Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Frontier: A Memoir and a Ghost Story"An important and beautiful book" -Katie Gutierrez, bestselling author of More Than You'll Ever KnowA genre-bending expedition into the treacherous, untamed frontier of childbirthAs she prepared to give birth to her first child, Erica Stern envisioned the idyllic experience promised by prenatal classes and...
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Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American PoliticsFrom bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H.W. Brands, a revelatory history of the shocking emergence of vicious political division at the birth of the United States. To the framers of the Constitution, political parties were a fatal threat to republican virtues. They had...
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Force of Nature: Three Women Tackle The John Muir Trail"Lace up your hiking boots! Let Griffin guide you over granite mountains, through thunderstorms, and wildflower-studded meadows." -Barbara Olson Lawrence, author of the forthcoming Drawing WaterThree friends, women in their fifties, set out to hike "the most beautiful long-distance trail in the world," the...
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Finding Me: A MemoirOPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - A HARPERS BAZAAR BEST BOOK OF 2022 - A PARADE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK - A MARIE CLAIRE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK"It's clear from the first page that Davis is going to serve a more intimate, unpolished account than is typical...
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Fi: A Memoir of My Son2025 PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST FOR MEMOIRFrom the award-winning New York Times-bestselling author of Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller, comes a career defining memoir about grieving the sudden loss of her twenty-one-year-old child"An elegiac meditation on motherhood and grief, written from...
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Eternal Flame: The Authorized Biography of the BanglesThe authorized biography of the quintessential '80s pop band The Bangles, who scored massive hits with "Manic Monday," Walk Like an Egyptian," "Hazy Shade of Winter," and more From their first meeting in 1981, the Bangles were ambitious, focused, and intentional; their hard-work and...
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Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success"Through candor and comprehensiveness, Jackson writes a convincing revisionist take, in which he emerges as an excellent coach . . . highly readable . . . reflects Jackson's polymathy." --The New York Times Book Review "Part sports memoir, part New Age spirit quest, part...
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eating pizza backwards, and other adventures: a mom, a daughter, a life unexpectedParenting brings a world of joy and challenge. Raising a special needs child only magnifies the highs and lows that all parents experience. This beautiful collection of essays spotlights and celebrates the unique perspective differently abled children offer all who love and care for...
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DK Super Readers Level 4 Martin Luther King, JrHelp your child power up their reading skills and learn all about the life of Martin Luther King, Jr with this fun-filled nonfiction reader carefully leveled to help children progress. DK Super Readers Level 3: Martin Luther King, Jr offers a sensitive account of...
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DK Super History George Washington and the American RevolutionThis series explores history through modern topic books that enhance literacy and background knowledge while aligning with the curriculum. DK Super History: George Washington and the American Revolution is part of the new DK Super History series designed for children aged 7-11 to explore...
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Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness"Rough, tough, combative . . . a passionately felt, deeply poetic book."--Edwin Way Teale, The New York Times Book Review "This is not primarily a book about the desert," writes Edward Abbey in his introduction. "In recording my impressions of the natural scene I...
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Crazy BraveIn this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo details her journey to becoming a poet. Born in Oklahoma, the end place of the Trail of Tears, Harjo grew up learning to dodge an abusive stepfather by finding...
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Confessions of a Yakuza: A Life in Japan's UnderworldThis is the true story, as told to the doctor who looked after him just before he died, of the life of one of the last traditional yakuza in Japan. It wasn't a "good" life, in either sense of the word, but it was...
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Common Ground: How the Crisis of the Earth Is Saving Us from Our Illusion of SeparationIn Common Ground, veteran organizer Eileen Flanagan weaves together a series of stories of hard won successes in the climate change movement, including against a multinational bank in one case, and a heavily polluting fossil fuel company in another, based on grassroots organizing. As...
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Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (Newbery Honor Book; National Book Award Winner)NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER AND NEWBERY HONOR BOOK ● Before Rosa Parks, there was 15-year-old Claudette Colvin. Read the first in-depth account of an important yet largely unknown civil rights figure in this multi-award winning, mega-selling biography from the incomparable Phillip Hoose. "When it...
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Claudette Colvin: I Want Freedom Now!Civil rights icon Claudette Colvin teams up with Phillip Hoose--author of the Newbery Honor and National Book Award-winning blockbuster biography Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice--to tell her groundbreaking story in this unforgettable picture book illustrated by New York Times-bestselling artist Bea Jackson. Montgomery, Alabama...
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Church Camp: Bad Skits, Cry Night, and How White Evangelicalism Betrayed a GenerationExcavating a sometimes wacky, and equally harmful, part of white Evangelical culture Roasted marshmallows, campfire stories, shaving cream battles--for some of us, Christian summer camp is where we felt most at home, where we could be the most authentic versions of ourselves. But for...
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Cher: Part One: The Memoir***The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller******The Global #1 Bestseller***The extraordinary life of Cher can be told by only one person . . . Cher herself.After more than seventy years of fighting to live her life on her own terms, Cher finally reveals her...
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Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart GardnerThe vivid and masterful story of Isabella Stewart Gardner--creator of one of America's most stunning museums--an American original whose own life was remade by art. Includes archival photos of Isabella's world, museum, and the art she collected.Isabella Stewart Gardner's museum, with its plain exterior...
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Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of BaseballNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A captivating chronicle of the incredible story of one of America's most iconic, charismatic, and still polarizing figures--baseball immortal Pete Rose--and an exquisite cultural history of baseball and America in the second half of the twentieth century - "Comprehensive,...
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