Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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I Am Nobody's Slave: How Uncovering My Family's History Set Me FreeA 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist and former Wall Street Journal writer exhaustively examines his family's legacy of post-enslavement trauma and resilience, in this riveting memoir--a soulful, shocking, and spellbinding read that blends the raw power of Natasha Tretheway's Memorial Drive and the insights of...
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Hurricane HeaneyHurricane Heaney is a fish-out-of-water memoir of a gay Indonesian man, Ben, who finds himself marrying into a salt-of-the-earth Irish family. Unlike many stories involving LGBTQ+ protagonists, this is not a tragic tale about a traumatic coming out, nor even about the novelty of...
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Hunger Like a Thirst: From Food Stamps to Fine Dining, a Restaurant Critic Finds Her Place at the TableA witty and lively memoir from food writer and New York Times contributor Besha Rodell, (formerly) one of the world's last anonymous restaurant critics When Besha Rodell moved from Australia to the United States with her mother at fourteen, she was a foreigner in...
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How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir"Beautiful and painful at the same time, just like real life." - Anne Lamott From the political writer and podcaster, a ferociously honest and disarmingly funny memoir about her elusive mother's encroaching dementia and a reckoning with her complicated childhood Molly Jong-Fast is the...
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Horses, Howitzers, and Hymns: The Story of Lieut. Skey, MC, and His Father in the Great WarUpon his arrival in France in February of 1917, twenty-one-year-old Lieut. Warren Skey purchased a small Au Jour le Jour to record his day-to-day experiences as a gunner, who packed ammunition, loaded on horses, to the guns at the front. He was serving with...
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Home by Another Way: Harvesting Taproots WisdomBy book's end, you will discover that Tim and Lori have "found their] way home by another way and put down deep and securing roots." These spiritual and physical taproots have nourished them in ways they could never have expected or even imagined when...
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Hollywood Vampires: Johnny Depp, Amber Heard, and the Celebrity Exploitation MachineThe explosive inside story of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard's tumultuous relationship, divorce, and trials based on unprecedented access to the private worlds of Johnny, Amber, and their inner circles.Celebrity romances and trials have always captured the public's imagination, playing out like soap operas...
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Here Comes the SunHere Comes the SunThe Hardest Thing About Middle Age is Growing Out of ItFawn Germer did not climb Mount Everest, hike the Pacific Crest Trail, or eat, pray, and love her way around the world. All she did was get a van and go...
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Healing: My Pilgrimage with Tagore, India's Revered TeacherAn American clergywoman shares how the poetry and life of India's Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore provide inspiration and hope through numerous grief events common to people from all backgrounds and cultures. Like Tagore, the author suffered the deaths of several close loved ones. Other...
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Hayao Miyazaki: Bilingual Vietnamese-English Children's Biography Book (Written in Vietnamese and English)*** Bilingual Vietnamese-English Edition ***Discover the life of Hayao Miyazaki, the little Japanese boy who became one of the world's most influential animators and film directors!Growing up in wartime Tokyo, Hayao Miyazaki found inspiration at his father's airplane parts plant and through his bright,...
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Grand Piano: Grand PianoHeres an elegant introduction to playing the piano. Classically styled grand piano features a lifting top with safety hinge, 30 piano keys, songbook with color-coded key chart and a sturdy, non-tip bench!Author: Paul NantonPublisher: Melissa & DougPublished: 03/13/2013Binding Type: OtherWeight: 26.25lbsSize: 23.00h x 23.50w...
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Gods of Noonday: A White Girl's African LifeThe daughter of medical missionaries, Elaine Neil Orr was born in Nigeria in 1954, in the midst of the national movement that would lead to independence from Great Britain. But as she tells it in her captivating new memoir, Orr did not grow up...
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Gluskin Family HistoryA history of the Gluskin Family, by Yosef Serebryanski and David B. LevyAuthor: David B. Levy, Yosef SerebryanskiPublisher: Independently PublishedPublished: 12/27/2019Pages: 486Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.56lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 1.08dISBN: 9781679911637This title is not returnable
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Genois Wilson, Firefighter: She Dared to Be FirstThe book, Genois Wilson, Firefighter: She Dared To Be First is meant to be an inspiration to both young girls and young boys to encourage them to strive for their dreams, no matter what they are. The story follows the career of Genois Wilson...
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Fyodor Dostoevsky-Darkness and Dawn (1848-1849): A Life in Letters, Memoirs, and CriticismFyodor Dostoevsky--Darkness and Dawn (1848-1849), the third and final volume on the writer's childhood, adolescence, and youth, seeks to disclose, in a detailed and intimate way, Dostoevsky's last two years before his exile to Siberia. Together with the first two volumes, it attempts to...
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Further Along: With Atypical ParkinsonismThis moving and intimate memoir reflects on Dan R. Brooks's long battle with a rare, atypical parkinsonism syndrome. It discusses the details of his condition, how it affects his daily living, the changes he has gone through, the amazing efforts his wife and caregiver...
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From the Field to the Classroom: Life after Football a New Game to Play: : The Dr. Shedrick D. McCall, Jr. StoryThe game was awesome. Shedrick D. McCall Jr. is a youngster who belonged to a doctor. who formerly loved the game and will continue to do so. Football was his first love, but after getting hurt and having to find anything else to do...
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From the Cotton Field to the Computer Field: A Historical Record of the Finch FamilyAuthor: John Robert FinchPublisher: 1st Book LibraryPublished: 05/07/2003Pages: 176Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 9.36h x 6.44w x 0.69dISBN: 9781410708465This title is not returnable
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Fragments of Wasted Devotion"Your world never ends how you think it will."In this dazzling debut collection, essayist Mia Arias Tsang explores the complexity and torture of queer heartbreak with an urgency that will leave you breathless. Flash nonfiction, vignettes, and personal narrative combine to tell the almost-love...
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Fortune Favors the Bold from SmartercomicsThis is the first book in the series and written by the founder of SmarterComics himself, Franco Arda. Follow this secret agent, as he gives you solid ideas on how to lead a bold life. How to take action and follow your dreams. Words...
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