Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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From Pain To PurposeThe moment I stepped out of my comfort zone and allowed God to take over is where my life truly begin. After being battered beaten and bruised by life something had to give. I needed a way out. I needed God. I needed God...
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Unlikely Insider: A West Coast Advocate in OttawaAt a time when too many of the world's political leaders are consolidating power by playing on divisions and stoking fear, Unlikely Insider, a memoir by former federal cabinet minister and senator Jack Austin, comes as a welcome reminder of the value of public...
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Undefendable: The Story of a Town Under FireDuring the devastating Black Summer Bushfires of 2019-20, when it seemed the entire south-east of Australia was on fire, a little town in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains found itself in the path of a megafront.Between November and February those bushfires burnt 18.6...
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Operation HighjumpServing on Admiral Byrd's team for the Antarctic Expedition at the end of WW II was a privilege that only a handful of sailors would enjoy. Experience first hand, through the eyes of 19 year old Dick Miller, the daily events aboard the S.S....
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is an autobiographical account written by Thomas De Quincey, about his laudanum addiction and its effect on his life. The first half of the book is devoted to De Quincey's childhood and youth. It concentrates on the emotional and...
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Letters From Nigeria: Volume 2In 1972 Elizabeth Deeks returned to Nigeria to teach at the Vining Christian Leadership Centre in Akure where men trained as catechists. Elizabeth was the Women's Warden and she taught a course for their wives designed to help these men in their future work....
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Forever Sucks: A posthumous autobiographyThis posthumous autobiography of an American writer (1965-1997), Chuck Dean, was compiled from excepts of his voluminous letters. Born and raised in South Carolina, he began his writing career at Whittle Communications, wrote reviews and interviews for such magazines as Rolling Stone, Esquire, Details,...
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From the Burning Archive: Essays and Fragments, 2015-2021From the Burning Archive: Essays and Fragments, 2015-2022 collects the writing on culture, history and literature first published as an experimental blog. The posts have been revised and edited, and arranged by themes of history, social fragmentation, the infinite conversation of literature, and unravelling...
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F1 Legends AlphabetFrom The Professor to Magic Senna, Lewis Hamilton to Michael Schumacher, Formula One Legends Alphabet is the A to Z of the most ruthless, fearless, and debonair gents to have ever graced the tarmac. Fasten your racing harness as one lap of this book...
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Cheapskates: From Pipsqueak to the NHL...Almost!Cheapskates: From Pip-squeak to the NHL...Almost! is basically a story of my hockey life. From when I was seven years old all the way up to last week and everything in between. The different types of hockey games I played and what was going...
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The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus: His Discovery and Exploration of the AmericasThis celebrated biography of Christopher Columbus takes us from his obscure youth to his discovery of the Americas, and through the four voyages he made to the New World.Columbus was born in Genoa, and gained maritime experience by sailing in Europe and along the...
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Wet Pay: Stories from my Career as a Commercial DiverWet Pay is my story of my career in Commercial Diving. It starts from when I entered a Commercial Dive School in 1983 and follows the first half of my career into 2001. These are funny, exciting, sometimes horrifying tales of incidents that took...
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Evolution of a SurgeonEVOLUTION OF A SURGEON- "You're going to be very successful. And someday you are going to a faraway place, a place where people speak a different language," the eccentric old woman told me. "It's called America." - I saw our once-robust neighbor slowly succumb...
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Never Buy a Used Car at NightAll these stories have us seeing light at the end of the tunnel. The author's attempt at humor in most of these stories is a result of time and hindsight; they were not funny at the time, but were trials that needed to be...
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The Wizard of Milton Brodie: The Esoteric Papers of J.W. Brodie-InnesJohn William Brodie Innes (1848 - 1923) was one of the most significant players in the drama of the Golden Dawn, one of the few real scholars in the Order, and one who also maintained a fine balance between his occult pursuits and his...
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Swamp Water TalesThis story begins in Bay City, Louisiana, at a time when everyone left the front door unlocked, and car keys remained in the car either in the visor or the floorboards. Everyone slept with the windows open because the only means of cooling was...
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I Laughed FirstAlicia Cardway always had an itch to see the world, but the world didn't necessarily want to see her - and it sure let her know in various ways. Based on an amusing compilation of journal entries, letters to family, and social media posts,...
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Poisoned: Failed by Western Medicine, Modern Construction, and Corporate InterestsThese are the harrowing yet inspiring memoirs of a woman who refused to be another industry statistic. This book is a warning to all who read it: failure to question "the experts" in a given field can have catastrophic repercussions. For 30 years, Leanna...
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Bismarck: Ein Psychologischer VersuchThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Beauty Queens, Frogs and PrincesGrowing up in Yorkshire within an idyllic middle-class family, two parents and a younger sister, our life together and adventures, our emigration to Africa and Australia, 10 schools in various regions and countries along the way. Then came my success, winning the Miss UK...
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