Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Gods of the Hammer: The Teenage Head StoryTeenage Head was a full-on, balls-to-the-wall, three-chord band that obliterated categories and labels with their sonic assault, and everywhere they played they converted the merely curious to the insanely devoted. And they almost became world famous. Almost. Told by film critic and pop-culture aficionado...
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Cabin at Singing River: One Woman's Story of Building a Home in the WildernessChris Czajkowski came to Canada's attention in the mid-1980s when she began writing to CBC Radio's Morningside about a particularly unusual adventure: in her late thirties, she headed into the pristine wilderness of British Columbia's Tweedsmuir Provincial Park. There, she single-handedly cleared the land...
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Off the Books: A Jazz LifeMany jazz lives have unfolded as marginal existences, as jazz guitarist Peter Leitch attests in this honest memoir of a life lived in search of excellence in music and art, but also a life lived battling depression, alienation, and narcotics addiction. Leitch vividly relates...
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Nick: A Montreal Life: Nick Auf Der Maur"Nick Auf der Maur was in journalism and politics. He thought there was honor in both. He also thought both should be fun. He was primarily a newspaper columnist, not a crusader, but a storyteller in love with his city, Montreal. When he wrote...
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Poachers, Polluters and Politics: A Fishery Officer's CareerRetired fishery officer Randy Nelson's first love was catching poachers. That obsession, plus a devious mind and enthusiasm for marathon running, spelled big trouble for law-breaking fishermen. Thirty-five years in the field (and stream) netted a gold mine of stories: with hair-raising tales of...
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Diary of a Wilderness DwellerIn the late 1980s, Chris Czajkowski left her truck at the end of a logging road 300 kilometres north of Vancouver and hiked for two days on unmarked wilderness trails to the site of what would become her home. This is her account of...
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Letters of a Woman Homesteader==Special Edition for Low Vision Readers== Part One of a first hand account of life in rugged Wyoming by a single mother in 1909. About Super Large PrintAll our books are published with a font designed for maximum readability at twice the size of...
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Elvis Aaron Presley "Death" of a "King"A poor boy from Tupelo, his Beloved Mother, their shared "Secret Heritage," a piece of Jewelry, their Christian Faith, a wife, a daughter, a Divorce, an addiction, Lies, Deception, Injustice, Treachery, Betrayal, and in the end, "Death of a King." A mystery, that only...
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The Confessions of St. AugustineThe Confessions of St. Augustine By Saint AugustineAuthor: Edward Bouverie Pusey, Saint AugustinePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 06/11/2017Pages: 148Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.46lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.32dISBN: 9781547215447This title is not returnable
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Reflections of a Servant Leader: My Journey as the Longest Serving Airman in U. S. Air Force HistoryGrowing up in a family of sharecroppers in the segregated South in the 1950s and '60s, Al Flowers never dreamed of becoming a history-maker. Lying in his bed late at night and looking up at the sky through the holes in the tin roof...
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Becoming Richard WidmarkBecoming Richard Widmark is a biography of the life of film actor Richard Widmark who spent his early school years in Princeton, Illinois. He went to grade school and high school in Princeton. He graduated in 1932 as the Senior Class President. Four years...
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The Intimate Life of the Last TsarinaPrincess Radziwill's biography of the last Tsarina was first published in 1929. A granddaughter of Queen Victoria, Alexandra was left motherless at the age of six by the death of Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse. She married Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia, shortly after...
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Fire, Fire, Fire on the Flight Deck Aft; This Is Not a Drill: An Inconceivable Story of Brave Men Battling Raging Fires and High-Order Explosions to SIn March of 1967, Ken Killmeyer became a crew member of USS Forrestal CVA-59, the first of the super aircraft carriers. In 1995, Ken was offered the position of historian of the USS Forrestal Association. During his time as a historian, Ken began collecting...
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Scarred For Life!: Discovering Abundant Life Through Understanding Our ScarsScarred For Life is a book of hope for anyone who has scars in their life that they don't understand or are struggling to find victory from. Tim, the author has suffered several life-threatening incidents in his life but through them all, he has...
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You Can Lead!You Can Lead Unveiling Unusual Pathways to Leadership Self-Discovery shares the story of author Katurah Cooper who in 1990 fled with her five daughters from the Liberian civil war to reside in the United States as a refugee for eleven years. Since returning to...
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MoreThe carnage of civil war uprooted his life. And what followed was the determination to pursue a better future. Through trauma, hardship, obstacles, and financial uncertainty, he succeeded in acquiring a doctorate degree and fulfilling his dream, thereby positioning himself to help others. In...
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The Piggott Boys"I have sat and listened to Joe tell various stories and history of Piggott, Arkansas and am amazed at the detail that he can communicate, never using notes and always from the heart. Because of his knowledge of our past and his unique relationship...
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Mi vida como playboyPORFIRIO RUBIROSA. Naci en Santo Domingo el 22 de enero de 1909. Siendo muy joven acompa a sus padres a Par s, donde residi por varios a os. Se cas en el 1932 con Flor de Oro, hija mayor del dictador Rafael Leonidas Trujillo,...
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Lontano da MogadiscioQuesta la storia del viaggio fisico ed emotivo dell'Autrice dalla sua patria devastata dalla guerra, la Somalia. Qualche tempo dopo il colpo di stato militare del 1969 Shirin lasci Mogadiscio e si trasfer in Italia per dare a s stessa e alla sua famiglia...
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Expedition 196: A Personal Journal from the First Woman on Record to Travel to Every Country in the WorldA memoir of Cassie's life leading up to, and during her Expedition around the world.At age twenty-seven, Cassie De Pecol accomplished something remarkable. She became the first woman on record to travel to every country on Earth, and did it faster than anyone in...
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