Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Devil at My HeelsThe bestselling autobiography of the legendary Louis Zamperini, hero of the blockbuster Unbroken.A modern classic by an American legend, Devil at My Heels is the riveting and deeply personal memoir by U.S. Olympian, World War II bombardier, and POW survivor Louis Zamperini. His inspiring...
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Detenido: El Diario de Supervivencia Y Determinación de Un NiñoEl primer relato de uno de los niños que fue detenido en el infame campamento migrante Tornillo en la frontera de Estados Unidos y México. D Esperanza tenía solo trece años cuando fallecieron sus cuidadores, su querida abuela y su tío. Ya que ambos...
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Darwin's Super-Pooping Worm SpectacularLearn the funny and fascinating story of Charles Darwin and the groundbreaking discoveries that resulted from his love of the humble worm in this hilarious, illustrated children's book.*2024 Texas Topaz Nonfiction Reading List**2024 Cooperative Children's Book Center Choice**2023 Kirkus Reviews Best Picture Book of...
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Cruel Deception: A True Story of Murder and a Mother's Deadly GameFrom Gregg Olsen, bestselling author of If You Tell, comes the heartbreaking true story of a mother's darkest secrets coming to light in Cruel Deception. In and out of hospitals since birth, angelic nine-month-old Morgan Reid finally succumbed to what appeared to be Sudden...
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Citizen: My Life After the White HouseNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A powerful, candid, and richly detailed memoir from an American icon, revealing what life looks like after the presidency: triumphs, tribulations, and all. On January 20, 2001, after nearly thirty years in politics--eight of them as president of the...
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Christopher Lee: Tall, Dark and GruesomeInternational film actor Christopher Lee details his childhood, war years, friendships with Peter Cushing, Vincent Price, Robert Bloch and Boris Karloff, and, of course, his varied and interesting film career. Mr. Lee first published his autobiography in Britian in 1977. The Midnight Marquee edition...
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ChickenhawkA true, bestselling story from the battlefield that faithfully portrays the horror, the madness, and the trauma of the Vietnam War More than half a million copies of Chickenhawk have been sold since it was first published in 1983. Now with a new afterword...
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CheerfulnessIn Cheerfulness, veteran radio host and author Garrison Keillor reflects on a simple virtue that can help us in this stressful and sometimes gloomy era. Drawing on personal anecdotes from his young adulthood into his eighties, Keillor sheds light on the immense good that...
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Cheaper by the Dozen"A touching family portrait that also happens to be very, very funny. . . its appeal is timeless." --Jonathan Yardley, Washington PostOne of the best-loved American memoirs of an oversized family and the parents who held them together - now a Disney+ movie starring...
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Celia, a SlaveOriginally published in 1991, Celia, a Slave illuminates the moral dilemmas that lie at the heart of a slaveholding society by telling the story of a young slave who was sexually exploited by her enslaver and ultimately executed for his murder. Melton A. McLaurin...
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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a WomanNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An "absorbing" (Los Angeles Times) biography of one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating women in Russian history--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs "[A] compelling portrait not just of...
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B-Shifter: A Firefighter's MemoirMost firefighter memoirs are painfully idealized and should come equipped with a bag-pipe soundtrack. If thatʼs the kind of book youʼre looking for, my advice is to move on because B-Shifter will most likely disappoint you. The first 3 chapters of B-Shifter are about...
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Broken (in the Best Possible Way)An Instant New York Times BestsellerNew bonus chapter From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Furiously Happy and Let's Pretend This Never Happened comes a deeply relatable book filled with humor and honesty about depression and anxiety. As Jenny Lawson's hundreds of...
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Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWho better to face the greatest evil of the 20th century than a humble man of faith?As Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seduced a nation, bullied a continent, and attempted to exterminate the Jews of Europe, a small number of...
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Beyond the Fence Line: The Eyewitness Account of Ed Hoffman and the Murder of President John F. KennedyForty-five years ago, n November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Deaf witness Ed Hoffman saw the man who fired the fatal shot that killed the Presidentand it was not Lee Harvey Oswald. His eyewitness account destroys the governments version of a...
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Between Two Waters: Heritage, Landscape and the Modern CookAn insider critique of the food business by award-winning chef Pam Brunton, interrogating sustainability in food culture and documenting the early days of her Green Michelin Star restaurant Inver When world-class chef Pam first opened Inver, her restaurant on the shores of Loch Fyne,...
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Better Off: Flipping the Switch on TechnologyWhat is the least we need to achieve the most? With this question in mind, MIT graduate Eric Brende flipped the switch on technology. He and his wife, Mary, ditched their car, electric stove, refrigerator, running water, and everything else motorized or "hooked to...
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Beneath the Surface: My StoryPeek into the mind of a champion swimmer Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time (28 medals, including 23 gold) In this candid memoir, Phelps talks openly about his battle with attention deficit disorder, the trauma of his parents' divorce, and the...
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Banksy Graffitied Walls and Wasn't Sorry.A clever, quirky, and highly entertaining biography of the leading contemporary artist, BanksBanksy is a world-famous graffiti artist who secretly spray paints pictures on streets and walls while no one is watching. His works are often about politics, war, and other important things, but...
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Balance is Bullshit: Your Roadmap to a Thriving Marriage, Grounded Kids & Career SuccessBalance is Bullshit: Your Roadmap to a Thriving Marriage, Grounded Kids & Career SuccessWhat if balance was never the goal-and believing it was has been holding you back?This book is for every woman exhausted by the myth of balance, tired of shrinking her dreams...
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