Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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I Am Anne FrankThe 22nd book in the New York Times bestselling series of biographies about heroes tells the story of Anne Frank, the young Jewish girl who documented her life while hiding from the Nazis during World War II. This engaging biography series focuses on the...
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I Always Wanted to Love Her (The Tunnel of Terror)Gina Bruno Interdonato grew up in a house where horrible things were happening on Long Island-a place she called the "tunnel of terror," where love was conditional, and silence was survival. Behind closed doors, her mother ruled with rage, wielding words and weapons alike....
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Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished BirdsA prizewinning poet and nature writer weaves together natural history, biology, sociology, and personal narrative to tell the story of the lives, habitats, and deaths of six extinct bird species.Author: Christopher CokinosPublisher: TarcherPublished: 05/14/2009Pages: 384Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.10dISBN: 9781585427222Audience:...
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High Voltage: The Life of Angus Young - ACDC's Last Man StandingThe first biography of guitar legend Angus Young, who has kept AC/DC at the top of the rock pile.Angus Young, the co-founder and the last surviving original member of AC/DC, has for more than 40 years been the face, sound and sometimes the exposed...
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Highest Duty LPNow a major motion picture "Sully" from Clint Eastwood and starring Tom Hanks--the inspirational autobiography by one of the most captivating American heroes of our time, Capt. 'Sully' Sullenberger--the pilot who miraculously landed a crippled US Airways Flight 1549 in New York's Hudson River,...
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Her Again: Becoming Meryl StreepA portrait of a woman, an era, and a profession: the first thoroughly researched biography of Meryl Streep--the "Iron Lady" of acting, nominated for nineteen Oscars and winner of three--that explores her beginnings as a young woman of the 1970s grappling with love, feminism,...
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Hbcu Made: A Celebration of the Black College ExperienceIn this joyous essay collection edited by NPR's Ayesha Rascoe, celebrities and other alumni provide testimonials about their experience attending historically Black college universities-which shaped their lives and made them who they are today. With a diverse set of contributors, including Oprah Winfrey, Stacey...
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Girl Gurl Grrrl: On Womanhood and Belonging in the Age of Black Girl MagicA People Pick!"One of the year's must-reads." -ELLE"[A] provocative, heart-breaking, and frequently hilarious collection." -GLAMOUR"Essential, vital, and urgent." -HARPER'S BAZAARIn the vein of Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist and Issa Rae's The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, but wholly its own, a provocative, humorous, and,...
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Gimme a Crisis: In the Room with Global Banker Rick WaughBestselling author Howard Green profiles former Scotiabank CEO Rick Waugh and sketches an unprecedented and up-close picture of what it is like to run a global bank, often during financial chaos, while leading more than 80,000 employees in more than fifty countries. From navigating...
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Georgia O'Keeffe: A LifeOne of the greatest and most admired artists of the twentieth century, Georgia O'Keeffe led a life rich in intense relationships--with family, friends, and especially with fellow artist Alfred Stieglitz. Her extraordinary accomplishments, such as the often eroticized flowers, bones, stones, skulls, and pelvises...
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G-Dog and the Homeboys: Father Greg Boyle and the Gangs of East Los AngelesFather Gregory J. Boyle, SJ, is a native of Los Angeles, a Jesuit priest, and founder of Homeboy Industries, an economic development and jobs program begun in 1988 for at-risk and gang-involved youth. "A great many kids in my neighborhood don't plan their futures;...
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Galaxy Mapper: The Luminous Discoveries of Astrophysicist Hélène CourtoisIntroducing our luminous address in the universe--and the determined woman scientist who mapped it with her team. Growing up in a small French village, Hélène Courtois had big questions about the world around her. Avidly, she observed the trails, roads, and water pathways traversing...
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From Ear to Ear: A Pianist's Love Affair with SongWhile other kids were enjoying the head-bashing pleasures of tackle football, a freshly bar mitzvahed Steven Blier was inhaling operas and getting his first taste of accompanying professional singers. Beginning with impromptu piano gigs in the 1960s, Blier ascended to a dazzling career as...
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Friendly City: A Year of WalksAuthor: Sofia SamatarPublisher: Quinx BooksPublished: 11/10/2025Pages: 262Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.61lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.59dISBN: 9781680600056This title is not returnable
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Four-Minute MileThe fantastic memoir by Roger Bannister, the middle-distance runner who achieved the epic quest to break the four-minute mile!Author: Roger BannisterPublisher: Lyons PressPublished: 06/01/2018Pages: 280Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.60dISBN: 9781493038756About the AuthorSir Roger Bannister was a medical student at Oxford...
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Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin WallIn this illuminating and deeply moving memoir, a former American military intelligence officer goes beyond traditional Cold War espionage tales to tell the true story of her family--of five women separated by the Iron Curtain for more than forty years, and their miraculous reunion...
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Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores: True Tales and Lost Moments from Book Buyers, Booksellers, and Book LoversNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the beloved New Yorker cartoonist comes a collection of paintings and stories from some of the world's most cherished bookstores. This collection of 75 evocative paintings and colorful anecdotes invites you into the heart and soul of every...
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Five Chimneys: A Woman Survivor's True Story of AuschwitzHaving lost her husband, her parents, and her two young sons to the Nazi exterminators, Olga Lengyel had little to live for during her seven-month internment in Auschwitz. Only Lengyel's work in the prisoners' underground resistance and the need to tell this story kept...
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Finding Home: Words from Kids Seeking SanctuaryIn this photographic picture book, the authors record and transcribe the words of displaced children, raising up their voices--who they are, where they came from, and the many different reasons that they had to leave their home countries.My parents told me we had to...
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Everything I Know about Love Fifth Anniversary: A MemoirA deluxe, limited anniversary edition hardcover of Dolly Alderton's beloved New York Times bestseller, featuring a new short introduction from the author and eye-catching pink stained edges."There is no writer quite like Dolly Alderton working today."--Lisa Taddeo, author of #1 New York Times bestseller...
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