battle for Female SpaceflightSpaceflight historian Amy Shira Teitel tells the riveting story of the female pilots who each dreamed of being the first American woman in space. When the space age dawned in the late 1950s, Jackie Cochran held more propeller and jet flying records than any...
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Fast Girl: A Life Spent Running from MadnessNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe former middle distance Olympic runner and high-end escort speaks out for the first time about her battle with mental illness, and how mania controlled and compelled her in competition, but also in life. This is a heartbreakingly honest yet hopeful...
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Faithful Friends: Holocaust Survivors' Stories of the Pets Who Gave Them Comfort, Suffered Alongside Them and Waited for Their ReturnWhat happened to the pets that were left behind in World War II Europe, when Jewish families were torn from their homes and taken to ghettos and concentration camps, forced to leave neighborhoods, livelihoods, possessions, and the animals that loved and depended on them?...
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Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai on the African SavannaJoseph Lemasolai Lekuton gives American kids a firsthand look at growing up in Kenya as a member of a tribe of nomads whose livelihood centers on the raising and grazing of cattle. Readers share Lekuton's first encounter with a lion, the epitome of bravery...
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Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant: A MemoirThis "vivid, moving, funny, and heartfelt" memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin's time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980's Detroit (Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers). Nineteen eighties Detroit was a volatile place to live, but above the fray...
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Epic Athletes: Lebron JamesEpic Athletes: LeBron James is an inspiring young readers biography of the best basketball player of the modern era from celebrated sports journalist Dan Wetzel! Featuring comic-style illustrations by Setor Fiadzigbey! Whether you call him King James or simply LeBron, one thing is certain:...
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Elk Love: A Montana MemoirHaving spent ten summers on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation near Glacier National Park, part of her doctoral fieldwork for a PhD in Native American Art History, forty-two-year-old Lynne Spriggs thinks of Montana as her healing place. When she moves to "Big Sky Country" from...
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Electric Light Odyssey: My Zigzag Life and the Iconic Band that Changed EverythingIn 1998 Parthenon Huxley, widowed and unemployed, successfully auditions to be the guitarist/singer for Electric Light Orchestra Part II, led by ELO's Bev Bevan. After years of ups and downs in the tough-luck music business, Huxley's life trajectory changes for the better-lavish tours, world-class...
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Eichler: Modernism Rebuilds the American DreamAtriums, household conveniences, and sleek styling made Eichler Homes a standard-bearer for bringing the modern home design to middle-class America.Joseph Eichler was a pioneering developer who defied conventional wisdom by hiring progressive architects to design Modernist homes for the growing middle class of the...
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Eat Your Feelings: How to Devour, Digest, and Detox Pain From Your LifeEat Your Feelings is a story of heartbreak and restoration. The Simmons family faced challenge after challenge over the course of 20 years, but through unwavering faith and a marital bond that refused to be broken, they built a life that stands as a...
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Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage"Anne Lamott is my Oprah." -Chicago Tribune From the bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow comes an inspiring guide to restoring hope and joy in our lives. In Dusk, Night, Dawn, Anne Lamott explores the tough questions that many of us grapple with. How...
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Dr. Mutter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern MedicineA mesmerizing biography of the brilliant and eccentric medical innovator who revolutionized American surgery and founded the country's most famous museum of medical oddities Imagine undergoing an operation without anesthesia, performed by a surgeon who refuses to sterilize his tools--or even wash his hands....
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Dream with The/Sueña Con Las LatinitasMeet the Latinitas, whose big dreams paved the way for your little feet! With gorgeous, hand-painted illustrations, Juliet Menéndez shines a spotlight on the power of childhood dreams. Conoce a las Latinitas cuyos grandes sueños abrieron el camino para tus propios pasitos! Con hermosas...
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