Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Patrick: Saint of IrelandThis book on St. Patrick for kids recounts the life of one of our most celebrated saints. In Patrick: Saint of Ireland, author Joyce Denham draws upon legend and St. Patrick's own writings to tell kids this saint's fascinating story and to offer them...
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Yoni NetanyahuFew rescue missions have succeeded like "Operation Thunderbolt," the Israeli plan led by Yoni Netanyahu on July 4, 1976, to rescue 105 hijacked Jewish passengers held captive in Uganda's Entebbe Airport. In her gripping biography Speregen introduces young readers to one of Israel's bravest...
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The Who's the Who Sell OutReleased in the U.S. in January 1968, The Who Sell Out was, according to critic Dave Marsh, a complete backfire--the album sold well, but not spectacularly and was] ultimately a nostalgic in-joke: Who but a pop intellectual could appreciate such a thing? Further rarifying...
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Sweet Nata: Growing Up in Rural New MexicoGrandparents are our teachers, our allies, and a great source of love. They supply endless stories that connect us to a past way of life and to people long gone--people who led ordinary lives, but were full of extraordinary teachings. This is the subject...
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Broken Glass: A Family's Journey Through Mental IllnessWhen Robert Hine's daughter, Elene, first showed signs of unhappiness as a little girl, no one dreamed she would grow up to have a serious personality disorder. As an early "baby boomer," Elene reached adolescence and young womanhood in the midst of the counterculture...
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Capirotada: A Nogales MemoirCapirotada, Mexican bread pudding, is a mysterious mixture of prunes, peanuts, white bread, raisins, milk, quesadilla cheese, butter, cinnamon and cloves, Old World sugar--"all this," writes Alberto Rios, "and things people will not tell you."Like its Mexican namesake, this memoir is a rich melange,...
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A Place in El Paso: A Mexican-American ChildhoodThis memoir of growing up in El Paso in the 1940s and 1950s creates an entire city: the way a barrio awakens in the early morning sun, the thrill of a rare desert snow, the taste of fruit-flavored raspadas on summer afternoons, the money...
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Jesse James and the Civil War in Missouri: Volume 1The Civil War in Missouri was a time of great confusion, violence, and destruction. Although several major battles were fought in the state between Confederate and Union forces, much of the fighting in Missouri was an ugly form of terrorism carried out by loose...
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Nursing in the Storm: Voices from Hurricane Katrina2010 PROSE Award Winner for Nursing & Allied Health Sciences! 2010 AJN Book of the Year Award Winner in Public Interest and Creative Works! The accounts are vivid, colorful, descriptive, intense, and often horrific and give cross-sectional views of life in the trenches during...
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Mark These Men: A Unique Look at Selected Men of the BibleA treasure-house of Bible biographies including Elisha, Elijah, King Saul, Daniel, Gideon, Balaam, the apostle Paul, Lazarus, the rich young ruler, Ananias, and Simon of Cyrene.Author: J. Sidlow BaxterPublisher: Kregel PublicationsPublished: 05/15/1992Pages: 168Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.40dISBN: 9780825421976About the AuthorBaxter,...
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Nathan Hale: Hero of the American RevolutionAuthor: Jody LibertsonPublisher: Rosen CentralPublished: 01/01/2004Pages: 32Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 8.10h x 6.70w x 0.20dISBN: 9780823941896Audience: Young AdultAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 4.3Point Value: 0.5Interest Level: Lower GradeQuiz #/Name: 73168 / Nathan Hale: Hero of the American RevolutionThis title is not returnableThis title is only available...
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A Picture Book of Cesar ChavezS se puede Learn all about the Mexican American activist who worked tirelessly to promote better conditions for workers. This clear and concise biography with folksy illustrations details the amazing life of American labor leader and civil rights activist Cesar Chavez. As a child...
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A Picture Book of Amelia EarhartIn 1937, Amelia Earhart vanished while trying to become the first woman to fly around the globe. Today, experts search for clues to what happened-- but Earhart's legacy as a pioneering woman pilot is greater than the mystery surrounding her disappearance. You may know...
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The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the AirplaneA Newbery Honor-winning biography of the men whose experiments brought about the Age of Flight. This engaging narrative account of Orville and Wilbur Wright, two men with little formal schooling but a knack for solving problems, follows their interest from a young age in...
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Out of the Ordinary: A Life of Gender and Spiritual TransitionsNow available for the first time--more than 50 years after it was written--is the memoir of Michael Dillon/Lobzang Jivaka (1915-62), the British doctor and Buddhist monastic novice chiefly known to scholars of sex, gender, and sexuality for his pioneering transition from female to male...
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Steel Titan: The Life of Charles M. SchwabBusiness genius and hedonist, Charles Schwab entered the steel industry as an unskilled laborer and within twenty years advanced to the presidency of Carnegie Steel. He later became the first president of U.S. Steel and then founder of Bethlehem Steel. His was one of...
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When Rains Became Floods: A Child Soldier's StoryWhen Rains Became Floods is the gripping autobiography of Lurgio Gavil n S nchez, who as a child soldier fought for both the Peruvian guerrilla insurgency Shining Path and the Peruvian military. After escaping the conflict, he became a Franciscan priest and is now...
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The Secret of the Hardy Boys: Leslie McFarlane and the Stratemeyer SyndicateThe author of the Hardy Boys Mysteries was, as millions of readers know, Franklin W. Dixon. Except there never was a Franklin W. Dixon. He was the creation of Edward Stratemeyer, the savvy founder of a children's book empire that also published the Tom...
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The Jerrie Mock Story: The First Woman to Fly Solo around the WorldA Junior Library Guild selection Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Official 2016 Summer Reading List In this biography for middle-grade readers, Nancy Roe Pimm tells the story of Geraldine "Jerrie" Mock, the first woman to fly solo around the world. In her...
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Time to Get Tough: How Cookies, Coffee, and a Crash Led to Success in Business and LifeMichael J. Coles, the cofounder of the Great American Cookie Company and the former CEO of Caribou Coffee, did not follow a conventional path into business. He does not have an Ivy League pedigree or an MBA from a top-ten business school. He grew...
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