Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War IIInstant New York Times Bestseller - Winner of the General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation"Buzz Bissinger's Friday Night Lights is an American classic. With The Mosquito Bowl, he is back with a true story even more colorful and...
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The Met Frida Kahlo: She Painted Her World in Self-PortraitsSee the world through Frida Kahlo's eyes and be inspired to produce your own masterpieces. Have you ever wondered exactly what your favorite artists were looking at to make them draw, sculpt, or paint the way they did? In this charming illustrated series of...
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The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the BorderThe instant New York Times bestseller, "A must-read for anyone who thinks 'build a wall' is the answer to anything." --Esquire For Francisco Cantú, the border is in the blood: his mother, a park ranger and daughter of a Mexican immigrant, raised him in...
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The Life of Pope Leo XIIIMediatrix Press is pleased to put back into print: The Life of Pope Leo XIII written by the learned American Fr. Bernard O'Reilly, while that Pope was alive, and based on a memoir furnished to him by the Holy See. Thus, this work is...
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The Life of / La Vida de Selena (Special Edition): A Bilingual Picture Book BiographyIntroduce your little ones to the "Queen of Tejano Music" and a cross-cultural icon, Selena Quintanilla, with this commemorative edition of The Life of / La vida de Selena.This special edition of The Life of / La vida de Selena celebrates the life of...
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The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of a Slave's Journey from Bondage to FreedomA graphic novel biography of the escaped slave, abolitionist, public speaker, and most photographed man of the nineteenth century, based on his autobiographical writings and speeches, spotlighting the key events and people that shaped the life of this great American. Recently returned to the...
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The Life of ElijahThe life of Elijah has gripped the thought and imagination of preachers and writers in all ages. His sudden appearance out of complete obscurity, his dramatic interventions in the national history of Israel, his miracles, his departure from the earth in a chariot of...
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The Liars' Club: A Memoir#4 on The New York Times' list of The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years The New York Times bestselling, hilarious tale of a hardscrabble Texas childhood that Oprah.com calls the best memoir of a generation--now with a foreword by Lena Dunham...
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The Last Dive: A Father and Son's Fatal Descent Into the Ocean's Depths"Superbly written and action-packed, The Last Dive ranks with such adventure classics as The Perfect Storm and Into Thin Air."--Tampa TribuneSpurred on by a fatal combination of obsession and ambition, Chris and Chrisy Rouse, an experienced father-son scuba diving team, hoped to achieve wide-spread...
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The Journey of York: The Unsung Hero of the Lewis and Clark ExpeditionThomas Jefferson's Corps of Discovery included Captains Lewis and Clark and a crew of 28 men to chart a route from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean. All the crew but one volunteered for the mission. York, the enslaved man taken on the journey,...
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The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020Now includes a new essay, "Naked Childhood," about Kushner's family, their converted school bus, and the Summers of Love in Oregon and San Francisco! "The Hard Crowd is wild, wide-ranging, and unsparingly intelligent throughout." --Taylor Antrim, Vogue From a writer celebrated for her "chops,...
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The Girl Who Heard the Music: How One Pianist and 85,000 Bottles and Cans Brought New Hope to an IslandThe true story of award-winning pianist and environmental activist Mahani Teave and the beloved island she is helping to save."This upbeat and fascinating story will leave readers feeling as though they, too, can make a difference when it comes to helping the planet."--Kirkus ReviewsImagine...
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The Girls: From Golden to Gilmore"...the very definition of a page-turner. READ THIS BOOK!" - Colin Mochrie, "Whose Line is It Anyway?," "Hyprov"Featured on Watch What Happens Live! With Andy Cohen, People Magazine, Queerty Magazine, Fox Digital News, The New York Post, The Daily Mail, The Hollywood Reporter, and...
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The Gift of Music: Great Composers and Their Influence (Expanded and Revised, 3rd Edition)One of the finest achievements of Western culture is its brilliant heritage of classical music. A Gift of Music looks at the lives of the greatest composers who have given us this heritage, and especially at how their music was shaped by their beliefs.The...
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The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in AmericaNATIONAL BESTSELLER An Economist Best Book of 2024 - A Shelf Awareness Best Book of 2024 Legendary editor Judith Jones, the woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th century--including Julia Child, Anne Frank, Edna Lewis, John Updike, and Sylvia Plath--finally...
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The Dry DivideRalph Moody, just turned twenty, had only a dime in his pocket when he was put off a freight in western Nebraska. It was the Fourth of July in 1919. Three months later he owned eight teams of horses and rigs to go with...
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The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism's Long March of Death, Deception, and InfiltrationTwo decades after the publication of The Black Book of Communism, nearly everyone is or at least should be, aware of the immense evil produced by that devilish ideology first hatched when Karl Marx penned his Communist Manifesto two centuries ago. Far too many...
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The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him"Eric Blehm offers an insightful perspective on how Craig Kelly became the effortless icon that we all revered as well as sobering details of how his heroic journey tragically ended. The Darkest White is a must read, not just for fans of snowboarding, but...
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The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer EspionageIn this white-knuckled true story that is "as exciting as any action novel" (The New York Times Book Review), an astronomer-turned-cyber-detective begins a personal quest to expose a hidden network of spies that threatens national security and leads all the way to the KGB.When...
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The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the HolocaustThe "remarkable...inspiring" (The Wall Street Journal) true story of Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg--a Jewish mathematician who saved thousands of lives in Nazi-occupied Poland by masquerading as a Polish aristocrat--drawing on Mehlberg's own unpublished memoir. World War II and the Holocaust have given rise to...
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