Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Citizens of Ordinary TimeIn this collaborative poetic endeavour, Benjamin Goluboff (Ho Chi Minh: A Speculative Life in Verse) and Mark Luebbers (Flat Light) project the lives of eclectic and memorable people through speculative biography. Renowned in their use of this poetic style, here we see the likes...
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How to Lose Someone: And Find the Beautiful in the AwfulI lost my dad suddenly due to a heart condition. In staying with him through that, it was clear that my mom had dementia, so I moved from California to Alabama to take care of her. Caring for my mother as she slid into...
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The Lost Book of Moses Lib/E: The Hunt for the World's Oldest BibleAuthor: Chanan TigayPublisher: Tantor AudioPublished: 05/03/2016Binding Type: CDISBN: 9781799990079About the AuthorTigay, Chanan: - Chanan Tigay is an award-winning journalist who has covered the Middle East, 9/11, and the United Nations for numerous magazines, newspapers, and wires. Born in Jerusalem, Chanan holds degrees from Columbia...
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Cowboys and IndianCowboys and Indian: A Doctor's First Year in Texas is an exciting and entertaining account of a doctor's first year of practice in an underserved Texas hospital. Besides the challenges of being an immigrant and a husband and father, the doctor manages medical emergencies...
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The Age of Creativity: Art, Memory, My Father, and MeA moving portrait of a father and daughter relationship and a case for late-stage creativity from Emily Urquhart, the bestselling author of Beyond the Pale: Folklore, Family, and the Mystery of Our Hidden Genes. "The fundamental misunderstanding of our time is that we belong...
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Samuel Cunard: Nova Scotia's Master of the North AtlanticAn illustrated biography of a Canadian who sparked a world transportation revolution In North America, the name Cunard is synonymous with shipping. This book traces the entrepreneurial rise of Samuel Cunard who, for decades, ruled a shipping empire on the North Atlantic.By the time...
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Dweller in Shadows: A Life of Ivor GurneyThe first comprehensive biography of an extraordinary English poet and composer whose life was haunted by fighting in the First World War and, later, confinement in a mental asylum Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) wrote some of the most anthologized poems of the First World War...
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The Long Field: Wales and the Presence of Absence, a MemoirFor readers of H Is for Hawk, an intimate memoir of belonging and loss and a mesmerizing travelogue through the landscapes and language of WalesHiraeth is a Welsh word that's famously hard to translate. Literally, it can mean "long field" but generally translates into...
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Political LivesPolitical Lives is an intimate history of image-making and image-breaking in national politics. In 2011, Chris Wallace was writing a biography of Julia Gillard. After seeing the unparalleled onslaught from the Abbott opposition, she cancelled her contract and repaid her advance with the awareness...
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It's a Wonder: Remembering the times of long agoThis is a true story about a poor boy living on a farm. He had hard times growing up on a poor dirt farm in the '50s and '60s in Virginia, with his seven siblings and parents. No one would believe this true story....
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Goodbye to Clocks Ticking: How We Live While DyingGoodbye to Clocks Ticking is an unforgettable book that tells the story of a singular year of challenges, insights, and peculiar gifts. It is also a sort of postcard from a place many of us will one day visit.Author: Joseph MonningerPublisher: Center PointPublished: 09/01/2023Pages:...
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Crossing Borders: The Search For Dignity In PalestineChrista's journey of curiosity to Jerusalem and Gaza while studying abroad in her father's homeland of Germany at the tail end of the Cold War opens up a world of joy and heartache that transforms into a lifetime pursuit to make a difference in...
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401(k) Magic "7 Secrets": $6.3 Trillion in over 625,000 PlansLegally speaking, all corporations that offer employees a 401(k), profit sharing or pension plan must also provide them with what is called a Summary Plan Description. Few read it or understand it because it is uninteresting, dry, and usually difficult to comprehend. What my...
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Willie Tales: BOY, what the hell is wrong with you?The "Willie Tales," you are about to read, was originally written to share as FaceBook entries and will take you on the journey we experienced from my age of 5 to 55 and Willie from age 30-85. I am now 84, so you see...
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Lee: The Tragic Story of a Family Broken by SchizophreniaIn this heartbreaking memoir, the author describes what it was like to lose his older brother and only sibling, Lee, to paranoid schizophrenia. The story begins in childhood, when his brother mentored him and was effectively his de facto Dad in an already dysfunctional...
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Inheritance: An Autobiography of WhitenessIn this unflinching, honest narrative, an award-winning journalist discovers his family's heritage as slave owners in the South and grapples openly with his whiteness to inspire others to do the same. "Bracing, candid, and rueful." --Kirkus Baynard Woods thought he had escaped the backwards...
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Hitler at HomeA revelatory look at the residences of Adolf Hitler, illuminating their powerful role in constructing and promoting the dictator's private persona both within Germany and abroad Adolf Hitler's makeover from rabble-rouser to statesman coincided with a series of dramatic home renovations he undertook during...
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The Keeper: The Unguarded Story of Tim Howard Young Readers' EditionThe uplifting memoir of U.S. national soccer team goalkeeper Tim Howard, adapted for young readers.In this heartwarming and candid account, Tim Howard opens up about how a hyperactive kid from New Jersey with Tourette Syndrome defied the odds to become one of the world's...
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William Tecumseh Sherman Lib/E: In the Service of My Country: A LifeAuthor: James Lee McDonoughPublisher: Tantor AudioPublished: 06/15/2016Binding Type: CDISBN: 9781799986591About the AuthorMcDonough, James Lee: - James Lee McDonough is a Civil War historian and professor emeritus at Auburn University. The author of several books, including Nashville: The Western Confederacy's Final Gamble and Shiloh: In...
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Oswald Boelcke Lib/E: Germany's First Fighter Ace and Father of Air CombatAuthor: David De Vries, R. G. Head, Bgen R. G. HeadPublisher: Tantor AudioPublished: 11/26/2019Binding Type: CDISBN: 9781665201681About the AuthorHead, R. G.: - Brigadier General R. G. Head, a graduate of the USAF Academy, was one of the first fighter pilots in Vietnam and flew...
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