Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Love, LucyTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The one and only autobiography by the iconic Lucille Ball, hailed by TV Guide as the "#1 Greatest TV Star of All Time." Love, Lucy is the valentine Lucille Ball left for her fans--a warm, wise, and witty memoir...
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Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters, and JournalsThis early work is a collection of Louisa May Alcott's letters, journals, and notes. Published a year after Alcott's death this is a truly unparalleled collection of her personal correspondence and a fascinating insight into the character and thoughts of this much loved author....
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Looking for the Perfect Beat: Remixing and Reshaping Hip-Hop, Rock and RhythmsFor fifty years as DJ, producer and remixer, Arthur Baker has been at the pioneering forefront of hip-hop, rock, and electronic music. His unique and genre-defying sound can be heard on tracks by legendary artists like New Order, Bruce Springsteen, Diana Ross, the Rolling...
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Lonely Planet Kids Spooky Stories of the WorldThis spine-tingling collection of spooky stories features over 20 eerie tales from across the globe. Discover bewitching retellings of ghost- and monster-filled myths regaled with ghoulish relish and journey continent-by-continent through this haunting book. With shocks and twists like you wouldn't believe - are...
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Living with a Seal: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the PlanetEntrepreneur Jesse Itzler chronicles his month of living and extreme fitness training with a Navy SEAL in the New York Times and #1 LA Times bestseller Living With a Seal, now with two bonus chapters. Entrepreneur Jesse Itzler will try almost anything. His life...
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Little LaborsIn this enchanting miscellany, Galchen notes that literature has more dogs than babies (and also more abortions), that the tally of children for many great women writers--Jane Bowles, Elizabeth Bishop, Virginia Woolf, Janet Frame, Willa Cather, Patricia Highsmith, Iris Murdoch, Djuna Barnes, Mavis Gallant--is...
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Little FailureNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MICHIKO KAKUTANI, THE NEW YORK TIMES - NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME NAMED ONE...
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Like a Wave We Break: A Memoir of Falling Apart and Finding MyselfThe courageous memoir of one woman's globe-spanning journey of unraveling and awakening--breaking free of the narratives that once defined her and confronting the long-buried truths of a traumatic past--by the former CEO and co-founder of Embrace. "A brilliant and gripping book about how resilience,...
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Life, Law & Liberty: A MemoirThroughout his thirty-year tenure on the US Supreme Court, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy authored landmark opinions on some of the most contested issues in American society, including abortion, gay rights, and free speech. At the ideological center of a divided Court, Kennedy sided with...
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LifeformFrom actor, comedian, co-creator of Marcel the Shell, and New York Times bestselling author of Little Weirds, Jenny Slate, a wild, soulful, hilarious collection of genre-bending essays depicting the journey into motherhood as you've never seen it before. What happened was this: Jenny Slate...
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Life and Death in ShanghaiUpon its initial publication, Life and Death in Shanghai, Nien Cheng's searing memoir of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, was an instant international best seller. This phenomenal, unforgettable book captured the attention of the world just as Communism started to collapse, and is considered a...
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Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to VictoryNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "Deena Kastor is one of the greatest bodies in distance running, but this book captures what is so groundbreaking about her mind" (Alexi Pappas, Olympian, writer, and filmmaker)--now featuring a workbook to help chart your mind's journey"Inspiring, fascinating, and...
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Letters to FeliceMore than two decades of letters from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century--the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial--to the people in his life, from his years as a student in Prague in the early 1900s to his final months...
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Letters to a Young PoetRilke's powerfully touching letters to an aspiring young poet, now available in a beautiful hardcover Penguin editionAt the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex, suffering, and...
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Letters to a Young DoctorHighly candid, insightful, and unexpectedly humorous essays on both the brutality and the beauty of the profession in which saving and losing lives is all in a day's work. A timeless collection by the "best of the writing surgeons" (Chicago Tribune). With a Preface...
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Letters from an AstrophysicistAstrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has attracted one of the world's largest online followings with his fascinating, widely accessible insights into science and our universe. Now, Tyson invites us to go behind the scenes of his public fame by revealing his correspondence with people across...
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Let's Meet Caitlin: Story of the Superstar Caitlin ClarkIt's time to find out all about a basketball megastar... Let's Meet Caitlin! Turn the pages of this beautifully-illustrated book to journey through Caitlin Clark's life as she becomes a sporting sensation. Are you a Caitlin superfan? Find out by seeing if you can...
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Let's Just Say It Wasn't PrettyNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Academy Award winner and bestselling author Diane Keaton comes a candid, hilarious, and deeply affecting look at beauty, aging, and the importance of staying true to yourself--no matter what anyone else thinks. Diane Keaton has spent a lifetime coloring...
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Let Me FinishWidely known as an original and graceful writer, Roger Angell has developed a devoted following through his essays in the New Yorker. Now, in Let Me Finish, a deeply personal, fresh form of autobiography, he takes an unsentimental look at his early days as...
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Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters2001 Coretta Scott King Honor Book Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus and sparked a boycott that changed America. Harriet Tubman helped more than three hundred slaves escape the South on the Underground Railroad. Shirley Chisholm became the first...
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