Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Truth in Combat and LifeTruth in Combat and Life is an overview of 57 years of a martial art journey. While at first, it was about self-defense and tournament competition, it changed directions in the 1970s as my direction in life and martial arts became more serious. I...
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Bugger of a KidBorn in 1951, Author Dor Slinkard takes the reader on a hilarious analogy of her life during the wild and rebellious 60s and '70s, when life offered a free-spirited and better future to all Australians and hopefully the world.Life is never short of the...
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The Forest Keeper- The True Story of Jadav PayengTrees don't grow on sandbars . . . but a boy from India grew a forest. What can one person do in the face of global environmental degradation? Indian Jadav Payeng has proven that each and every one of us can make a difference....
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Making it Up: The Vassar Class of '65 on the Cusp of ChangeMaking It Up: The Vassar Class of '65 on the Cusp of Change examines the lives of a collection of girls born in wartime, raised in the 1950s to be good wives and mothers, who graduated from Vassar College in 1965 to find a...
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Escape from the White GhettoImagine being nine years old and walking to the market with your mother while tripping over the debris from WWII bombing. And then suddenly seeing a child's toy lying half-covered beneath black char and rubble. This was Bill Walkey's reality growing up. He depicts...
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The Rest of MeRichard Patterson looks back at his life in The Rest of Me. His mother, Irene, endured and overcame an incredible hardscrabble existence. Growing up in Oklahoma, she and her family were thought of as hillbillies and called "white trash." His father, William Oliver, grew...
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Db Cooper: The Untold Story of a Daredevil Hijacker (Chasing the Last Lead in America's Only Unsolved Skyjacking)The media epithet was used to refer to the man responsible for hijacking a boeing 727 aircraft on november 24th of 1971. The aircraft was taken in flight between portland, oregon and seattle, washington. The final destination for the flight was the seattle-tacoma international...
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Hollywood Stuntwoman: Follow Your Dreams . . . Overcome Your Fears . . .Take an exciting journey with professional stuntwoman, Diane Peterson, into the amazing world of action stunts, adventure, joy, heartbreak, injury, death, and her uncanny desire to overcome her fears and follow her dreams.Diane has been a professional stuntwoman for over forty years. She has...
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The Race of My Life: An AutobiographyMilkha Singh has led a life dominated by running, running, running... From a boy who narrowly escaped death during Partition (most of his family was not so lucky), to a juvenile delinquent who stole and outran the police, to a young Army recruit who...
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Tienes Que MirarAuthor: Anna StarobinetsPublisher: BatiscafoPublished: 10/04/2022Pages: 192Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 7.80h x 5.10w x 0.80dISBN: 9788417553906Language: Spanish
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Two Countries: My Taiwanese American Immigrant StoryBorn under the Japanese occupation of Taiwan, coming of age under the Kuomingtang (KMT) suppression, Li-Pei Wu fled the KMT's atrocities against the Taiwanese and his fellow democracy believers and found a new life in America. But his belief in an independent Taiwan never...
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Divorced: The Beginning of the EndMallory Brooke was supposed to get married on the largest cruise ship in the world . . . that is, until her future husband was kicked off the boat, leaving Mallory stranded seven nights at sea with both families. Hilarity ensues along with plenty...
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Erasmus of the Low CountriesFew historical figures have been more important in modeling the ideal of impartial critical scholarship than Erasmus of Rotterdam (1469-1536). Yet his critical scholarship, though beholden to no one, was not dispassionate. James Tracy shows how Erasmus the scholar sought through his writings to...
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A Larrikin's Life in LyricsIf a person's life could be depicted in a painting, mine, as I neared the age of 40, was a picture of contentment. Content and secure with my chosen career in music and song which had filled my life with so many beautiful people...
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Henry VII and the Tudor Pretenders: Simnel, Warbeck, and WarwickOn August 22, 1485, Henry Tudor emerged from the Battle of Bosworth victorious. His disparate army vanquished the forces of Richard III and, according to Shakespeare over a century later, brought 'smooth-faced peace, with smiling aplenty and fair prosperous days' back to England. Yet,...
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One Foot in Front of the Other: How I Survived Being Alone and Homeless on the Streets of ParisAmerican Ann Webb saved up all year to treat herself to a European vacation in Spain and France. But when she tried to leave Paris at the end of her trip, her discount flight was cancelled due to an AirFrance pilot strike, and new...
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Screenage: How TV Shaped Our Reality, from Tammy Faye to Rupaul'(tm)S Drag Race'Like a superheated kernel of corn, the world has gone Pop... Drag has become mainstream. Being gay became cool. From being the criminal outsider, being queer has even become representative of the way the outsider voice is common to us all.' When he moved...
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What Gets Them to Read Like That? The Story of the Woman Who Got Millions of Children to ReadThousands of children have discovered the joys of reading thanks to Geneviève Patte, a pioneer in establishing libraries specifically for children and promoting literacy in France. What Gets Them to Read Like That? is the remarkable tale of Patte's life story and her social...
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Always RunningAlways RunningBy: Emilio Fuentes IIIIn Always Running, Emilio Fuentes III brings a unique and first-person account of living with a traumatic brain injury. The experiences he writes about deal with the time he spent at a transitional learning center helping patients with TBI's regain...
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Nurses Behind Bars: You Can't Make This Stuff UpIn Nurses behind Bars, author Beth Grayson unveils the fascinating and unimaginable events, behaviors, and relationships occurring in a maximum security, all-female prison. Based on real observations, she journeys behind prison walls to share a nurse's experiences and shocking revelations of prison life. Grayson...
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