Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Two Women, One War: An Unlikely Friendship During the Vietnam WarWomen have been overlooked in the history of the Vietnam War. The gap is now filled with this riveting, true memoir. Two Women, One War is a story of the insanity of war, the human capacity for resilience, the power of hope, and the...
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True War Stories: An Illustrated Military Anthology of American Service from Vietnam to TodayFifteen true tales of American servicepeople overseas are brought to life in graphic novel form--from the hilarious and the heartwarming to the heroic. True War Stories focuses on the individual experience of people on deployment: the stories they want to tell. Nearly every branch...
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Touch Me, I'm Sick: A Memoir in EssaysReject the stigmas of trauma and chronic illness by fostering queer forms of intimacy--and embracing the many ways humans can care for one another. The writer behind the popular @softcore_trauma Instagram offers a deeply personal memoir for folks seeking healing and better care. The...
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Tobias Mayer (1723-1762): Pionier Der Naturwissenschaften Der Deutschen AufklarungszeitDer Vollwaise Tobias Mayer (1723-1762) entwickelte raffinierte Messinstrumente und eine sehr prazise Theorie zur Bewegung des Mondes um die Erde. Diese wissenschaftliche Biografie widmet sich seinem Leben und Schaffen als Autodidakt und Professor.Tobias Mayer, bereits in jungen Jahren ein hervorragender Zeichner, war eine bedeutsame...
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Time to Get Real: How I Built a Billion-Dollar Business That Rocked the Fashion IndustryPart tell-all memoir and part entrepreneur crash course, the founder of The RealReal offers an emboldening story of perspective and triumph When she was 52, a recruiter told Julie Wainwright that her failure as CEO of Pets.com made her unemployable. But she proved him--and...
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Timeless FormsBeauty and frailty: these are the two sides of the human condition that have informed Nova Scotian artist Dawn MacNutt's evocative work for more than 45 years. Working throughout her career with both bronze forms and natural materials like willow, seagrass, and hemp, MacNutt...
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Thomas More: A LifeThe definitive biography of the man who dominated political and intellectual circles in England during the sixteenth century: Thomas More. Born into the era of the Wars of the Roses, educated during the European Renaissance, rising to become Chancellor of England, and ultimately destroyed...
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Thomas EdisonOne of Thomas Edison's most famous inventions was the phonograph. It was the first machine to record and play sounds. Kids can read this book to find out more about Edison, like how he started a business at age twelve and what he said...
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This Way Up: Old Friends, New Love, and a Map for the Road AheadA funny, closely observed, and briskly honest guide the pleasures and perils of living life fully as a woman on the road to the far side of mid-life. At the age of sixty-eight, with children well-launched and husband long-exed and recently retired from a...
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This Journey Called Life: Perfectly Imperfect: A Re-discovery of Who and What I Really Am (in Black & White)This book iz an insploration and exploration of my personal and expanded self/SELF and many of the souls that have impacted my life in some form or fashion.In it, you will see and get a taste of the inner workings of my mental, emotional,...
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The Year I Met My BrainAn essential and empowering guide for any adult living with ADHD - compassionate, funny and full of practical tips. Matilda Boseley's adult ADHD diagnosis was a massive, earth-shattering event. She was given a prescription but had no idea what ADHD meant for her identity,...
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The Yankee Way: The Untold Inside Story of the Brian Cashman EraWith rare access to the inner sanctum of the New York Yankees, SNY analyst Andy Martino weaves two years of exclusive interviews with general manager Brian Cashman into a revelatory account of never-before-told stories about Derek Jeter, Aaron Judge, Alex Rodriguez, the complex front...
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The Witch's Daughter: My Mother, Her Magic, and the Madness That Bound UsAcclaimed indie musician and songwriter Orenda Fink's lyrical and moving memoir about growing up with a mother who battled mental illness and addiction is a "master text on surviving trauma as a child and adult" (Phoebe Bridgers). Each night, Orenda Fink's darkly charismatic mother...
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The Waypoints: From 400 Farewells and 3,000 MilesA Physical Journey, A Spiritual AdventureAt the age of sixty-one, Diane Gansauer committed to something great: hiking the entire length of the Continental Divide Trail, from Mexico to Canada.Over a seven-year journey through mountains, rivers, and forests, Diane continued her work officiating celebrations of...
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The War Against Tuberculosis: Samuel G. Dixon and the Rise of Modern Public Health in PennsylvaniaIn 1905, sanitary conditions in Pennsylvania were appalling. Thousands of children died of preventable and curable diseases, tens of thousands in the coal regions hacked themselves to death from black lung disease, and pollution in the commonwealth's water killed tens of thousands more. In...
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The Very Heart of It: New York Diaries, 1983-1994From the renowned novelist and critic, an exquisite collection of journal entries from the 1980s and '90s, tracking a young, gay author's literary coming-of-age in New York during the AIDS crisis In 1983, Thomas Mallon was still unknown. A literature professor at Vassar College,...
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The Unlocking: An Autism StoryThe Unlocking unfolds in pandemic-stricken Melbourne, charting one family's desperate battle against the escalating behaviour of their autistic toddler. Amid the lack of in-person services, Harry exhibits severely restricted eating, obsessive-compulsive tendencies, crippling separation anxiety, and a demand avoidance that impedes every function in...
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The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVoto"He was precocious, alert, intelligent, brash, challenging, irreverent, literary, self-conscious, insecure, often ostentatiously crude, sometimes insufferable," Wallace Stegner says of Bernard DeVoto, who, in the words of a childhood acquaintance, was also "the ugliest, most disagreeable boy you ever saw." Between the disagreeable boy...
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The Truth-Seeking Heart: Austin Farrer and His WritingsAustin Farrer was part of the extraordinary mid-20th century group of 'Oxford Christians', which also included C S Lewis, J R R Tolkien, Charles Williams and Dorothy Sayers. Described as 'the one genius that the Church of England produced' in the last century and...
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The Trojan Kings of Britain: Myth or History?The Trojan Kings of Britain presents a theory that the legend of Brutus, descendant of Aeneas of Troy, migrating to Britain with many other Trojan descendants is actually based on real events. Examining original sources with a fresh eye, Caleb Howells constructs a compelling...
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