Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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The Carolina PanthersIn 1995, the Carolina Panthers first pounced onto the football field as a part of the NFL. Since then, they have become a favorite team for many fans. In this hi-lo title, readers will learn about the history and players of this popular team....
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Billie Jean King and the Battle of the SexesBillie Jean King is not only a tennis superstar. She is also an advocate for equal rights in sports. Throughout her career, she fought against unfair pay and unequal opportunities for women. In her famous Battle of the Sexes victory, she proved once and...
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The War of Sober: Fight for Your Life22 years a "hopeless" drunk. 4 DUIs. 12 years an addict. A wasted life.I hated it. I hated myself. I tried AA and NA and the 12 Steps, but they didn't work, not for me; I just kept using.I just kept hating.That was then....
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The Fondas: Henry, Jane, & Peter--TRIPLE EXPOSUREThroughout his forty-five year career, Henry Fonda-a stable, reassuring archetype of the American male-never gave a bad performance. Personal tragedies included five wives (two of whom committed suicide), and affairs which starred such mega-divas as Lucille Ball, Joan Crawford, and Bette Davis. This, Volume...
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Reminiscences of a Stock OperatorReminiscences of a Stock Operator is a 1923 roman à clef by American author Edwin Lefèvre. It is told in the first person by a character inspired by the life of stock trader Jesse Livermore up to that point.The book can be divided into...
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Cuando salí de CubaHasta dónde puede llegar un padre o una madre para salvar a su hijo? Al leer Cuando salí de Cuba, pensé en los padres que enviaron a sus hijos a Inglaterra durante el programa Kindertransport para salvarlos de los campos de exterminio nazis; en...
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Wheelchair Bound ?Popular media likes to tell stories that portray death as preferable to living with paralysis. Now Canada has made Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) available to anyone with a disability. Is the government telling us death is preferable to paralysis as well? If given...
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Don't Touch That BoxHe lived with a box in a closet for five decades. A box he told them not to touch.During those years their lives were consumed with the tragedies of death, mental illness, a house fire, the Great Depression, war. In this true story, Author...
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Memoir: Delaware County PrisonAfter committing credit card fraud at a local department store, 18-year-old Reginald Hall lands an eight-month sentence at the Delaware County Prison. What complicates his life as an inmate is his sexual orientation. In life, being gay is difficult enough; in prison, it can...
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A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of HopeNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - WITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR - A powerful memoir of a dramatic year spent battling cancer and reflecting on a long, happy, and lucky life--from the bestselling author of The Greatest Generation, whose iconic career in journalism...
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Lipstick and Leather: On the Road with the World's Most Notorious Rock StarsWhat do Motörhead, Black Sabbath, Elvis Costello, Rush and Chumbawamba have in common? Kim Hawes, pioneering female tour manager.Kim Hawes spent years sleeping underneath Lemmy from Motorhead... on a tour bus. She feuded with the members of Black Sabbath, tripped mushrooms on stage with...
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What Really Happens in Vegas: True Stories of the People Who Make Vegas, VegasWhat happens in Vegas stays in Vegas--until now. James Patterson shows the real Vegas in a dazzling journey through stories of excess, drama, and hope.What Really Happens in Vegas is an action-filled insider look at America's most dazzling city. - The airport in Las...
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Out at the Plate: The Dot Wilkinson Story"Dot Wilkinson is the greatest female catcher ever to play softball. A bold, pioneering athlete, she refused to let others define her and instead defined herself. Her story is an inspiration to people everywhere." --Billie Jean King, Sports Icon and Champion for Equality It's...
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An Infernal Failure: Little Bighorn DiaryDr. Holmes O. Paulding was the only medical officer with Colonel John Gibbon's Montana Column during the fateful summer of 1876 on the way to the Little Bighorn. Fort Lincoln had been Paulding's first post and he considered many of the officers of General...
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Managing Expectations Lib/E: A Memoir in EssaysA charming, poignant, and mesmerizing memoir in essays from beloved actor and natural-born storyteller Minnie Driver, chronicling the way life works out even when it doesn't.In this intimate, beautifully crafted collection, Driver writes with disarming charm and candor about her bohemian upbringing between England...
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Toughness Lib/E: Developing True Strength on and Off the CourtThe popular ESPN basketball analyst and former Duke player looks at the true meaning of toughness. If anyone knows tough, it's Jay Bilas. A four-year starter at Duke, he learned an incomparable work ethic under coach Mike Krzyzewski, battling against the greatest college players...
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The Search for the Green River Killer Lib/E: The True Story of America's Most Prolific Serial KillerIn the 1980s and 1990s, forty-nine women in the Seattle area were brutally murdered, their bodies dumped along the Green River and Pacific Highway South in Washington State. Despite an exhaustive investigation--even serial killer Ted Bundy was consulted to assist with psychological profiling--the sadistic...
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The Magic of Marie Laveau Lib/E: Embracing the Spiritual Legacy of the Voodoo Queen of New OrleansThe life and work of the legendary Pope of Voodoo, Marie Laveau--a free woman of color who practically ruled New Orleans in the mid-1800s Marie Laveau may be the most influential American practitioner of the magical arts; certainly, she is among the most famous....
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I've Never Met a Dead Person I Didn't Like Lib/E: Initiation by SpiritsThe extraordinary travels of a young, alone and broke psychic. The heart-warming and adventurous true story of a young woman on her own at age seventeen, broke, and surrounded by talkative spirits that don't want to go away. Living in-between the physical world and...
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Lowest White BoyAn innovative, hybrid work of literary nonfiction, Lowest White Boy takes its title from Lyndon Johnson's observation during the civil rights era: If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket....
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