Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Across Many MountainsA powerful, emotional memoir and an extraordinary portrait of three generations of Tibetan women whose lives are forever changed when Chairman Mao's Red Army crushes Tibetan independence, sending a young mother and her six-year-old daughter on a treacherous journey across the snowy Himalayas toward...
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Courage Beyond the GameJim Dent, the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Junction Boys, returns with a powerful Texas story which transcends college football, displaying the courage and determination of one of the game's most valiant players. Freddie Steinmark was a small but scrappy young...
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Politics and PastaAn election is a war and to the victor belongs the spoils. As I learned so well, that's the real democratic process. After all, you'll never see a victorious politician tell his supporters, I want to thank all of you who worked so hard...
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Howard's GiftA timeless classic . . . This is a book of head and heart, of wisdom and emotion . . . Tuesdays with Morrie meets What Color is Your Parachute? -Mindy Grossman, CEO of HSNi With forty years at Harvard Business School, Howard Stevenson...
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Vice: One Cop's Story of Patrolling America's Most Dangerous City9 square miles. 10,000 criminals. 130 cops. Compton: the most violent and crime-ridden city in America. What had been a semirural suburb of Los Angeles in the 1950s became a battleground for the Black Panthers, home of the Crips and Bloods and the first...
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Wide-Eyed In A Sleepy TownLife is never the same for Mr. Prasad's family when they shift to their new house in a secluded corner of a small town. As they explore the apparently strange world, they encounter characters from culturally contrasting backgrounds, stumble across places wrapped in the...
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The Boy from Boadua: One African's Journey of Hunger and Sacrifice in Pursuit of a DreamPatrick Asare was born and raised by illiterate parents in the remote Ghanaian village of Boadua. His family was so large and impoverished that not even the earnings from crushing hard work could buy enough food to fill their bellies. No one in the...
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Tales My Grandmother Told MeThere is an expression I came into my concept of self, based on the appraisal of significant others in my life. "I am not who you think I am, I am who I think you think I am". The credit for that quote goes...
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Hotel Horrors and Halos: And Other Unforgettable Hospitality Moments Book TwoJeannine Gittens has taken her experiences of working in the hotel and airline industry over two decades to create this series of short, lighthearted reads for avid travelers, those who dream of traveling, and those who simply want to be entertained about travel-related experiences.Book...
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Protecting Mama: Surviving the Legal Guardianship SwampLéonie Rosenstiel, whose mother suffers from Alzheimer's disease, struggles with an implacable, court-appointed guardian against the backdrop of centuries-old family myths and miscommunication. Mama wants their story told, but the courts demand that secrecy enshroud all guardianship records-forever. After years of struggle and Kafkaesque...
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A Prophet and a ScribeIn this third installment of belief-shattering, mind-blowing revelations from a so-called paranoid schizophrenic, the boundaries of reality shift as the reader begins to see the world through the eyes of an apostle who has finally found his prophet. Michael Lutterschmidt, who considers himself a...
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Memoirs -The Beginning of Life as I RememberWhat would you do if the spirit of someone you knew, who is now deceased, came to you with a message? See what the author did. Are you aware that there is a cloud of witnesses that encompasses us? From early childhood, the author...
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Blessed Mary Celeste Crostarosa: A Great Mystic of the Eighteenth CenturyThe eighteenth century is called an age of "Enlightenment", which is to say a skeptical, godless and libertine age where men turned from God to labor upon founding the city of man. God, however, had long prepared His apostle for this age, St. Alphonsus...
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The Pearl of Portsmouth: A Story of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.Let Freedom Ring! When Dr. King and Miss Scott visited Portsmouth, NH on October 26, 1952 he gave a sermon titled "Going Forward by Going Backward." In 1952 the enduring value of Reverend King's words was not fully appreciated, and his legacy and martyrdom,...
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The Boy Who Made Magic: P C SorcarAuthor: Lavanya KarthikPublisher: DuckbillPublished: 04/15/2023Pages: 48Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9780143458425Audience: Ages 9-12
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My Family, Your FamilyThis is a story about family, my family. Beginning in the distant past with great grandparents and tracing their descendants to the present great grandchildren, I've documented my family history including my brother, myself, and our wives. It's a thorough genealogical family tree featuring...
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The Girl from Number 7, Windsor Avenue: A MemoirAuthor: Vivienne Grilliot WorthingtonPublisher: iUniversePublished: 01/12/2023Pages: 298Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69dISBN: 9781663248787
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The Other Side of the SunWhen Dolly Baker was three years old, she found herself on a plane to Kentucky with her two sisters and a social worker. Even though their mother was still alive, the siblings had been adopted by a grandmother. Baker missed her mother's presence deeply,...
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A Journey Through History with the Davenports: Volume 1The main focus of this book is to answer the questions that my close relatives would have wished they had asked me before I started "pushing up daisies" . When I was at school the subject that I detested was history. Now, many decades...
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Frauen Können MehrAuthor: Irene FiedlerPublisher: Luviri PressPublished: 01/06/2023Pages: 228Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.61lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.48dISBN: 9789996066832Language: GermanThis title is not returnable
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