Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Dust Tracks on a Road: A Memoir"Warm, witty, imaginative. . . . This is a rich and winning book."--The New YorkerDust Tracks on a Road is the bold, poignant, and funny autobiography of novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, one of American literature's most compelling and influential authors. Hurston's...
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Don't Ask the Blind Guy for Directions: A 30,000-Mile Journey for Love, Confidence and a Sense of BelongingDiscover how to turn differences into opportunities with an accessibility expert's worldwide search for belonging.After a diagnosis of a degenerative eye disease, John Samuel's life-and his chance at success-started to vanish.In a world systemically unequipped for accessibility, disability inclusion is often left out of...
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DK Super Readers Level 3 Sports SuperstarsHelp your child power up their reading skills and learn all about sports legends with this fun-filled nonfiction reader carefully leveled to help children progress. DK Super Readers Level 3: Sports Superstars will help children learn all about their favourite sports GOATs! It is...
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DeviantFrom the author of "top-drawer true crime" (Booklist) books comes the definitive account of Ed Gein--the man whose shocking crimes inspired Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs. The year was 1957. To his Wisconsin neighbors, Ed Gein was...
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Deep North: Stories of Somali Resettlement in VermontWhat is it like to leave your home, friends and family and start a new life in a foreign country? How does one survive war in Africa and make a new life in one of the smallest, coldest, whitest corners of the United States?...
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Corrie Ten Boom: Keeper of the Angels DenSuddenly, Corrie's ordered life was lost in the insanity of war. With bravery and compassion, her family and countless other Dutch citizens risked everything to extend God's hand to those innocents marked for certain execution in a world gone mad. Corrie ten Boom's life...
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Consent: A MemoirFrom the acclaimed novelist ("A virtuoso" --Donna Seaman, Booklist), a deft, shocking memoir that asks whether we can judge past behavior by today's moral codes, as the author reevaluates her decades-long marriage to the forty-seven-year-old man she met when she was seventeen, revisiting a...
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Cocaine and Rhinestones: A History of George Jones and Tammy WynetteFrom the creator of the acclaimed country music history podcast Cocaine & Rhinestones, comes the epic American saga of country music's legendary royal couple--George Jones and Tammy Wynette. By the early 1960s nearly everybody paying attention to country music agreed that George Jones was...
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Civil WarsA meditation on the private and public fault lines which divide American society. In Civil Wars, June Jordan's battleground is the intersection of private and public reality, which she explores through a blending of personal reflection and political analysis. From journal entries on the...
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Chop that Sh*t Up!: Leadership and Life Lessons Learned While in the MilitaryFirst place winner in the category Military Nonfiction in the 2023 Firebird Book Awards.Chop that Sh*t Up! is a collection of stories by a military veteran with deployments ranging from Bosnia-Herzegovina to tours in Iraq. Follow along his twenty-eight-year career from private to command...
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Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across AmericaCarsick is the New York Times bestselling chronicle of a cross-country hitchhiking journey with America's most beloved weirdo. John Waters is putting his life on the line. Armed with wit, a pencil-thin mustache, and a cardboard sign that reads "I'm Not Psycho," he hitchhikes...
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Building Material: The Memoir of a Park Avenue DoormanFor fans of books like Waiter Rant, and all those who have always wondered how the other half lives, comes this heartfelt, laugh-out-loud memoir from a New York City doorman with astute ears and a penchant for storytellingAs an academically gifted Latino kid growing...
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Broken ButterflyReality can be far more surreal-and cruel-than fiction. This is the heart-wrenching true story of Erin Gray, who was lured, held hostage by, and eventually escaped from a serial predator. Broken Butterfly delves into horror-movie territory in this retelling of a young woman's spiral...
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Brief Answers to the Big Questions#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The world-famous cosmologist and author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the biggest questions facing humankind. "Hawking's parting gift to humanity . . . a book every thinking person worried about...
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Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of WarJohn Boyd may be the most remarkable unsung hero in all of American military history. Some remember him as the greatest U.S. fighter pilot ever -- the man who, in simulated air-to-air combat, defeated every challenger in less than forty seconds. Some recall him...
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Born to play Beisbol: The Magical Career of Fernando ValenzuelaEspejo Press is thrilled to bring to children this first biography on the amazing career of L.A. Dodger legend, Fernando Valenzuela. Young readers meet Fernando, a teenage pitcher from Mexico, and follow his trajectory to stardom, creating a fan frenzy known as Fernandomania. This...
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Blue Skies, Troubled Waters: An American Twin's WWII Odyssey in Minahasa, IndonesiaMartha Walandouw Lohn and Brian Kimmel's BLUE SKIES, TROUBLED WATERS: An American Twin's WWII Odyssey in Minahasa, Indonesia chronicles the extraordinary journey of twin American girls caught in the chaos of World War II in Japanese-occupied Indonesia. Through the eyes of Martha (nicknamed Ath...
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Blood and Roses: One Family's Struggle and Triumph During the Tumultuous Wars of the Roses"A gripping family saga. . . . Page-turners are rarely written by scholars of the 15th century, but Castor wears her learning admirably lightly. Blood and Roses is nothing less than a ripping yarn." --The Indepedent (London) The Wars of the Roses tore England...
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Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: PoemsPoems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's Lemonade and Black Is King, award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire "The beautifully crafted poems in this collection are fiercely tender gifts."--Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist "Warsan Shire is our...
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Black on Black: On Our Resilience and Brilliance in America*From the Viral Clark Atlanta University Commencement Speaker*From the Georgia Author of the Year Award Winner**A Zibby's Most Anticipated Book of 2023**A "Next Big Idea Club" Must-Read Book for January**An Essence "Books by Black Authors to Read This Winter" Pick**An Ebony Entertainment "Required Reading"...
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