Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Unplanned Odyssey: A Memoir of Wartime SurvivalElisabeth, known as Liesje, was born in Indonesia when it was a Dutch colony. She came of age at the beginning of World War II, and when the Japanese invaded she was interned. She escaped from the Japanese concentration camp, a decision that put...
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Silent Sorority: A Barren Woman Gets Busy, Angry, Lost and FoundFrom celebrity and news websites to streaming and social content to lifestyle blogs, family-building successes are routinely and glowingly shared and celebrated. But where are the voices of those who are unable to have children? In relating what happens when nature and science find...
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Grand Complication: The Race to Build the World's Most Legendary WatchTwo wealthy and powerful men engage in a decades-long contest to create and possess the most remarkable watch in history. James Ward Packard of Warren, Ohio, was an entrepreneur and a talented engineer of infinite curiosity, a self-made man who earned millions from his...
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The Naked Truth: The Real Story Behind the Real Housewife of New Jersey--In Her Own WordsIn The Naked Truth, Danielle Staub, who's been surrounded by controversy due to the now infamous book about her ex-husband, Cop Without a Badge, will finally get a chance to tell her side of the story and reveal the truth about her past. A...
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FatalIn an era that produced some of the most vicious female sociopaths in American history, Jane Toppan would become the most notorious of them all. AN ANGEL OF MERCY In 1891, Jane Toppan, a proper New England matron, embarked on a profession as a...
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Dealings: A Political and Financial LifeIt was a German soldier's chance decision to reach for a cigarette and absently wave a car through a checkpoint outside Marseille in 1940 that allowed Felix Rohatyn and his Jewish family to escape from Nazi-occupied France. In the States, a chance summer job...
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American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's AmericaIn this vivid and brilliant biography, David Stewart describes Aaron Burr, the third vice president, as a daring and perhaps deluded figure who shook the nation's foundations in its earliest, most vulnerable decade. In this vivid and brilliant biography, David O. Stewart portrays Aaron...
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Cheech & Chong: The Unauthorized AutobiographyDave's Not Here, Man But America's favorite stoner comedian, Tommy Chong, is back and funnier than ever as he takes us on a nostalgic trip through his career with partner Richard "Cheech" Marin. Over the course of their decades-long partnersAuthor: Tommy ChongPublisher: Gallery BooksPublished:...
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Remembering the 40's: In the Heart of AppalachiaIn this book, Joyce and Truman's grandchildren, and others, will learn much about the life Truman lived as a boy, about the one-room school he attended, his classmates, the games they played, the spelling bees, the sporting contests, the victories and disappointments in his...
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The Tears I Couldn't Cry: Behind Convent Doors"Walk in my shoes as a Sister in a religious order in the United States from 1955-78. Do what I did. Feel what I felt. Live the life I lived in utmost secrecy." Pat's incredible story takes readers on a terrifying journey through 22...
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Finding True North: A History of One Small Corner of the AdirondacksSilver Winner, for Regional Nonfiction, 2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year AwardsIn 1968 Fran and Jay Yardley, a young couple with pioneering spirit, moved to a remote corner of the Adirondacks to revive the long-abandoned but historic Bartlett Carry Club, with its one...
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Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso SchomburgA Black Puerto Rican-born scholar, Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (1874-1938) was a well-known collector and archivist whose personal library was the basis of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library. He was an autodidact who matched wits with...
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Don Martin Brain Games For KidsCalled one of the "greatest" cartoonists of the twentieth century, Don Martin wrote and illustrated the puzzles and riddles in this book. His cartoons have always been in a class by themselves, Known for over fifty years for his zany sense of humor and...
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Trampships, Tankers and Polite Conversation: Experiences of the Merchant Navy During the 1950's and 1960's.When John Lee joined the Merchant Navy he had no idea of the adventures which were to come his way over the next ten years. An innocent sixteen year old from East Yorkshire, he was first apprenticed to the toughest of trampship companies before...
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An Ordered Life: The Andrew N. Nelson StoryAndrew Nathaniel Nelson's brilliant mind never rested from organizing whatever context he lived in, nurturing big plans, teaching great truths, appreciating God's universe, and fufilling glorious dreams. Indeed, only Eternity can possibly give him enough time and space in which to accomplish it allAuthor:...
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The Book of Queens: Legendary Leaders, Fierce Females, and Wonder Women Who Ruled the WorldEmpire builders, legendary leaders, revolutionary rebels, powerful pioneers, and more ... discover more than 100 wonder women who prove that girls totally rule. They're queens wielding scepters and sitting on thrones, they're revolutionaries on the front lines of change, they're presidents and prime ministers...
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The Book of Kings: Magnificent Monarchs, Notorious Nobles, and Distinguished Dudes Who Ruled the WorldMighty monarchs, powerful presidents, legendary leaders ... discover more than 100 true stories of magnificent men who changed the world. They're kings wielding scepters and sitting on thrones, they're revolutionaries on the front lines of change, they're presidents and prime ministers leading their nations,...
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National Geographic Readers: Mother Teresa (L1)Follow the young Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu as she grows up, travels far from home, and becomes one of the most beloved figures of our time: Mother Teresa. This new leveled reader from National Geographic Kids journeys from Ireland to India, portraying the charity and...
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Sugar Coated WarPrimarily set in the besieged city of Sarajevo, the Bosnian capital, during the break up of the former Yugoslavia, Sugar Coated War is a personal story and a factually based account of the Balkan War, as seen through the eyes of an International Aid...
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Franklin D. RooseveltFranklin D. Roosevelt tells the story of the president who lifted the United States from depression to global leadership When Roosevelt was first elected president in 1933, America was in the throes of the Great Depression--the worst economic crisis in U.S. history--and the world...
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