Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Cristiano Ronaldo: Soccer's Greatest ScorerCristiano Ronaldo has won soccer's coveted Ballon d'Or five times, as well as more than thirty trophies and many other awards. He's also the top goal scorer in history. Many would argue that he's the best soccer player of all time.Ronaldo was born in...
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Count on Me: My Life, Lessons, and Legacy as Former President of Shaw Communications"You'll never amount to anything."As a child, Peter J. Bissonnette heard these words-and made it his mission to prove them wrong.In Count on Me: My Life, Lessons, and Legacy as Former President of Shaw Communications, Peter shares his remarkable journey from humble beginnings to...
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Counterculture: The Story of America from Bohemia to Hip-HopA political and intellectual history of American counterculture and the historical figures who redefined mainstream understandings of freedom, culture, art, and politics--from The Beat Generation to Basquiat This entertaining, intellectual history fulfills the growing appetite for marginalized narratives. Counterculture brilliantly interrogates the diversity of...
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Cipher: Decoding My Ancestor's Scandalous Secret DiariesIn the 1800s, Appalachian farmer and rogue William Prestwood kept salacious coded diaries, leaving his descendent, Jeremy Jones, to reflect on his complicated legacy.In 1975, a man stumbled upon a box of hand-sewn notebooks in a house set for demolition in Wadesboro, North Carolina....
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Chronic Pain Can Kiss My AssBruce Bartyzal's story began with a simple, persistent knee pain that rapidly progressed to constant suffering, affecting every part of his life. Desperate for relief, he chose knee replacement surgery, knowing it would restore his mobility and quality of life. However, the treatment that...
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Christopher Nolan: The Iconic Filmmaker and His WorkThis comprehensive and in-depth study delves into the life and works of one of modern films most celebrated, successful and intriguing auteurs, Christopher Nolan. 'What is the most resilient parasite? Bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm? An idea. Resilient...highly contagious. Once an idea has...
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Choose Strong: The Choice That Changes EverythingA REAL LOOK AT STRENGTHKnown worldwide for her mental fortitude, hardcore training tactics, and an ability to push through extreme discomfort, pro athlete Sally McRae's strength wasn't built in the gym. For the first time, McRae candidly tells her shocking story of abuse, loss,...
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Child of the Flower-Song People: Luz Jiménez, Daughter of the NahuaAward-winning illustrator Duncan Tonatiuh brings to life debut author Gloria Amescua's lyrical picture book biography of an Indigenous Nahua woman from Mexico who taught and preserved her people's culture through modeling for famous artists. A 2022 Pura Belpré Award Author Honor Book She was...
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Chasing the Story: The Stories and Events that Shaped the Life of a Veteran News ReporterThe book chronicles the long career of Charlotte, NC, television news reporter David Whisenant. From well-known crimes to the death of Queen Elizabeth II, from celebrity encounters to community disasters and amazing people, Whisenant covered a wide variety of subjects, and brings these stories...
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Chasing Shadows: My Life Tracking the Great White Shark"At last: the story of tracking the ocean's most charismatic and controversial predator, compellingly told by the man who has learned more about the Atlantic great white shark than any other person alive. You must not miss this fantastic book!" --Sy Montgomery, New York...
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Chasing Daylight: How My Forthcoming Death Transformed My LifeTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERChasing Daylight is the honest, touching, and ultimately inspirational memoir of former KPMG CEO Eugene O'Kelley, completed in the three-and-a-half months between his diagnosis with brain cancer and his death in September 2005. Its haunting yet extraordinarily hopeful voice reminds...
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Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and AmericaThat the Beatles were an unprecedented phenomenon is a given. In Can't Buy Me Love, Jonathan Gould explains why, placing the Fab Four in the broad and tumultuous panorama of their time and place, rooting their story in the social context that girded both...
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Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar"MONUMENTAL." (The New Yorker) - "HEROIC." (The New York Times Book Review ) - "THRILLING." (Los Angeles Times) - "PRISMATIC." (The Atlantic) Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for BiographyA Finalist for the the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeA Best Book of...
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CalvinA revealing new portrait of John Calvin that captures his human complexity and the sixteenth-century world in which he fought his personal and theological battles During the glory days of the French Renaissance, young John Calvin (1509-1564) experienced a profound conversion to the faith...
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Call the Midwife, Volume 3: Farewell to the East EndThe last book in the trilogy begun by Jennifer Worth's New York Times bestseller and the basis for the PBS series Call the MidwifeWhen twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the poorest section of postwar...
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By the Time You Read This: The Space Between Cheslie's Smile and Mental Illness--Her Story in Her Own WordsA New York Times Bestseller! By the Time You Read This is the story former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst was about to publish before her tragic suicide. Her mother, April, wraps up the narrative by exploring the mental illness and depression that took her...
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Breaking the Code: A True Story by a Hells Angel President and the Cop Who Pursued HimA highly respected Hells Angel president. An honest, hard-working cop. Both of their lives on totally different paths until their worlds collide... "With no holds barred, Omodt and Matter rip back the curtain of seedy reality and toss you headlong into the complex relationships...
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Breakfast WineDress-obsessed and directionless, 44-year-old Alex Poppe can't get her life together. A business analyst, turned actor, turned teacher, she works a dead-end marketing job under a mammary gland-fixated man and still waits tables to make ends meet. A chance encounter with an acclaimed journalist...
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Boy Kings of Texas: A MemoirNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTLyrical and gritty, this authentic coming-of-age story about a border-town family in Brownsville, Texas, insightfully illuminates a little-understood corner of America. Domingo Martinez lays bare his interior and exterior worlds as he struggles to make sense...
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Born Twice: Memoir of a Special Forces SOG Warrior"...a near-unbelievable story of deadly missions carried out by small Green Beret-led teams operating deep in enemy territory against all but impossible odds."-Michael P Buckland, Special Forces SOG warrior"These were extremely dangerous, top secret operations, which tested Hanson's mettle; the Christian values of his...
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