Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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The Padre on Horseback: A Sketch of Eusebio Francisco Kino, S.J. Apostle to the PimasAuthor: Herbert Eugene BoltonPublisher: Loyola PressPublished: 03/19/1982Pages: 108Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.34lbsSize: 8.12h x 6.04w x 0.30dISBN: 9780829400045This title is not returnable
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The Life of Glückel of Hameln: A MemoirGlückel of Hameln was a marvel of her time: an accomplished businesswoman as well as the mother of twelve. Devastated by the death of her beloved husband in 1689, she proceeded to write the riveting memoir that would become a timeless classic, revealing much...
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Rabbi Israel Salanter and the Mussar MovementIsrael Salanter was one of the most original and influential Jewish leaders and thinkers of Eastern European Jewry in the modern period. One of Salanter's most striking innovations was the transformation of the issue of ethics from the domain of theology to the realm...
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Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the SouthNew York Times Best Seller 2015 RFK Book Awards Special Recognition 2015 Lillian Smith Book Award 2015 AAUP Books Committee "Outstanding" Title Based on more than eighty interviews, this fast-paced, richly detailed biography of Perry Wallace, the first African American basketball player in the...
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Wounded I Am More Awake: Finding Meaning after TerrorWounded I Am More Awake follows the story of Esad Boskailo, a doctor who survives six concentration camps in Bosnia and emerges with powerful new lessons for healing in an age of genocide.This gripping account raises questions for healers, survivors, and readers striving to...
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The Space-Age Presidency of John F. Kennedy: A Rare Photographic HistoryThis engaging and unprecedented work captures the compelling story of John F. Kennedy's role in advancing the United States' space program, set against the Cold War with the Soviet Union. The stunning collection of history and photographs crafted by authors John Bisney and J....
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Leaving TinkertownWhen Tanya Ward Goodman came home to New Mexico to visit her dad at the end of 1996, he was fifty-five years old and just beginning to show symptoms of the Alzheimer's disease that would kill him six years later. Early onset dementia is...
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George Washington Carver: In His Own Words, Second EditionGeorge Washington Carver (1864-1943) is best known for developing new uses for agricultural crops and teaching methods of soil improvement to southern farmers. This annotated selection of his letters and other writings from the collections at the Tuskegee Institute and the George Washington Carver...
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Japanese Temple Buddhism: Worldliness in a Religion of RenunciationThere have been many studies that focus on aspects of the history of Japanese Buddhism. Until now, none have addressed important questions of organization and practice in contemporary Buddhism, questions such as how Japanese Buddhism came to be seen as a religion of funeral...
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Cynthia Ann Parker: Comanche CaptiveA biography of the pioneer woman who as a child was captured and raised by the Comanche Indians.Author: Tracie EganPublisher: Rosen ClassroomPublished: 12/30/2003Pages: 32Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 8.20h x 6.90w x 0.10dISBN: 9780823941797Audience: Ages 9-12Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 4Point Value: 0.5Interest Level: Lower GradeQuiz #/Name:...
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A Picture Book of Thomas Alva EdisonHis inventions included the phonograph, light bulb, and movie camera.Author: David A. AdlerPublisher: Holiday HousePublished: 01/01/1996Pages: 32Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 8.00h x 9.50w x 0.11dISBN: 9780823414147Audience: Ages 4-8Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 4.3Point Value: 0.5Interest Level: Lower GradeQuiz #/Name: 29431 / Picture Book of Thomas Alva...
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A Picture Book of Rosa ParksCalled The Mother of the Civil Rights Movement, Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. When she was arrested in December 1955, her act of civil disobedience sparked the year-long Mongomery bus boycott led by Dr. Martin Luther...
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The Search for Major Plagge: The Nazi Who Saved Jews, Expanded EditionWhen The Search for Major Plagge was published last spring, the world finally learned about a unique hero--and about one American doctor's extraordinary journey to tell Karl Plagge's story. Part detective story, part personal quest, Michael Good's book is the story of the German...
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Roads Not Taken: An Intellectual Biography of William C. BullittA journalist, diplomat, and writer, William Christian Bullitt (1891-1967) negotiated with Lenin and Stalin, Churchill and de Gaulle, Chiang Kai-shek and Goering. He took part in the talks that ended World War I and those that failed to prevent World War II. While his...
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Haydée Santamaría, Cuban Revolutionary: She Led by TransgressionTaking part in the Cuban Revolution's first armed action in 1953, enduring the torture and killings of her brother and fianc , assuming a leadership role in the underground movement, and smuggling weapons into Cuba, Hayd e Santamar a was the only woman to...
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Children of the Atomic Bomb: An American Physician's Memoir of Nagasaki, Hiroshima, and the Marshall IslandsDespite familiar images of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan and the controversy over its fiftieth anniversary, the human impact of those horrific events often seems lost to view. In this uncommon memoir, Dr. James N. Yamazaki tells us in personal and...
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Bridging Deep South Rivers: The Life and Legend of Horace KingHorace King (1807-1885) built covered bridges over every large river in Georgia, Alabama, and eastern Mississippi. That King, who began life as a slave in Cheraw, South Carolina, received no formal training makes his story all the more remarkable. This is the first major...
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The Cruel Country"I am learning the alchemy of grief--how it must be carefully measured and doled out, inflicted--but I have not yet mastered this art," writes Judith Ortiz Cofer in The Cruel Country. This richly textured, deeply moving, lyrical memoir centers on Cofer's return to her...
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Confessions of Edward IshamThis compelling collection of original documents and current scholarship sheds considerable light on the underside of the poor white experience in the antebellum South. In 1859, the Georgian Edward Isham, convicted in North Carolina of murdering a Piedmont farmer, dictated his life story to...
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The Travels of William Bartram: Naturalist EditionFor years, serious naturalists have treasured their copies of Francis Harper's naturalist's edition of The Travels of William Bartram as the definitive version of Bartram's pioneering survey. Complete with notes and commentary, an annotated index, maps, a bibliography, and a general index, this classic...
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