Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Centerstage: My Most Fascinating Interviews--From A-Rod to Jay-ZFrom the longtime host of the New York Yankees' television broadcasts, ESPN Radio's The Michael Kay Show, and YES Network's Emmy Award-winning CenterStage comes an "entertaining...greatest-hits collection" (Kirkus Reviews) of his most memorable interviews with the most intriguing personalities in sports and entertainment--from Jay-Z...
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Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?: A MemoirThis heartwarming and hilarious family memoir shares what life was like growing up as one of eleven siblings raised by a single dad in Northern Ireland at the end of the Troubles.After the untimely death of his mother, five-year old Seamas and his ten...
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¡José! Nacido Para Bailar (Jose! Born to Dance): La Historia de José LimónJosé! Nacido para bailar cuenta la historia de un niño que nació en un pequeño pueblo mexicano y que se convirtió en uno de los más grandes bailarines de todos los tiempos: José Limón. José era un niño con una canción en su corazón...
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Cattle Drives, Moose Hunts, Blizzards, and Such: A Northern Canadian CowboyLloyd's daughters used to ask him, "Dad, what was it like when you were growing up?" Usually, the answer was quite extraordinary. Lloyd Byra grew up in a different era and a very different reality from that of most Canadians. These collected stories are...
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Su Friedrich: InterviewsSu Friedrich (b. 1954) has been described as an autobiographical filmmaker, an experimental filmmaker, a documentary filmmaker, an independent filmmaker, a feminist filmmaker, and a lesbian filmmaker--labels that she sprucely dodges, insisting time and again she is, quite simply, a filmmaker. Nevertheless, the influences...
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Brigadistes: Lives for Liberty'A real treasure that we can't stop exploring' - La Republica Fanny Schoonhey was said to be the bravest woman in Barcelona. Felicia Browne decided it was time to put down her paintbrushes and pick up a rifle. The Nielsen brothers took three bicycles...
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Deaf Utopia: A Memoir--And a Love Letter to a Way of LifeA heartfelt and inspiring memoir and celebration of Deaf culture by Nyle DiMarco, actor, producer, two-time reality show winner, and cultural icon of the international Deaf communityBefore becoming the actor, producer, advocate, and model that people know today, Nyle DiMarco was half of a...
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Not for Circulation: The George E. Bogaars StoryThe story of George Bogaars, a civil servant who played a key role in Singapore's political history. Do civil servants make a difference? Can they shape history? In 1985 when John Drysdale published one of the first books on the political history of independent...
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Lo Que Quiero Decir / Let Me Tell You What I MeanUna colección atemporal de algunos de los primeros artículos y crónicas de la icónica escritora y periodista norteamericana.«Una excelente introducción a la aguda mirada de Didion sobre la vida estadounidense. Bethanne Patrick, The Washington Post «Escribo estrictamente para averiguar qué estoy pensando, qué estoy...
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Corazón de Mexicanos Como Yo: 50 Historias de Personajes Que Rompieron FronterasLlamamos hogar al lugar al que pertenece nuestro corazón, pero nuestro corazón puede echar raíc es en más de un sitio, por eso este segundo volumen rinde homenaje a personajes que han roto fronteras y han demostrado que no hay límites cuando se trata...
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Orbit: Ringo StarrTidalWave has created the comic book biographies on the other Beatles, so now it is time to read about the world of Sir Ringo Starr in comic book form. Read about how overcame life-threatening illnesses during childhood to how he became one of the...
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Cosmic Rain: The Controversial Discovery of Small CometsEvery minute several huge "snowballs" break up as they approach the Earth and deposit a large cloud of water vapor in Earth's upper atmosphere. That's the startling finding of world-renowned physicist Louis A. Frank after an examination of the images relayed from the Dynamics...
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What are you Looking at?What are you Looking at? details a series of public, performance-based social experiments. Framed within personal essays, Wakeland reflects on the relationship between worthiness, ordinariness, and what happens to people's attention in a capitalist system.Author: Erin WakelandPublisher: Ann Arbor District LibraryPublished: 11/07/2021Pages: 162Binding Type:...
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Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Biography of the Greatest Russian Novelist, Written by His Daughter, Aimée DostoevskyThe biography of Russia's greatest novelist by his daughter, Aimée Dostoevsky. Includes chapters on the origins of the Dostoevsky family, the childhood of Fyodor Dostoevsky, adolescence, the Petrachevsky conspiracy, prison life, Dostoevsky as soldier, Dostoevsky's marriages, his travels, Dostoevsky as a father, his relations...
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Buoyant: What Held Us Up When Our Bodies Let Us Down"A quietly heroic tale of two women's voyages through disease and dying, interwoven with voyages upon Chesapeake creeks that offer comfort and grace. Janet, a young mother, had months to live, doctors said in 1989. She and her husband would overcome staggering odds for...
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America America God Shed His Grace on Thee: Memoirs of Captain BobAs young children, Bob and his four siblings were separated when they were adopted by different families. After forty-nine years apart, they were miraculously reunited. Not only did Bob's sister, Barbara, find all four of her brothers, but by God's grace the entire family...
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Strong Looks Better Naked"There is no such thing as perfect. Nobody attains perfection. But if you keep trying, you grow and evolve, and to me that's the point: To be a better person today than I was yesterday; to become the best possible version of myself." -KHLOÉ...
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An Unsuspecting Child: Coming to Grips with Covert Childhood AbuseFirst place winner Autobiography Firebird Book Awards Third place, Autobiography, in the Outstand Creator Awards Third place, Women's Non-Fiction & Women's Issues, Outstanding Creator Awards An Unsuspecting Child is both a personal memoir and a psychological look at the damage done to a child...
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Missing Pieces of the Puzzle: A Remarkable Journey to Find RealityBilleace Bloom was once an atheist driven by toxic fears to learn if God was real and to find Him if possible. As a result of that search, her life now provides credible evidence that God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. In...
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True North: Victory in the Race to the PoleThe Plaisted Polar Expedition of 1968 was the first indisputable attainment of the North Pole over the Arctic Ocean ice surface from a point of land. The journey took forty-four days of struggle, delays, intense cold, windstorms, and the uncommon determination of dedicated expedition...
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