Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Animal and Client EncountersQualifying as a veterinary surgeon over 50 years ago, James has seen enormous changes in his work of a general practitioner. From being a student learning from James Herriot through general practice to involvement with university life, the author has had an extremely busy...
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A Song for Kalen: Lessons From the Life and Death of My SonA Song for KalenOn that fateful day, T.R. awoke in New York, unaware of the news to come. By Noon, he was thrust into a living nightmare where soul-crushing experiences would be measured in seconds. He rushed to South Carolina where he encountered a...
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Why I Wrote wot I WroteAs Joanna Lumley notes in her preface, Bruce Denness has always trod a precarious path between serious science and philosophical frivolity. The science reached its peak at the British Geological Survey and Newcastle University in the 1970s but even then - and certainly since...
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The Morse Code: Legacy of a Vermont SportswriterTriumph over hardship. Pay it forward. The power of community. These were the moral codes of Dave Morse (1937-2015), a beloved Vermont Sports Hall of Fame journalist who spent 20 years at the Hardwick Gazette writing "The Morse Code," an all-sports, all-ages column. The...
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Lessons from my Fathers: A Tribute to the Men Who Helped Me Become a ManLike many of my childhood friends, I spent a lot of time dreaming about who or what I would become as an adult. I even dreamt about becoming a superhero. Though my superhero dream has not come to pass (yet), many others have. I'm...
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Take a SeatThis book encompasses the fascinating 40 year journey in life of someone who just wasn't your average practicing GP, but someone whose passion and drive were to use his skills and medical ability to bring quality of life to every patient that crossed his...
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Sex and Violence in Tibetan Buddhism,: The Rise and Fall of Sogyal RinpocheThe death of Sogyal Rinpoche in 2019 unleashed a new torrent of victim revelations, accounting questions and legal rulings that further illuminate the trail of injury and insult he left behind. The imposter guru ended his days as a refugee in Thailand, beyond the...
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The Home ChildrenFrom 1870 to 1930 British Home children, over 1000,00 of them, arrived to work on Canadian farms. Travelling in groups of up to 400, their worldly possessions in small metal trunks, they came from the discipline of British Homes to the land that was...
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Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a SanseiAward-winning poet David Mura's critically acclaimed memoir Turning Japanese chronicles how a year in Japan transformed his sense of self and pulled into sharp focus his complicated inheritance. Mura is a sansei, a third-generation Japanese-American who grew up on baseball and hot dogs in...
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Abe Lincoln and the Muddy PigAbe Lincoln is on his way to give an important speech when he comes across a pig stuck in the mud. If he stops to help the pig, he'll get his brand-new suit dirty. But young Abe can't stand to see an animal in...
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Stay True: A MemoirPULITZER PRIZE WINNER - A gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art, by the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu "This book is exquisite and excruciating and I will be thinking about it...
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Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My FamilyAn epic and uplifting World War II family history of resistance that spans Europe, telling of two happy families uprooted by war, their incredible suffering under Hitler and Stalin, and the near-miraculous survival stories of the author's mother and father. "Moving and important."--Robert Harris,...
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Garibaldi: Invention of a HeroThe first sustained analysis of the cult of the legendary Italian hero Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Italian revolutionary leader and popular hero, was among the best-known figures of the nineteenth century. This book seeks to examine his life and the making of his cult, to...
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A New Century of HeroesThere are heroes who walk among us: the clam digger who rescues a man from a burning retirement home; the dancer who prevents a robber from shooting two policemen at a nightclub; the former Marine, blinded during the Korean War, who saves two women...
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Flyer: Don Finlay Dfc Afc; Battle of Britain Spitfire Pilot and Double Olympic MedalistDonald Osborne Finlay, a sporting name familiar to households in the 1930s, was Britain's greatest athlete of the time; a hurdler whose triumphant exploits graced the sports pages and newsreels week after week. From a humble family background, he became a double Olympic medalist,...
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Letters in Black and White: A New Correspondence on Race in AmericaUnsatisfied with the relentless pace and narrow constraints of social media, two Americans-- Winkfield Twyman, Jr. and Jennifer Richmond, a black man and a white woman-- rediscovered the art of letter writing and maintained a years-long correspondence about race in the United States. In...
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A License to Heal: Recollections of an ER DoctorSteven Bentley, M.D. is a board certified ER doctor with a career spanning more than thirty years in various North Carolina emergency departments. His journey began in the mid-1970's when he chose to pursue a career in medicine. In his youthful perspective he came...
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Mr. Wilson's War Lib/E: From the Assassination of McKinley to the Defeat of the League of NationsBeginning with the assassination of McKinley and ending with the defeat of the League of Nations by the United States Senate, the twenty-year period covered by John Dos Passos in this lucid and fascinating narrative changed the whole destiny of America. This is the...
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This Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else Lib/E: Joy Division: The Oral HistoryAn exciting new book on Joy Division, featuring never before told stories. Jon Savage's oral history of Joy Division is the last word on the band that ended with the suicide of Ian Curtis in Macclesfield on May 18, 1980. It weaves together interviews...
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Behind the Fireplace Lib/E: Memoirs of a Girl Working in the Dutch ResistanceAs World War 2 progressed, the Okma family took six Jewish refugees into their house, hiding them in a secret room behind their fireplace. The youngest daughter, Kieks, joined the Resistance, delivering illegal newspapers, guiding British parachutists around The Hague and preparing safe houses...
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