Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children, and the Adverts That Helped Them Escape the HolocaustThis gripping family memoir of grief, courage, and hope tells the hidden stories of children who escaped the Holocaust, building connections across generations and continents. In 1938, Jewish families are scrambling to flee Vienna. Desperate, they take out advertisements offering their children into the...
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Dark City Dames: The Women Who Defined Film Noir (Revised and Expanded Edition)In this revised and expanded edition of his essential volume Dark City Dames, Eddie Muller--Turner Classic Movies host and author of Dark Cityand Noir Bar--offers a uniquely intimate look at the women who defined film noir, now featuring updated text, photos, and 10 new...
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Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All LifePULITZER PRIZE WINNER - An epic, extraordinary account of scientific rivalry and obsession in the quest to survey all of life on Earth "[An] engaging and thought-provoking book, one focused on the theatrical politics and often deeply troubling science that shape our definitions of...
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Forest Fighter: The Story of Chico MendesA picture book that tells the important story of Chico Mendes, who led the fight to protect the Amazon rainforest and demand fair treatment for the people whose livelihoods depended on it. Chico Mendes lived in the depths of the Amazon rainforest where trees...
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Taking on the Plastics Crisis"Taking on the Plastics Crisis delivers straightforward advise for getting involved in the global movement to eliminate single-use plastics." -- Booklist, Starred Review "Brief yet inspirational, this story will galvanize youth to use their voices for change."--Kirkus Reviews "Taking on the Plastics Crisis is...
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Nothing More of This Land: Community, Power, and the Search for Indigenous IdentityFrom award-winning journalist Joseph Lee, a sweeping, personal exploration of Indigenous identity and the challenges facing Indigenous people around the world. Before Martha's Vineyard became one of the most iconic vacation destinations in the country, it was home to the Wampanoag people. Today, as...
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Voice for the Voiceless: Over Seven Decades of Struggle with China for My Land and My PeopleINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this unique book offering personal, spiritual, and historical reflections--some never shared before--His Holiness the Dalai Lama tells the full story of his struggle with China to save Tibet and its people for nearly seventy-five years.The Dalai Lama has had...
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The Many Lives of Mama Love (Oprah's Book Club): A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and HealingNow including a new bonus chapter! "Once you start reading, be prepared, because you won't want to stop." --Oprah Winfrey OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - New York Times bestselling author Lara Love Hardin recounts her slide from soccer mom to opioid addict to jailhouse...
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Outspoken: Paul Robeson, Ahead of His Time: A One-Man Show (a Biography Celebrating Black History, Civil Rights, and the Power of Art - For Kids AgesNewbery Honoree Carole Boston Weatherford and award-winning illustrator Eric Velasquez--the team behind Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library--reunite to take full measure of an iconic performer and political activist. Paul Robeson rose to prominence during the Harlem Renaissance, known for his extraordinary vocal,...
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The Demonologist: The Extraordinary Career of Ed and Lorraine WarrenEd and Lorraine Warren are considered America's foremost experts on demonology and exorcism. With thousands of investigations to their credit, they reveal what actually breaks the peace in haunted houses and how it can happen to you. Don't miss the Warrens in the blockbuster...
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The JFK Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy--And Why It FailedINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR 2025 From the New York Times bestselling authors of The Nazi Conspiracy and The Lincoln Conspiracy comes a true, little-known story about the first assassination attempt on John F....
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The Story of Ruby BridgesThe inspirational true story of Ruby Bridges.The year is 1960, and six-year-old Ruby Bridges and her family have recently moved from Mississippi to New Orleans in search of a better life. When a judge orders Ruby to attend first grade at William Frantz Elementary,...
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Theater Kid: A Broadway MemoirA coming-of-age tale from one of the most successful American producers of our time, Jeffrey Seller, who is the only producer to have mounted two Pulitzer Prize-winning musicals--Hamilton and Rent. Before he was producing the musical hits of our generation, Jeffrey was just a...
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The Red Book: A Reader's EditionThe Red Book, published to wide acclaim in 2009, contains the nucleus of C. G. Jung's later works. It was here that he developed his principal theories of the archetypes, the collective unconscious, and the process of individuation that would transform psychotherapy from treatment...
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Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life InterruptedNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman's journey from diagnosis to remission to re-entry into "normal" life--from the founder of The Isolation Journals and a subject of the Netflix documentary American Symphony ONE...
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Turning to Birds: The Power and Beauty of NoticingEye-opening essays about searching for peace in the cacophony of birds and discovering a world of meaning in small moments--from award-winning actor Lili Taylor. "By turns introspective, inquisitive, and funny, the book is a love letter to nature and the solace it can provide."--The...
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Eyewitness PresidentsBecome an eyewitness to America's history with a look at the leaders who have held its highest office in this visual and informative guide The iconic eyewitness is back in a new and improved format to be passed down through the generations. This picture-led...
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They All Came to Barneys: A Personal History of the World's Greatest StoreDuring the greatest, most exciting years in the world's greatest, most exciting city, Barneys New York was a place where fashion made culture and made history. In They All Came to Barneys, Gene Pressman tells his story for the first time, capturing the unprecedented...
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What in the World?!: A Southern Woman's Guide to Laughing at Life's Unexpected Curveballs and Beautiful BlessingsNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "This book is the inspirational story that we all need. No one makes me laugh harder than Leanne Morgan!"--Reese Witherspoon Look for Leanne Morgan's new sitcom, Leanne, and her hit standup special, I'm Every Woman, both available on Netflix....
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Boat Baby: A MemoirIn a memoir where heroism meets humor, NBC News anchor and correspondent Vicky Nguyen tells the story of her family's daring escape from communist Vietnam and her unlikely journey from refugee to reporter with laughter and fierce love. Starting in 1975, Vietnam's "boat people"--desperate...
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