Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen AnimalsA New York Times bestseller!National Book Award finalist Sy Montgomery reflects on the personalities and quirks of 13 animals--her friends--who have profoundly affected her in this stunning, poetic, and life-affirming memoir featuring illustrations by Rebecca Green.Understanding someone who belongs to another species can be...
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Hopeful Heroes: More Poems about Amazing LatinosIn this companion to Bravo!, Margarita Engle's beautiful poetry introduces young readers to lesser-known Latinos from varied backgrounds who have all shown tremendous resilience. Prepare to be inspired by this empowering collection of poetry that tells a larger story about fortitude and community across...
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Homage to CataloniaA National Review Top Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Century "One of Orwell's very best books and perhaps the best book that exists on the Spanish Civil War."--The New Yorker In 1936, originally intending merely to report on the Spanish Civil War as...
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Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third ReichNamed a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews and Air Mail "A fascinating and instructive book . . . elegantly written and perceptive." --Wall Street Journal "Kaleidoscopic . . . A fascinating exploration of individual agency that never loses sight of the...
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Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of AmericaInstant New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, and Indie Bound Bestseller Bestselling author Sarah Kendzior documents the truth about the calculated rise to power of Donald Trump since the 1980s and how the erosion of our liberties made an American dema-gogue possible.The story...
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Hick: The Trailblazing Journalist Who Captured Eleanor Roosevelt's HeartIn this riveting YA non-fiction set against the backdrop of the Great Depression, trace Lorena Hickok--or Hick's-- rise from devastating childhood to renowned journalist, and watch as she forms the most significant friendship and romantic relationship of her life with first lady, Eleanor Roosevelt....
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Halfway There: A Graphic Memoir of Self-DiscoveryA School Library Journal Best Book of the Year A poignant young adult graphic memoir that follows one teen's year abroad in Japan, as she seeks to reconcile both sides of her biracial identity. Christine has always felt she is just half: Half American,...
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Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: Baby's First Book of Extraordinary WomenThis board book adaptation of the New York Times bestselling Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls introduces your little reader to the lives of extraordinary Rebel women, past and present, from around the world. Welcoming new Rebels into the fold, Good Night Stories for...
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Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional RecoveryAs seen on Good Morning America's SEPTEMBER 2020 READING LIST and FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2020!"We need to read stories about folks who have been through hell and kept going... Fascinating." --Glennon Doyle, A Favorite Book of 2020 on Good Morning America "Gildiner is nothing...
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Go Higher: Five Practices for Purpose, Success, and Inner PeaceINSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER Multi-platinum artist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, Big Sean shares his five key practices for- inner work and self-acceptance in this interactive guidebook on maintaining daily mental wellness. Sean Anderson, better known as Big Sean, has reached incredible levels of success in his...
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Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called QuestA New York Times Best Seller 2019 National Book Award Longlist, Nonfiction 2019 Kirkus Book Prize Finalist, Nonfiction A February IndieNext Pick Named A Most Anticipated Book of 2019 by Buzzfeed, Nylon, The A. V. Club, CBC Books, and The Rumpus, and a Winter's...
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Girls to the Front: 40 Asian American Women Who Blazed a TrailStand back, the girls are coming through: Learn about forty amazing Asian American women who have changed the course of history!From the big stage to the US Navy, from laboratories to the boardroom, from the Olympics to the pages in books, these girls and...
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Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson StoryGifted Hands reveals the remarkable journey of Dr. Ben Carson from an angry, struggling young boy with everything stacked against him to the director of pediatric neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center.As a boy, he did poorly in school and struggled with anger....
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Gay Bar: Why We Went OutLos Angeles Times bestseller National Book Critics Circle Award Winner NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: The New York Times * NPR * Vogue * Gay Times * Artforum * "Gay Bar is an absolute tour de force." -Maggie Nelson...
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Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A MemoirINSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The BELOVED STAR OF FRIENDS takes us behind the scenes of the hit sitcom and his struggles with addiction in this "CANDID, DARKLY FUNNY...POIGNANT" memoir (The New York Times) A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK by Time, Associated...
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Free to Learn: How Alfredo Lopez Fought for the Right to Go to SchoolFrom the author of the award-winning The Youngest Marcher comes a picture book about the true story of Alfredo Lopez, an undocumented boy involved in a landmark Supreme Court case that still ensures children's right to education today. Alfredo Lopez has so many questions...
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FoxholeFoxhole is a deeply personal story of a young man's experience in World War II. George Mullins takes us on his journey as he travels from his isolated home in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia to the beach in Normandy as part of the...
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Fox and I: An Uncommon FriendshipWinner of the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award * 2022 Nautilus Book Awards Gold Winner * Shortlisted for the John Burroughs Medal * Finalist for the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize * Shortlisted for a Reading the West Book AwardInstant New York...
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Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the OrangePer person, oranges are the most consumed fruit in the world. Across the world, no matter how remote or cold or incongruous a climate is, oranges will be there. What stories could I unravel from the orange's long ribboning peel? What new meanings could...
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Fireproof: Memoir of a ChefWith rare intensity and candor, world-renowned, Michelin-starred Chef Curtis Duffy shares his epic journey from child of an outlaw biker father to famed culinary iconoclast. Fans of no holds-barred stories such as Motley Crue's The Dirt, memoirs by celebrity chefs, and brutally honest personal...
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