Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Wolf of Congo: Prince of KinshasaArnold has never stepped into a palatial mansion, being waited on hand and foot by maids and butlers of the Kufulula estate. The poor boy knows no etiquette rules and has never mingled with the upper class nor indulged in the privileges and frivolities...
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Elsewhere: One Woman, One Rucksack, One Lifetime of Travel____________________ From her first life-changing solo trip to Australia as a young graduate, Rosita Boland was enthralled by travel. In the last thirty years she has visited some of the most remote parts of the globe carrying little more than a battered rucksack and...
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Farewell Britain's Television QueenFocusing purely on Queen Elizabeth II's relationship with television, this book shows how she was ahead of the game in helping to change the face of British television from the outset of her reign in 1953 when she let the cameras into Westminster Abbey....
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Coral Sea Calling: Pioneer Tales of Australia's Northern WatersThe treacherous and beautiful Coral Sea is the background for this story of the nineteenth century adventurers on perilous voyages into its waters in search of the bêche-de-mer and pearl shell; of the savage chiefs who ruled its islands; of the seamen who charted...
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They Said No to WarThe decision to go to war is the most momentous action an American president can take. Sending young men and women into combat weighs heavily on the Commander in Chief, as it does on the Congress, which must authorize war. This book is about...
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Candy Kingpin: A MemoirInternational Award Winning Entrepreneur, Author, and Global Leadership Advisor, Rahfeal "RahGor" Gordon, narrates an amazing story that is filled with transparency, inspiration, sadness, and triumph. His memoir, The Candy Kingpin, recounts a background that molded and shaped his passion today-helping others.Gordon's ability to vividly...
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Dame of Sark: An autobiographyDame Sibyl Mary Collings Beaumont Hathaway DBE (1884-1974) was Dame of Sark from 1927 until her death in 1974. Her 47-year rule over Sark, in the Channel Islands, spanned the reigns of four Monarchs and during her lifetime Sark probably experienced more danger and...
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Muttley's TaleSoon after the Porters adopted the former bait dog, Sheba, they decided to add another Staffordshire Bull Terrier to their pack of rescue dogs. A visit to their local rescue sanctuary saw them adopting a six-month old puppy, part of an abandoned litter that...
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Muttley's TaleSoon after the Porters adopted the former bait dog, Sheba, they decided to add another Staffordshire Bull Terrier to their pack of rescue dogs. A visit to their local rescue sanctuary saw them adopting a six-month old puppy, part of an abandoned litter that...
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My Life and WorkHenry Ford (July 30, 1863 - April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist, business magnate, founder of the Ford Motor Company, and chief developer of the assembly line technique of mass production. By creating the first automobile that middle-class Americans could afford, he converted...
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Unfiltered: An Iraq Veteran and Family Coming Home StoryMargaret Suman's nineteen-year-old son, Mark, was deployed overseas in 2003. He was gone fifteen months, with more than a year of that time spent in Iraq at the beginning of the war. When he returned, he landed a full-time job and bought a home....
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The Matter With MeIn this posthumous release, author Sandra A. Gallego walks us through her oft-difficult life, one essay at a time. She had written The Matter With Me decades ago for her college thesis-these stories are now being published for the first time. Full of rich,...
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Under the Shadow of the Almighty: From Communist Romania to Freedom"The post-war times were hard for poor Romania, especially for the peasants. After Communism came to power, they were deprived of their most basic means of livelihood. A few years after the end of the war, the Iorga family, like many other well-to-do families,...
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Joy (English Edition)Joy is an illuminator based on a true story. It tells of crucial issues that most of us face. Joy is not only a story that shows the reality in the practice of those who lived, but is also supported by professionals through both...
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Lorenzo Perosi negli anni veneziani (1894-1898)Tra '800 e '900 la liturgia cattolica era oscurata da forme teatrali che ne snaturavano il senso, da ammiccamenti profani che, con disinvoltura, ne intaccavano la sacralit . Il rito aveva inglobato, in certo modo, la morbida e seducente cantabilit operistica, tanto apprezzabile nel...
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Einstein's Greatest Mistake: A Biography"What Bodanis does brilliantly is to give us a feel for Einstein as a person. I don't think I've ever read a book that does this as well . . . Whenever there's a chance for storytelling, Bodanis triumphs." --Popular Science "Fascinating." --Forbes Widely...
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Tales from the High Lonesome: Volume 2Short stories of adventure, life, and insight into growing up when time was spent in nature and living the true spirit of the west. The stories are true, most are from my life in southern and the far north of Idaho. My life was...
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Rolanda McDuffie on Living Life As IntendedMy "I am" was so simple until the day I heard words I never would, or could have imagined. My book, "Rolanda McDuffie On Living Life As Intended", opens a window to the emotions, actions and reactions to those words. Prior to this book,...
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Elizabeth: A Celebration in Photographs of Elizabeth II's Life & ReignFully revised and updated. Queen Elizabeth II was the longest-serving monarch in British history, with a reign even longer than Queen Victoria. Her extraordinary life is expertly portrayed by Jennie Bond, former BBC royal correspondent, in this magnificent visually led biography. On February 6,...
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Madame Duchesne: Mere Duchesne, RSCJWhen Rose Philippine Duchesne was born in Grenoble, the beautiful gateway to the French Alps, in 1769, no one knew she'd eventually be canonized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. When she went to the Sisters of the Visitation convent, Ste. Marie...
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