Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Perseverance: Life and Death in the SubarcticAn adventurer, firefighter, and jiu-jitsu practitioner embarks on a journey of a lifetime--a thousand-mile voyage through the Canadian subarctic--after recovering from a life-threatening illness.The Canadian North is a vast and lonely land where bears roam free, fires rage unchecked, and storms blast every living...
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People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo--And the Evil That Swallowed Her UpLucie Blackman--tall, blond, twenty-one years old--stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000, and disappeared forever. The following winter, her dismembered remains were found buried in a seaside cave. Richard Lloyd Parry, an award-winning foreign correspondent, covered Lucie's disappearance and...
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Pentecostal Preacher Woman: The Faith and Feminism of Bernice GerardFollows the life of a Canadian Evangelical pastor who blurred the lines between conservative and progressive values. Evangelical pastor, talk-show host, and politician--Reverend Bernice Gerard (1923-2008) was all of this and more. Pentecostal Preacher Woman explores Gerard's life as one of the most influential...
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Patrick Swayze: Still Inspiring!Patrick Swayze was more than a legendary performer of movies, dance, television shows, Broadway shows, and songs. He was also a family man, friend, trailblazer, dreamer, and an inspiration.This inspiring collection compiles memories, stories, and tributes from colleagues in the entertainment industry, including writers,...
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Paramedic: On the Front Lines of MedicineIn this dramatic account of one man's experience as an EMT, Peter Canning relives the nerve-racking seconds that can mean the difference between a patient's death and survival, as Canning struggles to make the right call, dispense the right medication, or keep a patient's...
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Pain: Living By Faith In A Life Filled With PainEach of us will face pain at some point in our lives. Whether physical or emotional, sudden or lifelong, pain exposes weakness and can lead its victims on a desperate scramble for answers and relief. But what if pain could also lead us to...
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Owls Mate for Life: A Memoir of Loss and LoveIn Owls Mate for Life, James Paauw chronicles the dramatic seven-month survival struggle of his wife, Liz, following a high-speed head-on motor vehicle crash. Early on, the author discovered that, despite his medical experience, his main focus as a patient advocate was to ensure...
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Organizing America: Stories of Americans Who Fought for JusticeFrom the acclaimed author of A History of America in Ten Strikes, a sweeping account of the impact of organizers on United States history We are living through a time when real social change seems to be in the rearview mirror. But this rousing...
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Open Mic: A Broadcaster's MemoirBroadcaster and talk show host Biff Jannuzzi is a veteran of more than one dozen radio stations, has edited copy for Paul Harvey and reported from a Mexican prison. If you've ever wanted to meet an astronaut, a famous musician or even a wolfman,...
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One Year and a One-Way Ticket: Ditching My Mother's Five-Year Career Plan to Travel SoloA memoir rich in adventure, love, and self-discovery, One Year and a One-Way Ticket details the transformative journey of 23-year-old Danika.Born and raised in Toronto under the watchful eye of her demanding mother, Danika has always believed success means studying hard, securing a prestigious...
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One Who Survived: The Life Story Of A Russian Under The SovietsOne Who Survived: The Life Story Of A Russian Under The Soviets is a memoir written by Alexander Barmine, a Russian who lived through the tumultuous period of Soviet history. The book tells the story of Barmine's life, from his childhood in Russia to...
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One Day At A TimeLife can be challenging even in the simplest of times. But in a world where "life" itself is threatened, the complications are overwhelming and exhausting.The story within this book tells how our family found the only way to survive was to lean on God...
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One and the Same: My Life as an Identical Twin and What I've Learned About Everyone's Struggle to Be SingularJournalist Abigail Pogrebin is many things--wife, mother, New Yorker--but the one that has defined her most profoundly is "identical twin." As children, she and her sister, Robin, were inseparable. But when Robin began to pull away as an adult, Abigail was left to wonder...
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Once Upon a Wishbone: Finding Light Through a Story of Hope, Connection and Rediscovered PurposeOnce you find your why, the how becomes easier...How do you respond in the face of adversity? For Michele Wachter, life's curveballs paved the way for who she was meant to become.From the struggles of being a young girl navigating life with only one...
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Once Upon a Wishbone: Finding Light Through a Story of Hope, Connection and Rediscovered PurposeOnce you find your why, the how becomes easier...How do you respond in the face of adversity? For Michele Wachter, life's curveballs paved the way for who she was meant to become.From the struggles of being a young girl navigating life with only one...
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Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-KennedyAuthor: Elizabeth BellerPublisher: Gallery BooksPublished: 07/01/2025Pages: 352Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9781982178970About the AuthorElizabeth Beller is a writer and journalist specializing in culture, art, and travel with more than fifteen years of experience as a book and story editor. Her work has appeared in The Guardian,...
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Nureyev: an AutobiographyThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Not That Wheel, Jesus!: Stories from a Faith That Went Off-Road in the Best (and Worst) Possible WaysFrom the nationally bestselling author of Holy Hot Mess, a laugh-out-loud look at what happens when life goes a direction we didn't expect and we are forced to reconsider the beliefs, assumptions, and stories that have always steered our course. Jesus, take the wheel....
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North to the Future: An Offline Adventure Through the Changing Wilds of AlaskaBen Weissenbach--an L.A. native with little prior wilderness experience--treks through the Alaskan tundra with a series of eccentric environmental scientists, and returns with a new perspective on technology and a revitalized sense of wonder for the natural world. At the age of twenty, college...
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North Country LifestyleIn 1975, Darlene M. Reierson, a self-proclaimed "city girl," and her husband, Brien, embarked on what so many people dream of doing but rarely attempt: a completely off-the-grid lifestyle, eking a living in the unforgiving wilderness of northern British Columbia, Canada. They spent the...
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