Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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I am NalaThese seven stories narrate powerful and empowering journeys of becoming and overcoming. The women in this anthology are deeply attuned to the challenges and hardships faced by women and girls on the African continent and in the Diaspora. They do not shy away from...
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The Whole Wide WorldLeila was a young mother. A vibrant, passionate, and beautiful woman, she enjoyed a full, busy life and adored her young daughter. But slowly, her physical health declined. At first ignored and then misdiagnosed by medical professionals, she found herself on a debilitating journey...
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I live here; learning to heal through embracing your own storyIn 1983, Lori Poland was an ordinary three-year-old girl playing in her Colorado front yard, when a strange man offered her candy from the open passenger door of his car. Four days later, Lori was found abandoned in the mountains after sexual abuse and...
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Ladder on the FenceIn a good and just world, we would all sail through childhood on a solid foundation of unequivocal love, happiness and protection. But it is not always such a world, and for Margaret Lygnos, growing up amid a fractured set of adults and a...
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My Life's RecollectionsA high school dropout, author James Donald Etheridge thought it was important to upgrade his status. He decided to exchange his less-than-perfect world for a more-less-than-perfect world as a soldier in the US Army. In My Life's Recollections, he tells how he entered the...
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ConfessionsNicole Tweed was a London Secretary working for a top firm in the City. Nicole lived a glamorous lifestyle but it dissatified her. She disliked it.Her friends were a bad influence and her Boss corrupted her. Nicole's life was sinful and the married secretaries...
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Fact, Fictions, and the Forbidden Predictions of the Amazing Criswell"We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives, whether we want to or not!" Jeron Charles Criswell King, better known simply as Criswell, can rightfully be described as one...
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The Song and the Swallow: Authenticity and LoveOur need for meaning and substance is ubiquitous in the human condition, but how do we reliably find meaning? How are we susceptible to doing it the wrong way? What does this look like, what is produced, and why we should avoid it?Using archetypal...
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The Spingarn Brothers: White Privilege, Jewish Heritage, and the Struggle for Racial EqualityAn absorbing account of how two Jewish brothers devoted themselves to the struggle for racial equality in the United States.In the late nineteenth century, Joel and Arthur Spingarn grew up in New York City as brothers with very different personalities, interests, and professional goals....
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Go Dat Way and Go Dere: Around the World in Fifty YearsOne would never think that someone in a war zone would be bitten by the travel bug, but that's exactly what happened to Gary Loupassakis's father while serving his country overseas during the Second World War. When he returned home, he began taking his...
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Running WildRunning Wild is the story of a seven-year-old Welsh boy who was shipped off to a Christian Brothers orphanage in Western Australia, where he was treated with kindness and with cruelty as he was set to work on the farm. Eventually taken into a...
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BushwhackedDr. Muhammed Niaz, a medical doctor on a mission to help patients, shares the harrowing legal journey he went through when he was unfairly targeted for prescribing pain medication. His tale is set against the backdrop of white supremacy, discrimination, and violations of due...
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BushwhackedDr. Muhammed Niaz, a medical doctor on a mission to help patients, shares the harrowing legal journey he went through when he was unfairly targeted for prescribing pain medication. His tale is set against the backdrop of white supremacy, discrimination, and violations of due...
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The Texas Country Music Hall of FameWhen it comes to music, Texas has a rich history, but especially in the world of country music. The genre was born out of the trials and tribulations of the working man and includes a number of influences that include the blues, Southern gospel,...
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Life On The Game: a true storyWhen a troubled teenage sex worker replies to a casual job ad, little does she know she will soon find herself pulled further into the world of the adult sex industry. With no experience or understanding of adult sex chat, will the vulnerable teen...
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Onyeka Nwelue: A Troubled LifeBorn in the rural town of Ezeoke, South East Nigeria, Onyeka, a defiantly ambitious boy would drop out of the university to embrace a life of fame and infamy. Excitingly deviant and creatively rebellious, his journey towards self discovery would see him cross paths...
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InsightFrom working with and learning from renowned master chefs at Michelin-starred restaurants in Spain, Australia and Germany to being chef de cuisine at a five-star hotel at just 24, you can say that I have always pushed myself to go a little harder, a...
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Talking Horse: How Equus Taught Me the Language of HopeTalking Horse is one woman's journey toward finding fortitude in the face of tragedy, and how horses inspired her to seek strength and hope over despair. In her memoir, Jacalyn Pierce details her experience with the death of her friend who bequeathed her two...
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Faster Cures: Accelerating the Future of HealthThe definitive account of Michael Milken's lifetime work to accelerate medical breakthroughs that lead to improved health. An inspirational and hopeful road map for the future.What if cleaning early-stage cancers from your body could become as routine as going to the dentist to clean...
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Samuel Ringgold Ward: A Life of StruggleThe rediscovery of a pivotal figure in Black history and his importance and influence in the struggle against slavery and discrimination Born on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Samuel Ringgold Ward (1817-c. 1869) escaped enslavement and would become a leading figure in the struggle...
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