Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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The Collected Works of Jim Morrison: Poetry, Journals, Transcripts, and LyricsNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe definitive anthology of Jim Morrison's writings with rare photographs and numerous handwritten excerpts of unpublished and published poetry and lyrics from his 28 privately held notebooks.You can also hear Jim Morrison's final poetry recording, now available for the first time,...
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The Child Who Never Grew: A MemoirA "groundbreaking" memoir about raising a special-needs daughter in an era of misinformation and prejudice--a classic that helped transform our perceptions (Publishers Weekly). It was my child who taught me to understand so clearly that all people are equal in their humanity and that...
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The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World WarA joint biography of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, who led the United States into an unseen war that decisively shaped today's world During the 1950s, when the Cold War was at its peak, two immensely powerful brothers led the United States into...
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The Buddha & the Borderline: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder Through Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Buddhism, & Online DatingKiera Van Gelder's first suicide attempt at the age of twelve marked the onset of her struggles with drug addiction, depression, post-traumatic stress, self-harm, and chaotic romantic relationships-all of which eventually led to doctors' belated diagnosis of borderline personality disorder twenty years later. The...
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The Broken VaseOn a sunny May afternoon in Silver Spring, Maryland, Yaffa Klugerman's 14-year-old son, Dov, crossed the street from his school to his home and was hit by a car. He was rushed to the hospital, where Yaffa and her husband, Tzvi, immediately learned that...
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The Believer: Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John MackThe Believer is the weird and chilling true story of Dr. John Mack. This eminent Harvard psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer risked his career to investigate the phenomenon of human encounters with aliens and to give credibility to the stupefying tales shared by people...
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The Barn: An Extraordinary True StoryA PAGE-TURNING TRUE-LIFE THRILLER!This book provides a bird's-eye view of an incredible journey. The supernatural and extraordinary events and the settings in which they are described may be scarcely believable. Nonetheless, there is a higher purpose for which this narrative remains loyal and unapologetically...
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The Awakening of Hk Derryberry: My Unlikely Friendship with the Boy Who Remembers EverythingThe Awakening of HK Derryberry is the inspiring story of the amazing relationship between a successful business executive and a young, disabled boy with a dismal future. Little did Jim Bradford know the transformational potential of that friendship--for HK and himself.HK Derryberry came into...
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The Age of AlexanderPlutarch's influential writings on the ancient worldPlutarch's parallel biographies of the great men in Greek and Roman history are cornerstones of European literature, drawn on by countless writers since the Renaissance. This selection provides intimate glimpses into the lives of these men, revealing why...
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The 50 Greatest Players in Detroit Lions HistoryA ranking of the top 50 players ever to play for the Detroit Lions, based on the degree to which they impacted the fortunes of the team, the extent to which they added to the Lions legacy, and the levels of statistical compilation and...
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Tell Me a Story: My Life with Pat Conroy"Tell Me A Story is breathtakingly tender, heartbreakingly true...The best memoir I've read." -- Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times bestselling author of The Beach House Reunion Bestselling author Cassandra King Conroy considers her life and the man she shared it with, paying tribute...
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Teenage Degenerate: A Memoir that Explores the Depths of Methamphetamine and Drug AddictionBreaking Bad meets the Basketball Diaries! Amazon Best Seller in Drug Dependency and Personal Health! In 1996, Scott was nineteen and lost in adulthood with an endless job and no future ambitions. Teenage Degenerate is his story about drug addiction, music and growing up....
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Tastes Like War: A MemoirFinalist for the 2021 National Book Award for NonfictionWinner of the 2022 Asian/Pacific American Award in LiteratureA TIME and NPR Best Book of the Year in 2021This evocative memoir of food and family history is "somehow both mouthwatering and heartbreaking... [and] a potent personal...
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Sylvia and Marsha Start a Revolution!: The Story of the Trans Women of Color Who Made LGBTQ+ History"Someday girls like us will be able to wear whatever we want. People will call us by the names we choose. They'll respect that we are women. The cops will leave us alone and no one will go hungry." Sylvia and Marsha are closer...
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SybilIn this "spellbinding" bestseller that inspired the electrifying Emmy-award winning TV movie starring Sally Fields, a journalist chronicles the first ever case of multiple personalities to be psychoanalyzed (Time Magazine). You're about to meet Sybil-and the sixteen selves to whom she played host, both...
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Survival in AuschwitzSurvival in Auschwitz: If This Is a Man is a book written by the Italian author, Primo Levi. It describes his experiences in the concentration camp at Auschwitz during the Second World War. Levi, then a 25-year-old chemist, spent 10 months in Auschwitz before...
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Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different: True Tales of Amazing Boys Who Changed the World Without Killing DragonsBoys can be anything they want to be in this New York Times bestselling book! A timeless book giving middle-grade boys a welcome message that masculinity can mean many things. You won't find any stories of slaying dragons or saving princesses here. In Stories...
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St. Jude Thaddeus: Helper in Desperate CasesIn desperate circumstances, the Faithful have always turned to the sure help of St. Jude Thaddeus - Apostle, cousin of Our Lord and martyr for the Catholic Faith. This powerful Saint is invoked in cases of extreme need, grievous illness, poverty, and when circumstances...
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Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life (10th Anniversary Edition)"Still Writing offers up a cornucopia of wisdom, insights, and practical lessons gleaned from Dani Shapiro's long experience as a celebrated writer and teacher of writing. The beneficiaries are beginning writers, veteran writers and everyone in between."--Jennifer EganFrom Dani Shapiro, bestselling author of Devotion...
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Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle ButlerA Coretta Scott King Author Honor BookA Walter Dean Myers Honor Book From the New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist, a biography in verse and prose of science fiction visionary Octavia Butler, author of Parable of the Sower and Kindred....
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