Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Belonging: A Daughter's Search for Identity Through Loss and LoveNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"[An] outstanding debut."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)The award-winning journalist and co-host of CBS Saturday Morning tells the candid, and deeply personal story of her mother's abandonment and how the search for answers forced her to reckon with her own identity and the...
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Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our OwnNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "A powerful study of how to bear witness in a moment when America is being called to do the same."--Time James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the civil rights movement to force America to confront its lies...
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Before I Lose My Own Mind: Navigating Life as a Dementia Caregiver"This is a book I immediately wanted to give to a friend-and keep a copy for my bookshelf. Wise, clear, well-researched, and helpful." -Katy Butler, bestselling author of Knocking on Heaven's Door and The Art of Dying WellWhen Dr. Beverly E. Thorn became a...
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Becoming Kareem: Growing Up on and Off the CourtThe first memoir for young readers by sports legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. At one time, Lew Alcindor was just another kid from New York City with all the usual problems: He struggled with fitting in, pleasing a strict father, and overcoming shyness that made him...
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Beautiful Country: A Read with Jenna Pick: A Memoir of an Undocumented ChildhoodA NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - The moving story of an undocumented child living in poverty in the richest country in the world--an incandescent debut from an astonishing new talent - A TODAY SHOW #READWITHJENNA PICK In Chinese, the word for America, Mei...
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Baseball Goats: The Greatest Athletes of All TimeHow do you pick baseball's GOATs? Is Sandy Koufax the greatest pitcher to take the mound? Is Ted Williams the greatest pure hitter the game has seen? It comes down to stats, history, and hunches. Read more about some of the legends of baseball...
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Bad Boy: A Graphic MemoirA gripping graphic memoir adaptation of iconic, multi-award-winning author Walter Dean Myers's autobiography, telling the story of his coming-of-age in Harlem, adapted by Guy A. Sims and illustrated by Dawud Anyabwile.Legendary author Walter Dean Myers was once a troublemaker and a truant.Just how bad...
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A Woman Among Wolves: My Journey Through Forty Years of Wolf Recovery"A gripping and vital portrait of wolf repopulation. It is impossible not to root for Diane, or for the wolves."--ERICA BERRY, AUTHOR OF WOLFISH "This is a book about a courageous woman. Often alone in wild country, she endures hardships and faces danger in...
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A Very Punchable Face: A MemoirNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In these hilarious essays, the Saturday Night Live head writer and Weekend Update co-anchor learns how to take a beating. "I always wanted to punch his face before I read this book. Now I just want to kick him...
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A Song for OlafA Song for OlafIt's the summer of 1969. And the ink on the headlines about the Stonewall Uprising is barely dry when the entire country is mesmerized by a musical revolution rocking Woodstock. Smack dab in the middle of it all is teenage Olaf,...
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A Real Emergency: Stories from the AmbulanceIntrospective, richly layered, and surprisingly hopeful, A Real Emergency is a love letter from a paramedic to the best and worst parts of her career. For fifteen years, Joanna Sokol filled private notebooks with her confusion, humor, and anger toward the strange world of...
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Ara: The Life and Legacy of a Notre Dame Legend--The Authorized Biography of Coach Ara ParseghianAra: The Life and Legacy of a Notre Dame Legend captures the personality, courage, and character of a great man who faced adversity on and off the field.Through his unprecedented access to Ara Parseghian's personal files, author Mark O. Hubbard explores the coach's innovative...
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A Piece of Cake: A MemoirNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The heart-wrenching, uplifting tale about a woman named Cupcake "[Cupcake] Brown's confessional . . . memoir is one you can't easily put down. Her life is nothing short of a miracle."--Chicago Sun-Times There are shelves of memoirs about overcoming...
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Anne Frank: The Diary Of A Young Girl: The Definitive EditionThe Diary of a Young Girl, also known as The Diary of Anne Frank, is a book of the writings from the Dutch language diary kept by Anne Frank while In 1942, with zis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled...
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And Then Came the Blues: My Story of Survival on Both Sides of the BadgeACCORDING TO THE NATIONAL COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, in the United States, an average of twenty-four people per minute are physically abused by an intimate partner, and one in three women have experienced some form of domestic violence. One of those women was Katrina...
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A Man & His Car: Iconic Cars and Stories from the Men Who Love ThemA Robb Report Best Coffee Table Book to Gift in 2020 A Sports Car News and InsideHook Best Coffee Table Book for Car Lovers Celebrate That Special Bond Between Men and Cars, and the Stories That Connect Them Discover actor and director Ed Burns...
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All But My Life: A MemoirAll But My Life is the unforgettable story of Gerda Weissmann Klein's six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty.From her comfortable home in Bielitz (present-day Bielsko) in Poland to her miraculous survival and her liberation by American troops--including the man who was to...
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A Little Less Broken: How an Autism Diagnosis Finally Made Me Whole"An inspiring memoir about coming home to who you are." --People Magazine One woman's decades-long journey to a diagnosis of autism, and the barriers that keep too many neurodivergent people from knowing their true selves Marian Schembari was thirty-four years old when she learned...
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A Life's Work: On Becoming a MotherMulti-award-winning author Rachel Cusk's honest memoir that captures the life-changing wonders of motherhood. Selected by The New York Times as one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years "Funny and smart and refreshingly akin to a war diary--sort of Apocalypse Baby...
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A Gal Growing Up Green Creek: A Collection of Memories of Farm Life in the MidwestA Gal Growing Up Green Creek is a collection of memories seen through the eyes of a young girl living in a small midwestern community in the 1960s and 70s. Green Creek was more than a place. It was a way of life. In...
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