Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Lumberjack: Inside an Era in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan - 70th Anniversary EditionWinner--Best Biography/Memoir of 2002, Midwest Book Awards (St. Paul, MN)A firsthand account of the lumbering era during the white pine boom years of the late 1800s - early 1900s in the northern U.S. Millions of board feet of logs were cut in deep woods...
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WildflowerActress Drew Barrymore shares funny, insightful, and profound stories from her past and present--told from the place of happiness she's achieved today--in this heart-stirring New York Times bestseller that InStyle called "deeply thoughtful and fun." Wildflower is a portrait of Drew's life in stories...
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The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the Fbi, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World's Most Notorious TerroristsA highly entertaining account of a young woman who went straight from her college sorority to the CIA, where she hunted terrorists and WMDs "Reads like the show bible for Homeland only her story is real." --Alison Stewart, WNYC "A thrilling tale...Walder's fast-paced and...
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Your Daily Phil: 100 Days of Truth and Freedom to Heal America's Soul (a 100-Day Devotional)Strengthen your faith with a daily dose of truth, morality, and biblical wisdom from A&E Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson in this 100-day devotional.There is a war being waged on the soul of America, but Phil Robertson believes there is hope.Your Daily Phil compiles...
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Sign My Name to Freedom: A Memoir of a Pioneering LifeIn Betty Reid Soskin's 96 years of living, she has been a witness to a grand sweep of American history. When she was born in 1921, the lynching of African-Americans was a national disgrace, minstrel shows were the most popular American form of entertainment,...
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Daybook: The Journal of an ArtistA "touchstone for aspiring artists and writers" (Megan O'Grady, The New Yorker), Daybook is a classic work about reconciling the call of creative work with the demands of daily life. Renowned American artist Anne Truitt kept this illuminating and inspiring journal over a period...
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When We Were Arabs: A Jewish Family's Forgotten HistoryThe stunning debut of a brilliant nonfiction writer whose vivid account of his grandparents' lives in Egypt, Tunisia, Palestine, and Los Angeles reclaims his family's Jewish Arab identity Winner of the 2020 Arab American Book Award for nonfiction and one of NPR's best books...
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In the Evening, We'll Dance: A Memoir in Essays on Love & DementiaHow does a loving, committed marriage survive the effects of dementia?In her deeply personal and daringly original memoir, Anne-Marie Erickson lays bare the onset and eventual passing of her husband from dementia. Her writing is multidimensional, poetic as it weaves together fragments of word...
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Unlocking the Ancient Secrets to Healing: Why Science is Looking to the Past for the Future of MedicineGAIL LYNN was first exposed to sound and light healing while working in the film industry as an executive producer for a movie about Elvis Presley called Protecting the King. When Gail's doctor diagnosed her with severe cardiovascular stress at the young age of...
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Maurice RavelAn introduction to the life and work of the impressionist French composer. Maurice Ravel is one of the twentieth century's most intriguing and contradictory composers. This biography, published for the hundred and fiftieth anniversary of his birth, describes Ravel's journey from Parisian apprentice to...
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Agents of Fortune: The Blue Oyster Cult StoryForty years in the business...six gold & platinum U.S. albums...classic songs like (Don'tFear) The Reaper, Godzilla, Burnin' For You, Astronomy and E.T.I. Donald "BuckDharma" Roeser, Eric Bloom, Allen Lanier, Albert Bouchard & Joe Bouchard comprised one of the great stadium acts of the '70s...
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Legally Zen: A professional skeptic's path to finding inner peaceA skeptic walks into a cacao ceremony...For logic-first lawyer Kat Reilly, life had a formula: study hard, pass the bar, make partner, buy a house, land a man, have 1.5 children. She was cruising (Chanel shades, venti iced oat latte, lead foot on the...
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Penelope: The World of Each OtherInjured, disabled and in pain, a fawn appears one evening at the door of the author's home. Having been abandoned by her mother, having endured an exceptionally brutal winter, through the first months of her life she has survived a solitary woodland existence. She...
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Endnotes from a Happy Old LadyHaving had a revelation in her seventy-ninth year that she was a very happy old lady, despite the normal troubles and woes of life on a fallen planet, Rita was inspired to write a spiritual autobiography exploring the reasons for this happy state. Upon...
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Walk This WayWalk This Way: The Autobiography of Aerosmith is available in time for the Aerosmith's 40th Anniversary. It's the New York Times bestselling autobiography by the legendary rock group that lived by the motto "Anything worth doing was worth overdoing." Aerosmith shook the music world...
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The Film SenseAn exploration of the film as a more expressive and profound medium. Includes an analysis of a sound-film sequence from Alexander Nevsky. "The most instructive discussion of the film art yet put between the covers of a book" (New York Times Book Review). Edited...
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On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American FamilyFrom the bestselling author of The Island of Sea Women, here is the true story of the one-hundred-year-odyssey of the author's Chinese-American family, combining years of research with "fascinating family anecdotes, imaginative details, and the historical details of immigrant life" (Amy Tan, bestselling author...
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The Beatles: The BiographyThe definitive biography of The Beatles, hailed as "irresistible" by the New York Times, "riveting" by the Boston Globe, and "masterful" by Time. As soon as The Beatles became famous, the spin machine began to construct a myth -- one that has continued to...
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It's a Long Story: My LifeWillie Nelson shares his life story in this "heartfelt" bestselling memoir of true love, wild times, best friends, and barrooms (Washington Post)."Unvarnished. Funny. Leaving no stone unturned." . . . So say the publishers about this book I've written. What I say is that...
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The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'ConnorWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Special Award "I have come to think that the true likeness of Flannery O'Connor will be painted by herself, a self-portrait in words, to be found in her letters . . . There she stands, a phoenix...
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