Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Ted Williams: The Biography of an American HeroThe Kid. The Splendid Splinter. Teddy Ballgame. One of the greatest figures of his generation, and arguably the greatest baseball hitter of all time. But what made Ted Williams a legend - and a lightning rod for controversy in life and in death? Still...
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Teddy and Booker T.: How Two American Icons Blazed a Path for Racial EqualityThe New York Times bestselling author of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates turns to two other heroes of the nation: Theodore Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington. When President Theodore Roosevelt welcomed the country's most visible Black man, Booker...
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Teacher ManFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning, mega-bestselling author who wore his celebrity with extraordinary grace comes a magnificently appealing book about teaching and about how one great storyteller found his voice. Frank McCourt became an unlikely star when, at the age of sixty-six, he burst onto...
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Tchaikovsky's Empire: A New Life of Russia's Greatest ComposerA thrilling new biography of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky--composer of some of the world's most popular orchestral and theatrical music "A lively, argumentative and thoughtful reflection on one of the 19th century's most important musical figures."--Michael O'Donnell, Wall Street Journal Tchaikovsky is famous for all...
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TapestryEach story unfolds the unique journey of these sisters, revealing the challenges they faced, the lessons they learned, and the transformative power of their collective experiences. From moments of vulnerability to acts of courage, their stories resonate with the universal themes of struggle and...
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Tales from the Bottle: My Journey as a Sober Black MomUnveiling the Hidden Struggles of Strength: A Black Woman's Journey Through Addiction, Triumph & Laughter. An Empathetic Tale of Friendship, Love, and Overcoming Life's Hurdles.Tales from the Bottle is a riveting memoir from Donna, a resilient woman of color who has balanced her life...
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Superheroes Are EverywhereFrom Vice President Kamala Harris comes a picture book with an empowering message: Superheroes are all around us--and if we try, we can all be heroes too. A #1 New York Times bestseller! Before Kamala Harris was elected to the vice presidency and named...
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Sully: The Epic Life & Football Legend of Coach Bob SullivanBob Sullivan coached Minnesota high school and college football for an astonishing sixty years. At the prep level, he won conference championships and state titles. He is the winningest coach in Carleton College football history. He is a member of multiple halls of fame,...
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Strangers and Neighbors: What I Have Learned about Christianity by Living Among Orthodox JewsThe compelling, insightful, and challenging memoir of a Christian woman's exploration of her faith while living in community with strictly Orthodox Jews. As Maria Johnson explains: "I knew that Christianity is rooted deep in Judaism, but living in daily contact with a vital and...
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Steep: A Black Neurosurgeon's JourneyA kid from Boston's ghetto becomes a neurosurgeon. His ancestors insist he avenge centuries of pain with a life of infinite success. But he and his elite education find their way to an unlikely destination, where he wrestles with his history and the armored...
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Soseki Natsume's Collected Haiku: 1,000 Verses from Japan's Most Popular Writer (Bilingual English & Japanese Texts with Free Online Audio Readings of1,000 haiku by Soseki Natsume, collected into one volume for the first time! Soseki Natsume is Japan's most popular writer, well known in the West for his satirical novels like I Am a Cat, Botchan and Kokoro. However, he first made a name for...
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Son of a BirdSon of a Bird is a provocative encounter of girlhood, farm life and longing, hauntings and huntings, the self's instability, and the place where desire and the strange/unusual/unconventional/ meet. Son of a Bird is a memoir in the tradition of Dorothy Allison and Flannery...
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Some Girls: My Life in a HaremA jaw-dropping story of how a girl from the suburbs ends up in a prince's harem, and emerges from the secret Xanadu both richer and wiser At eighteen, Jillian Lauren was an NYU theater school dropout with a tip about an upcoming audition. The...
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Six to Carry the Casket and One to Say the Mass: Reflections on Life, Identity, and Moving ForwardSix to carry the casket and one to say the mass: reflections on life, identity, and moving forward offers the unique opportunity for its readers to start a new dialogue, take an active hand in creating culture and reshaping the world, and think about...
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Seven Pillars of WisdomWhen T. E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom first appeared in 1922 it was immediately recognized as a literary masterpiece. In writing his extraordinary account of the Arab Revolt of 1916-1918 and his own role in it, T.E. Lawrence sealed his place in history...
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Seed to Dust: Life, Nature, and a Country GardenFor readers of Late Migrations and H is for Hawk A stunning meditation on gardening and the wisdom of plants, " that rare book that will appeal to nonfiction readers everywhere. . . Candid, tender, thoughtful and absorbing."--Shelf Awareness (STARRED Review) "With chapters. ....
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Secret Harvests: A Hidden Story of Separation and the Resilience of a Family FarmA family separated by racism against Japanese Americans and the discrimination of people with developmental disabilities-reunited seventy years later, returning to their roots on a farm and bound by family secrets.Author: David Mas MasumotoPublisher: Red Hen PressPublished: 10/01/2024Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 9.00h x...
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Saving Rocky Horror - From Orphan to IconLearn the inside story of "Rocky Horror" that has never been told before.The true story--told by the man that made that happen--of how a failed movie, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", was saved and became. the longest continuously running movie (50 years and continuing)...
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Satan Is Real: The Ballad of the Louvin BrothersGet ready for one of America's great untold stories: the true saga of the Louvin Brothers, a mid-century Southern gothic Cain and Abel and one of the greatest country duos of all time. The Los Angeles Times called them "the most influential harmony team...
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Reminiscences of My Life in Camp: An African American Woman's Civil War MemoirNear the end of her classic wartime account, Susie King Taylor writes, "there are many people who do not know what some of the colored women did during the war." For her own part, Taylor spent four years--without pay or formal training--nursing sick and...
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