Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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The Peddler and the President"An extremely important and well crafted book...solid piece of Jewish American history, with themes of friendship, using your voice, and making a choice." --Sydney Taylor ShmoozeThe true story of the lifelong friendship between President Harry Truman and salesman Eddie Jacobson and its impact on...
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The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens's a Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday SpiritsAs uplifting as the tale of Scrooge itself, this is the story of how Charles Dickens revived the signal holiday of the Western world--now a major motion picture. Just before Christmas in 1843, a debt-ridden and dispirited Charles Dickens wrote a small book he...
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The Last Train from Paris and other stories of the HolocaustThe Last Train from Paris is a deeply personal and historically rich memoir that weaves together first-hand stories of survival, resistance, and remembrance during one of humanity's darkest times-the Holocaust. Author Mireille Taub shares powerful accounts from her own escape as a toddler on...
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The Last Navigator: Revised EditionAs a young man piloting a small sailboat across the Pacific, Steve Thomas developed a fascination with ancient methods of navigation. He learned that, for thousands of years, the peoples of Oceania had sailed unerringly across the Pacific without compass or charts, guided only...
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The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo JacksonA New York Times BestsellerBy the author of Showtime--the source for HBO's Winning Time--the definitive biography of mythic multi-sport star Bo Jackson."A legendary tome on a legendary athlete." --Chris Herring, author of Blood in the GardenFrom the mid-1980s into the early 1990s, the greatest...
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The Greatest Story Ever ToldFulton Oursler's outstanding classic The Greatest Story Ever Told narrates the ever-new, everlasting story of the life of Jesus Christ. Written with powerful simplicity and set against a rich and accurate historical background, this account of the greatest life ever lived describes the moving...
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The Greatest Soccer Player of All Time: Thrilling Profiles of 12 Iconic Athleteswho Is Your Goat? (Stocking Stuffers for Boys)⚽ Discover the Soccer Legends Kids Love! From Messi and Ronaldo to rising stars like Mpabbé and Bellingham, this fully illustrated soccer book for kids ages 8-12 brings the world of futbol to life. Learn their stats, achievements, and what makes them true GOATs--plus...
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The God of Wild Places: Rediscovering the Divine in the Untamed Outdoors"I have read a lot of books in my life, but never one like this... this captivating memoir will take you places you might never have gone on your own: into the elemental mysteries of life, death, creatureliness, and divinity with someone who has...
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The First Emancipator: Slavery, Religion, and the Quiet Revolution of Robert Carter"[Andrew Levy] brings a literary sensibility to the study of history, and has written a richly complex book, one that transcends Carter's story to consider larger questions of individual morality and national memory."-The New York Times Book Review In 1791, Robert Carter III, a...
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The Fairfax Way: Inside Prem Watsa's Secret to Lasting SuccessThe rise and stall--and rise again--of corporate Canada's least well-known spectacular success Even those who have heard of Prem Watsa and Fairfax Financial probably don't understand them. The company sprawls across more than 100 countries and is known for its complex finances--so complex, they...
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The Dirty Tricks Department: Stanley Lovell, the Oss, and the Masterminds of World War II Secret WarfareJohn Lisle reveals the untold story of the OSS Research and Development Branch--The Dirty Tricks Department--and its role in World War II. In the summer of 1942, Stanley Lovell, a renowned industrial chemist, received a mysterious order to report to an unfamiliar building in...
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The Diary of Anais Nin Volume 3 1939-1944: Vol. 3 (1939-1944)Nin's years of struggle and final triumph as an author in America. "Transcending mere self-revelation... the diary examines human personality with a depth and understanding seldom surpassed since Proust...dream and fact are balanced and...in their joining lie the elements of masterpiece" (Washington Post). Edited...
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The Corpsewood Manor Murders in North GeorgiaAuthor Amy Petulla uncovers the curious case that left two men dead and the incredible story still surrounded by controversy, speculation and myth.In 1982, Tony West and Avery Brock made a visit to notorious Corpsewood Manor under the pretense of a celebration. They brutally...
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The Boy Who Broke RecordsThe day before leaving home to join the elite swim team at the University of Notre Dame, Ry Beville is involved in an auto accident that will put his entire family on hold. His parents rush to the emergency room only to find out...
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The Bootsman Wore BellsFrom Foster Care to Freedom. From Survival to Strength.5% of America's children are in foster care. But who checks on them when the system stops?At just fifteen, Karri Lynn Gage was emancipated-alone, hungry, and homeless in California. Her childhood was marked by unimaginable abuse,...
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The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated MemoirA national bestseller and American Book Award winner, The Best We Could Do is an intimate and poignant graphic novel portraying one family's journey from war-torn Vietnam from debut author Thi Bui. In what Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen calls "a book to...
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The Best New True Crime Stories: Small Towns: (True Crime Gift)Small towns have always been thought of as sleepy places where nothing bad ever happens, but as Mitzi Szereto's The Best New True Crime Stories: Small Towns shows that bad things can and do happen in small communities all over the world.Author: Mitzi SzeretoPublisher:...
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Testimony: A MemoirNew York Times Bestseller - On the 40th anniversary of The Band's legendary The Last Waltz concert, Robbie Robertson finally tells his own spellbinding story of the band that changed music history, his extraordinary personal journey, and his creative friendships with some of the...
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Stray KidsFrom humble beginnings on JYP's Stray Kids survival show to conquering international stages, Stray Kids have surpassed K-pop fame to become a global sensation. This ultimate fan book delves into their whirlwind rise to stardom, self-produced music, and how they've become empowering role models...
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Steve & MeThis New York Times bestseller is a touching celebration from Terri Irwin as she chronicles the important work she and her late husband, Steve Irwin, shared and the rich family life they enjoyed. When Terri Raines was twenty-seven years old, she took a vacation...
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