Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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The Song of BernadetteThis is the classic work that tells the true story surrounding the miraculous visions of St. Bernadette Soubirous at Lourdes, France in 1858. Werfel, a highly respected anti-Nazi writer from Vienna, became a Jewish refugee who barely escaped death in 1940, and wrote this...
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The Secret Rooms: A True Story of a Haunted Castle, a Plotting Duchess, and a Family SecretFor fans of Downton Abbey, this New York Times bestseller is the enthralling true story of family secrets and aristocratic intrigue in the days before WWI After the Ninth Duke of Rutland, one of the wealthiest men in Britain, died alone in a cramped...
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The Sacred Acre: The Ed Thomas StoryWhen tragedy devastated a small town, an unlikely source of inspiration pieced the community back together in this dramatic true story. On a Sunday in May 2008, an F5 tornado hit the town of Parkersburg, Iowa, killing eight people and destroying 250 homes and...
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There: We Found Our Family In A New York City Subway StationCertain events in life are so rare they can be freely dismissed as impossibilities. Getting struck by lightning, surviving a plane crash, or winning the lottery. When something shocking happens and doesn't end in tragedy, we say it must be fate, destiny, a miracle,...
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The Queen of SwordsIn what was at first meant to be a short essay about the influential Mexican writer Elena Garro (1916-1988), Jazmina Barrera's deep curiosity and exploration give us a singular portrait of a complex life.Sifting through the writer's archives at Princeton, Barrera is repeatedly thwarted...
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The Push: A Climber's Search for the PathA New York Times Bestseller A dramatic, inspiring memoir by legendary rock climber Tommy Caldwell, the first person to free climb the Dawn Wall of Yosemite's El Capitan "The rarest of adventure reads: it thrills with colorful details of courage and perseverance but it...
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The People vs. the Golden State Killer"Sacramento DA Thien Ho is a tenacious prosecutor who played a crucial role in putting the Golden State Killer in prison for life. The People vs. the Golden State Killer is a riveting behind-the-scenes account about the investigation, capture, and prosecution of Joseph DeAngelo."...
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The Orchard: A MemoirA stirring memoir of a young, single woman's laborious struggle to save her family's New England apple farm from going under during the Great Depression. The Orchard is an exquisitely beautiful and poignant memoir of a young woman's single-handed struggle to save her New...
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The Mountain Knows the Mountain: A Fire Watch DiaryA poignant and ruminative work of creative nonfiction by the bestselling, National Outdoor Book Award-winning author of Fire Season. The Mountain Knows the Mountain tells the story of the writer's return to the Gila Wilderness for fire season after missing a year for multiple...
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The Mirror of Great Britain: A Life of King James VI and IHistory has not been kind to King James. A cradle king who was crowned in Scotland in 1567 and England and Ireland in 1603, James VI and I has long been eclipsed in fame and reputation by his predecessor and cousin, Elizabeth I, and...
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The Long Run Home: A Daughter's Run Across America to Fight MSRaw and inspiring, The Long Run Home is a memoir of resilience, belonging, and the joy found in turning pain into purpose. The story of one woman with a mission to run 3,288 miles solo across America for her mother and the disease that...
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The Land Was Everything: Letters from an American FarmerA firsthand perspective on the modern farmer's struggle against drought, disease, insects, rodents, government bureaucracy, financial overload--and how those challenges promote qualities like independence, stoicism, and resolution. Before storms that can destroy his crops in an instant, the farmer stands implacable. To fluctuations in...
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The Jordan Rules: The Inside Story of One Turbulent Season with Michael Jordan and the Chicago BullsSam Smith's seminal, New York Times bestselling "eye-opener" (The San Diego Union-Tribune) on Michael Jordan and the 1990-1991 Chicago Bulls team-perfect for fans of ESPN's hit documentary series The Last Dance.This is the book that changed the way the world viewed Michael Jordan, while...
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The Gratitude Diaries: How a Year Looking on the Bright Side Can Transform Your LifeIn this New York Times bestseller, Janice Kaplan spends a year living gratefully and transforms her marriage, family life, work, and health. On New Year's Eve, journalist and former Parade editor in chief Janice Kaplan makes a promise to be grateful and look on...
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The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in PalestineA powerful account, by Israeli peace activist Miko Peled, of his transformation from a young man who'd grown up in the heart of Israel's elite and served proudly in its military into a fearless advocate of nonviolent struggle and equal rights for all Palestinians...
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The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American CultureA rollicking history of America's most iconic weekly newspaper told through the voices of its legendary writers, editors, and photographers "The Freaks Came Out to Write may be the best history of a journalistic enterprise I've ever read"--Dwight Garner, The New York Times You...
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The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the WorldMary Anning was only twelve years old when, in 1811, she discovered the first dinosaur skeleton--of an ichthyosaur--while fossil hunting on the cliffs of Lyme Regis, England. Until Mary's incredible discovery, it was widely believed that animals did not become extinct. The child of...
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The First Eight: A Personal History of the Pioneering Black Congressmen Who Shaped a NationFrom one of America's most venerable politicians, The First Eight is an extraordinary work of living history: the powerful, untold story of the pioneering Black politicians from South Carolina who were elected to Congress in the aftermath of the Civil War, and a revealing...
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The Eastern FrontA gripping first-person memoir of soldierly sacrifice, heroism and fierce combat against numerically superior Soviet forces during World War II, by a charismatic Belgian writer and politician turned Waffen SS front-line infantryman. In a laudatory review appearing in an official US Army Department magazine,...
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The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation"Fast-paced and highly absorbing." --Wall Street JournalA magisterial new history of the fierce final chapter of the "Indian Wars," told through the lives of the two most legendary and consequential American Indian leaders, who led Sioux resistance and triumphed at the Battle of Little...
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