Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Black Capitalists: A Blueprint for What Is PossibleA groundbreaking look at how Black visionaries--from Wall Street to Lagos and beyond--are reimagining capitalism to benefit the needs of Black people and, ultimately, everyone. To many, the term "Black Capitalists" is oxymoronic. Black people were the labor force that built the infrastructure of...
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Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday's Last YearA revelatory look at the tumultuous life of a jazz legend and American cultural icon "A book written as only one artist could view another, with insight and sincere compassion." --Sandra Cisneros, best-selling author of Woman Without Shame In the first biography of Billie...
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Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our WorldFrom the finance editor of The New York Times, an insightful and illuminating examination of Bill Gates--one of the most powerful and provocative figures of the past four decades--and an exploration of our national fixation on billionaires. Few billionaires have been in the public...
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Between Grief and Nothing: The Passions, Addictions and Tragic End of William FaulknerIn 1962, William Faulkner left his homestead in Oxford, Mississippi, to travel to the nearby Byhalia sanatorium for alcoholism rehabilitation. Mere hours later, the usual recovery he sought turned tragic. This book traces the sequence of events leading to his initial hospitalization, exploring facets...
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Between: A Memoir on Gender Transition by a Mother and Her Trans SonThe lives of transgender people have evolved into a talking point in wider society. Many people have an opinion on trans issues, but few have informed that opinion by listening to the trans community. Between bridges this widening divide, sharing a deeply personal story...
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Benjamin Harrison: The 23rd PresidentTour through Benjamin Harrison's house and discover the life and legacy of the 23rd US President Take a trip to Indianapolis and peek into a president's parlor for a house tour like no other. After introducing the neighborhood, we will guide you around the...
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Behind Bulletproof Glass: My Story About Prenatal Testing and Abortion in the United StatesIt's difficult to change society. The word "abortion" is taboo, and many people don't want to share their experiences. But without open and honest dialogue, how can change ever happen?Linda is excited when she realizes she's pregnant with her second child, and her family...
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Because: A CIA Coverup & A Son's Odyssey To Find The Father He Never KnewJames B. Wells was only nine when his father, Jack, an Army veteran working for USAID as a senior public safety officer in 1965, died in an Air America plane crash in Vietnam. Decades later, James discovers hundreds of letters in his mother's home...
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Because: A CIA Coverup & A Son's Odyssey To Find The Father He Never KnewJames B. Wells was only nine when his father, Jack, an Army veteran working for USAID as a senior public safety officer in 1965, died in an Air America plane crash in Vietnam. Decades later, James discovers hundreds of letters in his mother's home...
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Barely Visible: Mothering a Son Through His Misunderstood AutismFor any parent who has ever struggled with a child's difficult or peculiar behavior, this candid and compelling memoir about raising a child on the spectrum offers reassurance that you are not alone--and a path forward is possible. When your child is diagnosed with...
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As a Jew: Reclaiming Our Story from Those Who Blame, Shame, and Try to Erase UsAn urgent exploration of how antisemitism has shaped Jewish identity and how Jews can reclaim their tradition, by the celebrated White House speechwriter and author of the critically acclaimed Here All Along.At thirty-six, Sarah Hurwitz was a typical lapsed Jew. On a whim, she...
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Are There Black Neighborhoods in Heaven?Author: George SmithPublisher: PegasusbooksPublished: 01/01/2025Pages: 218Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46dISBN: 9781941859933
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A Prayer of Six WingsNo grief should be privileged, and no grief should be silenced.A Prayer of Six Wings is an account of the poet Owen Lewis's experience in the year following Hamas's Al-Aqsa Flood Massacre on October 7, 2023. The poems portray the complexity of the grief...
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Appetite For Dysfunction: A Cautionary TaleAt 22, Vicky Hamilton left her hometown of Fort Wayne, Indiana, and arrived on the Sunset Strip as a wide-eyed blonde with an ear for rock & roll: "I was back home interviewing Tom Petty for Three Rivers Review," says Hamilton, "And he told...
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An Unlikely PrisonerFor 650 days Sean Turnell was held in Myanmar's terrifying Insein Prison on the trumped-up charge of being a spy. In An Unlikely Prisoner he recounts how an impossibly cheerful professor of economics, whose idea of an uncomfortable confrontation was having to tell a...
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Antonio Salieri: Neuentdeckung Eines Verkannten. Ein LesebuchAntonio Salieri war in seiner langen Karriere am Wiener Kaiserhof in vielen Rollen aktiv: Er leitete die italienische Oper und die Hofkapelle; er schrieb Kirchenmusik und schuf glanzende Buhnenwerke; er verwaltete ein grosses Ensemble, leitete Wohlfahrtseinrichtungen fur Musikerfamilien und grundete ein Konservatorium. Er bildete...
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An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex WorkThrough the lens of her years spent as a sex worker, Charlotte Shane offers a "rigorous and compulsively readable memoir" (New York magazine) exploring what it means to be a heterosexual woman and a feminist in a misogynistic society. "A memoir of sex work...
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An Exercise in Uncertainty: A Memoir of Illness and HopeIn this thought-provoking memoir, an award-winning journalist explores the chaos, doubt, and search for meaning that come with staying one step ahead of cancer for decades. "An Exercise in Uncertainty has a powerful and restorative story to tell us. Jonathan Gluck's life of illness...
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Andrew Carnegie: La biografía de un industrial y filántropo estadounidense, su riqueza y su legadoEmbárcate en un fascinante viaje a través de la vida extraordinaria de Andrew Carnegie, el industrial y filántropo estadounidense que dejó una marca indeleble en la historia. Nacido en Escocia en 1835, la familia de Carnegie emigró a Estados Unidos cuando tenía 12 años,...
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. . . And His Lovely Wife: A Campaign Memoir from the Woman Beside the ManWriting with warmth and humor, Connie Schultz reveals the rigors, joys, and absolute madness of a new marriage at midlife and campaigning with her husband, Sherrod Brown, now the junior senator from Ohio. She describes the chain of events leading up to Sherrod's decision...
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