Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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The Spirit in the HazelnutThe woman in this book is tormented by her painful past. Poverty renders her defenseless and she lack the nurturing guidance that is imperative for a firm foundation in adolescence. Despair and desperation leaves her vulnerable and she is easily lured by the illusions...
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Blind DateHow many of the 6% of marriages that last 50 years began with a blind date? In this powerful and moving memoir, the author shares their own journey of love and adventure that began in Denver and ended in Montana. From a childhood hand...
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Stations of the Heart: Parting with a SonA father's heartbreaking and hopeful story about his beloved son, in which a young man teaches his family "a new way to die" with wit, candor, and grace. "A book after my own heart, profound, gorgeous, deeply spiritual and human, beautifully written, heartbreaking, but...
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Women in My Rose Garden: The History, Romance and Adventure of Old RosesOriginally published: London: Hardie Grant, 2012.Author: Ann ChapmanPublisher: Palazzo EditionsPublished: 02/01/2015Pages: 176Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.56lbsSize: 8.55h x 7.23w x 0.97dISBN: 9780957148338Review Citation(s): Booklist 12/15/2014 pg. 23Library Journal 02/15/2015 pg. 120About the AuthorAnn Chapman and her husband established Trinity Farm Living Rose Museum in New...
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I Am with You: Love Letters to Cancer PatientsI Am with You is an anthology written by and for amazing cancer patients everywhere. Over 40 women and men who have "walked the walk" of living with cancer ... be it their own diagnosis or that of someone they love ... share their...
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The Old West's Infamous Train Robbers and Their Historic HeistsThe Old West's Infamous Train Robbers and Their Historic Heists profiles sixteen noted train robbers (or train robbing gangs) along with the details of each their forty-seven hold-ups. The mechanics of each of their train robberies--planning, execution, and escape--are dissected and discussed. Pertinent background...
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The Reluctant Farmer of Whimsey Hill Lib/EThe award-winning, humorous true story of an animal-phobic, city robotics engineer who learns too late that his new bride's dream is to have a farm where she can rescue ex-racehorses. When the newlyweds take a Meyers-Briggs Personality Test for fun, they discover their marriage...
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Shifty's War Lib/E: The Authorized Biography of Sergeant Darrell "Shifty" Powers, the Legendary Sharpshooter from the Band of BrothersFrom D-Day to the Battle of the Bulge and more, here is the authorized biography of one of the most celebrated paratroopers of Easy Company, Sergeant Shifty Powers, the legendary sharpshooter from the Band of Brothers. As a boy, Darrell Shifty Powers's goal was...
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The Education of John Adams Lib/EThe Education of John Adams is the first biography of John Adams by a biographer with legal training. It examines his origins in colonial Massachusetts, his education, and his struggle to choose a career and define a place for himself in colonial society. It...
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The Chief Lib/E: The Life of William Randolph HearstWilliam Randolph Hearst, known to his staff as the Chief, was a brilliant business strategist and a man of prodigious appetites. By the 1930s, he controlled the largest publishing empire in the United States, including twenty-eight newspapers, the Cosmopolitan Picture Studio, radio stations, and...
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No Fear Lib/E: Real Stories of a Courageous New Generation Standing for TruthAuthor: Tony PerkinsPublisher: ChristianaudioPublished: 09/08/2015Binding Type: CDISBN: 9798200504244About the AuthorPerkins, Tony: - Tony Perkins is president of the Washington, D.C.-based Family Research Council. He is a former member of the Louisiana legislature and was a Republican candidate for the United States Senate in 2002....
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Life on the Mississippi Lib/EAuthor: Mark TwainPublisher: Tantor AudioPublished: 12/27/2010Binding Type: CDISBN: 9798200098972About the AuthorPrichard, Michael: - Michael Prichard is a Los Angeles-based actor who has played several thousand characters during his career, over one hundred of them in theater and film. He is primarily heard as an...
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Life in Motion Lib/E: An Unlikely BallerinaAuthor: Misty CopelandPublisher: Tantor AudioPublished: 03/11/2014Binding Type: CDISBN: 9798200045488About the AuthorCopeland, Misty: - Misty Copeland made history by becoming the third African American ballerina for the American Ballet Theatre, the first in decades. A recipient of the Leonore Annenberg Fellowship in the Arts and...
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A Changed Mind: Go Beyond Self Awareness, Rewire Your Brain & Reengineer Your RealityThe story of one man's journey to go beyond self awareness and the science of how to actually change your mind. In his groundbreaking, seminal book, visionary leader and transformational teacher David Bayer offers a revolutionary approach to personal growth and spiritual evolution, taking...
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The OrphanageThe story of a public personality--the possible future mayor of Montreal--this memoir recounts how Richard Bergeron and his four brothers lived in an orphanage for five years in the 1960s. Set in a small city in Northern Quebec, surrounded by bush and industry, this...
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Air CommandersAir Commanders combines short military biographies and operational analyses to reveal how the personalities, attitudes, and life experiences of twelve outstanding U.S. airmen shaped the central air campaigns in American history. From Gen. Carl "Tooey" Spaatz, who began his career in World War I,...
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Henry VII's New Men and the Making of Tudor EnglandThe reign of Henry VII is important but mysterious. He ended the Wars of the Roses and laid the foundations for the strong governments of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. Yet his style of rule was unconventional and at times oppressive. At the heart...
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Léeme.Txt / Readme.Txt: A MemoirLa extraordinaria autobiografía de una de las activistas y mujeres trans más relevantes de nuestro tiempo. Febrero de 2010. Chelsea Manning, una analista de inteligencia militar estadounidense destinada en Irak, revela 720.000 documentos militares clasificados a través de WikiLeaks. Su coraje se apodera del...
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Transister: Raising Twins in a Gender-Bending WorldTransister is the story of a family in transition. Not a prescriptive narrative but an affirming one. A raw, honest, sometimes humorous account of author Kate Brookes's journey as her young child grapples with gender identity and becomes her authentic self. Brookes has longed...
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Rancho Guadalasca: Last Ranch of California's Central CoastA journey through Ventura County history. A Mexican land grant awarded in 1836, Rancho Guadalasca lay at the western end of the Santa Monica Mountains along the eastern Oxnard Plain. Grantee Ysabel Yorba, an illiterate widow who successfully managed the ranch for over 35...
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