Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Sports Illustrated Kobe Bryant: A Tribute to a Basketball LegendIn 20 seasons in a Los Angeles Lakers uniform, Kobe Bryant ascended from teenaged rookie to 18-time All-Star and five-time NBA champion. The superstar known as the Black Mamba left his mark on basketball and popular culture as a fierce competitor who inspired those...
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Sports Heroes: Patrick MahomesDiscover the story of Patrick Mahomes, with fantastic illustrated text that's perfect for young readers. In this fully illustrated chapter book, you can discover everything about Patrick Mahomes, the football superstar who has already gone on to become a legend on the NFL. Follow...
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Spencer Iowa's 2024 FloodA COLLECTION OF STORIES: SPENCER, IOWA'S 2024 FLOODTHE COLLISION OF THE SWOLLEN OCHEYEDAN AND LITTLE SIOUX RIVERS AT SPENCER, IOWA EARLY SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 22, 2024, FOREVER CHANGED A NORTHWEST IOWA COMMUNITYThe water, which had been filling the rivers' watersheds after several days of...
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Song in a Weary Throat: Memoir of an American PilgrimageFirst published posthumously in 1987, Pauli Murray's Song in a Weary Throat was critically lauded, winning the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and the Lillian Smith Book Award among other distinctions. Yet Murray's name and extraordinary influence receded from view in the intervening years;...
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Soccer Biographies for Kids: Stories of Soccer's Most Inspiring PlayersMeet the greatest soccer players in the game--inspiring biographies for ages 8 to 12!Soccer (or football) is a popular and beloved sport all over the world. Discover the most talented goalkeepers, defenders, midfielders, and forwards with Soccer Biographies for Kids. This lineup shows you...
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Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family RecipesA haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during Pol Pot's genocide in the 1970s but who finds hope by reclaiming the recipes she tasted in her mother's kitchen. RECIPE: HOW TO CHANGE CLOTH INTO DIAMOND...
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Silver Linings: My Life Before and After Challenger 7Twenty-five years after the very public tragedy of the space shuttle Challenger, June Scobee Rodgers has written her private story-her winding path through childhood poverty, homelessness, and family dysfunction to her teenage marriage and twenty-six years of love and life with Dick Scobee. This...
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She Loved Baseball: The Effa Manley Story"A wonderful picture book biography. Little girls will be inspired."* This nonfiction picture book is an excellent choice to share during homeschooling, in particular for children ages 4 to 6. It's a fun way to learn to read and as a supplement for activity...
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Sex with a Brain Injury: On Concussion and RecoveryWinner of the Stonewall Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award This powerful and deeply personal memoir in essays "reflects on history, philosophy, and love while living with head trauma" (The New York Times Book Review). "An infuriatingly gorgeous, important book." --Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her...
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Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern CityWinner, 2017 Shaughnessy Cohen Writers' Trust Prize for Political Writing Winner, 2017 RBC Taylor Prize Winner, 2017 First Nation Communities Read: Young Adult/Adult Winner, 2024 Blue Metropolis First Peoples Prize, for the whole of her work Finalist, 2017 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for...
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Secret Voices: A Year of Women's Diaries"United across centuries, these women's voices open doors to lost worlds and make them seem familiar. A modern classic." --Alison Weir A captivating collection of extracts from women's diaries, looking back over four centuries to discover how women's experience--of men and children, sex and...
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Sculptor's DaughterTove Jansson's memoirs of her early years, filled with joy, exuberance, and the satisfaction of being--with an abundance of photographic illustrations.The excitement of being alive and savoring the good things that are life pervades all the writing of Tove Jansson. The beloved nine volumes...
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Scam Goddess: Lessons from a Life of Cons, Grifts, and SchemesA delightfully subversive essay collection from Laci Mosley, host of the award-winning "Scam Goddess" podcast, about the frauds, cons, and schemes that make up our world--and how the scammer mindset has affected her own upbringing, career, friendships, love life, and more. From an...
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Rumi-Poet of Joy and Love"Enthralling" -Kirkus Reviews, starred review "Kheiriyeh transforms a distant and revered figure into a warm, bright focal point in this biography" -School Library Journal, starred review "Be a friend to everyone." Rumi's words are needed now more than ever. A picture book biography of...
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Rory Land: The Up-And-Down World of Golf's Global IconRORY LAND is the unabashed story of Rory McIlroy, golf's most compelling icon, the caring but conflicted soul from a troubled Irish homeland with a swing that borders on the immaculate. Timothy M. Gay writes that four-time major champion Rory McIlroy is "golf's ageless...
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Rooted at the Edge: Ranching Where the Old West and New West CollideRooted at the Edge paints a portrait of a ranching community in a threatened landscape steeped in history, conflict, and beauty. In this narrative nonfiction work, Donna L. Erickson explores the hilly skirt of ground at the northern boundary of Missoula, Montana, separating the...
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RobinA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICEA SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEARA VULTURE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "A generous, appreciative biography of Robin Williams by a New York Times culture reporter. The author, who...
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Rice Paper WindowChristabel Choi enters South Korea as a student in 1989 with a copy of the Communist Manifesto among the books in her bag. She doesn't realize that it could get her-or anyone she might lend it to-arrested or disappeared.She soon finds herself the only...
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Queer Heroes: Meet 52 LGBTQ Heroes from Past & Present!* 2019 EUREKA! Honor Award * This beautiful, bold book celebrates the achievements of LGBTQ+ people through history and from around the world--featuring dynamic full-color portraits of a diverse selection of 53 inspirational role models accompanied by short biographies that focus on their incredible...
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Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the WestA New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceNamed a best book of the year by The Economist Financial Times New Statesman The Telegraph "[Putin's People] will surely now become the definitive account of the rise of...
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