Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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What Ever Happened to Mommie Dearest?With the 50th anniversary of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? comes a new look behind the legendary film and Joan Crawford's foray into the horror genre that would make up the bulk of her later work. After the death of her husband Joan...
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The New Chic: French Style from Today's Leading Interior DesignersThe next generation of Parisian interior designers curated by the editors of French Architectural Digest. From Vincent Darr and Joseph Dirand to India Mahdavi, a new wave of design talent has emerged in Paris. Combining nonchalant elegance with the French capital's perennial chic flair,...
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Nathan Hale: Revolutionary SpyA biography telling the life story of Revolutionary War hero and spy Nathan Hale. Written in graphic-novel format.Author: Nathan OlsonPublisher: Capstone PressPublished: 01/01/2006Pages: 32Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.21lbsSize: 7.56h x 6.86w x 0.10dISBN: 9780736861991Audience: Young AdultAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 3.8Point Value: 0.5Interest Level: Middle GradeQuiz #/Name:...
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An Academic Life: A MemoirA compelling memoir by the first woman president of a major American university Hanna Holborn Gray has lived her entire life in the world of higher education. The daughter of academics, she fled Hitler's Germany with her parents in the 1930s, emigrating to New...
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Katie Luther, First Lady of the Reformation: The Unconventional Life of Katharina Von BoraKatharina von Bora. Defiant and determined, refusing to be intimidated. . . In many ways, it was this astonishing woman (not even her husband, Martin Luther, could stop her) who set the tone of the Reformation movement.In this compelling historical account of a woman...
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Cleopatra: A BiographyFew personalities from classical antiquity are more famous--yet more poorly understood--than Cleopatra VII, queen of Egypt. In this major biography, Duane Roller reveals that Cleopatra was in fact a learned and visionary leader whose overarching goal was always the preservation of her dynasty and...
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Madam Bessie Jones: Her Life and TimesIn Madam Bessie Jones, Her Life and Times, Jones emerges from the shadows of Carlisle (PA) history, first turning tricks in her mother Cora Andrews' "bawdy house" and then running her brothel from the Roaring Twenties to through chaotic sixties until her murder on...
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Adam Thielen: From Small Town to Football StarThe Inspiring Biography of a Minnesota Football Star Adam Thielen grew up in rural Minnesota, cheering on the state's beloved purple-and-gold football team. He dreamed of one day playing in the pros, but no one could imagine the path that awaited him. Adam experienced...
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Story of P!nk: Split PersonalitySplit Personality is a pop biography that makes for a truly exciting read that's worthy of its electrifying subject, P!NK.Paul Lester traces the extra-ordinary career of Alecia Beth Moore from Pennsylvania through her stint in the girl group Choice, to her present incarnation as...
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Quien Fue Nelson Mandela?As a child he dreamt of changing South Africa; as a man he changed the world. Nelson Mandela spent his life battling apartheid and championing a peaceful revolution. He spent twenty-seven years in prison and emerged as the inspiring leader of the new South...
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Cub"Raina Telgemeier fans will lap this up." -- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books A laugh-out-loud funny and empowering graphic memoir about growing up and finding your voice. Twelve-year-old Cindy has just dipped a toe into seventh-grade drama--with its complicated friendships, bullies, and...
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John Muir: America's NaturalistThis book brings the world and words of John Muir to readers. This book is part of an illustrated series of books by Thomas Locker introducing the young and old to great Americans who loved and wrote about the land.Author: Thomas LockerPublisher: Fulcrum PublishingPublished:...
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The Hunt for the Last Public Enemy in Northeastern Ohio: Alvin Creepy Karpis and His Road to AlcatrazThe last Public Enemy No. 1 of the Depression era, Alvin Creepy Karpis reportedly compiled a record of fifty-four aliases, fifteen bank robberies, fourteen murders, three jailbreaks and two kidnappings.His criminal career came to an end when J. Edgar Hoover and his famed G-Men...
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Chinese Girl in the GhettoAs China opens itself to the world and undertakes historic economic reforms, a little girl in the southern city of Guangzhou immerses herself in a world of fantasy and foreign influences while grappling with the mundane vagaries of Communist rule. She happily immigrates to...
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Jackie Robinson: Baseball's Great PioneerA biography telling the personal life and baseball career of the legendary player, Jackie Robinson. Written in graphic-novel format.Author: Jason GlaserPublisher: Capstone PressPublished: 01/01/2006Pages: 32Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 8.80h x 6.70w x 0.10dISBN: 9780736861977Audience: 08 - 14Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 3.8Point Value: 0.5Interest Level: Middle...
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Fortunate Son: My Life, My MusicNATIONAL BESTSELLER The long-awaited memoir from John Fogerty, the legendary singer-songwriter and creative force behind Creedence Clearwater Revival. Creedence Clearwater Revival is one of the most important and beloved bands in the history of rock, and John Fogerty wrote, sang, and produced their instantly...
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The Circassian: A Life of Esref Bey, Late Ottoman Insurgent and Special AgentEsref Kusçubasi remains controversial in Turkey over fifty years after his death. Elsewhere the man sometimes called the "Turkish Lawrence of Arabia" is far less known but his life offers fascinating insights into the traumatic, increasingly violent struggles that ended the Ottoman Empire and...
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Washed by Blood: Lessons from My Time with Korn and My Journey to ChristAn Out-of-Control Rock Star. An Inescapable Addiction to Drugs. A Miraculous Redemption through Jesus Christ.You think you've heard this story before but you haven't. Washed by Blood is a look at the dramatic saving power of Jesus Christ unlike any other--one that shows how...
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The Boy from Gorge River: From New Zealand's Remotest Family to the World Beyond∗∗The number-one bestseller∗∗The story of how an extraordinary childhood shaped an extraordinary life On the West Coast of the South Island, past deep fiords and snow-capped mountains, Chris Long grew up two days' hike from the nearest road. He was born into the country's...
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Female Force: Stacey AbramsPolitician and voting rights activist Stacey Yvonne Abrams is committed to serving her home state of Georgia. After serving in Georgia's House of Representatives from 2007 to 2017, she ran for Governor in 2018. Stacey lost that race in a nail biter. Instead of...
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