Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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From Ashes to Beauty: My Journey with God and MsEmma Arnold is more than an ordinary woman with multiple sclerosis. She is a woman empowered by her faith in Christ. The words of From Ashes to Beauty are drawn from her own experiences dealing with a sometimes-debilitating disease while also seeking a personal...
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Butter BreadButter Bread recounts Amanda C. Ratliff's journey to embracing Christ and how her life has changed and the blessings that have come to her since that decision. Through the theme of rebirth, she shares her experiences to connect with others who have traveled their...
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The Life and Times of Jonathan Mitchel Sewall: 1748-1808 Poet - Lawyer - PatriotJonathan Mitchel Sewall was born in Salem, Massachusetts, and educated at Boston Public Latin School. When he came to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, as a young lawyer at the beginning of the Revolutionary War, he wrote the words to a song that was sung in...
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Shine, My Heart, My Violinist!When it came to selecting an instrument to play, 8-year-old, Shine, chose the violin. In the book, the girl who once proficiently and beautifully played strings takes a 15-year hiatus to the dismay of her only living parent, her father Mel. "All it takes...
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Not the Love of my LifeA story like this is in every city, of every state in the country....and probably the world. It is everywhere. Rampant in the Family Court system, but there has never been any provisions to punish those individuals who make up horrific lies about the...
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Mask And Flippers: The Story Of Skin DivingAuthor: Lloyd BridgesPublisher: Literary Licensing, LLCPublished: 10/20/2012Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.47dISBN: 9781258506612This title is not returnable
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The Man I Never Met: A MemoirA powerful true story of loss and hope by one of the biggest names in sports media, Adam Schefter's The Man I Never Met.On September 11, 2001, Joe Maio went to work in the north tower of the World Trade Center. He never returned,...
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A Divine Language: Learning Algebra, Geometry, and Calculus at the Edge of Old AgeA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice"Wilkinson has accomplished something more moving and original, braiding his stumbling attempts to get better at math with his deepening awareness that there's an entire universe of understanding that will, in some fundamental sense, forever lie outside...
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Florence Foster Jenkins: The Biography That Inspired the Critically-Acclaimed FilmThis is the true story of Florence Foster Jenkins--now the basis of a major motion picture starring Academy Award-winning actress Meryl Streep! She was a woman with a dream. Nobody believed in her talent. But nothing could stop her. . . She had no...
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Kissinger's Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial StatesmanA new account of America's most controversial diplomat that moves beyond praise or condemnation to reveal Kissinger as the architect of America's current imperial stance In this fascinating book Kissinger's Shadow, acclaimed historian Greg Grandin argues that to understand the crisis of contemporary America--its...
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One Man Against the WorldA shocking and riveting look at one of the most dramatic and disastrous presidencies in US history, from Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Tim Weiner. Based largely on documents declassified only in the last few years, One Man Against the World paints...
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Little Author in the Big WoodsMany girls in elementary and middle school fall in love with the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. What they don't always realize is that Wilder's books are autobiographical. This narrative biography describes more of the details of the young Laura's real life...
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The Last Days of Jesus: His Life and TimesTwo thousand years ago, Jesus walked across Galilee; everywhere he traveled he gained followers. His contemporaries are familiar historical figures: Julius Caesar, Caesar Augustus, Herod the Great, Pontius Pilate. It was an era of oppression, when every man, woman, and child answered to the...
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Throwback: A Big-League Catcher Tells How the Game Is Really PlayedThrowback offers an informative and irreverent look at the inner mechanics, strategies, secret signals, and customs of major league baseball. Ever Wonder What's Being Said at Home Plate?How a Team Silently Communicates?What Goes on in the Clubhouse Behind Closed Doors? America's pastime has always...
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Bite in the AppleAn intimate look at the life of Steve Jobs by the mother of his first child providing rare insight into Jobs's formative, lesser-known years Steve Jobs was a remarkable man who wanted to unify the world through technology. For him, the point was to...
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Super BoysIn time for the 75th anniversary of the Man of Steel, comes the first comprehensive literary biography of Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel, creators of the DC Comics superhero Superman and the inspiration for Michael Chabon's Kavalier and Clay Drawing on ten years of...
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To the Mountaintop: My Journey Through the Civil Rights MovementA personal history of the civil rights movement from activist and acclaimed New York Times and NPR journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault. On January 20, 2009, 1.8 million people crowded the grounds of the Capitol to witness the inauguration of Barack Obama. Among the masses was...
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Paris, I Love You But You're BringiA fresh, exhilarating take on one of the world's most popular topics--Paris, the City of Light!--by an acclaimed novelist Rosecrans Baldwin A self-described Francophile since the age of nine, Rosecrans Baldwin had always dreamed of living in France. So when an offer presented itself...
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Gypsy BoyAn Eye-Opening Memoir of Growing Up Gypsy Mikey Walsh was born into a Romany Gypsy family. They live in a secluded community, and little is known about their way of life. After centuries of persecution, Gypsies are wary of outsiders, and if you choose...
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Some of My LivesA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Rosamond Bernier has known many (one is tempted to say all) of the greatest artists and composers of the twentieth century. In Some of My Lives, she has made a kind of literary scrapbook from an...
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