Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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I'Ll Be Your Light: You Have to Be Strong to SurviveNeglect, abuse, and starvation all are part of Mannie Veneno's family legacy of pain. Starting in Pakistan, where his grandmother was married to an abusive husband, the cycle would continue for three generations. His mother was forced to marry a Pakistani gangster at a...
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Sunshine and Shade: A Diplomatic and Political MemoirThis book is a political and personal memoir. In the book David Miles Connolly has drawn on family and historical influences which affected his trajectory in life. His early years were in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka. During World War Two he was evacuated with...
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Hold, Please: Stage Managing A PandemicA Broadway Stage Manager's pandemic memoir!March 12, 2020Last night, after weeks of downplaying and ridiculing the virus, we were finally told by our President, that it is, in fact, serious...And so, it began. Broadway shut down. Instead of sitting in a darkened theatre every...
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Ayahuasca in My Blood: 25 Years of Medicine DreamingFinally, after 25 years of incubation, Peter Gorman's book is out. Ayahuasca in My Blood - 25 Years of Medicine Dreaming concerns his longstanding relationship with the Amazonian visionary medicine. Here's what people have said about it: "Unlike many writing about ayahuasca, Peter Gorman...
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The 10 Dollar Car"The 10 Dollar Car", by James H. McRae, Sr. is a book written to his children concerning faith, hope, promise and fulfillment. The sub-title of the book, "The Story of Ordered Steps" is taken from Psalm 37:23-24, where it is stated, "The steps of...
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She Can Really Lay It Down: 50 Rebels, Rockers, and Musical Revolutionaries (Rock and Roll Women Book, Gift for Music Lovers)She Can Really Lay It Down celebrates 50 incredible women who shredded, sang, and stormed the stage with ferocity and passion. Each incredible musician in this book defied genre and social conventions to shape the music industry as we know it, but have been...
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Libba: The Magnificent Musical Life of Elizabeth Cotten (Early Elementary Story Books, Children's Music Books, Biography BookThis lyrical, loving picture book from popular singer-songwriter Laura Veirs and debut illustrator Tatyana Fazlalizadeh tells the story of the determined, gifted, daring Elizabeth Cotten--one of the most celebrated American folk musicians of all time. Elizabeth Cotten was only a little girl when she...
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American Top 40 with Casey Kasem (The 1980S)Pete Battistini released "American Top 40 with Casey Kasem (The 1970's)" in 2005. Now comes the follow-up, "American Top 40 with Casey Kasem (The 1980's)." Battistini painstakingly documented approximately 425 weekly, Casey Kasem-hosted countdown programs from the 80s, and compiled individual program summaries for...
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Bigger Is Better: Real Life Wisdom from the No-Drama MamaEverything about Angela "Big Ang" Raiola is larger than life: her lips, her 36JJ breasts, and especially her personality! In a lifestyle guide as genuine and fun as Big Ang herself, the star of VH1's Mob Wives, called the show's "den mother" by the...
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Gone: The Last Days of the New YorkerFrom a legendary journalist and star writer at The New Yorker -- one of the most revered institutions in publishing -- an insider's look at the magazine's tumultuous yet glorious years under the direction of the enigmatic William Shawn.Renata Adler went to work at...
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Wisenheimer: A Childhood Subject to DebateHAVE YOU EVER MET A CHILD WHO TALKED LIKE AN ADULT? Who knew big words and knew how to use them? Was he a charmer or an insufferable smart aleck--or maybe both? Mark Oppenheimer was just such a boy, his talent for language a...
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Welcome to My WorldHow does a boy from rural Pennsylvania become an all-American original style icon and celebrity TV personality, adored by millions of fans worldwide and hailed as "the Lady Gaga of figure skating" (Salon.com)? In a memoir as candid and unconventional as Johnny Weir himself,...
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Unholy Messenger: The Life and Crimes of the Btk Serial KillerBehind a façade of Midwestern normalcy, Dennis Rader hid a life of bloodlust, sadism, and murder beyond imagining. The upstanding family man, Scout leader, and church board president was well liked and trusted by his Wichita community. Kansans -- and all of America --...
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WalkoutTen days before the D-day landings at Normandy, Lt. Henry Woodrum woke early to fly a combat mission that culminated in being shot down over the northern suburbs of Paris. Expected to be captured as he hung suspended in his parachute over Nazi-occupied France,...
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Tales of the Intracoastal Waterway: An Account of a Passage from the Florida Keys to Cape Cod on a Seventeen Foot CatboatTALES OF THE INTRACOASTAL WATERWAY is the lyrical account of a small boat sailor from Maine and Florida who decided to celebrate his 70th birthday by traversing the waters in between. He conscripted his wife and a few friends, each of whom took a...
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The Farming LadderFirst published in 1943, "The Farming Ladder" aims to explain how the reader may start and maintain a successful and profitable farm in the easiest way possible, without requiring a great deal of special knowledge or skills. With original ideas and a wealth of...
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Admiral of the Ocean Sea - A Life of Christopher ColumbusMany of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Samuel Eliot MorisonPublisher: Morison PressPublished:...
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Spiritual Injuries, Traumatic Assaults on the Soul: My Journey Through Childhood and Family Trauma to RecoveryAuthor: John Roland HighPublisher: XlibrisPublished: 04/15/2010Pages: 436Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.75lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.13dISBN: 9781441580153This title is not returnable
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Unplanned Odyssey: A Memoir of Wartime SurvivalElisabeth, known as Liesje, was born in Indonesia when it was a Dutch colony. She came of age at the beginning of World War II, and when the Japanese invaded she was interned. She escaped from the Japanese concentration camp, a decision that put...
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Silent Sorority: A Barren Woman Gets Busy, Angry, Lost and FoundFrom celebrity and news websites to streaming and social content to lifestyle blogs, family-building successes are routinely and glowingly shared and celebrated. But where are the voices of those who are unable to have children? In relating what happens when nature and science find...
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