Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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They Found the Secret: Twenty Lives That Reveal a Touch of EternityExplore the lives of twenty Christian figures whose powerful testimonies and lives of service will inspire you to embrace Christ as the secret to abundant living.Written by V. Raymond Edman, who is best remembered as the fourth president of Wheaton College in Illinois and...
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The Year of Magical ThinkingNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - A landmark work about grief, love, and survival from one of America's most iconic writersOne of The New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century - One of The Guardian's 100 Best...
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The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at the New YorkerFinalist for the Pulitzer PrizeFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award"Meticulously researched." --The New York Times "A first-rate biography." --Washington PostA lively and intimate biography of trailblazing and era-defining New Yorker editor Katharine S. White, who helped build the magazine's prestigious legacy and...
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The World According to Joan Didion**INDIE BESTSELLER**A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2023 by The Millions - B&N Best Books of 2023 - "Shaped by intellectual rigor and artistic grace ... McDonnell's portrait is vibrant, fluent, sensitive, and clarifying." -- Booklist, starred reviewAn intimate exploration of the life, craft, and...
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The Way of the Hermit: My Incredible 40 Years Living in the Wilderness*INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER*Subconsciously, I pressed myself into the loch's banks as that summer inched forward. We'd got off to a rocky beginning, but I started to see Treig in a different way. There was something about this land that told me just to hold on...
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The Way I AmChart topping-and headline-making-rap artist Eminem shares his private reflections, drawings, handwritten lyrics, and photographs in his New York Times bestseller The Way I Am Fiercely intelligent, relentlessly provocative, and prodigiously gifted, Eminem is known as much for his enigmatic persona as for being the...
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The Water Is Wide: A MemoirA "miraculous" (Newsweek) human drama, based on a true story, from the renowned author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini The island is nearly deserted, haunting, beautiful. Across a slip of ocean lies South Carolina. But for the handful of families...
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The Vertical Plane: The Mystery of the Dodleston Messages: Second EditionThe Mystery of the Dodleston Messages: A unique supernatural detective story.For a period of two years in the 1980s, Ken Webster found himself in the extraordinary position of corresponding directly with an individual who said they had lived on the site of his own...
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The Upcycled Self: A Memoir on the Art of Becoming Who We AreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "One of hip-hop's greatest MCs, unpacking his harrowing, remarkable journey in his own words, with enough insights for two lifetimes."--Lin-Manuel Miranda, award-winning songwriter, producer, director, and creator of In the Heights and Hamilton From one of our generation's most...
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The Tree of Life: An Expose of Physical RegenesisUnabridged edition to include: Introduction (What Jehovah, Eve, David & John say) Parts I (Wonders and Possibilities of the Human Body) II (The Bridge of Life) III (Optic Thalmus), and a Vision of Immortality at book's end -Author: George W. CareyPublisher: Merchant BooksPublished: 09/29/2013Pages:...
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The TalkNamed one of Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Best Books of 2023Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction 2024New York Public Library's Best New Comics of 2023 Top Ten Pick Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he...
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The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking HistoryA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOK - Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography The forgotten story of a pioneering group of five Black ballerinas and their fifty-year sisterhood, a legacy erased from history--until now. "This is the kind of...
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The Swamp Fox: How Francis Marion Saved the American RevolutionThis comprehensive biography of Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox, covers his famous wartime stories as well as a private side of him that has rarely been exploredIn the darkest days of the American Revolution, Francis Marion and his band of militia freedom fighters kept...
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The Story of Ruby Bridges: An Inspiring Biography for Young ReadersDiscover the life of Ruby Bridges--a story about bravery and breaking down barriers for kids ages 6 to 9Ruby Bridges was the first Black student to attend an all-white public school in the southern United States. Before she helped desegregate schools and change the...
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The Story of Frida Kahlo: An Inspiring Biography for Young ReadersDiscover the life of Frida Kahlo--a story about strength, creativity, and never giving up for kids ages 6 to 9Frida Kahlo is one of the most famous and celebrated artists who has ever lived. Before she made history with her beautiful paintings and brave...
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The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers an intimate chronicle of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz--an inspiring portrait of courage and leadership in a time of unprecedented crisis "One of...
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The Sovereignty and Goodness of GodConsidered the first American "bestseller", "The Sovereignty and Goodness of God" follows Mary Rowlandson's three month holding by the American Algonquian Indians. The first by an Anglo-American woman, Mrs. Rowlandson's narrative remains a classic tale of captivity, which has captivated readers since its initial...
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The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr ZelenskyINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!"Shuster crafts an intimate account of the Russian invasion, which vividly captures Zelensky's transformation from a clean-cut funnyman into a war hero out of central casting." --New York Times Book Review; Editors' Choice Selection"The Showman surpasses all similar efforts to...
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The Seven Storey Mountain: Fiftieth-Anniversary EditionOne of the most famous books ever written about a man's search for faith and peace. The Seven Storey Mountain tells of the growing restlessness of a brilliant and passionate young man, who at the age of twenty-six, takes vows in one of the...
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The Secret in the Sauce: Kitchen Wisdom and Life Lessons from an Irish Cookery School, with RecipesAbout Secret in the SauceA mid-life cooking adventure turns into an unexpected spiritual journeyAt forty-eight, history professor Kelly McMichael decides to pursue a dream she's harbored for two decades: attending the prestigious Ballymaloe Cookery School in rural Ireland. Leaving behind her comfortable academic life...
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