Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Mario Andretti: The Ultimate Racing HeroDive into the exhilarating life of Mario Andretti, one of motorsport's most iconic and versatile figures, in "Mario Andretti: The Ultimate Racing Hero." From his humble beginnings in Montona, Italy, to dominating the global racing stage, this comprehensive biography chronicles Mario's extraordinary journey through...
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Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You DeserveThe empowering, inspiring, patriarchy-smashing first book by the TikTok and Spotify star Drew Afualo. Drew Afualo is best known as the internet's "Crusader for Women" and is at the head of a new generation of entertainment's rising stars. Loud is part manual, part manifesto,...
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Long Walk: M/TVMORE THAN HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD! The classic adventure story that inspired the new major motion picture The Way Back, directed by Peter Weir *** In 1941, the author and six fellow prisoners of war escaped a Soviet labor camp in Yakutsk--a camp...
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Long Journey to the Amazon: Book 2Few have known the honor and mystique of growing up in virgin Amazon rainforest. In the late 1950s, Paul Johnson's family of six left the comforts of Canada to disappear into stark isolation--three weeks travel by dugout canoe from Bolivian civilization. Survival embraced endless...
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Living with ALS: The Battle of Choosing Hope over Despair, and Lessons Learned in the JourneySynopsis: This is a story of pain, agony and torture suffered by those afflicted with ALS. It is also a story of hope, love and inspiration. There has been a heightened awareness about this illness recently but much is left to be understood about...
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Living Life Full Throttle: Surviving, Serving, and Summiting a Memoir: Surviving, Serving, and Summiting a MemoirWith a less than 1% survival rate after a catastrophic plane crash, Sheryl Ramstad tells her gripping, heart-stopping story of overcoming all odds with tenacity, perseverance, and grace.What begins as a harrowing survival story unfolds into a tale of extraordinary resilience, hope, and rebirth....
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Little Heroes of Color: I'm a Little HeroAdapted from the hardcover edition of Little Heroes of Color by author-illustrator David Heredia, this powerful board book that includes a shiny mylar mirror introduces little ones to ten important heroes of color who have changed the world!From Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the first Supreme...
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Lincoln the Citizen, February 12, 1809 to March 4, 1861: The Complete VersionWritten by a longtime friend and ally, Lincoln the Citizen offers a rare character study and insightful biography of Lincoln before he became president. Michael Burlingame restores material cut by editors of the original 1907 publication to present Henry Clay Whitney's work in full....
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Life of St. Patrick and His Place in HistoryThis renowned biography of the great Catholic saint, famous for converting Ireland to Christianity, is also a stunningly vivid portrait of life in the British Isles in the fifth century. Born in Britain as a Roman citizen and kidnapped by raiders to Ireland as...
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LGBTQ+ Heroes: 51 Inspiring Icons Who Changed the WorldMeet extraordinary LGBTQ+ heroes from throughout history--51 biographies for kids ages 8 to 12You're invited to meet artists, athletes, scientists, activists, and more--all in the same book. LGBTQ+ Heroes introduces you to 51 LGBTQ+ role models from today and as far back as the...
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Letters of a Woman Homesteader2023 Reprint of the 1914 Edition. "Peopled with the kinds of characters most novelists only dream of" (Christian Science Monitor), this classic account of American frontier living captures the rambunctious spirit of a pioneer who set out in 1909 to prove that a woman...
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Let's Play Two: The Life and Times of Ernie BanksWhen Ernie Banks passed away in 2015, he was regarded as one of the most beloved men in baseball history. Making his start as a shortstop with the Kansas City Monarchs in the Negro Leagues as a teenager, Banks went on to become the...
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Lessons from a Lifetime of Love and Loss: Reflections and stories from a mother of eightErica Anderson, an ordained minister, mother of eight, grandmother of eight, and nurse, witnessed and endured domestic violence through most of her life. In her inspiring book, Lessons from a Lifetime of Love and Loss, Erica shares how she was able to move from...
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LeJeune: A Marine's Life, 1867-1942This well-documented and hard-hitting biography of the thirteenth commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps succeeds in converting John A. Lejeune from a near mythical figure in corps history to a flesh and blood officer who helped build the service from a small appendage of...
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Lanterns: A Memoir of Mentors"All who love children are served generously and intelligently by the ideas, commitments, and passion of Marian Wright Edelman. Her arms are open to the children and adults of the world, and we all are stronger and more safe because of her." -- Maya...
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KomatikHave you ever wondered what it might have been like to live at a remote Hudson's Bay Company Trading Post? KOMATIK chronicles my very 'out of the ordinary' way of life on the Lower North Shore / Labrador at a time when dog teams...
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KlaraKlara Schulrabe, born in 1920 to German parents in the Ukraine, survived Stalin's collectivization and the 1932-33 Holodomor (famine) before escaping with her family to Germany just in time for the rise of Hitler and the Nazis. She trained as a nurse and worked...
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King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic MiscalculationFrom the author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller LAWRENCE IN ARABIA a stunningly revelatory narrative history of one of the most momentous events in modern times, the jaw-dropping stupidity of the American government, and the dawn of the age of religious nationalism....
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Kash Patel the Life from Beginning to the EndFrom the courtroom to the halls of power, Kash Patel's journey is one of resilience, ambition, and unyielding principles. This captivating biography dives deep into the life of one of the most polarizing and influential figures of our time, tracing his path from his...
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Kalman & Leopold: Surviving Mengele's AuschwitzIn the shadow of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, Kalman and Leopold- two young boys-meet as unwitting subjects of Josef Mengele's twisted twin experiments. Pulled from their barrack, they are forced to become servants to the SS guards within Mengele's "hospital" camp, bearing daily...
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