Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Spared: A Memoir of Risk and ResolveMemoirs celebrate human resilience. We applaud those who struggle through insurmountable difficulties and surface on the other side, but will any amount of moxie, gumption, or pulling yourself up by bootstraps escape a mutated strand of double helix?Spared: A Memoir of Risk and Resolve...
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Sowbelly: The Obsessive Quest for the World-Record Largemouth BassAuthor: Monte BurkePublisher: Penguin Publishing GroupPublished: 03/01/2006Pages: 272Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 7.96h x 5.54w x 0.60dISBN: 9780452287150Audience: Young AdultAbout the AuthorA devoted angler and outdoorsman, Monte Burke has written many articles for Field & Stream and other periodicals.
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Soul Sanctuary: Notorious Nonfiction Stories of Romance, Suspense, and MiraclesHerb graduated from high school, has a class A driver's license, and is an operating engineer. Herb owns his own business, and he is also an arborist and a high-climber. He is a sergeant (USMC) and has a junior college AA business degree. He...
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Sophia Smith vs. Abby Wambach: Who Would Win?Born 20 years apart, Sophia Smith and Abby Wambach have both ruled the soccer field as forwards. Their skills have even led them both to the FIFA Women's World Cup! But who is better? Compare their careers side by side and choose a winner.Author:...
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Sonia SotomayorSonia Sotomayor rose to a seat on the highest court in the country. This early reader biography introduces young readers to her life and achievements in a simple, age-appropriate way. The My Itty-Bitty Bio series celebrates diversity, covering women and men from a range...
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Song of MyselfSong of Myself: A Novel is a gay man's odyssey of self-discovery. It is the story of Daniel Dell Blake, a gay man navigating his way through a tumultuous twentieth-century America. His rites of passage, including embracing his identity, garnering self-respect, and living with...
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Some Things Are UnbreakableKate Willette enters a nightmare when she learns of her husband's near-fatal accident on a snowy mountainside. Her graceful account of the first year in this new reality is so vivid that the reader hears the clocks ticking. This is a story of unwavering...
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Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and LibertyAuthor: Hillary Rodham ClintonPublisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintPublished: 11/27/2024Binding Type: Library BindingISBN: 9781420519624
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Snakes Without Borders: A Collection of Amazing Stories from One of the World's Leading Herpetologists, Who Spent 50 Years Conducting Research" My name is Rick, and I'm a snake-a-holic." This book is a collection of amazing stories from one of the world's leading herpetologists, Rick Shine, who has spent 50 years conducting research on snakes of many different kinds, in many different places around...
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Smokejumper Volume 2: More StoriesAuthor: Nils Swede TroedssonPublisher: Sweetgrass BooksPublished: 09/25/2024Pages: 120Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60dISBN: 9781591523536
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Sleep like StarfishAuthor: Rachelle AtkinsPublisher: Crabapple BooksPublished: 10/08/2024Pages: 368Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.19lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.82dISBN: 9798330449378This title is not returnable
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Slaying Nashville: Stories of Powerful Women Leaving Their MarkWithin each of us lies a story of everything we've overcome to be who we've become. Our lifetimes are our legacies, and these women are leaving an indelible mark in their communities and in the world.With stories collected by Leigh M. Clark, these are...
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SlaveJabali Smith was a 6-yr-old in Berkeley, California when he was trafficked along with his sister over the border into Mexico and held captive by a messianic doomsday sex cult. SLAVE courageously and boldly chronicles his journey as a child slave; the escape and...
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Simón Bolívar: The biography of the Venezuelan military leader and Latin-American LiberatorIn Simón Bolívar's book, readers are transported to the tumultuous era of the early 19th century, where one man's indomitable spirit and unwavering vision would forever change the course of history in South America. Simón Bolívar, known as El Libertador, emerges from these pages...
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Shirley: The Life of a Botanical AdventurerShirley - The Life of a Botanical Adventurer is the story of Dr Shirley Sherwood, a remarkable woman who, after studying biology at Oxford, spent twelve years working as a research scientist and key member of the Nobel Prize-winning team which developed Tagamet, the...
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Shattered: The Foul Body Odor that Almost Killed METhe Foul Body Odor that Almost Killed ME is a candid and deeply personal account of one woman's struggle to obtain proper medical care for a rare and incurable condition called Trimethylaminuria.Plagued by a terrible odor that not only proved to be embarrassing but...
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Seeds of Discovery: How Barbara McClintock Used Corn and Curiosity to Solve a Science Mystery and Win a Nobel PrizeThe quirky and singular Nobel Prize winner Barbara McClintock, a founder of modern genetics who did things her own way, is honored in this lively young STEM biography by Sibert Honor winner Lori Alexander. Celebrating the power of curiosity and the rewards of tenacity,...
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Scientists: Discover Amazing PeopleDiscover the scientists who changed our world in My First Heroes: Scientists! Push, pull, and slide the scenes to find out about Zhang Heng, Isaac Newton, Marie Curie and Rosalind Franklin, and be inspired by their incredible work.With scenes to explore, fun facts to...
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Sauce Gardner vs. Deion Sanders: Who Would Win?Pro football cornerbacks Sauce Gardner and Deion Sanders are two of the most talented defensive players in NFL history. Their skills have led to some incredible wins. But who is the true king of the defensive back? Compare their careers side by side, then...
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Saloon Man: A German Immigrant Battles the Limits of Liberty, 1870 to 1915Robert Mugge's second book-Saloon Man: A German Immigrant Battles the Limits of Liberty, 1870 to 1915-focuses on his great-grandfather, the "original" Robert Mugge who came to America at the age of seventeen; made his way to Tampa, Florida while it was still a settlement;...
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