Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Trailblazers: Stephen Hawking: A Life Beyond LimitsBring history home and meet some of the world's greatest game changers! Get inspired by the true story of a famous scientist who changed our understanding of physics forever. This biography series is for kids who loved Who Was? and are ready for the...
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Journal of a TrapperIn 1834, Osborne Russell joined an expedition from Boston, under the direction of Nathaniel J. Wyeth, which proceeded to the Rocky Mountains to capitalize on the salmon and fur trade. He would remain there, hunting, trapping, and living off the land, for the next...
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Es Mi Turno (My Time to Speak Spanish Edition): Un Viaje En Busca de Mi Voz Y MIS RaícesLas memorias inspiradoras, pertinentes y provocadoras de Ilia Calder n--la primera presentadora afrolatina en un noticiario hispano de preeminencia en los Estados Unidos--acerca de seguir sus sue os, superar prejuicios y acoger su identidad. De ni a, Ilia Calder n se sent a como...
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A Lab of One's Own: One Woman's Personal Journey Through Sexism in ScienceA riveting memoir-manifesto from the first female director of the National Science Foundation about the entrenched sexism in science, the elaborate detours women have taken to bypass the problem, and how to fix the system. If you think sexism thrives only on Wall Street...
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Barnum: An American Life"Robert Wilson's Barnum, the first full-dress biography in twenty years, eschews clich s for a more nuanced story...It is a life for our times, and the biography Barnum deserves." --The Wall Street Journal P.T. Barnum is the greatest showman the world has ever seen....
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Riding Shotgun with Norman Wallace: Rephotographing the Arizona Landscape2021 Southwest Books of the Year In Riding Shotgun with Norman Wallace, award-winning geographer William Wyckoff celebrates the photographic legacy of Norman Grant Wallace, whose work as an Arizona highway engineer during the first half of the twentieth century afforded him the opportunity to...
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Fame: LeBron JamesIs LeBron James the greatest basketball player of all time? The Akron, Ohio native grew up in an impoverished home. His mother, sensing LeBron would thrive in a stable family environment, allowed him to live with a local youth basketball coach when he was...
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Sea, Ice and Rock: Sailing and Climbing Above the Arctic CircleWhen leading mountaineer Sir Chris Bonington was researching Quest for Adventure, his study of post-war adventure, he contacted Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, the first person to sail single-handed and non-stop around the world, for an interview. This simple request turned into an exchange of skills,...
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Saving Lady Liberty: Joseph Pulitzer's Fight for the Statue of LibertyHere is the story of how the Statue of Liberty got its pedestal when Joseph Pulitzer, a Jewish immigrant and famous newsman, created one of the first American crowdfunding campaigns to raise money for it. When Joseph Pulitzer first saw the Statue of Liberty's...
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I'm Champion, Call Me Bob: My StoryIn his own words Bob talks of his early life, his path to becoming a professional jump jockey and how it felt being at the top of his game only to have it come crashing down with a life-threatening diagnosis. The depths of despair...
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The Book of Rosy: A Mother's Story of Separation at the Border"Offers hope in the face of desperate odds" - ELLE Magazine, ELLE's Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2020"[D]isturbing and unforgettable memoir...This wrenching story brings to vivid life the plight of the many families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border." - Publisher's Weekly, STARRED REVIEW"[The] haunting...
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The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in AmericaA New York Times bestseller.From CNN's veteran Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta, an explosive, first-hand account of the dangers he faces reporting on the current White House while fighting on the front lines in President Trump's war on truth, featuring new material exclusive...
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People You Follow: A Memoir"A journey down the rabbit hole of LA's most subtly toxic industry ... funny, brilliant, coy, playful, and wise." -- LENA DUNHAM, author of Not That Kind of GirlMusician Hayley Gene Penner tells all in this harrowingly honest memoir.Singer-songwriter Hayley Gene Penner's memoir takes...
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Joan of ArcThis title introduces readers to Joan of Arc and how she became a shero to help deliver France from English domination. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards.Author: Christine PlattPublisher: Calico KidPublished: 01/01/2020Pages: 32Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.10lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.10w x...
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Lightning Through the Clouds: ?Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam and the Making of the Modern Middle EastLightning through the Clouds is the first English-language life-and-times biography of 'Izz al-Din al-Qassam, a preeminent figure who helped to reshape the political and religious landscape of the region. A Syrian-born, Egyptian-educated cleric, he went from the battlefields of World War I to join...
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Darwin's Apostles: The Men Who Fought to Have Evolution Accepted, Their Times, and How the Battle ContinuesWhen Darwin finally published The Origin of Species in 1859, there was no guarantee that the grand theory of natural selection would become one of the most valuable ideas impacting biology and our modernity. It was so controversial that some disapproving scientists, many in...
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Taking Fire!: Memoir of an Aerial Scout in VietnamAs a first lieutenant in the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, U.S. Army pilot David Porter was section leader in an Aerial Scout platoon in Vietnam. Their mission was to conduct reconnaissance in OH-6 aircraft (a.k.a. Light Observation Helicopter or Loach) near the Cambodian border....
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Transforming Manhood: A trans man's quest to build bridges and knock down wallsWhat does it mean to be a husband?What does it mean to be a trans man?What does it mean to be an American man, speaking up and speaking out in today's divisive climate?Ryan Sallans, transgender educator and lecturer, follows up his successful Second Son...
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Don't You Fall NowDon't You Fall Now is a hauntingly beautiful family memoir that tells the story of how the author's eighteen-year-old son, Kamau Burney, survived a jump from a six story parking structure near the campus of the University of Kentucky. Kamau landed face first, shattering...
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Ladysitting: My Year with Nana at the End of Her CenturyFrom cherished memories of childhood weekends with Nana to the reality of the year she spent "ladysitting," Lorene Cary journeys through stories of their time together and five generations of their African American family. Weaving a narrative of her complicated relationship with Nana--a fiercely...
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