Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Behind Every Great Man: The Forgotten Women Behind the World's Famous and InfamousWho Said Men Get to Monopolize the Glory?Discover the Little Known Women Who Have Put the World's Alpha Males on the Map.From ancient times to the present, men have gotten most of the good ink. Yet standing just outside the spotlight are the extraordinary,...
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Connor McDavidHockey fans had been talking about Connor McDavid since he was not yet a teenager. They had been watching his growth and development, and marveling at his feats on the ice. Fans compared him to Wayne Gretzky and Sidney Crosby, two of pro hockey's...
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Friends of Mine: Thirty Years in the Life of a Duran Duran FanElisa Lorello's lifelong love affair with Duran Duran began like that of many other fans: staying up late watching MTV, plastering her bedroom walls with glossy posters and magazine pinups, and writing secret stories about someday becoming Mrs. John Taylor. But waiting in the...
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Junk to Gold: From Salvage to the World's Largest Online Auto AuctionJunk to Gold is about one man's journey from humble beginnings to unimaginable success. Willis Johnson, the founder of Copart CPRT], offers up a personal and inspirational account of this journey to the top including lessons he learned from love, war and building a...
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زیر سایۀ شمشیرها - A l'Ombre des Sabresاین کتاب دومین دفتر از زنجیرۀ جانشینان نفرین شده (الخلفاء الملعونون) یا پنج کتابی است که با بازسازی تاریخی دوره های حکمروایی چهار جانشین پیامبر اسلام، آن روزگار پارینه را بر بنیاد قدیمی ترین روایات و کتب تاریخی مسلمان ها در برابر دیدگان ذهن...
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Transformation on the Southern Ukrainian Steppe: Letters and Papers of Johann Cornies, Volume II: 1836-1842In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Russian empire opened the grasslands of southern Ukraine to agricultural settlement. Among the immigrants who arrived were communities of Prussian Mennonites, recruited as "model colonists" to bring progressive agricultural methods to the east. Transformation on the Southern...
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Breaking the Ocean: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and ReconciliationIn Breaking the Ocean, diversity and inclusion specialist Annahid Dashtgard addresses the long-term impacts of exile, immigration, and racism by offering a vulnerable, deeply personal account of her life and work.Annahid Dashtgard was born into a supportive mixed-race family in 1970s Iran. Then came...
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Thomas Paine and the Dangerous WordThe mind once enlightened cannot again become dark. As an English corset-maker's son, Thomas Paine was expected to spend his life sewing women's underwear. But as a teenager, Thomas dared to change his destiny, enduring years of struggle until a meeting with Benjamin Franklin...
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Raised by an AngelAuthor: Dudley E. FloodPublisher: AuthorhousePublished: 04/03/2013Pages: 166Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38dISBN: 9781481714624This title is not returnable
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A is for Abigail: An Almanac of Amazing American WomenNew York Times bestselling team Lynne Cheney and Robin Preiss Glasser tell the remarkable (and often little known) stories of exceptional American women. Lynne Cheney and Robin Preiss Glasser collaborated on America: A Patriotic Primer, which captured the imagination of American children and became...
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Sylvia's Bookshop: The Story of Paris's Beloved Bookstore and Its Founder (as Told by the Bookstore Itself!)Meet the trailblazer and book lover who started the Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris, France, in this beautifully illustrated picture book that celebrates stories, reading, and the importance of sharing ideas. "Books are my treasures--the best that I've got." Books are like rivers...
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The Isle of the Dragon: The Last Flight of the Bugs BunnyIn The Isle of the Dragon, author Rolf Stibbe portrays the heroism and courage of United States Army Air Corps flight crews during combat in World War II against the forces of Imperial Japan. In the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the...
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Cab Calloway, Me, and Minnie the MoocherHis famous Zoot Suit. His vivid smile and stylish dressing style. His penchant for wearing White Tales. These unique characteristics can only be seen on the famous Cab Calloway, American jazz singer and bandleader. Share in author George R. Coverdale Jr.'s experiences with his...
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Listen to the Patient: Of Life and NeurosurgeryIn Listen to the Patient Ciric weaves together the story of his life, which brought him from a continent and ocean away to the US, with the meaning, secrets, and ethical aspects of neurosurgery, including the unique privilege and daunting responsibility of navigating through...
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My Fight at O.K. CorralThe Gunfight at the O.K. Corral took place at October 26, 1881 in the famous Tombstone. It was fought between Ike Clanton, Billy Clanton, Billy Claiborne, Tom McLaury and Frank McLaury at one side and the lawmen Virgil Earp, Morgan Earp, Wyatt Earp and...
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Avidly Reads Making Out"Here's the thing with kissing: it matters intensely or not at all." Mid-kiss, do you ever wonder who you are, who you're kissing, where it's leading? It can feel luscious, libidinal, friendly, but are we trying to make out something through our kissing? For...
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Leg Over Leg: Volumes Three and FourThe life, birth, and early years of 'the Fariyaq'--the alter ego of the Arab intellectual Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq Leg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of "the Fariyaq," alter ego of Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, a pivotal figure in the intellectual...
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Avidly Reads Theory"Theory offered us a way of understanding the world that, like so many youthful exuberances, was both vital and ridiculous." As an avowed "theory head," Jordan Alexander Stein confronts a contradiction: that the abstract, and often frustrating rigors of theory also produced a sense...
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My Amazing Journey: From Germany to Holland to AmericaAuthor: Lotte PovarPublisher: XlibrisPublished: 09/25/2012Pages: 96Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38dISBN: 9781479721764This title is not returnable
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The Life of Saint Agnes of MontepulcianoSaint Agnes of Montepulciano is one of the few canonized nuns of the Order of Preachers. Never before has her Life by Blessed Raymond of Capua been translated into the English language. An historically important prototype of the penitential mysticism practiced by Dominican women...
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