Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Once Upon a Farm: Lessons on Growing Love, Life, and Hope on a New FrontierSometimes, it's not only what we plant but where we're planted. As opposed to homesteading, Once Upon a Farm is a book on "lifesteading" as New York Times bestselling author Rory Feek learns to cultivate faith, love, and fatherhood on a small farm, while...
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Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 YearsWarm, feisty, and intelligent, the Delany sisters speak their mind in a book that is at once a vital historical record and a moving portrait of two remarkable women who continued to love, laugh, and embrace life after over a hundred years of living...
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Explore with Sieur de la SalleThis engaging book follows the travels of French nobleman Sieur de la Salle who expanded the fur trade in North America - then called New France - and explored the Mississippi River down to the Gulf of Mexico. Historical information and high-interest fact boxes...
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Stars of Major League BaseballStep up to the plate with baseball's top players, from mainstays like Mookie Betts and Gerrit Cole to rising stars like Shohei Ohtani and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Young fans will enjoy these lively profiles of the game's biggest stars, which explore their life stories,...
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The Theatricality of Robert LepageSince the 1980s, multimedia and new technologies have had a great impact on theatre, allowing performance to establish its own language of communication with the audience independent of the written text. The author offers a comprehensive analysis of Lepage's creative process.Author: Aleksandar Sasa DundjerovicPublisher:...
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Every Day in Tuscany: Seasons of an Italian Life#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND A TIMELESS CLASSIC FROM THE AUTHOR OF UNDER MAGNOLIA Frances Mayes--widely published poet, gourmet cook, and travel writer--opens the door to a wondrous new world when she buys and restores an abandoned villa in the spectacular Tuscan countryside....
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My First Five Husbands...and the Ones Who Got Away: A MemoirRue McClanahan, best known for her portrayal of Blanche Devereaux on the Emmy-award winning series The Golden Girls reveals her life in and out of the spotlight in a laugh-out-loud funny memoir about love, marriage, men, and getting older that is every bit as...
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Stuck in the Middle with You: A Memoir of Parenting in Three GendersNew York Times bestselling author Jennifer Finney Boylan returns with a remarkable memoir about gender and parenting that discusses how families are shaped and the difficulties and wonders of being human. A father for six years, a mother for ten, and for a time...
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Chief Joseph: Guardian of the PeopleThe Nez Perc people lived in peace with white intruders in their homelands from the time of Lewis & Clark until 1863 when a treaty called for the tribe's removal to a reservation in Idaho. Chief Joseph (1840-1904), headman of the Nez Perc band...
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Teresa of Avila: Saint for the EucharistTeresa of vila, Spain, was born into a wealthy family in 1515. She loved Jesus very much and became a Carmelite nun. When she received the Eucharist, she could feel his great love and grew stronger in her faith and friendship with Jesus.Teresa felt...
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Ma Barker: America's Most Wanted MotherWas Arizona Donnie Clark, AKA Kate "Ma" Barker the mastermind behind the Barker gang terrorizing the Midwest during the early years of the great Depression? Or was she a terrible mother who urged her sons to criminal behavior for her own financial gain? Or...
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Journeys on the Silk Road: A Desert Explorer, Buddha's Secret Library, and the Unearthing of the World's Oldest Printed BookWhen a Chinese monk broke into a hidden cave in 1900, he uncovered one of the world's great literary secrets: a time capsule from the ancient Silk Road. Inside, scrolls were piled from floor to ceiling, undisturbed for a thousand years. The gem within...
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Fearless: One Woman, One Kayak, One ContinentLike the instant classic The Last American Man, Fearless is the story of a remarkable individual who accepts no personal limits-including fear. Freya Hoffmeister, a forty-six-year-old former sky diver, gymnast, marksman, and Miss Germany contestant, left her twelve-year-old son behind to paddle alone and...
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Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Connecticut History, First EditionThe lives of notorious bad guys, perpetrators of mischief, visionary--if misunderstood--thinkers, and other colorful antiheroes, jerks, and evil doers from history all get their due in the short essays featured in these enlightening, informative books. Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Connecticut History...
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Wise Women: From Pocahontas To Sarah Winnemucca, Remarkable Stories Of Native American Trailblazers, First EditionThe story of Pocahontas saving John Smith is justly famous, as is the cross-country journey of Sacajawea with the Corps of Discovery, and Sarah Winnemucca earned fame by being a champion of her people as the old ways of life were disappearing. But there...
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Aaron RodgersMany people believed NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers would quickly become a star when he joined the Green Bay Packers in 2005. But as the backup to Brett Favre, Aaron didn't get to play much during his first three seasons. When Aaron took over as...
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The Fame of a Dead Man's Deeds: An Up-Close Portrait of White Nationalist William PierceAuthor: Robert S. GriffinPublisher: 1st Book LibraryPublished: 05/01/2001Pages: 448Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.44lbsSize: 8.98h x 6.28w x 1.08dISBN: 9780759609334This title is not returnable
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Mountain of the DeadIn January 1959, ten experienced young skiers set out for Mount Otorten in the far north of Russia. While one of the skiers fell ill and returned., the remaining nine lost their way and ended up on another mountain slope known as Kholat Syakhl...
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A Lady of CottonIn 1789 Hannah Lightbody, a well-educated and intelligent young woman of means, married Samuel Greg and found herself at the center of his cotton empire in the industrial heart of England. It was a man's world, in which women like Hannah were barred from...
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The Prisoner King: Charles I in CaptivityMuch has been written about Charles I's reign, about the brutal civil war into which his pursuit of unfettered power plunged the realm, and about the Commonwealth regime that followed his defeat and execution. His reign is one that shaped the future of the...
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