Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Bette: The True Story of My Life in the SkyCommemorating Bette Burke-Nash: World Record Flight Attendant's Heroic Life Tale to be Published - A Tribute to Resilience, Motherhood, and Sky-High Spirit.In the pages of this book, readers are invited into the extraordinary life of Mary Elizabeth Burke-Nash, affectionately known as Bette. For nearly...
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Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and BeyondInstant New York Times Bestseller! Now in paperback, from Emmy-award winning actor, author, comedian, producer, and director Henry Winkler, a deeply thoughtful memoir of the lifelong effects of stardom and the struggle to become whole. Henry Winkler, launched into prominence as "The Fonz" in...
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Before Night Falls: A Memoir"Any attempt to reckon with Cuba's torturous twentieth century will have to take into account Arenas's monumental work ... an essential human testimony, joyful and enraged, a triumph of conscience." -- Garth Greenwell The acclaimed memoir of queer Cuban author Reinaldo Arenas chronicling his...
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Becoming Sister Wives: The Story of an Unconventional MarriageThe uncensored, New York Times bestselling memoir by the polygamist stars of the hit show Sister Wives, Kody and his four wives openly discuss what it's like living in a plural marriage. A SINGULAR STORY OF PLURAL MARRIAGE Since TLC first launched its popular...
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Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Classic Children's TalesA New York Times Bestseller There aren't many books more beloved than The Tale of Peter Rabbit and even fewer authors as iconic as Beatrix Potter. Her characters--Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle Duck, and all the rest--exist in a charmed world filled with flowers and...
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Beach Blanket Bedlam: Volume Two in the Service with a Sneer ChroniclesBack in 1982, Frankie and Annette wouldn't have survived ten minutes on this beach. Not before either being robbed, brutally assaulted, or forced to flee in terror from a violent lunatic amped to the gills on angel dust.Incredibly, the seaside sands were still much...
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Baseball's First Superstar: The Lost Life Story of Christy MathewsonIf there was a first face of baseball, it was arguably Christopher "Christy" Mathewson. At the opening of the twentieth century, baseball was considered an undignified game played by ruffians for gamblers' benefit. Mathewson changed all that. When he signed with the Giants in...
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A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and LuckNATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres comes an irresistibly smart, witty, and engaging chronicle of a novelist's lifelong obsession with horses. - "Exuberant...witty, completely delightful.... A kind of National Velvet for adults." --San Francisco Chronicle "Every horse story...
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A Voice in the Darkness: Memoir of a Rwandan Genocide Survivor"A Voice in the Darkness: Memoir of a Rwandan Genocide" is not just a story of survival, but a beacon of resilience, perseverance, and hope. The award-winning memoir by renowned author and human rights advocate, Jeanne Celestine Lakin, chronicles her harrowing survival during the...
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Attachments: Essays on Fatherhood and Other PerformancesLucas Mann turns his attention, tenderness, self-reflection, and humor to contemporary fatherhood. He looks closely at all the joys, frustrations, subtleties, and contradictions within an experience that often goes under-discussed. At once intimate and expansive, Mann chronicles his own life with his young daughter,...
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Atomic Spy: The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs"Nancy Greenspan dives into the mysteries of the Klaus Fuchs espionage case and emerges with a classic Cold War biography of intrigue and torn loyalties. Atomic Spy is a mesmerizing morality tale, told with fresh sources and empathy." --Kai Bird, author of The Good...
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A Steady Brightness of Being: Truths, Wisdom, and Love from Celebrated Indigenous VoicesBringing together voices from across Turtle Island, a groundbreaking collection of letters from Indigenous writers, activists, and thinkers--to their ancestors, to future generations, and to themselves. Drawing on the wisdom and personal experience of its esteemed contributors, this first-of-its-kind anthology tackles complex questions of...
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Around the World in 80 DaysOne ill-fated evening at the Reform Club, Phileas Fogg rashly bets his companions 20,000 pounds that he can travel around the entire globe in just eighty days - and he is determined not to lose. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, the...
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A Rome for Restless Hearts: Finding a Spiritual Home in CatholicismTikTok-famous nun and Protestant-turned-Catholic Sister Lisa Hezmalhalch invites readers into her discovery that following Jesus meant becoming a Catholic, one faith question at a time. Sister Lisa Hezmalhalch gets why some Christians aren't part of the Catholic Church--and why they could never imagine themselves...
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A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos WilliamsA Caldecott Honor BookA New York Times Best Illustrated Children's BookCharlotte Zolotow Honor BookNCTE Orbis Pictus Recommended BookNCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young PeopleSchool Library Journal Best Books, NonfictionAn ALA Notable BookAward-winning author Jen Bryant and Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator Melissa Sweet team...
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A Remarkable Man: Dr. Shuntaro Hida from Hiroshima to FukushimaA poignant, eye-opening portrait of a witness to the atomic bomb who dedicated his life to treating and advocating for radiation survivors. As a young doctor, Shuntaro Hida (1917-2017) played an essential role in the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing, which he witnessed firsthand...
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A Popular History of IDI Amin's UgandaHow Africa's most notorious tyrant made his oppressive regime seem both necessary and patriotic Idi Amin ruled Uganda between 1971 and 1979, inflicting tremendous violence on the people of the country. How did Amin's regime survive for eight calamitous years? Drawing on recently uncovered...
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Anthony Bourdain: The Last Interview: And Other ConversationsThe New York Times Bestseller The brilliant intellect and candor of Anthony Bourdain is on full display in this collection of interviews from throughout his remarkable career, with an introduction from The New Yorker's Helen Rosner. Anthony Bourdain always downplayed his skills as a...
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Angels in My Hair: The True Story of a Modern-Day Irish MysticINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - In this uplifting autobiography, a modern-day Irish mystic shares her vivid encounters and conversations with the angels and spirits she has known her entire life. With an afterword on angels and America and a bonus chapter on how to connect with...
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And Then? and Then? What Else?Writing as Lemony Snicket, Daniel Handler has led several generations of young readers into that special and curious space of being hopelessly lost, and joyfully finding yourself, in the essential strangeness of literature. The wondrous and perilous journey of the Baudelaire orphans sprung from...
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